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 EDITED BY 
 
 JOSIAH GRANVILLE LEACH, LL.B. 
 
 Author of "Memoranda Relating to the Ancestry and Family 
 of Honorable Levi P. Morton," " Memorials of tlie Reading, 
 Howell, Yerkes, Watts, Latham and Elkins Families," 
 "Genealogy of Harry Alden Richardson," " History of the 
 Bringhurst Family, with Notes on the Clarkson, DePeyster, 
 and Boude Families," " Chronicles of the Yerkes Family 
 with Notes on the Leech and Rutter Families," " History of 
 the Penrose Family of Philadelphia," " History of the 
 Girard National Bank of Philadelphia," and Editor of" The 
 Journal of the Reverend Silas Constant," and "Annals of the 
 Sinnott, Rogers, Coffin, Corlies, Reeves, Bodine and Allied 
 Families." 
 
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CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 The Tree Family in England 3 
 
 The Tree Family in America 37 
 
 Appendix, List of Names of Members Belonging to the Society 
 FOR the Relief of Poor and Distressed Masters of Ships, 
 Their Widows and Children. From 1765 to 1812 91 
 
 Index, The Tree Family in England 103 
 
 The Tree Family in America 105 
 
 -V 
 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 PAQB 
 
 RuDGE Hall, Near Beckington, Co. Somerset, England, the 
 Ancient Seat of the Tree Family Frontispiece • 
 
 The Church op St. Gregory, at Beckington, Co. Somerset, 
 England ^ 
 
 Interior View of the Chxtrch of St. Gregory, at Beckington, 
 Co. Somerset, England 12 
 
 Simon Tree, 2nd, Born 1701 16 
 
 Ann Tree, Wife of Simon Tree, 2nd 18 
 
 Lambert Tree, Born 1734, Son of Simon Tree, 2nd 20 -^ 
 
 William Tree, Born 1736, Second Son of Simon Tree, 2nd 22 / 
 
 The Honorable Lambert Tree, of Chicago, Illinois 37 '^ 
 
NOTE 
 
 This volume is chiefly composed of 
 material furnished me by members 
 of the Tree Family. 
 
 J. G. L. 
 
THE TREE FAMILY IN ENGLAND 
 
THE TREE FAMILY IN ENGLAND 
 
 HE surname, or, as frequently 
 written sirename, began to be gen- 
 erally adopted in England about 
 the time of tlie Norman Conquest. 
 But the origin of a particular 
 addition to the christian name, 
 though it immediately concerns 
 every man who feels an honest 
 
 pride in being recognized as of his father's race, is 
 sometimes difficult to trace and is often indeterminate. 
 Among the surnames that almost defy derivation, few 
 are more perplexing to localize or classify than that 
 of Tree. It may be simply a contribution from the 
 face of nature, or, it may find a parent-stem in the 
 Norman Treise, which had representatives of highly 
 respectable station in Cornwall in the sixteenth cen- 
 tury ; or, with the thirteenth century perfix atte, imply- 
 ing residence, if not possession, as atte tree — which was 
 at the river and not at the tree — it may find a survival 
 
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THE TREE FAMILY IN ENGLAND 
 
 of the Anglo-Saxon, along with such names as Atte 
 Bridge, Atte Stile, Atte Well, Atte Water. With the 
 lapse of time atte, like the Norman de, was in many 
 cases dropped, as the persons using it lost their estates, 
 or changed their place of residence, but, removing into 
 various parts of the country as fancy or necessity, 
 pleasure or duty, might suggest, transmitted the dis- 
 tmctive feature of the patronymic as an inheritance 
 of a remote and otherwise unknown ancestry. 
 
 Difficult as the Tree surname may be to classify, it 
 can be localized practically to Somersetshire where the 
 family enjoyed for several centuries the ownership of 
 extensive landed estates. It is found in that shire in 
 the Parish of Beckington as early at least as the reign 
 of Henry the Eighth; and in deeds, wills, or other 
 documents, recorded or filed in the public archives, in 
 which the names of its male members appear, they are, 
 in the main, styled gentlemen, in accordance with the 
 custom prevailing in English conveyancing, even down 
 to the present period, of identifying the parties to 
 solemn instruments by the occupation pursued or the 
 social position held by them. And, it may be added, 
 the Trees seem to have exercised the influence, socially 
 and otherwise, which ordinarily pertains to the life 
 of an English country gentleman.* 
 
 Rudge H all, situated in the little hamlet of Rudge, 
 
 •The coat armour of the Tree family ig thus given in Burke's 
 General Armory: Ar. a rose within an orle of estoiles gu. Crest— s^n 
 oak tree fructed ppr. 
 
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THE TREE FAMILY IN ENGLAND 
 
 about a mile east of the village of Beckington, con- 
 stituted the family residence of the Trees of Somerset- 
 shire, certainly as far back as the reign of Charles the 
 Second. The house, or Hall as it was, and still is, 
 called, which belonged to and was always occupied by 
 some of the family, was rebuilt about the beginning 
 of the Eighteenth Century by one of its members of 
 that epoch. It is a solid and large stone structure. 
 The property was finally sold about 1870, and is no 
 longer in the possession of the family. 
 
 Beckington itself is a parish or \'illage on the high 
 road from Frome to Bath, three miles north-east from 
 Frome and ten miles south-east of Bath. It contains 
 the church of St. Gregory, — an ancient building of stone 
 in the transition style. The tower is of Norman date, 
 and the front, a fine example of the same period. On 
 the north side of the chancel are three recumbent efl&- 
 gis, and there are also brasses to John St. Maur, ob. 
 1485, and Elizabeth (Barrel) his wife, ancestors of 
 the Seymours, Dukes of Somerset, and to John Comp- 
 ton, merchant, ob. 1510 and Elizabeth his wife. In 
 the north aisle is an inscribed slab with bust, to Samuel 
 Danyell, a historical poet and for some time poet- 
 laureate, who was interred here in October, 1619. 
 The church has three hundred sittings. The register 
 dates from 1559, and contains an entry that Charles 
 the Second passed here after the battle of "Worcester, 
 September 3rd, 1651. The living is a manorial rectory 
 with that of Standerwick annexed, worth eight hundred 
 
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THE TREE FAJVIILY IN ENGLAND 
 
 pounds per annum, besides residence and seventy-two 
 acres of glebe land. Beckington was formerly cele- 
 brated for its manufacture of cloth, and was the birth 
 place of Thomas de Beckington, a plenipotentiary to ne- 
 gotiate a peace with France and who was Bishop of 
 Bath and Wells (1443-1465). 
 
 Beckington Castle and the Manor House are speci- 
 men mansions of early date. Seymours Court, 
 about half a mile east, and now a farm house, was the 
 seat of Sir Thomas Seymour, who married Queen 
 Catharine Parr, widow of Henry the Eighth. Baron 
 Seymour was the brother of the Protector Somerset, 
 by whose order he was executed for high treason 10 
 March, 1548. 
 
 It was not until the 27th year of the reign of 
 Henry the Eighth, that is to say, 1536, that the British 
 Parliament enacted the law requiring all marriages, 
 baptisms, and burials throughout the kingdom to be 
 recorded in registers kept for that purpose by the 
 parish churches. Before that time, such facts were 
 usually found entered, if anywhere, in family papers, 
 or became traditions handed down from generation 
 to generation in the family. In connection with the 
 promulgation of the Registry Act, it is interesting to 
 find that one of the first clergy to give effect to the 
 same, was the Reverend Robert Tree, Rector of the 
 Parish of Westerfield, in the Archdeanory of Suffolk, 
 evidence of which fact is found in the following intro- 
 ductory note in the " Register Booke " of the Parish: 
 
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THE TREE FAMILY IN ENGLAND 
 
 "The Register Booke for Westerfield of Marriages, 
 Christning & Burialls. 
 
 M. That whereas it hath pleased the King's Grace 
 to conunand evry pson Vicar or Curatt shall keep 
 one Booke or Register to inscrib all the Names of 
 such psons as shal be maryed christned or Buryed 
 wth in theer prsh for ther time & in like manner 
 evry one succeeding to observe & keep the same 
 forme & manr according as the King's Injunction 
 maketh mencion — ^Wherefor be it knowen to evy 
 man that the eight day of March in the xxxist 
 yeare of the Reigne of King Henry the eight this 
 booke was made for the Church of Westerfield & 
 here is inscribed all the names of such psons as 
 hereto hath byn Christned maryed & buryed in 
 the forsaid church. 
 
 p. me ROBERT J. TREE, 
 
 Rector." 
 
 The first entry concerning the Tree family made in 
 the registers of the Church of St. Gregory before men- 
 tioned, is that of the marriage of John Davis and 
 Selina Tree, May 25th, 1562, which is not long after the 
 period that registers began to be kept. The first entry 
 of a burial is that of WHliam Tree, March 1, 1573, 
 while the first baptism registered, is that of John Tree, 
 October 29, 1561. The following are the entries found 
 on these registers: 
 
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THE TREE FAMILY IN ENGLAND 
 
 MARRIAGES. 
 
 1562, May 25, John Davis and SeHna Tree. 
 
 1566, July 18, John Parsons and Margaret Tree 
 
 1567, November 24, John Tree and Alice Russell 
 1583, November 8, Alexander Jordan and Johanna 
 
 Tree. 
 
 1640, November 2, Thomas Knight and Elizabeth Tree, 
 ,^^, ^ ^y ^^- J^^^ Farwell, parson of Laverton. 
 J /57, Banns, Samuel Stafford and Ann Tree. 
 3758, December 25, James Sloper and Ann Tree 
 1760, January 17, Eobert Payton and Elizabeth Tree. 
 1770, April 16, James Eead and Mary Tree. 
 
 !II!' ^^""'^ ^^' '^^"^^^ Humphreys and Susanna Tree. 
 1801, July 14, Charles Chislett and Anne Tree. 
 
 BAPTISMS. 
 
 1561, October 29, John Tree. 
 
 1583, April 20, Alisia Tree. 
 
 1584, February 11, Lambert Tree. 
 1589, March 5, William Tree. 
 1592, August 19, Maria Tree. 
 
 1609, February 18, Margaret Tree, daughter of John 
 Tree. 
 
 1613, January 3, William Tree, son of John Tree 
 
 1614, September 28, John Tree, son of John Tree.* 
 
 iri^' Z 7r.~:r' Augustus Tree, son of John Tree. 
 
 1616, May 10, Richard Tree, son of John Tree 
 1617 November 23, John Tree, son of John Tree. 
 
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THE TREE FAMILY IN ENGLAND 
 
 1619, November 1, Alice Tree, daughter of John Tree. 
 1622, February 14, Elizabeth Tree, daughter of John 
 
 Tree. 
 1624, September 19, Mary Tree, daughter of John 
 
 Tree. 
 1642, September 4, William, son of John Tree. 
 1651, May 8, Lambert, son of John and Mary Tree. 
 1654, April 12, James, son of John and Elizabeth Tree. 
 1709, October 13, Susanna, daughter of James and 
 
 Susanna Tree. 
 1711, December 23, James, son of James and Susanna 
 
 Tree. 
 1715, September 25, John, son of James and Jane Tree. 
 1717, April 23, Simon, son of James and Jane Tree. 
 1719, June 30, Elizabeth, daughter of James and Jane 
 
 Tree. 
 1726, September 16, Lamhert, son of James and Jane 
 
 Tree. 
 
 1735, April 15, Lambert, son of Simon and Ann Tree. 
 
 1736, December 23, Simon, son of Simon and Ann Tree. 
 
 1737, November 6, James, son of Simon and Ann Tree. 
 1739, March 29, Ann, daughter of Simon and Hannah 
 
 Tree. 
 1739, March 29, Elizabeth, daughter of Shnon and 
 
 Hannah Tree. 
 1741, November 12, Betty, daughter of Simon and 
 
 Hannah Tree. 
 1741, December 25, Ann, daughter of Thomas and 
 
 Mary Tree. 
 
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THE TREE FAMILY IN ENGLAND 
 
 1743, August 12, Ann, daughter of Simon and Ann 
 
 Tree. 
 1744 July 7, John, son of John and Ann Tree. 
 
 1744, July 8, John, son of Thomas and Mary Tree. 
 1753, September 12, Mary, daughter of Simon and 
 
 Elinor Tree. 
 
 1770, August 22, Elizabeth Ballard, daughter of Wil- 
 liam and Elizabeth Tree. 
 
 1778, August 17, Susannah, daughter of Lambert and 
 Ruth Tree. 
 
 1781, April 15, Ann, daughter of Lambert and Ruth 
 Tree. 
 
 BUEIALS. 
 
 1573, March 1, William Tree. 
 
 1581, June 6, John Tree. 
 
 1586, May 13, John Tree's child unbaptized. 
 
 1589, December 19, William Tree. 
 
 1591, September 4, Mary Tree. 
 
 1607, May 30, John Tree. 
 
 1610, June 24, Johan Try. 
 
 1614, September 29, John Tre, son of John Tre. 
 
 1622, November 14, Margaret Tree, daughter of John 
 
 Tree. 
 1630, January 23, Alice, wife of John Tree. 
 1657, October 11, Ann, wife of John Trye the elder. 
 1661, November 1, John Tree, the elder. 
 
 1685, September 24, Elizabeth, wife of John Tree. 
 
 1686, April 15, John Tree. 
 
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THE TREE FAMILY IN ENGLAND 
 
 1687, September 24, Elizabeth, wife of John Tree. 
 
 September 27, Catharine Bourne made affida- 
 vit that she was buried in woollen only. 
 
 1688, April 15, John Tree. April 20, Susanna Broad- 
 
 rib made affidavit that he was buried in wool- 
 len only. 
 
 1712, January 17, Susanna, wife of James Tree. 
 
 1714, July 3, Mr. James Tree's two infants. 
 
 1729, December 3, James Tree. 
 
 1732, October 8, Lambert, son of James and Jone Tree. 
 
 1737, November 10, James, son of Simon and Ann 
 Tree. 
 
 1739, May 11, Barbara, wife of John Tree. 
 
 1741, April 4, Joan Tree, widow. 
 
 1744, July 7, Ann, wife of John Tree. 
 
 1745, February 11, Simon Tree. 
 
 1746, February 23, Ann, wife of Simon Tree. 
 1759, November 15, Widow Tree. 
 
 1761, December 29, Mr. Simon Tree. 
 
 1787, October 10, Elizabeth Tree. 
 
 1788, February 12, Hannah Tree. 
 1790, October 5, Mrs. Tree. 
 
 1803 May 7, Mr. Lambert Tree. 
 
 During the period of the Revolution in England, 
 and for some years following, many of the churches 
 were either closed altogether, or were taken possession 
 of by the Cromwellians and used for secular purposes, 
 which accounts for the lack of chronological sequence 
 of entries in many of the church registers. 
 
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THE TREE FAMILY IN ENGLAND 
 
 In addition to the foregoing entries in the registers 
 of the parish church at Beckington, two Tree family 
 bibles (dated respectively 1650 and 1682, and at this 
 time in the possession of Mrs. M. A. Olive of Bath, 
 England, a great granddaughter of Lambert Tree of 
 Beckington) contain a number of interesting entries. 
 The first is that which records the birth of Elizabeth 
 Tree in the year 1658 in the parish of Beckington. 
 The second is that of the marriage of Simon Tree to 
 Elizabeth Hippen, no dates being given. Then follow 
 entries of the birth of issue resulting from the latter 
 marriage, as follows : Mary, born 1693 ; Elizabeth born 
 1697; Susanna, bom 1699; Simon (who is recorded as 
 second son) born 1701. 
 
 The last named Simon, second son of Simon and 
 Elizabeth (nee Hippen) Tree, lived at Rudge, and was 
 married twice (as is recorded in the family bible), 
 first, to Anne, daughter of James Collins, of the parish 
 of Dunmington, co Somerset, gentleman, by which 
 marriage there were three children, namely : Lambert 
 Tree, bom in 1734; William Tree, bom in 1736, and 
 Elizabeth Tree, bom in 1741. The second marriage of 
 Simon Tree was to Eleanor Band, and took place at 
 Bath Abbey, 1 May, 1749. By her, he had one child, 
 Mary Tree, bom in 1755. 
 
 Lambert Tree, son of Simon Tree by his wife Anne 
 Collins is recorded in one of these bibles as having 
 by Ruth his wife, two daughters : Susanna Tree, born 
 in 1778, and Ann Tree, born in 1781. He continued 
 
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THE TREE FAMILY IN ENGLAND 
 
 to occupy Eudge Hall after the death of his father, 
 from whom, under his will, the son succeeded to the 
 title of the property. Susanna Tree, the eldest 
 daughter, married John Pearce, and died without 
 issue ; Anne Tree, the other daughter, married Charles 
 Chislett, of Warminster co. Wilts, and by him had 
 the following children, as appears from the bible 
 entries: Anne Tree Chislett, born 1802; Susan Tree 
 Chislett, born in 1804; Jane Tree Chislett, bom in 
 1805 ; Lambert Tree Chislett, born in 1808, and Maria 
 Tree Chislett, born in 1810. Of these children, Anne 
 Tree Chislett and Lambert Tree Chislett never mar- 
 ried ; and while their sisters Susan and Maria married, 
 they left no issue. Jane Tree Chislett married John 
 Sturgis, and had by him six children. 
 
 William Tree, second son of Simon Tree by his 
 wife Anne Collins, went to reside upon his estate near 
 Upton-Scudamore, co. Wilts, where the Tree family 
 had large landed interests. He married twice. By the 
 first wife, he had a daughter who died young, and there 
 is no mention in the bible of issue by the second 
 marriage. 
 
 The village of Upton-Scudamore, near which Wil- 
 liam Tree resided, is about five miles from Beckington. 
 It contains an extremely interesting church of Gothic 
 or early English style of architecture, dating back to 
 the twelfth century, with a baptismal font said to be 
 of the period of Alfred the Great. The walls are cov- 
 ered with tablets commemorating the decease of parish- 
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THE TREE FAMILY IN ENGLAND 
 
 ioners of note, several bearing names of persons who 
 have intermarried with the Trees of Somersetshire. 
 
 The church books record that William Tree was 
 present at Parish meetings from 1776 to 1800, and that 
 his grand-nephew and the grandson of Lambert Tree 
 of Rudge Hall, Lambert Tree Chislett, served as church- 
 warden in 1838-9. The parish register contains the 
 following entries referring to the Tree family: 
 
 BUKIALS. 
 
 1801, February 4, William Tree Esq. in the 65th year 
 
 of his age. 
 1846, June 3d, Lambert Tree Chislett, aged 37. 
 1848, Maria Tree Pearce, aged 38. 
 1850, Susanna Tree Pearce of Rudge, aged 71. 
 
 MARRIAGES. 
 
 1801, July 9th, John Pearce and Susanna Tree. 
 
 1832, June 9th, Thomas Sturgis and Susan Tree Chis- 
 lett. 
 
 1832, June 9th, John Sturgis and Jane Tree Chislett. 
 
 1839, Robert Taylor and Susan Tree Sturgis, widow, 
 daughter of Charles Chislett. 
 
 1846, Isaac Goodwin Pearce and Maria Tree Chislett. 
 
 Aside from the entries in the Tree family bibles, it 
 appears from old deeds, transcripts of wills and other 
 documents, now in the possession of a member of the 
 
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THE TREE FAMILY IN ENGLAND 
 
 family, that the first Simon Tree, he who married 
 Elizabeth Hippen in 1658, had two brothers, named 
 respectively, James and Lambert, and that their 
 father's name was John Tree. It further appears 
 from the same documents that James Tree had three 
 sons named respectively, James, John and Simon. 
 Lambert Tree, the other brother, seems not to have 
 married. He went to London from his native parish of 
 Beckington when very young, and engaged in trade. 
 He was successful, and during his life, besides acquir- 
 ing a fortune, he was elected in 1703, master of one of 
 the liveried companies of London, in which office he 
 served some years. This was then, as it is now, con- 
 sidered a high honor for a citizen of London. His 
 residence in that city was in the parish of St. Anne, 
 Westminster, where he died, August, 1738, at the 
 advanced age of ninety-five years. By his will, made 
 in 1736, and on file among the archives of Somerset 
 House, he mentions his nephews, James, John, and 
 Simon, as the sons of his late brother James Tree, to 
 each of whom he gave certain parcels of landed prop- 
 erty in Somersetshire, and to the last named nephew, 
 Simon Tree, the residue of his estate, real and personal. 
 Mrs. M. A. Olive, now residing at Bath, England, 
 is a daughter of Jane Tree Chislett by her marriage 
 with John Sturgis of Warminster, co. Wilts. The 
 mother of Jane was Anne Tree, daughter of Lambert 
 Tree of Eudge Hall, and wife of Charles Chislett of 
 Wilts. Mrs. Olive possesses four portraits of life 
 
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THE TREE FAMILY IN ENGLAND 
 
 size, painted in oil, one representing her great-great- 
 grandfather, Simon Tree, the other three being those 
 of his wife, Anne, and their two sons, Lambert and 
 William when they were children of about three and 
 five years respectively. The illustrations herewith 
 interleaved are copies of such portraits. Besides the 
 portraits and the two family bibles mentioned, she pos- 
 sesses other relics of the Tree family, including several 
 silver spoons and a silver tobacco box, which belonged 
 to the Lambert Tree who resided at London as before 
 mentioned. The lid of the box bears the family arms, 
 and on the bottom is engraved ''L T. 1709." 
 
 The Trees of England were chiefly localized to 
 Somerset, Wilts, Norfolk, Suffolk, Sussex and Kent 
 counties, but it is believed that they had their beginning 
 in Somerset, from whence branches of the family 
 spread into the other counties above named. Some of 
 its members seem to have reached London and its 
 vicinity from the family nest in Somerset, as early as 
 the seventeenth century, and this is not a matter of 
 surprise, as London was then, as it has since continued 
 to be, the great political, commercial and social mael- 
 strom of England, drawing and continuing to draw 
 many of the ambitious and adventurous among her 
 people, from every district in the kingdom. 
 
 It is to be remembered also that in the sixteenth, 
 seventeenth, and the early part of the eighteenth cen- 
 turies, Bristol, Plymouth, and other places along the 
 south and east coasts constituted the chief ports of 
 
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SI.AKiN TRI:K, iNi), miRN ITiil 
 
THE TREE FAMILY IN ENGLAND 
 
 the kingdom, and that the young men born and reared 
 in the counties such as Somerset, Sussex, Suffolk, Kent 
 and Gloucester, which bordered upon, or were near 
 the British channel, naturally took to the sea and pur- 
 sued the calling of mariners, which in those days of 
 sailing ships, was surrounded by a glamour, and pos- 
 sessed a fascination for the young and adventurous 
 that it does not in the later days of steam navigation. 
 
 The harbours of Bristol, Plymouth, Fahnouth, and 
 Ipswich, were at that period crowded with ships sailing 
 to remote parts of the world, and especially to America, 
 which was just then exciting intense interest as a 
 country de Vavenir. Members of the Tree family 
 were, in all probability, influenced by the prevailing 
 taste and ambition of the young men of their day and 
 generation. 
 
 While the Tree family seems to have had its chief 
 habitat in Somersetshire, and to have had a continuous 
 residence there for over four hundred years, it is found 
 to have had representatives in various parts of Eng- 
 land. 
 
 William Trees, of co. Norfolk, died in 1494, when 
 his will was proved at the Prerogative Court of Canter- 
 bury. 
 
 Richard Trees, of London, gent, died in London in 
 
 1537, leaving a will. 
 
 Nicholas Tree inherited thirty-three shillings four 
 pence, under the will of James Mortymer, of Sandf ord, 
 Devonshire, dated 19 October, 1558. 
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THE TREE FAMILY IN ENGLAND 
 
 Eichard, son of Eichard Tree, was baptized, 17 
 November, 1616, at St. James Church, Clerkenwell, 
 London, the records of which note the burial of 
 Eichard, son of John Tree, 23 February, the same 
 year. 
 
 William Tree, of Hawkhurst, co. Kent, and Fran- 
 ces Nash were married, 6 April, 1597. 
 
 Laurence Tree, of Brede, Sussex, died in 1631, when 
 his will was proved by his brother, Eichard Tree. 
 
 John Tree, of Brighton, Sussex, died in 1638, as 
 appears from the record of administration on his estate 
 that year. 
 
 Eoger Tree, of Northamptonshire, executed his will, 
 6 July, 1637. 
 
 Simon Tree, born 1657, is buried in the graveyard 
 at Hempstead, where a stone marks his grave, upon 
 which, as noted in ''John Hacketts select epitaphs of 
 illustrious persons," is inscribed the following: 
 "Underneath where you see There lies the body of 
 Simon Tree Who departed this life August 12, 1722, 
 in the 64th year of his age." 
 
 Thomas Tree, of Birchington, co. Kent, and Mariam 
 Locker, were married, 1 June, 1670. 
 
 Edward Tree, of London, and Mary Prior, were 
 married 20 June, 1650. 
 
 John Tree, of London, and Jane Bailey, were mar- 
 ried, 5 April, 1664, and had at least the following chil- 
 dren, whose baptisms are recorded in the register of 
 
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THE TREE FAMILY IN ENGLAND 
 
 St. James Cliurcli, Clerkenwell, as follows: Edward, 
 baptized January 16th, 1665; Robert, baptized Sep- 
 tember 1st, 1668 ; Ann, baptized June 30tli, 1673 ; Isaac, 
 baptized February 5th, 1677, and Rebecca, baptized 
 March 20th, 1683. 
 
 John Tree, mariner, of Shadwell, married, 9 Decem- 
 ber, 1695, at St. Dunstan's Church, Stepney, London, 
 Susanna Emmery. 
 
 Catharine Tree married Peter Vandenstein, 25 Aug- 
 ust, 1718. 
 
 The marriage, baptismal, and burial registers of the 
 parish church at Harden in the county of Kent, contain 
 many entries of the name of Tree from about 1729 to 
 a comparatively recent period. 
 
 Eliza Tree married John Barnaby of London, 2 
 October, 1758. 
 
 Boyce Tree, of Mile End, died 24 December, 1780, 
 as noted in Historical Register Chronicle, volume 30. 
 
 John Tree married Elizabeth Walker, 3 December, 
 1790. 
 
 Anna Maria Tree, of London, (1820-1862), married 
 James Bradshaw, Member of Parliament for Coventry. 
 She was a sister of Ellen Tree, the eminent actress 
 who subsequently married Charles Kean. 
 
 The registry of the Arch-deaconry of Suffolk shows 
 the solemnization of the marriage, October 17th, 1718, 
 of Lambert Tree of Suffolk, mariner and Mary Raw- 
 Hngs of Walton in the parish church of Walton in 
 
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THE TREE FAMILY IN ENGLAND 
 
 Suffolk, according to the rites and ceremonies of the 
 established church. 
 
 Conformably with the law prevailing at the period, 
 Lambert Tree filed a bond with the arch-deaconry when 
 the marriage license was issued to him, the condition 
 of which reads as follows : 
 
 ''The condition of this obligation is such that if 
 hereafter there shall not appear any lawful Lett or 
 Impediment by reason of any pre-contract, consan- 
 guinity, affinity or any other lawful means, whatso- 
 ever; but that ye above bounden LAMBERT TREE 
 of Walton singleman and MARY RAWLINGS of ye 
 same singlewoman may lawfully solenmize marriage 
 together, and in the same afterwards lawfully remain 
 and continue for man and wife according to the laws 
 in that behalf provided. And moreover if there be not 
 at this present time any action, suit, plaint, quarrel 
 or demand moved or depending before any judge 
 ecclesiastical or temporal for or concerning any such 
 lawful impediment between the said parties ; nor that 
 either of them be of any better estate or degree than 
 to the judge at the granting of the license is suggested 
 and shall also indemnifie and save harmless the above 
 named George Raymond and all other his officer and 
 minister of granting this license. 
 
 And lastly, that the said marriage shall be openly 
 solemnized in the church of Walton in the license speci- 
 fied between the hours appointed in the constitutions 
 ecclesiastical confirmed and according to the form of 
 
L.V3U5EKT TREK, ]5. IT-'A, S<iN <iK SIMON TKKE, Jnh 
 
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 the Book of Common Prayer now by law established. 
 That then this obligation to be void or else to stand in 
 full force and virtue. 
 
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 It appears from the entries in the registers of the 
 parish church of Beckington and the bibles of the Trees 
 of Somerset, that the names of Lambert and John 
 amongst the males, and those of Jane, Mary and Mar- 
 garet amongst the females, were handed down through 
 each successive generation for hundreds of years. A 
 like disposition to preserve the same names in the 
 family in America can be observed ever since the 
 marriage at Philadelphia, in 1763, of Lambert Tree, 
 sea captain, and Margaret Donaldson. They named 
 their two sons, John and Lambert, respectively, and 
 after John Tree grew up, and married Eebecca Karn, 
 they too selected the same names for two of their sons. 
 Their descendants in turn have continued the name 
 of Lambert until it has passed through five genera- 
 tions in America. The female names have been handed 
 down in like manner. These facts seem to furnish 
 incontrovertible evidence of the connection of the Tree 
 with the family of the same name having its habitat in 
 Somerset for centuries. 
 
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 EXTRACTS FROM DEEDS AND WILLS EX- 
 ECUTED BY OR TO MEMBERS OF THE 
 TREE FAMILY IN ENGLAND.* 
 
 Indenture made 20th September in the twentieth year 
 of reign of Charles IL, anno. dom. 1680, between John 
 Aske of (illegible) County of Wilts and Symon Tree 
 of Rudge in the Parish of Beckington in the County 
 of Somerset, conveys land formerly occupied by John 
 Tree father of the said Symon Tree — on a loan for a 
 year. 
 
 Indenture of lease made in the 7th year of the reign 
 of William III. A. D. 1695 between John Methuen, 
 Lord of the Liberty and Manor of Beckington, in the 
 County of Somerset and John Tree of Rudge, of cer- 
 tain lands at Rudge. 
 
 Indenture made 9th of April 9th year William III. 
 A. D. 1697 between John Methuen of Bishops Canigs 
 in the County of Wilts, Esquire, of the one part and 
 Robert Westcott of Rudge &c lease of certain property 
 in Beckington afterwards owned by the Tree family. 
 
 Indenture 3rd of April. 1st year of Queen Anne, 1702 
 between William Phillips of Rudge and John Powell 
 
 * The original deeds which are written on parchment, many of them 
 in early English, are now in the possession of the Honorable Lambert 
 Tree of Chicago. They constitute very interesting specimens of the 
 conveyancing of the period, including a Fine and a Recovery. 
 
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WILLIAM TKKK, J{. I7:iii. SKCdNI' SiiN i>V SIMnN TliKK, Jsi) 
 
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 of Somerset County, grant of a thousand years of 
 certain lands in Beckington parish, to Powell, which 
 property came later into the possession and owner- 
 ship of Simon Tree. 
 
 Agreement dated October 6th 1702 between John Jeffs 
 and William Sainsbury for and on behalf of the Hon. 
 John Methuen of the one part, and Simon Tree of the 
 City of Westminster of the other part, to convey to 
 the said Simon Tree certain property described at 
 Rudge, parish of Beckington in the County of Somer- 
 set, before 1st of January ensuing for a consideration 
 of £20 in hand to be paid by the said Simon Tree on 
 the ensealing and delivery of deed. 
 
 Indenture made 4th May in the 2nd year Anne A. D. 
 1703 between the Hon. John Methuen Esq. Lord Chan- 
 cellor of Ireland of the one part and Simon Tree of 
 the ''Citty" of Westminster and Elizabeth his wife of 
 the other part — leases certain properties at Rudge. 
 
 Indenture made the 5th day of May in the second year 
 of the reign of Anne A. D. 1703 between the Rt. Hon. 
 John Methuen Esq. Lord Chancellor of Ireland of the 
 one part and Simon Tree of the ''Sitty" of West- 
 minster and Elizabeth his wife of the other part — 
 conveys Clifford House, three fulling mills and other 
 property in Beckington parish to said Simon and 
 Elizabeth for a consideration of £870. 
 
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 Bond from Richard Solwood to Thomas Salter and 
 Simon Tree (in the Latin language) agreeing to pay 
 them £20— on the 21st June 1720— Bond dated 20th 
 day of January 1719. 
 
 Power of Attorney from J. Howell Heard, Ensign in 
 the Lord Mackarr Regiment of foot in the Kingdom of 
 Ireland, Greeting: States that whereas John Heard 
 late of St. James in the County of Middlesex, Gentle- 
 man, deceased, did by his last will dated 31st October 
 1711 appoint Thomas Salter of Westminster and Simon 
 Tree of St. James, Gentleman, Executors and that they 
 took upon them the burden and execution thereof and 
 have paid debts and legacies of considerable value, 
 and whereas said Thomas Salter and Simon Tree have 
 filed a bill in the High Court of Chancery asking their 
 discharge as Executors &c and whereas all is satis- 
 factory &c, &c., he appoints Captain John Brooks 
 attorney for him &c., &c, to assent to discharge of said 
 Salter and Tree &c, dated 4th December 1721. 
 
 Power of Attorney from Lambert Tree of the parish 
 of St. Anne, Westminster, to his nephew Simon Tree 
 of Beckington County of Somerset — authorizing him 
 to collect rents debts &c, &c. dated and sealed 11th 
 October 7th year of George II., 1733. 
 
 Indenture made 1733 the 19th year of George II. 
 between Sunon Tree of Rudge etc Gentleman and 
 
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 James Collins Gentleman, of Rudge, and William God- 
 frey of Paddington Middlesex County Gentleman. 
 Lease for a year of property in parish of Beckington. 
 
 Indenture tripartite made lOth day of July 1733 and 
 7tli year of George II., between Simon Tree of Rudge 
 etc Gentleman, James Collins of Dunmington, County 
 Somerset second part and William Godfrey of Pad- 
 dington etc Gentleman and Anne Collins spinster, 
 daughter of the said James Collins of the third part, 
 marriage settlement, in consideration of £700 paid to 
 said Simon Tree as marriage portion, he settles certain 
 lands on Anne Collins for her use and use of heirs of 
 their joint bodies &c. &c. 
 
 Indenture dated 1733 and 7th year of George II., 
 between Simon Tree of Rudge &c Gentleman, of the 
 first part, and James Collins of the parish of Dun- 
 mington in the County of Somerset, Gentleman, and 
 William Godfrey of Paddington in the County of 
 Middlesex, Gentleman, of the other part — Conveys 
 certain messuages formerly owned and occupied by 
 John Tree late Grandfather of said Simon Tree but 
 now in the possession of the said Simon Tree, and 
 other property on a loan for a year. 
 
 At the Court of the Rector of Beckington held 14th 
 March 10th year of George III., A. D. 1736, comes Simon 
 Tree and took of the Lord according to the custom of 
 
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 the said Manor the reversion of one messuage or tene- 
 ment situate and being near the cross in Beckington 
 (land and premises described) to pay a yearly rent 
 of 3/- and for a heriot when it shall be open the sum 
 of 4/- and pays the Lord for a fine £30 Document. 
 
 Power of Attorney dated 20th August 1738 from 
 Thomas Cradock Executor of the will of Lambert Tree 
 of Westminster to Simon Tree recites that the will 
 devises to his, Lambert Tree's nephew, James Tree, 
 son of his brother James Tree then deceasd in fee 
 simple, his farm at Haywood in the parish of West- 
 bury in the County of Wilts. To his nephews John 
 Tree and Simon Tree the other part of the farm at 
 Haywood held by Lord Abingdon on three lives, and 
 to his nephew Simon Tree the son of his late brother 
 Simon Tree deceased, the residue of his personal 
 estate. 
 
 Indemnity Bond of £200 to save harmless from wife's 
 dower from same to same dated May 29th 1740 in 13th 
 year of " our sovereign Lord George II., by the Grace 
 of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King 
 defender of the Faith and so forth." 
 
 Deed of Indenture dated 2nd May 1740 and in the 13th 
 year of George II., between William Phillips of Eudge, 
 parish of Beckington in the County of Somerset Cord- 
 wainer, of the first part and Simon Tree of Rudge 
 
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 aforesaid, Gentleman, of the other part — in considera- 
 tion of 141 pounds, conveys certain closes therein or 
 described. 
 
 Deed dated May 25th 1740— Same to same of certain 
 other properties. 
 
 Receipt of release from William W. Throsher of Rhode 
 in the County of Somerset to Simon Tree for a legacy 
 of £300 paid him under the will of Lambert Tree late 
 of the parish of St. Anns in the Liberty of West- 
 minster in the count}^ of Middlesex made 28th of April 
 1736. This document states that said Lambert Tree 
 made Simon Tree son of the testator's late brother 
 Simon Tree deceased, residuary legatee and appointed 
 Thomas Cradock of the parish of St. Martin's Execu- 
 tor of his will. That the said Lambert Tree died 
 August 8th, 1738. That said executor Thomas Cra- 
 dock proved the will in the prorogative Court of Can- 
 terbury. Receipt or release of William Throsher dated 
 7th May 1740. 
 
 Indenture made 16th April in the 19th year of the reign 
 of George II. A. D. 1746 between Simon Tree of Rudge 
 in the parish of Beckington in the county of Somerset, 
 Gentleman, of the one part and Samuel Singer of 
 Clifford Mill in the same parish, Fuller, of the other 
 part— leases Clifford Mill &g for ten years at an 
 annual rent of £52 — and takes &c. &c. 
 
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 Release of Dower from Mrs. Eleanor Tree, widow of 
 Simon Tree to Mr. Lambert Tree — Dated January 
 15th 1762. 
 
 Eleanor Tree of Rudge in the parish of Beckington in 
 the County of Somerset, Widow of Simon Tree late 
 of the same place and parish, Gentleman, deceased, to 
 William Tree of Rudge in the parish of Beckington 
 aforesaid, Gentleman, son of the said Simon Tree by 
 his first wife Ann Tree, deceased — Release of dower 
 in certain lands in the parishes of Berkeley, Becking- 
 ton and Standerwick in the said county of Somerset. 
 
 Indenture of Lease made 24th December 1775 and in 
 the 15th year of the reign of George III., between 
 Lambert Tree of Rudge in the parish of Beckington in 
 the County of Somerset, Gentleman, of the one part, 
 and John Halliday of Cloford in the same County, 
 Yeoman, of the other part — leases for term of years 
 properties in Parish of Beckington. 
 
 Indenture tripartite made 23rd September 1766 and 
 the 6th year of George III., between Lambert Tree of 
 Rudge in the parish of Beckington in the County of 
 Somerset, Gentleman (eldest son of Simon Tree late 
 of Rudge aforesaid Gentleman, deceased, by Ann his 
 wife, also deceased who was daughter of James Collins 
 late of the parish of Dunmington in the same county, 
 Gentleman, deceased), of the first part, Samuel Trap- 
 
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 stott Cliffords Inn, London, Gentleman, of the second 
 part, and Stephen Skurray of Beckington aforesaid, 
 Gentleman, of the third part, by which Lambert con- 
 veys and releases certain lands of the Manor of Beck- 
 ington in order to cut off estatestail, and suffer a 
 recovery for the purpose of getting an absolute title 
 thereto. 
 
 Indenture of Lease dated November 19, 1781 22nd year 
 of George III. between Lambert Tree of Rudge in the 
 parish of Beckington in the County of Somerset, Gen- 
 tleman, eldest son and heir at law of Simon Tree late 
 of Rudge aforesaid. Gentleman, deceased and James 
 Coringe Troke of Westbury in the County of Wilts, 
 Plumber and Glazier, of the other part — leases certain 
 premises therein described. 
 
 Articles of Agreement dated 11th September 1787 
 between Lambert Tree of Rudge in the parish of 
 Beckington in the County of Somerset, Gentleman, of 
 the one part, and Robert Blunt of Froom-Selwood in 
 the said County, Clothier of the other part. Lambert 
 Tree agrees to sell Blunt certain land in Somerset for 
 £11,000. 
 
 Receipt of William Tree given to Lambert Tree for 
 £50 paid him, being a legacy under his father 's, Simon 
 Tree's will— Receipt dated July 19th 1762. 
 
 Receipt from Elinor Tree to Lambert for payment of 
 legacy of £50 under will of Simon Tree. 
 
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 The will of James Tree of Rudge within the Parish 
 of Beckington, Somerset County, Gentleman, dated 
 December 1728— Proved March 20, 1730 in the Pre- 
 rogative court of Canterbury, gives to his wife Joan, 
 and her heirs forever, certain landed property de- 
 scribed and certain other estates adjoining that of 
 the Earl of Abingdon in or near Eudge, for life and 
 also his household goods and plate. 
 
 To his son, James Tree, certain messuages at Hart- 
 tree, County Somerset. 
 
 To his daughter Susanna, certain other described 
 properties in Somerset and £2440. 
 
 To his son, Lambert, certain estate at Rudge therein 
 described to hold at his age of 21. 
 
 To his son, Simon, he gives a certain estate therein 
 described in Rudge and Standerwick. 
 
 To his daughter, Elizabeth, he gives £1200 at her 
 age of 21. 
 
 To his son, John, £1100 at his age of 21. 
 
 Will of Lambert Tree who died in Westminster 
 Parish Aug. 8, 1738. Will made April 28, 1736— 
 Proved Aug. 21, 1738. Devises the bulk of his estate, 
 which included extensive landed properties in Somer- 
 set, to his sister Joan Tree; to his cousin Elizabeth 
 Tree daughter of James Tree; to Simon Tree, son of 
 his late brother, Simon, and James Tree, son of his 
 brother James Tree. This Lambert Tree died a 
 bachelor. 
 
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 The Wells District Probate Eegistry show a nuin- 
 ber of wills and administrations of members of the 
 Tree family. 
 
 The will of Simon Tree of Rudge in the parish of 
 Beckington, Gentleman, dated Nov. 27, 1761. Gives 
 to his son, Lambert Tree, his house at Rudge, also 
 his house at Beckington called *' Cliffords" also his 
 houses in Beckington called *'Wereatts" and ''Phil- 
 lips" — directs that said Lambert shall pay to Elizabeth 
 Tree, the daughter of said Simon by his first wife Aim 
 Tree, the sum of six hundred pounds when she is 
 twenty-one. 
 
 To his son, William, he gives all his messuages in 
 the parish of Berkley, Beckington and Standerwick, 
 which some years before said Simon purchased of 
 Alexander Hilman. 
 
 To his wife Eleanor Tree, a certain property in 
 Norton St. Philip called *' Hosiers." 
 
 To Mary Tree, daughter by his present wife, a 
 certain property which he holds through the Earl of 
 Abingdon. 
 
 This will was proved February 6, 1762. 
 
 The will of Anna Tree of Rudge in the Parish of 
 Beckington, Widow — dated January 13, 1788. 
 
 To her son-in-law, Samuel Stafford of Dilton's 
 March in the Parish of Westbury, Wilts, she gives the 
 
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 property in Rudge which she recently purchased in 
 fee of Mr. John Biggs and Edward Eyter Esq. 
 
 To her daughter, Susanna Humphries, the dwelling 
 house at Rudge which she lately bought of Mr. John 
 Tree, and after the decease of said daughter, to her 
 grand-son James Humphries and his heirs forever. 
 
 To her said daughter Susanna Humphries and her 
 grand-son James Payton, all the leasehold estate at 
 Rudge which she holds under the Earl of Abingdon 
 and her other leasehold estate being in Frierns field 
 at Rudge which she holds by a lease from the master 
 of St. Magdalen Hospital at Holloway in the City of 
 Bath; these estates being chargeable with an annuity 
 of £8 which she gives to her daughter Elizabeth Carter, 
 wife of William Carter. 
 
 To her daughter, Ann Stafford, wife of the said 
 Samuel Stafford, one clear annuity of £5, payable from 
 her said leasehold estates. 
 
 To her grand-children, viz: — Ann Dyer, Susanna 
 Stafford, John Stafford, Samuel Stafford, James 
 Stafford, Simon Stafford, James Payton, Joseph Car- 
 ter, James Humphries, William Humphries and 
 Susanna Humphries, £10 apiece. 
 
 Residue of Estate to her three daughters, Ann 
 Stafford, Elizabeth Carter and Susanna Humphries. 
 She appoints her son-in-law, Samuel Stafford and her 
 grand-son James Payton her executors. Will proved 
 March 1st, 1788. 
 
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 The following administrations and guardianships 
 are from Wells District Probate Registry: 
 
 Estate of Eleanor Tree, of Beckington, June 4, 
 1763. Administration to Richard Tomlin and Mary 
 his wife, guardians to Mary Tree aged above 7 years, 
 only child of Simon Tree and the said Eleanor. 
 
 Estate of Eleanor Tree of Beckington, 13th March 
 1775. James Reed, Gentleman, husband of Mary Reed, 
 formerly Tree. The guardianship of the said Mary 
 has now expired by reason of her full age. 
 
 Estate of Elizabeth Tree of Beckington, 13 October 
 1787. Administration to Lambert Tree, Gentleman, 
 lawful brother and one of the next of kin of Elizabeth 
 Tree late of Beckington, Spinster. 
 
 The birth register at Somerset House from 1898 to 
 1903 shows 106 of the name of Tree recorded, which 
 means according to the ordinary methods of calcula- 
 tion, that there are rather more than 600 persons of 
 the name now living in England (1907). There is 
 a good number in Devon and Somerset, chiefly around 
 Tiverton and Wellington. There are also some in and 
 about London. 
 
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 HE surname Tree is found at vari- 
 ous points in America .during the 
 colonial period. The first of the 
 name to arrive there was Eichard 
 Tree, who, with his son John, aged 
 twelve years, was a passenger in 
 the ship *' George," which arrived 
 at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1621.* 
 He settled on a plantation at Blue Point,f near James- 
 town, but seems to have removed later to Hogg Island, 
 Northampton County, from which place he was chosen 
 a member of the Virginia Assembly in 1629, and again 
 in 1632, serving in the General assemblies which met 
 in those years.:}: His colleague from the same county 
 in 1629, was John Chew, the ancestor of the Chew 
 families of Maryland and Pennsylvania. 
 
 * Hotten's List, page 227. 
 
 flbid, page 272. 
 
 X Hening's Statutes at Large of Virginia, i, 179,338. 
 
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 The name is next met with in New England, in the 
 person of another Eichard Tree, who came to Massa- 
 chusetts before 1667, in which year he was on garrison 
 duty at Dover, New Hampshire, and was of Lynn, 
 Massachusetts, two years later, when he married at 
 that place, Joanna Eogers. Others of the name, later 
 found in New England, are: John Tree, who had a son 
 of the same name baptized at Rehoboth, Massa- 
 chusetts, in March, 1705; Thomas Tree, who was a 
 member of the foot company of Hull, Massachusetts, 
 in 1759, and Captain Francis Tree, a master-mariner, 
 who was of Boston as early as 12 December, 1762, on 
 which day a son Francis was born to him by his wife 
 Bridget, two other children, Susanna and Philip, being 
 also born to them there; Richard Tree, who was a 
 justice of the peace at Coventry, Rhode Island, in 
 1757, and Lavinia Tree, who married at that place 
 three years later, John Love. 
 
 The Tree name is also met with in Maryland in 
 the person of John Tree, who resided in Cecil County, 
 where his will was admitted to probate in 1753, and in 
 the person of Thomas Tree, who served in the Conti- 
 nental Army, as a member of the Fourth Maryland 
 regiment. 
 
 Captain Lambert Tree is the first of the Tree 
 family in Pennsylvania. He was a prominent sea- 
 captain, and commanded a number of vessels, some of 
 which he owned, sailing from Philadelphia to Euro- 
 pean and other ports between the years 1762 and 1776. 
 
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 The records of the Custom House at Philadelphia 
 covered by this period, show Captain Tree to have been 
 in command of 
 The Sloop ''Duke of York" 1762, sailing between 
 
 Lisbon and Philadelphia ; 
 The Schooner "Mollie," 1764, sailing to European 
 
 ports ; 
 The Schooner ''Charming Sallie," 1765, sailing be- 
 tween Philadelphia and Salem, Massachusetts; 
 The Schooner "Eliphet and Mary," 1765, from Phila- 
 delphia to North Carolina; 
 The Brig "Nancy," 1776, from Philadelphia to Ma- 
 deira ; 
 The Sloop "Peggie," 1768, from Philadelphia to 
 
 North Carolina, and 
 The Schooner "Dove," sailing to Jamaica and other 
 West Indian ports. 
 
 Captain Tree resided in the old district of South- 
 wark, Philadelphia, which locality was the home of 
 most of the leading sea-captains of his day in that 
 city. His name appears on the tax list of 1774, when 
 he was noted as having one servant, and was taxed 
 four pounds. He also figures as one of the founders 
 of an unique club, which exists up to the present time 
 (1907) and regularly holds its quarterly meetings at 
 Philadelphia, in Carpenter's Hall, of Revolutionary 
 fame. On the 4th day of July, 1765, just eleven years 
 before the Declaration of Independence, Lambert 
 Tree, together with a number of other sea-captains, 
 
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 met in Philadelphia and organized what they first 
 called by the title of ''Captains of Ships' Charitable 
 Club," but which was changed some years afterward 
 to the ''Society for the Relief of Poor and Distressed 
 Masters of Ships, their Widows and Children," under 
 which name it has ever since performed the charitable 
 purposes of its organization. Articles of agreement 
 were drawn up at the meeting referred to, and duly 
 subscribed by its founders, most of whom, as it turned 
 out, were soon to play a conspicuous part in the Eev- 
 olutionary struggle, while many later members of the 
 Club became almost equally distinguished in their 
 country's history. 
 
 The Continental Congress and the Executive Gov- 
 ernment of the United States, being obliged to look to 
 the Merchant Marine for competent men to command 
 their fighting ships in the Revolution, and in the 
 troubles with France in 1798; in the wars with the 
 Barbary States, and in the second War with Great 
 Britain in 1812, turned eagerly to this little charitable 
 club of sea-captains, for many of its commanders. 
 Some there were indeed among its members, whose 
 ardor did not permit them to await the organization 
 of a Navy by Congress, and who either took command 
 of private cruisers, or fought in the land-forces of the 
 rebellious colonies. Among the members who entered 
 the land-forces were Captains Jolm Barry and Lambert 
 Tree, the former serving ashore for a short period 
 before he assumed command of a ship of war, and the 
 
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 latter being killed in one of the early engagements of 
 the first year of the war while in command of an artil- 
 lery company. 
 
 Among the members having command of conti- 
 nental ships of war during the Revolution, were Cap- 
 tains John Barry, Richard Dale, "William Hallock, 
 James Robinson, Elisha Warner, James Young, "Wil- 
 liam Allen, John Cox, George Nicholson, and Isaiah 
 Robinson. The most distinguished, perhaps, among 
 all these, if it is permissible to make distinctions 
 where all were gallant officers and won lasting laurels 
 in the course of the discharge of their duty, may be 
 named Captain John Barry, who had first the brig 
 ''Lexington" of 16 guns, and afterwards the ship 
 "Raleigh" of 30 guns, and whose achievements, while 
 in coromand of these two vessels, made him a promi- 
 nent figure among the naval heroes of the period ; and 
 Captain Lambert Wickes, who gave the greatest prom- 
 ise of a brilliant career, but which was unfortunately 
 cut short by the foundering of his ship during the War. 
 He it was, who commanded the brig "Reprisal" of 16 
 guns, which was the first United States war vessel 
 to appear in European waters. He carried Dr. Benja- 
 min Franklin to France, and took along with him at 
 the same time into the French port of Havre, fourteen 
 prizes which he captured on the voyage, in the Bay of 
 Biscay. Another member of this Club so founded by 
 Lambert Tree and other captains, was Richard Dale, 
 who, if he had never done anything else would have 
 
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 rendered his name immortal by his association with 
 Captain John Paul Jones as his lieutenant and second 
 in command, in the famous sea-fight off Flamborough 
 Head between the '^Bonhomme Eichard" (42 guns) 
 and the British frigate ^^Serapis" (50 guns), which 
 terminated in the surrender of the British ship. Rich- 
 ard Dale was a brilliant officer, and subsequently rose 
 to the rank of Commodore. 
 
 Other members of the Club who commanded ships 
 and distinguished themselves in later wars, were Cap- 
 tains Stephen Decatur, William Bainbridge, John 
 Rogers, James Cooper, John Carson, Thomas Ander- 
 son, William Barnes, John Cochran, Thomas Burrows, 
 Gerard Byrne, William Davis, Joseph H. Dill, and 
 William Fleming. 
 
 Stephen Decatur was in command of the ship 
 ''Delaware" (20 guns) at the time of the French 
 troubles, and had the honor of capturing the French 
 vessel of war "La Croyable" after an engagement off 
 the Delaware capes. He also commanded the "Phila- 
 delphia" (36 guns) and received the thanks of Con- 
 gress, as well as being presented with a sword in 1804, 
 for attacking and capturing a Tripolitan frigate of 44 
 guns. 
 
 William Bainbridge received the thanks of Con- 
 gress and a gold medal for his services while in com- 
 mand of the "Constitution" (44 guns) for capturing 
 the British frigate "Java," in 1813, after a brave and 
 skillful combat. 
 
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 Finally, another man, through whose princely en- 
 dowments to the City of Philadelphia her sons for 
 several generations have enjoyed immeasurable bene- 
 fits, was enrolled among the members of the Club. 
 That man was Captain Stephen Girard, who entered 
 the organization in 1788. He amassed during his life 
 an immense fortune, which in the end he distributed 
 in a manner to contribute to the well-being and ad- 
 vancement of his fellowmen. 
 
 Thus it will be seen that this little charitable Club, 
 founded by Lambert Tree and other captains, on the 
 4th of July, 1765, became the veritable nursery of the 
 American Navy 
 
 Prior to and during the Revolution, Pennsylvania, 
 also, turned to its Merchant Marine for military and 
 naval commanders and found such among those en- 
 rolled in the membership of the noted Club in ques- 
 tion. Of those in service prior to the Revolution, were 
 Captains John Sibbald, Samuel Mifflin, and Thomas 
 Leech. 
 
 Captain John Sibbald, one of the founders, was the 
 first Pennsylvanian to win naval honors. In the sum- 
 mer of 1739, on the eve of the declaration of war by 
 England against Spain, Governor Thomas of Pennsyl- 
 vania issued letters of marque to the sloop ' ' George, ' ' 
 the first privateer fitted out and sailing from Philadel- 
 phia. The "George" carried 10 guns and 10 swivels, 
 under the command of William Axon, Captain Sibbald 
 being his lieutenant. Shortly after the vessel sailed 
 
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 on her first voyage the command fell to Sibbald, who, 
 returning with the ''George" the next year, was pre- 
 sented with a sword, in recognition of his gallant ser- 
 vices. On his second voyage he covered himself with 
 glory, and made many valuable captures. In 1743, 
 a new and larger ship, the "Wilmington," with 150 
 men, and armed with 24 carriage and 24 swivel gims, 
 was fitted out at Philadelphia, and placed under Cap- 
 tain Sibbald 's command; and in 1757, he was given 
 command of the "Pennsylvania," a war vessel fitted 
 out by the Province of Pennsylvania for coastwise 
 defence, and generally known as the "Province Ship." 
 At the outbreak of the Eevolution he was still living 
 at Philadelphia, but was then too old to enter active 
 service. 
 
 Captain Samuel Mifflin, also a founder of the Club, 
 was given command in 1755, of the "Battery" con- 
 structed on the water front of Philadelphia. Most of 
 the sea-captains of his day armed their ships with 
 heavy guns for defence against the attack of pirates, 
 and it is conjectured that Captain Mifflin had had 
 experience in such direction, and so was selected to 
 direct the artillery of the "Battery." He became 
 one of the leading citizens of Philadelphia. During 
 the Eevolution, he was in command of an artillery 
 regiment, and was tendered, but declined, appointment 
 as commodore of the Pennsylvania Navy. 
 
 Captain Thomas Leech joined the Club in 1769. 
 As early as 1753 he was in command of vessels 
 
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 sailing from Philadelphia. During the following year, 
 while on a passage from the Island of Jamaica, his ship 
 was captured by a French man-of-war, and he was 
 carried to Port au Prince and imprisoned there. On 
 8 June, 1757, he was commissioned second-lieutenant of 
 the Province man-of-war ' ' Pennsylvania, ' ' commanded 
 by Captain John Sibbald, as before mentioned, and 
 two years later, when Captain Sibbald resigned his 
 command, Captain Leech was chosen to succeed him, 
 upon the recommendation of the latter. About the 
 time the War of Independence was begun. Captain 
 Leech retired from the sea, and in 1776 he was chosen 
 by Congress one of the signers of four millions of the 
 bills of credit issued by order of that body, and in De- 
 cember of the same year he was appointed by the 
 Council of Safety '*to take charge of the sick soldiers 
 in and near the City." Captain Leech was a son of 
 Honorable Thomas Leech, an eminent Philadelphian, 
 and one of the committee who procured for Pennsyl- 
 vania the famous ''Independence Bell." 
 
 The most important State naval force organized 
 during the Eevolution, was the one formed by Penn- 
 sylvania, known as the Pennsylvania Navy. During 
 its existence it had five commanders, four of whom, — 
 Captains Thomas Eeed, Andrew Caldwell, Samuel 
 Davidson, and John Hazelwood, — ^were cotemporaries 
 of Captain Tree in the Club mentioned. 
 
 Captain Thomas Read, brother of George Read, 
 a Signer of the Declaration of Independence, was com- 
 
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 missioned 23 October, 1775, Captain of the Montgom- 
 er}'-, the flag ship of the Pennsylvania Navy, and from 
 that time until 13 January, 1776, he was in command 
 of the fleet. For some time after the latter date he 
 was second in command, until 7 June, 1776, when he 
 resigned, to enter the Continental service. While in 
 the State service, he led the fleet in the noted fight on 
 the Delaware, May, 1776, with the British war ships, 
 *'Eoebuck" and "Liverpool." Upon entering the 
 Continental Navy he was placed in command of the 
 frigate ' * George Washington, ' ' one of the largest ves- 
 sels in the Navy. At the battle of Trenton he was in 
 command of an artillery company, composed of men 
 from his own ship. 
 
 Captain Andrew Caldwell, the second commander 
 of the Pennsylvania Navy, was the first to bear the title 
 of Commodore, being appointed such, 13 January, 
 1776, resigning the same on account of ill health, 25 
 May following. He later became a member of the 
 Council of Safety, and of the State Naval Board. 
 From 1778 until 1782 he was one of the wardens of 
 the port of Philadelphia. 
 
 Captain Samuel Davidson, the third commander, 
 and the second commodore, at the organization of the 
 Navy was commissioned captain, and given command 
 of the "Warren." In March, 1776, he was transferred 
 to the "Arnold Battery," which he commanded in the 
 fight on the Delaware, May, 1776. On 15 June, the same 
 year, he was promoted commodore, retaining this posi- 
 
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 tion until 27 August following. In 1779 and 1780 he 
 was on tlie sea, connnanding armed ships, sailing under 
 letters of marque from the Continental government. 
 
 Captain John Hazlewood, the last commander, was 
 appointed in 1775 to command the fire vessels attached 
 to the Pennsylvania Navy; was made second in com- 
 mand of the Navy, 1 October, 1776, and promoted com- 
 modore, 6 September, 1777. He was in command of 
 the fleet throughout the many engagements which took 
 place on the Delaware during the period the Brit- 
 ish were in possession of Philadelphia. By a vote of 
 Congress, 4 November, 1777, Commodore Hazlewood 
 was honored with a sword for his gallant conduct in 
 the action of 22 and 23 October, in which the British 
 lost two of their war ships, the Augusta and Merlin. 
 
 Among others of Captain Lambert Tree's associ- 
 ates in the Club, who engaged in either the military 
 or naval service in the war for Independence, the 
 following may be mentioned: Captains Charles Alex- 
 ander, John Ashmead, Charles Biddle, William 
 Budden, Joseph Blewer, John Burrows, Henry 
 Dougherty, Richard Eyre, Paul Cox, Nathaniel Gait, 
 George Geddes, William Greenway, Alexander Hen- 
 derson, Thomas Houston, Robert Hardie, Blathwait 
 Jones, Robert Knox, Peter Long, Benjamin Loxley, 
 James Montgomery, Thomas Moore, Isaac Roach, 
 William Richards, Jeremiah Simmons, and Joseph 
 Stiles. 
 
 Captain Charles Alexander, entered the Pennsyl- 
 
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 vania Navy as commander of the "Bull Dog," in July, 
 1775; was transferred to the "Chatham" in October 
 following; resigned, 12 April, 1776, to enter the Con- 
 tinental service, becoming captain of the frigate 
 "Delaware," with 24 guns, and ranking ten among the 
 captains of the Continental Navy. 
 
 Captain John Ashmead commanded the Continental 
 brig "Eagle," with which he made several voyages to 
 the East Indies, to procure munitions of war for the 
 Continental government. 
 
 Captain Joseph Blewer was a member of the Pro- 
 vincial Convention which met at Carpenter's Hall, in 
 June, 1776 ; also of the Council of Safety in the same 
 year, and of the Naval Board of Pennsylvania, in 1777. 
 He subsequently became one of the wardens of the port 
 of Philadelphia. His son was taken prisoner in the 
 battle of Germantown. 
 
 Captain William Budden, while in the naval service 
 of the Continental Congress was taken prisoner by the 
 British ship "Liverpool," and was subsequently ex- 
 changed, by special vote of Congress, for an officer 
 of the British Navy. 
 
 Captain Charles Biddle, of the distinguished Phila- 
 delphia family of his surname, had a notable experi- 
 ence as commander of privateers during the Revolu- 
 tion. In 1785 he was chosen vice president of the 
 Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, a posi- 
 tion which corresponds to the present lieutenant- 
 governorship. At the time he was chosen, Benjamin 
 
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 Franklin was chosen president of the Council. Cap- 
 tain Biddle was a brother of the gallant hero of the 
 United States Navy, — Captain Nicholas Biddle, — who 
 lost his life at the blowing up of the frigate '^Ran- 
 dolph," in the engagement with the British ship 
 "Yarmouth," 7 March, 1778, in Charlestown harbor, 
 South Carolina. He was also the father of the emi- 
 nent Nicholas Biddle, president of the Bank of the 
 United States. Captain Biddle 's '' Autobiography, " 
 published a few years ago, is one of the most inter- 
 esting works of its kind that has ever appeared in 
 print. 
 
 Captain John Burrows was in very active service 
 as the commander of privateers, sailing under letters 
 of marque from Congress. In 1779 he commanded the 
 brig ''Hibernia," 35 men and 11 guns; in 1780, the 
 sloop "Industry," 15 men and 6 guns; in 1781, the 
 brig "Schuylkill," 35 men and 8 guns, and in 1782, 
 the schooner "Don Quixote," 16 men and 8 guns. 
 
 Captain Paul Cox served as lieutenant-colonel of a 
 regiment of Philadelphia militia under Colonel Sharp 
 Delany, and also in the same capacity under Colonel 
 William Bradford. In 1778 he was chosen by Con- 
 gress one of the signers of the Continental bills of 
 credit. 
 
 Captain Henry Dougherty was appointed captain 
 of the "Experiment," of the Pennsylvania Navy, 17 
 July, 1775; was transferred two weeks later to the 
 "Washington," and in October, 1776, to the "Mont- 
 
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 gomery, ' ' the flag ship of the fleet ; resigning his com- 
 mission, 14 May, 1777. 
 
 Captain Eichard Eyre, entered the Pennsylvania 
 Navy in September, 1775, as captain of the '' Chat- 
 ham," was transferred, 1 October, 1776, to the 
 ''Delaware," with which vessel he was sent to Toms 
 River, New Jersey, in February, 1777, to protect the 
 Continental Salt Works at that point. In the follow- 
 ing July, under orders of the Naval Board of Penn- 
 sylvania, he joined the Continental fleet under Captain 
 Isaiah Robinson, sent by Congress ''on a secret 
 expedition." 
 
 Captain Nathaniel Gait was placed in command of 
 the "Argus," in April, 1777; was taken prisoner in 
 January, 1778, and retired from the navy in 1780. 
 
 Captain George Geddes was in command of the 
 Continental privateer "Hope," in 1779; of the brig 
 "Holker," in 1781, capturing many prizes; and of the 
 ship "Congress," later the same year. This ship car- 
 ried 200 men and 24 guns, and while Captain Geddes 
 was in command he performed one of the most gallant 
 feats of the war, in the capture of the British sloop-of- 
 war " Savage," in an engagement which lasted two 
 hours, off Charleston, South Carolina. 
 
 Captain William Greenway was appointed to com- 
 mand the "Hornet" of the Pennsylvania Navy, 4 
 July, 1777, having previously commanded the "Vul- 
 ture" of the same fleet. 
 
 Captain Robert Hardie was commissioned captain 
 
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 of the ''Terror," of the same Navy, 27 March, 1776, 
 and was transferred to the "Burke," 8 August, 1777. 
 
 Captain Thomas Houston was first-lieutenant of 
 the ''Franklin" of the Pennsylvania Navy from 2 
 September, 1775, until 11 March, 1776, when he be- 
 came captain of the "Warren." 
 
 Captain Alexander Henderson became captain of 
 the "Bull Dog," 2 October, 1775, and was transferred 
 to the "Dickinson," 1 October, 1776. 
 
 Captain Blathwait Jones was appointed, 15 Febru- 
 ary, 1777, chief-engineer for building the fortifications 
 at Billingsport, New Jersey, ordered by Congress, and 
 was given the "Pay Rank and Rations of a Lieut. 
 Colonel." 
 
 Captain Robert Knox commanded one of the Phila- 
 delphia battalions of militia, and was also one of the 
 justices of the courts of Philadelphia. 
 
 Captain Peter Long was the Quarter Master of the 
 Pennsylvania Navy from its organization until 21 May, 
 1776. 
 
 Captain Benjamin Loxley commanded a company 
 of artillery in 1775, and the next year was engaged 
 in the manufacture of cannon for the army. 
 
 Captain James Montgomery was appointed to com- 
 mand the "Ranger," of the Pennsylvania Navy, 31 
 August, 1775, and was transferred to the ' ' Chatham, ' ' 
 29 May, 1776, resigned this command, 1 August follow- 
 ing, to accept an appointment in the Continental 
 service. 
 
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 Captain Thomas Moore was made commander of 
 the ''Hancock," of the Pennsylvania Navy, 10 October, 
 1775. In August, 1777, he was placed in command of 
 five vessels of the Navy, and was sent by the Naval 
 Board to re-inforce the Continental Navy, upon request 
 of the Continental Naval Board. 
 
 Captain William Richards was appointed commis- 
 sary of the Pennsylvania Naval Board, 9 May, 1776, 
 having previously rendered important service on com- 
 mittees in furthering the war. 
 
 Captain Isaac Roach was commissioned second 
 lieutenant of the ''Hancock," in the Pennsylvania 
 Navy, 27 October, 1775; promoted first lieutenant of 
 the "Franklin," 16 February, 1776; and captain of 
 the "Congress," 28 September the same year. In 
 April, 1777, he was transferred to the command of 
 the "Delaware." 
 
 Captain Jeremiah Simmons was commissioned first 
 lieutenant of the "Warren," 19 September, 1775; 
 became first lieutenant of an artillery company in the 
 Philadelphia militia, 24 February, 1776, and on 1 
 October, 1776, was appointed captain of the "Ar- 
 nold," of the Pennsylvania Navy. 
 
 Captain Joseph Stiles was commissary of Military 
 Stores at Philadelphia, and in 1778 was chosen a 
 Port Warden. 
 
 Captain Lambert Tree who, by his early death was 
 prevented the opportunity of winning laurels on the 
 sea during the Revolution, left surviving him a 
 
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 widow and two sons. He married at Philadelphia, 26 
 March, 1764, Mrs. Margaret Hamilton, the widow 
 of Gustavus Hamilton, and daughter of William and 
 Margaret Donaldson, of Darby near Philadelphia. 
 William Donaldson was one of the substantial citizens 
 of Darby, where he appears to have resided as early 
 as 1719. He held a number of public offices, and was 
 a landed proprietor; Boone Island, opposite Philadel- 
 phia, being one of his possessions, a portion of which 
 he conveyed to James Eouse in 1757. By his wife 
 Margaret he had a number of sons and daughters, in- 
 cluding son Arthur Donaldson, a noted man in his 
 day, who was a ship-builder, civil-engineer, and an 
 inventor, and a man of large affairs and great public 
 spirit. 
 
 Previous to the Revolutionary War the wharfage 
 accommodations of Philadelphia had become much im- 
 paired by the accumulation of mud, and Arthur Don- 
 aldson invented a dredging machine for cleaning and 
 deepening docks, a description of which was given in 
 the Pennsylvania Magazine of History for 1875. A 
 committee of the American Philosophical Society, ap- 
 pointed to examine the machine at work, recommended 
 an award to the builder of one hundred pounds for 
 his ingenuity. In 1785 he was granted by the General 
 Assembly of Pennsylvania the exclusive privilege for 
 a term of years, of making and using in the Delaware 
 river this machine for cleaning docks. It was called 
 * ' The Hippopotamus. ' ' He was also the inventor of a 
 
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 balance lock, and his inventive abilities secured for him 
 an offer from Robert Fulton of a partnership in his 
 steamboat scheme.* 
 
 Mr. Donaldson rendered valuable service to the 
 cause of the patriots in the Revolutionary contest. 
 On the request of the Pennsylvania Council of Safety, 
 he built and sunk the famous ''Cheveaux de Frieze" 
 in the Delaware river at Mud Island below Philadel- 
 phia, to obstruct the advance of the British by that 
 route upon the city. The following are some of the 
 minutes of the Council of Safety on the subject, found 
 in the Colonial records of Pennsylvania : 
 
 MINUTES OF THE COUNCIL OF SAFETY OF THE 
 PROVINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA 
 
 Present : 
 
 In Committee of Safety, 
 
 Philad'a, 13th March, 1776. 
 
 John Nixon,f Chairman, 
 James Biddle, 
 Owen Biddle, 
 Robert Whyte, 
 George Clymer, 
 
 * ScharflF and Westcott'a History of Philadelphia, page 2338. 
 f Colonel John Nixon was the first to read to the public the 
 Declaration of Independence. 
 
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 Thomas Wharton, jun'r, 
 Samuel Howell, 
 Daniel Eoberdeau, 
 ********* 
 
 Resolved, That Arthur Donaldson be employed to 
 launch the Cheveaux-de-Frieze built at Gloucester, and 
 that he be fully authorized to procure anything for the 
 purpose, hire persons under him, on the best and 
 cheapest terms, and that he draw on this Board for the 
 expense. 
 
 Present : 
 
 In Committee of Safety, 
 
 Phila., 26th of March, 1776. 
 
 John Nixon, Chairman, 
 Owen Biddle, 
 Jno. Cadwalader, 
 Alex'r Wilcocks, 
 Thomas Wharton, jun'r, 
 Daniel Eoberdeau, 
 Samuel Howell, 
 James Biddle, 
 
 Resolved, That Mr. 0. Biddle and Mr. Clymer em- 
 ploy Arthur Donaldson to build two piers to sink, for 
 fixing the Boom for obstructing the navigation of the 
 passage at Fort Island. 
 
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 Present : 
 
 In Committee of Safety, 
 
 Phil., 6th Apr., 1776. 
 
 Geo. Clymer,* Chairman, 
 James Mease, 
 Owen Biddle, 
 Sam'l Howell, 
 Alex'r Wilcocks, 
 James Biddle, 
 Sam'l Morris, jun'r, 
 Dan'l Eoberdeau. 
 
 Resolved, That Capt. Rice and Mr. A. Donaldson 
 be desired immediately to construct two Chevaux de 
 Prize, for the purpose of stopping the passage between 
 the Cheveaux de Prize now sunk, and that they be 
 made in such form that they may float, when properly 
 loaded for sinking. 
 
 In Committee of Safety, 
 
 Phila., 16th July, 1776. 
 
 Owen Biddle, Chairman, 
 George Clymer, 
 Samuel Howell, 
 Robert Morris, 
 Thomas Wharton, jun'r. 
 
 Present : 
 
 • George Clymer was one of the Signers of the Declaration of 
 Independence. 
 
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 James Biddle, 
 Alex'r Wilcocks, 
 James Mease. 
 
 Resolved, That Mr. Thomas Penrose and Mr. 
 Arthur Donaldson be requested, and they are hereby 
 authorized to fix the two Piers at their proper stations 
 in the line of the upper Cheveaux de Frize, near Fort 
 Island, and also to fasten the Boom thereto. 
 
 In Council of Safety, 
 
 Sept. 21st, 1776 
 
 Thomas Wharton, jun'r President, 
 Samuel Morris, sen'r, 
 Henry Keppele, jun'r, 
 James Cannon, 
 Francis Gurney, 
 Fred Kuhl, 
 George Gray, 
 John Bull, 
 Timothy Matlack, 
 John Weitzel, 
 Joseph Blewer, 
 John Hubley. 
 ******** Ik- 
 Resolved, That Capt. Wm. Brown * be appointed 
 
 • Captain William Brown was a member of the " Captains of 
 Ship's Charitable Club." 
 
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 Commander of the Floating Battery now building by 
 Mr. Arthur Donaldson. 
 
 Ordered, That Capt. Wm. Brown do raise men for 
 the Floating Battery now building by Mr. Arthur 
 
 Donaldson. 
 
 In the construction of the floating batteries and 
 Cheveaux de Frize it appears that Arthur Donaldson 
 most effectively executed his work. Leake in his ' ' Life 
 and Times of John Lamb," p. 192, inserts a letter 
 written by Gen. H. Knox to Col. John Lamb, in which 
 he says that ''the enemy have not yet been able to 
 raise the Chevauz de Frize at Mud Island." 
 
 It also is recorded in the published journals of Col. 
 James Montresor and his son, Capt. John Montresor, 
 two able and energetic officers of the Engineer Corps 
 of Great Britain from 1757 to 1778, that several attacks 
 were made at the point in the Delaware known as Mud 
 Island, and that the floating batteries near Philadel- 
 phia, Oct. 12, 1777, poured upon the British a very 
 heavy cannonade. 
 
 Philadelphia was evacuated by the British June 18, 
 1778, and Arthur Donaldson's services were in 1784, 
 after the close of the War, again called into requisition 
 to remove the floating batteries and other obstructions 
 which he had constructed in 1776 by order of the Com- 
 mittee of Safety. 
 
 The following are some of the minutes of the Su- 
 preme Executive Council on the subject, as found in 
 the Pennsylvania Colonial records : 
 
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 MINUTES OF THE SUPEEME EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 
 
 The Council met, Phil., Mon., May 3rd, 1784. 
 Present : 
 
 His Excellency John Dickinson Esq., President, 
 The Hon. James Irvine, 
 George Wall, junior, 
 John McDowell, 
 Sebastian Levan, 
 Stephen Balliott, 
 Samuel John Atlee, 
 Esquires. 
 ********* 
 
 The following orders were drawn on the treasurer, 
 to wit: 
 
 In favor of Levi Hollingsworth and Arthur Donald- 
 son, for eleven hundred pounds to be by them applied 
 in removing or destroying the Cheveaux de Frize in 
 the river Delaware, to be paid out of the duties which 
 have arisen by the late Impost laws, according to reso- 
 lution of the General Assembly dated the twenty-fourth 
 day of Sept., 1783. 
 
 ********* 
 
 Articles of agreement for removing or destroying 
 the Cheveaux de Frize in the river Delaware, were this 
 day signed by his Excellency the President, in behalf 
 of the Commonwealth, on the one part, and by Arthur 
 Donaldson and Levi Hollingsworth, on the other part. 
 And at the same time a bond was executed by the said 
 
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 Arthur Donaldson and Levi Hollingsworth, for their 
 faithful performance of the said agreement. 
 
 MINUTES OF THE SUPREME EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 
 
 The Council met, Phil, Wed., May 26th, 1784. 
 Present : 
 
 His Excellency John Dickinson Esq., President, 
 The Hon. James Ewing Esq., Vice-president, 
 James Irvine, 
 John McDowell, 
 Stephen Balliott, 
 Samuel John Atlee, 
 John Boyd, 
 Esquires. 
 Ordered, That the Wardens of the Port of Phila- 
 delphia be directed to deliver to Messieurs Arthur 
 Donaldson and Levi Hollingsworth, the vessel pur- 
 chased by them for the purpose of removing the Che- 
 veaux de frize, and such of her materials as may be 
 judged necessary to enable the said Arthur Donaldson 
 and Levi Hollingsworth to prosecute their plan for 
 removing or destroying the Cheveaux de frize. 
 
 MINUTES OF THE SUPREME EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 
 
 The Council met, 
 
 Phil., Wed., Oct. 27th, 1784. 
 Present : 
 
 His Excellency John Dickinson Esq., President, 
 The Hon. James Irvine, 
 
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 Jolin McDowell, 
 John Boyd, 
 John Neville, 
 Stephen Balliott, and 
 Eichard McCallister, 
 Esquires. 
 
 A certificate from the Wardens of the Port of Phila- 
 delphia, of the twenty-sixth instant, respecting the 
 removal of the Cheveaux de frize, was received and 
 read, and is as follows, to wit : 
 
 Port of Philadelphia, 
 
 Warden's Office, 
 
 October 26th, 1784. 
 We do certify that Messrs. Levi Hollingsworth and 
 Arthur Donnaldson, have not only removed the des- 
 troyed forty-nine Cheveaux de frize, but from the re- 
 ports, employed in sweeping the bed of the river in the 
 neighborhood of Mud Island and Billingsport, we have 
 reason to believe that they also removed all the frames 
 that were obstructions, and that the navigation in both 
 the eastern and western channel is rendered perfectly 
 safe. Francis Gurney, 
 
 Nathaniel Falconer, 
 Samuel Caldwell, 
 John Hazlewood, 
 George Ord, 
 Joseph Bullock. 
 
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 Upon which it was 
 
 Ordered, That a letter be written to Messieurs 
 Arthur Donnaldson and Levi Hollingsworth, in the 
 following words, viz.: 
 
 In Council, Phil., Oct. 27th, 1784. 
 Gentlemen : — The certificate of the Wardens of the 
 Port gives us great satisfaction, and we have drawn 
 an order for the payment of the ballance due to you. 
 
 We cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of express- 
 ing, upon this occasion, our sense of the attention and 
 ingenuity exerted in removing the Cheveaux de frize, 
 and of the very great service thereby rendered to our 
 fellow citizens. 
 
 I am with much respect, gentlemen, 
 
 Your obedient and very humble servant, 
 
 John Dickinson. 
 
 Messrs. Arthur Donnaldson and Levi Hollingsworth. 
 Ordered, That the foregoing certificate from the 
 Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia, and letter to 
 Messieurs Arthur Donnaldson and Levi Hollingsworth 
 be published. 
 
 Arthur Donaldson, on the 15th of September, 1763, 
 married Elizabeth Kaighn, who was a member of the 
 prominent family of the Susmans in New Jersey. 
 
 In the Philadelphia directory of 1795 appears the 
 name of ''Arthur Donaldson, Gentleman, South Sec- 
 
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 ond street, East Side, No. 183, between Spruce and 
 Pine." 
 
 Facsimile of tlie autograph of Arthur Donaldson, 
 as witness to the will of his nephew, Weston Clark. 
 
 Andrew Donaldson, another son of William and 
 Margaret Donaldson of Darby, was also a ship-builder 
 as well as a sea-captain. He married Eleanor Toy, 
 1762. 
 
 William Donaldson was a third son. He married 
 December 31, 1770, Sarah Griscomb, the fourth 
 daughter of Samuel and Eebecca Griscomb. Her sis- 
 ter, commonly known in history as ''Betsy Ross," 
 made the first American flag. Margaret Donaldson, 
 the daughter of William and Sarah Griscomb Donald- 
 son, was born on Queen Street, Philadelphia, 10 Jan- 
 uary, 1776; married Joseph Boggs in 1794, and died, 
 at the advanced age of 106 years. One of the 
 daughters of William and Margaret Donaldson of 
 Darby, named Eleanor, married William Pullerton, 
 in 1765. He was a prominent citizen of Philadelphia. 
 Ann Donaldson, another daughter, married James 
 Clark, a well-known and wealthy citizen of the same 
 city, 10 February, 1764, and their son, Weston Clark, 
 by his will dated 10 April, 1786. devised a large 
 estate including a handsome bequest to his ''aunt" 
 
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 Margaret Tree. Mary was still another daughter of 
 William and Margaret Donaldson. She married James 
 Brown of Philadelphia, 22 January, 1763. 
 
 Margaret Donaldson, as heretofore stated, was a 
 widow at the time of her marriage to Captain Lambert 
 Tree, having been married four years previously, that 
 is, on the 2 February 1760, to Gustavus Hamilton, of 
 Philadelphia, who died shortly afterwards. There was 
 no issue from the first marriage. By the second mar- 
 riage, to Captain Tree, there were two children, John 
 and Lambert. 
 
 After fourteen years of widowhood, Margaret Don- 
 aldson Tree married for the third time, becoming the 
 wife of Nicholas Van Wickle, of New Jersey, then a 
 widower and father of Judge Jacob J. Van Wickle. 
 There was no issue from the last marriage. She died 
 on the 21st of August, 1802, and in a letter written to 
 her son Lambert the next day by the Eev. John Croes, 
 rector of Christ church, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 
 and afterward bishop of that State, he announced her 
 death in the following terms: 
 
 New Brunswick, Aug. 22, 1802. 
 Sir: 
 
 I have the mournful and unpleasant task to inform 
 you of the death of your mother, Mrs. Margaret Van 
 Wickle, who died last evening at her residence at Mr. 
 Nickolas Van Wickle 's about seven o'clock. Her 
 death was sudden. About ten minutes before, she was 
 
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 sitting in the entry nearly as well as usual. Feeling 
 some pain in her head, she went into a contiguous room 
 and laid herself on a bed and in a few minutes expired. 
 I saw her corpse this day about ten o 'clock, which was 
 to be interred at two. It was very much changed. It 
 ought to be a great consolation to you and those con- 
 nected with you, and should moderate your grief, that 
 she was a pious, exemplary Christian ; and supported 
 a singularly good character among her extensive 
 acquaintance. 
 
 I write this at the request of Mr. Jacob Van Wickle, 
 who had not time to write before I left his house. My 
 own want of time obliges me to be thus brief. 
 
 Hoping that this melancholy event may have a 
 proper and salutary effect upon the minds of her chil- 
 dren, and that it may finally produce in them the 
 peaceable fruits of righteousness, I subscribe myself, 
 Your most obedient servant, 
 John Croes, 
 
 Eector, Christ Church, 
 New Brunswick, N. J. 
 To Mr. Lambert Tree, 
 
 Care of Mr. Dowers, 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 Captain John Tree, the eldest son of Captain Lam- 
 bert Tree by his wife Margaret Donaldson, was born 
 at Philadelphia, 11 February, 1772, and was baptized 
 at the First Presbyterian Church in that city, 17 May 
 
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 following. He inlierited the proclivities of his father, 
 and adopted his calling as a mariner. In due course 
 of time he also became a captain, and commanded 
 numerous ships sailing out of the port of Philadelphia. 
 On 20 June, 1794, he married at the First Baptist 
 Church, Philadelphia, Rebecca, daughter of Adam 
 Karn, which fact is shown by the records of that 
 church, and by the following certificate of marriage 
 given by the minister performing the ceremony : 
 
 ''This certifies whom it may concern that Mr. 
 John Tree and Miss Rebecca Karn, both of the City 
 of Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, were 
 legally joined together in the holy bands of matrimony 
 on the 20th of June, A.D. 1794, by me, 
 
 Thomas Ustick, V.D.M." 
 
 Mrs. Tree was connected with the well-known 
 Breintnall family of Philadelphia, which had its origin 
 in David Breintnall, a Quaker merchant, who came to 
 Pennsylvania from England, in 1683, and was the 
 father of Joseph Breintnall, Esq., one of the founders, 
 with Benjamin Franklin, of the historic "Junto," in 
 1727, and the High Sheriff of Philadelphia, in 1735, 
 1736, and 1737. Captain Tree died at Philadelphia, 
 circa, 1814, and Mrs. Tree died at Washington, D. C, 
 12 July, 1850. 
 
 The children of Captain John Tree by his wife Re- 
 becca Karn, were: 
 
 1. John Tree, who died in infancy. 
 
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 ii. Lambert Tree, born 14 October, 1799 ; died 19 De- 
 cember, 1881; married Laura Matilda Burrows. 
 (See page 69.) 
 
 iii. Maegaket Tree; married Augustus H. Osborne, 
 Esquire, a cotton merchant of New Orleans, 
 Louisiana. She died many years ago, and no 
 issue now survives her. 
 
 iv. Ann Jane Breintnall Tree; married at Phila- 
 delphia, 8 June, 1822, Peter France Gai, a native 
 of Italy, and a merchant at Philadelphia. He 
 died a few years after marriage, leaving two chil- 
 dren. She married some years later, General 
 William Patton, of Towanda, Pennsylvania, whom 
 she survived, dying at the age of eighty-three 
 years. 
 
 v. Mary Tree; married William M. Tileston, Es- 
 quire, a merchant of New York. Mr. Tileston 
 was a brother of Thomas Tileston, a partner of 
 the noted firm of Spofford & Tileston, ship 
 owners and shipping merchants of New York. 
 A number of children were the result of the mar- 
 riage. Frances, the oldest daughter, married 
 Robert B. Potter, a brother of Clarkson and 
 Bishop Henry Potter of New York. Mr. Potter 
 was a lawyer of distinction, and at the outbreak 
 of the Civil War, entered the army and rose to 
 the rank of major-general. Mrs. Potter died 
 young but left a daughter who married James L. 
 
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 Breeze, of New York. Meta, another daughter of 
 Mary Tree by Mr. Tileston, is the wife of Edward 
 D. Pearsall, Esquire, of the same city. There 
 were four sons, only one of whom Thomas Tiles- 
 ton, Esquire, survives. Of the sons, two of them, 
 Thomas and Arthur, entered the army, and served 
 with distinction throughout the Civil War. 
 Thomas, at the end of the war, was a captain of 
 infantry, and Arthur, a major in a cavalry-regi- 
 ment. Thomas married, Mary, daughter of 
 Charles Jefferson Hendee, of Boston, Massachu- 
 setts, and sister of Admiral George Hendee, of 
 the United States Navy. 
 vi. Arthur Donaldson Tree. (See page 82.) 
 
 Lambert Tree, the second son of Captain Lambert 
 Tree, resided in Philadelphia, where he died in 1839. 
 He was a manufacturer of sails and other vessel equip- 
 ments. He had large sail lofts, and did an extensive 
 business. On his retirement to private life, he took 
 with him a substantial fortune. He married Elizabeth 
 Evans. His will, dated 25 February, 1835, and proved 
 at Philadelphia, 12 December, 1839, names nine chil- 
 dren. His daughter Ellen married John Edward 
 Kendall, of Washington, a nephew of Amos Kendall, 
 who was a publicist and stateman of national reputa- 
 tion in his day, and Postmaster General in the cabinet 
 of President Martin Van Buren. John Blake Kendall, 
 the only surviving child of the marriage of John Ed- 
 
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 ward Kendall and Ellen Tree, is a merchant, and 
 resides at Washington, D. C. Another daughter, 
 Elizabeth Tree, married George Grant, a merchant of 
 Philadelphia, and her daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Grant 
 Thomas, with her husband and children, of whom there 
 are two sons, now reside at Philadelphia. 
 
 Lambert Tree, Esquire, the second son of Captain 
 John Tree, and grandson of Captain Lambert Tree, 
 was bom at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 14 October, 
 1799, and died at Washington, D. C, 19 December, 
 1881. When twenty-one years old he removed from 
 his native city to Washington, where he took up his 
 residence, remaining there until his death. In a paper 
 read by him at the meeting of the '^ Oldest Inhabitants' 
 Association," of Washington, held 7 April, 1880, he 
 gives an interesting account of his journey from Phila- 
 delphia to the Capital of the country, and his impres- 
 sions of its appearance at the time of his arrival 
 there. Among other things he says : 
 
 ''I departed from Philadelphia at one o'clock p.m., 
 November 1st, 1820, by steamer to New Castle, Dela- 
 ware; from thence by stage to Frenchtown, and from 
 there to Baltimore by steamer, arriving at the latter 
 place at seven a.m. On the morning of November 2, 
 I left Baltimore by stage at eight a.m., arriving at 
 Washington at seven p.m. of the same day. Thus 59 
 years ago I traveled thirty hours to make a distance 
 which I have often since made in four to five hours. 
 
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 The city as seen at this time from the parapet of the 
 Capitol presented to the eye a view of open fields, with 
 here and there a house or small cluster of houses. 
 The Capitol itself was in a most dilapidated condition, 
 the result of the occupation of the city by the British 
 in 1814. The streets were country roads, and side- 
 walks were not common. 
 
 *'0n the north side of Pennsylvania avenue, from 
 1st to 6th street, was a graveled footpath. Tiber 
 creek was crossed by a small bridge protected by a 
 hand rail to keep pedestrians from falling in. The 
 south side of the avenue, now lined with business 
 houses and hotels, was then only flanked by the canal, 
 which at 3d street emptied into Tiber creek. The side- 
 walk on the north side of the Avenue from 6th to 7th 
 street, was paved with brick; from 7th to 9th street 
 on the north side, with gravel walk, and from 9th to 
 10th street, a brick pavement; from 10th to 14th 
 street, a gravel walk, and from 14th to 15th, a pave- 
 ment; from there to Georgetown, a gravel walk. F 
 street northwest was then deemed the boundary of the 
 city, and almost all the ground beyond that point was 
 occupied by fields of com or wheat, or, when not under 
 cultivation, overgrown with scrub oak and briar 
 bushes. The Island, or South Washington, had but 
 few residences, the larger part of the land being under 
 cultivation ; and I have often heard in that section the 
 negroes singing while engaged in shocking corn or 
 stripping tobacco. Capitol Hill was almost as sparsely 
 
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 settled as the Island. The population at the time was 
 between 12,000 and 15,000." 
 
 Soon after his arrival in Washington, Lambert 
 Tree entered the postal service of the Government, in 
 which he remained sixty years continuously, and was 
 for some time assistant postmaster of the Capital 
 City. He married at that city, 13 February, 1823, 
 Laura Matilda Burrows, born at Washington, 4 July, 
 1804 ; died there, 3 July, 1860. She was a daughter of 
 Joseph Burrows by his wife Sarah Jeffers. Her 
 father was a citizen of Pennsylvania, and a function- 
 ary of the Federal Government at Philadelphia. When 
 the Capital was removed in 1800 to Washington, he 
 came with it, being still in the public service. 
 
 Joseph Burrows, like the Donaldsons and Trees, 
 also belonged to colonial and Revolutionary stock. 
 His grandfather, John Burrows, is said to have emi- 
 grated from England at an early period, and soon 
 afterwards settled in the vicinity of what is now Rah- 
 way. New Jersey. His father, also named John Bur- 
 rows, was born at Rahway in 1719, and on 11 March, 
 1753, married, Lois, daughter of the Reverend Na- 
 thaniel HubbelL* By this marriage there were five 
 sons, all born in New Jersey. Before the Revolution- 
 
 * Mr. Hubbell was graduated at Yale College in 1723 ; became a 
 Presbyterian clergyman; was the first pastor of the Hanover Pres- 
 byterian church, Morris County, New Jersey, and preached for some 
 years at Eahway, in that state. He died in Lebanon, Hunterdon 
 County, same state, in 1761. 
 
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 ary War, John Burrows removed to Bucks county, 
 Pennsylvania, and at the opening of that struggle, he 
 and his five sons joined the side of the patriots. One 
 of the sons was taken prisoner by the British while 
 serving in the army, and was confined in a military 
 prison in New York, where he died. Another fell while 
 fighting under General Baron De Kalb, and a third, 
 who had entered the navy, was with Captain Nicholas 
 Biddle on board the Randolph, which was blown up in 
 the fight with H.M.S. Yarmouth, when every soul on 
 board perished. The remaining sons, Nathaniel Bur- 
 rows, born 4 February, 1756, and John Burrows, born 
 15 May, 1760, survived the war, and late in life were in 
 receipt of pensions from the United States, on account 
 of their Revolutionary services. 
 
 John Burrows, some years after the close of the 
 war, removed to Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, 
 where he continued to reside during the remainder 
 of his life. He possessed all the sturdy qualities of the 
 American of those days, and was a man most highly 
 respected and esteemed by his fellow citizens. He 
 held at different times amongst other positions, those 
 of justice of the peace, county commissioner. State 
 senator, prothonotary of the court of common pleas, 
 register of wills, recorder of deeds, clerk of the courts, 
 and major-general of the Ninth Division of the Penn- 
 sylvania Militia. 
 
 At the age of seventy-seven. General Burrows, at 
 the request of his children, grandchildren, and great- 
 
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 grandchildren, wrote a brief but very interesting 
 sketch of his life. In telling the story of his partici- 
 pation in the Revolution, he writes : 
 
 ''When the news that the British had landed on 
 Long Island came, my four brothers and myself joined 
 the militia, and when our tour expired, we joined the 
 "Flying Camp," and were with the army on Long 
 Island at the time of the retreat. Two of my brothers 
 were taken at Fort Washington, and the rest of us 
 returned with the remnant of the retreating army to 
 Pennsylvania, the British being close on our heels 
 all the way until we crossed the Delaware. 
 
 "General Washington lay about two weeks at my 
 father's house opposite Trenton, then removed to 
 Newtown, the county seat of Bucks, from which place 
 he marched with his little army on Christmas morning 
 1776 and crossed the Delaware that night nine miles 
 above Trenton. I crossed with him and assisted in the 
 taking of the Hessians the next morning. The prison- 
 ers were conveyed across the river, and we remained 
 in Jersey until that day week, the 2d of January, and 
 marched that night at twelve o'clock up the Bandpink 
 Creek and arrived at Stoney Brook, about one mile 
 from Princeton, at sunrise. In ascending the hill to 
 the town to the right of the main road there was an 
 extensive thorn hedge, and when we got pretty near 
 to it the whole British force that lay at Princeton, 
 concealing themselves in ambush behind the hedge, 
 rose and fired. The Philadelphia militia were in front, 
 
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 and gave way, but were rallied again by Gens. Cad- 
 walader and Mifflin. After the enemy were driven 
 from the hedge, there being but one gate in the hedge 
 to pass through in order to pursue them. Gen. Mercer 
 in advance with a small party was first through the 
 gate. The enemy observing it, rushed back to the 
 charge and bayoneted the General and 12 others be- 
 fore they could be relieved. Part of the army moved 
 swiftly to the right around the hedge, and got ahead 
 of part of the enemy and captured 500 of them. 
 
 ''While we were collecting our dead and wounded 
 the advance of the main British army that we had left 
 in the night at Trenton fired on some men that were 
 sent to cut the bridge down over Stoney Brook. We 
 now moved on with our prisoners. The British forded 
 Stoney Brook and pursued us. We were again fired 
 on, cutting the bridge down at Kingston, three miles 
 from Princeton. After pursuing our corps for some 
 six or seven miles on the road to Brunswick we turned 
 off the main road to elude the pursuit of the enemy 
 and halted at Pluckenin for refreshments, where we 
 interred the dead with honors of war and had the 
 wounds of the wounded dressed. 
 
 ''From this place I returned home, and after stay- 
 ing a short time to rest I returned and joined the army 
 at Morristown as an express rider at $40 per month. 
 Our army lay this summer, 1777, in Jersey. We had 
 several skirmishes with the enemy. At one of them 
 Gen. Sterling's division composing Maxwell's and 
 
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 Conoway's brigades, was severely handled at Short 
 Hills, a few miles from Brunswick. 
 
 "When the British appeared in the Chesapeake 
 we crossed the Delaware to Pennsylvania. The Brit- 
 ish landed at the head of Elk River and marched for 
 Philadelphia. We met them at Brandywine Creek 
 at a place called Chad's Ford, and a battle ensued 
 between the hostile armies, the result of which is well 
 known, though some trifling errors are committed and 
 incidents omitted in history that might be interesting 
 to many at this stage, and which I find to be the case 
 in every battle that I was in during the War. 
 
 "After the battle our army retreated and was pur- 
 sued by the British through different parts of Chester 
 County, but had no fighting except at the Paoli with 
 Gen. Wayne's brigade, after which the British steered 
 their course for Philadelphia and stationed a part of 
 their army at Germantown, and Gen. Washington en- 
 camped at a place called The Trap, about 25 miles from 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 "Gen. Washington soon perceived the evils of suf- 
 fering the enemy to keep possession of the country as 
 well as the city, and the advantage they had in their 
 depredations upon the inhabitants and in supplying 
 themselves with every necessary they wanted. He 
 was determined to deprive them of that advantage 
 and accordingly moved from Trap with his whole force 
 and attacked them at Germantown, driving them more 
 than a mile, when two circumstances occurred to im- 
 
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 pede our onward course. The enemy filled a strong 
 stone house with soldiers, with two field pieces, which 
 we ineffectually tried to get possession of; and the 
 other was that Gen. Stevens of Virginia, laid back 
 on the left wing of the army. Cornwallis arriving in 
 the meantime with the whole British force from the 
 city, we were compelled to retreat, and the enemy 
 pursued us for several miles. The move had how- 
 ever the desired effect, for it confined them to the city 
 thereafter. 
 
 ''We lay then about two weeks at White Marsh, 
 15 miles from Philadelphia, then crossed the Schuyl- 
 kill and lay a few days on the hills near the Gulph 
 Mills, and then went into winter quarters at Valley 
 Forge. 
 
 ''About two weeks before we left Valley Forge I 
 was at home at my father's on furlough, and while 
 I was there the British sent a gunboat with 500 or 600 
 men up the Delaware, evidently with the special pur- 
 pose of burning the valuable buildings belonging to 
 Col. Joseph Kirkbride, an active and zealous Whig. 
 The gunboat ran aground on a bar in the river. I 
 fell in with a company of the artillery that belonged 
 in Trenton, and we went as near to the gunboat as we 
 could on the Jersey shore and fired into her the whole 
 time she lay aground, and she fired her 32-pounder at 
 us until the tide raised and floated her off, when she 
 steered her course down the river. 
 
 "The land troops after they had burned up the 
 
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 entire buildings of Col. Kirkbride, consisting of a fine 
 dwelling-house, a barn, glass house, and outbuildings 
 of every description, marched by land for Bristol, 
 where they embarked again for Philadelphia. We 
 crossed the river to pursue them. I stopped with two 
 others of the company to view the ruins of Kirkbride 's 
 buildings, and my stopping there enabled me to pre- 
 vent the destruction of other buildings equally valua- 
 ble as Kirkbride 's belonging to Thomas Roche, a vio- 
 lent Tory. Kirkbride and he lived about a quarter of 
 a mile apart on the bank of the river opposite Borden- 
 town. They were both rich, and had large posses- 
 sions. While viewing the ruins we observed a British 
 soldier lying drunk with wine from Kirkbride 's cellar, 
 and while securing him I saw a skiff coming across 
 the river and a man rowing it without a hat, appear- 
 ing to be in great haste. I observed to the two men 
 who stopped with me, that I thought he was bent on 
 mischief, — that his object was to burn Roche's build- 
 ings by way of retaliation. 
 
 "As soon as the boat struck the shore he jumped 
 out with a bottle of oakum under his arm and made 
 towards Roche's. I observed to the men with me that 
 we must not suffer it to be done. They replied "Let 
 him burn up the damned Tory. ' ' I however prevailed 
 upon them to go with me to Roche's, and we prevented 
 him from executing his purpose. Roche and the family 
 were very much alarmed, and one of the daughters 
 fainted. Roche rolled out a quarter of a cask of wine 
 
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 to us. The fellow swore he would go back and get a 
 force strong enough. He did go back to Bordentown, 
 and came back with two more besides himself. We 
 still prevented and deterred them from performing 
 the act, stayed there all night until a guard of men 
 was procured to protect him, and his property saved. 
 This act of mine in riper years has given me satis- 
 faction. 
 
 ''I returned to Valley Forge, and when it was 
 known that the British were about to leave Philadel- 
 phia and go by land through Jersey to New York we 
 left Valley Forge, crossed the Delaware and came 
 up with the enemy at Monmouth, where during the 
 action my horse fell dead under me, and Gen. Wash- 
 ington presented me with another very good one, and 
 when I informed him that I wished to leave the army 
 he gave me a certificate of my good behavior while 
 with him. During 14 months that I was with him in 
 this capacity I was a member of his household, except 
 when I conveyed his despatches, and witnessed much 
 of the great, the good, the prudent and the virtuous 
 man that it would be vanity in me to attempt with 
 my feeble pen to describe with any hope of doing 
 justice to his character. 
 
 * ^ From Monmouth I returned home and things not 
 looking very comfortable there I concluded to come 
 to Trenton. Having lost nothing of my military spirit 
 and zeal for the cause of my country, I joined a volun- 
 teer company of artillery that I had been with in 
 
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 firing at the British gunboat, and was out with the 
 company every summer during the four years I resided 
 in Trenton, and one winter's campaign. During one 
 of these summers I was at the battle of Springfield in 
 Jersey, and tliis was the seventh battle I was in during 
 the war, besides several skirmishes, one of which I 
 have just related." 
 
 John Burrows, the father of General John Bur- 
 rows last mentioned, married four times. After the 
 death of his first wife, Lois Hubbell, he married, 30 
 April, 1776, Sarah Morgan, widow, daughter of 
 Josiah Wood ; * and the only issue of this marriage 
 was Joseph Burrows, the father of Laura Matilda 
 Burrows, wife of Lambert Tree. After the death of 
 Sarah Morgan, he married, 26 March, 1779, Sarah 
 Roberts, widow, daughter of Jabeth Wood. The issue 
 of this third marriage was one son, Charles Burrows. 
 On the death of the third wife, he married, 6 December, 
 1803, Elizabeth McGhee, widow, daughter of John 
 Newman, and by her had two sons, Charles and 
 Samuel. He died at Washington City, at the ad- 
 vanced age of ninety-eight years, and was buried in 
 the churchyard of the Rock Creek Church, near the 
 church itself, which is an interesting edifice of the 
 colonial period. 
 
 Joseph Burrows, the father of the wife of Lambert 
 Tree, married, 16 December, 1787, Sarah Jeffers, and 
 
 * Josiah Wood, of Falls Township, Bucks County, made his will 
 24 March, 1764, in which he names his daughter, Sarah Morgan. 
 
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 by her had six children, as follows: Sarah, Susan, 
 Catharine, Mary Ann, Laura Matilda, and Joseph. 
 They all married except Susan. He survived his wife 
 many years, and died at Washington, 16 January, 
 1837, at the age of seventy. 
 
 A few years after he established his residence at 
 Washington, following the custom of most of the heads 
 of families who had the means to do so, he purchased 
 two young negroes, named respectively ''Jerry" and 
 "Lucy," who were carefully reared in his family and 
 concerning whom the following entries appear in his 
 family bible under the head of births, amongst the 
 other family entries. 
 
 "Jerry (Black boy) was born June 1804, bought of 
 Mr. Haggis July 1811." 
 
 "Lucy (Black girl) was born September 21st, 1806, 
 bought of Mr. Plummer Walters August 14, 1812." 
 
 Both of these slaves he subsequently emancipated. 
 For Jerry, after he grew up, he also procured an ap- 
 pointment as messenger in the Post Office Department, 
 which position he filled up to his death at an advanced 
 age. Jerry married and left issue. Lucy, the black 
 girl, also married and became the mother of a large 
 family of children. Both of them were most estimable 
 persons of excellent character, and many of their 
 descendants are doubtless still residing in Washing- 
 ton. Although their freedom was given to them by 
 Joseph Burrows while they were quite young, they, 
 throughout their lives, considered themselves as a part 
 
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 of his family. They expected to be present at the 
 family weddings and christenings, and carriages were 
 always provided for them and their children at Bur- 
 rows ' funerals, while they never failed to offer Christ- 
 mas greetings and receive their share of presents. 
 These visits at Christmas tide, they kept up through- 
 out the lives of the children of Joseph Burrows, and 
 the wife of Lambert Tree was always '' Miss Laura " 
 and '' the Lady Bountiful " to them and their children, 
 while " Dr. Joe Burrows " brought their children into 
 the world and attended them in. all their ailments. 
 
 Joseph Burrows, the younger, was one of the first 
 graduates of the Columbian College at Washington, 
 now known as the Columbian or George Washington 
 University, and of which his father, Joseph Burrows, 
 was one of the founders. He subsequently studied 
 mediciue and became one of the most eminent physi- 
 cians of Washington. He died May 30th, 1889, at the 
 age of eighty-two. He married Katherine Z. Ironside, 
 of New York, 9th September, 1841. 
 
 Lambert Tree, by his wife, Laura Matilda Bur- 
 rows, had eight children, three of whom died in in- 
 fancy. The other five, were: 
 i. Joseph B. Tree, born 18 January, 1828; mar- 
 ried, 14 February, 1850, Frances, daughter of Ben- 
 jamin Evans, Esquire, and was blessed with 
 children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. 
 During most of his active life, and until his retire- 
 ment, he was associated with the Western Union 
 
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 Telegraph Company, as an important official of 
 that corporation. One of his two sons, Lambert, 
 died in infancy, and the other, Joseph, as he was 
 approaching manhood. His eldest daughter, 
 Mary, married Adam Grey, Esquire, of Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, and has a numerous family. His youngest 
 daughter, Eleanor, recently married Hilliard Rus- 
 sel. Esquire, of Virginia. 
 
 ii. Lambert Tree, born 29 November, 1832; [seep. 84]. 
 
 iii. Charles Morgan Tree, born 15 July, 1845. He 
 was graduated from Georgetown College, studied 
 medicine, and became a physician. He was a bright 
 light in his profession at Washington, which place 
 he chose as the field of his professional labors, but 
 died in the prime of life, while on the road to high 
 position in his calling. He never married. 
 
 iv. Ellen Fullerton Tree. 
 
 V. Jennie Tree; married, 21 July, 1864, Franklin 
 Eives, son of John C. Rives, who was a partner of 
 the elder Francis P. Blair * in the conduct of the 
 Congressional Globe at Washington. 
 
 Lieutenant Arthur Donaldson Tree, the youngest 
 son of Captain John Tree by his wife Rebecca Karn, 
 was appointed by President Polk, second-lieutenant of 
 
 * Francis P. Blair was the father of Honorable Montgomery Blair, 
 Post-Master-General of the United States under President Lincoln, and 
 General Frank P. Blair, a distinguished officer of the army in the 
 Civil War. 
 
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 the Second regiment of Dragoons, United States Army. 
 This command, now designated as the Second Cavalry, 
 was organized just before the outbreak of the Florida 
 War, and its brilliant and glorious record, from that 
 time to the present, makes it one of the most historic 
 regiments in the army. In the Mexican War it was 
 alternately with the columns of General Zachary Tay- 
 lor and General Winfield Scott, and saw much severe 
 fighting in Mexico, as it did in all the Indian outbreaks 
 on the frontier, and throughout the Civil War. Lieu- 
 tenant Tree was breveted first lieutenant for gallant 
 and meritorious conduct in the battle of Contreras 
 and Cherubusco, 20 August, 1847, and was severely 
 wounded in the battle of El Molino del Rey. Major 
 Edwin V. Sumner, of the Second Dragoons, officially 
 reports the conduct of his command in the latter action^ 
 in the following words : 
 
 ''My command consisted of the two troops of the 
 2d Dragoons, one troop of the 3d Dragoons, under the 
 command of Lieutenant C. A. Williams, and Capt. 
 Ruff's company of mounted riflemen; in all about 270 
 men. My orders were to take the position on the left 
 of our line, to hold in check the enemy's cavalry, and 
 to give a blow to their horse or not as opportunity 
 should offer. In taking up my position I was com- 
 pelled to pass within pistol shot of a large body of the 
 enemy, who were protected by a ditch on my left, 
 which it was impossible to cross until I got close to 
 their line, and I could not pause at that moment, as a 
 
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 very large body of the enemy's cavalry was advancing 
 toward the left of our line. After passing through 
 this fire and crossing a ravine I found my command 
 in line facing the enemy's cavalry. . . . My loss 
 in passing their line of fire was very severe, viz : five 
 officers and 33 soldiers wounded and 7 soldiers killed ; 
 27 horses killed and 77 wounded. Capt. Ker second 
 dragoons, 1st Lieut. Walker, of the Rifles, and 2d 
 Lieuts. Smith and Tree of the 2d dragoons, and 2d 
 Lieut. Williams of the 3d dragoons, were wounded. 
 
 "My officers and men maintained their character 
 for steadiness and confidence throughout the action." 
 
 After the close of the Mexican War, Lieutenant 
 Tree saw extended service on the frontier; was in 
 many expeditions against the Indians, including the 
 very important one in 1855, commanded by Brevet- 
 Brigadier-General Harney against the Sioux; 11 Oc- 
 tober, 1851, Lieutenant Tree was promoted first 
 lieutenant in the Second Dragoons. He never married, 
 and died 2 February, 1857, at Fort Riley, where he was 
 stationed. A handsome monument marks his grave 
 in the military cemetery at that post. 
 
 Honorable Lambert Tree, the second son of Lam- 
 bert Tree by his wife Laura Matilda Burrows, was 
 born at Washington, D. C, 29 November, 1832. He 
 studied law; was graduated LL.B., at the University 
 of Virginia in 1855, and was admitted to the bar the 
 same year at Washington. Soon after his admission, 
 
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 he removed to Chicago, Illinois, to engage there in 
 practice in his profession, and has continued to reside 
 in that city since his arrival, 12 Fehruary, 1856. In 
 1864 he was elected and served a term as president of 
 the Chicago Law Institute. In 1870 he was elected a 
 judge of the Circuit Court, and on the expiration of his 
 term was re-elected. In 1885 he received the Demo- 
 cratic vote in the joint session of the General Assembly 
 of Illinois for United States Senator, but was finally 
 defeated by one vote by General John A. Logan, the 
 Republican candidate. Later the same year, he was 
 appointed by President Cleveland, United States Min- 
 ister to Belgium, and represented his country at that 
 post until his transfer two years later to St. Peters- 
 burg as Minister to Russia. In 1889 he himself re- 
 quested his own recall. In January, 1891, President 
 Harrison nominated Judge Tree, and the Senate con- 
 firmed him as one of the American members of the In- 
 ternational Monetary Conference which sat in Wash- 
 ington in the winter and spring of 1891-92. He took 
 an active part in the debates and formulated the reso- 
 lution finally adopted by the Conference. 
 
 Judge Tree was one of those for whom ballots were 
 cast for nomination to the Vice-Presidency of the 
 United States, in the National Democratic Convention 
 in 1892. He has always lived a very active life, and 
 is a director or trustee in numerous institutions, pub- 
 lic and private. Among others, he is associated with 
 the Newbury Library as a life trustee, and with the 
 
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 Chicago Historical Society as one of its vice-presidents. 
 He is an incorporator of the National American Red 
 Cross, and organized the Illinois branch of that So- 
 ciety, of which he is a vice-president. He was for 
 several years president of the Historical State Library 
 of Illinois, and is an officer of the Legion of Honor of 
 France; grand officer of the Belgian National Order 
 of Leopold, and a member of the Society of Sons of 
 the American Revolution. He is also a director of 
 the Merchants Loan and Trnst Company, the Chicago 
 Edison Company, and other corporations. He has 
 besides found time for literary work, and is the author 
 of numerous magazine and newspaper articles on a 
 variety of subjects of public interest. 
 
 On 24 November, 1859, Judge Tree married Anna 
 Josephine Magie, daughter of Haines H. Magie, Es- 
 quire, one of the founders of Chicago, who settled 
 there in 1832. Mr. Magie was a native of New Jersey, 
 and a younger brother of the Reverend Dr. David 
 Magie, a distinguished Presbyterian divine, who pre- 
 sided over the First Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth, 
 New Jersey, for more than half a century, and was for 
 many years and until his death, a trustee of Princeton 
 University. Mrs. Tree's first cousin. Honorable 
 William H. Magie, has been for many years Chancellor 
 of New Jersey, and was previously Chief Justice of 
 the Supreme Court of that State. Mrs. Tree died 8 
 October, 1903. There were two children born of the 
 marriage of Lambert Tree and Anna Josephine Magie : 
 
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 i. James Mandeville Caklisle Tree, born at Paris, 
 France, 5 December, 1861; died in infancy. 
 
 ii. Arthur Magie Tree, born at Chicago, Illinois, 1 
 July, 1863 ; married, 1 January, 1891, Ethel Field, 
 daughter of Marshall Field, Esquire. Three chil- 
 dren were born of this marriage : 
 i. Lambert Tree ; died in infancy, 
 ii. Gladys Tree ; died in infancy, 
 iii. Arthur Ronald Lambert Field Tree, born 26 
 September, 1897. 
 
APPENDIX 
 
LIST OF NAMES OF MEMBERS BELONGING TO THE 
 SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF POOR AND DIS- 
 TRESSED MASTERS OF SHIPS, THEIR WIDOWS 
 AND CHILDREN. FROM 1765 TO 1812. 
 
 Names 
 
 Time of Entry Names 
 
 Time of Entet 
 
 Appowen, Samuel July 1765 
 
 AsHMORE, Andrew July 1765 
 
 Atkinson, George July 1765 
 
 Alexander, Charles. October 1765 
 
 AsHMEAD, John July 1766 
 
 Alibone, Willlvm July 1766 
 
 Allison, Ashley October 1766 
 
 Alberson, Rickloff . October 1766 
 
 Anderson, John July 1767 
 
 Adams, Robert October 1767 
 
 Adamson, William April 1770 
 
 Anderson, James April 1771 
 
 Allen, William October 1772 
 
 All, Isaac July 1776 
 
 Angus, John January 1779 
 
 Anderson, Thomas. . .October 1787 
 
 Atkins, Philip April 1794 
 
 Andaulle, Anthony. . . .April 1796 
 
 Armstrong, John October 1796 
 
 Alcorn, Michael January 1797 
 
 Arnold, Andrew April 1797 
 
 Arnold, Thomas July 1798 
 
 Alfton, John January 1804 
 
 Bowes, Hugh July 1765 
 
 Brown, Joseph July 1765 
 
 Budden, William July 1765 
 
 Burrows, John, Sr July 1765 
 
 Bunting, Samuel July 1765 
 
 Baston, Thomas July 1765 
 
 Barnes, William.. July 1765 
 
 Blair, James January 1766 
 
 Brown, Patrick January 1766 
 
 Blewer, Joseph April 1766 
 
 Boon, William July 1766 
 
 Bridges, George July 1766 
 
 Burrows, Arthur July 1766 
 
 Bolitho, John, Sr July 1767 
 
 Barry, John January 1769 
 
 Biddle, Charles . . . .January 1769 
 Bingley, Edward . . . January 1770 
 
 Butler, John January 1770 
 
 Bodkin, Nicholas . . .January 1771 
 
 Barber, William April 1771 
 
 Brown, William April 1771 
 
 Bethel, Robert January 1772 
 
 Brewster, Peter .... October 1773 
 Buckley, Richard . November 1773 
 
 Barry, Patrick April 1774 
 
 Bunner George April 1774 
 
 Budden, Richard July 1776 
 
 Bell, Thomas October 1776 
 
 Brewster, William April 1781 
 
 Burrows, John, Jr April 1782 
 
 Barney, Joshua October 1782 
 
 Burrows, Edward April 1786 
 
 Brice, John July 1786 
 
 Bell, William October 1786 
 
 Baker, Thomas October 1786 
 
 Blair, William January 1790 
 
 Belcher, William April 1793 
 
 Boys, Elias July 1793 
 
 Burke, Michael July 1794 
 
 Beaks, Joseph April 1794 
 
 Brewton, Daniel October 1794 
 
 Byrne, Gerald July 1795 
 
 Baird, William July 1795 
 
 Baile, Robert July 1796 
 
 Bainbridge, Wm October 1796 
 
 91 
 
LIST OF MEMBERS 
 
 Names Time of Entht 
 
 Bell, William January 1797 
 
 BowEN, Ezra October 1797 
 
 Benners, Jacob January 1799 
 
 Boyd, John January 1800 
 
 Burke, James January 1801 
 
 BioREN, Benjamin April 1801 
 
 Barry, John, Jr April 1801 
 
 Brown, David July 1801 
 
 Brevoor, John C July 1802 
 
 Barry, Edward January 1803 
 
 Blackiston, John . . .January 1803 
 
 Brown, Hans July 1803 
 
 Brown, Thomas October 1803 
 
 Brown, Michael October 1804 
 
 Barden, Levi January 1807 
 
 Burrows, Thomas April 1809 
 
 BuNCE, William July 1810 
 
 Bingham, Peter April 1812 
 
 Bell, Peter April 1812 
 
 Crathorne, Jonathan. . .July 1765 
 
 Calender, Thomas July 1765 
 
 James Craig July 1765 
 
 Cooper, Nathaniel July 1765 
 
 Courser, John July 1765 
 
 Caton, James April 1766 
 
 Campbell, John April 1766 
 
 Caldwell, Andrew April 1766 
 
 CoxE, John, Sr April 1766 
 
 Caton, Is.^ac April 1766 
 
 CoBOURN, James April 1766 
 
 Carlisle, William April 1766 
 
 Carman, Benjamin. . .October 1767 
 
 Cook, James October 1768 
 
 Cunningham, Gustavus .July 1769 
 
 CoRREY, Samuel October 1769 
 
 Chevers, Willlvm . . . January 1770 
 
 CovELL, Samuel January 1770 
 
 Conner, Terrence. . .October 1770 
 
 Names Time of Entey 
 
 Carson, Robert April 1771 
 
 Crawford, Samuel April 1771 
 
 Cooper, James April 1771 
 
 Cochran, James October 1771 
 
 Caton, George May 1772 
 
 Castle, Joy January 1773 
 
 Cox, John, Jr January 1773 
 
 Cox, Paul July 1773 
 
 Craig, John October 1774 
 
 Clifton, James April 1775 
 
 Copper, Norris October 1776 
 
 Collins, Robert January 1777 
 
 Cassan, Samuel April 1782 
 
 Cristey, John July 1782 
 
 Cain, Alexander July 1782 
 
 Cox, John July 1782 
 
 CuRWEN, George . . . .October 1782 
 
 Collins, Mark October 1782 
 
 Clarkson, Matt, Jr April 1786 
 
 Cochran, John January 1788 
 
 Cassin, John July 1791 
 
 Clouser, Christopher. .April 1792 
 Carhart, William. . .January 1793 
 
 Clark, William January 1794 
 
 CoNNEL, George April 1794 
 
 Campbell, John July 1794 
 
 Cannon, John January 1795 
 
 CowPERTHWAiTE, Hewl .April 1795 
 
 Culver, William April 1795 
 
 Cox, John January 1796 
 
 Gushing, Caleb July 1796 
 
 Charnock, John July 1796 
 
 CoRRiN, John October 1796 
 
 Charlton, Robert . .January 1797 
 
 Church, Silvanus July 1797 
 
 Callender, R. Jas July 1797 
 
 Cathcart, James L.. .October 1797 
 Cox, William January 1798 
 
 92 
 
LIST OF MEMBERS 
 
 Kames Time of Entry 
 
 Clark, Robert April 1798 
 
 Clark, John April 1798 
 
 Crane, Roger October 1800 
 
 Calvert, Nathaniel. January 1801 
 
 Cassin, Willlim January 1801 
 
 Cresswell, Samuel July 1802 
 
 Cooper, James July 1802 
 
 Carson, John January 1803 
 
 Cullen, Thomas January 1807 
 
 Course, Matthlas. . . .October 1811 
 
 Cassan, Samuel October 1812 
 
 Dady, Patrick July 1765 
 
 DowELL, William July 1765 
 
 DuPLESSE, John July 1765 
 
 Donald, Nathaniel July 1765 
 
 Davidson, Mungo July 1765 
 
 Davidson, John April 1766 
 
 Dougherty, Henry April 1866 
 
 Dennis, Patrick April 1766 
 
 Dunn, Henry January 1767 
 
 Davis, Willlvm January 1768 
 
 Devonshire, Samuel . . .April 1768 
 
 Davidson, Samuel April 1768 
 
 Duncan, James July 1768 
 
 Davis, Ephraim October 1773 
 
 DoWMAN, Thoil\s April 1775 
 
 DoAN, Ephraim July 1780 
 
 Decatur, Stephen July 1782 
 
 Dale, Richard July 1784 
 
 Davis, William July 1788 
 
 Davidson, William. .January 1791 
 
 Dryburg, James January 1793 
 
 Davidson, Charles .. January 1795 
 
 DuER, William July 1795 
 
 Dawkins, John October 1795 
 
 Davidson, Alexander October 1795 
 
 Dumphy, James January 1797 
 
 Dawson, John April 1797 
 
 Names Time of Entet 
 
 Dill, Joseph H April 1793 
 
 Donohue, Thomas July 1799 
 
 Devereau, John July 1800 
 
 Dove, John October 1800 
 
 Davis, George April 1801 
 
 Daly, John October 1801 
 
 Davis, Joseph July 1802 
 
 Dixon, George July 1802 
 
 Delaveau, William July 1802 
 
 Dougherty, Martin D. . .July 1804 
 Dandelot, Henry. . . .October 1804 
 
 Donnaldson, And July 1805 
 
 Donnaldson, Ed. M. .October 1806 
 
 DoNAVAN, John July 1808 
 
 Ervin, James July 1765 
 
 Eastwick, Thomas July 1765 
 
 Eve, Oswald January 1766 
 
 Eyres, Richard January 1768 
 
 Emlen, Caleb October 1770 
 
 Earle, John August 1778 
 
 Ervin, George January 1790 
 
 Earl, Caleb April 1792 
 
 Edgar, William January 1793 
 
 Eld ridge, Phineas July 1794 
 
 Ewing, James July 1795 
 
 Elliot, Francis July 1796 
 
 Edwards, James July 1796 
 
 Ethrenstrom, a. F. .January 1797 
 
 Edwards, John January 1799 
 
 Errickson, Chris 'n July 1802 
 
 Evans, David October 1804 
 
 Elliot, John October 1811 
 
 Falconer,Nathaniel October 1765 
 
 Faris, Francis October 1765 
 
 Falkner, Lester October 1765 
 
 Ford, John October 1765 
 
 Forten, George April 1766 
 
 Flint, Thomas April 1766 
 
 93 
 
LIST OF MEMBERS 
 
 Kames Time of 
 
 Ferguson, Robert. . .October 
 
 Ferguson, Charles April 
 
 Flinn, Patrick July 
 
 Forester, Gerald . . December 
 
 Fleming, John July 
 
 FouLK, Casper January 
 
 Fenour, George July 
 
 Foster, Silas January 
 
 Frankford, John. . . .January 
 
 Fowler, Nathaniel July 
 
 Farrady, John October 
 
 Fletcher, John October 
 
 Fullerton, William. October 
 Fisher, Hans, Hanson. . .Oct. 
 
 Ferguson, John L April 
 
 Fleming, William. . . .October 
 Goodman, Walter. . .October 
 
 Greenway, William Oct. 
 
 Green, John October 
 
 Gregory, David July 
 
 Gibbens, James July 
 
 Gilbert, George July 
 
 GooLEY, Athony July 
 
 Gamble, William April 
 
 Gill, Robert Oct. 
 
 Galt, Nathaniel July 
 
 Garrigues, James July 
 
 Gensell, John November 
 
 Geddes, George July 
 
 Griffin, Moses April 
 
 Girard, Stephen October 
 
 Gardner, Nathaniel. . . .July 
 
 Gamble, James April 
 
 Green, Rufus April 
 
 Green, Rufus April 
 
 Grice, Fr.'Vncis July 
 
 Gardner, John October 
 
 Green, John, Jr July 
 
 Entry Names Time of Entry 
 
 1767 Green, Henry July 1799 
 
 1768 Griffis, John July 1799 
 
 1774 Grafton, Woodbridge. . .Jan. 1800 
 
 1780 Gould, John April 1800 
 
 1789 GuTTERsoN, John July 1800 
 
 1791 Grebben, Patrick July 1800 
 
 1791 Galloway, Joseph. . .October 1800 
 
 1792 Gibson, William October 1801 
 
 1792 Griffin, Moses July 1803 
 
 1793 Gardner, Robert C July 1803 
 
 1796 Gardner, Edward C.January 1804 
 
 1800 Gamble, Joseph January 1807 
 
 1800 Gird en, James January 1807 
 
 1807 Gowing, John October 1807 
 
 1810 Graves, John October 1807 
 
 1812 Garwood, Richard ... October 1807 
 
 1765 Green, James April 1808 
 
 1765 Grant, Joseph July 1810 
 
 1765 Harrison, Henry July 1765 
 
 1766 Heysham, William July 1765 
 
 1766 HuTCHiNS, Zachar'h . . October 1765 
 
 1766 Hobert, Enoch October 1765 
 
 1766 Harper, John October 1765 
 
 1768 Henderson, Robert. October 1765 
 
 1768 Hardcastle, Wm October 1765 
 
 1769 Hardy, Robert October 1765 
 
 1770 Harvey, Simpson October 1765 
 
 1773 Hazlewood, John January 1766 
 
 1775 Hatton, Thomas January 1766 
 
 1783 Henderson, Alex April 1766 
 
 1788 Harkins, Jeremiah July 1766 
 
 1789 Hood, Seymour January 1767 
 
 1792 Hawk, Samuel January 1767 
 
 1792 Houston, George. . . .January 1767 
 
 1792 Hamilton, Alex August 1769 
 
 1794 Hance, Jacob October 1769 
 
 1794 Hammet, Francis. . . .January 1770 
 
 1796 Harr, John July 1772 
 
 94 
 
LIST OF MEMBERS 
 
 Names Time of Entby 
 
 Htman, Wm July 1773 
 
 Houston, Thomas October 1773 
 
 Hamilton, George. . .October 1773 
 
 Hawkins, William Dec. 1773 
 
 HuNN, John January 1774 
 
 Harrow, David May 1774 
 
 Hallock, William May 1774 
 
 Howell, Samuel, Jr July 1780 
 
 Harris, Robert October 1781 
 
 Hawkins, Henrt April 1782 
 
 Harding, David October 1791 
 
 Hathaway, Caleb October 1791 
 
 Hampton, William . .January 1793 
 
 Horton, Thomas January 1794 
 
 Hodge, James January 1794 
 
 Hubble, Samuel July 1794 
 
 Hess, William July 1794 
 
 Hodge, John October 1794 
 
 Holt, Samuel October 1794 
 
 Howard, Azel July 1795 
 
 Holland, John July 1795 
 
 Houston, Benjamin. .January 1795 
 
 HoARE, James April 1795 
 
 Henry, Jacob April 1795 
 
 Hardie David July 1795 
 
 Henderson, Thomas July 1795 
 
 Hylander, Jacob. . . .January 1797 
 
 Hastie, George January 1797 
 
 Hughes, James January 1797 
 
 Hayes, Patrick April 1797 
 
 Hodgson, John, B July 1797 
 
 Henderson, Thomas Oct. 1797 
 
 Hubber, Isaac January 1799 
 
 Henderson, William July 1799 
 
 Hunt, Edward January 1801 
 
 Hewit, Thomas January 1802 
 
 Hardie, Charles October 1802 
 
 Hidelius, Andrew. . .January 1803 
 
 Names Time of Entet 
 
 Hughes, Humphry April 1803 
 
 Hendy, William January 1806 
 
 HoLBRooK, Benjamin Oct. 1809 
 
 Hawks, William April 1812 
 
 JosiAH, Emanuel October 1765 
 
 Jackson, Thomas October 1765 
 
 Jenkins, Charles. . . .October 1765 
 
 Johnson, James July 1766 
 
 Jones, Henry July 1766 
 
 Joy, Daniel January 1767 
 
 Jones, Blathwaite. .January 1767 
 Jackson, Matthew . . January 1768 
 
 Johnson, George January 1768 
 
 Inkson, Richard October 1776 
 
 Jackson, Richard. . . .October 1776 
 
 Jones, Charles January 1780 
 
 JosiAH, James July 1782 
 
 Jones, William January 1788 
 
 Jones, Herbert April 1794 
 
 Jones, Lloyd October 1795 
 
 Johnson, Joseph July 1796 
 
 Justice, John July 1796 
 
 Jones, Edward July 1798 
 
 Jacob, James July 1800 
 
 Johnson, Charles. . . .October 1800 
 
 Jervis, Joseph J October 1812 
 
 Kennedy, John October 1765 
 
 Kerr, Walter October 1765 
 
 Kid, William October 1765 
 
 Knox, Robert October 1765 
 
 Katter, Alexander. .October 1765 
 
 Kerlin, William July 1766 
 
 Keas, William January 1768 
 
 Keith, William January 1773 
 
 Knox, Francis July 1782 
 
 Kealer, William October 1782 
 
 Kelly, John October 1782 
 
 (withdrawn) 
 
 95 
 
LIST OF MEMBERS 
 
 Names Time of Entry 
 
 Keen, Roger October 1782 
 
 Kerlin, John October 1782 
 
 Kerby, Charles January 1788 
 
 King, James October 1789 
 
 KiTTS, John January 1790 
 
 Kinnes, George January 1794 
 
 Keen, Jonas Wm January 1795 
 
 King, William July 1795 
 
 King, Michael July 1795 
 
 I^ox, Robert April 1797 
 
 Kelly, Edward July 1799 
 
 Kennedy, Henry H July 1800 
 
 KiRKBRiDE, Richard July 1800 
 
 KiLBY, TuRPiN January 1802 
 
 Kenny, Daniel January 1803 
 
 Kitchen, Robert January 1807 
 
 Knowles, Wm. B October 1807 
 
 Kenyon, Henry October 1809 
 
 Lisle, Henry July 1765 
 
 Lyon, Charles October 1765 
 
 Long, Peter October 1765 
 
 Lake, Thomas October 1765 
 
 Lockton, John October 1767 
 
 Levingstone, John . .October 1767 
 
 Levine, John March 1798 
 
 Leech, Thomas October 1769 
 
 Lawrence, William April 1771 
 
 Lake, James July 1771 
 
 LoxLEY, Benjamin. . .October 1771 
 LowANCE, John October 1772 
 
 (withdrawn) 
 
 Logan, David April 1776 
 
 Lyon, Philip October 1781 
 
 Lawyer, Matthew. . . .August 1782 
 
 (withdrawn) 
 Loughead, Robert. . .October 1784 
 
 Lyle, William January 1786 
 
 Latimer, John January 1794 
 
 Names Time of Entrv 
 
 Lake, William January 1795 
 
 LouNDES, John January 1795 
 
 Lewis, Samuel January 1796 
 
 Lee Christopher July 1796 
 
 Lyne, John January 1797 
 
 Long, James January 1798 
 
 Lillibridge, Thomas. October 1799 
 
 Logan, John October 1799 
 
 Lelar, Henry April 1800 
 
 Lancaster, John . . . .January 1806 
 
 LucET, Alexander April 1809 
 
 Mifflin, Samuel July 1765 
 
 Mease, John July 1765 
 
 Morrison, George July 1765 
 
 Morrell, William July 1765 
 
 Miller, James October 1765 
 
 Marshall, William. .October 1765 
 
 Murray, John October 1765 
 
 McClelland, John. . .October 1765 
 
 Miller, Magnus October 1765 
 
 McGee, Alexander. .October 1765 
 
 Moore, Ralph January 1767 
 
 Moore, Thomas January 1767 
 
 Mullowny, John January 1767 
 
 Montgomery, Jonathan Jan. 1767 
 
 McCuLLOUGH, Wm April 1768 
 
 Martin, Samuel January 1770 
 
 May, Andrew January 1770 
 
 MuRDOCK, Thomas January 1770 
 
 McCullough, David. . . .April 1771 
 
 Montgomery, James May 1771 
 
 MuLLiT John May 1772 
 
 McCullough, Wm June 1773 
 
 Montgomery, Robert. . .July 1773 
 
 Martin, James October 1773 
 
 Moore, William . . . December 1773 
 Miller, William. .September 1774 
 Monro, Nathaniel May 1775 
 
 96 
 
LIST OF MEMBERS 
 
 Names Time of 
 
 McPherson, John January 
 
 McNatchtane, John. . . .April 
 
 McKeever, John October 
 
 McCarty, John January 
 
 Miles, James April 
 
 Mason, Thomas January 
 
 McPherson, Daniel July 
 
 McCalmont, George. October 
 MoRETON, George . . . January 
 McAlester, Charles. January 
 
 Morris, Elihue E April 
 
 McCoRMicK, John January 
 
 MoREY, Lewis April 
 
 (withdrawn) 
 
 McKeever, James April 
 
 Mercer, Robert July 
 
 MuNN, John July 
 
 Meany, John October 
 
 Miller, William, Jr. .January 
 Mullowney, John. . .January 
 
 McCollum, John January 
 
 Midlen, Walter April 
 
 Monteith, Benjamin July 
 
 Mease, Robert July 
 
 Morgan, Thomas July 
 
 Marshall, John July 
 
 Mariner, John October 
 
 Maffett, James October 
 
 Morse, George W... October 
 
 MuDEY, Peter F July 
 
 McCall, Robert January 
 
 McLevin, Miles July 
 
 McKutchen, Samuel . January 
 
 Mead, Edward July 
 
 McFarlan, John C. . .January 
 
 Myers, John January 
 
 McKibbin, William July 
 
 McKeever, John, Jr. October 
 
 7 
 
 Entry Names Time of Entry 
 
 1779 Nicholson, George. .October 1765 
 
 1781 Nuttle, Samuel October 1767 
 
 1781 Newton, Downham. .January 1770 
 
 1784 Nelson, Thomas July 1771 
 
 1791 NoRRis, Thomas January 1794 
 
 1792 Noble, Stewart C April 1796 
 
 1792 NoRRis, Howes January 1799 
 
 1792 Nichols, Woodburn. January 1800 
 
 1793 Nailer, Samuel July 1802 
 
 1793 OsMAN, John January 1768 
 
 1793 Ord, George July 1768 
 
 1794 OsBOURNE, Peter October 1769 
 
 1794 Ogilvie, Alexander . October 1791 
 
 Oswald, Andrew April 1798 
 
 1794 O'CoNNER, Christopher .Jan. 1798 
 
 1794 Oakford, Aaron April 1802 
 
 1794 Otto, Daniel B October 1807 
 
 1794 Ogle, Willl^-m October 1807 
 
 1795 Oellers, James P July 1808 
 
 1795 Peel, Benjamin January 1766 
 
 1795 Patterson, Robert July 1766 
 
 1795 Potts, Joseph July 1766 
 
 1795 Powell, Thomas October 1767 
 
 1795 Peter, James January 1700 
 
 1795 Parker, Peter October 1776 
 
 1795 Palmer, Thomas April 1782 
 
 1795 Potts, Charles January 1794 
 
 1796 Perry, Willluvi April 1794 
 
 1796 Peden, John October 1794 
 
 1799 Peterson, Jacob October 1794 
 
 1800 Price, George October 1796 
 
 1801 Peirce, Samuel January 1797 
 
 1803 Penniston, Richard. January 1799 
 
 1803 Pile, Samuel July 1800 
 
 1806 Parson, Stephen July 1800 
 
 1806 Porter, Jehu July 1802 
 
 1809 Patterson, John A July 1806 
 
 1809 Phillips, William . . .October 1806 
 
 97 
 
LIST OF MEMBERS 
 
 Names Time of Entry 
 
 Reeve, Peter July 1765 
 
 Richardson, Joseph. .October 1765 
 
 Rankin, George October 1765 
 
 Ross, John October 1765 
 
 Rawles, Benjamin. . .October 1765 
 Richards, Burnett. .October 1765 
 Richards, William . . January 1766 
 
 Rodgers, Thomas April 1766 
 
 Reece, Daniel July 1766 
 
 Riche, Thomas January 1767 
 
 Robinson, James . . . .January 1767 
 
 Robinson, John January 1767 
 
 Russel, James January 1767 
 
 Reed, Thomas April 1768 
 
 Robinson, James October 1769 
 
 Robinson, James April 1771 
 
 Robinson, Isalah October 1776 
 
 Roach, Isaac April 1782 
 
 Robinson, John Jr. . .October 1784 
 
 Reside, Robert January 1790 
 
 Raser, Bernard April 1791 
 
 Row, Edward April 1793 
 
 Rice, Edward April 1793 
 
 Rodgers, John April 1793 
 
 Robertson, Robert July 1794 
 
 RosiTER, John July 1794 
 
 Russel, Timothy October 1794 
 
 Ross, David January 1795 
 
 Robertson, John July 1796 
 
 Richards, William April 1799 
 
 Remington, John P July 1799 
 
 RiCARD, John April 1800 
 
 Reily, John October 1800 
 
 Reynolds, Joseph October 1801 
 
 Remmington, I January 1802 
 
 Ramsdale, Charles July 1804 
 
 Russel, Stephen October 1804 
 
 Ray, Nathaniel July 1805 
 
 Names Time of Entey 
 
 Reynegan, F. W. V April 1806 
 
 Risbrough, John April 1806 
 
 Robinson, Joseph April 1806 
 
 Robinson, George July 1810 
 
 Ray, Thomas October 1811 
 
 Stedman, Charles July 1765 
 
 SiBBALD, John October 1765 
 
 Stiles, Joseph October 1765 
 
 Sutton, Wolman October 1765 
 
 Sage, Alexander. . . .October 1765 
 
 Sparks, J October 1765 
 
 (withdrawn) 
 
 Stout, Joseph January 1766 
 
 Steel, James January 1766 
 
 Spain, Edward April 1766 
 
 Spence, Peter July 1766 
 
 Stephenson, George. . . .July 1766 
 
 Simmons, Leeson January 1767 
 
 Stiles, Henry January 1767 
 
 Simpson, William April 1767 
 
 Shaw, Joshua October 1767 
 
 Stone, William October 1767 
 
 Shrowdy, William July 1768 
 
 Smith, Samuel July 1768 
 
 Smith, Charles January 1770 
 
 Stewart, James January 1770 
 
 Scott, John July 1770 
 
 Shields, John October 1770 
 
 SowDER, John May 1771 
 
 Shewell, Robert. . . .January 1773 
 
 Stuart, Charles July 1773 
 
 Sutton, James October 1773 
 
 Stevens, William. . . .October 1775 
 
 Simmons, Jerem'h July 1781 
 
 Strong, Matthew. . . .October 1781 
 
 Stephens, Walter July 1782 
 
 Steel, Thomas October 1782 
 
 Slover, James July 1784 
 
 98 
 
LIST OF MEMBERS 
 
 Names Time of Entry 
 
 Stites, Richard July 1784 
 
 Steward, Aaron April 1790 
 
 Stobo, Jacob January 1791 
 
 Stockley, Ayers July 1792 
 
 Stephens, Henry April 1794 
 
 Smith, Robert July 1794 
 
 Sullivan, John October 1794 
 
 Shallcross, William. . . .July 1795 
 
 Smith, George F July 1795 
 
 Smale, William January 1796 
 
 Snell, James January 1796 
 
 SuTOR, John January 1796 
 
 Skelly, Thomas April 1796 
 
 Smith, John April 1797 
 
 Shearer, John July 1798 
 
 Stokes, William April 1799 
 
 Senky, Anthony July 1800 
 
 Spence, James S January 1802 
 
 SuTER, Peter April 1803 
 
 Selby, James July 1805 
 
 Singleton, Jos. Y January 1806 
 
 SiLLiMAN, Isaac October 1806 
 
 Savin, Samuel July 1807 
 
 Singleton, Samuel.. .October 1807 
 
 Serrill, James January 1808 
 
 Spofford, Jacob October 1811 
 
 Snell, Benjamin January 1812 
 
 Speer, John April 1812 
 
 Tree, Lambert October 1765 
 
 Taylor, Richard October 1765 
 
 Tucker, Cornelius. . .October 1765 
 
 Thomson, George October 1765 
 
 Turbot, Benjamin. . .October 1765 
 
 Taylor, James January 1766 
 
 Taylor, John October 1767 
 
 Timmons, Wilkins. . .January 1767 
 Thompson, George. . .October 1770 
 Taylor, John April 1774 
 
 Names Time of Entry 
 
 Tanner, William April 1782 
 
 Tingey, Thomas October 1786 
 
 Tatem, Jeremiah July 1791 
 
 Thomas, Hugh April 1792 
 
 Thompson, John July 1793 
 
 Terris, John July 1793 
 
 Tillinghast, Dan'l. .January 1794 
 
 Thorton, John S January 1796 
 
 Thompson, John, Jr July 1796 
 
 Tremils, John July 1796 
 
 Thomas, Alexander. October 1800 
 
 Tate, Robert April 1801 
 
 Toby, Simeon October 1801 
 
 Thackara, Samuel. . .October 1802 
 
 Thompson, Robert July 1804 
 
 Taylor, Bankson October 1805 
 
 Taylor, James July 1806 
 
 Turner, John, Jr July 1807 
 
 Thompson, Robt. Jr April 1808 
 
 Taylor, George January 1810 
 
 TuTTLE, Andrew July 1811 
 
 Thomas, Joseph July 1811 
 
 Taggart, Thomas July 1811 
 
 VoLANS, Joseph January 1763 
 
 Vallance, Nicholas July 1772 
 
 VicARY, John November 1775 
 
 Vansice, Joseph January 1783 
 
 Veneman, John, Sr Oct. 1790 
 
 Veneman, John, Jr Oct. 1796 
 
 ViCARY, William October 1797 
 
 VoLANS, Samuel October 1799 
 
 Veacock Samuel S. . .October 1801 
 
 Wilson, James October 1765 
 
 West, Charles October 1765 
 
 Wasdell, William. . .January 1766 
 
 Wall, Gurney January 1766 
 
 White, Robert July 1767 
 
 Wood, Samuel July 1767 
 
 99 
 
LIST OF MEMBERS 
 
 Names Time of Entry 
 
 Woods, John July 1767 
 
 Whitelock, Thos. . . .January 1768 
 
 Wilson, John October 1768 
 
 Wade, Andrew January 1769 
 
 Williams, Samuel. . .January 1769 
 
 Weeks, Lambert July 1770 
 
 Welch, John October 1770 
 
 White, Townsend, Jr. October 1770 
 
 Wilson, Robert January 1772 
 
 Wallace, Thos. E. . .October 1772 
 
 Wilson, Samuel April 1774 
 
 Warden, James April 1775 
 
 Warner, Elisha October 1785 
 
 White, Henry April 1786 
 
 Walsh, John April 1786 
 
 Wharton, James July 1791 
 
 Williams, Harding April 1792 
 
 Webb, Thomas April 1792 
 
 Wharton, Lloyd .... January 1793 
 
 Watts, George April 1793 
 
 Weeks, Benjamin January 1794 
 
 Wills, Thomas January 1794 
 
 Wilson, Robert M. . . January 1794 
 
 Wilson, Robert July 1796 
 
 West, William July 1796 
 
 Names Time op Entey 
 
 Williamson, James . .January 1794 
 
 Williamson, David July 1795 
 
 Wood, Richard October 1795 
 
 WiLLLiMS, Wm. D October 1796 
 
 Whelan, John April 1798 
 
 Ware, David April 1799 
 
 WiLKEY, Thomas January 1800 
 
 Whitehead, Wm January 1801 
 
 Williamson, Robert January 1802 
 Wallington, Edward . . . July 1803 
 
 WiNSLow, Elijah W July 1803 
 
 Whildin, Daniel July 1804 
 
 Williams, John July 1806 
 
 Watkins, Sam'l p. . . .October 1806 
 Wilson, Philip, Jr. . .January 1807 
 
 Wing, Jacob July 1808 
 
 Wade, John T April 1810 
 
 Warnack, Jacob A April 1812 
 
 Young, James October 1765 
 
 Yorke, Edward October 1765 
 
 Young, Samuel October 1766 
 
 Young, Peter October 1768 
 
 Yard, Edward July 1795 
 
 Yorke, Peter April 1797 
 
 Yorke, Samuel April 1810 
 
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INDEX 
 
INDEX 
 
 THE TREE FAMILY IN ENGLAND 
 
 Bailey, Jane, 18 
 Band, Eleanor, 12 
 Barnaby, John, 19 
 Beckington, Thomas de, 6 
 Biggs, John, 32 
 Blunt, Robert, 29 
 Bourne, Catharine, 11 
 Bradshaw, James, 19 
 Broadrib, Susanna, 11 
 Brooks, Jolm, 24 
 
 Carter, Joseph, 32 
 WiUiara, 32 
 
 Chislett, Ann Tree, 13 
 Charles, 8, 13, 14, 15 
 Jane Tree, 13, 15 
 Lambert Tree, 13, 14 
 Maria Tree, 13, 14 
 Susan Tree, 13, 14 
 
 Collins, Anne, 12, 13, 25 
 James, 12, 25, 28 
 
 Compton, John, 5 
 
 Cradock, Thomas, 26 
 
 Danyell, Samuel, 5 
 Darrell, Elizabeth, 5 
 Davis, John, 7, 8 
 Donaldson, Margaret, 21 
 Dyer, Ann, 32 
 
 Emmery, Susanna, 19 
 Eyter, Edward, 32 
 
 Farwell, Jolm, 8 
 
 Godfrey, William, 25 
 
 Hacketts, John, 18 
 HaUiday, John, 28 
 
 Heard, John, 24 
 
 J. HoweU, 24 
 Hilman, Alexander, 31 
 Hippen, Elizabeth, 12, 15 
 Humphries, James, 32 
 
 Susanna, 32 
 
 Susanna (Mrs.), 32 
 
 William, 32 
 Humphreys, James, 8 
 
 Jeffs, John, 23 
 Jordan, Alexander, 8 
 
 Karn, Rebecca, 21 
 Kean, Charles, 19 
 Knight, Thomas, 8 
 
 Locker, Mariam, 18 
 
 Maur, John, 5 
 
 Methuen, John (Lord Chancellor), 
 
 22, 23 
 Mortymer, James, 17 
 
 Nash, Frances, 18 
 
 Olive, M. A. (Mrs.), 12, 15 
 
 Parsons, John, 8 
 Payton, James, 32 
 
 Robert, 8 
 Pearce, John, 13, 14 
 
 Maria Tree, 14 
 
 Isaac Goodwin, 14 
 
 Susanna Tree, 14 
 PhilHps, WiUiam, 22, 26 
 Powell, John, 22 
 Prior, Mary, 18 
 
 103 
 
THE TREE FAMILY IN ENGLAND 
 
 Raymond, George, 20 
 Rawlings, Mary, 19, 20 
 Read, James, 8, 33 
 Russell, Alice, 8 
 
 Salter, Thomas, 24 
 Seymour, Thomas (Sir), 6 
 Skurray, Stephen, 29 
 Singer, Samuel, 27 
 Sloper, James, 8 
 Solwood, Richard, 24 
 Stafford, James, 32 
 
 John, 32 
 
 Samuel, 8, 31, 32 
 
 Samuel, Jr., 32 
 
 Susanna, 32 
 Sturgis, John, 13, 15 
 
 Thomas, 14 
 Taylor, Robert, 14 
 Throsher, WiUiam W., 27 
 Tomhn, Mary (Mrs.), 33 
 
 James, 33 
 
 Richard, 33 
 Trapstott, Samuel, 28, 29 
 Tree, Alice, 9, 10 
 
 Alisia, 8 
 
 Ann, 8, 10, 12, 19, 32 
 
 Ann, (Mrs.), 9, 10, 11, 31 
 
 Anna Maria, 19 
 
 Anne, 8, 10, 12, 15, 19, 32 
 
 Anne, (Mrs.), 31 
 
 Augustus, 8 
 
 Barbara (Mrs.), 11 
 
 Betty, 9 
 
 Boyce, 19 
 
 Catharine, 19 
 
 Edward, 18, 19 
 
 Tree, Hannah, 11 
 
 Hannah (Mrs.), 9 
 
 Isaac, 19 
 
 James, 9, 11, 15, 26, 30 
 
 Jane, 21 
 
 Joan, 30 
 
 Joan (Mrs.), 11, 30 
 
 Johanna, 8 
 
 John, 7, 8, 9, 10,11,15,18,19, 
 
 21, 22, 25, 26, 30, 32 
 Lambert, 8, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 
 
 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 26, 27, 28 
 
 29, 30, 31, 33 
 
 Lambert (Capt.), 21 
 
 Lambert (Hon.), 22 
 
 Laurence, 18 
 
 Margaret, 8, 10, 21 
 
 Maria, 8 
 
 Mary, 8, 9, 10, 12, 19, 21, 31, 33 
 
 Mary (Mrs.), 9, 10, 31 
 
 Nicholas, 15 
 
 Rebecca, 19 
 
 Richard, 8, 17, 34 
 
 Robert, 19 
 
 Robert (Rev.), 6, 7 
 
 Roger, 18 
 
 Ruth (Mrs.), 10 
 
 Selina, 7, 8 
 
 Simon, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 
 
 18, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 
 
 30 31 33 
 Susanna,' 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 30 
 Thomas, 18 
 William, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 16 
 
 17, 18, 28, 29, 31 
 Troke, James Coringe, 29 
 
 Eleanor (Mrs.), 10, 28, 29, 31, Try, Johan, 10 
 
 33 Trye, Ann (Mrs.), 10 
 
 Eliza, 19 John, 10 
 
 Elizabeth, 8, 9, 11, 12, 30, 31, 33 
 
 Ehzabeth (Mrs.), 9, 11, 19, 23, Vanderstein, Peter, 19 
 32 
 
 Elizabeth Ballard, 10 Walker, Elizabeth, 19 
 
 Ellen, 19 Westcott, Robert, 21 
 
 104 
 
INDEX 
 
 THE TREE FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Alexander. Charles, 47 
 Allen, William (Capt.), 41 
 Anderson, Thomas (Capt.), 42 
 Ashmead, John (Capt.), 47, 48 
 Atlee, Samuel John, 59, 60 
 Axon, William (Capt.), 43 
 
 Bainbridge, William (Capt.), 42 
 Balliott, Stephen (Capt.), 59, 60, 61 
 Barnes, William (Capt.), 42 
 Barry, John (Capt.), 40, 41 
 BiddJe, Charles (Capt.), 47, 48, 49 
 
 James (Capt.), 54, 55, 56, 57 
 
 Nicholas (Capt.), 49, 72 
 
 Owen, 54, 55, 56 
 Blair, Francis P. (Gen.), 82 
 
 Francis P. (Hon.), 82 
 
 Montgomery (Hon.), 82 
 Blewer, Joseph (Capt.), 47, 48, 57 
 Boggs, Joseph, 63 
 Boyd, John, 60, 61 
 Breeze, James L., 67, 68 
 Breintnall, David, 66 
 Breintnall, Joseph, 66 
 Brown, James, 64 
 Brown, William (Capt.), 57, 59 
 Budden, William (Gapt.), 47, 48 
 Bull, John (Col.), 57 
 Bullock, Joseph, 61 
 Burrows, Catharine, 80 
 
 Charles, 79 
 
 John, Sr., 71 
 
 John, Jr., 71, 79 
 
 John (Gen.), 72 to 79 
 
 Joseph, 71, 72, 81 
 
 Joseph (Dr.), 80, 81 
 
 Laura Matilda, 67, 71, 79, 80, 
 81, 84 
 
 Nathaniel, 72 
 
 Burrows, Mary Ann, 80 
 
 Samuel, 79 
 
 Sarah, 80 
 
 Susan, 80 
 
 Thomas (Capt.), 42 
 Byrne, Gerard (Capt.), 42 
 
 Cadwalader, John (Gen.), 55, 74 
 
 Caldwell, Andrew (Com.), 45, 46, 47 
 
 Caldwell, Samuel, 61 
 
 Cannon, James, 57 
 
 Carson, John (Capt.), 42 
 
 Chew, John, 37 
 
 Clark, James, 63 
 
 Weston, 63 
 Cleveland, Grover (Pres.), 
 Clymer, George (Hon.), 54, 55, 56 
 Cochran, John (Capt.), 42 
 Cooper, James (Capt.), 42 
 Cox, John (Capt.), 41 
 
 Paul (Capt.), 47, 49 
 Croes, John (Rev.), 64, 65 
 
 Dale, Richard (Capt.), 41, 42 
 Davidson, Samuel (Com.) , 45, 46 
 Davis, Wilham (Capt.), 42 
 Decatiir, Stephen (Capt.), 42 
 Dickinson, John (Hon.), 59, 60, 62 
 Dill, Joseph H., 42 
 Donaldson, Ann, 63 
 
 Andrew, 63 
 
 Arthur, 53, 54, 58, 59, 60, 61, 
 62, 63 
 
 Eleanor, 63 
 
 Margaret (Mrs.), 53, 63 
 
 Margaret, 53, 64, 65 
 
 Mary, 64 
 
 WiUiam, 53, 63 
 Dougherty, Henry (Capt.), 47, 49 
 
 105 
 
THE TREE FAMILY IN AMERICA 
 
 Evans, Benjamin, 81 
 
 Elizabeth, 68 
 
 Frances, 81 
 Ewing, James (Hon.), 60 
 Eyre, Richard (Capt.), 47, 50 
 
 Falconer, Nathaniel (Capt.), 61 
 Field, MarshaU, 87 
 
 Ethel, 87 
 Fleming, WiUiam (Capt.), 42 
 Franklin, Benjamin, 41, 66 
 Fullerton, William, 63 
 Fulton, Robert, 54 
 
 Gai, Peter France, 67 
 
 Gait, Nathaniel (Capt.), 47, 50 
 
 Geddes, George (Capt.), 47, 50 
 
 Girard, Stephen, 43 
 
 Grant, George, 69 
 
 Gray, George, 57 
 
 Greenway, William (Capt.), 47, 50 
 
 Grey, Adam, 82 
 
 Griscomb, Samuel, 63 
 
 Sarah, 63 
 Gurney, Francis (Capt.), 57, 61 
 
 Hallock, William (Capt.), 41 
 Hamilton, Gustavus, 53, 64 
 Hardie, Robert (Capt.), 47, 50 
 Harrison, Benjamin (Pres.), 86 
 Hazlewood, John (Com.), 45, 47, 61 
 Hendee, Charles Jefferson, 68 
 
 George (Admiral), 68 
 
 Mary, 68 
 Henderson, Alexander (Capt.), 47, 
 
 51 
 Harney (General), 
 HoUingsworth, Levi, 59, 60, 61, 62 
 Houston, Thomas (Capt.), 47, 51 
 Howell, Samuel, 55, 56 
 HubbeU, Lois, 71, 79 
 
 Nathaniel (Rev.), 71 
 Hubley, John, 57 
 
 Ironside, Katharine Z., 81 
 Irvine, James (Gen.), 59, 60 
 
 Jones, Blathwait (Capt.), 47, 51 
 John Paul (Capt.), 42 
 
 Kaighn, Elizabeth, 62 
 Kalb, Baron de, 72 
 Karn, Adam, 66 
 
 Rebecca, 66 
 Kendall, Amos (Hon.), 68 
 
 John Blake, 68 
 
 John Edward, 68 
 Kirkbride, Joseph (Col.), 77 
 Keppele, Henry, Jr., 57 
 Ker (Capt.), 84 
 Knox, Henry (Gen.), 58 
 
 Robert (Capt.), 47, 51 
 Kuhl, Frederick, 57 
 
 Lamb, John (Col.), 58 
 Leech, Thomas (Hon.), 45 
 
 Thomas (Capt.), 43, 44, 45 
 Levan, Sebastian, 59 
 Lincoln, Abraham (Pres.), 82 
 Logan, John A. (Gen.), 82 
 Long, Peter (Capt.), 47, 51 
 Love, John, 38 
 Loxley, Benjamin (Capt.), 47, 51 
 
 McCalister, Richard, 61 
 McDowell, John, 59, 60 
 McGhee, Mrs. Ehzabeth, 79 
 Magie, Anna Josephine, 86 
 
 David (Rev.), 86 
 
 Haines H., 86 
 
 William H. (Hon.), 86 
 Matlack, Timothy (Col.), 57 
 Mease, James, 56, 57 
 Mercer, Hugh (Gen.), 74 
 Mifflin, Samuel (Capt.), 43, 44 
 
 Thomas (Gen.), 74 
 Montgomery, James (Capt.), 47, 51 
 Morris, Robert (Hon.), 56 
 
 Samuel, 56, 57 
 Monstressor, James (Col.), 58 
 
 John (Capt.), 58 
 Moore, Thomas (Capt.), 47,52 
 Morgan, (Mrs.) Sarah, 79 
 
 Jeffers, Sarah, 71, 79 
 
 Neville, John, 61 
 
 106 
 
INDEX 
 
 Newman, Elizabeth, 79 
 
 John, 79 
 Nicholson, George (Capt.), 41 
 Nixon, John (Col.), 54, 55 
 
 Ord, George, 61 
 Osborne, Augustus H., 67 
 
 Patton, William (Gen.), 67 
 Pearsall, Edward D., 68 
 Penrose, Thomas, 57 
 Polk, James K. (Pres.), 83 
 Potter, Clarkson, 67 
 
 Henry C. (Bishop), 67 
 
 Robert B., 67 
 
 Read, George (Hon.), 45 
 
 Thomas (Capt.), 45 
 Richards, WiUiam (Capt.), 47, 52 
 Rives, Franklin, 82 
 
 John C, 82 
 Roach, Isaac (Capt.), 47, 52 
 Roberdeau, Daniel, 55 
 Roberts, Sarah (Mrs.), 79 
 Robinson, Isaiah (Capt.), 41, 50 
 
 James (Capt.), 41 
 Roche, Thomas, 77 
 Rogers, Joanna, 38 
 
 John, 42 
 Ross "Betsy," 63 
 Rouse, James, 53 
 Ruff (Captain), 83 
 Russell, Hiliard, 82 
 
 Scott, Winfield (Gen.), 83 
 Sibbald, John (Capt.), 43, 44, 45 
 Simmons, Jeremiah (Capt.), 47, 52 
 Smith, (Lieutenant), 84 
 Sterling (General), 75 
 Stiles, Joseph (Capt.), 47, 52 
 Sumner, Edwin V. (Gen.), 83 
 
 Taylor, Zachary (Pres.), 83 
 Thomas, (Mrs.) Elizabeth Grant, 69 
 Tileston, Arthur (Major), 68 
 
 Frances, 67 
 
 Meta, 68 
 
 Thomas, 67 
 
 Thomas (Capt.), 68 
 WiUiam M., 67 
 Tree, Ann Jane Breintnall, 67 
 
 Arthur Donaldson (Lieut.), 68, 
 
 82, 83, 84 
 Arthur Magie, 87 
 Arthur Ronald Lambert Field, 
 
 87 
 Charles Morgan (Dr.), 82 
 Eleanor, 82 
 EUen, 68, 69 
 Ellen Fullerton, 82 
 EUzabeth, 69 
 Francis, 38 
 Gladys, 87 
 
 James Mandeville Carlisle, 87 
 Jennie, 82 
 
 John (of Virginia), 37 
 John (of Mass.), 38 
 John (of Maryland), 38 
 John (Capt.), 64, 65, 66, 69 
 John (s. Capt. John), 66 
 Joseph, 
 Joseph B., 81 
 Lambert (Capt.), 38, 39, 40, 41, 
 
 43, 47, 52, 64, 65, 66, 68, 69 
 Lambert (s. Capt. Lambert), 
 
 64, 68 
 Lambert (s. Capt. John), 67, 69, 
 
 71, 79, 81 
 Lambert (s. Joseph B.), 82 
 Lambert (Hon.), 82, 84, 85, 86, 
 
 87 
 Lambert, (s. Arthur Magie), 87 
 Lavinia, 38 
 
 Margaret (Mrs.), 63, 64 
 Margaret, 67 
 Mary, 67, 81 
 Philip, 38 
 
 Richard (of Virginia), 37 
 Richard (of Mass.), 38 
 Richard (of R. I.), 38 
 Susanna, 38 
 Thomas (of Mass.), 38 
 Thomas (of Maryland) 38 
 Thomas (of Mass.), 38 
 
 Ustick, Thomas (Rev.), 66 
 
 107 
 
THE TREE FA^IILY IN AJMERICA 
 
 Van Buren, Martin (Pres.), 68 Weitzell, John, 57 
 
 Van Wickle, Jacob J., 64, 65 Wharton, Thomas, Jr. (Hon.). 55, 
 
 Nicholas, 64 56 
 
 Whyte, Robert, 54 
 
 Wall, George, Jr., 59 Wilcocks, Alexander, 55, 56, 57 
 
 Walker (Lieutenant), 84 Williams, C. A. (Lieut.), 83, 84 
 
 Walters, Plummer, 80 Wood, Jabeth, 79 
 
 Warner, Elisha (Capt.), 41 Josiah, 79 
 
 Washington, George (Gen.), 73, 75 Sarah, 79 
 Wayne, Anthony (Gen.), 75 
 
 Wickes, Lambert (Capt.), 41 Young, James (Capt.), 41 
 
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