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Removal to Pennsylvania: The Quarterly Meeting of Shamgain, Wales, gave a letter of recommendation to Elizabeth Humphrey and her children as they left Shamgain of Merioneth for the New World. This letter is in print in the New York Genealogical Record" of January, 1872. A portion of it is as follows : —
Married: Benjamin married 4 December 1694 in Haverford, Delaware, Pennsylvania (from a duplicate profile, marriage to duplicate Mary [Llewelling], as of 21 April 2019). Duplicate profile had profile attached for daughter Elizabeth (Humphrey) Scarlet.[1]
Death location: Datafield had included county for Merion: "Philadelphia County (now Montgomery County)".
Copy/paste data? to incorporate into bio: THE HUMPHREYS OF MERION.
A family record of the Humphreys, children of Samuel, referred to on p. 97 (foot-note), as furnished me by Philip P. Sharpies, of West Chester, Pa., is as follows : ADD/l/ONAL CHAPTF.R—i8<)7. 447
The first childs name is Lydia she was born the 28th day of ye ist mo. 1659.
The 2nd childs name is Daniel he was born the [blank] of ye 6th mo. 1660.
The 5th childs name is Rebecca she was born the 7th day of 2nd mo. 1664.
The si.xth childs name is Ann she was born — day of 3d mo. 1666.
The 7th childs name is Gobeithia she was born the 7th day of ye 7th mo. 1668.
Samuel Humphrey afforsaid & Elizabeth Reese were married before two Justices of peace named Morris Wynn & Robert Owen of Dolessery on ye 20th day of april 1658.
The foresd Saml. Humphrey parted this life the 17th day of the 9th Mo. and was buried ye 19th day of ye same att Bryn-tallwyn 1677, aged -I years and 9 months.
Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Source: http://www.archive.org/details/historicalcollec1897jenk
HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS RELATING TO
GWYNEDD
A TOWNSHIP OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, SETTLED, 1698, BY IMMIGRANTS FROM WALES,
WITH SOME DATA REFERRING TO THE ADJOINING TOWNSHIP OF MONTGOMERY, ALSO SETTLED BY WELSH
By HOWARD M. JENKINS,
OF GWYNEDD,
AUTHOR OF VOLUME ONE, MEMORIAL HISTORY OF PHILADELPHIA
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Benjamin Humphrey inherited 212 acres of land in Hav- erford from his uncle, John Humphrey, about where the vil- lage of Bryn Mawr, formerly called Humphreyville, stands, and adjacent to Rowland Ellis's land, and resided near the present Bryn Mawr College grounds. He d. 4 Nov. 1738, age 76 years. He vi. (1694), Mary, daughter of Morria Llewellyn, of Haverford. . Of their children, Ann m. 23. lOmo. 1742, Garrad Jones (son of Robert Jones, a first set- tler of Merion) ; Elizabeth, ?«. John Scarlett; Owen Humphrey m. 29. 7mo. 1738, Sarah, widow of John Hughs, of Merion. The will of John Hughs, of Merion, was signed 2 Jan. 1736, witnesses Griffith and Morris Llewellyn, and William Lloyd, was proved by wife Sarah, 12 Feb. 1736, mentions father-in-law Morgan Herbert, but no children. Trustees, John Roberts and Griffith Llewellyn.
Benjamin Humphreys succeeded Rees Price as landlord of the Blue Anchor tavern, on Dock Creek landing, in Philadelphia.
Through Thomas John Thomas, he also had a tract of land, lying east of his other plot, and north of the present Montgomery avenue, at Haverford R. R. Station.
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New England Weekly Journal Contributed by Gigimo
Description: Death of Benjamin HUMPHREY.
Date: November 21 1738
Newspaper published in: Boston, MA
Marion in Philadelphia County, Nov. 7.
On the 4th instant died here Benjamin HUMPHREY, in the 76th year of his age. He was one of the first settlers of the country, having been here 55 years. A man remarkable for his hospitality and universal benevolence, with a strict adherence to the principles of his posession. He was interr'd at Haverford on the 77th, his funeral being attended by a great number of people, who respected his memory.
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