Martin Jarvis (abt. 1675 - 1742)

Born about 1675 in Ireland

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Biography

"Martin Jarvis, shoemaker, b. about 1675, d. 1742, says Parrock, settled for a time in Newton, then Gloucester County, N. J., and married in 1698, Mary Champion (whose father John Champion came afterwards from Long Island and settled near Gloucester). In 1705, Martin Jarvis purchased a house and lot on 2d Street, between Market and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, and made his residence there the remainder of his life. His daughter Sarah married William Sandwith, an Irish Friend, of Philadelphia, and became the mother of Elizabeth (Sandwith) Drinker (wife of Henry Drinker, of Philadelijhia, one of the Quaker exiles to Virginia, in the war of the Revolution), whose diary,5 covering the period 1759-1807, is a valuable record of the social life of the time."^[1]

Children

1. Sarah Jarvis m. William Sandwith, had daughter Elizabeth (m. Henry Drinker)

Research Notes

Drinker-18 is a probable descendent

note

Long Quote about his dad John Jarvis to be added to new relevant profiles^[2]

"John Jarvis, or Jervis,1 a Friend, of Roscore, King's County, Ireland, with his son Martin, as stated in the deposition of James Parrock, made at Philadelphia, in 1751, was "obliged to fly from Ireland [in 1688] with as much haste and privacy as he could for fear of being massacred by the Papists." He came to New Jersey by way of Boston and took up his residence with his old friend George Goldsmith, of Gloucester, N. J., where he remained until 1691, when he settled on a large tract of land which he had purchased at Cape May. He was appointed Justice of the Peace for Cape May County in 1695, 1696, and 1697. In 1701, he returned to Ireland. He had five2 sons:

1. Charles Jarvis3 (b. about 1675 in Ireland, d. in London, in 1739) studied in London under Sir Godfrey Kneller, court painter, and became a celebrated artist. (He was a friend of Pope, the poet, and translated Don Quixote.—See National Dictionary of Biography, XXIX., p. 354. )
2. John Jarvis, who in 1753,4 was living in King's County, Ireland.
3. Mathew, died young. IV. Trevor, died young. V.
4. Martin Jarvis, shoemaker, b. about 1675, d. 1742, says Parrock, settled for a time in Newton, then Gloucester County, N. J., and married in 1698, Mary Champion (whose father John Champion came afterwards from Long Island and settled near Gloucester). In 1705, Martin Jarvis purchased a house and lot on 2d Street, between Market and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, and made his residence there the remainder of his life. His daughter Sarah married William Sandwith, an Irish Friend, of Philadelphia, and became the mother of Elizabeth (Sandwith) Drinker (wife of Henry Drinker, of Philadelijhia, one of the Quaker exiles to Virginia, in the war of the Revolution), whose diary,5 covering the period 1759-1807, is a valuable record of the social life of the time.

1. MS. note by Judge Clement in his own copy of his First Settlers of Newton (Hist. Soc. of Pcnna. ), 148.

2. Parrock says one of the sons was bound an apprentice in Boston.

3. Parrock states that he was bound an apprentice to a "Limner" ( artist) of London.

4. William Drinker's sketch of the Jarvis family written in 1795 (Elizabeth Drinker's Journal, 3-4).

5. Extracts from the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker, 1759-1807, edited by Henry D. Biddle, Philadelphia, 1889."

Sources

1. ↑ Myers, Albert Cook. Immigration of the Irish Quakers Into Pennsylvania (The Author, Swarthmore, Pa., 1902), http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~billie0w/books/quakers/appendix2.htm
2. ↑ Myers, Albert Cook. Immigration of the Irish Quakers Into Pennsylvania (The Author, Swarthmore, Pa., 1902), http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~billie0w/books/quakers/appendix2.htm

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