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city of Somerset, being the last survivor of her family of the name of 

 Willing in that district of country. 



Thomas Willing, the oldest son of Joseph and Anne Willing, born 

 January 16, 1679-80, visited America with his younger brother 

 Richard, first in 1720. Returning to Bristol, England, he died in 

 that the city of his residence, 1760. He married, July 16, 1704, Anne, 

 granddaughter, on her paternal side, of Major-General Thomas Har- 

 rison, a lawyer of the Inns of Court, a member of the Long Parliament, 

 Major-General in Cromwell's time, one of the judges who sat on the 

 trial of King Charles I. ; also granddaughter on her mother's side, as 

 has been traditionally said, though this is not so certain, we believe, to 

 Simon Mayne (more properly written Meyn), a gentleman of Lincoln- 

 shire, a principal actor in Cromwell's time, and another of the persons 

 who sat on the trial of this unfortunate monarch. By this lady, who 

 was born in 1684 and died in 1747, and whose character, distinguished 

 by sweetness of temper, by great accomplishment, and by deep piety, 

 seems to have been "dulcified" in its flow of two generations from 

 "the hard, acidulous, metallic tincture" of its Puritan and military 

 spring, he had issue, among other children, 

 (i) Charles, of whom presently. 



(2) Thomas, who resided in the Temple, London, and is hereafter 

 spoken of. 



(3) Dorothy, married Hand, in England, where she remained. 



Charles Willing, whom we may regard as the founder of the 



American family (he having been the first who permanently resided 

 here), born May 18, 1710, was taken to Philadelphia, in the then 

 Province of Pennsylvania, at the age of 18, on a second visit to that 

 country by his father, who, during his previous residence of five years 

 there, had foreseen its rising greatness, and was determined to establish 

 his oldest son there, at Philadelphia, its metropolis. In this city the 

 subject of our notice pursued with great success and with noble fidelity 

 to its best principles, the profession of a merchant, in which career he 

 obtained, both at home and abroad, high and permanent consideration 

 by the scope, vigor and forecast of his understanding, by his great ex- 

 ecutive power, by his unspotted integrity, and by the amenity of his 

 disposition and manners. His enlarged and successful operations, and 

 his well-founded credit, assisted in early establishing with foreign coun- 

 tries a high reputation for American commerce; and contributed to 

 give to the city of his adoption, then the chief city of the confederacy, 

 and afterwards the seat of its Congress, that reputation for public honor 

 and for private wealth which it enjoyed at the opening of the Revolu- 

 tion, and which was of such eminent importance to the nation in its 



