BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



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of Ralph Lewis, and settled in Haver- 

 ford. He died in 17(i9, leiivinu six 

 children, viz., David, Ruth, John, Mary, 

 Samuel and Caleb. 



Hdmpiiiiky, Ei.iz.vBETir, emifciated 

 from Llanegrin, County of .Merioneth. 

 in 1682, with her son Benjamin, and 

 two daunjhters, Anne and Gobitha, and 

 settled in Haverford. They were all 

 Friends, and she brought a certificate 

 with her, that recommends her " for an 

 honest faithful woman y' has been 

 serviceable in her place, and praise- 

 worthy in her conversation," and her 

 children "as tender plants, growing in 

 that which the}- do profess, even the 

 tr ith and the grace of God." Gobitha 

 died in 1(397 ; Lydia was married to 

 Ellis Ellis, of Haverford, and Anne to 

 Edward Robert. 



Humphrey, Daniel, came from 

 Llanegrin, County of Merioneth, Wales, 

 in 1682, and settled in Haverford town- 

 ship. His mother, Elizabeth, with the 

 younger children, came the next year. 

 He had joined the Friends in his native 

 country, " and left such a testimony 

 behind him as is and was of good sa- 

 vour." In 1695 he was married to 

 Hannah, the daughter of Dr. Thomas 

 Wynn. of Merion. Their children were 

 Samuel. Thomas, Hannah. Benjamin, 

 Elizabeth, Mary, Joshua, Edward, Mar- 

 tha and Charles. He visited his na- 

 tive country, on business, in 1725. 



Humphrey, Benjamin, came to Penn- 

 sylvania with his mother, Elizabeth 

 Humphrey, in 1683, (see Elizabeth.) 

 and settled in Haverford, but removed 

 to Merion. In 1694 he was married to 

 Mary Llewellyn, of Haverford His 

 uncle. John Humpiirey, of .Merion, hav- 

 ing devised all his estate to him, he be- 

 came a permanent resident of Merion, 

 and died there in 1738, in the seventy- 

 sixth year of his age. He was strongly 

 attached to the principles of Friends, 

 and was remarkable for his hospitality. 



Humphrey, Edward, son of Daniel 

 Humphrey, and Hannah his wife, was 

 born in Haverford township, in the 

 year 1710. He learned the fulling and 

 dyeing business, and carried on that 

 business as long as he lived, at the 

 place that is now known as " Kelly's 

 Upper Factory." Though fulling was 



his business, he did not attend to it 

 personally : for having acquired con- 

 siderable knowledge of medicine and 

 surgery, probably from his grandfather, 

 Dr. Wynn, and being remarkable for his 

 ingenuity, judgment and success, he ac- 

 quired a high reputation as a physician 

 and surgeon. His services were much 

 sought after, but were seldom remune- 

 rated, for he did not charge the poor 

 for attendance. What, however, re- 

 flected most the true dignity of his 

 character, •' was his benevolence and 

 humanity to his suffering fellow-crea- 

 tures — ever delighting to relieve their 

 distresses, to soften the rigor qf their 

 misfortunes, and to pour balm into their 

 bleeding wounds." He died unmarried, 

 January 1st. 1776, and was buried at 

 Haverford Friends' burying-ground, 

 having lived a consistent member of 

 that Society. 



HiMPHREY, John, with his wife. Joan, 

 emigrated from Llwundu, in Merion- 

 ethshire, Wales, in 1633, and eventual- 

 ly settled in Merion, adjoining the Ha- 

 verford line. His certificate attests 

 that he had been a member of the So- 

 ciety of Friends twenty-three years ; 

 that he was faithful in times of great 

 suffering, and that his house •• was a 

 free receptacle to Friends." He was 

 also " a minister of few words accord- 

 ing to his measure." Though a tho- 

 rougti Welshman, he had, for the time 

 in which he lived, a good knowledge 

 of the English language, and withal 

 some taste for literature, as will appear 

 by his translation of '-A Song of Re- 

 joicing," composed by Thomas Ellis. 

 John Humphrey died in 1699. aged 

 sixty-six years, and his wife one year 

 earlier. They left no children. \_See 

 under Thomas Ellis.] 



Hlmphrey, Richard, from Llangu- 

 nin, Merionethshire, settled in Radnor 

 in 1683. He had professed -the truth" 

 many years before he left his native 

 country. He died, unmarried, in 1692, 

 and was buried at Haverford. 



Humphrey, Joseph, lived in the town 

 of Darby as early as 1684, and was 

 that year married to Elizabeth Medford, 

 a widow, of the same town. He re- 

 moved to Philadelphia, and died in that 

 city in 1693. He was in membership 

 with Friends. 



