BIOGRAPHICAL NoTICEf 



501 



Lydia, Nathan, Jane, Abraham, Jacob 

 and William. 



SnAUPOS, William, emigrated from 

 Trererigg in Glamorganshire, Wales, 

 and settled in Ilaverford in 1(J83. He 

 died in November of the next j-ear, and 

 was the first person buried in the 

 grave-yard belonging to Ilaverford 

 Meeting. Ilis widow, Blanche, was 

 married to Owen Morgan. His daugh- 

 ter, Mary, was married to William 

 Bevan of Newtown in 170'). 



Shipley, Elizabeth, daughter of the j 

 colonist Samuel Levis, was born in 

 Springfield Township in IGOO. In the ! 

 prime of youth she exhibited a serious 

 turn of mind, and in her twenty-fourth ' 

 year appeared as a minister among 

 Friends. In 1725, in company with 

 Jane Fenn, she paid a religious visit j 

 to New England, Long Island and Bar- : 

 badoes. In 1728 she was married to j 

 William Shipley, a widower, who a few . 

 years before had emigrated from " Lox- 

 ley and Uttoxeter" in Staffordshire, 

 England, and settled in Springfield, j 

 Here they resided till 1736, when they 

 removed to the present site of Wil- 

 mington, where Elizabeth was instru- 

 mental in establishing a meeting. In [ 

 1743 she made a religious visit to 

 England, Scotland and Ireland, and 

 later in life made similar visits to dis- } 

 tant parts in her own country. Some | 

 time before her death, which happened 

 in 1777, she removed to West Marl- 

 borough. She was aged eighty-seven at 

 the time of her decease, and had been a 

 preacher sixty-three years. She is said 

 to have been " lively and edifying in 

 her ministry," and in prayer '• awful 

 and weighty." William Shipley had 

 four children by his first wife, all of 

 whom immigrated with him. 



SiMCOCK, JoHK. No early settler in 

 Pennsylvania possessed the confidence 

 of the Proprietary to a greater extent 

 than John Simcock. Arriving in the 

 Province about the same time with 

 Penn, he was immediately taken into 

 his Council, a position he occupied till 

 1690. Besides being a member of the 

 Free Society of Traders, he was on his 

 own account one of the largest pur- 

 chasers of Pennsylvania lands in Eng- 

 land. His place of residence was Ridley 

 in Cheshire. Upon his arrival he located 



2,875 acres of his purchase east of 

 Ridley Creek, and immediately back of 

 a tier of Sweilish plantations that occu- 

 pied the whole river front, in what 

 subsequently became the township of 

 Ridley — named no doubt from the place 

 whence he emigrated. 



Besides being one of the Council, he 

 was a member of Assembly and some- 

 times speaker of that body ; was a jus- 

 tice of the Court and frequently pre- 

 sided ; was a Commissioner to settle a 

 difficulty with Lord Baltimore, and 

 deputy president of the Free Society of 

 Traders. In England he had been a 

 severe sufferer on account of his devo- 

 tion to the principles and practices of 

 the Quakers. At one time he was im- 

 prisoned fifteen months, and at different 

 times his persecutors distrained from 

 him property to the amount of several 

 hundred pounds. The various secular 

 employments in which he was engaged 

 after his arrival in this country had no 

 effect in lessening his zeal in " the 

 cause of truth.' He was here '• a 

 nursing father in Israel, tender over the 

 seed of God, and wherever he saw it in 

 the least appearance, he was a cher- 

 isher of it without respect to persons ; 

 but he abhorred deceit and hypocrisy." 

 As a preacher in the Society, few in 

 his time had a better standing. In very 

 early times meetings were held at his 

 house, and though his time was much 

 occupied with business, his religious 

 duties w-ere not neglected. He found 

 opportunities to pay religious visits to 

 the neighboring provinces of Maryland 

 and Virginia, and even to New England. 

 He was active in visiting George Keith 

 with a view of restoring him to the 

 true faith, but after all efforts had fail- 

 ed, he joined in the testimony against 

 him. He died on 7th of the 1st month, 

 (March,) 1703, aged 73 years, having 

 on the day before his death expressed 

 to those around him his firm confidence 

 in the faith that he had kept, and in 

 its sufficiency to secure a life eternal. 



Simcock, John, Jr., son of the above, 

 arrived in Pennsylvania with his father. 

 He at one time held the office of Deputy 

 Recorder for Chester County by ap- 

 pointment of Thomas Story, but in the 

 latter part of his time became intem- 

 perate and did not prosper. 



Simcock. Jacob, son of John the 



