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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



elder, immigrated to this country with | 

 him and settled in Ridley. Early in 

 the year 1G85, he was married to Alice, 

 daughter of George Maris of the 

 "Home House" in Springfield town- 

 ship. He. also, like his father was a 

 public Friend; travelled as a minister, 

 and held public trusts. He was ap- 

 pointed Deputy Register General under 

 James Claypole in 168(5, and probably 

 for a short time resided in Philadelphia. 

 He died about the year 1716. His wife 

 survived him ten years. Their chil- 

 dren were John, Jacob, Benjamin, 

 Hannah and Mary. 



SiMCOCK, George, one of the original 

 purchasers of land in England, lived in 

 Darby (now Upper Darby) township 

 in 1691, but when he immigrated, is 

 not known. He was from Ridley in 

 Cheshire, and may have been a brother 

 of the elder John Simccck, but it is 

 not certain that he was, or that he was 

 a member of the Society of Friends. 



Smedley, George, migrated from 

 Derbyshire, England, in 1682 or 1683 in 

 company with several of the Friends 

 who settled at Darby, and for some i 

 years after his arrival, he resided in 

 Philadelphia. In 1687, he was married 

 to Sarah Goodwin whose maiden name 

 was Kitchen, the widow of bis intimate 

 friend, John Goodwin. The marriage 

 was accomplished " at the meeting- 

 house upon the front of the Delaware.'' 

 His wife had one child by her first 

 marriage, bnt it died in its minority. 

 Shortly after his marriage, George 

 Smedley removed to a tract of land he 

 had purchased from the Proprietary, 

 and which was surveyed to him in 

 1684, in the township of Middletown. 

 Here he erected his dwelling-house on 

 the west bank of Ridley Creek about 

 one mile northwest of the present 

 town of Media. The mansion farm is 

 still in possession of his descend- 

 ants. His wife Sarah died in 1709. 

 About the year 1721, after having 

 settled his son George on the man- 

 sion farm, he removed to Willis- 

 town, where he resided with his son 

 Thomas till his death in 172:^. He had 

 five children: Thomas, who married 

 Sarah the daughter of Joseph Baker of 

 ?'dgmont, in 1710 ; Mary, who first in- 

 termarried with John Edge, Jr., and 

 afterwards with John Varnall of Willis- 



town ; George, (a minister among 

 Friends.) who married Jane Sharpless 

 in 1717, and after her death, Mary the 

 daughter of William Hammons ; Sarah, 

 who intermarried with John William- 

 son of Newtown, and Alice whose first 

 husband was John Allen of Newtown, 

 and the second, Edward Woodward of 

 Middletown. 



George Smedley did not incline to 

 be active in public affiiirs, but was fre- 

 quently appointed to various services 

 by the meeting in which he uniformh* 

 maintained a good standing. With the 

 exception of a German named Frede- 

 rick William Smedley who settled in 

 Brownsville about the time of the Revo- 

 lutionary war, and a few English 

 families who have recently settled in 

 Philadelphia, it is believed that all of 

 the name of Smedley in Pennsylvania, 

 have a common ancestor in the subject 

 of this notice. 



Smith, John, emigrated from Harby, 

 County of Leicester, England, and set- 

 tled in Darby in 1684. He was born 

 in that County in 1645, and at the early 

 age of fourteen, became convinced of 

 the truth of the doctrine of the Society 

 of Friends, and sometime afterwards 

 appeared in the ministry. He lived in 

 high esteem among his neighbors, and 

 died in great peace of mind in 1714, 

 aged sixty-nine years. He left a son 

 William, and three daughters, Mary, 

 the wife of William Garrett: Sarah', 

 the wife of Samuel Sellers, Jr., and 

 Martha, the wife of Richard Parker. 



Smith, Eleanor, wife of the above 

 named John, came to this country 

 with her husband. She was born at 

 Harborough, in Leicestershire, her 

 maiden name being Dolby. She was 

 convinced of religious truth as held by 

 Friends, at thirteen years of age, but 

 did not appear in the ministry till 

 towards the close of her life. An 

 attectionate epistle, addressed by her 

 to the Darby Monthly Meeting of women 

 Friends, during her last illness, and 

 the tender admonitions that she de- 

 livered to her family during the same 

 I)eriod, arc a like evidence of intel- 

 lectual training and of the sincerity of 

 her faith. She died in 1708, aged fifty- 

 five 3'ears. 



>MiTH, Jou 



clergyman of the 



