Samuel Griscom (1787 - 1849)

Born 2 Apr 1787 in Mannington, Salem, New Jersey, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Ann (Powell) Griscom — married 10 Mar 1808 in Salem County, New Jersey, USA

Descendants

Died 19 Apr 1849 at age 62 in Pottsville, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States

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Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Genealogy of Berks; Collection: Quaker Meeting Records; Call Number: MR-PH 170 Genealogy of Berks, Exeter Monthly Meeting. Berks< Pennsylvania

Biography

Samuel Griscom, son of William and Rachel (Denn) Griscom, was born on April 2, 1787 in Mannington Township, Salem, New Jersey.^[1]

He was a Quaker, like his parents, and from 1804 to 1808 lived in Wilmington, Delaware, undoubtedly learning the skills of a brickmason. ^[2]

He married at age 21 on March 10, 1808, at the Alloways Creek Meetinghouse, Salem Co. NJ, 21-year-old ANN POWELL, daughter of Quakers Jeremiah and Sarah (Ware) Powell.^[3]

After the birth of their first child, they moved to Philadelphia, transferring to the Friends Philadelphia Northern District Monthly Meeting on May 29, 1809.^[4]

On December 1, 1819. Samuel at age 32, described as "of Penn Township, Philadelphia County...bricklayer,” purchased for $4500, a 302-acre farm in East Nottingham Township, Chester County PA, about forty miles southwest of Philadelphia.^[5]

in 1826 he accepted a position with the Schuylkill Navigation Company as manager/superintendent of the Schuylkill Canal, and that year, keeping his farm, he moved his family to Reading in Berks County PA, the central point of the canal. He was put in charge of maintaining, enlarging, and improving the canal and its locks.^[6]

In 1831 he purchased 26 acres east of the river about eight miles upstream from Reading in Maiden Creek Township from John Rickenbacker for $2,650.^[7]

In 1844, he was transferred by the Navigation Company to Pottsville up the Schuylkill River.^[8]

Samuel died in Pottsville on Thursday, April 19, 1849.^[9][10][11]at the age of 62. He was buried in Charles Evans Cemetery in Reading.

Ann returned to Reading. In 1850, per the census, she was living in the Southwest Ward (probably near Canal and Chestnut streets) with five of her single children: Rachel (age 41), Sarah (age 38), Samuel (age 32), Horace (age 24) and Emeline (age 18).

For more on Samuel see p.33-44 in ^[12] which includes:

p.34 His Quaker Marriage Record,

p.iii Photo of Samuel and Ann (Powell) Griscom.

p.iv. Photo of The Griscom Family Tree, drawn in 1868 by dau. Anna Griscom.

p.155 Map 15 showing location of homes in PA.

Children:^{[13] [14]}

• RACHEL DENN GRISCOM (Nov 5 1808-Jan 8 1901). Single.

• DAVID POWELL GRISCOM (May 18 1810-Dec 23 1893) m. Oct 14 1831 ELIZABETH IDLER (May 13 1808- )

• SARAH POWELL GRISCOM (Jul 7 1812-Dec 30 1891). Single

• POWELL GRISCOM (Mar 5 1814-May 16 1867) m. Sep 7 1837 HANNAH ANN DENN (Apr 20 1819-Oct 14 1900) dau. of William & Mary (Stewart) Denn.

• ELIZABETH GRISCOM (Nov 5 or 8 1815-Nov 16 1904) m. Mar 2 1837 JACOB BURROUGH (May 15 1813-Jan 6 1880) son of Isaac & Mary (Evault) Burrough.^[15]

• SAMUEL EVERETT GRISCOM (Dec 6 1817-Jun 24 1904). Single

• EDWIN ATLEE GRISCOM (Dec 29 1819-May 10 1896) m. Sep 1 1842 BEU­LAH DENN (Feb 7 or 17 1821-Jan 7 1879) dau. of William & Mary (Stew­art) Denn.

• CHALKLEY GRISCOM (Aug 9 1821-Apr 3 1910) m. Jan 19 1843 cousin SARAH WARE POWELL (Sep 6 1822-May 9 1909) dau. of John and Rebecca (Mowers) Powell of Alloways Cr. Salem Co. NJ, grddau. of Jeremiah Powell.

• WILLIAM MORRIS GRISCOM (Oct 14 1823-Apr 2 1919)[85] m.1 May 23 1847 ELLEN HARBESTER (Jul 2 1828-Apr 22 1864) dau. of Henry Harbester; m.2 May 10 1882 ANNIE LYDIA MILLER (Aug 9 1859-Jun 9 1929) dau. of Gir­ard Miller of Hamburg, Germany.

• HORACE GRISCOM (Mar 19 1826-Apr 13 1909)

• ANN "ANNA" GRISCOM (Jul 22 1828-Jan 20 1895).[90] Single, compiled/ drew 4 Griscom family trees.

• EMELINE GRISCOM (Sep 9 1831-Nov 13 1910)[92] m. May 21 1862 WILLIAM MAROT Jr. of Philadelphia (Jul 13 1830-Jun 25 1876).

Sources

1. ↑ Family birth dates: Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy Vol. II. Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Births and Deaths, 1686-1798; Collection: Quaker Meeting Records; Call Number: MR Ph:547. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2189/31906_284105-00389/1812043
2. ↑ Hinshaw, William W., Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Volume 2, p.73: 1804, 8-27 Samuel, minor, s William got certificate to Wilmington MM; 1808, 6-27 Samuel received on certificate from Wilmington MM dated 1808 6-9
3. ↑ Shourds, Thomas, History and Genealogy of Fenwick's Colony (1876), pp.146,340.
4. ↑ Hinshaw, p.73: 1809,5,29 Samuel & w Ann, & dt. Rachel get NDMM.
5. ↑ 8. Chester Co. Deed Bk.3, p.452:1819. "Village Record" Dec. 10 1823.
6. ↑ Morton L. Montgomery. Historical and Bio­graphical Annals of Berks County Pennsylvania (1909). p.392.
7. ↑ Berks Co. Deed Bk.40, p.471.
8. ↑ Montgomery, p.392.
9. ↑ Eshelman, p.111.
10. ↑ Berks and Schuylkill Jour­nal (Weekly) Apr 19 1849: died on the 19th Inst, at Pottsville.
11. ↑ Griscom Tree/CAG.
12. ↑ Harrell, Elizabeth Jean, The Quaker ancestry of Samuel Griscom, 1787-1849, and his wife, Ann Powell, 1789-1860, of Salem County, NJ, and Reading, PA, 1989. https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/143988-the-quaker-ancestry-of-samuel-griscom-1787-1849-and-his-wife-ann-powell-1789-1860-of-salem-county-nj-and-reading-pa-bacons-of-cumberland-co-nj?viewer=1&offset=2#page=1&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q= 
13. ↑ Birth Place: https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2189/31906_283788-00497/2648159
14. ↑ John E. Eshelman, A Genealogical Record of Members Composing The Society of Friends or Quakers Resident at Some Time in Berks Countv. Pennsylyania or Attached to the Meetings Located in the Said County (1930), p. 110,111
15. ↑ E.G. Burrough records at Historical Society of PA #3819.

Acknowledgements

• Entered by John Griscom on Jun 17, 2012.