NOTES ON THE GENEALOGY OF THE BIDDLE FAMILY, TOGETHER WITH ABSTRACTS OF SOME EARLY DEEDS. BY HENRY D. BIDDLE. PRIVATELY PRINTED. PHILADELPHIA : W. S. FORTESCUE & CO., (Successors to E. C. & J. BIDDLE & Co.) 1895. es 21 B585 1895 PREFACE. THE wish to acquire as authentic and definite a knowledge as possible of the progenitor of my paternal family and of his descendants in America, led me some years ago to begin collecting from other members of the family copies of the early Deeds in their possession. In doing this there was also gradually accumulated a good deal of information about the family genealogy; and there is so much satisfaction in knowing one's ancestors—where they settled, lived and died, and what they did, and what became of their descendants-that I have thought it worth while to put into print the prominent parts of this information, together with an abstract of the more important Deeds. I cannot here name all who have assisted me in the genealogical part of my work, but I am under special obligations to Mrs. Hannah A. Brown, of Salem, N. J.; the late Hon. John Clement, of Haddonfield; Commodore John J. Read, U. S. N.; Barclay White, of Mount Holly; Dr. George W. Biddle, of Sparta, Ills.; and Dr. Byron F. Dawson, of Cayucos, Cal. |