The Humphreys family in America - citizen hylbom blog

daughter of Sir Archibald Murray, the descendant of that Murray of Black Barony, Scotland, who
espoused the cause of the Pretender. The story runs that Andrew Atkinson, then a gallant ensign
in the British army, of nineteen years of age, first saw Jane Murray, a beautiful girl of sixteen, on
the battlements of Edinburgh Castle, and, captivated by her charms, gracefully lowered his colors
as he passed. He sought and obtained an introduction, which resulted in their elopement and
marriage. He subsequently purchased a plantation in Florida, upon St. John's river, and after the
cession of Florida by Spain, came to Philadelphia, where he died. His daughter, Letitia Atkinson,
met Samuel Humphreys at Dunganess, the house of the widow of Gen. Nathaniel Greene, upon
Cumberland Island, Georgia, where he had been sent, as a youth of eighteen, to import live-oak
timber for the great battle ships, and the meeting led to their marriage.
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Carson's Address.
ADDITIONS-EECEIVED TOO LATE TOE INSEETION IN THEIE PEOPEE PLACE.
(P. 999.) Mary" Humphreys [45] m. at Georgetown, D. C, in Aug., 1843, Mr. George
Yonge, of Augusta, Ga. She died in Baltimore, Md., in April, 1866. Children:
i. Letitia'; m. at Baltimore, Md., in Nov., 1866, John C. Wrenshall, a civil engineer, of
Pittsburgh, Pa. ; has a son and a daughter,
ii. Samuel H.'; is a civil engineer; m. at St. Charles, Mo., in Oct., 1873, Charlotte Behreml, of
that place; has three daughters and a son. Res. (1886) Kansas City, Mo.
iii. William Wadley '; m. in Chattanooga, Tenn., in Dec, 1880, Helen Augusta Carlisle. He was
a young man of brilliant promise and exalted character; died at Chattanooga, Sept. 9,
1885; had one son.
(P. 999.) William Penn,^ [46] at present resides in San Francisco, Cal., of which State he
is one of the Railroad Commissioners. He married in Oct., 1870, Mary Stencon, of San Francisco;
has a son and a daughter.
J^imeS Humphreys, Junior, was the son of a conveyancer, and was educated at the
college in Philadelphia. He commenced the study of medicine, but disliking the profession,
learned the art of printing, and, in January, 1775, commenced the publication of a newspaper
called the Pe>insylvania Ledger, which, it was said, was under the influence of the friends of the
British government. He was, in consequence, in the hands of the people several times; but he
had good friends among the Whigs, of whom the celebrated Rittenhouse was one. Discontinuing
his paper, he retired from Philadelphia to the country, where he remained until the British army
approached the city, when he returned to it, and continued under royal protection there, and at
New York, throughout the war.* After the peace he went to England, thence to Shelburne, Nova
Scotia; but returned to Philadelphia in 1797, opened a printing-house, and was engaged in book-
printing until his death in February, 1810. —Sabine's American Loyalists, pub. 1847.
John Humphreys resided near Carnarvon Castle, Wales. By the tradition of the family he was descended
from a younger branch of the family of Llewellyn, Prince of Wales. He had three sons and a daughter. He and
two sons followed the sea. One of these sons died at Demarara, South America; the other was lost off Menimel
Bar. The youngest son was named Humphrey Humphreys, and was born in Manchester, England, his parents
having removed their residence. His father died when he was quite young, and his brothers before he left England.
In 1817, he, with his wife, came to America. They had two sons who died in infancy, and a dau., Kezia Alice, who
m. Schultz, after the death of her father. Res. (1883) Cornwall, N. Y. Have a son, Humphrey Schultz.
In an account of the Methodist Society of Humphreysville, Ct. (Nist. Derby, Ct., p. 465), it is stated that,
1834, " Humphrey Humphreys and John Crawford were the preachers on this circuit.
• May have beluni^ed to the Quaker timily of Humphreys which settled iti Chester Co., Pa., and opposed to the war froui princil