Henry Drinker and Elizabeth Sandwith

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Husband Henry Drinker ¹

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           Born: 1734 1
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Wife Elizabeth Sandwith ¹

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Children

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1 F Sarah Drinker ^{1 2}

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         Spouse: Jacob Downing (1756-1823) 1 2

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General Notes: Husband - Henry Drinker

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He was the great-great-great-grandson of Philip Drinker, who was born in 1597 and died in 1647; came in 1635 from Exeter, England, and settled at Charlestown, Massachusetts.

He was an iron-master and ship owner of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was arrested in 1777 and sent to Virginia under the pretense of hostility to the American cause. He was a member of the common council of Philadelphia, and a large land owner.

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General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Sandwith

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She was descended from John Jervis, of Roscoe, Kings county, Ireland, who came to America in 1688, with a son Martyn, and purchased large tracts of land in New Jersey now called Jervis Sound. John Jervis was appointed a justice of the peace of New Jersey. Charles, another son, was court painter to King George II, a correspondent of the poet Pope, and translator of "Don Quixote."

She kept a diary from 1759 to 1807, which was published in book form in 1889.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 70.

2 J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881), Pg 525.