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Title: Ancient and modern Germantown, Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Hotchkin, Samuel Fitch, 1833-1912
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., P. W. Ziegler & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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he Pennsylvania Militia. His son John was Mayor of Natchez.He died in Philadelphia, and his widow is the only one now bearing thename. No. 4634 is a large house standing back, nearly opposite to where theBringhurst house stood. For more than thirty years it has been owned andoccupied by the late Isaiah Hacker and his family. It was built by Mr.Forbes. DavidJHayfield Conyngham, of Ireland, son of Redmond Conyngham,Esq., and Martha, daughter of Robert Ellis, of Philadelphia lived in it.Redmond Conyngham came here in 1756, and was one of the original mem-bers of the firm of J. M. Nesbit & Co. He returned to Ireland in 1767 anddied in 1785. David married in 1779, at Whitemarsh, Mary, daughter ofWilliam and Mary West. She died August 27, 1820. He was a partner inthe house of J. M. Nesbit & Co., which was distinguished in the Revolution.After 1783 the firm was Conyngham, Nesbit & Co. David H. Conyngham wasa descendant of William Conyngham, Bishop of Argyll, and a cousin of Baron
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GERMANTOWN. 61 Plunket, Chief Justice of Ireland, and also a cousin of Capt. GustavusConyngham, U. S. Navy. David H. was father of the Hon. John N. Conyng-ham of Wilkes-Barre. He died on the first of March, 1834, and was buried inthe grounds of our Christ Church. His life was interesting, and Rev. HoraceE. Hayden, of Wilkes-Barre, is to write his memoir. After Mr. Conynghamleft the house, and perhaps immediately, Miss Hannah, a maiden sister of Johnand Charles J. Wister, occupied it for a dozen years or more. In 1832 thehouse was sold by Samuel Taylor and William Rainey to AlexanderPrevost. In 1835 he sold to the Rev. William Neill, pastor of the old Presby-terian Church on the Main street below Haines. In 1844 he sold to the lateIsaiah Hacker. No. 4636 on the west side of the street, with its shaggy exte-rior, defies the storm, and promises comfort within. On a pane of glass in itwas written, Anna W. Morris, and Maria Abercrombie, 1807. Miss Aber-crombies father was assistant ministe

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