Great
grand
parents

Gen.=+10
Joseph   Willing       Thomas C., Maj. Gen.   Harrison
1606-1660 from Newcastle-under Lyme, son of a butcher who became mayor. Regicide. Escorted Charles I to London & guarded him through his trial & execution and signed his death warrant. Hung drawn & quartered af
  John   Mayne of Elmdon, Warks   William   Shippen
1600-1681
           
m. m. m. m. m. m. m. m.
    Katherine   Dorothy   Griffith Mary   Nunnes
1592-1672
     
Grand
parents

Gen.=+9
Joseph   Willing
b. ABT 1645 6 sons + 1 daughter in all
m. Elizabeth   Plower
b. ABT 1650
Charles   Harrison
b. ABT 1645 of Lichfield, Staffs
m. Blanche   Mayne
b. 1641 C.P. Keith, 'The Provincial Councillors of Pennsvlvania' (1883; rep. 1997), pp. 89-90 gave her name as Dorothy, dau. of Simon Mayne the Regicide but more recent evidence supports the line given here. See newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Soc/soc.genealogy.medieval/2008-11/msg00362.html
Edward   Shippen
b. 1639
d. 2 OCT 1712 or b. 5 March 1638/39 in Methley, Yorkshire. left England in 1675 & made a fortune in Philadelphia. 2nd Mayor 1701-1703 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in 1699. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Shippen
m. Elizabeth   Lybrand
d. 25 OCT 1688
Thomas   Grosse of Boston m. Elizabeth   Phillips
Parents
Gen.=+8
Thomas   Willing
b. 16 JAN 1679 or 80 or 80
d. 3 FEB 1759 Bristol Bristol other wife Ava Lowle? Or mother is Anne Lowle b. in Tockington, Gloucestershire.
m. Anne   Harrison
b. 1684
d. 11 SEP 1747
Joseph   Shippen
b. 28 FEB 1677 or 1678, Boston or 1678, Boston
d. JUN 1741
m. Abigail   Grosse
b. 25 OCT 1677 Boston Boston
d. 28 JUN 1716 Philadelphia Philadelphia
Husband,
wife &
siblings

Gen.=+7
Thomas 1707-1773
Dorothy 1712-1790 m. ? Hand
Charles Willing
b. 18 MAY 1710 Bristol
d. 30 NOV 1754 or in 1758?
merchant of Philadelphia, Mayor 1748-9 & 1754 11 children in all en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Willing
G7, ID=1435
m.
Anne "Nancy" Shippen
b. 5 AUG 1710 Philadelphia Philadelphia
d. 1791 Philadelphia Philadelphia
G7, ID=1853
 
Children
Gen.=+6
Thomas
b. 19 DEC 1731 Philadelphia
d. 19 JAN 1821 /Had 12 children in all. Went to school in Bath, studied law in London at the Inner Temple. Mayor of Philadelphia 1763-4. Delegate to the Continental Congress. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. President of the Bank of North Am

m.
Anne McCall
b. 30 MAR 1745
d. 5 FEB 1781 dau. of Samuel McCall and Ann Searle
Anne "Nancy"
b. ABT 1733
m.
Tench Francis
Dorothy
b. 3 AUG 1735 Philadelphia
d. 20 SEP 1782 Drumpellier

m.
Walter, Sir Stirling
b. 7 MAY 1718 Sherva, Fife
d. 24 NOV 1786 Red Lion Square, London of Faskine en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Stirling
Charles
b. 1738
d. 1788
m.
Elizabeth H. Carrington
Mary
b. 10 SEP 1740
d. MAR 1814 of Westover Plantation, Charles City Co., Virginia . Their descendants include the Harrisons of James River and Pages of Winchester, VA en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Willing_Byrd

m.
William III Byrd
b. 6 SEP 1728
d. 1 JAN 1777 or 2nd or 2nd squandered the Byrd fortune on gambling and bad investments. Committed suicide. 1756 Colonel of the 2nd Virginian regiment - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Byrd_III
Elizabeth
b. 1742
m.
Samuel Powel
b. ABT 1742 est. of Philadelphia
Richard
b. 1744
Abigail
b. 1747
Joseph
b. 1749
James
b. 1750
d. 1806 (?) (?)
Margaret "Peggy"
b. 1753
m.
Robert Hare
Grand
children

Gen.=+5
Anne "Nancy" 1764-
Charles 1765-1765
Charles 1766- 2nd wife Ann Humphill(?)
Thomas Mayne 1767-1822
Elizabeth 1768-
George 1769-1769
Mary 15 SEP 1770-25 OCT 1852
Dorothy 1772- 8th child of 12
George 1774-1827 9th child of 12
Richard 1775-1858 www.famgen.net/keen/fam00674.htm
Abigail ABT 1777- partially paralyzed in her youth. Reputedly proposed to by Louis Phillipe, exiled King of France, who was teaching at a school in Philadelphia.
William Shippen 1779-1821
Thomas Willing ABT 1768- Walter, Sir 24 JUN 1758-26 AUG 1832 †in London. Deputy Lieutenant and High Sherriff of Kent. J.P. MP for Gatton, Surrey then St Ives, Cornwall. Created Baronet 15 Dec 1800
Charles, Sir 28 APR 1760-7 NOV 1833 Court-martialled for corruption. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stirling
Edward Thomas 7 MAR 1761-
Anna Dorothea 23 AUG 1762-13 JUN 1830
Elizabeth 1764-
Ann 1767-
Richard Willing
Jane
Dorothy
Charles Willing
William Boyd
Anne Willing
Abby
Charles Willing
Evelyn Taylor
Maria Horsmanden
          John ABT 1780- of Powelton
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