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1 For his ancestry, in the line of his paternal grandmother, Maria Bronson (Murray) Livingston, see the pedigree opposite. His progenitors, on the Livingston side, are enumerated in the pedigree facing p. 913. To the names and facts there given, we now add the following, which have reached us since the former pedigree was printed.
MAGDALEN KOLLOCK was horn about 1724; married (1) at Philadelphia, 10 Oct. 1745, Jasper McCall, eldest son of George McCall, the first of the name in Phil.; married (2) by Rev. Richard Peters, then Secretary of the Province of Pennsylvania, and afterwards rector of Christ Church, Phil., 27 May 1747, to JOHN SWIFT, collector of the Port of Phil., 1762 to 1771; and died at "Croyden Lodge," Bucks Co., Pa., 27 March 1790, aged 67 years. Her daughter, ALICE SWIFT, was born at Philadelphia, 20 Feb. 1750-1; was baptized in Christ Church, 20 Ap. 1752; and married ROBERT CAMBRIDGE LIVINGSTON in the Winter of 1779-80. Magdalen Kollock was the younger daughter (by his first wife) of
JACOB KOLLOCK, a man of good education and a very successful merchant. He was born about 1693; was commissioned, in 1727, a Justice of the Peace, and Register of Wills for Sussex County; was soon after chosen Representative from Lewes in the Assembly of the Three Lower Counties; and was annually re-elected to that office until his death, a period of forty years, during five of which (1760-5) he occupied the Speaker's chair. In addition to his seat in the Assembly, he held for nearly the same length of time the offices of President, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Treasurer of the County, a Trustee of the Loan Office, and Clerk of the Orphans' Court. He was also Colonel of the Sussex regiment of militia. During the last forty years of his life, there was not in the three lower counties a more prominent or more influential man. He died at Lewes, 7 Feb. 1772, in his 80th year. His first wife was ALICE PHILLIPS, of a Boston family. He married (2) at Philadelphia, 4 Nov. 1730, Margaret Ellis, dau. of Robert Ellis, an intimate friend and correspondent of Genl. Oglethorpe, who seems also to have acted as Oglethorpe's agent in Philadelphia in connection with the colonization of Georgia. She survived her husband many years, and died at Lewes. Her will was proven 8 Feb. 1790. Jacob Kollock was the second son of
JACOB KOLLOCK, who first appears in Sussex County (now in the State of Delaware) at the March term of the County Court (1689) as an applicant for a grant of land. In 1693 he was a Grand Juror. From 1698 to 1720 his name frequently occurs as a purchaser of land in Sussex County, and occasionally during the same period in Philadelphia also. He appears as a grantor of property in the neighborhood of Lewes in deeds dated 1692-5-6, 1704-15-19-20, and is generally styled "of Lewes, Cooper," but sometimes "Merchant." His will, dated 30 Dec. 1720, and proved at Georgetown, 14 March 1720-1, mentions his wife MARY and seven children. See The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, VIII, 184-5.
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