Storeys of Old.

Fleet Street, on the 23rd October, 1714 (see again Story's Journal, pp. 535, 547, 548 and 651). Hewlett Justice Town to his widow, from whom his brother purchased it, circa 1723. Dean Story married Catherine, daughter and heiress of Edward Warter, of Bilbao, in the province of Biscay, and in the Kingdom of Spain.

The following notes were kindly forwarded to the compiler by the late Alderman Thompson Wigham, of Carlisle; Mr. William M. Mervine, Fellow of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania and Member of the Historical Societies of New Jersey and Maryland, &c., &c.; Mr. Norman Penney, Librarian of the Society of Friends, Bishopsgate Without, London, E.C.; and Mr. Robert Wrigley, of Brampton, near Carlisle:-

"21 Howard Place,"
Carlisle, 19th February, 1908.

THOMAS STORY'S PORTRAIT.

Mr. Norman Penney writes, quoting from a letter he had had from Vaux, Philadelphia, dated 4th instant, as under:- "I have made every enquiry, in all directions that I can think of, as to a portrait of Thomas Story, and I have failed to find any trace of such, and I think that none exists in this country."

Copy of part of a letter to N. Penney, London, from a correspondent in Philadelphia, U.S.A., dated 2nd January, 1908:- "Thy letter of 20th of the 1st month was received yesterday, and I am about writing several places which are the only ones where I think it likely, or rather, I should say, possibly, a portrait of Thomas Story might be found. I have little hopes of success, as Thomas lived long prior to the invention of the silhouette, though it might be that a drawing of him exists."

In "Memoirs of Dr. Richard Gilpin," of Scaleby Castle, edited by the late Wm. Jackson of St. Bees, there is a note (lengthy) re Thomas Story, the quaker, of Justice Town.

In "Story's Journal," p. 457, is this note:- 1709-1714. "The reader will observe a chasm in the Journal of near five years, of which time the editors have found no accounts amongst the author's papers, except by a letter to his wife, writ from Antigua, wherein he mentions his design of getting a passage to Barbadoes, and hence to return home, which, probably, would not take up many months." In this period also the editors suppose (from certain circumstances) that the author buried his wife and was mostly engaged in public business till 1714, when he found a concern to visit Barbadoes again, and where the Journal commences anew.

The late Chancellor Ferguson, dealing with "Early Cumberland and Westmorland Friends," p. 129, states in his article on Thomas Story that- "He married, in 1706, Ann Shippen, the daughter of Edward Shippen, a member of the Society of Friends, who left England in 1675, and made a large fortune as a merchant in Philadelphia. He was Speaker of the House of Assembly, and also the first Mayor of that town, an honour to which Story was afterwards elected, but which he declined. She died in 1711 or 1712."

In Armistead's "Memoirs of James Logan," who was with William Penn in Pennsylvania, it is mentioned, p. 39, that Edward Shippen was father-in-law of Thomas