If there was a doubt in the mind of any one as to, the righteous claim of Dr. Long in 1854 being the discoverer of sulphuric ether as an anesthetic, there is no doubt of it at this time, and at this date in 1904.

His claim has been discussed in the Senate of the United States. Dr. J. Marion Sims, of New York, investigated the claim of Dr. Long and published the same in a New York surgical journal.

The Legislature of the State of Georgia has selected Dr. Crawford W. Long as one of the two greatest men in her history, whose statue shall illustrate Georgia in the halls of the capitol at Washington, because of his untold beneficence to the suffering, in his discovery of anesthesia.

Dr. Long was a physician of eminent ability. He attended medical colleges in Augusta, Ga., and in Philadelphia. He practiced medicine for a number of years in Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga., and removed thence to Atlanta, Ga., in 1851. During that year he removed to Athens, Ga., having joined his younger brother, Dr. H. R. J. Long, in the purchase of the drug business of Dr. E. R. Ware. In connection with his brother, he continued the practice of medicine to the date of his death, June 16, 1878. At the bedside of a patient whom he had tended the entire previous night, a stroke of paralysis ended his useful life, and chilled forever his warm and sympathetic heart. Tears suffused the eyes of many to whom in life he had furnished relief; and to-day, around the entire civilized world, wherever suffering runs riot, and wherever pain is one's heritage, pæans of thanksgiving and of gratitude ascend for the life, and the wisdom, and the discovery of complete anesthesia in the inhalation of sulphuric ether, as made by Dr. Crawford W. Long on March 30, 1842.

THE QUAKER JANNEYS OF CHESHIRE AND

THEIR PROGENITORS.

BY MILES WHITE, JR., Baltimore, Md.

(Concluded in this number.)

III. An account of Randle and Ellen [Alrodd] Janney and their youngest son, Richard, has been given hereinbefore. Thomas, their eldest son, was born at Styall, where he continued to live, and where all his children were born. He was bapt. June 27, 1605, and in the church register is recorded as "Thomas Jannie sonne of Randle Jannyne of Styall." He married, Sept. 3rd, 1625, Elizabeth Worthington, when his name is spelled Janney, but it is generally spelled Janey when his children's baptisms are recorded. He and his wife joined Friends a short time after the Society came into existence; he is mentioned several times in their early annals, and their meetings were sometimes held at his house; he suffered distress of goods, was imprisoned and otherwise persecuted on account of his faith, as told in Besse's Sufferings. He and others purchased and presented to the Meeting the burial ground at Mobberley, and in his will left a legacy to the Poor of his town, and appears to have been possessed of some ready money, as he mentions in his will £33, due by members of his family. Whether or not he was the Thomas Janney who was Mayor of Stockport in 1639 I do not know, but probably not, as in 1637 he was living in Styall, and later was described as being of Pownall Fee. Still, as Stockport was only a few miles away, he may have lived there a part of his life; and the only Thomas Janney mentioned in the Parish Register of St. Mary's, Stockport, between 1584 and 1627, who did not die in in

fancy is the one who was bapt. in 1620, and who would probably have been too young to have been Mayor in 1639.

Thomas Janney died 12 mo. 17, 1677, and his widow, Elizabeth, 12 mo. 19, 1681-2, and both were buried in Friends' burial-ground at Mobberley. His will, of which a full abstract follows, is still preserved at Chester, in it his name is spelled Thomas Janney, the seal is in wax and has the letters T. I. impressed therein. There is an inventory amounting to £53, 19s., 10d. taken Sept. 6, 1678, by Robert Smith, Thomas Pott and John Corbishley, appraisers, and the will was proven at Chester Sept. 10, 1678, before Henry Pigot, Surrogate, by Richard Janney.

Will of Thomas Janney, the Elder, of Pownall fee, in the county of Chester, Yeoman, bearing date the 10th day of the 2nd month called April 1677.

I leave £4, in consideration of a Heriot.

I leave to my dear Wife Elizabeth Janney all my Goods &c which are at my Daughter Mary Piersons, also one Bedstead that stands in the Parlour at my own House.

I give & bequeath unto my son Thomas Janney the Table in the House and formes belonging to it, the Salt Coffer, the Seate that standeth at the side of the House, the Boards & shelves in the House & Buttery, one Bedstead that stands in the chamber at the Chimney side, two stone grindstones & the best chair in the House. Item. I give and bequeath to my son Henry Janney £6 of ready money, part of a Bond due to me from Hugh Burgess, my Son in Law.

Item. I give to my daur Mary Pierson & her Son either of them 40s the remr of the bond before mentd owing by Hugh Burgess. Item. I give & bequeath to my grandchild Jacob Janney 40s being part of the £20 my Son Thomas Janney oweth me by Bill.

Item. I give & bequeath unto my grandchildren Thos Janney, Abel Janney & Joel Janney £4 apiece part of the Money my son Thomas oweth me.

Item. I give & bequeath unto my Daughter Mary Pierson £3 pt of the money my son.Thomas oweth me.

Item. It is my will & mind that 40s be paid for my Wife's heriot if she survives me, parte of the said Money my son Thos oweth me. Item. It is my wiil & mind that within 3 months after my decease be given unto the Poor of Pownall Fee 20s to be disposed of & divided amongst the said Poore by Thomas Pott, Robert Smith & Hugh Burgess, of Pownall, to see thereto, being the rem of the said sum of £20 my son Thos oweth me.

Item. I give & bequeath unto my Son in Law & Daur Hugh & Martha Burgess either of them 208 out of the Sum of £5 John Worthington oweth me by Bond.

Item. I give unto my Daur Martha Burgess the Lesser Silver Spoone.

Item. I give & bequeath unto my Brother Richard Janney 208, being part of the Money John Worthington oweth me.

Item. I give & bequeath unto my Brother Randle Janney 58 pt of the Money John Worthington oweth me.

Item. I give & bequeath unto Mary Boardman my kinswoman 5s part of the Money John Worthington oweth me.

Item. I give unto my Bro. Richard's 3 grand children being children of Thos. Janney decd the sum of 58 each to be divided amongst them "forth" of the Money John Worthington oweth me.

Item. I give unto Wm Janney of Handforth 58 part of the Money John Worthington oweth me.

Item. I give unto Wm Janneys children 58 to be divided amongst them pt of the Money John Worthington oweth me.

Item. I give to Mary Bancroft of Wilmslow 58.

With respect to the residue of the sd £5 John Worthington oweth me, I leave to my Wifes free disposal.

It. I give to my Friend Thomas Pott 2 dozen of Silver Buttons. Item. I give 208 to be disposed of at the sight of my son Thos Janney & Edward Alcock, purchase of the Land leading to our burial place.

Item. I leave unto Thomas Shiddell [?] 1 Silver Spoone & Ladle that was his Fathers.

Item. It is my will & mind that after my Exrs. disbursements about the management of this my Will be paide, the remainder of my Goods not heretofore bequeathed I give to my dear Son Henry Janney & my Daur Mary Pearson to be equally divided between them Lastly. I do nominate & appt my Brother Richard Janney of Ardwick in the coy of Lancaster & my beloved Son Henry Janney of Stockport in the coy of Chester Exrs of this my last Will. Witnesses THOMAS JANNEY [T. I.]

Row ALCOCK
ROBERT ALCOCK

Mr. Thomas Cooper, of Congleton, who sent me the above, states that parts of the will are very difficult to read; perhaps this accounts for the name of the youngest son of Thomas and Margery Janney being given as Joel instead of Joseph, though it may possibly be Joel in the original.

Thomas and Elizabeth (Worthington) Janney had the following named six children:

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I. Marye, bapt. Mch. 19, 1625-6, d. 7 mo. 3, 1698, m. 12 mo. 3, 1663-4, Robert Peirson of Pownall Fee, who d. 5 mo. 23, 1674. They

The dates of these children's baptisms are taken from Registers of Wilmslow Parish; those of their or their children's births, marriages, deaths or burials from Friends' Records.

had one son Enoch, b. 11 mo. 30, 1665, d. 1 mo. 2, 1680-1. Mary's husband was, probably, the Robert Pearson, who in 1673, had goods taken from him for Tithes, as related by Besse: his was doubtless the "Estate of Robert Pearson of Pownall Fee," which was administered upon in 1675, the Inventory of which is now preserved at Chester. The Thomas and Robert Pearson who came to Penna. in 1683 and 1682 respectively were probably related to him.

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2. Margaret, bapt. Mch. 16, 1627, d. 11 mo. 11, 1673, bur at Mobberley.

3. Martha, bapt. June 6, 1630, d. 2 mo. 4, 1702, m. 12 mo. 12, 1672, Hugh Burgess of Pownall Fee, who d. 3 mo. 23, 1713, aged 74 years. They were both buried at Mobberley; Martha was a minister; I do not know how many children they had. It was at her house that her brother Thomas died in 1696, while on a visit to England. There are many entries in the Stockport Registers, concerning the Burgess family and some in those of the Parish of Bidston, and the Friends' Records doubtless speak of them also. The persecutions of various members of the Burgess family are recorded in Besse's Sufferings of the Quakers; and in his Brief Account of Many Prosecutions of Quakers in Exchequer and Ecclesiastical and other Courts, published

30 Thomas Peirson of Pownal fee, Mason, married at Thomas Janney's house, 2 mo. 18, 1683, Margery Smith, dau of Robert and Ellen Smith of Pownall fee, and came to America, that year, in the same ship with Thomas Janney, the "Endeavor" of London, (Pa. Mag. Hist. and Biog. vol. viii. p. 330). They had 8 children born in Penna., two of whom, Robert and Enoch, had the same names as Mary Janney Peirson's husband and son. Their dau. Sarah, b. 2 mo. 8, 1697, married John West and was mother of the noted artist, Benjamin West. As John West was not then in membership with Friends, the marriage was not accomplished according to the good order of the Society. Galt in his biography of Benjamin West states that he was a Friend and gives an account of the [supposed] action of the Friends' Meeting in regard to permitting him to study painting. Both Smith and Cope, after careful investigation, find these statements to be without foundation, and that though, perhaps, John West as a young man, probably, had been a Friend, yet when he came to America he was not one, and did not join the Society until 1759, (Hist. Delaware Co., Pa., p. 512; Hist. Chester Co., Pa., p. 761; see also The American Friend, vol. vi, p. 1218). Dr. Smith erroneously states (p. 491) that Thomas and Margery came with William Penn on his first voyage to America, and attributes to him some of the actions of the Pearson from Chester, who came in the “Welcome" with Penn in 1682, and whose Christian name is supposed to have been Robert (Hist. Chester Co., Pa., p. 21), and at whose suggestion the name of "Upland" was changed to "Chester"; and who is said to have been appointed by Penn as a member of his council in 1682, (Janney's Life of Penn, 1852, pp. 196, 203), and to have walked on his left side when he went to meet the Indians at Shackamaxon to make the Great Treaty, (Clarkson's Life of Penn, 1827, vol. i, p. 130). If as has been stated (Janney's Life of Penn, p. 202), Benjamin West introduced a portrait of his grandfather into his celebrated painting of the treaty scene, he also was historically inaccurate, as his grandfather was not in America in 1682.