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dred and ninety acres, which he sold to his son Jonathan, who also received the original tract by will dated June 12, 1691. The father undoubtedly died soon after execut- ing this will. The records of Philadelphia dc not mention his wife, and it is supposed that she was dead before he came to Amer- ica.

His son, Jonathan Livezey, was undoubt- edly born in Chester county, England, and came with his father to Philadelphia, where he died September 23. 1698. He married Rachel Taylor, and record of six children is found.

The second son, Jonathan Livezey, was born June 15, 1692, in Philadelphia, where he was residing at the time of his death, June 24, 1764. He married, March 24, 1717- 18, Esther, daughter of Robert Eastburn. She survived him more than twenty-four years, dying July 18. 1788, more than nine- ty-iouT years of age.

Their eldest child, Jonathan Livezey, was born March 8, 1720, in Philadelphia, and resided in Lower Dublin township, Phila- delphia county. He married, January 22, 1747, Catherine Thomas, born March 18, 1722, daughter of IJaniel and Catherine (Morris) Thomas. They were the parents of nine children, of whom Daniel Livezey was the third.

Daniel Livezey was born December 14, 1752, in Lower Dublin, and removed, about 1781, to Southampton, Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, where he died in 1796. In 1778 he married Margery, daughter of Robert and Margery Croasdale, born July 3, 1758, and lived to a great age.

Their eldest child, Robert Livezey, born February 20, 1780, at Fox Chase, Philadel- phia county, Pennsylvania, lived in Sole- bury, Bucks county, where he died March 14. 1864. He married, November 14, 1804, Sarah, daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth (Brown) Paxson, born July i, 1779.

Their third son. Allen Livezey, was born January 11, 1814, in Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, and about 1855 removed to Philadel- phia, where he was an active member of the Society of Friends. He married, November 28, 1839, Mary Ann. daughter of John and Sarah Gordon. She died July 11. 1876.

Their eldest child. Theodore Livezey, was born August 20, 1840, in Lumberville, Bucks county. Pennsylvania, and lived many vears in Newport News, \'irginia, where he died

April II, 1912. He was among the promi- nent citizens of Newport News, one of the trusted agents of the late Collis P. Hunt- ington, and active in various business af- fairs of the city. Mr. Livezey was educated in the public schools, and when a youth re- moved with his parents to Philadelphia. Early in the Civil war, in spite of his tenets as a member of the Society of Friends, he responded to the call of his country for vol- unteers, and became a member of the One Hundred and Nineteenth Pennsylvania Vol- unteer Regiment, with which he served un- til the close of the war. receiving a severe wound at the battle of Spottsylvania Court House. After peace came he engaged in business at Philadelphia as a buildmg con- tiactor, and his business ability and well- known integrity became known to Collis P. Huntington, who was interested in great enterprises on \'irginia tide water. He be- came superintendent of construction of the Old Dominion Land Company, and in this capacity arrived at Newport News, August I, 1 88 1. Four years later he was made su- perintendent of the company, in charge of its local properties and operations. In 1894 he resigned his position to engage in pri- vate business, and was later offered and accepted the position of superintendent of buildings and grounds of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. While superintendent of the land company he had been active in establishing the Ches- apeake Dry Dock & Construction Company, now the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, and the same was true of the initial work of organization and con- struction of the Newport Light & Water Company. Nearly all the early buildings in the shipyard and many of the first buildings in the city were erected under Mr. Livezey's superintendence. He was also president of the first bank of Newport News, which was then the Bank of Newport, now the First National Bank, of which he was president. One of the most progressive citizens of the new city, he was identified with all its prin- cipal developments, and was widely esteem- ed as a man of efficiency and high character. He married. November 15, 1865, Elizabeth ^L Baker, of Philadelphia, daughter of John George and Elizabeth Baker, of that city. Children: Henry Clay, born October 4, 1867, died in New Orleans, Louisiana, December 18. 1904: \\'alter Baker Livezey, mentioned