(From: Ancestry.com )
Wlliam was born in Ireland on 1724 to William West and Ann Osborn. William West married Mary Hodge and had 10 children. He passed away on 1782 in Whitemarsh, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA.
Mary was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA on 1737 to William Hodge, Jr. and Mary McCollough. She passed away on 1785.
[From: The Frazier Family of Philadelphia, and account of the West Family; published 1910]
William came to Pennsylvania, from Ireland, with his brother Francis and sister Mary about 1750. He established his business as a merchant in which he was eminently successful. During the early years of his mercantile life, he carried on an extensive trade with the Indian traders on the frontiers of Pennsylvania in which connection he made a trip west in 1752 going as far as the Ohio river, and making a record of the distance traveled. at this period a boundary dispute between Pennsylvania and Virginia was the subject of much concern in these colonies, and Mr. West's observations , on the trip mentioned, were of such importance that, in 1754, he was examined as a witness on the subject before the governor and Provincial Assembly of Pennsylvania. In 1756, he was elected a member of the Assembly form Cumberland Country, which incident is to be regarded as complimentary to his standing in the Province, as he was not a resident of that county, but merely a land owner there. He took rank among the leading men of the Assembly, and served on many of its most important committees. Among these were: the committees to present the address of the Assembly to the Right Honorable John Karl of London, Commander-in-chief of his Majesty's forces in North America, upon his arrival in Pennsylvania; to prepare the Instructions to Benjamin Franklin as the Agent of Pennsylvania in Great Britain, and to attend the Governor at the treaty with the Indians at Lancaster, in 1757.
He continued in business at Philadelphia until shortly after the outbreak of the Revolution, which event worked such disaster to the import trade that he was forced to discontinue business there, but early in 1779 he formed a co-partnership for a mercantile house in the Island of ustasia, in which his partners were: Benjamin Fuller, Jon Donnaldson and his nephew Major William West, This house was maintained until his death. Upon his retirement from business at Philadelphia, he purchased the Morris plantation, known as "Hope Farm," consisting of two hundred and eighty acres in Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery county, to which he removed. the plantation is in close proximity to St. Thomas's church, Whitemarsh, and in the deed of purchase, dated 8 Oct, 1776, is located as on the east side of the "great road leading from North Wales to Philadelphia." Here William resided until his death. His mansion house, one of the most stately in the province, no doubt sheltered General Washington during a portion of the time the Continental Army was in camp at Whitemarsh, and it was probably due to the "good entertainment" extended by his generous host, that Washington gave the protection evidenced by the order here with interleaved.
Throughout his mercantile career, William was closely affilated with the leading merchants of Philadelphia, and especially so, with the noted Irish merchants, Redmond Conyngham, Johnm Maxwell Nesbitt, Benjamin Fuller, John Mitchell, Stephen Moylan, and James, John and Matthew Mease, all of whom were prominent in the social, business and public affaires of that day. In 1752, William joined the Hivernaia Fire Companuy, the earliest known Irish association in Philadelphia, organized the previous year. In 1758 he became a Contributor to the Pennsylvania Hospital, and in 1765 he was one of the signers of the historic "Non-Importation Agreement." In 1768 he bacame a member of the American Philosophic Society, in 1768 he became a member of the American Philosophical Society, and in 1769 he was one of the committee of merchants at Philadelphia, who addressed a lettter to a committee of merchants at London, protesting against the course of the British government towards the American colonies, in which letter the Philadelphia merchants gave emphatic utterance to the principle embodied in the declaration that "taxation without representation is tyranny." In 1771 he was a founder of that ancient society, The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, now the Hivernaian Society, of which he was vice-president in 1773 and 1774, and president, from the latter year until June, 1776.
~~~~~~~~~~~~ [from: Some account of Capt. John Frazier and his descendants: with notes on the ..., By Josiah Granville Leach]
[from: Proceedings and Collections of the Wyoming Historical and ..., Volume 8, by Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, p. 276]
[From: Some account of Capt. John Frazier and his descendants: with notes on the ..., By Josiah Granville Leach, p. 75]
part of the will of Mary Hodge West--starts with Mrs. at the end of the first line:
[From: Pennsylvania Magazine - Journals, https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/viewFile/41763/41484
by PAW Wallace - 1962, April ]
[From: West Bible-- This Bible was transcribed from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. XXXII, 1908, pp. 118-119 ]
DATA FROM THE WEST FAMILY BIBLE, printed in Edinburgh in 1722, by James Watson, printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. Cum Privilegio. Now in the possession of Mrs. Cooper Smith, of Philadelphia.
William West the son of Willm West and Ann Osborn of Urlar, near Sligo in Ireland, born the first. June 1724.
Mary Hodge alias West, the Daughter of William Hodge of Philada. Born the 7th Day of Novbr. 1737, Polly was married to William West 18th Augt. 1757 and had issue: --
Mary West born the 13th. Novr. 1758
William West Jr. born the 1st. Febry. 1760. Died 5th Janry. 1763.
Frans. West Born the 14th. Septr. 1761 at 6 o'clock in the morning.
John West Born the 26th. Novembr. 1762 at 11 o'clock in the morning.
a son -- -- -- Born the 24th. August 1765. died 10th. Octr. 1765.
William Hodge West Born 24th Decr. 1766 at 5 in the afternoon.
James West Born the 22nd. Novr. 1768 at 4 in the morning.
Ann West Born the 19th Novr. 1769 at 4 in the morning.
Andw. West Born the 14th Febry. 1771. Died Aug. 1772.
Benjn. Fuller West Born the 29th. Augt. 1772 at 9 o'clock in the morning.
Harry West Born the 1st. Aug. 1774 at 10 at Night. Died Febry. 7th. 1775 6 in the evening.
Helen West Born Fryday the 4th. April 1777 at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
Francis West the son of William West of Philadelphia
Mary Nixon alias West, the Daughter of John Nixon of Philadelphia was married to Francis West January the 10 1793 & had issue:
* Mary West born the 4th of Nov. 1793 at 9 in the morng.
Elizabeth West born September the 28th. 1795 at 11 A.M.
William West born March the 16 1797 at 8 P.M.
John West born October the 24 1798.
Ann West born July the 12th. 1800.
James West born May 16th. 1802.
Helen West born March 25 1804. 6 P.M.
Caroline West born November 24th. 1805. died
Francis West born March 5th. 1810. 1/2 past 3 A.M.
Caroline West January 5 1812
* Mary West died February 13th. (Tuesday) 1838.
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