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Anonymous
Register of the California Society of the Sons of the American Revolution : instituted at San Francisco, California, October 22d, 1875 as Sons of Revolutionary Sires.
San Francisco, Calif.: Pacific Press Pub. Co., 1901, 326 pgs.
Page 84
380 WILLIAM PENN HUMHREYS, JR. 13505
San Francisco
Attorney-at-law. Born in the City and County of San Francisco, Cal., September 11, 1871
Son of William Penn Humprheys, Sr., and Mrs (Stincen)
Grandson of Samuel Humphreys and Letitia (Atkinson)
Great-grandson of JOSHUA HUMPHREYS and Mary (Davids).
JOSHUA HUMPHREYS was born in Haverford, Pa., June 18. 1751, and died at Ponte, Reading, Pa., January 12, 1838. In 1777 he was Captain of the 8th Company of the 6th Battalion of hte Philadelphia Militia; he was also the naval architect for the Frigate "Randolph," the first of thirteen frigates ordered by Congress in 1775. During 1778 and 1779 he was Captain of Joshua Humphrey's Company, Col. William Bradford's Regiment, of the Philadelphia Militia. (Penn. Archives, 2d Ed., Vol. 13, pp. 688, 602. New Eng. Genealogical Mg., Vol. 24, p. 304.)
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