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is said to have been of patrician origin, fled from France to England
long before the Revocation. After a brief sojourn there he
came to New York, where his name appears as early as 1657. In
1658 he was married to Susanna Cresson, with whom he had a
numerous family. The De la Plaine and Cresson families were
Quakers.
Besides James as above, four daughters of Nicholas came to
Philadelphia, viz : Elizabeth, the eldest daughter who had married
in 1686 Casper Hoodt, in New York; Judith married in 1691
Thomas Griffith ; Susanna married in 1685 Arnold Cassel, who had
lately arrived from Kresheim
in the Palatinate ; Crejanne married in 1697 Ives Belangee. The three latter daughters were married
in Philadelphia, and all of them by Friend's ceremony.
James De la Plaine, son of the emigrant, and who founded the
family name in Pennsylvania, was married to Hannah Cock, of Long
Island, New York, in 1692. He was a prominent Friend and influential
citizen and died in 1750, in Germantown. Their children
so far as known were James, born 1695, married Elizabeth Shoemaker,
and later Ann Jones ; Nicholas, born 1697, married to Sarah
Ong ; Hannah, married to John Simpson ; Mary, married to Edward
Ridgeway ; John, married to Sarah Johnson ; Sarah married to ?
Holland ; and Joshua, married to Maria ? The latter
settled in Colebrookdale, Berks county, where he died in 1788, leaving
sons Joshua,
John, Joseph and James. John, the son of Joshua De la Plaine was married to Sophia
Miller, and prior to the Revolution removed to Rocky Hill, in Frederick
county, Maryland. Joseph, ano
ther son, who was an officer in the Revolution, married Catharine Miller, daughter of the emigrant
John William Miller, of Oley, Berks county, and also removed to
Frederick county, Maryland, sometime after the Revolution. John
died in 1804 aged 63 years, and James died in 1818 aged about 74
years. Both left families,
and their decendents are very numerous and include many eminent names.
Reference has been made to the Cresson family, the ancestor
of which was Pierre Cresson, a prominent refugee of Picardy,
France, who in 1640 fled to Holland, where he is said to have been
gardner to the Pr
ince of Orange. After a seventeen year sojourn in Holland he emigrated to New York. The widow of his son
Jacques, with a number of children, came to Philadelphia at an early
day. Solomon Cresson, son of the widow, who in 1702 was married
to Anna Watson, founded the family name in Philadelphia. Conrad
Cresson, whose antecedents are not known, was a resident of
Colebrookdale, in Berks county, prior to 1728.

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