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Excerpt from An Eulogium on the Life and Character of Horace Binney
He was born in Philadelphia on the 4th day of Janu ary, A. D., 1780, in a house belonging to Thomas. Williams, in what was then known as the Northern. Liberties, and in the neighborhood of Front and Coates. Streets. He was of Scotch and English descent. The earliest paternal ancestor of whom he had knowledge was John Binney, who, in 1680, resided with his wife Mercy, in the town of Hull, Boston Bay, in England, and from whom he was the fifth by descent in right line. The family came to this country about that time and settled in Hull, Massachusetts. The grandfather of Horace was Barnabas Binney, a shipmaster and merchant of Boston, and his father (born in named also Barnabas Binney, was a surgeon in the revolutionary army, attached to the Massachusetts line, whence he was transferred to the Pennsylvania line. After his transfer he settled permanently in.
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