MATLACK, William, then a boy, arrived in New Jersey, in the ship "Kent," in 1677, and in 1682 married Mary Hancock, and had several children, of whom a son, Joseph, married, in 1722, Rebecca, daughter of John and Esther Haines, of Rancocas.  In 1729, Joseph and his wife brought a certificate from Friends of Haddonfield, and settled on land devised to her by her father, on the east side of the present borough of West Chester.  they had several children, as follows:

• Jemima, b. 4,20,1723, m. James Pennell, 8,15,1741

• Isaiah, b. 2,25,1725

• Nathan, b. 3,16,1727, m. Mary Mercer

• Ruth, b. 12,23,1729, m. Thomas Sheward, 9,10,1748

• Esther, b. 6,23,1733, m. George Brinton

• Jesse, b. 10,2,1735, died young

• Jonathan, b. 3,16,1737, m. Hannah Waln

• Joseph, b. 7,25,1740, died young

• Amos, b. 9,22,1744, m. Hannah Trego

• Caleb, b. 2,14,1750, died young