Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Hannah LOGAN
Hannah Logan, second daughter of James Logan, the distinguished Provincial Secretary, born February 21, 1719-20, and named in honor of Hannah Penn, the second wife of her father's honored patron, married, December 7, 1748, John Smith, then a wealthy and prominent young merchant of Philadelphia, and a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly. Their courtship as gleaned from the diary of John Smith, is the subject of a delightful book, entitled "Hannah Logan's Courtship", recently published, which gives us the best picture of Colonial life in Philadelphia to be found in our later day literature. The introduction to the diary opens with an account of the visit to "Stenton", June 1, 1744, of the Indian Commissioners from Virginia, on their way to meet the Iroquois chieftans at Lancaster to negotiate a treaty, and quotes from the Journal of William Black, the Secretary of the Commission, published in the Pennsylvania Magazine; and the merry young Secretary thus describes his impressions of Hannah Logan, "At last the Tea Table was set and one of his daughters presented herself in Order to fill out the Fashionable Warm Water; I was really very much surprised at the appearance of so Charming a Woman, in a place where the seeming moroseness and Goutified Father's Appearance Promised no such Beauty, tho' it must be allowed the Man seem'd to have some Remains of a handsome enough person, and a Complection beyond his years.
"But to return to the Lady, I declare I burnt my Lips more than once, being quite thoughtless of the warmness of my Tea, entirely lost in Contemplating her Beauties. She was tall and slender, but Exactly well shap'd, her Features Perfect and Complection, tho' a little the whitest, yet her countenance had something in it extremely Sweet. Her eyes press'd a very great softness, denoting a compos'd Temper and Serenity of Mind. Her Manner was Grave and Resev'd and to be short, she had a Sort of Majesty in her Person and Agreeableness in her Behavior, which at once Surprised and Charmed the Beholders."
On her removal to Burlington, New Jersey, with her husband in the year 1756, Hannah (Logan) Smith, entered the ministry of the Society of Friends and conformed to the "meek and lowly" habits she conceived to be consistent with her professions, refusing to ride as formerly in her "four wheeled Chaise, with Driver & horses," and travelled to and from the meetings where she ministered on horseback. She died at Burlington, January 15, 1762, at the age of forty-two years. Her husband writes of her: "In the relation of Child, Wife and Mother, she was tenderly and anxiously careful to fill her place."
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