Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Charles WILLING
Charles Willing, second son of Charles and Anne (Shippen) Willing, born in Philadelphia, May 30, 1738, was a merchant in Philadelphia in the days of that city's mercantile preeminence, but the greater part of his business career was spent in Barbadoes, where he resided for many years. He married at Barbadoes, May 24, 1760, Elizabeth Hannah Carrington, born in Barbadoes, March 12, 1739, died there October 12, 1795, daughter of Paul and Elizabeth (Gibbs) Carrington. He later returned to Philadelphia, and spent most of his remaining days in that city and at his country seat "Coventry" farm, in Chester, now Delaware county, dying at the latter place, March 22, 1788, in his fiftieth year. An excellent portrait of him painted by Benjamin West, is in possession of Charles Willing Littel, of Baltimore. Elizabeth Hannah (Carrington) Willing, returned to Barbadoes after the death of her husband and died there October 12, 1795.
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