Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 11 March 2005

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SEPTIMUS L. CARTWRIGHT, farmer; P. O. Waynesville; born in the District of Columbia Jan. 9, 1808; is a son of Seth and Mary (Levering) Cartwright, he a native of Nantucket Island and she of Philadelphia, the ancestors of the Cartwright family being from England. The maternal ancestors we are able to trace to their progenitor, Rosier Levering, who, it is said, was a native of France, born about the year 1600, and who, during the early persecutions for religion, fled from France and took refuge in Germany, and there married Elizabeth Van de Walle, of Wesel, in Westphalia. They had two children—Wickard and Gerhard; the former was born about 1648, in Gamen, Westphalia, Germany; in 1671, married Magdalena Boker, and, in the summer of 1685, emigrated to America with his family and first settled at Germantown, Penn; in 1692, removed to Roxboro, and bought a plantation of 500 acres of land; his wife died in 1717, aged 68 years; he died in February, 1744 or 1745, aged 97 years; they had twelve children; seven grew to maturity and married and settled in life, of whom Jacob Levering, the great-grandfather of our subject, was born at Roxboro, Penn., Jan. 21, 1693; married Alice Tunes, when about 24 years of age; in 1717, his father granted him 85 acres of land on the Schuylkill River; here he had a distillery and a sawmill, and, it appears, was a very active and prominent business man and accumulated a large amount of property. The inventory of his personal estate, in 1753, was nearly $3,000, which, in that early day, was a very large amount, and owned a great quantity of real estate; he died in October, 1753, aged 61 years. Mrs. Levering died between 1750 and 1753. They had eight children, who married and had families, of whom Septimus, the youngest and the seventh son, was the grandfather of our subject, and was born at Roxboro about 1731; he inherited the old homestead on Green Lane. Roxboro; removed to Philadelphia some time prior to 1761, and carried on a brewery; was married to Mary Thomas; both were members of the Great Valley Baptist Church, Chester County, and were dismissed to the Philadelphia Church Sept 7, 1761; on Feb. 6, 1775 received from the church, by request, a letter of recommendation, and removed to Loudoun Co., Va., where he carried on a distillery; but it seems, after a time, returned to Pennsylvania, where, prior to 1794, he died; his wife died June 16,1794, aged 64 years. They had five children, three sons and two daughters, of whom Mary, the mother of our subject, was born in Philadelphia in 1771, and married Seth Cartwright as mentioned above. Mr. Cartwright was for many years a Captain on the seas, but later in life engaged in mercantile trade in Alexandria, where he lived till his death, aged 52 years. In the fall of 1839,