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Thomas Jackson, received 4 Mo. 6, 1713, from Mountmelmellick Monthly Meeting, Queen's County, Ireland. Thomas Jackson, son of Nicholas Jackson, of Kilbank, in Seathwaite, Lancashire, England, was born at that place. He removed thence to Ireland, and married Ann, daughter of Francis and Judith Man, born at Mountmellick, Queen's County. He leased some land at Dreighet, Parish of Arkhill, Barony of Carberry, County Kildare, about 1709, which he sold to William Knott. They came to Pennsylvania in 1713, sailing from Dublin on the 25th of 1 Mo., and settled in New Garden Township, Chester County, where by deed of Jan. 1, 1713, he purchased 200 acres of land. About 1711 he removed to Marlborough, Chester County, where he died in 1756. Children of Thomas and Ann Jackson: John, b. 9 Mo. 14, 1703, at Ballinolarbin, King's County (children—George, Sarah and David); Judith, b. 12 Mo. 27, 1705, m. Daniel Every; Mary, b. 12 Mo. 8, 1708, at Timahoe, County Kildare, m. Jacob Wright, of East Marlborough (son of Jacob), 2 Mo. 8, 1741, at London Grove Meeting (no issue); Thomas, b. 6 Mo. 10, 1710, at Drechet, King's County, m. Lydia, daughter of John Smith, of Marlborough, 3 Mo. 17, 1738 (children—Ann, Caleb, Mary, and Joshua); Ann, b. 7 Mo. 5, 1714, at New Garden, d. 7 Mo. 28, 1757; Jonathan, b. 12 Mo. 16, 1717, at New Garden, m. Mary Hayes, 10 Mo. 3, 1743 (children—Mary, Thomas, Sarah, Ann, Elizabeth and Ruth); Elizabeth, b. 10 Mo. 8, 1720, m. Henry Chalfant, son of John, of West Marlborough, 8 Mo. 15, 740, at London Grove (children—Jonathan, Thomas, Henry, Ann, Elizabeth, Jacob, Mary, Abner, and Caleb). For further account see Jackson Genealogy, 285-88. James Lindley, and wife Eleanor, from Carlow Meeting, Ireland, received 8 Mo. 3, 1713. Eleanor Lindley was a sister of Thomas Parke. James Lindley purchased 200 acres of land in New Garden, in 1713, and 400 in London Grove, in 1722, in the deed for which he is styled blacksmith. Thomas Lindley, a brother, perhaps, was a blacksmith in Philadelphia, but owned land in Cain Township, Chester County. The children of James and Eleanor Lindley were Thomas, b. 2 Mo. 25, 1706; Rachel, b. 5 Mo. 11, 1707; James, b. 4 Mo. 30, 1709; Margery; Robert, b. 4 Mo. 32, 1713; William, b. 12 Mo. 20, 1714, d. 10 Mo. 26, 1726; Alice, b. 2 Mo. 25, 1716; Mary, b. 9 Mo. 4, 1717; Jonathan, b. 3 Mo. 11, 1719, m. Deborah Halliday, 2 Mo. 15, 1741; Elizabeth, b. 8 Mo. 4, 1720; Hannah, b. 1 Mo. 11, 1723; Eleanor, b. 1 Mo. 11, 1727-28. James Lindley died 10 Mo. 13, 1726, and his widow married Henry Jones. Thomas, the eldest son, married Ruth Hadley, and went to Orange County, North Carolina. The children of Jonathan and Deborah Lindley were Jacob (who became an eminent minister of the Society of Friends), b. 9 Mo. 18, 1744, m. 11 Mo. 14, 1782, to Hannah, widow of William Miller; James, b. 10 Mo. 18, 1746; Jonathan, b. 9 Mo. 18, 1750; Deborah, b. b. 12 Mo. 26, 1753; Ruth, m. 11 Mo. 6, 1800, to David Wilson.—History of Chester County, 637. John Cane, and wife Ann, from Ballyhagen Meeting, County Armagh, Ireland, received 10 Mo. 5, 1713. They settled in London Grove, Chester County, where he died shortly after. His widow is supposed to have married Todd. Children of John and Ann Cane; John, m. 9 Mo. 7, 1722, Rachel, d. of Randal and Mary Malin; Ann, m. in 1722, James Miller; Margaret (?), m. in 1720, John Todd; Robert (?), m. in 1730, Ann Dixon.—History of Chester County, 492. William Halliday, and wife Deborah (from Dublin, received 12 Mo. 7, 1713) from Moate Meeting, County West Meath, Ireland, received 12 Mo. 6, 17 13. One James Halliday and Hannah Leaze, both of Lurgan, were married at Lurgan Meeting, 8 Mo. 27, 1703 (Minutes of Ulster Province Meeting.) William and Deborah Halliday had six children: Robert, b. 7 Mo. 16, 1702, in Ireland; Rachel, b. 10 Mo. 25, 1704, m. Andrew Moore, of Sadsbury, 4 Mo. 24, 1725; Jacob b. 8 Mo. 18, 1706, d. 5 Mo. 24, 1721; Margaret, b. 11 .Mo. 13, 1709, m. Samuel Miller, son of Gayen, 4 Mo. 29, 1732; Sarah, b. 1 Mo. 14, 1713; Deborah, b. 2 Mo. 28, 1716, m. Jonathan, son of James Lindley, 2 Mo. 15, 1743, and had four children (Jacob, b. 9 Mo. 18, 1744, m. Hannah Miller, and was an eminent Quaker minister; James b. 10 Mo. 18, 1746; Jonathan, b. 9 Mo. 18, 1750; Deborah, b. 12 Mo. 26, 1753). Robert Halliday, son of William and Deborah, m. 1st Miriam Haines, daughter of Joseph, of Nottingham, 4 Mo. 3, 1730; m. 2d, in 1739 or 1740. Mabel Anderson, a Friend from Ireland. They had two children: (1) Jacob, m. 1st to Patience, daughter of Thomas and Hannah Painter, of Concord, 4 Mo. 13, 1768, and 2d to Ann ______. He died 3 Mo. 22, 1822; she died about 1836 or 1837. (2) Phebe m. 10 Mo. 24, 1765, Isaac Jackson, son of John and Sarah (Miller) Jackson.—Jackson Genealogy, 221-2. At a meeting of the Board of Property, 12 Mo. 2, 1726, "Alex' Mongumry requests (By his Brother-in-Law Wm. Halliday) the Grant of a piece of Land near Octoraro Creek, for a Settlement."—Penna. Archives, 2d Series, XIX., 745. John Allen, from Ireland, received, 2 Mo. 3, 1713.  John Allen, b. 8 Mo. 3, 1694; d. 9 Mo. 16, 1771; m. in 1719, Amy Cox, and settled in London Grove Township, Chester County. Children: (1) John, b. 2 Mo. 8, 1720; d. 10 Mo. 1, 1754; m. 9 Mo. 12, 1740, Phebe Scarlett, and lived in London Grove (2) Rebecca, b. 8 Mo. 8, 1722; m. (1st) Alexander Mode and (2d) William Chandler. (3) Emey (Amy), b. 6 Mo. 8, 1725; m. Philip Ward. (4) Elizabeth, b. 2 Mo. 29, 1728; m. Simon Dixson. (5) William, b. 8 Mo. 3, 1730; m. 5 Mo. 24, 1758, Sarah Greave. (6) Joseph, b. 5 Mo. 12, 1733; m. 11 Mo. 13, 1755, Deborah Hill. (7) Mary, b. 11 Mo. 1, 1738; m. Moses Fraizer. (8) Phebe, b. 2 Mo. 9, 1739; d. 10 Mo. 19, 1787. (9) Benjamin, b. 8 Mo. 4, 1742; m. 12 Mo. 20, 1764, Hannah Greenfield.—History of Chester County, 463. One William Allen and Martha Mackie, both of Ballyhagen Meeting, County Armagh, were married, 1 Mo. 6, 1700, at Ballyhagen Meeting.—Minutes of Lister Province Meeting. William Taylor, from Ballytore, County Kildare, Ireland, received 10 Mo. 4, 1714. Robert Johnson, and wife Margaret, from Carlow Meeting, Ireland, received 12 Mo. 5, 1714. Robert Johnson and wife Margaret, nee Berthwaite, settled on a tract of 200 acres of land in New Garden, where he died in 1732, leaving children: Benjamin, James, Joshua, Robert, Abigail, and Ann. Of these Joshua, b. 7 Mo. 29, 1696, at Coleboy, County Wicklow, m. Sarah, daughter of Gayen and Margaret Miller. (Children: James, Lydia, Margaret, William, Sarah, Joshua, Hannah, Robert, Dinah, Rebecca, and David.) Robert Johnson, Jr., m. Katharine, daughter of Simon and Ruth Hadly, and had children: Hannah, Simon, Caleb, Lydia, Stephen, Jonathan, and Isaac.—History of Chester County, 615. Martha Wainhous, from Dublin, dated 1 Mo. 17, 17 14; received 12 Mo. 4, 1715. Thomas Lightfoot, from Moate Meeting, County West Meath, Ireland, received 6 Mo. 4, 1716.  Thomas Lightfoot,1 a highly esteemed minister of the Society of Friends, was born about 1645, perhaps in Cambridgeshire, and may have been the son of another Thomas Lightfoot who suffered persecution for his Quaker belief at Cambridge, in 1653,2 and was a companion of George Whitehead in his religious journeys. In 1692, the younger Thomas was living in the neighborhood of Lisburn Meeting, County Antrim, Ireland; for on 8 Mo. 27 of that year he was appointed on a committee to buy the Friends graveyard at Lisburn from Robert Richardson. In 1694, he removed from the north of the Island to Moate Meeting in County West Meath.3 Thence in 17164 he came to New Garden, Pennsylvania. Early in 1724 he paid a religious visit to New England. He died at Darby, now Delaware County, 9 Mo. 4, 1725, "greatly beloved" says his intimate friend Thomas Chalkley,5 "for his Piety and Virtue, his sweet disposition and lively Ministry." The name of his first wife is thought to have been Mary, after whose death he married Sarah Wiley, a widow, about the time of his removal to West Meath. Toward the close of 1724 he was married to Margaret, widow of John Blunston, of Darby, to which place he removed. He had at least nine children:
1. Gilbert Cope, Genealogy of the Smedley Family, 194-6, History of Chester County, 637; A Collection of Memorials, 63-4 (Phila. 1787); Bowden, II., 260-1. 2. Besse, I., 85. 3. At Ulster Province Meeting, 5 Mo. 31, 1697, Thomas Lightfoot is mentioned as having the custody of £15 of meeting funds. 4. Proud, II., 188. 5.Journal, 163. 6. Cope, Genealogy of Smedley Family, 195; Proud, II., 232; Bowden, II., 387. Joseph Wiley, son-in-law of Thomas Lightfoot, Moate Meeting, County West Meath, received 6 Mo. 4, 1716. Simon Hadley, and wife Ruth from Moate Meeting, County West Meath, received 6 Mo. 4, 17 16.  John Starr, received 8 Mo. 5, 1717, from Old Castle Monthly Meeting, County Meath, Ireland. Thomas Jackson, received 10 Mo. 7, 1717, from Old Castle Monthly Meeting, County Meath, Ireland. Thomas Jackson, of Old Castle, County East Meath, linen-draper, by deed of Jan. 19, 1715, purchased from Ebenezer Pike, of Cork, merchant, land in Pennsylvania (Phila. Deeds, F. 7, p. 326). By first wife he had four children: Ruth, who married Joseph Martin, Isaac, Samuel, and Benjamin. He came to Pennsylvania about 1717, and was married a second time, 10 Mo. 25, 1718, at New Garden Meeting, to Mary Wiley, of New Garden, probably a step-daughter of Thomas Lightfoot. He died in East Marlborough, in 1727. At New Garden Monthly Meeting, 7 Mo. 28, 1728, "Mary Jackson acquainted this Meeting that she intended to go to Ireland to Visit her Relations and Requested to have a Certificate." Her certificate was signed 8 Mo. 26, 1728. Mary, widow of Thomas Jackson, of East Marlborough, made her will 8 Mo. 28, 1729, and it was probated Dec. 20, 1729. She states that she is now "at Sea aboard the Sizargh, of Whitehaven, Jeremiah Cowman, Master, Bound for Philadelphia, I now being Indisposed in Body." She mentions her sons-in-law, Samuel, Isaac, and Benjamin Jackson; her brother, John Wiley, in Pennsylvania (to whom she leaves £40; and her daughter-in-law, Ruth Martin, in County Cavan, Ireland (to whom she bequeaths £20). Witnesses to the will were: James Miller, Lambert Emerson and Robert White. In the accounts of her estate is a record of "Cash Pd Nathan Cowman," £3.4.4. Joseph Martin, and wife Ruth, received 10 Mo. 7, 1717, from Old Castle, County Meath, Ireland. At New Garden Montly Meeting, 8 Mo. 11, 1718, a certificate to Philadelphia was signed for them. Moses Starr, and wife Deborah, received 10 Mo. 7, 1717, from Old Castle, County Meath, Ireland. Jeremiah Starr, received 3 Mo. 3, 1718, from Carlow Meeting, Ireland. Samuel Kirk, unmarried, received 12 Mo. 6, 1719, from Lurgan Meeting, County Armagh, Ireland. William Whitaker, received 10 Mo. 2, 1721, from Dublin, Ireland. Edward Thornbury, received 9 Mo. 6, 1725, from Lurgan Meeting, County Armagh, Ireland. Thomas Wilson and family received 7 Mo. 3, 1726, from Ballynacree Meeting, County Antrim, Ireland. George Marsh, son of Joshua, unmarried, received 7 Mo. 6, 1727, dated 5 Mo. 22, 172S, from Grange Monthly Meeting, near Charlemont, County Armagh, Ireland. Miriam Andrews "produced a Certificate from lurgan [Meeting, County Armagh] in the north of ierland," to the woman's branch of Newark Mo. Mtg., 7 Mo. 6, 1729. As her husband, William Andrews, did not produce a certificate, it is presumed he was not a Friend. In his will,1 dated 11 Mo. 23, 1747-48, probated March 25, 1748, he is mentioned as yeoman of Christiana Hundred, New Castle County, upon Delaware. He speaks of his "servant, James Nash, a man bought of George Robinson," and bequeaths his property to his wife Miriam and children, Ruth, Ezekiel, Hannah, and John. The Andrews were related in some way to the Hollingsworths; for "At a meeting of the Commissioners of Property 8 br 2 d 1731 * * * Samuel Hollingsworth (on behalf of his Kinsman Wm. Andrees) request the Grant of about 100 Acres of vact Land in Kennet, between the Land late Ezekiel Harlan's and James Wallis." Miriam Andrews, of the Borough of Wilmington, widow of William Andrews, in her will, dated 6 Mo. 20, 1750, probated Sept. 5, 1750 (G. 1, p. 419), mentions her "cosin Jane Hartley wife of Thomas Heartly," her sons Ezekiel and John Andrews and daughters, Hannah West and Ruth Andrews, the latter to be placed as an apprentice with Elinor Robinson. The children of William and Miriam, as shown by meeting records, were as follows:
1. Book G. I, page 109, Register's Office, Wilmington, Del. William MacCool, received 7 Mo. 6, 1729, from Ballynacree, Antrim County, Ireland. John Clark, son of Walter, received 7 Mo. 6, 1729, dated 3 Mo. 27, 1729, from Grange, County Antrim, Ireland. Samuel Clark, unmarried, son of Walter Clark, received 8 Mo. 4, 1729, dated 3 Mo. 27, 1729, from Grange, County Antrim, Ireland, where he was "born and bred." Original in possession of Gilbert Cope, West Chester Pa. Samuel Clark, of Marlborough, Chester County, Pa., son of Walter Clark, of Grange, County Antrim, Ireland, was married, 8 Mo. 6, 1727, at New Garden, to Mary, daughter of Michael Lightfoot. John Clark, son of Walter Clark, received 4 Mo. 5, 1731, from Grange, County Antrim, Ireland, dated 3 Mo. 27, 1729. Original in possession of Gilbert Cope, of West Chester, Pa. Thomas Christy, received 9 Mo. 4, 1735, from Ballyhagan Monthly Meeting, County Armagh, Ireland. In 1675, in County Antrim, Alexander Christy, for tithe by "John Charlton, Tithmonger (being his Landlord) at the payment of his Rent, eight shillings, and would not receive the rest, unless he would give eight shillings more; and because Alexander would not, for one pound of Rent due he took a Cow from him worth one pound ten shillings."—Stockdale, 49. Samuel Clark, unmarried, dated 4 Mo. 26, 1735, from Lisburn Meeting, County Antrim, Ireland, formerly of Grange, County Antrim, "having for some time past dwelt at Hillsborough which is a branch of our Meeting." Original in possession of Gilbert Cope, West Chester, Pa. Mary Varman (a young woman), daughter of Hattill Varman, dated 1 Mo. 8, 1729-30, from Monthly Meeting at Cooladine, probably in County of Wexford, Ireland. Olivia McCool, "ye Bearer Widow & Relict, to John McCool Deceased," dated 2 Mo. 7, 1729, from Ballynacree Meeting, County Antrim, Ireland. Original in possession of Gilbert Cope, West Chester, Pa. The McCools apparently removed to Kent County, Maryland. Elizabeth Clark, unmarried, daughter of Walter Clark, received 1 Mo. 6, 1735-36, dated 3 Mo. 10, 1735, from Antrim Meeting, Ireland, endorsed, 4 Mo. 26, 1735, by Six Week's Meeting in Lisburn, County Antrim, Ireland. She "was born and Educated at Grange within the Limmits of this Mens Meeting, and her parents were friends in Unity with us, (whose memory is dear unto many of us)." Her father died a "Good Many Years agoe, & Some more than three Years Since her Mother also Dyed, on which account she found it Nessasery to Remove from Grange to some of her Relations at Dublin and Hillsborough after her mother's death." "She dwelt for Some Years past at Hillsborough as within mentioned." Original MS. in possession of Gilbert Cope, of West Chester, Pa. She married Benjamin Jackson, in 1736. About 1655, "a Meeting was settled at the Grange, below Antrim (Co. Antrim), at the house of Gabriel Clark, an honest, religious, antient man, who received Truth as also his Wife and Family."—Rutty, p. 91. Gilbert Cope, of West Chester, Pa., has a very full and interesting manuscript account of Gabriel Clark and family. At Ulster Province Meeting, 2 Mo. 14, 1705, it was stated that "Walter Clark hath built a meeting house at Grange for ye Service of truth and use of friends." In his will, dated 5 Mo. 7, 1705, James Greenwood mentions his brother-in-law, Walter Clark. Nathaniel Clark and Elizabeth (Greenwood, both of Grange Mtg., Co. Antrim, were married there, 10 Mo. 22, 1701.—Minutes of Ulster Province Meeting. At Ulster Province Meeting, 2 Mo. 14, 1705, report was made that "Walter Clark hath built a meeting house at Grange for ye Service of truth & use of friends." In 1716, Thomas Story (Journal, 537) mentions that he came to "Grange to Walter Clark's." Mabel Anderson, unmarried, received 1 Mo. 4, 1737-8; dated 3 Mo. 12, 1737, from Ballyhagan, County Armagh, Ireland; "with ye Consent of her Mother and Relations Consent." She goes "in company with her uncle William." Original certificate in possession of Gilbert Cope, West Chester, Pa. She was married, about 1740, by a "priest" to Robert Halliday, of New Garden, who was not a Friend. Mary Varman, unmarried, from Ireland, received 4 Mo. 24, 1732. Sarah Pringle, from Ballyhagen Meeting, Ireland, received 11 Mo. 4, 1734-5. Robert Whinery, unmarried, from Grange, Ireland, received 5 Mo. 1, 1738. Robert Whinery, weaver, came from Grange, near Charlemont, about 1738, and seems to have settled at Wilmington, Delaware, his certificate from Grange being received at Newark or Kennett Monthly Meeting, 5 Mo. 1, 1738. About the latter part of 1740, he was married by a Presbyterian minister to Isabel , who was not a Friend. Wilmington Preparative Meeting made report of this infraction of the Society's rules to Newark Monthly Meeting, 1 Mo. 7, 1740-1. After some delay Whinery was induced to make the following acceptable acknowledgment, which was read in a First-day Meeting at Wilmington: "To the Monthly Meeting of Newark held at Kennett ye 4th: of ye. 5th; Mo. 1741. Dear friends: These May inform you that Contrary to ye principle of truth in my own heart as well as the Repeated & Continued Caution & Advice of my friends, I have accomplished my marriage out of ye good order Established amongst them by a Presbyterian Minister which hath been cause of Sorrow to me; Which act I hereby Condemn & take ye blame to my self with desires of your Prayers for my future preservation in the way of Peace; from your friend "Robert Whinery."
In 1749, Robert Whinery was assessed in Kennett Township, Chester, but about 1750, he removed with his family to York County, settling within the limits of Newberry Meeting, his certificate of removal from Newark, dated 7 Mo. 1, 1750, being received at Warrington Monthly Meeting, 10 Mo. 21, 1752. Robert Whinery's membership in the Society of Friends was discontinued in 1754.
By deed of May 19, 1771, Robert Whinery, of Newberry Township, York County, weaver, and Isabel, his wife, conveyed to their son Thomas a tract of 290 acres of land which had been granted to Robert by warrant of April 4, 1768 (Recorder's Office, York Pa.). In his will, dated Jan. 7, 1785, probated Sept. 23, 1791, Robert Whinery mentions his children, Hannah McCreary, Thomas, William, and Catharine Whinery, and grandchild Sarah McCreary.
Thomas Whinnery and Katharine Smith, both of Parish of Kilmore, County Armaugh, members of Ballyhagen Meeting, were married at Ballyhagen Meeting House, 11 Mo. 23, 1706. Among the signers were Thomas Whinnery, Katharine Whinnery, Mary Smith, Sr., Mary Smith, Rose Smith, Francis Hobson, John Smith, James Smith. In 1749 and 1750, one Patrick Whinnery was licensed as a peddlar in Chester County, Pa. In his petition to the court he stated that he had been a weaver, but having broken a thigh had "fallen into a consumption."—Hist. Chester County, 432. He was assessed as a single freeman in Kennett Township in 1747 and 1749, and in East Marlborough Township, in 1750, 1753, and 1754. NEW GARDEN MONTHLY MEETING
In Chester County. Established in 1718, from Newark or Kennett. Samuel Beverly and wife Jennet, received 12 Mo. 9, 1722-3, from Ballynacree Monthly Meeting, Ireland. "Samuel Beverly and Jannett Hunter, both of Ballymony meeting," were married "at James Moors, ye 19th 11 Mo. 1703/4 as by certificate may appear." (Minutes Ulster Province Meeting.) They settled in East Marlborough, Chester County, and were accompanied by two children, William and Mary. William married Mary Miller in 1730, and dying before his father, left a son Samuel, who in 1753 married Ruth Jackson, daughter of Samuel Jackson, East Marlborough Twp., Chester Co. Mary Beverly, daughter of Samuel and Ruth, became the wife of William Cause and the mother of Jonathan Cause, principal of the celebrated Unionville (Chester Co.) Academy, which was attended by Bayard Taylor, the distinguished author and traveller.—Hist. Chester Co., p. 481. John Hutton, received 9 Mo. 9, 1723, from Dublin, Ireland. See Joseph Hutton, pp. 330-2. Samuel Miller and wife Margaret (b. 1683), received 10 Mo. 14, 1723, from Ballynacree Monthly Meeting, County Antrim, Ireland. They settled at Sadsbury, and were among the organizers of Sadsbury Meeting. He died in 1774. Children: Mary, m. William Cooper, 8 Mo. 18, 1730, and had children (Robert, Calvin, and William); Elizabeth m. William Reed, 8 Mo. 19, 1738; Robert, m. Sarah McClung, 1 Mo. 7, 1741-2, and had children (Margaret, b. 1742; Samuel, b. 1744; Mary, b. 1747; Sarah, b. 1749; Robert, b. 1755).—Potts, Our Family Ancestors, 247-8. One Samuel Miller and Jane Wyly, both of Lisnegarvy Meeting, were married at the home of Richard Boys (Ballinderry, County Antrim) 9 Mo. 21, 1698. Eli Crocket, unmarried, received 12 Mo. 8, 1723-4, from Ballynacree Meeting, County Antrim, Ireland. He and John Crocket had arrived as early as 1722. On 6 Mo. 8, 1724, Eli was made overseer of Bush River Meeting, in Maryland. One Eli Crocket and Elizabeth Wilkison, both of Ballymoney Meeting, were married 11 Mo. 4, 1715, at the house of James Moore.—Minutes of Ulster Prov. Mtg. In 1676, Gilbert Crockett, of Bellirushane Parish, County Antrim, suffered persecution for tithes.—Stockdale, 75. In 1681, Gilbert and Eli Crockett, of Parish of Bellyrushean, County Antrim, had goods seized for tithes.—Ibid., 166. Eli Crockett, of Ballymoney, was on a committee of Ulster Province Meeting, in 1695. Andrew Moore, received 6 Mo. 8, 1724, from Ballynacree Meeting, County Antrim, Ireland. "Andrew Moore and Margaret Wilson, both of Dunclady Meeting,"were married" att ye house of Kathrine Henderson in Dunclady [County Antrim] ye 27th day of ye 2 Mo. 1715 as by ye certificate may appear." (Minutes of Ulster Province Meeting, Ireland.) Andrew Moore, according to his biographer and descendant, Dr. Passmore, was born 6 Mo., 1688, in County Antrim, and was a son of James Moore, of Ballynacree, County Antrim. His wife Margaret died probably about 1722 or 1723, shortly before his emigration. He and his family arrived at New Castle on Delaware, 8 Mo. 3, 1723, and settled on a tract of land lying in Sadsbury Township, Chester and Lancaster Counties. Here he engaged in milling and farming and was an active and influential member of Sadsbury Meeting. He was married a second time, 4 Mo. 24, 1725, to Rachel, daughter of William Halliday, another Irish Friend. He died 7 Mo. 5, 1753, and was interred in Friends' burial ground, at Sadsbury Meeting House. Children were as follows:
William Lightfoot, received 8 Mo. 9, 1725, from Moate Monthly .Meeting, County West Meath, Ireland, to "visit his father & relations." A certificate for him to return to Ireland was signed 10 Mo. 11, 1725. Isaac Jackson and wife, received 9 Mo. 10, 1725, dated 1 Mo. 28, 1725, from Carlow Monthly Meeting, County Carlow, Ireland. Anthony Jackson, born at Eccleston, Parish of St. Michael, Lancashire, England, removed, in 1649, with his elder brother, Richard Jackson, sometime soldier in the Parliamentary Army, and settled at Lurgan, County Armagh, Ireland. Here they were among the first converts to Quakerism in Ireland. In 1655 they removed to Cavan, where Anthony probably resided the remainder of his life. In 1670, and as late as 1681, he is mentioned in Basse as suffering persecution and imprisonment for non-payment of tithes. Isaac Jackson (1665-1750), son of Anthony, was married 2 Mo. 29, 1696, at Oldcastle Mtg., Co. Meath, to Ann Evans, daughter of Rowland Evans, of Balliloing, Co. Wicklow. After residing for some years at Oldcastle and Clonerany, Co. Wexford, they removed, about 1706-07, to Ballytore, Co. Kildare. From here they removed to Pennsylvania, taking passage at Dublin on the Sizargh, and reached New Castle, on Delaware, 9 Mo. 11, 1725. They proceeded at once from New Castle to the home of a son-in-law, Jeremiah Starr, who had married a daughter, Rebecca Jackson, at Ballytore, 11 Mo. 10, 1716, and had settled in London Grove Twp., Chester Co. An extended record of the descendants of Isaac Jackson's ten children will be found in Halliday Jackson's Jackson Family and in History of Chester County, p. 610. Sismore Wright and wife, received 9 Mo. 10, 1725, from Ballycane Monthly Meeting, County Wicklow, Ireland. Children of Sismore and Margaret Wright, born in Ireland, as follows: Isaac, 12 Mo. 4, 1718; Thomas, 5 Mo. 11, 1719 (d. 3 Mo. 29, 1802, in Berks County); Margaret, 10 Mo. 18, 1720; Ann, 4 Mo. 21, 1723. New Garden Monthly Meeting, 2 Mo. 26, 1735, signed a certificate for this family to North Wales (Gwynedd) Monthly Meeting, and they settled within the limits of Exeter Meeting, in Berks County. One Mark Wright, son of Rowland Wright, of "Sheep Pastor, (nere) Gisborough," Yorkshire, England, and wife, "Ayles," was born 2 Mo. 25, 1619, at "Sheep Pastor." About 1647, " he married Ann, daughter of Thomas Carlyle, " of Newton (nere Whittby)," England. Came to Ireland 6 Mo., 1654. Children: Jane, b. 9 Mo. 1651, at Numebeck, Yorkshire; Ayles, b. 4 Mo. 1653, at same place; John, b. 3 Mo. 1656, at Lygatory, Parish of Shankill, Co. Armagh; Ann, b. there 8 Mo., 1658; Mark, b. there 4 Mo., 1660; Jane, b. there 1662.—Lurgan Records. Jonathan Garnett and wife Mary, received 10 Mo. 30, 1727, from Grange Monthly Meeting, near Charlemont, County Armagh, Ireland. Thomas Valentine, received 2 Mo. 27, 1728, from Carlow Monthly Meeting, Ireland. Thomas Valentine, of Ballybrumhill, County Carlow, Ireland, son of George Valentine,' of same place, was married, 9 Mo. 22, 1715, at Kilconner, to Mary Parke, of Ballylean, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Paike, of same place {Records of Carlow Monthly Meeting). They made their first settlement after their arrival in this country in New Garden Township, Chester County, where in 1729and 1730 Thomas was assessed. A little later they removed to New Providence now Montgomery County, where he died about 1747, leaving children, Robert, John, Thomas, Jonathan, and perhaps others. Robert Valentine,1 son of Thomas, b. 7 Mo. 21, 1717, at Ballybrumhill; d. East Cain, 7 Mo. 21, 1786; m. 4 Mo. 4, 1747, at Cain Meeting, Rachel, daughter of John and Mary Edge. She was b. 6 Mo. 29, 1725; d. 1 Mo. 31, 1779. They were both buried in Friends' ground at Uwchlan, Chester County. Children were: Thomas, Mary, Robert2 (m. Ann Bond), Rachel (m. Joseph Malin), Jane, Sarah, Phebe (m. Abraham Sharpless), George (m. Phebe Ashbridge), John, .Susanna (m. George Massey). Robert Valentine became an eminent minister of Friends and travelled extensively in that service, including a visit to Great Britain at the close of the Revolution. Thomas Valentine, son of Thomas, m. Nov. 23, 1750, his cousin Rebecca Robinson and d. 1762, in Charlestown Township, Chester County, leaving children, Thomas, William, Mary, Rachel, and John. Jonathan Valentine, son of Thomas, b. about 1730; m. in 1755 or 1756, Lydia, daughter of John and Lydia (Pusey) Baldwin. They settled in East Cain, where Jonathan died about 1811. Children: Absalom, Jehu, John, Jonathan, Elizabeth, Mary, Lydia (m. Jesse Evans) and Thomas.3 In 1677, in County Wexford, George Valentine had his goods seized for tithes.—Stockdale, 89. 1. Some of this branch of the family removed to Bellefonte, Centre Co., Pa., and were largely interested in iron manufacture. 2. For a full record see Smedley Genealogy. 3. History of Chester County, 7S0-51. Francis Parvin, received 6 Mo. 31, 1728, from Moate Monthly Meeting, County West Meath. Francis Parvin (whose ancestors according to tradition removed from Yorkshire to Ireland) of Ballykilroe, County West Meath, was married, 12 Mo. (Feb.) 16, 1723-4, at Edenderry Meeting, King's County, to Deborah Pearson, of Drighen, County Kildare.1 About 1728 they came to Pennsylvania, the wife dying shortly after the arrival. He settled for a short time in New Garden, and then about 1732 removed to Chester. On 3 Mo. 2, 1734, he was married at New Garden, to Eleanor, daughter of Michael Lightfoot, of New Garden, and removed about this time to Maiden Creek, Berks County, where he died 7 Mo. 6, 1767, and his wife Eleanor, 12 Mo. 17, 1775. Francis Parvin was a Justice of the Peace and also represented Berks County in the Provincial Assembly. In his will dated 6 Mo. 20, 1767 (probated Sept. 3, 1767), he provides for his wife Eleanor; leaves to his son Francis a tract of 120 acres of land, including "my dwelling house with Tanyard"; to son Thomas Parvin, 143 acres in Maiden Creek; to sons Benjamin and John 143 acres each, in Maiden Creek; to son William "My Grist & saw mill" and about 136 acres in same township; remainder to be equally divided among son Pearson Parvin and daughters Mary Pearson, Ann Wright, and Eleanor Parvin. In 1680, in County West Meath, one "Francis Pervin of Bellykilroe in the Barony of Clonlonnon," had four lambs, valued at 8 s., seized for tithes.—Stockdale, 153. Children of Francis Parvin:
—Records of Exeter Monthly Meeting.
1. Marriage certificate in possession of a descendant, Jeremiah Starr Parvin, Leesport, Berks County, Pa. Thomas Parvin, unmarried, received 6 Mo. 13, 1728, from Moate Monthly Meeting, County West Meath, Ireland. Lawrence Richardson, unmarried, received 6 Mo. 31, 1728, from Grange Meeting, Ireland. Hattill Varman and wife Abigail, from Cooladine Meeting, County Wexford, dated 2 Mo. 28, 1728, received 3 Mo. 31, 1729. In 1672, one " Henry Vernam, for 20s. demanded of him for Tithes, was prosecuted in the Ecclesiastical Court, and committed to Wexford Goal, at the Suit of Miles Swinney, Priest of Encyscorf, was kept prisoner there about a year and nine months, till the 6th of October 1673, and then released by the Bishop of Loughlin and Femes, but before his discharge the Priest had sent his Servants with Cart and Horses, who took away more than half the Man's Corn to the value of 5 l."—Besse's Suffering of the Quakers, II., 480; Stockdale, A Great Cry of Oppression, 10. In 1685, Henry and Edward Varman, of Parish of Castle Ellis, County Wexford, by their attorney, John Fuller, of West Jersey, conveyed to John Hugg, of West Jersey, a tract of land in the Irish Tenth of West Jersey, that had been granted to Henry Varman, April 9, 1682, by Joseph Sleight, of Dublin.(D, p. 246, Clement Papers, Hist. Soc. of Penna.) Hattill Varman, 2 b. 1670, in County Wexford, Ireland; d. 12 Mo. 27, 1747; buried at Leacock; came to Pennsylvania in 1728, and settled in Leacock Township, Lancaster County. His wife, Abigail, d. 3 Mo. 14, 1760. Children: Mary, m. 10 Mo. 7, 1733, at Leacock, John Beeson, of Leacock, son of Richard; William; Grace, m. 1st 11 Mo. 5, 1742, at Leacock, to Joseph Edgerton, of Newton, Gloucester Co., N. J. (child Abigail); 2d Joseph Steer; Eleanor, m. 3 Mo. 5. 1747, at Leacock, Moses Brinton, son of Joseph; Sarah, m. 1st John Low, and 2d 7 Mo. 11, 1751, at Lampeter, John Parks, son of Richard, of Goshen.(Friends' Miscellany, IV., 25. ) Thomas McClun, and wife Elizabeth, from Moate Monthly Meeting, County West Meath, dated 3 Mo. 11, 1729, received 6 Mo. 30, 1729. Thomas Clung and Elizabeth Hainan, both of Rathfryland Meeting, were married, 6 Mo. 19, 1714, at the house of Robert Wilson. (Minutes of Ulster Province Meeting.) At New Garden Monthly Meeting, 5 Mo. 29, 1729, Thomas McClun and family is reported as being settled within the limits of Concord Monthly Meeting, to which a certificate was signed 1 Mo. 28, 1730. John Steer, received 6 Mo. 30, 1729, dated 2 Mo. 11, 1728, from Ballinderry Meeting, County Antrim, Ireland. Samuel Morton, received 6 Mo. 30, 1729, dated 7 Mo. 1, 1728, from Ballyhagen Meeting, County Armagh, Ireland. Samuel Morton (d. 3 Mo. 20, 1766), son of William and Elinor, was born in Parish of Kilmore, County Armagh, Ireland; m. 2 Mo. 6, 1728, at Ballyhagen Meeting, Eliza (d. 6 Mo. 12, 1763), daughter of John and Mary Blackburn, a native of County Armagh. Children: Margaret, b. 10 Mo. 1, 1728, at sea; m. John Hadley; John, b. 4 Mo. 28, 1729, d. 9 Mo., 1741, buried at London Grove; Samuel, b. 7 Mo. 27, 1732; William b. 1 Mo. 9, 1734-35; Mary, b. 9 Mo. 9, 1737; Thomas, b. 7 Mo. 6, 1740.—Records of New Garden Monthly Meeting. William McNabb, wife Dorothy and daughters, Elizabeth and Jane, received 6 Mo. 30, 1729, dated 1 Mo. 5, 1729, from Old Castle Monthly Meeting, County Meath, Ireland. William McNabb settled in East Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, where he owned a farm of 200 acres. His son, John McNabb, in 1749, gave two acres of land to Friends' Meeting at Bird-in-Hand. Joseph Evans, wife Mary, and son Joseph, received 8 Mo. 25, 1729, from Moate Monthly Meeting, County West Meath, Ireland. Neal O'Money, wife Ann, received 8 Mo. 23, 1729, from Ballynacree Meeting, County Antrim, Ireland. Neal Mooney, of East Marlborough, Chester County, made his will 9 Mo. 9, 1751, and it was probated Nov. 26, 1751. Mentions wife Ann, children Samuel, Joseph, James, and son-in-law, Henry Neal. Samuel Shaw, received 8 Mo. 25, 1729, from Lisburn Meeting, County Antrim, Ireland. In 1679, Martha Shaw, widow, and James Shaw, both of the Parish of Loughgall, County Armagh, had some of their effects taken for tithes.—Stockdale, A Great Cry of Oppression, 125. James Taylor, and wife, received 10 Mo. 27, 1729, from Ballynacree Monthly Meeting, County Antrim, Ireland. James O'Money, received 8 Mo. 25, 1729, from Ballynacree Meeting, County Antrim, Ireland. Samuel Evans and wife, from Moate Meeting, County West Meath, Ireland, received 10 Mo. 27, 1729. Jacob Kirk, from meeting near Ballinderry, County Antrim, Ireland, received 11 Mo. 31, 1729. Thomas Milhous, and wife Sarah, from Dublin, Ireland, dated 5 Mo. 29, 1729, received 12 Mo. 28, 1729. Thomas Milhous m. Sarah, daughter James and Catharine (Lightfoot) Miller, in Ireland, and came to Pennsylvania in 1729, settling first within the limits of New Garden Monthly Meeting, and about the year 1744 removing to Pikeland Township, Chester County. Their children were: John, b. 1 Mo. 8, 1722-3, at Timahoe, Ireland; James, b. 7 Mo. 21, 1727; Thomas, b. 2 Mo. 27, 1731; Robert, b. 11 Mo. 26, 1733; Sarah, b. 4 Mo. 3, 1736, m. Thompson Parker; William, b. 6 Mo. 12, 1738 (Hist, of Chester County, 658). At Ulster Province Meeting, 12 Mo. 1, 1695, one John Millhouse and Sarah Miller declared their intentions of marriage. 3 Mo. 25, 1695, Richard Millhouse and Sarah Clark declared their intentions of marriage. Thomas Milhouse and Mary Hoope, of Lurgan, were married at Lurgan Meeting, Nov. 2, 1720. John Griffith, and son Christopher (unmarried), from Grange near Charlemont, received 12 Mo. 28, 1729, dated 2 Mo. 18, 1729. Christopher Griffith, of Sadsbury Meeting, produced an acknowledgement, 9 Mo. 30, 1734, for marriage out of the Society. Thomas Griffith, who may have been a son of John Griffith, was married out of the Society about 1742, to Eve . He removed to Menallen Twp., now Adams County, and died in the spring of 1769; was buried in Friends' burial ground at Old Menallen, where his gravestone bearing the inscription " T. G. 1769" may still be seen. Children: Mary, b. about 1751; Rebecca, b. about 1755; Eve; Thomas; Ann; Jesse; Wm., eldest son; Elizabeth m. Thomas Blackburn; John, Susanna. (Records of Orphans' Court of York County, Docket B, 223, 224.) Thomas Griffith and Elizabeth Ford, both of Grange Meeting near Charlemont, were married at Grange, 9 Mo. 16, 1715 (Minutes Ulster Province Meeting). Ann Marshall, widow of New Garden, "late from Ireland," made her will 9 Mo. 30, 1729, and it was probated Feb. 10, 1729-30. She mentions her sons John and William Marshall, her friends William Halliday and Benjamin Fred, of New Garden, and desires to be buried in the Friends' ground at New Garden. Witnesses were John Griffith, Sismore Wright, and William Read. The names of her father, John Griffith, and her brother, Christopher Griffith, appear in the accounts of the estate. Jacob Marshall and Ann Griffith, both of Grange near Charlemont, were married at Grange Meeting, 9 Mo. 19, 1718.—Minutes of Ulster Province Meeting. Margaret Marshall, wife of Jacob, of Grange near Charlemont, d. 1 Mo. 23, 1739. Jacob d. 5 Mo. 1, 1743. John Marshill, son of Jacob Marshill, Jr., deceased, from Grange Meeting, near Charlemont, Ireland. He settled in New Garden and was married 8 Mo. 14, 1742, at New Garden, to Ruth Hadly, daughter of Joshua Hadly, of Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle County on Delaware. Among signers to marriage certificate were John and Christopher Griffith, Jacob and Rebecca Hinshaw, and William Marshill. A certificate for him and his wife to Concord Monthly Meeting, signed by New Garden, 3 Mo. 28, 1743. Samuel Stanfield, and wife Jane, from Lurgan, County Armagh, received 1 Mo. 28, 1730, dated 3 Mo. 7, 1729. Samuel Stanfield and Jane Andrew, both of Lurgan Meeting, were married at Lurgan, 9 Mo. 14, 1711.—Minutes of Ulster Province Meeting. James Miller, dated 5 Mo. 20, 1729, from Dublin, Ireland, received 2 Mo. 25, 1730. James Miller, possibly a brother of Gayen and John Miller, married Catharine, daughter of Thomas Lightfoot, in Ireland, and lived for some time at Timahoe Meeting, County Kildare. They arrived at Philadelphia, in the Sizargh, of Whitehaven, 9 Mo. 10, 1729. Here the wife, who was a minister in the Society, died, 10 Mo. 17, 1729. James Miller then settled with his children in New Garden. He was married a second time to Ruth Seaton, of London Grove, 2 Mo. 10, 1734, and removed to Leacock Township, Lancaster County, where he died in the early part of 1749. Children of James and Catharine Miller: 1. Sarah, m. Thomas Milhouse, in Ireland, and came to New Garden in 1729. 2. Elizabeth, m. Thomas Hiett, in Ireland, and came to New Garden in 1733. 3 James, b. about 1708, d. 1758; m. 1st Rachel (Fred) Miller, widow of James (son of Gayen), 1733, and had children (Thomas, Benjamin, Katharine). He m. 2d Rebecca, daughter of Jacob Kirk, 1 Mo. 6, 1749, and had children (Rachel, Sarah, Hannah). 4. Mary, m. Isaac Jackson (son of Thomas), 4 Mo. 11, 1730, andhad seven children; they removed to Eno, North Carolina, in 1751. 5. Katharine, b. 1 Mo. 30, 17 13, at Timahoe County, Kildare, Ireland; d. 4 Mo. 2, 1781; m. William Jackson, 9 Mo. 9, 1733. 6. Ann, m. William Farquhar, 2 Mo. 19, 1733. 7. Hannah, m. James Jackson, 8 Mo. 31, 1745. No issue.—Potts, Our Family Ancestors, 248-9. William Evans, wife Hannah, and daughter Rachel, from Ballycane, County Wicklow, Ireland, received 7 Mo. 26, 1730, dated 1 Mo. 22, 1730. William Evans, was a son of Rowland Evans, of Balliloing County Wicklow. William Evans, of Coaladang, County Wicklow, weaver, and Hannah Eves, of Ballemurin, same county, were married 1 Mo. 22, 1709. Among signers to marriage certificate1 were Mark, Elizabeth, Joseph, and John Eves, Robert, John, and Dorothy Penrose, and Rowland, James, Thomas, Ann, Margaret, and Elizabeth Evans. They settled on a tract of 1,000 acres at Lampeter, about five miles from Lancaster, Lancaster County. Children were: John, died unmarried, in 1782 or 1783; William, m. Catharine _______; Hannah, m. James Webb, 10 Mo., 15, 1742, and died 1762, leaving children; and Isaac, m. 1st, Alice Pennock, daughter of Joseph and Mary, of West Marlborough, 5 Mo. 5, 1756, by whom he had one child that died in infancy, and m. 2d, 2 Mo., 1760, to Anne, daughter of Francis and Mary (Jackson) Windle.—Jackson Genealogy, 69, 187. Alice Gibson, from Ireland, received 6 Mo. 30, 1729. Katharine Whitaker, from Dublin, Ireland, received 2 Mo. 25, 1730. Robert and John Mickle [brothers] , from Dublin, Ireland, dated 4 Mo. 2, 1730, received 7 Mo. 26, 1730. Robert Mickle, m. 10 Mo. 19, 1733, at London Grove Meeting, Chester County, Mary, daughter of Samuel and Jane Beverly, of Marlborough. Children: Ann, b 8. Mo. 7, 1734, m. McFarlan; John, b. 8 Mo. 12, 1736; Sarah, b. 3 Mo. 12, 1739; Jane, b. 9 Mo. 9, 1741. John Mickle, brother of Robert, m., "by a priest," about 1736, to Jane ______. They removed to Menallen Township, Adams County, about 1747. Children: Sarah, b. 10 Mo. 29, 1737, m. about 1760, to John Mickle, her first cousin, for which she was disowned; Elijah, b. 2 Mo. 8, 1740 (at Warrington Mo. Mtg., 11 Mo. 18, 1758, Menallen Meeting reported that Elijah Mickle and John Shepperd "hath both left the parts unknown to their parents"); Mary, b. 10 Mo. 4, 1741, m. "out," about 1761, to ______ Sheppard; Hannah, b. 10 Mo. 14, 1745, m. "out," about 1765, to ______ Rail; Jane, b. 1 Mo. 16, 1747-48; John, b. 12 Mo. 4, 1753, m., 6 Mo. 17, 1772, at Menallen Meeting, Rebecca, daughter of Thomas Griffith; Samuel, b. 2 Mo. 26, 1756, m. about 1778, Eve, d. of Thomas Griffith, and d. March 26, 1819. At Warrington Mo. Meeting, 4 Mo. 10, 1762, John Mickle, of Menallen Meeting, it is apprehended, has connived at his daughter's keeping company in order for marriage with one not of our Society. 6 Mo. 12, 1762, Jane Mickle charged with the same offence. 10 Mo. 9, 1762, she acknowledges that "she Carelessly went away from my own house until my daughter Mary took the opportunity to go away with a man not in unity with friends, in order to accomplish her marriage by a priest; I being warned to the Contrary I do now look upon my self to have been remiss in my duty." 2 Mo. 12, 1763, John Mikle reported somewhat condescending. 6 Mo. II, 1763, he acknowledges that "I inadvertently went abroad at the time my Daughter Mary ran away to be married, notwithstanding I was Cautioned to take Care of her, & that she was to run away that night; for which I am heartily sorry." 3 Mo. 11, 1769, John Mickle, Sr. , was complained of by Menallen, "for joining with others in dancing so far as to be present & se it & imitate it himself & also that he has for a considerable time neglected attending our Religious meetings," disowned 7 Mo. 8, 1769—Warrington Mo. Mtg. Records. In 1678, Robert Mickle, of the Parish of Magherlin, County Down, for tithes, had hay, barley, wheat and oats taken to the value of £1. 6s. 6d.—Stockdale, A Great Cry of Oppression, 97. 1. In 1894 the original certificate was in possession of Hannah W. Lovell, of Philadelphia. John Murray, and wife Ann, from Lurgan, County Armagh, Ireland, dated 2 Mo. 16, 1729, received 8 Mo. 31, 1730. Joseph Dixon, unmarried, from Lurgan, County Armagh, received 8 Mo. 31, 1730. Joseph Dixson, of London Grove Township, Chester County, and Sarah, daughter of Evan Powell, of New Garden Township, were married, 10 Mo. 13, 1733, at New Garden. Solomon Shepherd, unmarried, from Grange Meeting near Charlemont, Ireland, dated 8 mo. 1, 1729, received 11 Mo. 30, 1730-1. "Att a mens meeting held [at Grange] ye 22 aforesaid [5 Mo. 1729] Solomon Shepard ye younger having transported himself to America as an Aprentice with Jacob Marshill & Desired of us a Certificate," etc. He settled for a time in New Garden and was married, 9 Mo. 15, 1733, at New Garden Meeting, to Jane Wilson, of New Garden. They removed to Menallen Township, now Adams County, and in 1748, Solomon became a recommended minister of Warrington Monthly Meeting. He died about 1749, his will being dated July, 1748, and probated March 29, 1749. He mentions his wife Jane and children, John, Sarah, Solomon, and Elizabeth. Jane Shepherd served for several years as overseer of Menallen Meeting. In 1767 she and her daughter Elizabeth received a certificate to remove within the limits of New Garden Monthly Meeting, North Carolina. Solomon Shepherd, Jr., of Menallen Township, son of Solomon and Jane, m. 10 Mo. 19, 1763. at Menallen Meeting, to Margaret, daughter of John and Rebecca Blackburn. Sarah, daughter of Solomon and Jane Shepherd, m. 12 Mo. 20, 1758, at Menallen Meeting, William, son of John Braselton, of Frederick County, Md. In 1681, one John Sheppard, of Parish Killaman, County Tyrone, had his goods seized for tithes (Stockdale, 178). Jonas Chamberlin, unmarried, from Edenderry Meeting, King's County, Ireland, dated 11 Mo. 5, 1731, received 1 Mo. 31, 1733. In 1660, Anne, wife of Jonas Chamberlin, was imprisoned in Wexford for two weeks.—Holme and Fuller, A Brief Relation, 17. In 1671, in County Wexford, Jonas Chamberlain, was taken a prisoner "upon a definite Sentence" for 7s. small tithes, and kept in prison for nine months. In the meantime the "Priest" went with four men and abused his servants, and took away two lambs worth 5s.—Stockdale, A Great Cry of Oppression, 9. Jonas Chamberlain, the emigrant, settled in Sadsbury, Lancaster County. He m. 8 Mo. 9, 1734, Jane, daughter of Alexander Bane, of Goshen. He died 9 Mo. 8, 1771, and his widow, 3 Mo. 4, 1777. Children: Joshua, Hannah, Jane, Mary, Hannah, Jonas, Joseph, William, and Jane. Of these, Joshua m. 11 Mo. 24, 1756, Mary Powel and Jonas married, 12 Mo. 3, 1766, Elizabeth Powel, both daughters of Joseph Powel, of Sadsbury, Chester County.—History of Chester County, 496. John McRannell and Elizabeth Sheppherd both of Grange Meeting, near Charlemont, were married 6 Mo. 18, 1714, at Grange. Elizabeth, daughter of Solomon Sheppard, "of Bellis," Parish of Donagh, County Monaghan, was married, 10 Mo. (Dec.) 14, 1733, in Meeting House at Castleshane, County Monaghan, to William Whitten, of Drummon, Parish of Mullabrack, County Armagh, Ireland.—Friends' Records of Ulster Province. Thomas Hiett, and wife Elizabeth, received 8 Mo. 27, 1733, dated 4 Mo. 10, 1733. from Moate Meeting, County West Meath, Ireland. Children born in Ireland as follows: Katharine, b. 2 Mo. 26, 172S, married 2 Mo. 13, 1749. at New Garden Meeting, to Thomas Hutton, of New Garden, son of Joseph, deceased; Ann, b. 1 Mo. 1. 1729, married 11 Mo. 8, 1753, at New Garden, Joseph Hutton, of New Garden, brother of Thomas. Thomas Hiett died in 1751, and 7 Mo. 1. 1756, his widow, Elizabeth Hiett, married Jeremiah Starr, Jr., son of Jeremiah, of London Grove. Alice Gibson, received 11 Mo. 26, 1733, from Dublin, Ireland. Ann Evins, received 9 Mo. 24, 1733, from Moate Monthly Meeting, County West Meath, Ireland. Ruth Seaton, received 9 Mo. 24, 1733, from Ballinderry Meeting, Ireland. Alexander Seaton, an eminent minister of Friends in Ireland, son of John Seaton, of the Seatons of Meldrum, was born about 1652, at Cuttle-Craggs, near Lethinty, Parish of Daviot, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and brought up a scholar, studying for some time in the college in the old town of Aberdeen. Here in 1675, he became convinced of the Quaker principles. From Glasgow, in 1699, he removed to Ireland, making his residence at Hillsborough, County Down. He died 1 Mo. 1723.—Rutty, Leadbeater, Piety Promoted. James Smith, and wife Jane, received 9 Mo. 24, 1733, dated 4 Mo. 8, 1732, from Ballyhagen, Armagh County, Ireland. Samuel Hill, and wife Ann, received 8 Mo. 25, 1735, dated 2 Mo. 29, 1735, from Limerick Meeting, Ireland. John Wilson, received 8 Mo. 25, 1735, dated 3 Mo. 25, 1735, from Limerick, Ireland. Robert Smith, and wife Jane, received 6 Mo. 28, 1736, dated 4 Mo. 18, 1732, from Ballyhagen, County Armagh. John Blackburn, wife and children, received 8 Mo. 30, 1736, dated 4 Mo. 2, 1736, from Ballyhagen Meeting, County Armagh, Ireland. John Blackburn and family settled within the limits of Warrington Monthly Meeting, York County. He was appointed overseer of Warrington Meeting, 4. Mo. 18, 174S, and was released 1 Mo. 17, 1756. He died prior to 7 Mo. 5, 1758. Children were Joseph, Rachel, and probably John, Anthony, and Thomas. John Blackburn, Jr., m. Rebecca ______. They resided in Menallen Township, now Adams County, where he died 8 Mo. 24, 1767, and she, 3 Mo. 30, 1766. Their children: Margaret, b. 10 Mo. 16, 1740, m. Solomon Shepherd in 1763; Rachel, b. 9 Mo. 1, 1742, m. 11 Mo. 11, 1767, Nathan McGrew, son James and Mary; Thomas, b. 8 Mo. 19, 1744, m. 10 Mo. 11, 1768, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Eve Griffith; Moses, b. 9 Mo. 16, 1746, m. 11 Mo. 18, 1767, at Menallen Meeting, Mary, daughter of James and Mary McGrew; Anthony, b. 6 Mo. 17, 1749, m. 5 Mo. 16, 1770, Mary, daughter of Thomas and Eve Griffith; Mary, b. 6 Mo. 19, 1751; John, b. 6 Mo. 21, 1753; Elizabeth, b. 10 Mo. 2, 1755; Joseph, b. 11 Mo. 7, 1757; Rebecca, b. 12 Mo. 12, 1760; Samuel, b. 5 Mo. 17, 1762, Abigail b. 5 Mo. 9, 1764; Eleanor, b. 3 Mo. 30, 1766. Anthony Blackburn, of Menallen Meeting, supposed to be a son of John, was complained of 5 Mo. 16, 1752, at Warrington Mo. Mtg., for marriage by a "priest." Joseph Blackburn, of Menallen, son of John, deceased, m. 7 Mo. 5, 175S, at Menallen Meeting, Deborah McGrew, of Menallen. Their children were: Mary, b. 4 Mo. 30, 1759; John, b. 1 Mo. 8, 1762; James, b. 10 Mo. 16, 1763; Thomas, b. 11 Mo. 10, 1765; Anthony, b. 6 Mo. 12, 1767; Joseph, b. 2 Mo. 11, 1769. One John Blackburn and Mary Winter, both of Ballyhagen Mtg., were married S Mo. 2, 1701, at Ballyhagen. In County Armagh, in 1667, "John Blackburn, being sued for Tythe to the value of 2s. 1d. 2q. in the Mannor Court of Leughall by Humphrey Pettard, Priest, the said John produced the Statute against all proceedings in Temporal Courts for Tithe; notwithstanding the Jury said" etc., Blackburn's horse, worth £2, taken fortithe of 2s. 1d. 2q.—Holme and Fuller, A Brief Relation, 26. Rachel Blackburn, of Menallen, daughter of John, m. 8 Mo. 29, 1759, at Menallen, Andrew Dennen. Walter Haydock, unmarried, received 12 Mo. 25, 1737-8, dated 2 Mo. 21, 1737, from meeting at Lisbum, County Antrim, Ireland. He resided for a time within the limits of London Grove Meeting; then on 7 Mo. 29, 1739, he received a certificate to North Wales (Gwynedd) Monthly Meeting, and settled in Richland Township, Bucks County. Walter Haddock, of Richland, Bucks County, yeoman, made his will Jan. 17, 1787 (proved March 13, 1787). Appoints William Penrose executor. Mentions brother John and sisters Sarah and Mary Haddock, of County Antrim, Ireland; also mentions Richard Fossett, of Fairfax County, Va., and Jonathan, William and John Penrose, of Richland.—Bucks County Wills. Henry Haydock, of Stengmore, Parish Clonfeakle, County Tyrone, and Mary Bullogh, of Allneoanoge (?), said Parish, were married 3 Mo. 3, 1734, at Meeting House near Charlemont. Among signers were: John Haydock, James Henderson, John Whitsite, John King, John Hinshaw, Jacob Hinshaw, Mary Haydock, Elizabeth IHiUogh, Sarah Greer, Alice Hinshaw, Mary Gilpin, Margaret Hinshaw. In 1673, John and William Haddock, of County Antrim, and in 1681, John Haddock, Sr., and John Haddock, Jr,. of Ballinderry Parish, County Antrim, had their goods taken for tithes.—Stockdale, A Great Cry of Oppression, 25-26, 169. Mrs. Sarah Barcroft, of Stangmore Lodge, near Dungannon, County Tyrone, has some ancient deeds for her property in which the name Haydock appears. Jacob Haydock, of Cabragh, County Tyrone, son of John Haydock, of Stangmore, same county, descended from the Haydocks of Lancashire, was married, 7 Mo. 29, 1742, to Mary Hinshaw. They had seven children: John, Rebecca, Mary, Margaret, Jacob, Joseph, and Henry. Of these children, Henry, born in 1764, m. in 1796 at Moyallon Meeting, Frances Bell, and lived at Corcraney, near Lurgan. Of Henry's eight children John, b. 1802, d. 1859, m. Ann Crosley. Descendants of this branch have come to America in recent years. John Boyd, wife Jane, and children, from Ballynacree Meeting, County Antrim, Ireland, dated 2 Mo. 10, 1736, received 12 Mo. 26, 1736-7. John Boyd and Jane Bell, both of Lurgan Meeting, were married "in ye town of Lurgan ye 20th 11 Mo. 1707 as by ye certificate may appear."—Minutes Ulster Prov. Mtg. They became members of Sadsbury Meeting, Lancaster County, and resided within the limits thereof until about 1765; then removed to York County. At Warrington Mo. Mtg., York County, 11 Mo. 9, 1765, a certificate, dated 8 Mo. 21, 1765, from Sadsbury Mo. Mtg., was received for John Boyd and wife. He made his will (Q 313, Wills at York, Pa.), Aug. 8, 1770, and it was probated Oct. 31, 1777. Mentions seven children as follows; I. William; II. Samuel; III. George; IV. Sarah Leech; V. Ann Bready; V'l. Elizabeth Stedham; VII. Jane McMillan; and a grandchild, Jane Marsh.
In 1673, in County Londonderry, William Boyd had his goods seized for tithes.—Ibid., 25. Robert Henry, of Colerain, and Mary Boyd, of Antrim, were married in the town of Antrim 6 Mo. 10, 1709 (Minutes Ulster Prov. Mtg.) Benjamin Boyd and Jane Clark, both of Grange Meeting, m. 5 Mo. 4, 1710, at Grange (Ibid) Robert Boyes, from Ballyhagen, County Armagh, dated 2 Mo. 21, 1736, received 1 Mo. 26, 1737. One John Boyes, of Lackey, Parish of Maagharagall, County Antrim, and Mary Turner, of Lurgan, County Armagh, were married 6 Mo. 17, 1720, at Lurgan.—Lurgan Meeting Records. In 1680, Richard Boyes, County Antrim, had his goods to the value of 18s. seized for tithes. (Stockdale, 139.) In 1716, Thomas Story (Journal, 538) notes that he came to the widow Mary Boyes' at Ballinderry. Isaac Pigon, unmarried, from Meeting at Grange near Charlemont, dated 6 Mo. 27, 1736, received 2 Mo. 30, 1737. At New Garden Monthly Meeting, 9 Mo. 25, 1738, "Isaac Pigen having reed a Letter from his father yt lives in Ireland, since our Last moly meeting which requests him to return thither as soon as possible & ye season not permitting him to stay untill next meeting, a certificate is to be prepared and signed for him." Isaac Steer, wife Ruth and daughter Katharine, the latter unmarried, dated 5 Mo. 7, 1736, received 6 Mo. 27, 1737, from Ballinderry Meeting, County Antrim. William Steer, a Friend, of County Armagh, Ireland, in the period 1665-1669, for refusing to contribute to the repair of the parish church of Kilmore, "had Money taken out of his Shop-Box, also a Hat, and other things worth 7s. 2d, and 2s. 2d more demanded had Cloth and Pewter taken from him worth 11s."—Holme and Fuller, A Brief Relation, etc., 735. William Steer, of Leggatory, Parish of Kilmore, County Armagh, made his will May 10, 1685, and mentions his daughter Hannah, to whom he bequeaths £90, and his only son, Isaac Steer, to whom he leaves £400 and the house and lands that " I have by lease from my landlord Edward Richardson."—Recorded in Friends' Records of Ulster. Isaac Steer, son of William, was married by Friends' ceremony in 1696 to Ruth Mercer, (Minutes of Ulster Province Meeting.) Isaac Steer, with his wife and daughter, followed their sons to Pennsylvania about 1737, bringing a certificate to New Garden Monthly Meeting, but settling within the limits of Sadsbury meeting. Children were:
Faithful Richardson, from Ballyhagen, County Armagh, Ireland, received 12 Mo. 26, 1736. William Boyd, unmarried, son of John, dated 6 Mo. 18, 1733, from Meeting in Antrim, Ireland, received 6 Mo. 27, 1737. Joseph Whitsitt, young and unmarried, from Grange near Charlemont, dated 4 Mo. 7, 1738, received 11 Mo. 27, 1738-9. A certificate for him to return was signed 7 Mo. 29, 1739. One John Whitsitte, of Grange near Charlemont, and Ruth Robson, of Lurgan Meeting, were married 6 Mo. 11, 1703, at the house of Ann Webb (Minutes of Ulster Province Meeting). Abstract of the will of William Whitsitt, of Dreemore, manor of Dungannon, Ireland, dated 1 Mo. 9, 1732. To daughter Catherine Richardson, farm in Monaghan, parish of Clowish, interest in Soloran in estate of Lord Charlemont, and one fourth of Bernagh in said manor. To son-in-law, William Richardson, Esq., £300. To the Quakers of the meeting near Charlemont. £25. Mentions relatives Thomas Greeves and James Pillar. To relative Joseph Calvert £10. To wife Mary Whitsitt, alias Calvert, and "my only child," Catherine, wife of William Richardson, other bequests.—Recorded in Friends' Records. One George Whitsitt, of 'Birmingham, Chester County, made his will Aug. 7, 1736, and it was probated Oct. 5, 1736. He left to his brother Thomas Bullock "my ivory head cane." Wife Rebecca Whitsitt to be one of the executors. Henry Neil, son of Robert Neal, of Ireland, was married 10 Mo. 19, 1739, at Sadsbury Meeting, to Sarah, daughter of Neal O'Mooney, of Sadsbury, and resided in East Marlborough, Chester County. Children: Ann, m. 5 Mo. 22, 1766, at London Grove Meeting, Benjamin Hutton; William, m. 9 Mo. 24, 1766, at Sadsbury Meeting, Rachel Leonard; Hannah, m. 3 Mo. 22, 1775, at London Grove Meeting, James Pyle. Thomas Nevett, received 3 Mo. 26, 1739, dated 2 Mo. 28, 1738, from Moat Meeting, County West Meath, Ireland. Thomas Nevitt, of Sadsbury, m. in 1743, Catharine, daughter of Isaac Steer, of Leacock, Lancaster County, and died prior to 1760. His widow Catharine was disowned by Warrington Monthly Meeting, in 1761, for marriage to Harry, who was not a Friend. Children of Thomas Nevitt: Isaac who removed from Warrington to Fairfax, Loudon Co., Va., about 1765; Mary, m. 11 Mo. 27, 1766, William Wickersham; Ruth, took a certificate to Hopewell, Va., in 1766; Elizabeth, received a certificate to Hopewell, Va., 1768. Jacob Hinshaw, and wife Rebecca, received 11 Mo. 30, 1741-2, dated 2 Mo. 3, 1741, from [Grange] Meeting, near Charlemont, County Armagh, Ireland. See page 98. "Thomas Hinshaw & Mary Marshall, both of [Grange Meeting near] Charliamount "were" married att ye grange meeting near Charliamount ye 21st of 5 Mo. 1708" (Minutes of Ulster Province Meeting). In 1726, Thomas Hinshaw was appointed a representative from Grange to the Province Meeting. Jacob Hinshaw,1 of Grange, in Parish of Clanfekill, County Tyrone [born about 1710, son of Thomas and Mary Hinshaw2] and Rebecca Mackie, of Kincon, Parish of Kilmore, County Armagh [born about 17 16, daughter of Joseph and Ann Mackie2], were married 9 Mo. (Nov.) 6, 1735, in Friends' Meeting House, in Ballyhagen, County Armagh. Signers were:
Several other families of Hinshaws, who also came to America, were doubtless nearly related to Thomas and Jacob Hinshaw. Jesse Hinshaw, a son of John and Elizabeth Hinshaw, was born in County Tyrone, Ireland.3 He was married (mentioned as of Dunsdead, Parish of Clanfeakill, County Tyrone), 11 Mo. (Jan.) 1, 1745, at Friends' Meeting House, at Grange near Charlemont, to Abigail Marshall, of Grange, daughter of Benjamin and Ruth Marshall (Marriage Book of Ulster Quarterly Meeting). According to Grange Meeting records "It Appears that Jesse Hindshaw, Absolem Hindshaw & Willm Hindshaw with their respective families and also Alice Hindshaw removed to America in the year 1768." They settled in North Carolina, bringing certificates to Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, Orange County, as follows: Jesse Hinshaw and family, received 2 Mo. 4, 1769, Absolem Hinshaw and family, 5 Mo. 6, 1769, and William Hinshaw and family, 11 Mo. 4, 1769. Children of Jesse and Abigail Hinshaw: John, b. 8 Mo. 11, 1747; Benjamin, b. 10 Mo. 2, 1749; Joseph, b. 6 Mo. 7, 1752; William, b. 10 Mo. 30, 1757;4 Ruth, b. 6 Mo. 11, 1763; Abigail, b. 7 Mo. 1, 1766; Jesse, b. 9 Mo. 8, 1770, m. (1) Mary (b. 6 Mo. 29, 1773, in Orange Co., N. C.) daughter of Jacob and Margaret Marshill, and (2) Elizabeth, b. 9 Mo. 29, 1780, daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth Hinshaw. Absolem Hinshaw and Rebecca Haddock, of Parish of Killiman. County Tyrone, Ireland, were married 4 Mo. 15, 1748, at Friends' Meeting at Grange, near Charlemont. Among the signers to the certificate were John Haddock, Jesse, William and Abigail Hinshaw, and Joseph Marshill. (Marriage Book of Ulster Quarterly Meeting.) Children: Elizabeth, b. 10 Mo. 27, 1750, Absolem, b. 8 Mo. 31, 1752; Jacob, b. 8 Mo. 31, 1762; Rebecca, b. 1 Mo. 29, 1764. (Records of Grange Meeting.) They removed to Cane Creek, North Carolina, in 1768. John Hinshaw, of Grange, Parish of Clanfeakel, County Tyrone, and Alice Greer, of Mulloughlocher, Parish of Ann, County Cavan, were married 10 Mo. (Dec.) 10, 1733, in the Meeting House at Bellyhays, County Cavan. Among signers were: John Hinshaw, Alice Hinshaw, Robert Greer, Mary Greer, Jacob Hinshaw, Deborah Greer, Susanna Greer, Thomas Greer, Benjamin Marshall. At the Meeting at Grange near Charlemont, 1 Mo. 25, 175S, one William Hinshaw produced an acknowledgment for marriage by a "priest." Jacob Hinshaw, son of William and Mary, died 6 Mo. 10, 1779. (Cane Creek Records.) One Alice Hinshaw died 9 Mo. 25, 1786. (Cane Creek Records). William Hinshaw, of Grange, Parish of Clanfekil, County Tyrone, and Mary Courtney, of Ballyinaconn, Parish Mackerallin. County Down, were married 2 Mo. (Apr.) 1. 1742, at Meeting House, near Ballinderry, County Antrim. One Margaret Hinshaw signed certificate. John Hinshaw, of Grange, Parish of Clanfekil, County Tyrone, and Rebecca Wethereld, of Mulladry, Parish Kilmore, County Armagh, were married, 1 Mo. 21, 1744, at Ballyhagen. William and Margaret Hinshaw and others signed certificate. Margaret Hinshaw, of Grange, County Tyrone, and Joseph Haddock, of Strangmore, Parish of Clanfekil, said Parish, were married 5 Mo. (July) 1, 1747, at Grange, near Charlemont. Signed by Jesse, William, and Abigail Hinshaw. David Glan and Dorothy Henshaw declared their intentions of marriage at the meeting at Grange, near Charlemont, 11 Mo. 13, and 11 Mo. 27, 1748. At the meeting, 2 Mo. 13, 1750, William Hinshaw, the younger, was disowned for marrying a young woman of Ballinderry Meeting by a "priest." 1. Marriage Book Ulster Quarterly Meeting, 33. 2. Records of Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, North Carolina. 3. Records of Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, North Carolina. 4. Records of Grange Meeting, Ireland. Thomas Wilson, and family, received 1 Mo. 27, 1742, dated 12 Mo. 25, 1740, from [Grange] Meeting, near Charlemont, County Armagh, Ireland. Mary Sidgwick, received 9 Mo. 26, 1743, dated 9 Mo. 7, 1741, from Meeting near Ballinderry, County Antrim, Ireland. Samuel Morton, received 7 Mo. 29, 1750, dated 2 Mo. 13, 1750, from Grange Meeting, near Charlemont. One John Morton, of Minalan Mtg. and Sarah Fletcher of Lisburn Mtg., were married at Lisburn Mtg., 3 Mo. 1. 1712.—Minutes of Ulster Prov. Mtg. Jeremiah Starr and Robert Greer, unmarried, "two young men Lately arrivd from Ireland, produc'd Certificates [New Garden Mo. Mtg., 7 Mo. 30, 1749] from ye Moly meeting of Coat Hill in ye North of Ireland Bearing date ye 23d of ye 2d Mo. 1749." At New Garden Mo. Mtg. 11 Mo. 24, 1753, Robert Greer requested a certificate to return to Ireland, but at the meeting 12 Mo. 29, 1753, report is made that "ye Vessel being Ready to sail we understand he is gone without it." John Russell, dated 12 Mo. 10, 1754, from Men's Meeting, Dublin, Ireland, received 12 Mo. 27, 1755. At New Garden Monthly Meeting, 10 Mo. 8, 1763, "John Russell being about to transport himself into Ireland Requests our Certificate Directed to the Men's Meeting of Dublin." Granted 11 Mo. 4, 1763. At New Garden, 10 Mo. 6, 1764, "John Russel being returned from Ireland Produced a Certificate from the Men's Meeting in Dublin, bearing date ye 29th of ye 5th mo. last." John Russel, b. 1 Mo. 6, 1735, son of Thomas and Sarah Russel, of Ireland, probably of Dublin, was married 11 Mo. 11, 1767, to Hannah, daughter of John and Jane (McNab) Fincher. They resided in Chester County until 1779, when they removed their certificates of membership from Kennett to Pipe Creek Monthly Meeting, Frederick County, Md., and lived for a time near Union Bridge. Their final settlement was near New Market, Frederick County, where he died 11 Mo. 14, 1815. Children were: Thomas, b. 9 Mo. 16, 1768, m. Sarah Roberts; Sarah, b. 4 Mo. 10, 1770, m. John Roberts; Jesse b. 3 Mo. 17, 1772, m. Content Garretson; Mary, b. 2 Mo. 11, 1774, m. Joseph L. Scholfield; Rachel b. 6 Mo. 30, 1776, d. aged 7 years; James, b. 4 Mo. 3, 1779, m. Susan Janney; Abel, b. 5 Mo. 23, 1781, m. Elizabeth Roberts; John, b. 5 Mo. 7, 1783, m. Ann Hughes; Hannah, b. 12 Mo. 29, 1785, d. 9 Mo. 2, 1807.—See Russell Genealogy, 1-2 (by Isaac S. Russel, New Market, Md., 1887). BRADFORD MONTHLY MEETING
In Chester County. Established in 1737, from Newirk, or Kennett and Concord. Evan Wilkinson, unmarried, from Ballinacree Meeting, County Antrim, Ireland, dated 10 Mo. 2, 1736, received 5 Mo. 21, 1737. "Hath Lived within the bounds of this Meeting from his Childhood, his parents were Creditable friends among us." Original on file. Ann Wilkinson, from Ballinacree Meeting, County Antrim, received 4 Mo. 15, 1738. She was disowned by Bradford Monthly Meeting, 11 Mo. 15, 1740, for marriage by a "priest" to Ferguson Graham. Joseph Wilkinson, unmarried, from Ballinacree Meeting, County Antrim, dated 2 Mo. 23, 1737, received 12 Mo. 16, 1737. A "Son to Francis Wilkinson Deced." Has lived within "the Compass of this Meetg from his Childhood." Francis Wilkinson seems to have resided near Ballinacree, or Ballymoney, County Antrim, and besides his son Joseph, probably had other children: Evan, Ann, and Samuel, all of whom came to Pennsylvania about the same time as Joseph. At Ulster Province Meeting, 5 Mo. 2, 1698, Francis Wilkinson was appointed to inquire into the "clearness" of John Hunter, of Ballymoney, who desired to marry Jane Sterling, of Coleraine, County Antrim. Joseph Wilkinson came over to Pennsylvania in 1737 and was married 10 Mo. 31, 1740, to Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Fisher, of Kennett, Chester County. They resided in East Cain, in the latter county, but afterwards resided at other places. He died 9 Mo. 10, 1760, having had the following children: Frances, b. 12 Mo. 15, 1741; Susanna, b. 12 Mo. 29, 1743; Thomas, b. 12 Mo. 5, 1745; Elizabeth, b. 6 Mo. 30, 1748; Joseph, b. 7 Mo. 17, 1750; Mary, b. 3 Mo. 20, 1752; Ruth, b. 7 Mo. 27, 1754; Alice, b. 12 Mo. 10, 1755. The widow, Elizabeth Wilkinson, and her family removed within the limits of Warrington Monthly Meeting, York County, not long after the death of her husband, and she was married a second time to Joseph, son of Peter and Sarah (Gilpin) Cook, of Warrington. She died at York early in the nineteenth century and was buried in Friends' graveyard at York. Francis Wilkinson, son of Joseph and Elizabeth, m. 4 Mo. 11, 1770, Hannah Mode daughter of Alexander and Rebecca, and settled in London Grove Township, Chester County. Children: Rebecca, m. William Hoopes; Elizabeth, m. James Trimble; Joseph; Hannah, m. Joseph Pennock; Francis, m. Phebe Pusey; Susanna, m. Moses Way; Mode; Amy, m. Thomas Hicks; WiUiam; Ruth, m. John Edge.—Hist. Chester County, 763-4. James Moote, of Ballynacreemore, in his will dated Dec. 29, 1727, mentions his daughter Frances Wilkinson and her son William Wilkinson. In 1678 and 1681, WiUiam Wilkinson, of Antrim, had his goods taken for tithes.—Stockdale, A Great try of Oppression, 97, 166. In 1681 Thomas Wilkinson, of Antrim, had his goods seized for tithes.—Ibid., 166. Samuel Wilkinson, of Antrim Meeting, and Mary Sedgwick, of Ballinderry Mtg., m. 4 Mo. 24, 1713, at the house of Widow Boyes. Elizabeth Wilkinson and Eli Crocket, both of Ballymoney Meeting, m. 11 Mo. 4, 1715, at house of James Moore. At a meeting in County Antrim, 10 Mo. 2, 1708, one Joseph Wilkinson received a certificate to take with him to England, "whither he goes to improve himself in the world." William Purdy, unmarried, from Ballynacree Meeting, County Antrim, dated 2 Mo. 23, 1737, received 4 Mo. 15, 1738. In 1671, in County Tyrone, one William Purdy, for tithes had taken 14 loads of "Turf," some " Hey," and barley, valued at 2s. 6d.—Stockdale, 6. In 1674 William Purdy, of County Tyrone, had taken for "Clerks Wages" "a Pick-ax," valued at 2s. 6d.—Ibid., 220. One Thomas Purdy and Ann Coots, "Als Ridge," were married at the meeting at Grange, near Charlemont, 2 Mo. 16, 1701.—Minutes of Ulster Province Meeting. William Sheppard, unmarried, from Grange, near Charlemont, Ireland, dated 4 Mo. 20, 1739, received 8 Mo. 18, 1739. He is a birthright member. His parents removed "from this neighborhood (when he ye Sd William was but young) to a small meeting Some miles Distant from us, Yet under our Care, being in ye Compas our mens meeting. Among signers were Benjamin and John Shepherd, Jacob, Joseph, and Benjamin Marshill, and Lawrence and Benjamin Hobson. Original on file. William Shepherd, of Menallen Meeting, now Adams County, son of Solomon Shepherd, deceased, of Ireland, was married 3 Mo. 31, 1749, at London Grove Meeting, to Richmunday Wood, of London Grove, Chester County. Among his children were Mary, Solomon, Thomas, and William Shepherd. Thomas Paine, unmarried, from Mountmellick Meeting, Queen's County, Ireland, dated 2 Mo. 26, 1738, received 9 Mo. 17, 1743. He "for Some-time hath made profession with us and Served an Aprentiseship within ye Compass of our Monthly Meeting." Original on file. William Pim. Richard Pim, of Leicestershire, England, in his old age, about 1655, removed to Ireland. His son William m. Dorothy (d. 9 Mo. 1, 1685; buried at Tineal, near Rosenallis). daughter of William Neal, and went with his family also to settle in Ireland, in the same year. John Pim, son of William, b. in Leicestershire; d. 5 Mo. 29, 1718, at Mountrath, Ireland; m. in 1663, Mary (d. 2 Mo. 5, 1726), daughter of William Pleadwell, and lived at Mountrath, Ireland. He had eleven children, of whom the eldest was Moses, b. 7 Mo. 19, 1664, d. 1 Mo. 5, 1716 (killed by machinery of his rope mill), m. Ann, daughter of Christopher and Phillipa Raper. Ann Raper, b. 1 Mo. 9, 1664, at Ivan Mills, near Ballinakill, Queen's County, d. 3 Mo. 18, 1743; buried at Mountrath. William Pim, son of Moses, was born at Lackah, Queen's County, 11 Mo. 15, 1692; m. 11 Mo. 2, 17 15, at Mountrath, Dorothy, daughter of Thomas and Dorothy Jackson. She was born 8 Mo. 22, 1694, at Killenare. William Pim and family came to Pennsylvania in 1730, and settled in the Great Valley, near East Cain Meeting, Chester County. Here Dorothy died 1 Mo. 15, 1732. He married, secondly, 1 Mo. 13, 1733, at Concord Meeting, Ann, widow of James Gibbons, of Westtown Township, Chester County. For many years he served as clerk of Bradford Monthly Meeting, as elder in East Cain Meeting, and as Justice of the Peace. He died 10 Mo. 11, 1751, in East Cain Township. In his will, dated 1751. he mentions his sister, Susanna Purdy. Children of William and Dorothy (Jackson) Pim: Moses, b. at Killenare, Queen's Co., 10 Mo. 27, 1716, d. unmarried; Sarah, b. 4 Mo. 23, 1719, at Durrow, Kilkenny, m. at Cain Meeting, 9 Mo. 2, 1737, George, son of Aaron and Rose Mendenhall; Thomas, b. at Durrow, 3 Mo. 1. 1721, d. East Cain, 10 Mo. 3, 1786, m. at East Cain Meeting, Frances, daughter of James Wilkinson, late of Wilmington, Delaware (children: Moses; Ann, m. John Edge; William; Thomas; Hannah, m. James Miller; Sarah, m. Amos Lee; John; Rachel, m. Nathan Spencer); Hannah, b. Durrow, 4, Mo. 18, 1723, d. 10 Mo.. 1756, m. Thomas Paine; Richard, b. Arkhill, Co. Kildare, 10 Mo. 10, 1728, d. East Cain, 4 Mo. 12, 1760, m. Hannah Lewis; Mary, b. East Cain, 6 Mo. 6, 1731, d. 1 Mo. 30, 1732.—See Cope, Smedley Genealogy, 161-4, History of Chester County, 685. William Pim wrote a long letter,1 dated 6th of 2d Mo., 1732, to his uncles, Thomas and Joshua Pim, of Montrath, Queen's Co., Ireland, in which he tells of loss of his wife and youngest child by the small-pox, then prevalent in the colony. He speaks of it as the third visitation of the disease since the settlement of the country by the Enghsh. He had lost a servant, Jo: Gavin, by it, making three out of his family of 12 persons. "I am in expectation of Ja: Nicholson in a little time, per whom I expect an acct from Ireland & if he dont bring me a servant or servants I shall be in great want, for I am soe now. I hired an Indifferent hand lately at Husbandry & it cost me 36s for 4 weeks (& diet)." "This Country I find most agreeable to my Health (else it is wth working harder): this country also is governed by more agreeable Laws than that." The following letter2 was written by an uncle of the emigrant, William Pim, to his grand-nephew, Joshua Pirn, of Usher's Island, Dublin: "Tullylast, Co. Kildare,
"Joshua Pim,11th of 11 mo. 1768. Loving Cousin, In answer to thy request mentioned in thine of the 9th instant I send thee this: I can go no further back than to my great grandfather Richard Pim, who before his marriage lived a considerable time, a cook, with (I think he was called) Sir John Stanhope, ancestor to the Earl of Chesterfield. I heard of but one brother that he had, called Robert Pim, who he said came into Ireland when young, of whom he heard no more. We suppose he was that Robert Pim that Sir John Temple mentions to have been murdered by the Rebels at Graigue-ne-manch, in the County of Kilkenny. Richard Pim, before his marriage, had acquired what they call three livings; I suppose that to be three small pieces of land with each a dwelling on it. He took a liking to a neighbor's daughter, a comely young girl of thirteen years of age, and as he and his fellow servants rode out on a merry-making, one of his fellow-servants took a pillow behind him and found her playing ball with other girls and asked her to go with them, which she did (it is probable that this was by conceit) and the said Richard married her and sent her to a boarding school for two years and then took her home at fifteen years of age. By her he had my grandfather, William Pim, and several daughters; one married Godfrey Cantrell and one married to William Neale. My grandfather, William Pim, married Dorothy, the sister of William Neal, and dwelt if I remember right, at his grandfather Neales house in Castledunnington, in Leistershire, in the year 1641; and in the year 1655 Godfrey Cantrell and family came into Ireland and Richard Pim, then very old, came with him and some time after died at Godfrey Cantrell' s house, near Rosenallis (in the Queen's County), and was buried in the Church at Rosenallis. The same year my grandfather William Pim, and William Neal and families came over and settled in the County of Cavan, where after some years my grandfather died and was buried in his orchard at his own request, tho of the profession of the church of England; about which time William Edmundson and Richard Jackson and some other Friends retnoved to the Queen's Co. William Edmundson settled near Rosenallis, Richard Jackson and my father near Mount Melick. My father had his mother to take care of, and one sister, Ellen, afterwards the wife of Thomas Nevitt. My father joined partnership with Richard Jackson in the Butchering trade, and at Mount Mehck became acquainted with my mother, Mary, the daughter of William Pleadwell, who was born at Normanton upon Sere, in Nothinghamshire. My grandfather, William Pleadwell and his wife came into Ireland in 1655, they being Baptists, and settled near Killaloe. He had by his first wife Tobias Pleadwell, and by a second wife John Pleadwell, and by a third wife Thomas Pleadwell and my mother and two other daughters, one of whom was married to William Neale; and some time after my grandfather settled near Killaloe he was convinced by the ministry of Edward Burroughs and died not after; and as his son Tobias Pleadwell was convinced some time before his father and settled at Mount Melick, my grandmother and her children came to dwell at Mountmelick, and in the year 1663 my father & mother married and settled at Mountmelick; but in the year 1665 my father and several other friends were sent to prisoners for Tythe to Maryborough Gaol, where they continued prisoners for several years, though he had nothing titheable but a garden; so he got a house in Maryborough for my mother to dwell in and by favour of the Gaoler or Gaolers followed some business in his trade at Maryborough, and after they were discharged from the prison he took a farm at Coalnecart, part of the lands thy father now holds, and in 1678 or 1679 he went to live at Mountrath. As to the feme and place of the births and burials of my brothers and sisters I refer thee to the abstract of the monthly meeting records of births and burials of Mount Melick Monthly Meeting, which abstract, so far as relates to Mountrath meeting is mostly in my handwriting. I suppose it is in the hands of John Clendenon. Thomas Pim.
P. S. Richard Jackson, before mentioned, had three sons, John, Thomas and Robert, and one daughter, Sarah, the wife of Nicholas Gribble. John I had no acquaintance with: Thomas, thy grandfather, lived at Killenare, and Robert at Mountmelick: thy grandmother, Sarah Pim, was born at Killenare. Thou may get all their genealogies out of the records of births and burials of Mountmelick monthly meeting."Thomas Pim, the writer of the above letter, was the sixth son of John and Mary Pim. He resided at Mountrath until about 1735, when he went to live with his son's family at Tullylast, County Kildare. He died a few months after he wrote the letter, in his 86th year. He had two sons who had large families. My mother was his son Robert's eldest child. She was 16 years old when he died, and often spoke of him with great respect. His last grandchild, John Pirn, died last summer in his 89th year. His sister, Hannah, died in her 91st year in 1849. There are now not any of his descendants of the name of Pim among Friends.—Robert Goodbody writing in 1852.
1. A full copy of this letter is in the collection of Gilbert Cope, of West Chester, Pa. 2. Cope, Smedley Genealogy, 162-64. GOSHEN MONTHLY MEETING
In Chester County. Established in 1722, from Chester. Joshua Marsh, wife Elizabeth, children, Jonathan, Peter, and Abigail, received 9 Mo. 15, 1736, dated 4 Mo. 2, 1736, from Grange Meeting, near Charlemont. See Marsh family. John Marsh and wife Elizabeth, received 8 Mo. 18, 1736, dated 4 Mo. 2, 1736, from Grange Meeting, near Charlemont. Thomas McMollin [McMillan] and wife Deborah, received 8 Mo. 15, 1739, dated 3 Mo. 6, 1738, from Ballinacree County Antrim, Ireland. See McMillan family. William Vance, wife Elizabeth, dated 2 Mo. 3, 1741, from [Grange] Meeting, near Charlemont, Ireland. Thomas Parvin, received 7 Mo. 10, 1750, dated 2 Mo. 24, 1750, from Dublin, Ireland. NOTTINGHAM MONTHLY MEETING
In Cecil County, Maryland. Established from New Garden in 1730. Mary Norton, daughter of Edward Norton, "of ye County of Armagh," Ireland, was married 9 Mo. 24, 1733, under auspices of Nottingham Mo. Mtg., to Richard Brown, son of William Brown, of West Nottingham. Edward Norton, of West Nottingham, Chester County, son of Edward Norton of "ye City and Parish of Armagh," Ireland, deceased, was married 8 Mo. 16, 1739, at Nottingham, Mo. Mtg., to Elizabeth Brown, daughter of William Brown. Joseph McRannells, received n Mo. 27, 1737, dated 2 Mo. 27, 1737, from Grange Meeting, Ireland. Samuel Rutter, received 11 Mo. 17, 1753; dated 3 Mo. 30, 1753, from Dublin, Ireland. Elizabeth Crainer, unmarried, dated 7 Mo. 7, 1754, from Ballyhagen Meeting, Ireland. Original certificate in Friends' Historical Library of Swarthmore College. Joseph Tremble [Trimble], son of William and Mary Tremble, of Ireland, was married 11 Mo. 31, 1744, at Nottingham Meeting to Sarah, daughter of John and Hannah Churchman, of East Nottingham. Joseph Trimble, or Tremble, as the name was generally written, emigrated from Ireland when some fifteen years of age, probably about 1730, and served a time of farming and wagoning with William Brown, a miller, of Nottingham. In 1741 he settled on a farm near by, which remained in the family until 1856. His wife was born 2 Mo. 17, 1716, and died 8 Mo. 2, 1750, leaving three children. Joseph was married, secondly, 2 Mo. 22, 1753, to Ann Chandler, daughter of William and Ann, of London Grove. She died 12 Mo. 31, 1793. Children: William, b. 10 Mo. 1, 1745, d. 5 Mo. 30, 1819; John, b. 12 Mo. 16, 1746, d. about 1809, near Chillicothe, Ohio; Mary, b. 7 Mo. 11, 1748; Joseph, b. 10 Mo. 29, 1754, d. 12 Mo. 5, 1831; Thomas, b. 5 Mo. 4, 1756; Jacob, b. 2 Mo. 27, 1758; Sarah, b. 5 Mo. 23, 1760, m. Job Sidwell; James, b. 4 Mo. 20, 1762, d. 12 Mo. 5, 183!; Elisha, b. 3 Mo. 18, 1765, d. 8 Mo. 28, 1848. One William Trimble, born 1705, in County Antrim, Ireland, and James Trimble, probably a brother, came over from Ireland, and in 1734-35 joined Friends at Concord Monthly Meeting. William was married 9 Mo. 13, 1734, to Ann, daughter of John and Martha Palmer, of Concord, and died 8 Mo. 5, 1795, in Concord Township, now Delaware County. James Trimble, b. in Ireland, June 24, 1707, arrived in Pennsylvania about 6 Mo., 1719, and died 11 Mo. 21, 1792, in West Bradford, Chester County. He married 10 Mo. 3, 1735, Mary Palmer, another daughter of John and Martha. For a more extended account of the Trimbles see Futhey and Cope's History of Chester County, 748-750. Barnabas McNamee, of Ireland, and Mary Pearson, daughter of John and Margaret, of Middletown, now Delaware County, were married 4 Mo. 8, 1756, at Nottingham. SADSBURY MONTHLY MEETING
In Lancaster County. Established in 1737, from New Garden. Samuel Wilkison, received 12 Mo. 6, 1737-8, dated 2 Mo. 23. 1737, from Ballinacree Meeting, County Antrim, Ireland. James Hunter, recieved 1 Mo. 6, 1738, dated 3 Mo. 10. 1736, from Ballinacree Meeting, County Antrim, Ireland, John Hunter of Lisburn Mtg. and Elizabeth Matthews, of Lurgan, were married at Lurgan, 10 Mo. 24, 1701.—Minutes of Ulster Prov. Mtg. William Hunter, County Londonderry, in 1671, had taken 6 "stooks of Barley, 20 stooks of Oats and one load of Hey," valued at 11s. 2d.—Stockdale, A Great Cry of Oppression, 1. In 1674, one John Hunter, County Antrim, had his goods seized for tithes.—Ibid., 35. In 1678, John Hunter, of Ballinderry Parish, County Antrim, had his goods taken for tithes.—Ibid., 95. In 1681, John and James Hunter, of Ballinderry Parish, County Antrim, had goods taken for tithes.—Ibid., 169. One John Hunter, of Ballymoney Meeting, and Jane Sterling, of Coleraine Meeting were married 5 Mo. 12, 1698, at the house of Sarah Melvin in Coleraine, County Antrim. Nicholas Steer, received 1 Mo. 6, 1737-8, dated 3 Mo. 23, 1734, from Lisburn, County Antrim, Ireland. Thomas Bolough, or Bulla, received 4 Mo. 4, 1739, dated 3 Mo. 19, 1738, from Grange, Ireland. One Richard Bullough and Rachel Morton, both of Minnallan Mtg., were married 8 Mo. 20, 1 71 5, at Minnallan, Ireland.—Minutes of Ulster Prov. Mtg. Thomas Bollo, of Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County, Pa., yeoman, was married, 12 Mo. 10, 1742-43, at Sadsbury Friends' Meeting House, to Anne Williams, of East Sadsbury Twp., Chester Co. , Pa., widow of Zacharias Williams. James Love, received 9 Mo. 12, 1741, dated 2 Mo. 17, 1739, from Ballyhays Meeting, County Cavan, Ireland; also a certificate from New Garden [Ireland], dated 8 Mo. 28, 1738. Married Faithful Richardson, at Leacock Meeting, 12 Mo. 13, 1745. Samuel Boyd, received 10 Mo. 6, 1742, dated 5 Mo. 8, 1741, from Grange, Ireland. William Courtney, dated 5 Mo. 1. 1763, from Ballinacree Meeting, County Antrim. WARRINGTON MONTHLY MEETING
In York County. Established in 1747, from Sadsbury. William Delap and wife Ruth, received 11 Mo. 16, 1747-8, dated 5 Mo. 6, 1747, from Ballyhagen Meeting, County Armagh, Ireland. They settled in Menallen Township, now Adams County. Children: George, b. 11 Mo. 1. 1743-4; Sarah, b. 1 Mo. 2, 1748-9; Robert, b. 8 Mo. 15, 1750; John, b. 9 Mo. 15, 1752; William, b. 2 Mo. 26, 1755; Abigail, b. 9 Mo. 8, 1757, d. 8 Mo. 23, 1758; Mary, b. 10 Mo 8, 1759. Daniel Winter, received 3 Mo. 21, 1748, dated 4 Mo. 5, 1737, from Ballyhagen, County Armagh, Ireland. He resided in Menallen Township, now Adams County. Thomas Wilson, received, 4 Mo. 17, 174S, dated 4 Mo. 2, 1736, from [Grange] Meeting, near Charlemont, County Armagh, Ireland. A certificate for him and his wife to Fairfax Mo. Mtg., Va., was signed by Warrington, 4 Mo. 17, 1749. Thomas Blackkurn and wife, received 3 Mo. 19, 1750, dated 4 Mo. 18, 1749, from Ballyhagan, County Armagh, Ireland. Thomas Blackburn, of Ballyhagen, Parish of Killmore, Co. Armagh, was married 4 Mo. 17, 1742, at Ballyhagen Meeting to Alice Hewit, daughter of Benjamin Hewit, of Clandroet, said parish and county. Marriage certificate signed by Benjamin, Robert, John, Mark, and Alice Hewitt and Antho. Blackburn.—Marriage Books of Ulster Quarterly Meeting, p. 64. He settled in Menallen Township, now Adams County, where he died about 1794, his will dated Jan. 6, 1784, being probated Nov. 1, 1794. He mentions his wife Alice and children, Thomas and John. William Nevet, received 8 Mo. 19, 1751, dated 1 Mo. 10, 1750-1, from Moat, County West Meath, Ireland. William Nevitt, son of Joseph and Mary Nevitt, was born 9 Mo. 3, 1718, at Mountrath, Queen's County, Ireland. About 1750 he came to Pennsylvania, and settled at Warrington, York County. He m. 5 Mo. 10, 1753, at Warrington Meeting, Hannah, daughter of Peter and Sarah (Gilpin) Cook, of Warrington. In 1770, he made a visit to his relatives in Ireland, taking a certificate to Moat Meeting; he returned in the summer of 1771. In 1788, he was "recommended" a minister of the Society and in that service frequently visited meetings in Pennsylvania, Maryland. and Virginia. He died without issue. 8 Mo. 15, 1800, in his 52d year. In his will1 he mentions Isaac, Ruth, and Elizabeth Nevitt, children of his brother, Thomas Nevitt, deceased. William, son of William and Elizabeth Neviit, was born 1 Mo. 25, 1714, at Mountmellick. William Nevitt, son of William and Ann Nevitt, b. 2 Mo. 22, 1726, at Mountmellick Queen's County, Ireland. William Nevitt and Ann Hancock, both of Lisbum, County Antrim, m. 6 Mo. 7, 1753, at Hillsborough, County Down. 1. Recorder's Office, York, Pa. William Pillar, dated 6 Mo. 16, 1765, from Grange near Charlemont, received 6 Mo. 13, 1767. He returned to Ireland in 1769. Finley McGrew, a Scotch-Irishman, who was assessed in London Grove Township, Chester County, as early as 1729, and as late as 1735, became a member of Sadsbury Monthly Meeting, Lancaster County, in 1 746. He settled at an early date in Tyrone Township, now Adams County, where he died about 1766. By his wife Elizabeth he had the following children: James b. 12 Mo. 27, 1744-5, m. Jane: Nathan, b. 9 Mo. 26, 1746, m. Martha Hendricks; William b. 1 Mo. 24, 1748-9; Finley, b. 2 Mo. 23, 1751, m. Mary Hendricks; Isabelle, b. 3 Mo. 4, 1752, d. 8 Mo. 1, 1752; Peter, b. 5 Mo. 19, 1755, m. Patience Hendricks; Archibald, b. 4 Mo. 14, 1757. James McGrew, kinsman, doubtless a brother of Finley McGrew, brought a certificate for himself and wife from Hopewell, Va., to Warrington Monthly Meeting, in 1750. A James Magrew, probably the same, was assessed in London Grove, Chester County in 1729 and 1734. Children of James and Mary McGrew: Finley, b. 1 Mo. 13, 1735-6, m. Dinah Cox, and removed about 1787 to the Redstone region of Pennsylvania; Deborah, b. 7 Mo. 14, 1739, m. Joseph Blackburn, in 1758; Ann, b. 4 Mo. 29, 1741, m. Newlin; Nathan, b. 3 Mo. 10, 1743, d. 1769, m. Rachel Blackburn, in 1767; Simon, b. 11 Mo. 5, 1745; Mary, b. 11 Mo. 5, 1748, m. Moses Blackburn, 101767; James, b. 6 Mo. 25, i75i,m. Elizabeth McFerran, about 1774, and removed to the Redstone region, about 1794. Children of James and Elizabeth (McFeiran) McGrew: Mary, b. 3 Mo. 10, 1774, m. Joel Hutton; Nathan, m. Elizabeth Winder: Jane; James B.; Deborah, m. Samuel McGrew; Joseph; Simon ,: Finley; Thomas; John B.; Jacob; Archibald, m. Susanna Gilbert. Francis Hobson, and wife Ann, from Ballyhagen Meeting, County Armagh, Ireland, dated 7 Mo. 4, 1764, received 1 Mo. 12, 1765. Francis Hobson, of Drumilly, Parish of Loughgall, County Armagh, m. 9 Mo. 25. 1741, at Ballyhagen Meeting, Ann, daughter of Joseph Mackey, of Kincon, Parish of Kilmore, County Armagh. He died 12 Mo. 17, 1777, aged 72 years, and was buried at Menallen. Children: Mary, m. ______ Biackney, about 1768; Elizabeth, m. 7 Mo. 17, 1777, at Warrington, Richard Blatchford; Ann, m. 3 Mo. 22, 1770, at Warrington, Henry Atherton; Francis, m. 12 Mo. 12, 1770, at Menallen, Susanna Jones (he made a trip to Ireland about 1772); Phebe, m. 5 Mo. 18, 1775, at Warrington, Richard Atherton; Joseph, b. 1746, m. Ann , about 1778, and removed to near Richmond, Jefferson County, Ohio, about 1800; Robert, being in ill health in 1776, was placed in care of Dr. David Jemmison, of York, York County. Elizabeth Wright, from meeting of Grange near Charlemont, Ireland, dated 12 Mo. 25, 1774, received 10 Mo. 14, 1775. Joseph Hewit and family, dated 4 Mo. 22, 1772, from Ballyhagen Meeting, Ireland, received 9 Mo. 12, 1772. A son Geoge, b. 12 Mo. 25, 1750; d. 2 Mo. 15. 1841; m. 11 Mo. 16, 1774, at Menallen Meeting, Deborah, daughter of John and Mary Morton, of Menallen. Children of Jonathan and Ann Hewitt, of Menallen: Abel. b. 3 Mo. 5, 1779; Sarah, b. 11 Mo. 24, 1780: Joseph, b. 9 Mo. 25, 1782. One John Hewit, of Ballyhagen Meeting and Isabelle Hoope, of Lurgan Meeting were married, 2 Mo. 16, 1701, at Lurgan, Ireland. One Mark Hewit, of Clandrule, Parish Kilmore Conntv Armagh, and Mary McKetrick, of Derryerue, Parish Loughgall, County Armagh, were married 1 Mo. 25, 1742, at Ballyhagen. Among signers were: Hannah and Jonas McKetrick, John, Robert, and Benjamin Hewit, John Allen. SOME IRISH CERTIFICATES RECEIVED AT MEETINGS IN NEW JERSEY AND DELAWARE
HADDONFIELD (FORMERLY GLOUCESTER) MO. MTG., N. J. Established in 1695. Mark Newey and Will: Battes, dated 6 Mo. 21, 1681, from Bellicare Mtg., County Wicklow, Ireland. Thomas Dennis. "Dwelt Amongst us about nine years." From Moat Mtg., County West Meath, near Athlone, Ireland, dated 1 Mo. 26, 1682. Jonathan Wood, wife and children, "he Being A Weaver by trade hath followed that Imployment untill It did soo fale that he & his famely Could not Live Comfortably of itt & being his Stock but smale And farme Lytle." Two daughters and one son, dated 5 Mo. S, 1683, from Ballyhagen, County Armagh, Ireland. Thomas Thackara, wife Esther, and children, from Dublin, dated 6 Mo. 16, 1681. SALEM MONTHLY MEETING, N. J.
Established in 1676. Joseph White, son of Samuel and ? White, born 1 Mo. 20, 1651-2, in a town called Sulyrane, in North Hampshire, England. He went from England to Ireland in 1672, taking ship 7 Mo. 25. Afterwards he married "Elizabeth Church, who came from Dolbay of the Woulds in Lestershire in England to Ireland." They belong to New Garden Mtg., "their dwelling place and took Ship at Dublin in Ireland for West Jersey in Amerika who After eight weeks, two days Arrived to Elsinburgh," West Jersey, 9 Mo. 17, 1681, together with servants as followeth." Hugh Middleton whoose father was of Lestershire and his mother of Glocestershire. "Allsoo Mathias bellore (?) his father and mother weere English people. "3ly Hannah Asbury her father an Englishman her mother borne in Ireland." THE IRISH QUAKER SETTLERS OF NEWTON, NOW IN CAMDEN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY Thomas Sharp, "woolstead comber," of Dublin, nephew of of Anthony Sharp, a wealthy Quaker merchant of that city, was one of the leaders of the Irish Quaker settlement of Newton, N. J. He has left the following interesting account of his immigration and settlement, written in 1718:1 "Let it be remembered yt upon ye nineteenth day of September, in ye year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and eighty-one, Mark Newby, William Bates, Thomas Thackara, George Goldsmith and Thomas Sharp, set saile from ye Harbor belonging to ye city of Dublin in ye Kingdom of Ireland, in a pink called Ye owner's adventure, whereof Thomas Lurtin, of London, was commander, and being taken sick in ye city, his mate John Dagger, officiated in his place; in order to transport us, and yt we might settle ourselves in West Jersey, in America. And by ye good providence of God we arrived in ye Capes of Delaware ye eighteenth day of November following, and so up ye bay until we came to Elsenburg, and were landed with our goods and families at Salem, where we abode ye winter. But it being very favourable weather and purchasing a boat amongst us, we had an opportunity to make search up and down in yt which was called ye Third tenth, which had been reserved for ye proprietors dwelling in Ireland, where we might find a place suitable for so many of us to settle down together, being in these early times somewhat doubtful of ye Indians, and at last pitched down by yt which is now called Newton creek, as ye most invitingist place to settle down by, and then we went to Burlington, and made application to ye commissioners yt we might have warrants directed to Daniel Leeds, ye Surveyor General, to survey unto every of us, so much land as by ye constitution at yt time was alloted for a settlement being five hundred acres, or yt we had a right to, for a taking up it under, which accordingly we obtained. "At which time also Robert Zane, who came from ye city of Dublin, and had been settled in Salem, four years before, joined in with us who had a right to a tenth, Mark Newby to a twentieth, William Bates to a twentieth, Thomas Thackara to a twentieth, Thomas Sharp (out of his uncle Anthony Sharp's right) a twentieth, and George Goldsmith (under ye notion of Thomas Starkey's right) a tenth; all which of us excepting William Bates who took his on ye southerly side of Newton creek, we took our land in one tract together for one thousand seven hundred and fifty acres, bounding in ye forks of Newton creek and so over to Cooper's creek and by a line of marked trees to a small branch of ye fork creek and so down yt same as by ye certficate of it standing upon record in ye Secretary's office it doth appear. And after some time finding some incoveniency in having our land in common together being at ye time settled at ye place now called Newton in ye manner of a town for fear as aforesaid at which being removed we came to an agreement to divide. George Goldsmith he chose the head of the creek, Thomas Sharp the forks or lower end of the land next towards the river by which means the rest kept to their settlements without any disadvantage to themselves. And so ye land was divided according to every man's right. * * *
Given under my hand the 3rd month, 3rd, 1718.
Thomas Sharp." Thomas Sharp was Recorder and Clerk of the Courts of Gloucester County for many years. He was also a surveyor and made several important maps of the early settlements which are reproduced in facsimile in Judge Clement's First Settler's of Newton. He acted as agent for his uncle, Anthony Sharp, of Dublin, who had large holdings in New Jersey. In 1684, he was made Commissioner of Highways, and in the following year was returned as a member of the Legislature. In 1700, he became Judge of the Gloucester County Courts. Thomas Sharp was married in 1684, to Sarah Fearn, of Darby. A daughter Elizabeth, m. 8 Mo. 3, 1709, at Darby, John, son of John and Mary Hallowell, and resided at Darby and Newton. Children of John and Elizabeth Hallowell: Sarah, b. 11 Mo. 16, 1710, d. 7 Mo. 17, 1747, m. John Hurst; Samuel, b. 3 Mo. 10, 1713; John, b. 7 Mo. 10, 1715, d. 7 Mo. 26, 1778, m. Hannah Lewis; Thomas, b. 11 Mo. 13, 1717, d. 8 Mo. 29, 1788, m. Ann. Thomson; Joseph, b. 12 Mo. 28, 1721, d. 5 Mo. 8, 1792, m. Elizabeth Holcomb; Mary, b. 2 Mo. 1. 1729, d. 12 Mo. 16, 1791, m. John Elmslie. 1. Liber A, of Gloucester County deeds, page 98, in the Office of the Secretary of State, Trenton, N. J. (See Judge Clement's First Settlers in Newton, 24-26. ) Isaac Sharp, son of Anthony Sharp, of Dublin, came to New Jersey about 1702-3, and settled at Blessington, now Sharptown. He was Judge of Salem Court and served as a member of the Assembly from 1709 to 1725. About 1726 he returned to Ireland and resided on his estate called "Roundwood," in Queen's County, where he died in 1735. He married in 1704, Margaret Braithwaite, of Salem, and had children: Anthony. Isaac (of Blessington, Salem County, N. J., died in 1770. He was also Judge of Salem Court), Joseph, Sarah, Rachel (m. Daniel Delaney, of Queen's County, Ireland, by whom she had children: Sharp, William, Martin).—American Genealogist, 146. Robert Zane, of Dublin, "Serge Maker," pioneer settler of Newton, or the Irish Tenth, in Gloucester County, N. J., probably came out with John Fenwick and his party, in 1675, for he was one of the members of the Friends' Meeting established at Salem that year. By deed of April 12, 1677, he became one of the Proprietors of West New Jersey. In 1679 he was married, at Burlington Meeting, to Alice Alday, who is thought to have been an Indian. In 1681 he became a settler at Newton. He was elected to the first Legislature in 1682, and was returned in 1685. He died in 1694, leaving his second wife, Elizabeth (daughter of Henry Willis, of Hempstead, Long Island), and several children to survive him. Children were: Nathaniel, b. about 1673, m. Grace Rakestraw, of Philadelphia, in 1697; Robert, m. Jane; Elnathan; Simon; Mary; Esther; and Sarah. (For further details see Clement's First Settlers of Newton, 11-22, and Penna. Mag., XII., 123-25.) William Bates, carpenter, of County Wicklow, who was imprisoned in 1670, for attending Friends' Meeting at Thomas Trafford's house in Wicklow (Besse, II., 470), was one of a company of Friends who purchased a share of West New Jersey, by deed of April 12, 1677. He sailed from Dublin in September, in 1681, in Ye Owners Adventure, and settled with the other Irish Friends at Newton, where he owned 250 acres of land. In 1683 he was one of the representatives from the Irish Tenth in the Legislature of the Province of West New Jersey, and was the same year appointed constable. The next year he was again returned as a member of the Legislature, and was appointed one of the commissioners for laying out highways. He died in 1700. His children, all born in Ireland, were: Jeremiah, m. Mary, daughter of Samuel Spicer; Joseph, m. Mercy Clement, in 1701; Abigail, m. Joshua Fearne, in 1687; William, said to have married an Indian girl; Sarah, m. Simon Ellis, in 1692.(Clement's First Settlers of Newton, 47-56.) George Goldsmith, a Friend, came over from Dublin, in Ye Owners Adventure, in 1681-2, and settled at Gloucester, N. J.(Judge Clement's First Settlers in Newton, 67-70. ) His grandson, James Parrock, a Friend, of Philadelphia, shipwright, aged seventy-six years, in a deposition made at Philadelphia, Jan. 2, 1751, states that his grandfather had formerly lived at Ballinakill, Queen's County, Ireland, and had served in Ireland as Lieutenant in Cromwell's Army.(Ibid., the author's corrected copy. (Hist. Soc. of Penna. ) Type-written note inserted at page 70.) John Hugg, from the Parish of Castle Ellis, County Wexford, was an early settler on Little Timber Creek, in the Newton settlement, where in 1683 he purchased 500 acres of land from Robert Zane. He served as a member of the Jersey Legislature in 1685. He died in 1706. His children were: John, Judge of Gloucester County courts, 1695-1706, Provincial Councillor of West New Jersey, etc., m. Priscilla, daughter of Francis Collins; Elias, m. Margaret, sister of Priscilla Collins; Joseph, m. Sarah; and Charles.(Judge Clement's First Settlers in Newton, 283-291. ) Mark Newbie, says Judge Clement, "was a resident of the city of London, and a tallow chandler." He was a member of a Friends' Meeting, whose house of worship was in a street of that city, called "Barbican," and removed to Dublin, in 1581. Unfortunately the Judge does not give his authority for this statement or it might be confirmed; but this date of removal to London is at least ten years too late, for Stockdale mentions Newbie as a persecuted Quaker shopkeeper residing in Thomas Street, Dublin, in 1671. Says Stockdale:A Great Cry of Oppression, 205 In 1671, Mark Newby, of Thomas Street, Dublin, "because for Conscience sake he could not be an observer of Holidays (so-called) he opened his Shop on the 25th of the 10th month, called Christmas day." For this he "had his house assaulted by a rude multitude," who with great violence threw dirt and stones into "his Shop, endangering his Life and his Families; spoyled Shop-goods, broke Glass-windows and Pewter vessels, abused their Neighbours for reproving them; the said Mark was damnified" 16 s. 6d. Mark Newby set out for New Jersey, in the latter part of 1681, in Ye Owners Adventure and settled at Newton, the first Friends' meetings being held at his house. In the political affairs of New Jersey he took a prominent part and filled several positions of trust and responsibility. At the May term of the Legislature, in 1682, he appeared as a member, and was selected by the Governor as one of his Council. He was made one of the Land Commissioners and one of the Committee of Ways and Means to raise money for the use of the government. He died probably early in 1683, for at the May term of the Legislature in 1683 he is mentioned as deceased. As far as ascertained, he had two sons and two daughters: Rachel, m. Isaac Decou, in 1695; Stephen, m. Elizabeth Wood, in 1703; Edward, in Hannah Chew, in 1706; and Elizabeth, m. John Hogg, in 1714. Hannah, the widow of Mark Newbie, married James Atkinson, in 1685.(Judge Clement's First Settlers in Newton, 37-46. ) Thomas Thackara, "stuff maker," of Dublin, by deed of April 12, 1677, in conjunction with other Friends, purchased one whole share of West New Jersey. He sailed with his family from Dublin, in September, 1681, in Ye Owners Adventure, and settled on 250 acres at Newton. He became one of the leading men of the settlement, serving as a member of the first Legislature that sat at Burlington to frame and adopt laws for the Province. In 1682, he was appointed one of the Judges of the Court for the Irish Tenth and served until 1685, inclusive. He was also one of the land commissioners. The first Friends' meeting house built at Newton stood upon lands conveyed by him to the trustees of the Society. He died about 1702, letters of administration on his estate being granted in that year. His first wife probably died after his settlement here, as in 1689 he married Hepzibah, daughter of Francis Eastlake.(Judge Clement's First Settlers in Newton, 37-46. ) Children were: Benjamin, m. Mary, daughter of William Cooper; Thomas, m. (1) Ann Parker and (2) Abigail Bates; Hannah, m. John Whitall; Sarah, m. John Eastlack; and Hep- zibah.(Judge Clement's First Settlers in Newton, 57-66. ) John Jarvis, or Jervis,1 a Friend, of Roscore, King's County, Ireland, with his son Martin, as stated in the deposition of James Parrock, made at Philadelphia, in 1751, was "obliged to fly from Ireland [in 1688] with as much haste and privacy as he could for fear of being massacred by the Papists." He came to New Jersey by way of Boston and took up his residence with his old friend George Goldsmith, of Gloucester, N. J., where he remained until 1691, when he settled on a large tract of land which he had purchased at Cape May. He was appointed Justice of the Peace for Cape May County in 1695, 1696, and 1697. In 1701, he returned to Ireland. He had five2 sons: I. Charles Jarvis3 (b. about 1675 in Ireland, d. in London, in 1739) studied in London under Sir Godfrey Kneller, court painter, and became a celebrated artist. (He was a friend of Pope, the poet, and translated Don Quixote.—See National Dictionary of Biography, XXIX., p. 354. ) II. John Jarvis, who in 1753,4 was living in King's County, Ireland. III. Mathew, died young. IV. Trevor, died young. V. Martin Jarvis, shoemaker, b. about 1675, d. 1742, says Parrock, settled for a time in Newton, then Gloucester County, N. J., and married in 1698, Mary Champion (whose father John Champion came afterwards from Long Island and settled near Gloucester). In 1705, Martin Jarvis purchased a house and lot on 2d Street, between Market and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, and made his residence there the remainder of his life. His daughter Sarah married William Sandwith, an Irish Friend, of Philadelphia, and became the mother of Elizabeth (Sandwith) Drinker (wife of Henry Drinker, of Philadelijhia, one of the Quaker exiles to Virginia, in the war of the Revolution), whose diary,5 covering the period 1759-1807, is a valuable record of the social life of the time.
1. MS. note by Judge Clement in his own copy of his First Settlers of Newton (Hist. Soc. of Pcnna. ), 148. 2. Parrock says one of the sons was bound an apprentice in Boston. 3. Parrock states that he was bound an apprentice to a "Limner" ( artist) of London. 4. William Drinker's sketch of the Jarvis family written in 1795 (Elizabeth Drinker's Journal, 3-4). 5. Extracts from the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker, 1759-1807, edited by Henry D. Biddle, Philadelphia, 1889. DUCK CREEK (CAMDEN) MONTHLY MEETING, DELAWARE, ETC.
Established in 1705. Mary Mackee, from Cork, Ireland, received 12 Mo. 21, 1708-9. Sarah Hill, from Friends in County Antrim, Ireland, received 3 Mo. 21, 1711. George Plum, received 9 Mo. 17, 1712. "A Friend lately from Ireland and now settled at Georges Creek appeared at this meeting and Signifyed that he had a Certificate with him from Friends in Ireland and since he came into Pennsylvania He swimming in a Creek with his Horse his said Certificate was destroyed by the water and riding with it in his Pocket afterwards sinch which Accident he has produced a paper under the Hands of two Friends from Bristol in Pennsylvania who declare they saw the said Certificate which this Meeting Receives." "Gabriel McCool produced a Certificate for himself and his Brother James MaCool fr the meeting at Dunglane in the County of London Derry in Ireland signed by Ten friends in behalf of the said Meeting." Received 9 Mo. 22, 1725. In 1717 John McCool, from George's Creek and Mary Howie were married. Olivia McCool married John Hall, in 1763. In 1731, Thomas Chalkley (Journal. 25), on a voyage from the Barbadoes was wrecked at Reedy Island in the Delaware, and while recovering from injuries received was cared for at the "House of John M'CooI, who with his Wife, were tender in their Care and Love towards me." Elizabeth Robinson, with husband, Francis Robinson, dated 7 Mo. 12, 1752, from Ballycane Meeting, County Wicklow, Ireland, to Wilmington Monthly Meeting, Delaware; they had removed some years before (see p. 93). In 1668, in County Armagh Patrick Robinson for tythes had taken from him "a Tub, a Pot, a Frying-Pan, and a Parcel of Yarn, being most of what was in the House worth £1. 6s."—A Compendious View, 78. In 1672, Francis Robinson, County Armagh, had his goods seized for tithes (Stockdale, 14). In 1676, in County Down, Francis Robinson, of Segoe Parish, suffered persecution for nonpayment of tithes.—Ibid., 64. Thomas Brian, son of William, of Waterford. m. Ann, daughter of David Kells, of Armagh, Ireland. Children: Mary (b. 8 Mo. 3, 1781), Rebecca, Thomas, David, Ann.—Records of Wilmington (Del.) Monthly Meeting. At Richland Monthly Meeting, Bucks County, 10 Mo. 18, 1759, Thomas Stalford produced a certificate from Ireland. SOME EXTRACTS FROM RECORDS OF LURGAN MONTHLY MEETING, IRELAND, ETC. Archibald Bell, tailor, son of Archibald Bell, "of Arkinhoome in parish Stablegarden, shire of Jadforrest," Scotland, and wife Ann, was born about 8 Mo., 1620, at Arkinhoome, and was married about 1648, to Ann, daughter of Alexander Yuruns, of Arkinhoome. Came to Ireland in 1655. Children: Jare (daughter), b. Arkinhoome, 7 Mo. 1649; Archibald, b. same place 9 Mo. 1651; John, b. circa 1 Mo. 1653, at "Branton of gillslard," Co. Cumberland, England; Mary, b. circa 1 Mo., 1655, at "dirlet near Markate hill. County Armagh," Ireland; Richard, b. circa g Mo. 1657, in Parish Ballyards, Co. Armagh; Alexander, b. 9 Mo. 1659, Parish Lishley, Co. Armagh; George, b. 4 Mo. 1662, at Drumtullan. Parish Benbarb, Co. Armagh; Elizabeth, b. 4 Mo., 1665, at Ballytullan, Parish Benbarb; Sarah, b. 3 Mo. 1669, at Tarrahmoore, Parish Shankill, Co. Armagh. In 1681, Archibald Bell, of Parish of Magheramisk, County Antrim, had his goods taken for tithes.—Stockdale, A Great Cry of Oppression, 169. In 1707, after attending meeting at Monallen [Moyallon ?] William Edmundson says in his Journal, 288, "After this Meeting we went to see Archibald Bell, he being very old and feeble, and having walked in the Truth many Years; we lodged at his House one Night, and the next Day went to the Meeting at Richard Boyes', and so to Lisburn." One Simon Bell, son of William Bell, of Parish of Shankill, County Armagh, married Ann, daughter of Richard Crooks, of Kilmore, said Parish, and had a daughter Jane, b. 7 Mo. 20, 1693. |
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