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Cert fr Chester MM 8-15-1781
Cert to Philadelphia MM, S Dist, 8-14-1782
Ref: Anderson -- The Sharples-Sharpless Family, p 31
Joseph
b 12- 5-1790, s Aaron & Mary (Ellwood) d ca 1816, lost at sea
Cert (as a minor) fr New York MM rec 6-12-1799
Cert (as a minor) to Concord 9-9-1802
Joseph Sharpless' father was a half-brother of
Edith (Sharpless) Ferris
Ref: Anderson - The Sharples-Sharpless Family, p 60
Joseph Mary
b 3-19-1799, s Nathan & Lydia Birthright d 12-27-1833 in Concord Twp, unmarried Cert to Concord 5-10-1804
b 10-15-1793, dt Aaron & Mary (Ellwood)
d 7-13-1827, in Wilmington, Del. Cert (as a minor) fr New York MM rec 6-12-1799
Cert (as a minor) to Concord 9-9-1802 Cert fr Darby dtd 10-3-1805, rec 11-7-1805 m 10-14-1813, Birmingham Mtg, Thomas Garrett, s Thomas & Sarah (Price) who was b 8-21-1789 in Upper Darby Twp, & d 1-25-1871 in Wilmington, Del (m 2nd Rachel Mendenhall)
d 1-11-1797 m Mary Colvin
Ellis
b
m Strickler Forrey
Edith Nichols
290
SHARPLESS (Cont) Mary (Cont)
Ch: (of Thomas & Mary (Sharpless) Garrett)
E11wood
b
m Catharine K Wollaston
Sarah Sharpless b
m Edward C Hewes
Anna
b m James Edwards
b m Catharine Ann Canby
Henry Margaret Malin b
m James G Mc Collum
Mary (Sharpless) Garrett's father was a half-brother of Edith Sharpless Ferris
Nathan
b 12-18-1772, s Joshua & Edith (Yarnall)
d 4-11-1863 in Concord Twp Cert fr Concord rec 6-15-1796
Cert to Concord 5-10-1804
Lydia Painter
b 9-20-1774, dt Joseph & Elizabeth (Woodward) d 12-26-1845 Cert fr Concord rec 6-15-1796 Cert to Concord 5-10-1804
8
4-21-1796, Birmingham Mtg
b m George Martin & John Benington
b 3-19-1799
d 12-27-1833, unmarried m Ferree Brinton
b Nathan Sharples learned the trade of a hatter which he evidently practiced in Wilmington before moving to a farm in Concord Twp.
Nathan & his sister, Martha Jefferis were superintendent & matron of Westtown Boarding School fr 1836 to 1843 Lydia Sharpless, while her husband was superintendent at Westtown (1836-1843), though taking no active part, "was the motherly and warmly-beloved comforter of every home- sick or ailing child who found an asylum and never-forgotten sympathy in No. 19." -- Anderson - The Sharples-Sharpless Family, p 102
Samuel
b 2-25-1793, in or near Wilmington, Del, s Jonathan & Edith Birthright
d 6-25-1846 at Redstone, Fayette Co, PA, bur at Center Mtg, Fayette Co Cert to Redstone 9-16-1795
Elizabeth Piersol
b 12- 7-1794, dt William & Grace (Cope)
d 2-14-1871 at Redstone, Fayette Co, PA, bur at Center Mtg, Fayette Co
m 3-18-1818
b m William C Johnson
Ch: E1ma
Edith Nichols William Piersol b Louisa Minerva W b Jonathan
m J Newton Craft & William G Patterson
b 3- 9-1824 d 5-26-1881, unmarried
b 5- 1-1826
d 8-20-1846, unmarried
m John W Cook m Mariah Hazen
b Ref: Anderson, Bart - The Sharples-Sharpless Family, pp 97-98
Ch: Edith Joseph Elizabeth
291
SHARPLESS (Cont) Samuel b 1781 or 1782, s Thomas & Martha (Preston) d 1857 in Pittsburgh, PA Cert fr Chester rec 9-10-1800 Cert to Third Haven 8-4-1803 Rebecca Y Judge dt Hugh & Susanna (Hatton) 1816
Ch: Margaret b b Alfred Judge Eliza Patterson b Catharine Taylor b
m
m Albert Medley m Ellen Holmes d in childhood d in infancy
Samuel Sharpless was a potter Ref: Anderson - The Sharples-Sharpless Family, p 79
Sarah
b 9-25-1769, dt Benjamin & Martha (Mendenhall) d 9-13-1823 Cert fr Chester rec 7-13-1791 I 5- 5-1791 William Poole, who was b 8-4-1764 & d 5-25-1829
Ch: (of William & Sarah (Sharpless) Poole)
Elizabeth Rebecca
b
Mary b
Samuel b
Hannah b
Sarah b
Martha
b
Anna b
b
John Morton William S b
Sarah b 10- 2-1788 in New York City, dt Aaron & Mary (Ellwood) d 6-24-1836 in Barlington, NJ Cert, as a minor, fr New York MM rec 6-12-1799 Cert to Burlington MM 9-9-1802 m 5-27-1830, Burlington, NJ, Rowland Jones, s John & Mary (Rowland) Jones, who was b ca 1778 & d 8-19-1867 at Burlington, NJ
Ch: None
Sarah Sharples's father was a half-brother of Edith (Sharples) Ferris Ref: Anderson - The Sharples-Sharpless Family, p 104
SHARPLEY Cathrene
Cert 6-1-1754 of Newark MM at Center
Mary
dt Daniel Sharpley of Brandywine Hundred Cert to Kennet 7-12-1797 m Nathan Milner, s of Mary Milner
Ch: (of Nathan & Mary Cathrine
(Sharpley) Milner)
b 9- 2-1775
Esther b 9-29-1777
Joseph b 11-23-1780
Cyrus b 11- 1-1782 Daniel b 11-14-1784 Rachel b 9-24-1786
Isaac
b 3-14-1789
John b 7-21-1791
Mary
b 2-14-1794
Elizabeth b 7- 4-1795
292
SHAW Deborah Jr
Cert 9-20-1759 fr New Garden m ----- Steary Dis 5-16-1770, mou
Edward Cert to Wilmington fr New Garden, dtd 9-27-1755
Joseph
Cert fr New Garden dtd 7-31-1756
Rebecca Cert 6-28-1757 fr Gwynedd
Susannah
Cert 9-20-1759 fr New Garden
--- Thomas Dis 2-13-1765, mou
SHEPPARD Ann Cert fr Richhill MM in Ireland dtd 3-22-1801 & rec 7- 9-1801
Cert to Concord 4-9-1807 m Sheppard
Ch: James Samuel Elizabeth
b b
b
Elizabeth
dt - & Ann Sheppard Cert. fr Richhill MM in Ireland dtd 3-22-1801, rec 7-9-1801 Cert to London Grove 7-8-1802 Cert fr London Grove dtd 12-3-1806 rec 2-5-1807 Cert to Concord 5-7-1807
James
S - & Ann Sheppard Cert fr Richhill MM in Ireland dtd 3-22-1801 rec 7-9-1801 Cert to Salin MM, NJ 5-6-1802
Samuel
S ---- & Ann Sheppard Cert fr Richhill MM in Ireland dtd 3-22-1801 rec 7-9-1801 Cert to Haddonfield 8-6-1801
SHERWOOD Elizabeth Askew
dt Parker & Hannah Askew Cert to Third Haven MM granted 2-3-1815 m 12- 8-1814, Wilmington MM John Sherwood
John
at Michael Megears - removed "1807 Mbrp List"
SHEWARD Ann
b 8-23-1811, dt Caleb & Mary Cert fr Philadelphia MM, S Dist, rec 8-6-1812 Cert to London Grove granted 5-29-1818 m John Cooper, s John & Jane (Yarnall) who was b 5-28-1806 & d 5- ?- 1885
Benjamin
b 9-15-1766, s Caleb & Hannah (Hibberd)
d 9-18-1798
293
SHEWARD (Cont) Caleb
Hannah Hibberd
b in England, s Moses Sheward of Radditch, Worcestershire, England d 8-17-1785 in Wilmington, Del b 1-31-1737, Willistown, PA, dt Benjamin & Phebe (Sharples) d 3- 8-1804 in Wilmington
Ch: Mary
m 10- 6-1757 Goshen MM b 5-26-1758 d 1842 m 5-30-1782 Thomas Marriott of Philadelphia, s Joseph & Mary Marriott
Moses
b 9-20-1760
Phebe
b 8-20-1764 d 8-29-1765
Jane
b 8- 1-1772 d 1853 m William Walker, s Samuel & Lettis Walker b 4- 7-1777 d 11- 4-1817 m Mary Garrett, dt Isaac & Elizabeth (Thatcher) Garrett
Caleb
Benjamin Hannah
b 9-15-1766
d 9-18-1798
b m 10- 7-1790, John Johnson, s Abraham & Martha Prep Mtg complains of Caleb Sheward for not leaving matter of disagreement between himself & Griffith Minshall to the judgment of men.
Caleb & Hannah Sheward settled first within the limits of Sadsbury MM, but rem to Wilmington sometime between 1766 & 1772. Births of first four ch recorded at Sadsbury.
See Sharpless, p 197
Caleb
b 4- 7-1777, s Daleb & Hannah (Hibberd) d 11-14-1817, bur in Wilmington Cert to Philadelphia MM, N Dist 1-16-1793
Cert fr Philadelphia MM, N Dist rec 5-15-1799
Mary Garrett
Cert to Philadelphia MM, S Dist 6-5-1806 Cert fr Philadelphia MM, S Dist rec 8-6-1812 b 3-12-1791, dt Isaac & Elizabeth (Thatcher) Garrett Cert fr Philadelphia MM, S Dist, rec 8-6-1812 Cert to London Grove granted 5-29-1818
Ch: Ann
m 6-14-1810, Willistown Mtg b 8-23-1811 m John Cooper
b 3- 2-1813 d 11- ?- 1863 m Diana Tilson
William Isaac Garrett b 6-14-1817 m Louisa Bradford
Elizabeth D
Cert fr Cecil MM acc 9-2-1814
Cert to Stillwater MM, OH, granted 4-2-1819
Hannah dt Caleb & Hannah (Hibberd) Sheward d 7-14-1852, bur in Mtg Yd, age 80y, a mbr m 10- 7-1790, Wilmington MM John Johnson, s Abrahar 9 Martha Johnson of Darby, Del, Co, who d 5-11-1812, bur in Mtg Yd
Ch: (of John & Hannah (Sheward) Johnson)
Martha b
Caleb b Benjamin b
294
SHEWARD (Cont) Isaac Garrett
Louisa Bradford
b 6-14-1817, twin of William, s Caleb & Mary (Garrett) Birthright
Cert to London Grove 5-29-1818
m
Jane b 8- 1-1772, dt Caleb & Hannah d 1853 m 10-17-1805, Wilmington MM, William Walker, s Samuel & Lellis Walker
Ch: (of William & Jane (Sheward) Walker)
Hannah b 10- 3-1806 d 8- 9-1846
Mary
b 3- 7-1811
William Gibbons b 12-30-1813
Ref: Anderson - Sharples-Sharpless Family, p 37
Mary
b 5-26-1758, dt Caleb & Hannah (Hibberd)
d 1842
Cert to Philadelphia MM, N Dist, 9-11-1782
Cert fr Philadelphia MM, N Dist, rec 2-11-1789 m 5-30-1782, Wilmington MM, Thomas Marriott, of Philadelphia MM, S Dist, s Joseph & Mary Marriott Ref: Anderson - Sharples-Sharpless Family, p 37
Rest Perry b 6-28-1751 of Wilmington, dt John & Margaret Perry d 7-20-1816, bur in Wilmington
m James Sheward
Dis 8-16-1780 -- "married by assistance of a hireling priest" Rein 6-7-1810 -- after making an acknowledgment
William
Diana Wilson
b £ 6-14-1817, twin if Isaac, s Caleb & Mary Birthright Cert to London Grove 5-29-1818 m
SHIPLEY Ann
dt William & Mary (Tatuall) Shipley m Joseph Maris m 2nd Mordecai Yarnall
Ann
b 1-29-1758, dt Thomas & Mary (Marriott) Shipley Birthright, Wilmington m 9-20-1792 John Jones of Nottingham
Anna
b 7-26-1788, dt Joseph & Mary (Levis) Shipley
d 8-19-1852, bur in Mtg Yd In 1827 List
Anna
b 9-22-1760, dt Thomas & Mary (Marriott) Birthright d 9-14-1786 m 10-28-1784, Wilmington MM, William Byrnes, s Daniel & Dinah Byrnes, who was b 7-22-1759
Ch: (of William & Anna (Shipley) Byrnes) Thomas Shipley b 9-14-1786
Elinor Buckingham Birthright Friend Cert fr Kennett 12-10-1783 m - -- Shipley
Dis 5-10-1797 -- "hath deviated in accomplishing her marriage by the assistance of an hirling teacher (Presbyterian Parson) (crossed out) with a mbr of our Society after being precautioned.
295
SHIPLEY (Cont) Elizabeth
b 6-10-1789, dt Joseph & Mary (Levis) In 1827 List
Elizabeth
dt William & Elizabeth (Levis) Shipley (See Elizabeth Sh pley Canby Poole) m Oliver Canby m 2nd 12-3-1761, Wilmington MM, William Poole
Elizabeth
Dis 11-11-1778 -- dealt with concerning deviation from plainness in dress & language & frequenting places of . musick & dancing & joyning therein 7-15-1778
Esther Canby
dt of Jonas m Shipley
Dis 9-28-1821 -- guilty of fornication & employed an hireling minister in the accomplishment of her marriage
Hannah
b 1801, dt Joseph & Mary (Levis) Shipley d 12-15-1891, age 91y, bur in Mtg Yd
In 1827 List
Jane
d 12- 1-1808, bur in Mtg Yd
Jean
Cert fr Kennett 9-11-1793
John
s William & Sarah (Rumford) Shipley d 8-10-1824, bur in Mtg Yd
Dis
John
b 12-25-1782, s Joseph & Mary (Levis) Shipley d 7- 2-1862, nearly 80 yrs, bur in Mtg Yd Dis 4-28-1820, Intoxication
Joseph Elinor Buckingham
Birthright
m
Dis 9-13-1797 -- "hath accomplished his marriage by the assistance of an hireling teacher"
Joseph
b 11-11-1752, s Thomas & Mary (Marriott)
d 7-20-1832, bur in Mtg Yd
Cert to Wilmington MM fr Chester MM rec 7-8-1756
Mary Levis
b 1-21-1757, dt Samuel Levis
d 12-11-1843, bur in Mtg Yd
Ch: Samuel
b 2-12-1777 d 1844 m Elizabeth Jeffries
Mary
b 12-27-1778
d 1844
m John Dixon
Thomas
b 9-30-1780 d 1813
m Phoebe Wagner
John
b 12-25-1782 d 1863
Rebecca
b 5- 3-1785 d 9- 4-1786
Anna
b 7-26-1788
d 8-19-1852
Elizabeth
b 6-10-1789 d 1865
Sarah
b 3- 3-1791
d 1872
Margaret
b 12-18-1793 d 1832
Joseph
b 12- ?- 1795 d 1867
Hannah
b
1801
d 1891
In 1827 List
Made ack dtd 4-12-1780 for taking a test the tenor whereof I am now convinced is contrary to the principle of truth as held by the people called Quakers.
296
SHIPLEY (Cont) Joseph
b 12- ?- 1795, s Joseph & Mary (Levis) Cert to Philadelphia MM, S Dist approved 4-1-1814
Margaret
Martha
b 12-18-1793, dt Joseph & Mary (Levis) d 1832 in Philadelphia W St In 1827 List b 8- 2-1748, dt Thomas & Mary (Marriott) Birthright mbr of Chester MM d 12- 6-1748, mbr of Chester MM
Mary b 12-27-1778, dt Joseph & Mary (Levis) d 1844
m
4-15-1802, John Dixon, s Isaac & Amy Dixon
Mary dt Thomas & Mary d ca 1795 m Phineas Buckley, New York Mary b . 1727 (?), dt William & Mary (Tatuall) Shipley
d ca 1753, drowned in the Brandywine
Rebekah b 5- 3-1785, dt Joseph & Mary (Levis) d 9- 4-1786
Rebekah Robinson Andrews
d 2- 7-1797, age 67y m 1st 5-28-1761, Wilmington MM, Ezekiel Andrews, who was b 11-21-1729 & d 3-4-1772 Ch: (of Ezekiel & Rebekah (Robinson) Andrews)
Mary b 3- 3-1764
James b 7-17-1765
John b 6-14-1769 m 2nd 4-27-1775, Wilmington MM, Thomas Shipley who was b 4-24-1718 & d 1789
Samuel b 6-30-1747, s Thomas & Mary (Marriott) Birthright, mbr of Chester MM d 7- 4-1747, " = 11 Samuel b 2-12-1777, s Joseph & Mary (Levis) Shipley Dis 8-4-1803 -- accomplished his marriage with the assistance of a hireling teacher, with a woman not in mbrp Elizabeth Jefferis Mbr by req 10- 9-1806 d 7-16-1883, age 89y, bur in Mtg Yd Ch: Sarah b 1832 Edward Bringhurst In 1827 List
Sarah
b 3- 3-1791, dt Joseph & Mary (Levis) Shipley d 8-27-1872 In 1827 List
Sarah
b 2-22-1770, s William & Sarah (Rumford) Shipley d 8-29-1857, bur in Mtg Yd In 1827 List
297
SHIPLEY (Cont) Sarah dt William & Elizabeth (Levis) Shipley d 6-29-1793 m 10- 6-1750, Wilmington MM, Robert Richardson who was b 5-31-1708 d 6-18-1761
Ch: (of Robert & Sarah (Shipley) Richardson)
Elizabeth
b 11-10-1751
John
b 10-31-1753
Mary
b 10-31-1758
d 9- 7-1795
Ann b 8- 3-1760
Robert b 6-18-1761
Sarah b 9- 6-1755, dt Thomas & Mary (Marriott)
d 1824 Cert fr Chester 7-8-1756
Cert to Falls MM 5-16-1781 Cert fr Falls MM rec 9-10-1789
m 6-24-1790, Wilmington MM Cyrus Newlin who was b 1747 & d 1824
Ch: (of Cyrus & Sarah (Shipley) Newlin)
Isaac
b
Mary
b
Thomas
b
Susanna Dis 11-11-1778 -- dealt with concerning deviation fr plainness in dress & language & frequenting places of musick & dancing & joyning therein themselves 7-15-1778
Thomas b 7- 9-1751, s Thomas & Mary (Marriott) Birthright, Chester MM d 6-30-1752 = 11
Thomas
Phoebe Wagner
b 9-30-1780, s Thomas & Mary (Levis) d 6- 1-1813 (date of burial) bur at Mtg Yd m b 4-24-1718 at Leicestershire, a diocese of Lincoln, England, s William & Mary Ann (Tatuall) Shipley d 1789
Cert to Wilmington fr Chester MM rec 7-8-1756
1st w Mary Marriott b 9- 1-1719 d 2-21-1771
m 9-15-1743, Falls MM
Ch: William b 3- 9-1746 d 2-13-1816
Samuel b 6-30-1747 d 7- 4-1747
Martha b 8- 2-1748 d 12- 6-1748
Mary b 7- 2-1750 d 1795 m Phineas Buckley, NY
Thomas b 7- 9-1751 d 6-30-1752
Joseph b 11-11-1752 d 7-20-1832
Sarah b 9- 6-1755 d 1834
Ann b 1-29-1758 d 1808
Anna
b 9-22-1760 d 10-28-1784
m Mary Levis m Cyrus Newlin m John Jones m William Byrnes
2nd w Rebeccah Andrews m 4-27-1775, Wilmington MM Rebeccah had 3 ch by previous marriage: Mary Andrews b 3- 3-1764, James Andrews b 7-17-1765, & John Andrews b 6-14-1769
Thomas
298
SHIPLEY (Cont) Thomas (Cont)
Thomas Shipley came with his parents to Ridley, PA, fr Staffordshire about 1725 Thomas & Mary Shipley spent their first married years in Springfield Twp, Del Co, PA where he worked as a "joyner". House still stands near -- -?.
In 1749 Thomas Shipley held part interest in the Dolphin, a small vessel plying the Brandywine Creek and the Delaware River between Wilmington & Philadelphia. Other owners of this sixty-ton square-sterned scow mastered by Amos Storm, were Griffith Minshall, Robert Lewis, Moses Minshall, Joseph Maris, Oliver Canby & the Wilmington Co. See Winterthon(?) Portfolio II.
Thomas
b 8-31-1771, s William & Sarah (Rumford) Shipley d 6-26-1856, bur in Mtg Yd, not a mbr Dis 6-25-1841 W St Pd $3 Collection 1827
In 1827 List
Thomas
b 4-30-1780, s Joseph & Mary d 6- 1-1813, age 33y, bur in Wilmington, a mbr Late residence Brandywine Cert to Philadelphia MM, S Dist, 1-11-1797
Ch: John Sarah
s William & Elizabeth (Levis) Shipley d 1794, age 65y dt Jonathan & Susannah (Noockes) Rumford m 12-27-1753 (Wilmington MM) b b 2-22-1770 d 8-29-1857
Thomas
b 8-31-1771
William
b 3- 9-1746, s Thomas & Mary (Marriott) Shipley d 2-13-1816, bur in Wilmington Cert to Wilmington fr Chester MM 7-8-1756 (Brother of Joseph, late res Brandywine)
William
b 1693
d 12-19-1768
1st w Mary Ann Tatuall* b
1700
Ch: Thomas Ann
b
1718
d 1727 Never a mbr of Wilmington MM d 1789 m Mary Marriott, Rebecca Andrews d m Joseph Maris, Mordecai Yarnell m Oliver Canby, Wm Poole
Elizabeth b 1722 d 1789
2nd w Elizabeth Levis b 1690
d 10-16-1777, bur at London Grove m 1728 (?)
Ch: Mary
b
1727
d 1753
Sarah
b
1729
d 1793
m Robert Richardson 1750 m Sarah Rumford
William
b
1731 d 1774
See account of Mary Tatuall Shipley by Jane Elwell Fanson in Benjamin Ferris' "My Kith and Kin."
"He was the husband of an esteemed friend Elizabeth Shipley. They were some of the first settlers of this town in the year 1736." Wilmington Death Records
11-16-1750 William Shipled complained against for contending with another Friend about their outward affairs in a public manner" -- (likely with Joshua Way)
4-4-1751 -- William Shipley condemns his action. *Mary Ann Tatuall was dt of Robert & Ann Tatuall
William Sarah Rumford
b
1720
299
SHIPLEY (Cont) William (Cont)
William Shipley of Ridley in Pennsylvania at the suggestion of his wife, Elizabeth, travelled through the vicinity of Willington & purchased a lot of land of Samuel Kirk & Margaret, his wife, situated at the easterly corner of Market & Second Streets. Purchased a large lot on 8-9-1835 fr Andrew & Boeta Justison. -- Eight acres of land all lying between Market & West Streets above Second Street and below Fifth Street. Shipleys moved to Willington in fall of 1735. 11-11-1751 William Shipley made ack to Wilmington MM of his conduct in his difference with Joshua Way.
William
s of William Shipley
Cert to Kennet dtd 2-15-1786
Dis by Kennet in 1701 for marriage by a magistrate b 3-25-1765, dt Francis & Betty (Baily) Swayne
d 4- 7-1843
m 1791 by a magistrate b d unm
b
b
b
m Samuel Poulson b m 12-12-1821 Lewis Woodward b d unm Ref: Geneology of the Baily Family, pp 65 & 123
SHIRLEY Lydia
Cert to Mount Holly 5-11-1785
SHORTLEDGE Isaac
Cert fr New Garden rec 2-13-1793
Cert to Nottingham 4-13-1796
Mary
m Isaac Shortledge Mary Shortledge (w of Isaac Shortledge) "removed" -- 1807 Membership List
Mary Tolwell
dt Gouldsmith & Sarah m Shortledge Dis 7-8-1802 -- married a man not in mbrp by the assistance of a magistrate.
SINCLAIR Abraham
s of Job Cert to New Garden 7-14-1784
Hannah
dt Job & Elizabeth
Cert fr Fairfax MM 7-10-1782
Cert to Goshen 8-10-1796
Orpha Swayne
Ch: Betty
William Joseph Lydia Sarah Jonathan
300
SINCLAIR (Cont) Job Cert fr Fairfax MM for both 7-10-1782 Cert to New Goshen 7-14-1784
Elizabeth
Ch: John
৳
Hannah Keziah Abraham
b
b
b
John
s Job & Elizabeth Cert fr Fairfax MM 7-10-1782
Cert (as apprentice) to Bradford 10-10-1792
Keziah dt Job & Elizabeth Cert fr Fairfax MM 7-10-1782
Cert to Darby 9-15-1784
William
Dis 5-11-1768 -- "accomplished his marriage by the assistance of a priest with a woman of another society."
SINKLER John Cert (as a minor) to Kennett 11-10-1790 Cert fr Kennett rec 6-15-1791
SIPPLE Elizabeth Tatuall
dt Thomas & Ann (Tatuall) Sipple Cert fr Duck Creek 11- 4-1798 Resigned fr W St, 5- ?- 1829 In 1827 List
Thomas Ann Tatuall
of Motherkiln MM b 4- 9-1775, dt Joseph & Elizabeth (Lea) d 10- 5-1816
n 9-25-1794, Wilmington MM
Cert to Duck Creek 12-10-1794
Cert fr Duck Creek rec 11-4-1798
Dis 11-12-1800 for mou
b
Ann m 2nd 1800 John Bellach
SLACK Lydia Yarnall
Birthright Friend m Slack
Dis 8-10-1785 -- "accomplishing her marriage out of the approved way of Friends with a man not in mbrp with us after she was advised against it" -- Wilmington MM
SMITH Alban s Samuel & Lydia Birthright Cert to Philadelphia MM 4-12-1797
Ann Deborah B
Cert 6-1-1809 fr Cent. rec 6-8-1809
In 1827 List
Dorothy
Cert to Wilmington fr E Nottingham 1-28-1764 m John
Ch: Elizabeth
301
SMITH (Cont) Grace
Hannah Musgrave
dt Moses & Elizabeth Cert to Wilmington MM fr Philadelphia MM 4-29-1763 Dis 6-13-1764 -- "erred as to accomplish her marriage by a priest to a man not of our Society."
Jane
Cert fr Redstone rec 10-14-1795 d 9-22-1798
Ch: John
John
Cert to Wilmington fr E Nottingham 1-28-1764 "public ministry among us was well received, it being to edification and comfort"
Dorothy
m
John s John & Elizabeth Cert fr Deer Creek 5-29-1764
John
Gertrude Gilpin
S & Jane Smith Cert as a youth fr Redstone rec 10-14-1795 b 8-13-1778, dt Vincent & Abigail
Both dis 4-9-1801, accomplished their marriage by the assistance of an hireling teacher
John ack acc 4-10-1806 John dis 5-2-1817
John Jr
Elizabeth Ch: Joshua John Mary
Cert fr Deer Creek 5-29-1764 for both Dis 6-10-1767
m
b
b
b
"he has misconducted by selling spiritous liquors without license in his house at the time called the Fair, contrary to our Christian Profession and the law of the government. And much neglected to attend our religious meetings. Made ack 7-15-1778 accompanied by a letter of recommenda - tion fr Little Falls Mtg.
Jonathan Cert to Wilmington fr Buckingham 10-7-1765 (to improve himself in learning)
s John & Elizabeth Cert to Wilmington fr Deer Creek 5-29-1764
dt John & Elizabeth Cert to Wilmington fr Deer Creek 5-29-1764
Joshua Mary
Cert fr Philadelphia MM dtd 11-28-1800 rec 12-10-1800 d 11-28-1808, bur in Wilmington at Sarah Marriott's - 1807 List
m Smith
b
302
SMITH (Cont) Mary Worth
Cert 2-3-1818 fr Philadelphia, N Dist, acc 2-27-1818 Cert to Concord MM (as a minor) 7-31-1818
Samuel Lydia Ch: Alban
Cert fr Concord rec 6-11-1794 for both Cert to Philadelphia MM 4-12-1797 for both b
Thomas
Dis 11-10-1762 -- "has erred in spending his time at taverns in gaming & attempting to dance & defrauding his creditors."
SMYTH
Clement Biddle b 12-29-1827, s David & Anna (Canby)
Birthright
Sarah Sellers dt John & Elizabeth (Poole) Sellers
m 1856 d 5-20-1911
Ch: Herbert Weir b 8- 8-1857 m Eleanor Adt of Baltimore
Elizabeth Sellers 8- 4-1860 d 10-29-1861
Elizabeth Poole b 8- 4-1864 d 7-28-1875
Willian Canby b Alice P b 8-28-1867 d 12-17-1957 unm
In 1827 List
David
b 1-30-1783, s Thomas & Mary Smyth
d 2- 5-1866, bur in Mtg Yd
Mbr by req 12-30-1814
Anna Canby b 12-29-1784, dt William & Martha (Marriott) Canby d 1-12-1867, bur in Mtg Yd W St
m 10-12-1815, Wilmington MM
Ch: Lindley
Sarah Morris b 7- 3-1818
Lucy
b 9-13-1820
d 4-24-1890
William Canby
b 2-11-1823 m Emily Betts 9-28-1847
Mary Anna
b 8-14-1824 d 6-18-1897
Clement Biddle
b 12-29-1827 d 7-11-1901 m Sarah Sellers 1856 In 1827 List b 7-28-1816, s David & Anna (Canby) Birthright Cert to Cherry St 3- ?- 1833 W St
Lindley
Ch: Ferris
b
d 4- 2-1843, bur in Mtg Yd, age 19m
Lucy
b 9-13-1820, dt David & Anna (Canby)
Birthright
d 4-24-1890 of cancer, bur in Mtg Yd W St unm
In 1827 List
Mary Anna
b 8-14-1824, dt David & Anna (Canby) Birthright
d 6-18-1897, bur in Mtg Yd unm W St
In 1827 List Address: 816 West St, 1896 Directory
Sarah Morris b 7- 3-1818, dt David & Anna (Canby) Birthright, Wilmington d 6- 5-1826, bur in Mtg Yd
m
In 1827 List
b 7-28-1816 d 6- 5-1826
d 7-11-1901
303
SMYTH (Cont) William Canby b 2-11-1823, s David & Anna (Canby) Birthright
Cert to Green St, 3-24-1854
b 1-10-1823
m
9-28-1847
b 6-23-1848
b
3-23-1850
b 11-28-1853
৳ 8-12-1852 d 1853
In 1827 List
SNOW Rachel Ferris
dt William & Lauranna Stanton Mbr by req of father 10-8-1807 m - Snow
Made ack 3-12-1821, acc 9-1-1821 of marrying contrary
to the good order of the Society. Treated with by Northwest Fork MM
Cert to Northwest Fork MM 9-28-1821
SOMERS Chalkley
Cert fr Piles Grove MM rec 8-29-1817
E
10-29-1824 Wilmington Prep Mtg rpts that Chalkley Somers has accomplished his marriage with a woman not in mbrp with Friends
Dis 12- ?- 1824
SORREL Alice
Cert to Darby 7-16-1788
SPAIN Elizabeth Reynolds m ---- Spain
Dis 3-12-1794 -- "hath erred in marrying a man not of our Society by the assistance of a hireling priest."
SPACKMAN Ann b 12-28-1777, dt George & Thomazine (Bond) Spackman m 6-16-1803, Wilmington MM, Joseph Richardson, s Richard & Sarah (Tatuall) Richardson, who was b 2-19-1767
Anna
b 9-18-1803, dt Thomas & Deborah Cert to London Grove 4-6-1809 Cert fr Concord acc 4-30-1813 Cert to Philadelphia 5- ?- 1828 W St In 1827 List
Chalkley
Adeline Gibbons Ch: Ellis Leeds
s Thomas & Deborah
Cert fr Concord acc 4-30-1813
Cert to Philadelphia 5- ?- 1828
m
b 8-16-1856 n 6- 1-1898 Katharine Moore Laing (Smedley p 633) In 1827 List
W St
Emily Betts
Ch: Mary B Anna C Lucy Lindley
304
SPACKMAN (Cont) George
Thomazine Bond
Ch: Mary Ann Samuel Hesther
b 11-20-1741, s Isaac & Esther of Malmsbury, Wiltshire, England (Smedley p 290) d 9- 4-1798 b 1755, dt Samuel & Thomazine (Downing) Bond
(See Smedley)
d 7-29-1782, bur in Mtg Yd (Smedley p 185) W St (d 7-29-1832, Wilmington Burial Records)
m 5-11-1775
b 3-17-1776 d 11- ?- 1747 m 12-25-1794 Thomas R Downing
b 12-28-1777
b 2- 4-1780
b 4-16-1782 In 1827 List "widow of George" -- 1807 List
Samuel Bond was the s of Joseph & Ann Bond, See Smedley, p. 185
Thomazine Downing Bond was the dt of Thomas & Thomazine Downing of East Caln, Smedley, p 185.
George
b 9-11-1801, s Thomas & Deborah Cert to Philadelphia MM 6-10-1802, end & rec back 12-9-1802 Cert to London Grove MM 4-6-1809
Cert fr Concord acc 4-30-1813 Cert to Philadelphia MM, N Dist, 7-3-1818
Hester b 4-16-1782, dt George & Thomazine Spackman m 4-22-1802, Wilmington MM, Joseph Grubb who d 1830
Ch: (of Joseph & Hester (Spackman) Grubb) Samuel Spackman b
d 1830
Edward b d 1845
Hannah 'כ
James G b d 1810
Joseph C b
Joseph b 12-19-1799, s Thomas & Deborah Cert fr Philadelphia MM 6-16-1802, end & rec back 9-12-1802 Cert to London Grove 4-6-1809
Cert fr Concord acc 4-30-1813 Released by W St 11 - ?- 1838 In 1827 List
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