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About the year 1700, or prob- ZELLEY ably between 1700 and 1715,. there migrated from the district of Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, England, two men and four women bearing the surname of 'Zelley. One of these women was the mother of the other five of that name: John, Daniel, Martha, Rachel and Sarah.
The records of Philadelphia Monthly Meet- ing of Friends discloses that when her son John was married 6 mo. 13, 1713, to Margaret Howell, "the young man's mother was present and consenting." Burlington Monthly Meet- ing of Friends in New Jersey in recording the marriage of Rachel Zelley to Francis Smith, IO mo. 12, 1728, mentions Rachel as the daugh- ter of Martha Dexon. This being the case the mother must have been a widowed woman and remarried, but no record can be found of the occasion. Nailsworth Monthly Meeting of
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England reports the burial of Daniel Zelley IO mo. 16, 1711. Philadelphia Monthly Meet- ing of Friends possesses a copy of the certifi- cate of the removal of membership of Martha Zelley from Nailsworth Monthly Meeting, England, addressed "to the friends and brethren of Pennsylvania or Jersey where these may come," dated 12 mo. 9, 1712, as follows: "The bearer hereof Martha Zealey having a brother in your parts who by invita- tion hath induced her to come to him where- fore she desired a certificate from us."
These records conclusively show that Daniel and Martha Zelley were the parents of five children, at least, at Nailsworth, Gloucester- shire, England, and we find them as witnesses to each others marriages in Philadelphia and Burlington in this country from 1713 to 1728. That Daniel died in Nailsworth and that his widow came to America some time thereafter and remarried, and that some of his children if not all came to America prior to his death. The daughter Martha must have died single as we find no record of her marriage. Sarah married Thomas Antrum at Burlington Month- ly Meeting, 3 mo. 1715. John Zelley and Mar- garet Howell had a daughter who was buried 6 mo. 16, 1714, and John himself was buried 7 mo. 21, 1714, thus showing that he died without leaving a descendant. His widow Mar- garet later married Daniel Thomas, of Abing- ton, Pennsylvania.
The remaining child Daniel, the progenitor of all bearing the surname Zelley in America, married, 9 mo. 1725, Damaris Butcher at Bur- lington, New Jersey, daughter of John Butcher, of Lillingston Lovell, county of Oxon, Eng- land, carpenter, and Damaris Wickins, of Paulers Perry, Northamptonshire, England, spinster, who were married 7 mo. 4, 1682, at Biddlesdon, Bucks, England. John later, or very soon thereafter, came to America and became one of the West Jersey proprietors. Daniel and Damaris Zelley bought land of John Butcher near "Slab-town," now Jack- sonville in Springfield township, Burlington county, New Jersey, and settled thereon. Two children were born to them: John and Syl- vanus. John 9 mo. 1748, married Rachel Griffith, of Richland, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, and died leaving children : Daniel,
Samuel, Aaron, Abraham, John and Damaris. His widow, Rachel Zelley, afterward married. IO mo. 1773, Solomon Southwick. Franklin S. and Benjamin Zelley, of Mt. Holly, and Samuel J. Zelley, of Moorestown, New Jer- sey, are descendants. Sylvanus, 12 mo. 1757,
at Burlington, New Jersey, married Ann Haines, a descendant of Richard and Mar- garet Haines, his wife, of "Aynhoe of ye Hill," Northamptonshire, England, who sailed from the Downs, England, in the ship "Amity," Richard Diamond's ship, on the 23rd of April, 1682. Richard died on the voyage, and his youngest son Joseph "was born in mid-ocean." Sylvanus and Ann had children: Amos, Jo- seph, Sylvanus, Daniel, George, Noah, Mar- garet, Martha and Mary. Both John and Syl- vanus, sons of Daniel and Damaris Zelley, continued to reside near Jacksonville, Spring- field township, New Jersey, until their deaths.
Daniel, son of Sylvanus and Ann ( Haines) Zelley, was born in Springfield township, Bur- lington county, New Jersey, 6 mo. 17, 1760. He married, 5 mo. 16, 1787, Bathsheba Brad- dock, daughter of Rehoboam and Jemima (Darnell) Braddock, of Evesham, Burlington county, New Jersey, and lived on the farm of his father in Springfield. The following chil- dren were born to them: I. Job, born 5 mo. 17. 1788, died 10 mo. 27, 1854. 2. Daniel, born 5 mo. 14, 1791, died 8 mo. 24, 1861. 3. Will- iam B., born 3 mo. 29, 1793, died 5 mo. 4, 1880. 4. Jemima, I mo. 2, 1796. 5. Sylvanus, born 2 mo. 15, 1801, died 2 mo. 16, 1857. 6. Rehoboam, born 6 mo. 20, 1803, died 3 mo. 24, 1875. 7. Bathsheba, born 10 mo. 28, 1805, died 12 mo. 6, 1830. 8. Chalkley, born 2 mo. 5, 1808, died 7 mo. 7, 1878. 9. John, born 7 mo. 3, 1812. 10. Joseph, born, 10 mo. 14, 1815, died 12 mo. 20, 1873. These children all married except Jemima and Joseph. Fran- cis R. Zelley, of Trenton, New Jersey, is a descendant of Job. Ferdinand Smith, of Cam- den, is a descendant of William B. Herbert and Alice Zelley, of Burlington, are descend- ants of Sylvanus. Rehoboam and Bathsheba left no children. Herbert E. Zelley, of Flor- ence, is a descendant of John. Chalkley B. Zelley, of Moorestown, New Jersey, is the only child of Chalkley.
Mary, daughter of Sylvanus and Ann ( Haines ) Zelley, married Gershon Penquite and lived at the "Cross-Keys" south of Med- ford, New Jersey, of whom Charles B. Chew, butcher, of Marlton, New Jersey, is a descend- ant. Gershon Penquite was a blacksmith.
Daniel, second child of Daniel and Bath- sheba ( Braddock ) Zelley, married, 3 mo. 26, 1816, Dorothy Stratton, daughter of Enoch and Hannah ( Branin) Stratton, of Eves- ham township, Burlington county. Dorothy Stratton was a direct descendant of Mark Stratton, whose ancestry and nativity is not
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established, but a record of his great-grand- daughter, Martha Cowperthwaite, states "that he came in from old England in 1702 with Robert Braddock Sr. and several others" and died 4 mo. 3, 1759, aged sixty-nine years. His was the first burial in the Orthodox Friends burial ground at Medford, New Jersey. Mark Stratton married, 8 mo. 8, 1713, at Evesham, Burlington county, New Jersey, Ann, daugh- ter of Timothy Hancock, of Brayles, in War- wickshire, England, and sailed in the ship "Paradice," Captain Evele, in 1681. Timothy Hancock with John Roberts and William Mat- lack settled on land between the north and south branches of the Penisaukin Creek near Moorestown, New Jersey, where still remains an old graveyard on the north branch of said creek, sold by Timothy Hancock for the pur- pose, on the farm now owned by Charles Haines. Hannah Branin was the daughter of John Branin and Jane Moore, Protestant Irish stock, whose emigration and nativity is not fully known.
Daniel and Dorothy Zelley spent their mar- ried life successfully as farmers in Evesham township, finally possessing a portion of the tract of land belonging to Enoch Stratton south of Medford near the "Cross Keys" on which they built a substantial house and other buildings. The children born to them were: I. Caleb Edwin, born 10 mo. 7, 1821, died 6 mo. I, 1843, single. 2. Enoch Stratton, born 6 mo. 27, 1823, died 12 mo. 15, 1900. 3. Mark Stratton. born 6 mo. 14, 1826, died I mo. 2, 1909. 4. Rebecca Wills, born I mo. 12, 1834, died 5 mo. 4, 1881. Rebecca Wills Zelley married, 3 mo. II, 1868, Jonathan Bonsall, of Salem, Ohio, son of Isaac Bonsall and Han- nah Evans, his wife, member of Orthodox Friends, and had two children : Anna S., born 3 mo. 22, 1870, single, and Laura R., born I mo. 17, 1873, married, 5 mo. 14, 1896, Will- iam Meloney, son of James Meloney and Anna G. Reid, his wife, of Avondale, Pennsylvania, Orthodox Friends. Laura R. and William Meloney have children : Edward, born 6 mo. 3, 1898; Rebecca A., born 12 mo. II, 1900; Dorothea, born 8 mo. 9, 1902; Esther, born 3 mo. 3, 1904. They were all born at Lands- downe, Pennsylvania, where the parents located and engaged in business.
Enoch Stratton Zelley, born near Marlton, Evesham township, Burlington county, New Jersey, 6 mo. 27, 1823, spent his life within the county of Burlington, and was more or less prominent in public affairs, having held a number of offices of local importance, as did
his father and grandfather, the two Daniels preceding him in Springfield and Evesham townships, Burlington county. He was a farmer and consistent member of the Society of Orthodox Friends, and married at Crop- well Preparative Meeting of the Society near Marlton, 3 mo. 22, 1849, Sarah Butcher Ashead, daughter of Amos Ashead and Sarah Butcher. Amos Ashead was a descendant of Amos As- head, of Newton township, who was one of the judges of Old Gloucester county in 1712 and later, but whose ancestry and nativity is unknown. He and his wife Elizabeth were members of Friends at Haddonfield in 1798 and earlier. Sarah Butcher was a direct de- scendant of Thomas Butcher, of Leckhamstead in the county of Bucks, England, who married Hester Norman, of Lillingston Dayrell in the same county, II mo. 21, 1679, at Whittlebury in Northamptonshire, and sailed from London, England, 12 mo. 1681, or I mo. 1682, as their son Samuel "was born ye 18th of I mo. 1682 on board ye ship cald ye Samuell of London, near Mary Island so called up ye coast of Portegees."
Mark Stratton Zelley, born at Fostertown in old Evesham township, 6 mo. 14, 1826, married, 2 mo. 22, 1866, Beulah Haines Stokes, daughter of William Stokes and Ann Wilson, his wife, descendant of Thomas Stokes and Mary Bernard, who were married 10 mo. 30, 1668, Westbury Street Friends Meeting, Lon- don, England, and belonged to the Devonshire House Meeting. No children were born to them.
Thomas and John Butcher, heretofore men- tioned, were brothers, and Damaris, the daugh- ter of the latter, married Daniel Zelley, the progenitor, and thus the descendants of these two brothers were united in the marriage of Enoch Stratton Zelley and Sarah Butcher As- head. The children born to the latter named are: I. Charles Earl, born 6 mo. 6, 1850; married, 2 mo. 18, 1897, Rachel Fogg, of Salem, New Jersey, daughter of Joseph H. and Rachel ( Allen) Fogg. He is a successful farmer of Mannington township, Salem coun- ty, New Jersey, and a consistent member of the Salem Orthodox' Friends Meeting, holding positions of trust in the meeting and township. 2. William Henry, born I mo. 5, 1854, see for- ward. 3. Joseph Howard, born 8 mo. 11, 1857 ; married, 3 mo. 26, 1884, at Orthodox Friends Meeting, Salem, Ohio, Edith, daughter of Richard B. and Edith W. (Test) Fawcett, where he settled in successful business. One daughter was born to them who married Oliver
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P. Ashead, a cousin, of Camden, New Jersey, and have one child, Dudley Fawcett Ashead. 4. Amos Ashead, born 8 mo. 13, 1867; mar- ried, 9 mo. 6, 1894, Emma A. Weeden, of Philadelphia, daughter of John and Mary (Walton) Weeden; the ancestry of Mary (Walton) Weeden runs back through the Wal- ton families of Bucks and Montgomery coun- ties, Pennsylvania. After finishing his studies Amos A. Zelley was employed in the office, of Whitall, Tatum & Company, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for nine years, then turned his attention to farming, and finally in 1907 set- tled at Masonville in the general store business, proving a successful and useful business man. Two children were born to them: John Enoch, 12 mo. 8, 1902, and Charles Earl, II mo. 10, 1905
All the children of Enoch Stratton Zelley and Sarah Butcher Ashead were educated at the Friends Westtown Boarding School, Ches- ter county, Pennsylvania, from which William Henry Zelley graduated in 1873, remaining as an assistant instructor the year following. He was born in the old homestead at "Cross Keys" near Medford, New Jersey, which was built by his great-grandfather, Enoch Stratton, who married Hannah Branin, in 1791, as was also his brother, Charles Earl. From Westtown William Henry entered the old established drug house of Charles Ellis, Son & Company at the southwest corner of Tenth and Market streets, Philadelphia, and later with A. W. Wright & Company at the northeast corner of Front and Market streets, Philadelphia. In the spring of 1877 he purchased the drug store and property at Marlton, New Jersey, where he still continues in successful business. He accomplished his marriage the same year con- trary to the discipline of the Society of Friends, for which he was treated with as stated in the minutes of Upper Evesham Monthly Meeting of 5 mo. II, 1878, as follows: "He presented an acknowledgement which upon being read and deliberately considered the meeting was united in receiving," the Monthly Meeting hav- ing been informed by Cropwell Preparative Meeting that "he has been treated with for accomplishing his marriage contrary to discipline." His subsequent life and de- portment must have been satisfactory to Friends as he was appointed clerk of Upper Evesham Monthly Meeting, 2 mo. 11, 1905, and an overseer in Cropwell Preparative Meet- ing, I mo. 8, 1910.
A Republican in politics, he has represented his party in many state and county conven-
tions. In speaking of the county convention for clerk of Burlington county, 9 mo. 30, 1893, the New Jersey Mirror says : "Evesham (town- ship) also had a favorite son and his claims to the nomination were placed before the con- vention in a very able manner by William H. he presented the name of William W. Morrell &c." The Mt. Holly News reporting the same Zelley, of that township. In a stirring address convention says: "Mr. Zelley made a telling speech in national affairs making each part apply to the present occasion. He was fre- quently greeted with hearty applause." He has also made speeches at other conventions and public school commencement. He was elected clerk of his township in 1886 and served a number of years; was postmaster under the Harrison administration and elected township collector of taxes in 1891, which office he still holds (1910). He was elected a member of the township "Board of Education" in 1886, and with the exception of one year has been in continued service until the present time (1910), occupying the different positions therein. He was one of the active organizers and incorporators of the Marlton Water Com- pany in 1897; the Marlton Fire Company, No. I, in 1898; the Marlton Light, Heat & Power Company in 1903, and the Marlton Land and Improvement Company in 1907, being a mem- ber of the board of directors and the secretary of each company. He was elected a director of the Farmers' Club at Mt. Laurel, New Jer- sey, in 1904, and its secretary in 1907, and a member of the board of directors of the Mt. Laurel Pursuing Detective and Insurance Com- pany in 1910. He has always taken an active interest in public affairs and the institutions of his town.
William Henry Zelley married, II mo. 8, 1877, Mary P., daughter of Isaac and Eliza ( Pennell) Webster. Isaac Webster was a grandson of Lawrence and Hannah ( Wills) Webster, the later of whom was a granddaugh- ter of Dr. Daniel Wills, the progenitor of the Wills family. Lawrence Webster was the grandson of Samuel Webster, the emigrant. Eliza (Pennell) Webster was a descendant of Robert Pennell, of Bolderton, Lancashire, England, who came to America, 8 mo. 3, 1684, and settled at Middleton, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, 1686.
In October. 1635, the great WILKINSON and general court of Mass- achusetts Bay summoned Roger Williams to appear and answer charges
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before them, all the ministers in the bay being present. After the Rev. Mr. Hooker had failed by argument to redeem him from any of his errors, the general court sentenced him to de- part out of our jurisdiction within six weeks, all the ministers present, save one, approving the sentence. The act of banishment was pass- ed on October 8, 1635, and is in these words : "Whereas Mr. Roger Williams one of the elders of the Church of Salem hath broached and divulged new and dangerous opinions against the authority of magistrates ; has also writ letters of defamation, both of the magis- trates and churches here, and that before any conviction, and yet maintaineth the same with- out any retraction; it is, therefore, ordered that the same Williams shall depart out of this jurisdiction within six weeks, now next ensu- ing, which if he neglects to perform it shall be lawful for the governor and two of the magis- trates to send him to some place out of this juris- diction, not to return any more without license from the Court." In the middle of January, 1636, he "steared his course" from Salem in a small canoe and the vessel "was sorely tossed, without bed or bread" and proceeding along the coast he held intercourse with the Indians and finally found welcome in the wigwam of his aged friend Massasoit, from whom he ob- tained a grant of land at Seacunck, which in 1645 became the town of Rehoboth, in Plym- outh colony. He cleared the ground and plant- ed corn, and some of his followers joined him there, but not his wife and children who were left behind in Salem. Williams says: "I first pitched and began to plant at Seacunck, now Rehoboth, but I received a letter from my ancient friend, Mr. Winslow, the governor of Plymouth, professing his own and others' love and respect for me, yet lovingly advising me, since I had fallen into the edge of their bounds and they were loath to displease the Bay, to remove to the other side of the water, and there he said I had the country free before me and might be as free as themselves, and we should be loving neighbors together." During the latter part of June, 1636, with his five friends, he re-embarked at Seacunck and rounded the point, making their way up the Massachusetts river, landed and named the place Providence and commanded a settlement. He mortgaged his house in Salem and with the money purchased from the Indians by formal deed, made by Canonicus and Maintonomi, who represented the Indian owners of the soil, and by this purchase he became the owner and he expressed his right to the property by say-
ing it "was now as much his as his coat on his back." This land he freely gave to his fellow settlers, reserving for himself no special rights and securing from this ownership no promi- nence above his fellow exiles. He founded the first Baptist church in America and was its first pastor. This relation did not last long, however, as he became a "seeker" preferring not to be connected with any particular church or creed and he was instrumental in securing Mr. Chad Brown as pastor and he continued to both, the pastor and the society, his en- couragement and support and he continued to preach the gospel to "the scattered English at Narragansett." About this time he became a friend and neighbor of Lawrence Wilkinson (q. v.), who was a member of the Society of Friends and the two men co-operated in build- ing up the colony.
(1) Lawrence Wilkinson came from Eng- land to New England, but the year of his arrival is stated variously as 1645-46-52, each claimant having reasons for fixing the date. He was accompanied by his wife and one child. He was born early in the seventeenth century at Harperly House, Lanchester, Durhamshire, England, but the date of his birth and the his- tory of his early youth are unknown. He was the son of William and Mary (Conyers) Wil- kinson, and grandson of Lawrence Wilkinson, for whom he was named and the proprietor of Harperly House. He went into the Royal army as a lieutenant and served in maintaining the cause of Charles II. against Cromwell in 1640, and he was taken prisoner on the fall of New Castle and his estates were sequestered by the parliamentary government. He obtained from Lord Fairfax permission to embark for America, and poor in purse and with no coun- try he could call his own he found a new home for himself, his wife and his children in the newly formed settlement at Providence planta- tions, Rhode Island, and a friend in Roger Williams, although he did not agree with Will- iams in religious views, he being a member of the Society of Friends. He was made one of the proprietors of Providence plantations, was presented with twenty-five acres of land and was one of the signers of the original civil compact made between the founders, and dated IIth month, 19th day, 1645. The marked qualities of his character found for him favor in the community, and he soon accumulated a large estate by his thrift and energy, and he was honored by being sent to represent the town in the colonial legislature, and he met in counsel at Portsmouth in 1659, 1667, 1673, and
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many times thereafter. He was in full account with Williams in his doctrine of "soul liberty," and when the Indian troubles threatened to put an end to the settlement he was with Roger Williams and Major Hopkins, the three leaders who would not seek safety in flight, but stood their ground and saved the colony. His wife, to whom he was married before he left Eng- land, was the daughter of Christopher Smith, who probably came from England in the same ship and who was made a freeman in 1655, the place of his residence being known as Smith Hill, Providence, where he located about 1650. Children of Lawrence and Susanna (Smith) Wilkinson: 1. Samuel, born probably in Eng- land, see forward. 2. Susanna, born in Provi- dence, March 9, 1652, died young. 3. John, March 2, 1654, was noted for his great physical strength, he took up land near the Providence settlement and within the boundaries of the town, he was noted for bravery bordering on rashness in King Philip's war, and in an- other fight with the Indians; several years afterward, he was severely wounded and the general assembly voted him ten pounds, in token of their appreciation of his service ; he was deputy to the general court for several years ; he married Deborah Whipple, by whom he had three sons and three daughters, and most of the Wilkinsons of Cumberland and several of Smithfield are his descendants ; he died suddenly and without an attendant, on the road leading from his house to that of his brother Samuel, on July 10, 1708. 4. Joanna, born June 2, 1657, of whose existence or death there is nothing known. 5. Josias, born about 1660; he took the oath of fidelity to King Charles II., May 29, 1682, and died August 10, 1692, the day succeeding that on which his father died; he married Hannah Tyler, of Taunton, Massachusetts, and received from his father a gift of the homestead in Provi- (lence ; they had one child, Hannah. 6. Sus- anna, married a Mr. Boss, of Rehoboth.
(II) Samuel, eldest son of Lawrence and Susanna (Smith) Wilkinson, was born prob- ably in England about 1650. He married, in 1672, Plain, daughter of Rev. William Wicker- den, associate pastor with the Rev. Chad Brown, of the First Baptist Church in Provi- dence, and after Mr. Brown's resignation for several years sole pastor of the church. Samuel Wilkinson settled on a farm, which became a part of Smithfield, where he was a pioneer, and when King Philip's war broke out he sent his wife and child to the garrison-house in Providence for safety and he went with the
other men of the place to defend their homes and if possible put down the savages. He was in command of a company of minute-men, and when the war was ended by the death of King Philip, he returned home and resumed work upon his farm. He was a justice of the Peace and a representative in the colonial legis- lature. He met a sudden death on August 27, 1727, being accidentally drowned in the Paw- tucket river, his wife perishing with him. The children of Captain Samuel and Plain ( Wick - erden) Wilkinson were: 1. Samuel, born 9th month, 18th, 1674; died Ist month, 18th, 1726; he married Huldah ( Thayer ) Aldrich ; he lived on the homestead farm which he received as a gift from his father, and besides being a farmer was also a tanner, currier and shoemaker ; he was a member of the Society of Friends ; the father of fifteen children, born between 1697 and 1720, in the following order: Huldah, Isaiah, Samuel, Zebiah, Patience, Mercy, David. Jacob, Sarah, William, Ruth, Caleb, Plain, Peleg and Ichabod. 2. John, see forward. 3. William, November 1, 1680; he was a preacher in the Society of Friends and went to Bar- badoes and thence to England, where he mar- ried a Yorkshire lass; he never returned to America. 4. Joseph, born January 22, 1682 ; married Martha Pray, a granddaughter of one of the pioneer settlers of Scituate, Rhode Island, and he lived in that town where he accumulated large wealth, being owner of one thousand acres of land ; he died about 1780. 5. Ruth, married William Hopkins, who was a mechanic and day laborer on her father's farm, and their oldest son, William Hopkins, was a sea captain with a life full of adventures ; an- other son, Stephen Hopkins, the signer of the Declaration of Independence; another son, Esek Hopkins, was the first commander-in- chief of the United States navy. 6. Susanna. born April 27, 1688; married James Angell, and by the marriage they had three sons and two daughters.
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