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(J. H. Beers Co .: "Representative Men and Old Familes of Rhode Island," Vol. I, P. 574.)
(I) JOHN COGGESHALL, the elder, was of Halstead, County Essex, where he died January 1, 1600-01. His will was proved at Braintree, Essex County, on January 8 of that year. He held Munchenois in Halstead, situated near Cogge- shall Bridge, and made additions to the house in 1563. He is said to have been a merchant in London at one time. He married (first) Elizabeth. He married (second) Katherine. Children of first marriage:
I. Richard.
2. John.
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Children of second marriage :
3. Katherine.
4. Elizabeth.
5. John, of whom further.
("New England Historical and Genealogical Register," Vol. LXXIII, pp. 19-32.)
(II) JOHN COGGESHALL, the younger, son of John and Katherine Coggeshall, was born at Halstead, July 24, 1576, and was buried there August 4, 1615. He married Anne Butter, sister of John Butter, of Essex. Children :
I. John, of whom further.
2. Anne.
3. Katherine.
(Charles Pierce Coggeshall and Thellwell Russell Coggeshall: "The Coggeshalls in America," pp. 4-5.)
(The Family in America).
(I) JOHN COGGESHALL, son of Jolin and Anne (Butter) Coggeshall, was bap- tized at Halstead, Essex County, England, December 9, 1601, and died at New- port, Rhode Island, November 27, 1647. He arrived in New England on the ship "Lion." After residing for a short time in Roxbury, Massachusetts, he removed to Boston and in 1634 was elected one of the first board of selectmen. In the same year he was chosen a deputy and was soon made a deacon. He was removed from office and disarmed as a supporter of Anne Hutchinson. In 1638, he was among eighteen men, including Roger Williams, John Clarke, William Coddington, and the Hutchinsons, who purchased the island of Aquidneck from the sachems of the Narragansett Indians. Near the north end of the island they founded the town of Portsmouth and organized their community upon the basis of religious liberty. In a short time the little colony grew so rapidly that it was necessary to found another settlement on the south end of the island, and John Coggeshall was among the leaders in the establishment of Newport in 1039. The following year Ports- mouth and Newport were united and he was chosen one of the assistants. In 1639 he was also made an elder in the church of Portsmouth. The colony of Rhode Island continued to grow and when the several communities were united in 1644 under the name of Providence Plantations he was elected president. He married Mary, who died at Newport, November 8, 1684. Children :
I. John, born about 1618; for nearly fifty years he held public office, including service as commissioner and deputy for Newport, major-general of the military forces, treas- urer and Deputy Governor of the Colony; although several times chosen Governor he declined to serve. He married (first) Eliza Baulston; (second), in 1655, Patience Throgmorton, who died September 7, 1675; (third) Mary.
2. Joshua, of whom further.
3. Ann, born about 1625; married, November 15, 1643, Peter Easton, son of Governor Nicholas Easton.
4. Hannel, baptized in Boston, Massachusetts, May 3, 1635; probably died young.
5. Bediah, baptized in Boston, July 30, 1637; probably died young.
6. Wait, born September 11, 1636; married, December 18, 1651, Daniel Gould, she being at the time fifteen years 'e.
(Ibid., pp. 6-12. J. H. Beers Co .: "Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island," Vol. I, p. 574; Vol. III, p. 1514. "Rhode Island Historical Magazine," Vol. III, p. 1867.)
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(II) JOSHUA COGGESHALL, son of John and Mary Coggeshall, was born in County Essex, England, about 1623, and died at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, May I, 1688. He accompanied his parents to Massachusetts and from there to Rhode Island. After the death of his father he moved to Portsmouth where, in 1654, he purchased a farm on the west side of the island, where he lived until he died. The greater portion of it was still owned by his descendants as recently as 1900. In 1660, he became a member of the Society of Friends and soon after this, while visiting Plymouth Colony, he was put in jail and his horse taken from him. In 1664, 1666-68, and from 1670 to 1672, he was deputy, and much of the time between 1669 and 1676 he was assistant.
Joshua Coggeshall married (first), December 22, 1652, Joan West, who was born in 1631 and died in 1676. He married (second), June 21, 1677, Rebecca Russell. Children of the first marriage:
I. Mary, born in February, 1654-55.
2. Joshua, Jr. (Josiah), born in May, 1656; resided at Middletown, Rhode Island; mar- ried (first), May 13, 1681, Sarah; (second), August 26, 1697, Sarah.
3. John, of whom further.
4. Josias, born in November, 1662.
5. Daniel, born in April, 1665.
6. Humility, born in January, 1671; married Benjamin Greene.
7. Caleb, born in 1672.
8. Isaac.
(J. H. Beers: "Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island," Vol. I, p. 575; Vol. III, pp. 1927-28. Rhode Island Friends' records. J. N. Arnold: "Vital Record of Rhode Island," Vol. VII, pp. 11, 51.)
(III) JOHN COGGESHALL, son of Joshua and Joan (West) Coggeshall, was born in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, in December, 1659, and died there May I, 1727. His farm was situated partly in Newport and partly in Portsmouth. Both he and his wife are buried on the farm. He married, at Portsmouth, Mary Stan- ton, daughter of John and Mary (Harndell) Stanton. Children:
I. Mary; married Thomas Weaver.
2. Rebecca; married Peleg Wood.
3. Hannah; married Benjamin Weaver.
4. John; married Ann.
5. Joshua; married Elizabeth.
6. Avis; married John Weaver.
7. Mercy ; married Thomas Fish.
8. Joseph; married (first) Amy Bull; (second) Mary Carr.
9. Humility.
IO. Caleb, of whom further.
II. Benjamin; married (first) Elizabeth Dunlap; (second) Comfort Mathewson. (Charles Pierce Coggeshall and Thellwell Russell Coggeshall : "The Coggeshalls in America," pp. 26, 27, 47, 48, 49, 50.)
(IV) CALEB COGGESHALL, son of John and Mary (Stanton) Coggeshall, was born at Portsmouth, about 1709, and died at Newport before 1740. He married, in Newport, May 18, 1732, Mercy Mitchell, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Mitchell. Children :
1. Job, of whom further.
2. Peleg, born September 29, 1734; married (first) Anna Folger; (second) Sarah Fish. (Ibid., pp. 49, 79.)
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(V) JOB COGGESHALL, son of Caleb and Mercy (Mitchell) Coggeshall, was born at Newport, January 13, 1733. He married (first), at Nantucket, January 19, 1758, Deborah Starbuck. (Starbuck V.) He married (second) Mariam Bar- nard. Children, all of first marriage, born in Nantucket :
1. Caleb, of whom further.
2. Tristram.
3. Job.
4. Peter.
5. Deborah.
6. Sarah.
7. Giles. (Ibid., pp. 78, 119-23.)
(VI) CALEB COGGESHALL, son of Job and Deborah (Starbuck) Coggeshall, was born at Nantucket, August 28, 1758, and died at New York City, January I, 1847. He married, in Nantucket, October 3, 1793, Elizabeth Hosier. (Hosier II.) Children :
I. Mary.
2. Job.
3. Giles Hosier, of whom further.
4. Deborah; married Ellwood Walter.
5. George Dilwin.
6. Caleb; married Helen Sarchet.
(Ibid., pp. 118-19, 189-90.)
(VII) GILES HOSIER COGGESHALL, sun of Caleb and Elizabeth (Hosier) Coggeshall, was born in New York City, June 20, 1802, and died in Bloomfield, New Jersey, February 21, 1885. He had moved to the latter city in 1866. For forty-nine years he was secretary of the Bowery Savings Bank of New York City. He married (first) Elizabeth Mitchell. He married (second), at Friends' Meet- ing, Haverford, Pennsylvania, November 21, 1833, Marianna Walter. (Walter V.) Children, all of second marriage :
I. Walter; married Sarah Emily Haydock.
2. Emma; married William Marrio Franklin.
3. Charles Thompson, died unmarried in New York City.
4. Mary Rhoads, of whom further.
5. Edwin Walter, born July 26, 1842; married Anna Walter.
6. Morton Cheesman, born September 28, 1848; married Harriet J. Crane.
(Ibid., p. 189. "Nantucket Vital Records," Vol. IV, p. 202. L. S. Hinchman: "Early Settlers of Nantucket," p. 216.)
(VIII) MARY RHOADS COGGESHALL, daughter of Giles Hosier and Marianna (Walter) Coggeshall, was born in New York City, September 7, 1840, and died at Saratoga, New York, September 14, 1896. She married Emmor Kimber Janney. (Janney VII.)
(Charles Pierce Coggeshall and Thellwell Russell Coggeshall: "The Coggeshalls in America," p. 189.)
(The Walter Line.)
Walter as a patronymic is one of the oldest and most distinguished in all Eng- land, bearers of the name having been especially identified with the picturesque
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time of the pre-colonization days. The surname is of Teutonic origin, being intro- duced in England soon after the Conquest.
(Lower: "Patronymica Britannica.")
(I) GODWIN WALTER, the progenitor of our family, came to America on the ship "Unicorne," Thomas Cooper commander, arriving on the 16th, 10th month, 1685. His home in England was probably in the neighborhood of Devizes, a town on the road from London to Bath, eighty-five miles from London, or of Bedwin Magna, which is seventy miles from London, for in 1681, before emigrating, he was a witness to a conveyance between Samuel Noyes, of Devizes, and Thomas Martin, of Bedwin Magna, for land in Pennsylvania. On 27-9-1686, he pur- chased from George Strode one hundred acres of land in Concord Township, Chester County. March 13, 1694, he was appointed constable of that township, and again in 1701-02. On May 28, 1706, he was a member of the "pettit" jury, and on August 26, 1707, he again served in that capacity. Godwin Walter mar- ried Elizabeth Sanghurst. The intentions were announced at a monthly meeting of Friends, 8-12-1696, and on 9-9-1696, at Nicholas Newlin's, they appeared a second time, and no obstruction appearing, they were given liberty to proceed in marriage. Elizabeth Sanghurst was an overseer of the Concord Meeting in 1724. Children :
I. John, born 7-2-1697, died in 1732; married, 3-21-1724, Martha Musgrove.
2. Mary, born 10-5-1698, died in 1753; married, 2-15-1724, Caleb Peirce.
3. Sarah, born 1-25-1701, died 3-25-1753; married (first), 9-26-1719, Gainer Peirce; (second), 3-25-1749, William Eachus.
4. Ann, born 9-7-1704.
5. William, of whom further.
6. Rachel, born 10-27-1709; married, 8-28-1730, John Pyle.
7. Joseph, born 12-28-1711; married, June 6, 1738, Jane Brinton.
8. Elizabeth, born 7-29-1714; married, 2-23-1735, Aaron Musgrove.
9. Lydia; married, 9-25-1747, Eliakim Garretson.
IO. James; married Lydia Vernon.
(Gilbert Cope: "Records of the Concord Monthly Meeting," p. 427. Gilbert Cope : "Family Data," Vol. Waltham, p. 143, and inserted pages. Anne H. Cresson and Frances K. Walter : "Descendants of Godwin Walter," in "American Genealogist," p. 66.)
(II) WILLIAM WALTER, son of Godwin and Elizabeth (Sanghurst) Walter, was born 4-8-1707, and died 9-20-1781. His will was dated 8-22-1781, proved June 16, 1783, and in it he left his son, Nathaniel, his farm, and to the other children seventy-five pounds apiece. He married, 2-25-1734, at Concord Meeting, Rachel Newlin. (Newlin IV.) Children :
I. Elizabeth, born 1-24-1735; married John Taylor.
2. John, of whom further.
3. William, born 10-14-1738, died in 1807; married, 12-2-1762, Betty Hicklin.
4. Thomas, born 11-15-1740, died 3-12-1801 ; married, at First Baptist Church, Philadel- phia, October 30, 1765, Rebecca Pennell.
5. Hannah, born 2-28-1743, died 4-25-1791 ; married (first), Benjamin Jones; (second), a Reed.
6. Nathaniel, born 2-13-1745, died 12-14-1805; married (first) Mary Mancil; (second), Rachel Sharpless.
7. Lydia, born 7-17-1749, died in 1819; married James Pennell.
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( Burke : "General Armory.")
NEWLAND "(NEWLIN).
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Crest-A lion's gambe erect, argent holding a cross formée fitchee' gules charged with three bezants. (Burke : "Encyclopedia of Heraldry.")
WOODWARD.
Arms-Argent, on three bars gules as many bucks' heads cabossed or, on a chief of the last a wolf passant of the second between two pheous sable. Crest -- A demi-lion rampant sable holding a pheon or. Newlin (Burke; "General Armory.")
COGGESHALL.
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(Burke: "General Armory.")
JACKSON.
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Crest-A shoveller, as in the arms. Motto -- Malo mori quam fordari
(Burke: "General Armory.")
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8. Isaac, born 8-7-1751, died 2-6-1836.
9. Ruth, born 5-13-1753, died in 1791; married a Crosby.
(Gilbert Cope: "Records of the Concord Monthly Meeting," p. 428. Anne H. Cresson and Frances K. Walter : "Descendants of Godwin Walter," pp. 66, 68. Palmer: "Trimble Genealogy," p. 39. "Chester County Wills, Etc., Abstracts," Vol. I, p. 109; Vol. III, p. 149.)
(III) JOHN WALTER, son of William and Rachel ( Newlin) Walter, was born II-25-1736, and died 3-15-1802. Administration on his estate was granted to Nathaniel Walter, on April 17, 1802. He married, at Birmingham Meeting, in 1762, Deborah Woodward, born 3-13-1728, died 2-17-1816, daughter of Henry and Mary (Townsend) Woodward, of East Bradford, Chester County, Pennsyl- vania. Children :
I. Joseph, born 9-6-1762, died 8-3-1764.
2. Rachel, born 1-25-1765, died 1-11-1804; married Nathaniel Pyle.
3. John, born in 1766, died 6-1-1767.
4. Enos, born 10-25-1767, died in 1815; married Elizabeth Neals.
5. Henry, born 2-27-1769, died in 1803; married Sarah Guest.
6. Martha, born 2-14-1770; married Lawrence Wilson.
7. William, born 6-3-1771, died 3-27-1843; married Elizabeth (Myers) Pierce.
8. Deborah, born 4-14-1773, died 9-11-1849; married James Lackey.
9. Thomas, of whom further.
10. John, born 6-16-1776, died 10-22-1856; married Rebecca Harvey.
II. Abigail, born 6-23-1778, died 5-25-1839; married Frederick Stoy.
(Gilbert Cope: "Records of the Concord Monthly Meeting," p. 430. "Delaware County Wills, 1789-1805," p. 31 of the "Administrations." Anne H. Cresson and Frances K. Walter : "Descendants of Godwin Walter," p. 69. "Chester and Concord Meeting Records," pp. 429, 431.)
(IV) THOMAS WALTER, son of John and Deborah ( Woodward) Walter, was born 5-9-1774, and died 6-9-1842. In 1799 he moved to Redstone, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. He married, in the third month of 1800, at Brownsville, Pennsyl- vania, Sarah Kimber. (Kimber Va.) Children:
I. Edwin, born 1-19-1801, died 1-8-1865; married Hannah Ann Newlin.
2. Elwood, born 8-6-1803, died 5-7-1877; married (first) Deborah Coggeshall; (second) Elizabeth H. Bowne; (third) Anna M. Haviland.
3. Marianna, of whom further.
("Redstone Monthly Meeting, Abstract of Men's Minutes, 1793-1824," pp. 69, 82, 89. Anne H. Cresson and Frances K. Walter : "Descendants of Godwin Walter," p. 74.)
(V) MARIANNA WALTER, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Kimber) Walter, was born October 13, 1805, and died May 9, 1891. She married Giles Hosier Coggeshall. (Coggeshall VII.)
(Ibid.)
(The Kimber Line.)
The surname Kimber, or Kember, is derived from the Anglo-Saxon feminine personal name Cyneburh, meaning a royal stronghold. In England a Kempster is a wool-comber, and it is also possible that this accounted in some degree for the origin of the name.
(Bardsley: "Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames." Harrison: "Surnames of the United Kingdom.")
(I) RICHARD KIMBER was born in 1610 and died at the age of ninety-four. He was of Grove, near Wantage, Berkshire, England. He was an officer of Horse
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in the Parliamentary Army under Oliver Cromwell, 1643-44, and possessed an estate of about £60 per annum. Children :
1. Isaac, of whom further.
2. A daughter ; married Mr. Rowland, an eminent farmer in Berkshire, England.
3. A daughter.
(Sidney A. Kimber: "The Descendants of Richard Kimber," p. 9.).
(II) ISAAC KIMBER, son of Richard Kimber, also lived in Grove, England. He married (first) Mary. Children of first marriage :
1. Isaac, born December 1, 1692, died in 1752; married, in 1717, Anna Roberts.
2. Richard, of whom further.
3. Mary; married John Kirkland.
4. Elizabeth; unmarried.
(Ibid.)
(III) RICHARD KIMBER, son of Isaac and Mary Kimber, was probably born in Wantage, Berkshire, England, and died at West Bradford, Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1753. He and his wife emigrated to America, sailing from Bris- tol, England, and settled in Pennsylvania. By a warrant dated April 5, 1749, he obtained a patent for sixty-seven acres of land and allowance, the patent being dated August 15, 1750. His will was dated February 15, 1753, and proved Feb- ruary 26 of that year. In it he left half his land to his wife, the rest to his chil- dren. Richard Kimber married Mary Preddy, of West Bradford. Children :
1. Isaac, died young.
2. Sarah; married Daniel Hart.
3. Mary; married Joseph Underwood.
4. Richard Preddy, of whom further.
(Ibid., p. 31. Gilbert Cope: "Family Data," Vol. Ki-Ky, p. 11.)
(IV) RICHARD PREDDY KIMBER, son of Richard and Mary (Preddy) Kimber, was born in 1737, and died in February, 1822. He was a member of the Society of Friends and his wife was admitted after marriage. For many years they lived in the house at the corner of Ninth and Filbert streets. Their homestead was the Gideon Wickersham farm, at Radnor, Pennsylvania, and here their children were born. He married, May 16, 1759, Gertrude Griffith, born January 21, 1738, died May 9, 1822, daughter of Benoni and Catharine (Waggoner) Griffith. Benoni Griffith was Welsh and his wife was German. Children :
1. Caleb, born April 4, 1761, died October 12, 1793; married May 12, 1785, Deborah Milhous.
2. Mary, born December 16, 1762, died about 1840; married Isaac Mendenhall.
3. Isaac, born March 20, 1764; married, in 1788. Rebecca Rogers.
4. Richard, born May 30, 1766; . married, in Octoher, 1789, Susan Milhous.
5. James, born October 16, 1769; married, in 1792, Jane Dougherty.
6. Jesse, born in December, 1772; married, in 1791, Hannah Comly.
7. Emmor, of whom further.
8. Preddy, born June 9, 1777; married Amy Hollingshead.
9. Sarah, of whom further.
(Sidney A. Kimber : "The Descendants of Richard Kimber," p. 32. Futhey and Cope : "History of Chester County," p. 411. "Chester County Meeting Records," p. 370.)
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(Va) SARAH KIMBER, daughter of Richard Preddy and Gertrude (Griffith) Kimber, was born January 21, 1780, and died September 17, 1856. She married Thomas Walter. (Walter IV.)
(Ibid.)
(Vb) EMMOR KIMBER, son of Richard Preddy and Gertrude (Griffith) Kim- ber, was born May II, 1775, and died September 1, 1850. He was an esteemed minister of the Society of Friends. His work in education was noteworthy. In 1818 he established the French Creek Boarding School for Girls. This name was later changed to Kimberton Boarding School. Here Mr. Kimber and his daugh- ters taught, and conducted the school on principles somewhat different from those of most seminaries, there being no code of penal laws or rules in force. Due to efficient and understanding management, the school was rated high in academic circles, was prosperous and drew many students to its fold from other states and the West Indies as well as in the range of its own locality. Mr. Kimber was the author of "Arithmetic Made Easy to Children," "The Church of Christ, and Way of Salvation Universal," "The Power of the Church," and "Kimber's Almanack." Emmor Kimber married, at Pine Street Meeting, Philadelphia, May 3, 1797, Susanna Jackson. (Jackson IV.) Children :
I. Anna, born January 25, 1798, died December 15, 1876; married Robert V. Massey.
2. Isaac, born September 1I, 1799, died in 1816.
3. William, born June 1, 1801, died in 1827.
4. Samuel, born February 4, 1803, died in 1850; married Susan Konigmacher.
5. Abigail, born November 25, 1804, died in 1871.
6. Mary Emma, of whom further.
7. Susanna, born May 7, 1809, died in 1824.
8. Emmor J., born April 5, 1811, died in 1852.
9. Martha, born July 4, 1812.
10. Henry, born August 22, 1814; married Jane Henry.
11. Gertrude, born June 14, 1816, died August 26, 1869; married, October 24, 1842, Rev. Charles C. Burleigh.
("Records Pine and Orange Streets Monthly Meetings," p. 613. "Uwchlan Monthly Meeting, 1768-1829." Futhey and Cope: "History of Chester County," p. 305. Sidney A. Kimber : "Descendants of Richard Kimber," p. 38.)
(VI) MARY EMMA KIMBER, daughter of Emmor and Susanna (Jackson) Kimber, was born February 19, 1807, and died May 7, 1859. ' She married Thomas Janney. (Janney VI.)
("Chester County Monthly Meeting Records," p. 577.)
(The Newlin Line).
In Cornwall, England, there is a parish named Newlyn, and Newland is local in the Counties Berks, Gloucester, Lancaster, Worcester, and York. < In 1150, some seven hundred and eighty years ago, Randolph de la Newlande was Lord of the Manor of Newlande Hall, Essex. About twenty-four generations are repre- sented in the line of his descent. Roger Newland, Esq., of Newlands, County Southampton, failed in an attempt to effect the escape of Charles I from Caris- broke Castle, for which he suffered death on the scaffold. A descendant of Ran- dolph de la Newlande was Nicholas Newlin (or Newlyn, Newlan, or Newlande),
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of Canterbury, England, who was living in 1580. He had a son, Nicholas New- lin, Jr., who was our first ancestor to reach these shores.
(Lower: "Patronymica Britannica." Bardsley: "Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames." Stockard: "History of Alamance, North Carolina," p. 138. Burke : "General Armory.")
(I) NICHOLAS NEWLIN, JR., son of Nicholas Newlin, of Canterbury, Eng- land, was born in 1630, and died in America in 1699. He fled to County Cork, Ireland, to escape religious persecution, and from there to Chester County, Penn- sylvania, twenty-three miles from Philadelphia, in 1683. With his sons, Nathaniel and John, he left his home and family and set out to carve a new home in the wilderness. He is described as perhaps the most aristocratic of the Quaker colon- ists. A copy of the certificate of Newland and family from the Friends' Meeting, dated 25th of 12th month, 1682, at Mount Mellick, is as follows :
At the request of Nicholas Newland we do hereby certify that the said Nicholas Newland acquainted our men's meeting with his intention of removing himself and family out of this Nation, into New Jersey or Pennsylvania, in America; and we have nothing to charge against him or his family, as to their conversation in the world since they frequented our .meetings ; but they have walked honestly among men for aught we know or can hear of by inquiry which hath been made; but our Friends' meeting is generally dissatisfied with his so removing, he being well settled with his family and having sufficient substance for food and raiment; which all that profess Godliness in Christ Jesus ought to be contented with; for we brought nothing into this world, and we are certain to take nothing out; and he has given us no satisfactory reason for his removing; but our Godly jealousy is that his chief ground is fearfulness of suffering here for the testimony of Jesus, or courting worldly liberty; all which we certify from our men's meeting at Mount Mellick, 25th of 12th mo. 1682.
And we further certify that inquiry hath been made concerning the clearness of Nathaniel and John Newland, sons of said Nicholas Newland, from all entanglements of Marriage, and that they are released for aught we fitid.
Signed by advice and on behalf of the meeting :
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