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Immigration of the Irish Quakers
into Pennsylvania
1682 - 1750
With Their Early History in Ireland
by
Albert Cook Myers, M. L.
Member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
"There is not one of the family but what likes the country very well
and wod. If we were in Ireland again come here Directly
it being the best country for working folk & tradesmen of any in the
world, but for Drunkards and Idlers, they cannot live well any
where." - Letter of an
Irish Quaker, 1725
The Author
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
1902
APPENDIX
Page 277
LIST OF CERTIFICATES OF REMOVAL FROM IRELAND
RECEIVED AT THE MONTHLY
MEETINGS OF FRIENDS IN PENNSYLVANIA, 1682-1750; WITH GENEALOGICAL
NOTES FROM FRIENDS' RECORDS OF IRELAND AND PENNSYLVANIA,
GENEALOGIES, COUNTY HISTORIES AND OTHER BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS.
(SEE BIBLIOGRAPHY)
PHILADELPHIA MONTHLY MEETING
Established in 1682.
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THOMAS HOLME, from Meeting at Waterford City,
Ireland, dated 11 Mo. 29, 1681. See notice of him,
pages 247-256.
JOHN AND JOSEPH LOW, from Men's Meeting at
Ballyhagen, Parish of Kilmore, County Armagh, Ireland;
dated 5 Mo. 31, 1682.
In 1679, John Loe, of Parish of Terteryan,
County Armagh, suffered persecution for tithes. -
Stockdale, A Great Cry of Oppresion, 125.
ARCHIBALD MICHAEL (Mickle], from Men's Meeting at
Richard Boyes' house, near Lisburn, County
Antrim, Ireland, dated 6 Mo. 2, 1682.
Archibald Mickle, cooper, was married at
Philadelphia, in 1686, to Sarah Watts. Four
years later he purchased from Robert Turner a
tract of 250 acres in Newton, and removed thither from
Philadelphia. He died there in 1706, his wife
Sarah surviving him. His children were:
John, m. Hannah, daughter of William
Cooper in 1704; Samuel, m. Elizabeth,
daughter of Joseph Cooper, in 1708; Daniel, m.
Hannah Dennis, in 1711; Archibald, m.
Mary Wright, in 1719; Joseph, m.
Elizabeth Eastlack, in 1723; James, m.
Sarah Eastlack, in 1732; Sarah, m.
Ezekiel Siddon; Mary, m. Arthur
Powell; and Rachel, m. Benjamin
Cooper, in 1718.1
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1 See Judge Clement's
First Settlers in Newton, 139-148. (His own
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JAMES ATKINSON. - "1682, 9 10/mo The
Antelope of Bellfast arrived here [Philadelphia] from
Ireland. James Attkinson arrived here and
Jno Ashbrooke his servant." (Penna.
Mag., VIII., 929).
He produced a certificate, dated 8 Mo. 23, 1681, from
Friends at Drogheda [Ireland] to Philadelhia Mo. Mtg.
At Phila. Mo. Mtg., 1 Mo. 6, 1683, "Several Cerficates
were brought into the meeting & Produced, amongst which
there was a certain Certificate, dated from Clanbrazill
[probably Lurgan Meeting] in the County of Armagh in
Ireland, touching one James Atkinson (who now
resides in Griffith Jones's) his coming into this
province contrary to the Consent of friends of the
meeting whereunto he belonged, whom friends by the
aforesaid Certificate signifyed to be very much in debt,
and Ca."
At the Mo. Mtg., 5 Mo. 3, 1683, "Agreed that Thomas
Holme, Thomas Wynne and Griffith Jones
do satisfy by a few lines, the friends of the Meeting at
Canbrazill concerning James Atkinson, as touching
his departure out of England and Ireland into
Pennsylvania." In 1684, he married Hannah,
widow of Mark Newbie, of Newton Meeting, N. J.
James Atkinson, of Philadelphia, shopkeeper,
being aged, made his will 2 Mo. 16, 1711 (probated Sept.
6, 1711) and mentions son Thomas.
In 1655, William Edmundson (Journal,
20) says, "We came to a Widow Woman's House, one
Margary Atkinson, a tender, honest Woman, whose
House [near Killmore, County Armagh] I had been at
before; She was convinced of the Truth and received us
lovingly. So we had a Meeting there; the tender
People thereabouts generally came to Meeting, most of
them received the Truth . . . We settled a Meeting
there, which became large." In 1660, for a demand
of 8s. 4d. thithes, Margery Atkinson had taken
from her two cows worth £3,
10s.
(BesseII., 467).
DENNIS ROCHFORD, son of William Rochford, was
born in Emstorfey [Enniscorthy] Co. Wexford, Ireland,
about 1647.
He became a Friend about 1662. According to
Besse's Sufferings (II., 476) he and other
Friends being "assembled in their usual Meeting-place in
Bride-street [Dublin, in 1669,] were taken thence" and
committed to prison for five weeks, and also imprisoned
in Wicklow "Gaol," in 167-, for attending a meeting at
the house of Thomas Trafford, in Wicklow
(Ibid., 479).
He "went into England and landed in Whitehaven in
Cumberland the 30th of the 3d month, 1675; dwelt in
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Sussex 3 years and kept a
grocer's shop, and came into the province of
Pennsilvania with Mary his wife, Daughter of
John Heriott of the parish of hostper poynt [Hurstpierrepoint]
in Sussex in Old England (she was Born on the 14th of
the 3d month [16]52_ with two servants, Tho:
Jones & Jeane Mathews: the said Dennis' two
daughters, Grace and Mary Rochford, dyed upon the
seas in the said ship; Grace being above 3 years
old and Mary being 6 months: the said Dennis
Rochford Landed with his family in Pennsilvania
about the 24th day of the 8th month 1682 [not so early
by a few days] Mary Rochford the second
daughter of Dennis & Mary Rochford was born in
the Province of Pennsilvania at Egely poynt, in the
county of Philadelphia, the 22th of the 8th mo. 1683,
between 10 & 11 at night, she being the second daughter
of that name" (Hist. of Chester Co., 23; Penna
Mage., VIII., 334).
Dennis Rochford settled in Concord Township,
Chester (now Delaware) County, where he had located a
large tract of land. In 1683, he represented
Chester County in the Provincial Assembly (Dr. Smith's
Hist. of Delaware Co., 497). Later, apparently, he
removed to Philadelphia, where his name appears on the
minutes of the Monthly Meeting, 5 Mo. 1, 1684.
ROBERT TURNER and family, from Men's Meeting in
the City of Dublin; dated 5 Mo. 3, 1683. He being
"an Antient ffriend of thsi meeting" and "a Widdow man."
See notice of him, pages 257-262.
PHILIP ENGLAND, certificate dated 3 Mo. 21, 1683,
from Men's Meeting, Dublin, Ireland.
BENJAMIN CHANDLEE, unmarried, son of William
Chandlee, of Kilmore, County Kildare, Ireland, from
Edenderry Mtg., King's County, Ireland, dated 11 Mo. 18
[years omitted, but probably about 1701-1702].
Signed by William, Jr., and Nath. Chandlee.
Benjamin Chandlee, son of William, of
Kilmore, County Kildare, Ireland, came to Philadelphia
and learned the trade of a clock and watchmaker with
Abel Cottey, whose daughter Sarah he married,
3 Mo. 25, 1710, and about 1715 settled on a tract of
land in Nottingham, Chester County, which had belonged
to his father. There he built a smithy and made
brass cow bells, then much heeded. In 1741, they
removed to Wilmington, Delaware, where he died about
1745. (See further account in Hist. Chester
Co., p. 496.)
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In 1676, in County Meath, one
William Chanley, of Killncross, Parish of Trim,
had his goods seized for tithes. - Stockdale, 68.
CHRISTOPHER PENNOCK was married prior to 1675 to
Mary daughter of George Collett, of
Clonmell, County Tipperary, Ireland. After
residing there and in Cornwall, England, for some time,
he emigrated to Philadelphia about 1685, and died in
that city in 1701. A son, Joseph born at
Killhouse, near Clonmell, Ireland, 11 Mo. 18, 1677, was
a merchant in Philadelphia until about 1714, when he
removed to West Marlborough Twp., Chester Co., and
settled on a large tract of land, of which he became
proprietor by virtue of a grant from William Penn
to George Collett, his grandfather. In
17838 he erected a large mansion, "Primitive Hall," in
which he died, 3 Mo. 27, 1771. (See pages 144-6.)
By his wife, Mary Lewis he had twelve children,
an account of whom may be seen in History of Chester
County, p. 680.
According to Besse's Sufferings of the Quakers,
in 1660 (II., 467), 166 (II., 475) Christopher
Pennock of Cork, Ireland, was imprisoned for
attendance at Friends' meetings, and in 1670, for the
same reason, he had 49 yards of "stuff" worth
£2, 9s., taken from him
(II., 478). In William Stockdales
Sufferings (p. 12), printed in 1683, he is mentioned
as having 6s. taken from him for maintenance of a
"Priest." In 1675, in Cork the "Priest" took seven
shillings out of his "shop-box." - Stockdale, 60.
In Cork, in 1676, Mary Pennockfor keeping
shop open on Christmas day was imprisoned for one night.
- Stockdale, A Great Cry of Oppression, 231.
In the summer of 1900, the writer saw the original MS.
of Dr. John Rutty's Rise and Progress of the
Quakers in Ireland (in possession of John Pim,
J. P., a Friend, of Bonaven, Antrim Road, Belfast),
bound in a piece of old parchment, which on a hasty
inspection seemed to be a seventeenth century deed,
containing the names of Christopher Pennock and
George Collect, both of Cork. In 1680,
George Collett of Clonmell, had seized for tithes
six "Pewter Dishes and a Pewter Candlestick," valued at
£1. - Stockdale,
165.
JOHN McCOMB, from
Ireland, was at Philadelphia, in 1688.
"To friends of the Monthly Meeting at Philledelphy
these are to Satisfie yu conserning John McComb
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"JOHN FULLER, of the
towne & Countie of Philadelphia,"
GUIAN STEPHENS
WILLIAM ABBOTT
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JAMES LOGAN,
single man, "now of Pensilvania, Late of this Citty have
Desired a Certificate from this meeting." From
Mtg. at Bristol, England, dated 12 Mo. 9, 1701.
ELIZABETH GREEN, unmarried, from Dublin, Ireland,
dated 4 Mo. 26, 1702; received 4 Mo. 25, 1703.
"Lived here in this City [Dublin] several years.
ELIZABETH and ELINOR
ARNOLD, unmarried, were "brought up by William
Browne, an honest friend and at his Death he Left
them Sumthing to live on and his Will Recomended them to
ye care of us undernamed, they have no parents."
From Wexford, Ireland, dated 12 Mo. 5,1704.
Received 4 Mo. 29, 1705.
MARY WILSON,
PAUL WOOLLFE, from
Mo. Mtg. at Dublin, dated 12 Mo. 24, 1706-7.
Received 12 Mo. 28, 1706-7.
EDWARD SKULL,
unmarried ("now Supposed in or about Pensilvania"), from
Mtg. in Cork, Ireland, dated 1 Mo. 9, 1706. He
served his apprenticeship with John Dennis, a
Friend of Cork. Said Skull wrote to John Dennisfor
a certificate of removal. Original on file.
Received 3 Mo. 30, 1707.
JOHN TANNER, a letter
concerning him from Lurgan Mtg., Ireland, dated 12 Mo.
26, 1706. He is now in Phila., and has married
Mary Rea. Letter brought before the Mo. Mtg.,
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MARY CAMM.
JOHN CAMM,
ELIZABETH JACOB,
JOHN PEELL,
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WILLIAM GREEN,
SAMUEL COMBE,
SARAH MASSEY,
SAMUEL MASSEY, |
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JOHN KNIGHT,
MARK CARLETON and family
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BENJAMIN MAYNE.
JAMES MORRIS,
JOSHUA BAKER
WILLIAM MOORE
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ABIGAIL HETHERINGTON
JOHN LANCASTER
ISAAC BARTON, of
Clonmell, cutler, and family, dated 3 Mo. 16, 1714, from
Six Weeks Mtg., at Killcomonbegg, Ireland.
Received 8 Mo. 29, 1714.
FRANCIS EROTT,
THOMAS GRIFFITTS,
MARTHA GRIFFITTS,
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THOMAS BARGER, wife
and family, from Meeting held in Clonmell, County
Tipperary, dated 1 Mo. 24, 1716-17. Original on
file.
JOSEPH WOOD,
WILLIAM TAYLER,
MILES STRICKLAND,
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THOMAS LINSLEY (Lindley
in Minutes), unmarried, a smith, lately wrote from
Philadelphia for a certificate. HE was put an
apprentice in Dublin. After "he was out of his
aprentiship he set up trade for himself at Ringsend near
this citty." From Dublin, 11 Mo. 27, 1718.
Received 7 Mo. 24, 1719.
RICHARD HOY, unmarried, "an Irish man having lived
three years and a halfe with a friend of our meeting."
Dated 12 Mo. 7, 1724, from Richmond Mo. Mtg., held at
Chantrey, County York, England. Received 12 Mo.
25, 1725.
SAMUEL VERNER - At a meeting of the Board of
Property at Philadelphia, 8 b'r, 29th, 1725. "Sam'l
Verner (from Ireland) requests the Grantof a parcell
of Land for a Settlement on Pecque [Pequea Creek,
Lancaster County]., he has set down for some time.
He produces good credentials, both from our Friends in
Ireland and others. Sam'l Verner being
dead, his Son David requests the Grant, 200 A's."
- Penn'a Archives, 2nd Series, IXI., 734.
GEORGE AND ELIZABETH
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ANN CLIFTON
ROBERT WOODCOCK
JOHN WALBY,
MARY BOYES,
ANN GOODBODY,
WILLIAM HENDERSON.
GEORGE HOWELL and
wife, from Mtg. at Cork, dated 2 Mo. 28, 1729.
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SARAH MARSHALL
LETTICE HATTON
JOHN LOW
ANN CUNNINGHAM
WILLIAM SANDWITH
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DINAH BUSHBY
EUNICE CONOLLY
JOHN ALMENT
HANNAH HUDSON
ELIZABETH HAWKINS
WILLIAM NICHOLSON
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ISAIAH McNICE
SARAH SMITH,
RUTH STEER, JR.
ELIZABETH DEANE
JOHN PATERSON
RUTH WEBB
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SARAH WILCOCKS
JAMES HILL
MARY SHARP
MARY ERWIN
THOMAS ROOK
HUGH CANADY
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ABEL CHAMBERLAIN
JAMES MOORE
JOSEPH DEANE
JOSEPH GARNETT
DAVID DEAN,
JOHN NEVITT
PATIENCE RICHARDSON
ELIZABETH LITTLE
JOHN TAGART and wife
Mary, dated 5 Mo. 11, 1750, from Lurgan, Ireland.
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JOHN BRITTEN and three
children, Jacob, John and Susanna all
unmarried. From Cooledine Mtg., County Wexford,
Ireland. Received 6Mo. 31, 1750.
WILLIAM JOHNSON. "He served an
apprenticeship to a merchant within the bounds of
Lisburn Meeting." Dated 6 Mo. 11, 1752, from
Ballyhagen Mtg., Ireland. Received 1 Mo. 26, 1753.
JAMES EDDY and wife,
dated 5 Mo.1, 1753, from Dublin. Received 9 Mo.
28, 1753.
MARY ANDERSON, wife
of Samuel, late of this city, having some years
since removed to Philadelphia. Dated 5Mo. 3, 1751,
from Waterford, Ireland. Received 11 Mo. 30, 1753.
LYDIA DARRAGH, from
Dublin, Ireland, dated 9 Mo. 17, 1765, she having
removed thither with her husband and family.
FALLS MONTHLY MEETING
In Bucks County. Established in 1683.
JAMES DOWNEY,
received 6 Mo. 1, 1711, from friends in Ireland."
Married Hannah Ellott in 1712. His
certificate in recorded in Certificate Book of
Middletown Mo. Mtg. (See Middleton Monthly
Meeting.)
BUCKINGHAM MONTHLY MEETING.
RICHARD CHURCH,
received 9 Mo. 4, 1729, from Ireland, dated 3 Mo. 4,
1729.
JOHN STEPHENSON,
received 1 Mo. 7, 1742-3, from Edenderry [King's Co.],
Ireland. Also credentials from Friends in Chester
County, where he has for some considerable time resided.
One James Stephenson, of Ballyhagen Mtg., and
Mary Millikinof Monallan Mtg., where married, 12 Mo.
17, 1708, at Monallan Mtg. - Minutes of Ulster Prov.
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WRIGHTSTOWN MONTHLY MEETING
In Bucks County. Established in 1734, from
Buckingham.
A certificate for James
Dean and most of his family to Ireland was signed 7
Mo. 5, 1738.
ALEXANDER DEAN,1
unmarried, received 11 Mo. 5, 1741-2, from Friends at
the Grange in the north of Ireland. A certificate
for him to Ireland was signed 3 Mo. 2, 1741-2.
A certificate for Alexander Dean2 and
JAMES DEAN, Jr., from
the Six Weeks Meeting at Antrim in Ireland, was received
9 Mo. 2, 1742-3.
SAMUEL DEAN from same
meeting received 11 Mo. 4, 1742-3.
JOHN DEAN, received
11 Mo. 6, 1746-7, from Six Weeks Meeting at Grange,
Ireland. A certificate for him to Ireland, signed
9 Mo. 7, 1749.
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1 At Grange Meeting, County
Antrim, 2 Mo. 7, 1740, "James Deane Recommending
his son Alexander to this meeting for a
certyfycate, he having a mind to Transport himself to
America, a certifycate was this day signed, setting
forth that the said Alexander Deane was in unity
with Friends and free from Ingagements in Relation to
marriage" etc.
At Antrim Meeting, 5 Mo. 14, 1740, "Ruth, the
wife of Alexander Deane came into this meeting
and requested a certyfycate for her son Joseph
who has lately left this in order to Transport himself
to America, on which a certyfycate was drawn and signed
setting forth his honest behaveour, free of scandall &c,
and altho wee could not say he was in close unity wth
us wth respect to discipline yet he lived
pretty much in love with friends, frequented our
meetings for worship and was free of engagements in
relation to marriage, wee recommend him to the care of
friends in America.
Alexander Dean and Ruth Wilkison, both of
Antrim Mtg., were married in the town of Antrim, 3 Mo.
13, 1713. - Minutes of Ulster Province Mtg.
2. A certificate for Alexander Deane
to Antrim, Ireland, was signed at Wrightstown, 7 Mo. 3,
1745. At Antrim Meeting, Ireland, a certificate to
America for Alexander Deane was signed 10 Mo. 27, 1760. |
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MIDDLETOWN MONTHLY MEETING
In Bucks County. Established in 1683.
ANN MILLCUM [Malcum
or Milcomb], certificate, dated 1 Mo. 31, 1682,
from Ballyhagan Meeting, Parish of Killmore, county
Armagh, with her daughter, Jane Greer, of
Loughall, Parish of Loughall, County Armagh, Ireland,
laid intentions of removal before our meeting, 4 Mo. 9th
last, "Where the said meeting inquired of them the
reason why they had a mind to such a great journey,
having no man in their family except they might get a
servant or servants, and having no want of things
necessary for a livelihood; the said Ann Millcum
replied that her daughter Jane had a great desire
to go and being not willing to part with her, after such
a manner, was rather willing to take her adventure with
her other daughter, and so go all together, being
accompanied with another daughter of hers, and her
husband and children, with several neighbors also, and
seeing it was her resolution to go as aforesaid."
In 1680, in County Armagh, Ann Malcum, widow,
had six "car-loads of Hey" seized for tithes. -
Stockdale, 149. In 1673, in County Down, one
John Malcum had his goods seized for tithes. -
Ibid., 26.
JAMES DOMEY (dated 7
Mo. 25, 1709), of Parish of Ballinderry, County Antrim,
Ireland, "hath frequented our meetings several years and
hath lived with an honest friend, one John Haldon
nine or ten years." Unmarried. From Meeting
held at Richard Boyes' (Ballinderry Mtg.).
JANE HEARLAM, dated 1
Mo. 11, 1713, from Mountmellick Meeting, Queen's County,
Ireland, "having dwelt among us about fifteen years, was
educated by her uncle William Huddleston."
ABINGTON MONTHLY MEETING
In Montgomery County. Established in 1683
THOMAS STRICKLAND,
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Gwynedd Monthly Meeting
JOHN FIRTH,
received 9 Mo. 25, 1728, two certificates, one from
London to Dublin and one from Dublin to Pennsylvania.
WILLIAM LANDER,
received 4 Mo. 29, 1730, from Ireland.
JOHN, THOMAS, and JAMES
ROSE, received 5 Mo. 27, 1740, from Ireland.
John Rose received
a certificate to Buckingham in 1734. Later he was
living in Germantownship. James Rose m.
Margaret Lucken, in 1738, and resided in Germantown
Meeting and as clerk of Abington Monthly Meeting.
He died 9 Mo. 17, 1785, aged 84 years and 3 months.
ISAAC DAVENPORT,
received 10 Mo. 30, 1734, from Ireland.
PATRICK HOLLAND, and
wife of Ireland, received 7 Mo. 28, 1741.
PATRICK HENDERSON, 1
received 11 mo. 30, 1708, two certificates, one from
Ballyhagen, Ireland, noe the other from Long Island.
See page 97.
GWYNEDD MONTHLY MEETING.
In Montgomery County. Established in 1714,
from Radnor.
PETER CLOAK, and
wife, received 3 Mo. 28, 1723, one certificate from
Britain and the other from Ireland.
MARGARET COLLINS,
received 6 Mo. 39, 2743, from Dublin, Ireland.
JAMES WOOD, received
8 Mo. 28 1735, from Dublin.
REBECCA BYRN
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RADNOR (HAVERFORD) MONTHLY MEETING
In Delaware County. Established in 1684.
MOSES COATES
THOMAS COURTNEY |
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CHESTER MONTHLY MEETING
In Delaware County. Established in 1681.
THOMAS JACOB,
received 6 Mo. 28, 1710, from Cork, Ireland, endorsed by
Darby No. Mtg., Pa.
EDWARD THOMPSON,
received 4 Mo. 30,, 1712, from Lurgan Meeting County
Armagh, Ireland.
JOHN SAUL
SAMUEL WORTHINGTON
FRANCIS JONES
THOMAS COEBOURN
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years ago, had the blessing to have his wife have twins,
his cow two calves, and his ewe two lambs, all on one
night in the month of March. All continued to
live. BENJAMIN HEAD
SARAH HARRIS
ALEXANDER ROSS
JAMES HIND
RACHEL COEBOURN
PETER HUNTER, of
Ballenecarick, County Wicklow, Ireland, wife and
daughter Ann (unm.), received 6 Mo. 26, 1717,
dated 11 Mo. 13, 1716, from Ballycane Meeting, County
Wicklow, Ireland.
ANN WELDIN, received
9 Mo. 25, 1717, from Killcommon Monthly Meeting, County
Wicklow, Ireland.
REBECCA STARR,
received 1 Mo. 31, 1718, from Carlow Meeting, County
Carlow, Ireland. |
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ROBERT PENROSE, JR.,
tanner, unmarried, received 3 Mo. 25, 1724, dated 3 Mo.
10, 1721, from Dublin, Ireland.
WILLIAM ROBISON
THOMAS PARKE
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GEORGE DEEBLE
MARY RICHARDSON
ISABELL BELL
ABIGAIL BELL
MARY ASHTON
JOSEPH SLEIGH
THOMAS FAWCETT
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JOHN PARVIN
NICHOLAS NEWLIN, wife and sons, Nathaniel and
John, dated 12 Mo. 25, 1682, from MOntemellick
Mt., Ireland - Jackson Genealogy, p. 118.
See biographical notice, pages 57-9, 271-3.
JANE HINKSON
CONCORD MONTHLY MEETING.
In Delaware County. Established in 1684.
JOHN FRED and family,
"late of Ireland," received 5 Mo. 13, 1713, dated 12 Mo.
25, 1712-13, from Carlow Meeting, County Carlow,
Ireland. Children Nicholas and Rachel, are clear
in a relation to marriage.
BENJAMIN FRED, son of
John, late of Ireland, unmarried, received 5 mo.
1713, dated 10 Mo. 21, 1712. He returned to
Ireland on business in 1713, and remained perhaps a year
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JOHN VASTON
ABRAHAM WIDDOS,
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DANIEL MOORE and wife,
JOHN NEVIETS,
JOSEPH GAWIN,
JOHN JACKSON,
AMOS BOAKS
THOMAS MARSHALL
GEORGE WILSON, |
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NEWRK OR KENNETT MONTHLY MEETING.
Of Chester County, Pa., and New Castle County,
Delaware.
Established in 1686.
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THOMAS CALVERT,1 son
of John Calvert2 "of Moore Some3 (neere Gisbrough),
"Yorkshire, and wife Grace, was born in 1617
1. Registers Lurgen Meeting, County Armagah.
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THE WRIGHT FAMILY
JOHN WRIGHT1 and wife
Elizabeth, from Castleshane, County 1Sources of
information: Meeting Records; M. S. Chart of
Wright Family, made about 1840, by General
William Wierman Wright, etc. At Warrington Mo.
Mtg., to Mo. 14, 1775, one Elizabeth Wright
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Monaghan, Ireland, had settled in Menallen Twp., York,
now Adams County, Pa., as early 1748, and were members
of Warrington Monthly Meeting. A certificate for
John Wright and children, directed to Sadsbury,
was granted at New Garden Monthly Meeting, Chester
County, 4 Mo. 28, 1746. Their daughter daughter
Rachel, as stated in her memorial1 "was born at
Castleshane,2 in Ireland, in the year 1737, and removed
to Pennsylvania with her parents, John and Elizabeth
Wright, who, after some years, settled in York
County, within the compass of Warrington
monthly-meeting." They had nine children: I.
Mary; II. Samuel; III. Rachel; IV.
Joseph; V. Alice; VI. Benjamin; VII.
John; VIII. Joel; IX, Jonathan.
I. MARY, m. 5 Mo. 9, 1753, at Menallen Friends'
Mtg., to Samuel Hutton of Menallen, son of
Joseph Hutton, deceased.
II. SAMUEL WRIGHT, m. 9 Mo. 4, 1754, at
Huntington Friends' Meeting, now Adams County,
Gertrude Wierman, daughter of William and
Gertrude (Sietman) Wierman. He died probably
about or prior to 1781, and she married secondly,
William Ferguson, widower, of Menallen.
She died in 1802, having had eight children by her first
husband, Samuel Wright, as follows:
(1.) Samuel Wright, b. 9 Mo. 27, 1783, m.
3 Mo. 28, 1804, at Menallen Mtg., Rebecca Harris,
daughter of Benjamin and Rebecca Harris.
Children: Jacob, Thomas, Rebecca, Barbara, Mary
Ann, Nathan, Melinda, Ann, and Ruth Anna.
(2.) Thomas Wright, b. 8 Mo. 6, 1784, m.
Anna Harris, Children: Israel,
Leah, Lydia, Lucy, Harris,
Hanson, Anna, Julia, and Isaac.
(3.) Mary Wright, b. 6 Mo. 5, 1786, m. 5 Mo. 27,
1807, at Menallen Mo. Mtg., Jacob Harris, son of
Benjamin and Mary Harris. Children:
John, b. 10 Mo. 9, 1808; Samuel b. 11 Mo.
25, 1810; Mary Ann, b. 23 Mo. 31, 1812; Silas,
b. 2 Mo. 19, 1815; Rachel, b. Mo. 12, 1817;
Rebecca, b. 9 Mo. 5, 1819; Ellen b. 10 Mo.
28, 1821; William; Benjamin.
(4.) William Wright, b. 12 Mo. 21, 1788, d.
10 Mo. 25, 1865, m. Phebe Wierman daughter of
William and Hannah (Griest) Wierman at
Huntington Mt., 11 Mo. 7, 1817. She was born
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1. A Testimony from Pipe Creek Mo. Mtg., Md.,
concerning Rachel, wife of William Farquhar,
Jr. - A Collection of Quaker Memorials,
printed at Phila., in 1787, page 388.
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2 Mo. 8, 1790, and d. 1 Mo. 30, 1873. They were
both buried near their ancestors, in the graveyard at
Huntington Friends' Meeting House, near York Springs,
Adams Co., Pa. William Wright and
his wife were probably the most active and prominent
agents of the Underground Railroad in Adams County, and
hundreds of slaves fleeing from southern masters found
rest and shelter in their hospital home until forwarded
over the Underground Railroad to the promised land of
Canada. Two interesting oil paintings of William
and Phebe, his wife, are (1902) in possession of the
only surviving child, Mrs. Annie Phillips, of
Lancaster, Pa. Children: General William
Wierman Wright, b. 7 Mo. 27, 1824, d. 3 Mo. 9, 1882,
unmarried, buried beside his parents; Mrs. Rachel W.
Day, d. 1901; Mrs. Hannah Mifflin d. 1901;
Mrs. Annie Phillips.
(5.) Ann, b. 3 Mo. 4, 1791.
(6.) John, b. 4 Mo. 8, 1793.
(7.) Rachel, m. John Farquhar.
Children: Augustus, Sarah, Ann, Angeline,
and Caroline.
2.. Hannah,
d. unmarried.
3. Rachel, m. 6 Mo. 13, 1781, at
Menallen Meeting, James Hodgson, son of John
and Martha Hodgson, of Berkley Co., Va. Child:
James.
4. William Wright, m. Agnes Tanger.
Children: Agnes and Margaret.
5. Jesse, m.
first, Alice Hammond, and had one child,
Samuel; m., secondly, Catharine Davis, and
had one child, Jesse (m. Elizabeth Mantz.
Children: Eliza and Jane).
6. Benjamin Wright, m. first,
Hannah Hendricks. Went to Kentucky and married
a second time.
7. Samuel Wright m.Eve Latchew.
Children: Hannah, m. Nathan Harris,
and removed to Salem, Ohio; Jane, m. Daniel
Minnich; William; Jesse, m. Susannah
Pittendorff.
8. Phebe, m.
William Ferguson.
III. RACHEL, born in 1737, at
Castleshane, Ireland; died 4 Mo. 19, 1777; m. 10 Mo. 31,
1759, at Menallen Mtg., William Farquhar, Jr. (b.
10 Mo. 11, 1735), of Pipe Creek, Frederick, now
Carroll Co., Md., son of William and
Ann (Miller) Farquhar. She
became a minister of the Society of Friends.
Children: Joel and James.
IV. JOSEPH WRIGHT, m. in 1761, Mary
Farquhar, daughter of William and Ann.
Children; William, Samuel, Moses, Elizabeth, Mary,
Rachel, and Susanna.
V. Alice, m. 1 Mo. 29, 1766, at Menallen
Meeting, Samuel Hendricks, of Menallen.
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VI. BENJAMIN WRIGHT,
m. 5 Mo. 20, 1766 at York Mtg., York Co., Pa., Jane
Falkner, daughter of Jesse Falkner,
of Hellam Township, York Co., Children:
1. Martha, b. 8 Mo. 10, 1767, m. Levi
Hutton. Children: Benjamin m.
Beulah Harris; Jane m. Benjamin
Harris. (Children: Samuel, Martha,
etc.); Samuel; Jesse.
2. John Wright, b. 9 Mo. 16, 1769,
m. Susanna Griest. Children:
Daniel, Benjamin, Jesse, Ann.
3. Alice, b. 11 Mo. 7, 1771, d. 7 Mo.
1777.
4. Jesse, b. 3 Mo. 30, 1774, m. in
Virginia.
5. Elizabeth, b. 7 Mo. 12, 1776, d.
unmarried.
6. Alice, b. 2 Mo. 16, 1779, m. David
McCreary. Children; Benjamin,
Thomas, David, Jesse.
7. Samuel B. Wright, m. Elizabeth
Harvey. Children: William H.,
m. Jane Cook, dau. of Henry and
Mary (Way); Martha; Ann, m. Moses
Price; Rebecca.
8. Benjamin Wright,
m. _____ Harvey
9. Thomas Wright, m. a sister of
Jesse's wife.
VII. JOHN WRIGHT, b. 1739 or 1740, probably
at Castleshane, Ireland; d. 6 Mo. 29, 1820; m. 9 Mo. 30,
1767 at Menallen Mtg., Elizabeth Hammond,
daughter of John and Deborah Hammond. She
was born in 1749 or 1750; d. 7 mo. 23, 1824.
Children: John, etc.
1. Deborah, b. 6 Mo. 23, 1768; m.
Jonathan Potts. Children: John,
etc.
2. Elizabeth, b. 4 Mo. 15, 1770; d. 12
Mo. 24, 1846; m. Jacob Koch.
Children: John Jacob, Ruth (m.
John Blake).
3. Ruth, b. 2 Mo. 2, 1772; m. Thomas
Hammond. Child, Elizabeth m. Eli
Thomas, and lived in Salem, Ohio.
4. Sarah, b. 5 Mo. 4, 1774; m. George
Wilson. Children: William; Mary
Wierman; Benjamin m. Susan
Wierman; Ruth m. James Wills
and had two children (the late Judge David
Wills, of Gettysburg, and Ruth, m.
Walhay); John.
5. Rachel, b. 8 Mo. 6, 1777.
6. William Wright, b. 9 Mo.
29, 1778, d. 3 Mo. 8, 1864, m. Rachel Thomas.
Children: Abel; Ellen, m. George
Hewitt; Thomas, m. Charlotte
Stewart; Isaac, m. Sarah Garretson;
Elizabeth; Susanna.
7. Samuel, b. 4 Mo. 7, 1781.
8. John Wright, b. 4 Mo.
28, 1782; d. 12 Mo. 20, 1860; m. 10 Mo. 24, 1804,
Alice Wilson. Children: Sarah,
m. Enos McMillan, son of Jacob and Ruth
(Griffith); George, m. Lucy
Wright; Joel; Eliza, m. Jacob B.
Hewitt; Ruth; Jane; Charles S.,
m. 9 Mo. 30, 1846, Hannah G. Penrose.
9. Nathan Wright, b. 9 Mo. 28, 1784, d.
10 Mo. 4, 1853, m. Elizabeth Harris, 10 Mo. 24,
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_____; Maria; Hiram S., m. Alice Garretson;
Ruthanna; Lydia; John, m. Mary Nebinger.
10. Mary, b. 8 Mo. 2, 1790, d. 10 Mo.
1, 1844, m. Daniel Davis. Children:
Uriah and Franklin.
VIII. JOEL WRIGHT m.
Elizabeth Farquhar, daughter of William
and Ann. Children:
1. Allen Wright, m. _____ Elliott.
2. Ann,
m. Joseph Elgar. Two daughters:
Elizabeth and Margaret.
3. Jonathan Wright,
m. Mary Bateman. Children: Mahlon,
Aaron, Josiah, Hannah (m. Dr. Plummer).
4. Rachel, m.
Joseph Hibberd.
5. Israel Wright, m. Leah
Ferree, of Lancaster County. Children:
Oscar and Isaac.
6. Elizabeth, m. Jarrett Cowman.
IX. JONATHAN WRIGHT, m. 5 Mo. 16, 1770, Susanna
Griffith, daughter of Thomas Griffith, deceased, and
Eve, his wife. Removed to Ohio in 1801, and
finallyl settled at Poplar Ridge, Fayette Co., Ind.
Children: Thomas, agent to the Cherokee Indians in
Mississippi; Rachel, m. Benjamin Farquhar; Elizabeth, m.
John Shaw; Mary; Jonathan, m. Susan Jones; Joel; Phebe,
m. Oliver Mathews; Susanna; Rebecca. - See Friends'
Intelligencer for 2 Mo. 29, 1896, Vol. LIII., pp.;
Literary Era, Vol. VII., 125.
THE FARQUHAR FAMILY.
ALLEN FARQUHAR,
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THE MACKEY FAMILY.
JOHN MACKEY,2 or
Mackie, of Kincon, Parish of Kilmore, County Armagh,
"being weak in body, but perfect in memory," made his
will 4 Mo. 11, 1699. First. He leaves
to his wife the
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1.
Records of Orphans' Court, Vol. V., 51, in office of
Clerk of the Courts, West Chester, Pa.
2. In 1681, "John Macky [County Down]
had taken from him for Tithe, by Hugh Powelland
Edmond MacElcoshker, two Stooks of wheat, eleven
Stooks of Oats and two Stooks of Barly, all worth
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THE MOORES OF BALLINACREE, COUNTY
ANTRIM.
JAMES MOORE, 1
Quaker, was residing on an extended estate in the
Townland of Ballinacree,2 Parish of
Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland, as early as 1675.
In that year he had "taken from him for Tithe, by
James Cunningham, Tithemonger under John Dunbar
Priest of Bellimunny Parish, twelve Stooks of
Barley, forty nine Stooks of Oats, and seven car-loads
of Hey, all worth three pounds four shilling six peace.'
(Stockdale, A Great Cry of Oppression, 48,
printed in 1683.) The following year the same
"Priest" took his oats, barley, wheat, and hay to the
value of £2. 13s.; and thus
each year down to 1682 he suffered a similar loss.
In 1682, the birth of a son is thus recorded in the
Friends' Registers: John Moore, son of
JAmes and Elizabeth Moore, of Ballynacree, County
Antrim, was born 6 Mo. 9, 1682.
A Friends' Meeting (Rutty, 33) was established
at Ballinacree,3
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1.
According to the tradition in the family, the Moores
came to Ireland from Cumberland, England, during the
plantations of James I.
2. About three miles to the northwest of
Ballymoney.
3. Ballinacree Meeting. - At Ulster
Province Meeting, 2 Mo. 27, 1702, "The former desire
from this meeting concerning building a meeting house
for ye meeting near Ballymony being renewed &
discoursed att this meeting butt for want of Some
friends from ye & Colerain meetings this
meeting cannot have So Satisfactory account as they
could desire what methods may he taken to answer friends
desire in ye matter: therefore its ye
desire of this meeting ye one or more
friends from those meetings do allways hereafter attend
ye pro; meeting & ye if no
progress be made towards building a meeting house nor
James Moore ye younger willing to accept
or receive ye meeting or
allow ground to build a meeting house upon, then ye
mens Meet. of ye quarter is desired to
endeavour to gett a convenient place about ye
center of friends to build a meeting house & conveniency
for friends horses. And if ye
friends of those meetings are nott willing to be at ye
charge, to propose ye Same to this meeting
who is willing to help & advise ye therein,
concerning, which is this meeting desires answer to ye
next province meeting."
At the Province Meeting 4 Mo. 21, 1707, "Friends of
Ballymony meeting give account ye [they] are
making preparation towards building a meeting house, tho
they havenot yett gott ye place made Sure So
they are Still desire to continue their care."
Whether or not the plans for building a meeting-house
were carried out at this time I have been unable to
determine. In 1796, Thomas Scattergood (Memoirs,
190) records in his journal that he "Rode to
Ballynacree, and on teh 22d (1 Mo.) held the preparative
Meeting. This meeting-house joins a dwelling, and
on sitting down, it seemed like sitting in a cellar; two
men, two women and three children composed it." On
a visit in 1809, Thomas Shillitoc (Life of
Friends' Library, 120-1) says that Ballinacree
Meeting consisted of parts of two families and that the
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near Ballymoney, in 1673, and doubtless was held at
James Moore's house, as latter meetings were
regularly held there. John Gratton, a
Quaker minister, notes in his Journal (183) under
date of 6 Mo. 14, 1696, that he lodged at "J. Moor's"
at Ballinacree. James Moore's daughter
Alice was married in a Friends' Meeting at his own
house, 10 Mo. 17, 1697, to Thomas Irwin of
Lisnegarvy (Minutes of Ulster Province Meeting).
6 Mo. 13, 1698 at the Province Meeting there is mention
of " ye
men and women's meeting held at James Moors
ye 30th
of 2/mo. 1698." From this time on there are
constant references to this meeting. In 1698,
James Moore, of Ballymoney, was appointed on a
committee of the Province Meeting to obtain subscribers
for Barclay's Apology.
Thomas Story a
Quaker minister, gives the following account (Journal,537)
of his visit to the Moores, in 1716:
"On the 18th [7 Mo.], the great Rains having raised the
Waters, we had but a small Meeting at Dunclaudy;
but a very broken tender Time it was, and we were
generally comforted. That Evening I went forward
about ten Miles to James Moor's at Ballimuny; but
his Wife being ill he directed us to his Son James
about a mile farther; where we staid that night.
"On the 19th I had a Meeting near James Moor's,
the elder; which was small, being Harvest, and wet
weather, and not so open as the last; and yet a good
Meeting. That Evening I went over the River again
to Ely Crocket's."
The following is an abstract of the will1 of
James Moore, made in 1727, and probated by his
three sons who are styled "Quakers":
Abstract of the will of James Moore, of
Ballynacreemore, Parish of Ballymoney, County Antrim,
Ireland, dated Dec. 29, 1727.
My son Wm. Moore out of the
£500 be oweth me by bonds
to pay the following legacies: to his son John Moore
£100; to his son Clotworthy Moore
£50; to his son James Moore £50; to his
daughter Jean Whittsitt £50. The
remaining £250 I leave and bequeath to himself.
I also bequeath to him the Quarter Land of Lischighan
during his natural life, then to his son John Moore
and his heirs male forever, and failing male heirs in
him to the next of male kindred; also to him my silver
Tankard.
My son James Moore out of the £500 he
oweth me by bond to pay the following legacies; to the
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ing-house was under the same roof as a dwelling.
On my visit in 1900 I found that the Society at
this place was extinct and was unable to locate the site
of the meeting-house; but I saw the old Friends' gurial
ground called the Lamb's Fould, at Enogh, near O'Hara
Brook, about two miles west of Ballymoney.
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William, James, George, Sarah, and Elizabeth
Moore, £20 each when
they come of age, with interest at six per cent; to my
daughter Alice Erwin's children £100 and six
small silver spoons - the £100 to be put at interst and
the interest to be paid to my daughter Alice Erwin
during her point; to my grandson William Moore,
son of John Moore, £50. Then, I bequeath
the remaining £250 to himself. Also, I leave to my
son James Moore my tenant right of
Ballinacreemore and my part of Unckunagh, Claughy, Enogh,
and Cabragh, he or his executors paying to my daughter
Alice Erwin during the present lease £20 per year
out of said profit rent. I bequeath to my said son
James Moore the Quarterland of Beltyton "and my
bigg Bible and silver drinking dram coops" during his
natural life and then to his son William Moore and
his heirs male forever.
To my son John Moore the bonds due me by him and
the interest due on them.
To my son George Moore 5s. and the debt he is
due me by bonds and otherwise.
Joseph Moore out of the £550 he oweth me by
bonds to pay the following legacies: to daughter
Elizabeth Whitsitt £100 and four silver spoons; to
the children of my daughter Sarah Henderson alias
Courteny £100 at the death of their mother it
being put to interest at six per cent to be paid to her
during her life yearly and at her death to be divided
among her children of the name of Courteny; to my
granddaughter Elizabeth Erwin £50, with four
silver spoons, and the best bed and bed "close that I
now Possess"; to my granddaughter Elizabeth Erwin
£50, with four silver spoons, and the best bed and bed
"close that I now possess"; to my granddaughter
Elizabeth Crockett £20; to my said grandson, John
Moore, the son of my son John Moore, £30.
Then I leave the remaining £250 to my son Joseph
Moore, as also my tenant right to the Quarterland of
Broadmillan and the Quarterland of Rosnashane and 29
acres of Diserderrin as now in his
possession during his natural life; then to his son
William Moore and his heirs male forever.
To my daughter Frances Wilkinson the right of a
lease I let to her son William Wilkinson
and the right of the lease let to William Mooreof
Drumrahegle in trust for her and husband, her husband
paying the rent.
Sons William, James, and Joseph Moore
appointed executors.
JAMES MOORE The
following are the children of James Moore,1
probably all by his wife Elizabeth:2
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1. See Burke's Landed Gentry, II.,
1422-3 (London, 1894)
2. Robert Moore, of Ballmoney
Meeting, and Jennet Miller, of Dunclady Meeting,
County Antrim, were m. 6 Mo. 6, 1703, at the house of
the Widow Henderson, in Dunclady.
James Moore, of Ballymoney Meeting, and
Susanna Forster, of Antrim Meeting, were m. 5 Mo. 7,
1714, in the town of Antrim.
"David Moore and Mary Wilkisson both of
Ballymony Meeting" were married "att ye house
of James Moore near Ballymony ye 7th day of ye
4/mo 1715."
Joseph Moore, of Ballymoney and Mary
Henderson of Dunclady, were m. 3 Mo. 3, 1721, at the
house of Katharine Henderson, in Dunclady.
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VII. ELIZABETH MOORE,
was married, 11 Mo. 2, 1705, at the meeting at her
father's house, to Joseph Whitsite, of Grange
near Charlemont.
VIII. SARAH MOORE, married 1st, ____
Henderson, and 2d, 12 Mo. 9, 1708, at a meeting at
her father's house, Joseph Courtney of Grange
Meeting. She had children by second marriage.
IX. FRANCES MOORE, married _______
Wilkinson, and had at least one son, William
Wilkinson.
X. JOSEPH MOORE, of Bellymoney Meeting, and
Susanna Brady, of Grange Meeting, County Antrim,
were married 12 Mo. 6, 1706-7, at Grange Meeting.
(Minutes of Ulster Province Meeting).
joseph Moore, by his father's will of 1727,
received the Quarterlands of Broadmillan and Rosnashane,
and 29 acres of Desertderrin (now called Moore Lodge),
County Antrim. Issue: (1) William, eldest
son; (2) James, of Desertderrin, ancestor of the
Moores, of Moore Fort, County Antrim; (3) John,
b. 1712, ancestor of the Moores of Lischeihan;
(4) Joseph, b. 1716, of Ahoghill, line extinct;
(5) Samson, of Moore Lodge, High Sheriff of
Antrim, 1767, died 1775; (6) George.
(1.) William Moore, the eldest son, of
Rosnashane, b. Aug. 4, 1708, m. Elizabeth Courtney
of Glenburn, and had three daughters and two sons (1.
Joseph, Barrister at Law, and 2. William).
Of these two sons, 2. William Moore of Killagan,
County Antrim, High Sheriff, in 1778, m. the daughter of
Rev. J. Warren Rector of Kilrea, County
Londonderry, and had two sons: (a) Samson,
of Moore Lodge, who subsequently came into the
Ballinacree estate on the death of his cousin Susanna
Strettle. He was Captain in the Antrim
Regiment; married Sarah daughter of William
Warren, and died without issue in 1843, when
Ballinacree1 was sold out of the Moore
family. (b) William, officer in
the 3d Dragoons, afterwards Captain in the Antrim
Regiment, and High Sheriff of Anntrim, 1808. He
succeeded his brother Samson in the Moore
Lodge estates on the accession of the latter to the
Ballinacree estates. He m. Elizabeth,
daughter of Richard Rothe, Esq., of Mount Rothe,
County Kilkenny, and was succeeded by his son, George,
on whose death, unmarried, Moore Lodge was
inherited by his cousin.
WILLIAM MOORE, son of Samson (d. 1832),
grandson of Alexander2 (d. 1840),
and great-grandson of (1) Joseph, Barrister.
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1. Ballinacree House, eventually passed into
the hands of Marcus Gage, now deceased, who
pulled down the old mansion and built a new one.
When I visited the place in 1900 it was owned by Dr.
Hamilton Ross.
2. Alexander's
estate of Rosnashane was sold about 1844.
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William Moore, the above, of Moore Lodge, J. P.,
M. D., was born on Nov. 13, 1826, and died 1901.
Was High Sheriff, County Antrim, 1890; President of the
King and Queen's College of Physicians, Ireland,
1883-1884; King's Professor of Medicine, Trinity
College, Dublin; was appointed Physician-in-Ordinary to
the Queen in Ireland, in 1885. He m. Sept. 3,
1863, Sydney Blanche, daughter of Captain
Abraham Fuller, of Woodfield. Children:
William; John; Alexander; George; Sydney; and
Roger Clotworthy.
Of these, WILLIAM MOORE,1 JR.,
b. Nov. 22, 1864; K. C., 1899; M. P.
(conservative) for North Antrim, since 1899; succeeded
to the family estate of Moore Lodge.2
He was graduated from trinity College, Dublin, with the
degree of B. A., in 1888; was called to the Irish Bar in
1887 and the English Bar in 1899. Married Helen
Gertrude, daughter of Joseph Wilson, D.L., of
County Armagh, in 1888. Children: Sampson,
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1. Who's Who, 1902, page 920.
2. The estate of Moore Lodge, formerly
called Desertderrin, is pleasantly situated on the River
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