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Priscilla HUNN
Nathaniel HUNN
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Priscilla Kitchen, Quakeress of Salem, Mass., and Kent County, Del., and Her Family by George Valentine Massey II, New England Historical and Genealogical Register Vol. CVI January 1952, pp. 38-50
"The story of this woman, who settled in Kent County, on the Delaware, soon after Penn set up his government, is of wide interest since those parts played by her, and her family, are vital provincial, and more recent Delaware history.
Priscilla Kitchen (c. 1647-1721) was born and brought up in Salem, Mass., that now fabulous town with memories of its ships returning from exotic ports, its witch-trials and Quaker antipathy; where science, learning, wealth and enterprise attained pre-eminence. Did not Sophia Peabody, wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne, prove to herself in England "what she had always known… that the English gentry weren't in a class with the Salem?" Priscilla Kitchen's family was among those who make Salem famous. John and Elizabeth (Grafton) Kitchen, her parents, were Quaker non-conformists. Her brother, Robert, and his son, Edward, eminent shipping merchants "second to none among the early mercantile families which built up Salem's trade long before the Derbys and Crowninshields had begun to figure as merchant princes." The Kitchen family, long extinct in the male line, through daughters is represented in Salem by such names as Turner, Sargent, Bowditch, and Moriarty.
Priscilla's first husband, Nathaniel Hunn II, was posted for tippling by the Salem authorities, later, killed at Blackpoint heroically defending his post when most of his company had fled. With her second husband George Bowers, Quaker, a nephew of Harvard's first president, she removed to Kent County, on Delaware, where she lived at Williamses Choyce on Bawcombrigg Creek.
The achievements of her Delaware dependants support the statement of historian, James Duncan Phillips, that "More men have rendered distinguished service to the United States can trace their ancestry to Essex County, Massachusetts, than to any other similar area of the original thirteen States."
An important issue faced Massachusetts in the mid-seventeenth century. Several non-conformists came there uninvited and the government did not like Quakers. The Massachusetts General Court had forbidden them to enter, forbidden anyone to entertain them. Those who came would be expelled; if they returned the Court would cut their ears off. For their third entrance, they hanged. Quakers still refused to let Massachusetts alone. Two went to Salem and stayed with Lawrence Southwick, the glass maker and his wife, on Boston Street. The Southwicks got into trouble, their guests each lost and ear. To the incitement of the magistrates more come, were flogged, their ears cut off, and finally a half dozen were hanged. "Deborah Wilson . . . a young woman of very modest and retired life. . .. [went] though the town of Salem naked", in protest.
The first real trouble in Salem was in June, 1658, when the Court sat at the Ship Tavern on the main street, and complaints were heard of disorderly meetings at Nicholas Phelps' and Lawrence Southwick's. Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick were among those sent to the House of correction who appealed to the Salem magistrates: "From ye house of bondage in Boston whar in we are made Captives by ye will of men although in measure made free by ye Son". All had been whipped once, Cassandra, twice. The controversy grew more bitter, others were troubled with the new doctrine, Elizabeth Kitchen (Priscilla's mother) was presented for absence from the Puritan Church.
Elizabeth Kitchen was riding horseback along the highway on a pillion before a male companion. At Strong Water Brook that zealous Puritan saint, Edmund Batter, and Roots, a constable who needed a good horse, seized her horse by the rein and Batter demanded she dismount, calling her a "base quaking slut". (He suspected she was coming from a "quaking" meeting.) Elizabeth's words, not on record, were dignified, perhaps? Like those of Quakeress Mary Prince who called the magistrates "hirelings, Baals, and seed of the serpent". Elizabeth refused to dismount. Edmund and the constable dragged her and her companion to the ground and the constable rode off on her horse.
This ruffianly assault caused Elizabeth, who was big with child, to miscarry. Witnesses testified to Batter's slurring words, two constables declared Edmund did not touch her, nor was he in a passion. Batter confessed he called Mrs. Kitchen a quaking slut, and asked if she had not been "uparoaring" as he supposed she was coming "From a quaking meeting". For all this he was simply admonished.
But the laws to suppress Quakers had the opposite effect; their biased trials and severe punishment aroused great sympathy, increased their following. Individualist John Kitchen, Elizabeth's husband, had eagerly embraced this non-creed shackled doctrine of Inner Light. John Kitchen (1619-1676), a stirring, bold character was, since his arrival in 1635, ofttimes at odds with the Bay government, frequently in court for speaking out opinions, one fined for showing books "which he was bidden to show the Governour and no other". In spite of this he was often chosen juror and in 1649 named constable.
After the death of his first wife, Elizabeth, whose surname is not known, he married Elizabeth (Grafton) Saunders (1625-living 1678/9), after 28:10:1648- when the will of her first husband, John Saunders, seaman, was proved. Elizabeth's father, Joseph Grafton, was a successful Salem sea captain and merchant who had a ketch of forty tons which on 17 May 1640, make a voyage to Pemaquid, "brought back some twenty cows, oxen, &c. with hay and water for them to the bay". Later Grafton got mixed up in the La Tour, D"Aulnay controversy, lost his ship and suffered severely.
The Court, on 25:9:1662, "considering ye unworthy and malignant speeches and carriages of John Kitchen in Open Court doe see cause to displace his form ye office of sargent of ye foot company", fined his 30 shillings. For their religious opinions the persecution of John and Elizabeth Kitchen was severe, in fines alone John paid upward of 40 pounds sterling for being a Quaker. He, nevertheless, prospered as cordwainer, and at his death, by will proved 30:4:1676, bequeathed a good estate, including considerable realty, to his wife, and son, Robert, mentioned "ye rest of my children".
Wile Priscilla, their daughter, interests us most, let us digress to introduce her brother, Robert Kitchen, the surviving son and heir, and his sons, Robert, JR., and Edward. Robert, Sr., was baptized at the First Church in Salem 15:2:1658, and died in Salem 28 Oct 1712. An eminent citizen and merchant trading with the Barbados and London, he acquired great wealth, and was a close friend of the Sewells. He married Mary, daughter of Harvard College's first steward, Maj. William Boardman, and secondly, Bethia, whose father, Dr, Daniel Weld, A. B. of Salem, was surgeon general to the New England army at the great swamp fight in December, 1675. When Bethia's son, Robert Kitchen, Jr., (1699-1716), died 20 Sept. 1716, at Harvard, the Rev. Cotton Mather Published "The Voice of the Dove, with a Memoir of Mr. Robert Kitchen, Student of Harvard".
Edward Kitchen (1700-1766), Robert's younger son, emulated his father's successful mercantile career, and was a patron of the college at Cambridge. His portrait, that of a handsome youth hangs in the Worcester Art Museum. With him this distinguished family of Salem merchants became, in the male line, extinct "and now almost forgotten, but which in its time stood second to none" among Salem's early mercantile families.
Let us return to Priscilla Kitchen (c. 1647-1721), aunt of Robert, JR., the Harvard undergraduate, and of Edward, second and last Kitchen merchant prince, to follow her career into a new settlement Kent County on Delaware, away for Salem, its Quaker distaste. Priscilla had married in October 1672, Nathaniel Hunn II (c. 1650-1677), of Boston, where his father, Nathaniel (c. 1623/4-1704), was a member, in 1662 of The Ancient and Honorable Artillery. Nathaniel II and Priscilla lived in Salem where the court records the birth of their two daughters: Priscilla, 21 Jan 1672/3 and Sara, 6:8 mo.: 1674. Nathaniel (III), their son, was born at Salem c. 1676.
There is little concerning the Hunn family, except that Nathaniel in 1672-3, with others, was ordered not to frequent the ordinaries nor spend his time and estate tippling, until the end of King Philip's War. In June, 1675, the citizens of Swansea, Mass., were attacked by Indians on Leaving a Fast Day service. This began the bloody massace named for that powerful chief, Philip of Pokanoket, who headed the league of tribe from Maine to Connecticut.
The war did not end at once. In June, 1677, Captain Swett of Haverhill was sent to Blackpoint, the storm center. Nathaniel Hunn, of Salem, was in his company which comprised chiefly untrained recruits. This latter fact proved disastrous. Next morning after landing Captain Swett attacked the Indians. A few men with the officers stood, the bulk of recruits ran. The officers and about forty soldiers, including Nathaniel Hunn, were killed, among those "few resolute men of courage who bore the brunt of the service."
Left with little means, the eldest of Priscilla's three children under five, she was among those widows on the selectmen's records in 1678-9 who received aid. Later, she married George Bowers, Charlestown, Mass., Quaker, whose father Benanuel, suffered fines and imprisonment for religious belief, and whose mother, nee Dunster, was niece of Harvard's first president. Bowers was born in Cambridge, Mass., 3 Feb. 1653.
Lower priced land, mild climate, and Quaker proprietorship induced George and Priscilla Bowers to leave Massachusetts and settle in Kent County, on Delaware.
"On the 7th of the 11th month, 1686, George Bosers, husbandman of Charles Towne County In New England " agreed to pay John Townsend, blacksmith,of Kent County, Pennsylvania (now Delaware) 25 pounds for one moiety or 300 acres of Williamses Choyce on the south side of "Bawcombrigg Creeke" in Kent County. He was to make two payments when Townsend would give his a deed. The first on or before 15:12:1686 for 12 pounds 10 shillings; the second 8 pounds, 10 shillings of the second in silver, the rest "In goods (to witt) Rom [rum] att Three Shillings per Gallant and Mallases [molasses]att one Shilling Ten pence per gallant and Shugar[sugar] att thirty Shillings p (r.) hundred and Pounder att Eighteen pence p (r.) Pound and Shoes att Six Shillings p (r.) paire and other goods Equiulent."
George and Priscilla Bowers were at a wedding at the house of John Curtis at Johnes' River, 1:1:1687/8 "who hath Three Hundred Head of Neat Beast, besides great Numbers of Hogs, Horses and Sheep" when John's daughter, Ann was married by Friend's ceremony to a Philadelphia bachelor, Richard Curtis. A committee from the Philadelphia meeting, including such men as Samuel Carpenter and Anthony Morris, certified to Richard's "clearness for all others". The witnesses comprised seventeenth century Johns' (Dover) River society. Most were Quakers; several of the men took leading parts in county and provincial affairs. Beginning under the bride's name were: John Curtice, Tho:Heathered, John Robinson, Winlock Curtice, and others including, Daniell Jones, Geo:Manlove, Johanes Gronendyck, Richard Hogban, Geo:Bowers, Wm. Freeland, Tho: Skidmore, Anna Heathered, Naomy Berry, Presila Bowers, and Mary Betts. John Walker and John Betts were the justices present.
George Bowers completed his payments and received a deed for Williamses Choyce, 14:1:1687, for half of 600 acres surveyed in 1684 for John Betts. This indenture recited that Bowers was "of Charles Town in New England". The 1687/8 list of Kent County freeholders shows the family settled at Williamses Choyce: George, age 40, owner of 300 acres; Priscilla, his wife, 41; Priscilla, his wife's daughter, 18; Sarah, his wife's daughter, 15; one boy, his wife's son, 12; Hugh Luffe, a freeman, 25; George (John) Bowers, JR., 1 1/2".
While Priscilla, the bride's mother, did not, her husband, George Bowers witnessed the marriage of her thirteen year old daughter, Sarah Hunn, to Hugh Luff, 25:6:1688, at the house of Thomas Heathered, a prominent Friend at the Murder Creeke.
George Bowers died before the 23rd of the 9th month 1689, when Priscilla Bowers, his widow and administratrix, in "Consideration of ye Deare Love & naturall effections which I have for my Loveing Son Nathaniell Hunn doe Give and grant . . .unto my sd. Son 3 yeareling Calves being 2 heifers and 1 bull being all of a reddish couler, marked with a crop on ye Left Eare & on ye right eare and a slitt in the left Eare with thure increase to him & hrs. forever".
Priscilla had planned her third marriage, soon to follow [the next month]
"Hereas John Curtice of this county widdower and Precilla Bowers on the same place widdow had intentions of marriage . . . these are therefore to certfie that . . .John and Prissilla have published their intentions according to law and . . . John his clearness from Frances Spencer widdow certified from under her owne hand with credible witnesses . . .
29 da. 10 mo. 1689 and further that John and Priscilla at the house of Thomas Heathered, on the day above said did in a solemn maner take each other for husband and wife promissing faithfulness to each other untill death doth separate them and we whose names are here-under written being present as witnesses . . . : John Curtice, Prisila: Curtice, Jas Cooper, Hugh Luff, Thomas Bedwell, Thos. Heathered, Saml. King, Thos. Shidmore, Will. Berry, Ann Heatherd, Rose Skidmore, Naomy Berry, Anna Price, Mary Killingworth, Eliza: Curbee, Malesent Heatherd, and others.
This 23:10 mo.1689. "Know all men that I Frances Spencer doe quitt discharge and release from all engagements as concerning marriage between me and my friend John Curtice". Signed, Frances Spencer. Witnessed by Hugh Luff and Thomas Huslam
The groom, locally rich and distinguished, had lived, in 1679 at the Whorekill but soon removed to Jones' (Dover) River where, in 1687/8, he owned 1300 acres, and his household comprised his "son Winlock, age 20; daughter, Elizabeth; Cornelius Collone; two Negro men and one Negro Woman". He represented this county in the Colonial Assemblies of 1682-5, was commissioned justice of the peace, 2 Jan. 1689, 16 May 1690, and in 1687, 89-91, 1697-8, he was a member of the Provincial Council..
Priscilla Curtis witnessed, in Philadelphia, with Robert French and Samuel Atkin, 10 May 1695, the will of Richard Curtis. Richard, among other bequests, left a yearling heifer each to Nathaniel Hunn and Samuel Low "now living with my father-in-law, John Curtis". To "Jehu Curtis, Winlock Curtis his son", two yearling heifers (Jehu Curtis, 1692-1753, was speaker of the Delaware assembly, judge of its supreme court, and friend of Benjamin Franklin who wrote the epitaph on his tomb in Immanuel Church yard, new Castle). Executed at Philadelphia, the will was proved 14 Dec 1695, in Kent County on Delaware.
John Curtis "of Jones's in the Co. of Kent one of the Counties annexed to the Province of Pennsylvania Gent.", was in his last sickness the 22 of April, 1698 when he signed his will. (proved 3 May 1698) to his "Dear and well beloved wife, [Priscilla], left one third part of my Estate, that is to say of Goods, Chattels and Credits, and the third part of the Real Estate that is to say, during her natural life". He left his son Caleb Curtis, Newell's Choice, 550 acres on the south side of Isaac's Branch proceeding out of Joneses Creek, with appurtenance, stock of cattle and hoggs upon aforesaid land, also Aber (deen), 500 acres on the south side of Bawcombrigg Creek, "not debaring his mother in law (stepmother) from the use or priviledge of her thirds during her natural life, and at her decease, to the only use & proper behoof of him", forever.
To his daughter, Elizabeth, 200 acres of Stratham adjoining the land of Richard Curtis and William Freeman, on the north side of Mispillion Creek, with all appurtenances, forever; to his "true and welbeloved wife" and daughter Elizabeth, "One piece of Holland to be equally divided between them not knowing the number of yards". To his youngest daughter Ruth Curtis, "six cows and calves or with calf, four ews and lambs to be delivered to the said child at my deceased to run for the use of my said daughter till she shall come to age both the male ant the female and their increase to her forever; also one Negro girl Marea to be delivered to her when she arrives to the age of sixteen,".
To his true and welbeloved wife two Negroes, one Negro man called Isaac, and a Negro woman, Rose, forever; To his son, Caleb, three Negroes, on man, Franck, one woman Gussey, one boy Caiphas. To his grandchild, John Curtis, 270 cares on the south side of Murtherkill Creek adjoining the land of Richard Curtis and on the other side of Cedar Landing. To Samuel Low, "whom I have brought up of a child 100 acres" belonging to the Mill, on Isaac's Branch proceeding out of Jone's Creek, beginning at the Old House landing etc. To son Caleb and Samuel Low one shallop about 22 foot by the keel with the sails and rigging and all appurtenances to dispose of as they shall see meet. The remaining estate equally to wife, and children of his body; that his con Caleb be of full age at the testator's decease, but if Caleb died before he was eighteen, the land and legacies to the testator's grandson, John Curtis. His loving wife and son Caleb, executors. Signed 22 April, 1698.
On 31 Jan. 1698/9, Priscilla Curtis and Caleb Curtis appeared before the commissioners at William Rodney's house and alleged "that they looked upon themselves only as executors to the estate of John Curtis, deceased, and no otherwise and as the Burthen therof will be too great for them, therefore they are not willing to intermeddle therwith (meaning the Estate of the said Richard Curtis dec'd.) " for whom John Curtis, dec's , was the executor.
Priscilla's fourth and last husband, John Gilbert, was a prosperous Philadelphia merchant, originally from Cornwall, England, where he had been jailed for attending Quaker meetings. Their marriage took place probably before 1:18:1705/6 when Hugh Laft (Luff), by his friend John Gilbert, requested a patent for 200 acres in Mispillion Hundred, Kent County. With her husband, John Gilbert, Priscilla witnessed the marriage, 8:19:1709, at the Philadelphia meeting of John's son, Joshua, to Elizabeth Oldman.
John Gilbert's will, naming his children, was proved at Philadelphia 19 Nov.1711. As his wife was not mentioned one may assume there had been a premarital property arrangement.
After John's death, Priscilla returned to live in Kent County. Her last documented public appearance there was at court at Dover Town, 30 May 1719 where she went on behalf of her grandson, Nathaniel Hunn, when she brought a complaint against Moses Whitaker (Nathaniel's guardian) and Ann Whitaker (wife of Moses, and Nathaniels's other grandmother, to whom he was bound. The details are not given. The same court ordered Moses Whitaker (also Caleb Hunn's guardian) to take into custody all the cattle of the estate late of Nathaniel Hunn, deceased, belonging to his con Caleb as proved by Priscilla Gilbert and Nathaniel Luff.
In perfect health and memory, on 22 Jan 1719/20, Priscilla Gilbert, widow, of the county of Kent on Delaware, executed her will.
"To her well beloved children, Priscilla Walton, Sarah Bowman, and John Bowers, she left 30 pounds equally divided; to her two grandchildren, Nathaniel Hunn and Penelope Rodney, the daughter of William and Ruth Rodney, 20 pounds equally divided; to her well beloved grandson, Nathaniel Luff, a legacy. If Nathaniel Hunn died without issue, then Nathaniel Luff and Thomas Bowman, son of Nathaniel Bowman, were to have his legacy. To well beloved daughter, Priscilla Walton and Sarah Bowman, 12 pounds silver money out of the 17 pounds, 1 s owned the testatrix by her son, John Bowers. Her wearing clothes to her three daughters, Priscilla Walton, Sarah Bowman, and Ruth Rodney. Son John Bowers to keep the 10 pounds for Penelope Rodney until she is 16. Son in law, Nathaniel Bowman, to keep the 10 pounds for Nathaniel Hunn until he is 21. Her son, John Bowers, and son in law, Nathaniel Bowman, were named executors. Her will was proved 10 May 1721.
Priscilla's descendants have played no small part in Delaware affairs. In a limited list, all of whom with the exception of those named Hunn, trace their descent through women, are six Delaware governors, of whom one was candidate for the US vice -presidency, the state chancellor, and two of his associate judges, a judge of the US District Court, a former Delaware Chief Justice and others of the Bar; five congressman, and four Delaware secretaries of state. One descendant donated ground for an historic chapel, there was a poet, a Revolutionary surgeon and journalist who founded the state Medical Society, and important Revolutionary maritime captain and the present state regent, Delaware NSDAR; several bank presidents a president and vice-president of the LD Caulk Co., a Dupont Co vice-president and innumerable other, who have been active in state and national life.
N.Y Herald Tribune Book Review, Jan. *, 1950, The Peabody Sisters of Salem, p.11.
Moriarty: The Kitchen Family of Salem, The Essex Institute Hist. Colls., LI, April 1915, pp. 126,130
Phillips: Salem in the Seventeenth Century, jacket introduction.
Ibid., p. 196; Bishop: New England Judged, 244.
Phillips: Salem in the Seventeenth Cent., 197-8 Quarterly Court Recs., II, 110; The Essex inst. Hist. Colls., L, 246,251-2: ibid. III, 244-5.
The Essex Institute Hist. Colls., LI, 126.
Phillips: Salem in the Seventeenth Cent, 196
Ibid., 198. Edmund Batter, malster, was generally highly respected; long a useful citizen, selectman, member of the General Court, ibid., 131,174. For this case, see also Perley: Hist. Of Salem, II, 263-4; Belknap: Grafton Family of Salem, 12; Bishop: New England Judged, 391.
The Essex Inst. Hist. Colls., LI, Apr. 1915, 126-7; Salem in the Seventeenth Cent., 145 Belknap: The Grafton Family of Salem, 12.
. The Essex Inst. Hist. Colls., LI, Apr. 1915, 127
Ibid.; Belknap: The Grafton Family of Salem, 12.
The Essex Inst. Hist. Colls., LI, 128-30
Ibid., 130
Ibid., opposite 97
Ibid., 130
Ibid., 126
Kent, Del. list of freeholders, c. 1687/8, Genl. Ref File, Del. Archives, gives her age 41, born c. 1646/7.
Vital Recs. Salem Mass., Marriages.
Ibid., Births; Roberts: Hist of the Ancient and Hon. Artillery Co. Of mass., 197-8; Mrs. S Warren hall: Hall, Hunn Ancestry.
Kent, Del. list of freeholders, c. 1687, Del. Archives.
Perley: Hist. Of Salem, III, 80.
A Brief Hist. of the Col. Wars in Amer., etc., The Col. Wars, 33,35.
Salem in the Seventeenth Cent., 239-40; Drakes Hubbard: Indian Wars, II, 235; Letter in Mass. Archives, LXIX, 137-38; E.I.H.C., XLII, 87.
Perley: Hist. Of Salem, III, 137
Wyman: Charlestown Genealogies and Estates, 102.
C. W. Lord, JR., Coll., Pa. Geneal. Soc., Bowers.
Cambridge Vital Recs., I, 76; II,43.
Kent, Del Deeds, B,13
Myers: Narratives of Early Pa., W. New Jersey, and Del., 319.
.Pubs. Geneal. Soc. PA., Vol. I, 290,295, also indicate that John Curtis was a Friend.
Kent, Del. Deeds, B, 64.
Ibid., 80.
Kent, Del. Freeholders, c 1687, General Ref, File, Del. Archives.
Kent Del. Deeds, C, 4(6).
Ibid., C, 43.
Ibid., 46.
Myers: Narratives of Early Pa., W. New Jersey and Del., 319.
Kent, Del. freeholders, c. 1687, Del. Archives
Pa. Archives, IX, 2 series, 659, 655-6, 623; Scharf: Dela. Hist., 406.
Holcomb: Hist Immanual Church N.C. Del., 247.
C, 16, Reg. Wills, Dover, Del.
B, 26-7. Reg. Wills, Dover Del.
B, 32-3. Reg Wills, Dover Del.
Cope Coll., Gilbert , PA. Geneal. Soc., 121-125.
Minutes of Commissioners of Property, Cope Coll., Gilbert, 125.
Philad. Mo. Mee. Marriages, Coll. Pa Geneal. Soc., 48.
Philad. Wills, 1682-1726, Coll. PA. Geneal. Soc., 194.
D (reversed), 10, Reg. Wills, Dover Del.
D, 44, Reg. Wills, Dover, Del.
Family genealogy of Krouse-Crouse as researched by Bud Krouse
PRISCILLA KITCHEN (1647 - 1721) BIRTH: 1647, Salem, Essex, MA DEATH: 1721, Kent County, MD
http://www.thewheelers.com/
"John Bowers, (D. 1718) Lancaster, MA," The American Genealogust," Vol 48,
1972, pg. 89.
New England Marriages Prior to 1700 Clarence Almon Torrey Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1997
Kent county Census 1684 HRD before 4 10 mo 1686 Names of Freeholders and families
George Bowers age 40 , no 7, acres of land 300
Priscilla his wife 41
Priscilla his wife's dau 18
Sarah his wife's dau 15
one boy his wife's son 12 (Nathaniel III)
Hugh Loffe a freeman 25
George Bowers Jr 1 1/2 (should be John?)
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[14713] Penelope Freeman connection
[14709] [S231] Personal notes Betsey Howes ,howes115@bcn.net>
[14710] Denise Tyler's research of 20 plus years on Hunn
[16030] [S223] Massey collection
[16031] Massey collection notes:Salem Mass Vital Recs (marriage of Nathl II and Priscilla Kitchen Hunn. Mrs Hall gives no dates
[16032] [S225] Misc Genealogy Sm Manuscripts
[16040] [S227] www.thewheelers.com/
[16041] [S223] Massey collection
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Lydia F MINNER
Amanda MINNER
Wilmina MINNER
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Nathaniel MINNER
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"2. NATHANIEL2 MINNER, SR. (THOMAS1) was born 1833 in Kent, Delaware, and died 1917 in Kent, Delaware. He married ELIZA UNKNOWN Abt. 1856 in Kent, Delaware. She was born 1836 in Kent, Delaware, and died Bet. 1863 - 1870 in Kent, Delaware.
More About NATHANIEL MINNER, SR.:
Burial: Hollywood Cemetery, Kent, DE
Children of NATHANIEL MINNER and ELIZA UNKNOWN are:
i. LYDIA F.3 MINNER, b. 1858, Kent, Delaware.
ii. AMANDA MINNER, b. 1860, Kent, Delaware.
iii. WILMINA MINNER, b. 1863, Kent, Delaware.
3. iv. WATSON MINNER, b. February 16, 1877, Kent, Delaware; d. July 1972, Felton, Kent, Delaware.
v. NATHANIEL MINNER, JR., b. June 08, 1883, Kent, Delaware; d. March 02, 1970, Felton, Kent, Delaware; m. JENNIE R. UNKNOWN; b. September 03, 1883, Kent, Delaware; d. July 01, 1956, Felton, Kent, Delaware.
Notes for NATHANIEL MINNER, JR. Individual: Minner, Nathaniel; Birth date: Jun 8, 1883; Death date: Mar 1970; Social Security #: 222-24-1381; Last residence: DE 19943; State of issue: DE
vi. AMOS MINNER, b. November 03, 1887, Kent, Delaware; d. January 1987, Felton, Kent, Delaware; m. SARAH UNKNOWN; b. September 10, 1887, Kent, Delaware; d. June 1978, Felton, Kent, Delaware.
Notes for AMOS MINNER: Individual: Minner, Amos; Birth date: Nov 3, 1887; Death date: Jan 1987; Social Security #: 221-22-1319; Last residence: DE 19943; State of issue: DE
4. vii. DENNIS WILLIAM MINNER, b. September 09, 1890, Harrington, Kent, Delaware; d. August 15, 1970, Houston, Kent, Delaware.
[14532] [S221] Personal notes of Cheryl Bertelsen
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_Jacob STONESIFER _________________+
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|--Margaret Virginia STONESIFER
| (1850 - ....)
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|_Ann Catharine BASEHOAR _|
(1831 - 1860) |
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[9039] [S14] "History and Genealogy of the Stonesifer Family of MD and PA"
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_Frank C WEST _______|
| (1852 - 1931) m 1883|
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|--Eugene Russell WEST
| (1888 - 1892)
| _Samuel PENINGTON Odessa, DE proven link to Robert_+
| | (1770 - 1823)
| _Samuel PENINGTON ___|
| | (1817 - 1899) m 1840|
| | |_Hannah MCCONAUGHY ________________________________+
| | (1797 - 1821)
|_Laura PENINGTON ____|
(1858 - 1937) m 1883|
| _John BALL ________________________________________+
| | (1789 - 1826) m 1816
|_Mary Ann BALL ______|
(1821 - 1874) m 1840|
|_Ann CRAVEN _______________________________________+
(1794 - 1883) m 1816
[13229] [S9] Tombstone Forest Cemetery, Middletown DE
[13230] next to parents " son of F C and Laura West"
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