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101 Philip died 19 Jan 1813 and is buried in the BABB Cemetery in Greenville, Tennessee. As he did not name his children in his will, there has been some confusion in the research. There are records in the Hopewell Monthly Meeting which give births for children SARAH, JOSEPH and THOMAS. Then son SETH gave his birth date in his pension records; in addition he was disowned by the Quakers in 1779 along with his mother Mary and sister Phoebe for joining the Methodists. Then in 1784 the Quaker records show a request of Phillip Babb's children PHILIP, STEPHEN, MARY, ELIZABETH and TAMAR for a certificate to New Garden, NC MM. The next month the Friends of New Garden stated they were not willing to accept the above children. "Source: Babb Families of American by Jean A. Sargent"

In 1785 Philip purchased land in Greene Co., NC. In 1787 Philip sent a recommendation from Frederick County, Virginia stating:

" Frederick County, Virginia. To all Whome it May consarn. We whose name are under written do Certify that PHILIP BABB and his family, has lived in this County for a Number of years and hath behaved them Selves as Peaceable People with their Nibors and honest in their dealings with all men as far as we know or believe until they moved them Selves to North Carolina to witness where of we have hereunto set our Names this 14 Day of July 1787. Signed by: " 18 neighbors including brother PETER BABB.""

Meanwhile in 1790, 7th month 5th day, the Hopewell MM records of VA state: "This meeting is informed that PHILIP BABB'S children - PHILIP, STEPHEN, MARY, ELIZABETH and TAMAR, removed with their parents within the verge of Westfld M.M. in North Carolina and had no certificates and several of them since gone out in marriage. Richard Ridgway and James Steer are appointed to write to that meeting requesting their assistance in treating with those who have misconducted, also some information concerning the others and report when ready." 		Phillip Babb
 
102 What does the Name "Babb" mean?
The name Babb comes from the Saracenic (now Arabic, Semitic) word "bab" which means "gate or door".
The first documented Babbs, were from the southern part of England. There are a number of references which locate members of the family in various counties in southern England, as far back as 1259, in the book, Dictionary of English And Welsh Surnames.
During the period when what is now Maine and its islands were being explored by Captain John Smith, and named the region "New England" with the approval of Prince Charles, a young Phillip Babb appeared on Hog Island by November 1692, when his name first appears on record there. During this same time period, the town of Kittery in the Province of Maine developed as a result of a town meeting held March 19, 1648. On Nov. 24, 1652, the town commissioners appointed Phillip Babb as Constable for the Isles of Shoals to assist in preserving order and in collecting taxes.
On May 18, 1653, Phillip was among the original petitioners of the Isles of Shoals to plead to the Massachusetts Court for local government on the Isles, including a separate Court and a distinct company of militia.

It is rumored that Phillip was a pirate...and also, that his ghost haunts the Isle of Shoals to this day.
Even though no marriage record has been found for Phillip, we know his wife's name was Mary Baylie and she was born in England about 1640. Evidence of this is through a bond in 1671 against Lawrence Carpenter for cruel usage of Mary Babb's servant
Mary died in 1674, soon after Phillip who died in early 1672 without leaving a will. Apparently some of the children were indentured to families on the mainland. On July 4, 1671, Letters of Administration were granted to Mr. Nath. Fryer to bring a true Inventory of the estate to the next Court of Associates. 		Phillip Babb
 
103 Sometime during the last decade of the eighteenth century, Sampson Babb found his way up Pine Creek near Wellsboro, Pennsylvania and settled on a tributary of that stream. The territory then belonged to the county of Northumberland, and it was exceedingly wild and forbidding. There were no white settlers for many miles. The country was mountainous and broken. The stream on which he settled came to be known as Babb's creek, out of respect to him who had the courage to brave the terrors of the wilderness and pitch a cabin in its depths.
On Babb's creek, Lycoming County--or in its vicinity--are still some residents by the name of Babb, who are descendants of Samson Babb, the pioneer. It is not likely the name of the stream will be changed soon, and it will remain to perpetuate his memory--the memory of the man who was dismissed from the Society of Friends for "keeping and using a fiddle."..... 		Sampson Babb
 
104 (Research):Born at Isle of Shoals, Appledore, York . Indentured servitudeApr 1675 Hampton, Rockingham Co., NH.
Resided Salem Massachusetts 1683
Resided New Castle Co, Delaware 1695
Deed 12 Nov 1735 Frederick County, Virginia
Died at Brandywine 100, New Castle, Delaware.
From Genealogical Background of Wilson Family, from the Catherine Bushman Collection at the State Library of Virginia, Richmond: Both of Thomas' parents died when he was young, and Thomas Babb was raised by a Henry Green of Hampton, NewHampshire. His first wife was Bathsheba Hussey who lived in Hampton, NH. In the course of their marriage, they moved toBrandywine Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. They had seven children, Peter, Thomas, Philip, Mary, Rebecca, Lydia and Hulda.Bathsheba died in 1713 and Thomas remained single until 1720 at which time he married Elizabeth Conway Booth. There were no children. In addition to a considerable amount of land owned in New Castle County, Thomas was given a grant ot 600 acres in Frederick County, Virginia by King George the Second. In his will he left his Delaware holdings to his son, Peter, and divided his Virginia land betwen Thomas and Philip who had moved to Virginia to occupy and manage the land grants. Thomas died in 1748. In a will dated August 17, 1748 at the Archives Building in Dover, Delaware, Thomas Babb left to his son Peter (father of Mary Babb who married Samuel Wilson) "all of my land and plantation in the county (New Castle) and hundred above mentioned with all the appurtenances thereto belonging forever." 		Thomas Babb
 
105 Not long after his marriage there was a movement of Quakers from Pennsylvania to Frederick County, Virginia. Thomas went with these Quakers and was one of the founding fathers of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting north of Winchester in Frederick County . This was in 1734.

His father had a land grant of 600 acres on Apple Pie Ridge, near Babb's Run, northwest of Winchester. Thomas settled there and was joined by his brother, Phillip. At his father's death they inherited this land.

Thomas died 11/04/1760. His will was proved 11/04/1760. He left the home place to his son, Sampson, and other bequest to his other children. His wife, not being mentioned, is believed to have already died.

The first lovely old home belonging to Thomas was called "The Great Marsh Plantation", now known as The Babb-Purcell-Janney House. It dates to 1735. Great Marsh is located on the north side of route 673 between route 522 and the Apple Pie Ridge Road in Frederick, Virginia.

The second home named "The Brick House" is a lovely old brick mansion and dates also to 1735. It is located west of the Apple Pie Ridge Road and south of route 672 on Babb's Run. This is also in Frederick, Virginia. 		Thomas Babb, Jr.
 
106 Thomas Babb was born in 1664 on the Isles of Shoals, what was then part of Massachusetts and died 17 Aug 1748, Brandywine Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware about age 84 . Thomas was about 7 years old when his father died. In April 1675 he was indentured until the age of 18 to Henry Green of Hampton, New Hampshire. It was there he probably met the Perkins and Hussey families, but the date of his marriage is unknown.
His first wife was Bathsheba Hussey, daughter of John and Rebecca (Perkins) Hussey of Hampton, New Hampshire. Bathsheba was born Sept. 21, 1671 and died by Oct 1713 at New Castle Co., Delaware. She was the mother of Thomas' children. Her father and Uncle Stephen became Quakers and found it desirable to leave the New Hampshire area because of persecution of Quakers there. John and his wife relocated to New Castle Co., Delaware.
Apparently Thomas followed the migratory path of his father-in-law. On Dec. 17, 1695 he was conveyed 100 acres of land and 20 acres of "mash" in Rocklands by Timothy Atkinson. (Records of the Court of New Castle, DE, Vol. II, 1681-1699)
Thomas has sizeable land holding. In 1735 he obtained a Patent to 600 acres of land in Frederick Co., Virginia. He sent two of his sons, Thomas, Jr., and Philip to occupy the acreage and to carry out the provision of the Patent. The other sons are believed to have relocated to Chester Co., Pennsylvania
On Aug. 13, 1751 his will (dated Aug 17, 1748) was proved in New Castle Co., Delaware. He bequeathed the home place in Delaware to his oldest son Peter and left the Virginia lands to Thomas, Jr. and Philip. He made other bequests to his daughters Mary, Rebecca and Lydia, as well as to three children of his deceased daughter Hulda--John, Rebecca and Lydia Gregory
On March 25, 1720, Thomas married a second time to Elizabeth (Conway) Booth. She was born July 9, 1687 to Thomas and Mary (Hollingworth) Conway. She was a widow of Charles Booth. 		Thomas Babb
 
107 (Research):A great many people descend from Rev. Stephen Bachiler, the founder of Hampton, New Hampshire, who came to the area then called Winnacunnet with a group of settlers in October 1638 from nearby Newbury in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. His controversial career, both in Old and New England, before and after his arrival in Hampton, has become legendary, and much detail can be found in Frederick Clifton Pierce's, Batchelder, Batcheller Genealogy (Chicago, Ill.: The Author, 1898), although this work contains many errors; in V. C. Sanborn's, Genealogy of the Family of Samborne or Sanborn in England and America. 1194-1898. (Concord, N.H.: The Author, 1899 [reprinted Boston, 1969]); and in Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis', Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Portland, Me.: The Anthoensen Press, 1928-1939 [reprinted Baltimore, 1972], hereafter Genealogical Dictionary). That he was married a total of four times is now well known. Further evidence that his first wife and mother of all his children was probably a sister of Rev. John Bate, Bachiler' successor at Wherwell, Hampshire, was discovered by Charles Edward Banks in an English court record (Court of Requests, Public Record Office, London. REQ2/678/64, dated 2 November 15 Charles I [1639]), and preserved by Charles Hull Batchelder in his extensive manuscript collection on the family at the New Hampshire Historical Society in Concord.

There is monument to Stephen Bachiller at the Center of Founders Park in Hampton, New Hampshire. What follows is the inscription on that monument.
A little band of pioneers under the leadership of Rev. Stephen Bachiler of Southhampton, England. Seeking a larger liberty, in October 1638 settled in the wilderness near this spot to plant a free church in a free town. They were joined in 1639 by others and in that year the town was incorporated. To do honor to the founder of Hampton, to exalt the ideals for which they strove and as an inspiration to posterity this memorial is dedicated, October 14, 1925. 		Stephen Bachiler, Rev.
 
108 The Rev. Stephen Bachiler (or Batchelder, Bachelor, Bacheller, etc.)
lived a very active life for nearly 100 years.
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1561 - Stephen Bachiler born in Hampshire, England. Although (or perhaps
because) there were several Bachiler families in the area, his parentage
has not been determined. V.C. Sanborn speculates that perhaps Stephen is
descended from a branch of the Bachiler family from the Channel Islands.
1581 17 Nov.- Matriculated College of St. John's, Oxford University.
1586/7 3 Feb. - Bachelor of Arts, Oxford.
1587 15 Jul. - became vicar of the Church of the Holy Cross and St.
Peter, Wherwell, Hampshire, England.
1590 - he has apparently married by this time, a son (Nathaniel) being
born.[VCS] His 1st wife's name may be Ann Bate or Bates. Other children
are Deborah, Nathaniel, Samuel, Ann, and Theodate.
1592 - Daughter Deborah born.[VCS]
1594 - Son Stephen born.[VCS]
1596 - Son Samuel born. [VCS]
1598 - Daughter Theodate born. [VCS]
1600 - Daughter Anne born. [VCS]
1605 - ejected from the vicarage as a result of King James's program
against nonconformist ministers, begun the year before. ("I will make
them conform or I will harry them out of the Kingdom.") Stephen is a
Presbterian by this time. [IEN]
1609 - daughter Deborah married John Wing
1610 - son Stephen matriculates Magdalen College, Oxford University.
1620 - son Samuel is a chaplain in Holland, at some time becoming
chaplain to Sir Charles Morgan's regiment located there. [VCS]
1621 - dined with Adam Winthrop.
1622 - purchased land in Newton Stacy (just east of Wherwell).
1623/4 3 Mar. - married the widow Christian Weare, at Abbots-Ann. [CAT,
LDN]
1625 - Son Samuel publishes "Miles Christianus". [VCS]
1627 26 Mar. - married the widow Helena Mason, at Abbots-Ann [CAT, LDN
dates disagree].
1629 - purchases more land in Newton Stacy.
1630 - Joins and invests in "the Plough Company of Husbandmen", a group
that had obtained a patent to settle in Maine on the Sagadahoc river.
Stephen is chosen as Pastor for the group, but the enterprise fails
before leaving England, perhaps through fraud.
circa 1630 - Stephen is granted a coat of arms, described in Sylvanus
Morgan's "Sphere of Gentry" as "Vert, a plow in fess; in base the sun
rising, or." Morgan says Stephen's motto is 'Sol Justitiae
Exoritur'.[VCS]
1631 - Granted license to visit children in Holland, but not clear if he
made the trip.
1632 - Sir Robert Payne, sheriff of Hants, complained that his tenants
"having been formerly misled by one Stephen Bachiler, a notorious
inconformist, did demolish a consecrated chapel in Newton Stacy".
1632 9 Mar - emigrates to Massachusetts aboard the "William and Francis",
with his widowed daughter Deborah and her children, and some other
followers.
1632 5 Jun. - Arrival of "Willaim and Francis" noted in John Winthrop's
journal, "after a voyage of 88 days with about 60 passengers, [with] old
Mr. Batchelder (being good 70),..." He settled at Saugus (later called
Lynn), where he organizes the first church.
1632 8 Jun - Baptises four infants at Saugus, including his grandson
Stephen Hussey.
1632 3 Oct - the Massachusetts General Court ordered Stephen not to
minister to any except "those he brought with him, for contempt of
authority". The order is withdrawn 5 months later. [VCS]
1635 - A general convention of elders is held at Lynn to discuss a
quarrel between Stephen and a faction of the church at Lynn.[VCS]
1636 Jan - Stephen decides to quit the church at Lynn and organize a
second one there. He is frobidden by the magistrates to form a second
church and agrees to leave town.[VCS]
1636 Feb. - moved to Ipswich and is given 50 acres of government land.
Temporarily stops preaching.
1638 Winter - Tried to a start a settlement at Mattacheese, near Yarmouth
on Cape Cod.
1638 Spring - Moved to Newbury, where son-in-law Christopher Hussey was
living.
1638 Sep. - Petitioned the General Court for permission to start a new
plantation at Winnicummet (now Hampton, NH).
1639 7 Jun. - Winnicummet founded, name changed that fall to Hampton at
Stephen's request. Almost immediately, is in dispute with another
minister at Hampton, one Timothy Dalton.
1640 Sends a treatise as a gift to Margaret Winthrop. [VCS]
1642 - wife Helen died, Stephen's house and library burned (valued at 200
pounds).
1643 - An excommunication of Stephen is annulled, the product of a false
charge of improper sexual advances brought by the Dalton faction. [VCS]
1644 - Called to Exeter by the town to be minister, but prohibited from
preaching by the General Court. The town of Casco had also requested
Stephen's ministry. [VCS]
[Uncertain] - Moves to Portsmouth, NH.
1647 - Transfers his Hampton properties to grandson John Sanborn, John to
pay his 2 brothers and cousin Nathaniel Bachiler each 20 pounds.
1648 - married his "good neighbor" and former housekeeper, Mary Beedle,
widow of Robert.
1650 - Stephen sued for divorce, but is ordered to remain married.
Stephen is also accused of marrying without bans. (Mary may have born a
son, John, in this year. [CAT])
1651 Oct 16 - wife Mary is convicted of adultery with George Rogers and
is whipped and "branded with the letter 'A'".
1654 - Stephen returned to England, possibly accompanied by grandson
Stephen Sanborn [LDN]. Christopher Hussey apparently also made this trip,
as testimony exists that Stephen transferred his property to him during
the voyage. [VCS]
1656 18 Oct - Wife Mary petitions for divorce, saying that Stephen had
abandoned her, returned to England and remarried. There is no other
record of a later marriage known and the circumstances make it doubtful.
Mary later marries Thomas Turner.
1657 or 1660 - Died at Hackney, near London.
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During the Rev. Bachiler's stay in the colonies, he was in regular
conflict with various officials and ministers in regard to religious
matters, in particular at Lynn and at Hampton. Many of his descendents
continued the conflict, becoming Quakers.
Among Stephen Bachiler's descendants are: Richard M. Nixon (President),
Daniel Webster (U.S. secretary of state), John Greenlief Whittier (author
and abolitionist), Caleb Cushing (U.S. attorney general), William P.
Fessendon (U.S. Secretary of State, abolitionist, helped found the
Republican party).

Further research:
Several "Batchelder" genealogies are listed among the holdings of the New
England Historical and Genealogical Society (NEHGS), these need to be
reviewed.
The Torrey work cited below is actually an index to a compilation of
references held by the NEHGS. These references need to be looked up and
followed.
A history of Lynn refers to his stay there and the conflict he had with
religious authority, but I've mislaid the citation. Need to find this
again.

Excerpts from: Batchelder, Batcheller Genealogy, by F. C. Pierce, 1898
Page 26-27
"Stephen Bachiler, for so he always wrote his name, was born somewhere in
England in the year 1561. At the age of twenty he entered St. Johns
College, Oxford. He was matriculated November 17, 1587, and admitted as
Bachelor of Arts, February 3, 1585-6. The leading profession for college
graduates in that day was that of a clergyman, and he determined to study
for the ministry, being then a member of the established church.
Apparently the time between his graduation in February, 1585-6 and July
17, 1587, was spent in preparation for his life work, for on the day last
named the death of Edward Parrett, vicar of Wherwell in Hants, making a
vacancy in that living he was presented with the place by William West,
Lord Lawarr (or de la Warr, as it was written later) and became vicar of
the church of Holy Cross and St. Peter...
"Of Stephen Bachiler's life at Wherewell we know nothing. The church
records were begun in 1643, or at all events no earlier records now
exist. We only know that he remained here until 1605, for, on the ninth
day of August, 1605, John Bate, A.M., clergyman, was appointed vicar of
Wherewell, a vacancy existing because of "the ejection of Stephen
Bachiler," the last vicar. Not much more is known of his life in England,
from the loss of his living at Wherewell to the spring of 1632, when he
sailed for New England. He was excommunicated from the church, and so no
church record exists showing his abiding places. Probably he preached to
different congregations, not in a settled way, but when he could avoid
the persecution of the church people. Occasionally we get a glimpse of
his location. In 1610 he appears to be still a clergyman of the County of
Southampton. On the 11th of June, 1621, Adam Winthrop's diary shows that
he "had Mr. Bachelour, the preacher," to dine with him, presumably at
Groton in Suffolk. This may have been the subject of this sketch.
"Some of the parishioners of Barton Stacey, in Hampshire, a few miles
east of Wherewell, listened to his sermons at some time before 1632, for
we find that Sir Robert Paine petitioned the Council, stating that he was
sheriff of Hants in that year, and was also chosen churchwarden of Barton
Stacey, and that 'some of the parishioners, petitioner's tenants, having
been formerly misled by Stephen Bachelor, a notorious inconformist, had
demolished a consecrated chapel at Newton Stacey, neglected the repair of
their parish church, maliciously opposed petitioner's intent (to repair
the church at his own charge), and executed many things in contempt of
the cannons and the bishop.'
"Once more we hear from him, on the 23d of June, 1631, when, at the age
of seventy years, he obtains leave to visit his sons and daughters in
Flushing. He was then resident at South Stoneham, in the county of
Southampton, and desires that his wife, Helen, aged 48 years, and his
daughter, Ann Sandburn, of age 30 years, widow, resident in the Strand,
might accompany him. He was to return within two months. It would be
interesting to know which of his sons and daughters then lived at
Flushing, as Deborah Wing was apparently residing in London in November,
1629, when her husband, John Wing, made his will, and presumably she was
appointed executrix of the will when it was proved, August 4, 1630, as
Mr. Waters makes no note that administration was granted to any other
person than the executrix named in the will.
"Stephen Bachiler was excommunicated among the earliest of the
nonconformists. On the death of Elizabeth, in 1603, James I, of the house
of Stuart, came to the throne. In January, 1604, the famous Hampton court
conference was held, when King James uttered his angry threat against the
Puritans, 'I will make them conform or I will harry them out of the
kingdom.' The next year the king's threat was carried out against Mr.
Bachiler, and no doubt he was thoroughly 'harried' after his
excommunication. Winthrop says that Bachiler had suffered much at the
hands of the bishops.
"As early as 1630 Bachiler had determined to leave England and settle in
America. At all events, he made preparation for such removal. Maverick,
in his 'Description of New England,' says there was a patent granted to
Christo: Batchelor and Company in the year 1632, or thereabouts, for the
mouth of the river (Sagadehoeke), and some tract of land adjacent, who
came over in the ship name the Plough, and termed themselves the Plough
Companie, but soon scattered, some for Virginia, some for England, some
to the Massachusetts, never settling on that land......"
Pages 28-29
"At the very beginning of 1632, Mr. Bachiler left England for Boston in
New England. He sailed on the 9th of March, 1631-2, in the vessel called
the 'William and Francis,' from London, with sixty passengers, and after
eighty-eight dreary days, landed at Boston. Among his fellow travellers
were Gov. Edward Winslow, of Plymouth, Rev. Thomas James, Rev. Thomas
Wedde and Thomas Oliver, the famous ruling elder of Boston. On
the'Whale,' which arrived May 26, 1632 came Mr. Wilson and Mr. Richard
Dummer. Most of the Dummers reside at South Stoneham or Swathing, where
the ancient church bears several Dummer memorials, and this was the last
residence of Stephen Bachiler in England. (A relationship existed between
the Bachilers and the Dummers which cannot yet be traced. MS. letter of
Richard Dummer to Nathaniel Bachiler, sen., 14th 4th mo., 1673:'my cossen
nathaniell bacheler of Hampton.')
"These two ships, the 'William and Francis,' and the 'Whale,' were sent
out by the 'Company of husbandmen,' sometimes called the 'Company of
London,' or the 'Company of the Plough,' of which company Stephen
Bachiler was an active and zealous member, and was chosen their pastor in
1629 or 1630.
"The energy and zeal with which he labored to increase the society and
assist as many emigrants as possible to come to New England, is well set
forth in a letter of John Dye and others to Mr. Crispe, and those members
of the Plough Company then in New England, dated London, 8 March, 1631-2,
and evidently brought in the 'William and Francis,' or the 'Whale.' Mr.
Bachiler adventured 100 pounds in the Company and loaned them 67 pounds,
of which amount 9 pounds was repaid by the freight money on his goods.'"
Page 30
"He was admitted a freeman May 6, 1635. It seems quite probable that he
was the minister who dissented from the order of banishment of Roger
Williams, in October, 1635, as his opinions are known to have agreed
closely with those of Williams, and no minister of the twelve churches
then established possessed his courage in maintaining unpopular opinions.
It is to be considered, also, that he had previously been disciplined for
departure from the established customs, and within three months was again
in trouble from the same cause......."
Page 36
"Shortly after his removal to Strawberry Bank, Mr. Bachiler's usual good
judgment seems to have deserted him. He was a widower, and obtained for a
housekeeper a widow, whom he calls 'an honest neighbour.' He soon married
her, and the match turned out in every way unfortunate. She was an
adultress, and her husband speedily discovered her character. The
marriage must have taken place in 1647 or 1648, when he was eighty-six or
eighty-seven years old. His wife, Mary, was evidently much younger than
he. In May, 1650, he was fined 10 pounds for not publishing his intention
of marriage according to law. In October of the same year, one-half of
this fine was remitted. Perhaps because of the following:
At a General court houlden at Gorgeana the 15th of Octor., 1650, George
Rogers and Mrs. Batcheller prsented upon vehement suspition of
incontinency for liveing in one house together and lieing in one rome.
They are to be separated before the next court or to pay 40s."
"Lewis copies from the York records, dated October 15, 1651, the
following:
We do present George Rogers and Mary Batcheller, the wife of Mr. Stephen
Batcheller, minister, for adultery. It is ordered that Mrs. Batcheller,
for her adultery, shall receive forty stripes save one, at the first town
meeting held at Kittery, 6 weeks after her delivery , and be branded with
the letter A.
These appear clearly to be two separate offences.
"In October of the same year, the Court passed the following order:
That Mr. Batchelor and his wife shall lyve togeather as man and wife, as
in tha this Court they have publiquely professed to doe; and if either
desert one another, then hereby the Court doth order that the marshal
shall apprehend both the said Mr. Batchelor and Mary his wife, and bring
them forthwith to Boston.....
it is evident that Mr. Bachiler charged his wife with adultery and prayed
for a divorce. This was deferred to the next court of assistants. She had
been indicted for adultery in Maine. ...now he is ordered to live as a
husband with an adultress during the pendency of divorce proceedings for
that cause, and a term in jail is threatened for disobedience of the
order with the usual privilege of giving bail.
"After her separation from her husband Mrs. Mary Bachiler lived on her
lot in Kittery, granted her in 1648, adjoining the Piscataqua river,
nearly opposite the boundary line between Portsmouth and Newington. What
became of her and her children after October, 1656, when they were living
in Kittery, is not known, but the name, 'Mary Bachellor's Highway,' is
given as the northwest boundary of a lot at Kittery, conveyed by William
Hilton, of Exeter, to his son, Richard, May 4, 1684.
Page 37-38
"At length, wearied with the unsuccessful conflict and the constant
disappointment of his expectations, heartsick with the failure of all his
plans for a quiet rest for his old age in that 'band of righteousness.'
which, he says, 'our New England is,' he decided to return to England.
Harried and persecuted by the vindictiveness of the bishops of England
for more than a quarter of a century, he came hither to escape their
persecution (and experienced more bitter and persistent than ever he had
experienced in England).....His matrimonial difficulties also led him to
return to England.
"...Of his life in England, after his return, we know nothing; very
likely he lived at Hackney where he died, as that was a comfortable
residence for retired ministers. The last entry concerning Mr. Bachiler
is as follows: the ancient Stephen Bachiler, of Hampton, N.H., died at
Hackney, a Village & Parish in Middlesex, 2 miles from London, in 1660,
in the 100th year of his age.
"Stephen Bachiler/Batchelder's life was stormy and contentious. He must
have had rare physical as well as intellectual vigor. From tradition and
the characteristics of his descendants, it is probable that he was tall
and sinewy, with prominent features, especially the nose; a very dark
complexion; black, coarse hair in early days, white in age, mouth large
and firm, eyes black as sloes; features long rather than broad; a strong
clear voice; rather slow of motion and speech; simple in dress, wearing
in Lynn a suit of liste which he brought from England; obstinate and
tenacious of his opinions to a marked degree; a powerful preacher,
drawing largely from the scripture and impressing his hearers with the
uncommon power and sanctity of his sermons; strong in his friendships and
his hates. Winthrop classed him among 'honest men' when he arrived in
1632, and Prince, in his Annals of New England, Appendix to 1632, says:
('From governor Winslow and Captain Johnson, we learn that) he (Stephen
Bachiler) was an ancient minister in England: had been a man of Fame in
his Day; was 71 years of Age when he came over: bro't a number of people
with him; and soon became the 1st Feeder of the Flock of Christ at Lynn
(and by several Letters I have seen of his own Writing to the R. Mr.
Cotton of Boston, I find he was a Gentleman of Learning and Ingenuity,
and wrote a fine and curious hand.')."

SUPPLIES
"Among the articles he brought over were four hogsheds of peas, twelve
yards of cloth, two hundred yards of list, a contribution box and oaken
furniture, which has lasted until this day." p. 29


DESCENDANTS

CHILDREN
The names of four children of Rev. Stephen Bachiler are known with
certainty. Deborah, born in 1592, child of his first wife; Stephen, born
in 1594, son of the first wife; Ann, born in 1601, probably of his first
wife; and Theodate, who died October, 20, 1649, at Hampton, N.H. Theodate
was the wife of Christopher Hussey. "On the first Sunday at Lynn, four
children were baptised. Thomas Newhall, the first white child born in
Lynn, was first presented. Mr. Bachiler put him aside saying, "I will
baptise my own child first.' meaning Stephen Hussey, his daughter's
child, born the same week as Thomas Newhall." p. 29
Deborah, b. 1592; m. Rev. John Wing.
Mother of Daniel Wing who married Hannah Swift of Sandwich,
Massachusetts, and fathered a daughter who he named Deborah for his
mother. This daughter married William Dungan, son of the Rev. Thomas
Dungan and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Clement Weaver and Rebecca
Holbrook.

Daniel Webster
The politician and famous orator, Daniel Webster, was one of the
illustrious descendants of Stephen Bachiler. His grandmother was Susanna
(Benjamin, Nathaniel, Nathaniel, Stephen) born 28 May 1713 , married
Ebenezer Webster 20 July 1738.
Ebenezer Webster, the father of Daniel, was born in Kingston, N.H. in
1739, and died in Salisbury (now Franklin) in 1806. ...From him his sons
Ezekiel and Daniel inherite great physical force, their mother was
Abigail Eastman. Living on the frontier, Daniel was compelled to depend
for early education on his mother and on the schooling customary in
winter, and for much of this he was indebted to the fact that he was
physically the weakest of his family. It is a little odd, however, that
he failed utterly in that with which his final reputation was so closely
connected. In his own words, 'There was one thing I could not do; I cound
not make a declamation; I could not speak before the school.' When he was
fifteen years old a family council decided to send him to college. After
an imperfect preparation he graduated at Dartmouth College in 1801,
studied law, and was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1805 from the
office of Christopher Gore. Regard for his father made Webster begin
practice in the town of Boscawen, near his early home, but his father
died within a year and he removed to Portsmouth, the largest town of the
state. Here he took a leading place at the bar, having but one rival. In
May 1813, he entered Congress as a representative from New Hampshire,
being placed at once on the committee of foreign affairs. Page 123-124 -
Pierce
"Daniel Webster wrote to his son Fletcher March 5, 1840: 'I believe we
are all indebted to my father's mother for a large portion of the little
sense which belongs to us. Her name was Susannah Bachelder; she was the
descendant of a clergyman and a woman of uncommon strength of
understanding. If I had had many boys I should have called one of them
Bachelder.'" (p.123) 		Stephen Bachiler, Rev.
 
109 MORDECAI BALDERSTON the seventh son of John and Hannah was born on January 31, 1755. His birth was registered in the Wrightstown Monthly Meeting. Mordecai refused to take the Oath of Allegiance or to fight for the Revolution, as Quakers were prohibited from swearing any oath. Consequently, on June 15, 1778, a Proclamation was issued by the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania against Mordecai and many other persons charging that they were "knowingly & willingly aided & assisted the enemies of State & of the United States of America by having joined their Armies of Philadelphia" and demanding that they surrender themselves before the first of August or "stand and be attained for High Treason... & suffer such pains & penalties & undergo all such forfeitures as persons attained of High Treason ought to do." Mordecai did finally take the Oath of Allegiance on June 18, 1778, and the charges against him were discharged by a proclamation on June 28, 1779 when he surrendered himself to be tried for treason. (Colonial Records of PA v. 11 p. 513, PA Archives ser. 6 v 13, p. 475) Mordecai and the others on the list did not join the armies of the enemy. This seems to be a designation given by the State to those persons who had not as yet sworn to the required Oath and thus were guilty of treason by omission. Patriotic emotions were high during 1778 when the British occupied Philadelphia and Washington was entrenched at nearby Valley Forge. In any event, such activity, aling with his and his brothers enlisting in both Captain Kester's and Captain Lanning's colonial armies in 1782, went against Quaker principles and this period seems to be the beginning of Mordecai's problems with the Friends. In addition, when he married Deborah Michener on February 11, 1778, they were married by a "hireling minister", which was contrary to the Rules of Discipline in the Society. The Society recognized no distinction between the clergy and the laity. Consequently. for awhile they were not admitted to Meeting. Their first child Sarah was recorded in the Philadelphia Meeting. They were later admitted to the Buckingham Monthly Meeting, but by 1786, Mordecai and his family were living in nearby Chester County. At this time they were received into the Goshen Monthly Meeting and in 1795 in the New Garden Montly Meeting in Chester County. Mordecai Balderston
 
110 New Garden Friends Meeting minutes from 1798, Sarah Balderston was disowned from the Meeting for marrying a man not a Quaker. Sarah Balderston
 
111 compiled by Stewart Baldwin

The large wave of Quaker immigrants which moved from England to Pennsylvania in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries included two brothers, John Baldwin and William Baldwin, both of whom settled in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, moving there from the Pendle Forest, in Lancashire. During the same period, other Quaker immigrants named Baldwin, probably unrelated, came from other parts of England, with the result that some accounts of the genealogy of John and William Baldwin are confused or incorrect. Although direct proof of the parentage of the two brothers is still not available, their father can be identified with near certainty as John Baldwin of Wheatley in Pendle Forest, an English Quaker who died in 1719. These web pages will set out, with documentation, what is known of the two immigrant brothers and their relatives in England.
Of the two brothers, John Baldwin of Makefield township, Bucks co., PA, made his first known appearance in the records at his first marriage in England, in 1697, to Jennet Hartley. [1] The couple received a certificate to move to America in 1698, and the fact that Jennet (Hartley) Baldwin was still alive after the trip to America is proven by her presence as a witness to the 1700 marriage, in America, of Robert Heaton to Jennet’s cousin Grace Pearson, who had in turn witnessed the Baldwin-Hartley marriage in England a few years earlier (and would also witness John Baldwin’s second marriage a few years later). It would seem that Jennet (Hartley) Baldwin did not survive for long after that, and a few years later, John Baldwin married for a second time to Ann Scott, by whom he was ancestor to a large percentage of Quaker Baldwins in the midwest.
Although he had visited America earlier, William Baldwin did not come to America to stay until 1714. The fact that he had a brother named John is clear from his will, which named his brother John “Baldwen” (as the name is often spelled in the early records) as one of his executors. Since John Baldwin of Makefield township came from the same small area of Lancashire as William, and the other known Pennsylvania Quakers named John Baldwin do not make feasible candidates as brothers of William Baldwin, the identity of John Baldwin of Makefield township with William’s brother of the same name is secure.
The parentage of the brothers is more difficult to document, and direct proof of the relationship has not yet been found. However, it is almost certain that they were the sons of John Baldwin of Wheatley, in Pendle Forest, who will be called “John Baldwin Sr.”, to distinguish him from the immigrant, and whose death on 25 twelfth month [February] [2] 1718/9 was recorded by the Marsden Monthly Meeting. It is probable that their mother’s name was Bridget. The evidence for that is as follows:
The birthdates of the three daughters of John Baldwin Sr. match well with the probable birthdates of the immigrants John and William Baldwin.
John Baldwin Sr. was said to be “of Gisborn” (i.e., the parish of Gisburn, co. York), and the 1855 biography of the immigrant William which appeared in The Friend (see below) gives his birthplace as “Gisbourn”.
The same biography of William Baldwin states that he was born “of parents professing the truth” (i.e., Quakers), thus verifying that his parents were members of the Society of Friends.
The records of the Marsden Monthly Meeting show only three Baldwins in a generation older than the two immigrant brothers, of whom two, Anthony and Margaret, brother and sister, both left wills which suggest that they had no children. This leaves John Baldwin Sr. as the only reasonable candidate for the father who appears in the Marsden records.
The residence of “Wheatley” given for John Baldwin Jr. at his first marriage is the same as the residence given for John Baldwin Sr. in his death record.
The immigrant William Baldwin and Elizabeth (Baldwin) Topper were prominent signers of each other’s marriage certificates.
The removal certificate of William “Balwin” to America refers to his parents as being living (“... his aged parents whom he leaves alone, ...”), and the two most prominent signers of that certificate were John “Balwin” and Briget “Balwin”. (William’s brother John was already in America, and was therefore certainly not the man of that name who signed the certificate.)
While none of these pieces of evidence gives direct proof of the relationship, together they make an extremely strong case that John Baldwin Sr. was the father of the two immigrant brothers. Indeed, the words “whom he leaves alone” in William Baldwin’s removal certificate indicate that his parents lived near him (i.e., in Pendle Forest), and we would then expect them to have been members of the Marsden Monthly Meeting. Thus, the lack of any other reasonable candidates for the parents of John and William Baldwin in the Marsden records has strong weight. The parentage of John Baldwin Sr. remains unknown, and the name is too common to identify him among possible baptisms in the area without additional information. One possible clue is presented by two other Baldwin members of the Marsden Monthly Meeting who have no proven connection to John Baldwin Sr., Anthony and Margaret Baldwin, both of whom left wills. Although the possibility remains that they represent a red herring, they still need to be investigated. For an account of Anthony Baldwin and Margaret Baldwin, and transcripts of their wills 		John Baldwin
 
112 BALLINGER-Huguenot ancestry. According to family tradition there were five Ballinger brothers in France, one of whom was burned at the stake and one hanged during the persecutions of the Huguenots. The remaining brothers came to America in 1678. One settled in Virginia, one in Pennsylvania and the third, Henry Ballinger, progenitor of the family in Burlington County, settled in Evesham Township not far from the village of Evesboro. Henry Ballinger married Mary Harding on Ninth month 4th, 1684. A return of survey dated Fourth month, 1684, shows that 262 acres were surveyed for Henry Bailinger "at the Vale of Easham." This farm was located on the road leading from Evesboro to Medford about one and one-half miles east of the former village and is still known locally as the Ballinger farm. Although Henry and Mary Ballinger settled on this tract they apparently lived on the Rancocas for a year or two at least after their marriage. The Meeting record of the birth of their son, Thomas, on Sixth month 13th, 1685 reads, "Thomas Ballinger, son of Henry and Mary Baffinger of Northampton River." Their children were Thomas, John, Joseph, Henry, Elizabeth, Josiah, Amariah and Mary.

http://www.westjerseyhistory.org/books/decou1/mtn17.html 		Henry Ballinger
 
113 New Garden MM Marriage Certificates say:
"Henry Ballinger, Son of Henry Ballinger of West Jersey in ye Government of New York and Hannah Wright daughter of James Wright of Nottingham in ye county of Chester and Province of Pennsylvania.....
18, 6m, 1726.....at their Publick Meeting house in Nottingham Afsd.....
Witnesses:
Aron Coppock John Beals Henry Ballinger
Elisha Gatchell Wm Pusey Hannah Ballinger
Messer Browne Sarah Beals James Wright
Henry Reynolds Wm Beals Mary Wright
Joseph Haines John Pusey Mary Wright Jr
Samuell Littler William's Brown Mary Ailes
Hugh Morgan Jeremiah Browne Thomas Bowater
Abraham Hollingsworth Arthur Barrett Phebe Scarlet
James King Enoch Job Alice Mendenhall
Benjamine Chandlee Jacob Haines Sarah Beals
Thomas Hughes Jacob Beals 		Henry J. Ballinger
 
114 JAMES W. BALLINGER, contractor and builder; West Middleburg: was born at Camden, New Jersey, August 21, 1827 and at the age of 18 came with his parents to Parry Tp. His father, William, and mother, Beulah (Ward), were natives of New Jersey. The subject of our sketch received his education partly here, and partly in his native State, but his present broad and liberal culture comes from assiduous reading, and his keen observation of men and facts. His father by trade was a carpenter, and James when 16 years of age, also began to learn the trade, working for his father for several years after becoming of age. On November 17, 1850, he married Angeline Curl, a sketch of whose father appears in another portion of these biographies, and from this union there were ten children-Warren, Joseph, Bulah, Lewis, James Ward Ballinger
 
115 II. Mary Barnard, [Sarah,- Jeremiah,] daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Carter) Barnard, was twice married. She first married John Hewes, second son of William* and Mary (Withers) Hewes, of Chichester, 22, 11 mo. 1746-7. He was a Tanner by trade and seems to have resided in Chichester township. He owned land in Chichester, and in Douglass township, Berks county. The will of John Hewes, of Chichester, tanner, is re- corded at West Chester. It was made 2 Feb. 1759, and proven 2 March, 1759. He gave the homestead to his wife Mary during her life time and afterwards to his children Christiana and Jacob; also 200 acres in Douglass township, Berks county, purchased of Thomas Barnard, to his wife until his children became of age or married. Other lands in Chichester and in Berks county were to be sold by the executors. He named as executors his wife and Richard Dutton of Aston. He was born about 1716 and died 1759. He lies buried in the graveyard of Chichester Friends Meeting. Mary (Barnard) Hewes married, as her second husband, Archibald Dick, about the year 1760.


Bi-centenary memorial of Jeremiah Carter, who came to the province of Pennsylvania in 1682, containing a historic-genealogy of his descendants down to the present time (1883)

* William Hewes, the father of John, who may be designated as William, 3d, was the son of William, 2d, and Sarah (Bezer) Hewes, who were married in 1689. This couple were married by Friends' ceremony through permission of Chichester and Concord Monthly meeting; but were first subjected to a very quaint and embarrassing exarhmation, as it was stated that "the young man heretofore has been given to be something wild, he ot late years was become more sober." The full minutes of the proceedings can be found in Dr. Smith's History of Del- aware County, page 175 ; or in Martin's History of Chester, page 406. William Hewes, 2d, was the son of William Hewes, ist, who is supposed, according to Dr. Smith, to have come over with John Fenwick from England in 1675, first settled in Salem county. New Jersey, but afterwards, in 1678-9, he settled in Lower Chichester, where he purchased land of Roger Pedrick. He died about 1698. His wife's name was Deborah. They were both active members of Chichester Meeting--" William, ist, being one of the founders of that meeting. The family tradition states that he came from Wales. He built a brick house in Lower Chichester, and on the sill of the front door the letters W. H. were cut. Sarah Bezer, wife of William, 2d, was the daughter of Edward and Ann Bezer. Mary Withers wife of William, 3d, was the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Collet) Withers. William Hewes, 3d, and Mary Withers were married 12, 9 mo. 1713. The following table shows three generations of ancestors of John Hewes.



Source: Bi-centenary memorial of Jeremiah Carter, who came to the province of Pennsylvania in 1682, containing a historic-genealogy of his descendants down to the present time (1883) 		Mary Barnard
 
116 BARTON-Thomas Barton, a signer of the "Concessions and Agreements" arrived from England in 1679. On October 24th, 1680, a tract containing 100 acres was surveyed for him on the northern side of Assiscunk Creek near the village of Jacksonville. He married Ann Borton, daughter of John and Ann Borton, the progenitors of the Borton family in Burlington County on Tenth month 8th, 1681 and doubtless settled on this tract. Their children were Edward, Thomas and John. The Bartons living in or near Moorestown are descended from Edward who married Sarah Day on Ninth month 21st,1706 or John, who married Ann Butcher in 1709. Thomas,who died in his 21st year was not married.


http://www.westjerseyhistory.org/books/decou1/mtn17.html 		Thomas Barton
 
117 Fleming Bates, of Prince William County, son of Benjamin and Hannah Bates, of York County, and Unity Crew, daughter of Micajah and Margaret Crew, of Hanover County, were married at Cedar Creek 11-16-1803.
The following witnesses signed the marriage certificate : Micajah Crew, Benj. Crew, Lemuel Crew, Walter Crew, Nicholas Crew, Micajah Crew, Jr., Daniel Couch Samuel Johnson, Joshua Crew, David Evans, Thomas Hatton, Littleberry Crew, Thomas Stanley, Sr.,
Joshua Stanley, Isaac Ratcliff, Thomas Stanley, Thomas Hatton, Jr., Catlett Jones, Clarke Moorman, Waddy Stanley, Thomas Stanley, Jr., James Cowgill, Thomas Harris, Margaret Crew, Tabitha Crew, Unity Ladd, Deborah Harris, Eliza E. Pleasants, Mary Hatton, Eachel Moorman, Margaret Ratcliff, Susannah Hatton, Sarah Jones, Sarah Richardson, Martha Eichardson, Margaret Crew, Louisa Storrs, Jane Brooks, Charlotte Cowgill, Marianna L.Pleasants. 		Fleming Bates
 
118 They moved to Opeckan, Frederick Co. VA by 1744 where John bought 165
acres on Mills Creek from John Mills, Jr.. This land is now in Berkeley
Co. VA. He was survived by his widow who married next in 1745 to
Alexander Underwood at Monocacay Meeting and died December 26, 1777 in
Wellsville, York Co., Pennsylvania. 		John Jacob Beals
 
119 (From THE EMPORIA GAZETTE, January 30, 1946)
Dies At Sterling. Mrs Lydia Jane Williams, formerly of Americus, and sister of Enosand John Beals, of Emporia, died recently at Sterling, after suffering a broken hip several weeks before. She was 76 years old. Funeral services and burial were held in Sterling. Mrs Williams was born in Americus February 18, 1869, a daughterof the late Mr and Mrs Nathan Beals. She married the late Charles Williams June 11, 1891 and moved from Americus to Wichita in 1904. In 1919 the family moved to Scott county, where Mr. Williams died in 1925. In 1927, she went toSterling She was a member of the Friends church. Mrs Williams is survived by her son, Henry Williams, Sterling; a sister, Mrs John Delzell, Lindsay, Calif.; four brothers, Enos Beals and John Beals, Emporia; Thomas Beals, Oskaloosa; and Addison Beals, Durango,Colo.; six grandchildren and one great granddaughter. 		Lydia Jane Beals
 
120 (Research):Thomas Beals and Sarah Antrim had declared marriage intentions in Virginia, most likely at Hopewell MM, where their early books were lost in a fire in 1795. They were married in Prince Georges MM in Virginia, when that MM was established and set off from Hopewell MM, Virginia, they were automatically transferred to Fairfax MM 1745-6. Thomas Beals remained in Prince George Co., MD un their four oldest children were granted certificates to Carvers MM, Bladen Co., NC , from there transferred to Cane Creek MM, Orange Co., NC when Cane Creek MM was set up, 7 Oct 1751 and were c Guilford Co., North Carolina) was set up in 1754, the family was transferred to that MM, never having moved from their original settlement. Thomas Beals
 
121 Thomas Beals was born in March 1719, in Chester Co., Pennsylvania and later moved with his family to Cane Creek, North Carolina. At the age of 29 he entered the ministry while in New Garden, North Carolina ca 1748. Thomas Beals visited Ohio in 1775 and made several missionary trips among the Indians and few white settlers.
On one of his first attempts to reach Ohio territory in 1775, Beals, along with a party of friends, were arrested by solders at a fort near Clinch Mountain and accused of aiding the hostile Indians, which were considered allies with the British and therefore a treasonable offence. While waiting to be executed Beals was asked to preach a sermon, and the sermon was so eloquent that he was released and a young soldier, Beverly Milner was converted.
Twenty-four years after his first visit, Thomas Beals and his family and a company of Friends moved to Quaker Bottoms, from Blue Stone, Virginia. and in the spring of 1801 he and his family and friends settled on Salt Creek, , near the present site of the village of Adelphi, Ohio. He died on August 28th of the same year at the age of 82 years. His widow, Sarah, died July 7, 1813, at the age of 89, at Fairfield, Highland Co., Ohio. 		Thomas Beals
 
122 (Research):From Charles Elmer Bales, 1931, Lineage of the Bales Family (compiled by Thomas D. Hamm) -- William Beals, born about 1747 in Frederick Co., Virginia, died in Chatham Co., North Carolina, in the summer of 1814. He was married first, 10th Mo.19, 1769 at New Garden to Rachel Green, daughter of James and Mary (Harry) Green. Rachel was born in Chester Co., Pennsylvania, about 1749 and died in Knox Co., Tennessee, in 1799. William and Rachel lived at Center until about 1786, when they became the founders, along with various fellow Quakers, of the Quaker community of East Tennessee. After the death of his first wife, William married in Guilford Co., Sep. 30, 1803, Rachel Johnson, daughter of Tarlton and Sarah (Mills) Johnson.
She was born in Guilford Co, North Carolina on, 3rd Mo. 6, 1770 and died in Wayne Co., Indiana, 10th Mo. 20, 1837. After his second marriage, William lived in Guilford and Randolph Counties in North Carolina. By 1810 he was living in Chatham Co. Rachel (Green) Beals is probably buried in the Lost Creek Friends Burying Ground in Jefferson Co., Tennessee; William Beals at the Rocky River Friends Burying Ground in Chatham Co., North Carolina; and Rachel (Johnson) Beals in the West River Friends Cemetery in Wayne Co., Indiana 		William Beals
 
123 (Research):"I Edward Beeson of Nottingham, being laid on a bed of sickness and not knowing how the lord may dispose of me as to my natural life therfore I do make this my last will and testment and does declare all other will or wills made or done by me to be void and of none effect, first my will is that I be decently buried and my funeral expenses and all debts be duly paid, 2ly, I give to my son Edward & heirs 142 acres & half of land lying by Nessamoney, 3rdly, I give unto my son Richard & his heirs one tract of Laqnd Laying near Southampton in the county of Bucks, containing 290 acres, 4ly, I give to my son Richard & his heirs one tract of Liberty Land containing 25 acres, Laying on Sculkill, 5ly I give to my son William my west Loot Laying in Notingham, also I give unto lhim 48 pounds which my executors is to lay out for him in building him a house & buying him such necessaryes as they may see most needful for him for making a plantation, also I give unto llhim all my wearing apparell except two great coats, which two coats I give to Edward & Richard, Edward is to have which he pleased, also I give to my son William one coat of the Carsey that is at the weavers, also my will is that if my son William should dy wisthout ishew Lawfully begotten, then the land is to go to the Lawful heirs. 6ly, I give to my daughter Ann Cloud, twenty pounds, 7ly my will is that after my former wifes children have had their portions, that all my personal estate be divided betwixt my widow and my daughter Elizabeth according to a Law. 8ly, my will is that my widow shall have the plantation whereon I live with all the profits thereof during her widdowhood or natural life & after my widows marrying of decease, thin I give it to my daughter Elizabeth & her heirs. 9ly, my will is that my executors & heirs shall have all that land which I have purchased of Daniel Wharley & by warrant to me by the commissioners bearing the date of, 14th day of Sept., 1709 to dispose of as they see occasion, and I desire yt my wife shall give to the child yt she is now great with, if it should live when born, 40 pounds and lastley for a full and dinal performance of this will I do by these presents make & ordain my dear and well beloved wife and son Richard the sole executors of this my last will and Testament os witness my had & seal this twentieth of the sixth month, called August 1712."

Signed Sealed and Delivered before us.
Edward Beeson (Seal)
Andrew Job
James King
Chester County, S. S.:" 		Edward Beeson
 
124 Came to America from Stoke England with William Penn. In the early spring of 1700, Edward Beeson with ten other men joined with William Penn to survey the southern part of his PA Concession. They laid out a tract known as the Notthingham Lotts in Chester County. In 1769 when the Mason Dixon Line was established, these lots became a part of Cecil County, MD. Edward Beeson drew Lot No. 18 consisting of 1000 acres near the southwest corner of the Nottingham Lotts (a plot of land ten miles long, east and west, by three miles wide, north and south.) He built on the lot and moved his family there from NewCastle Co., DE. Edward Beeson is believed to have first married Rachel Pennington, a half sister of the wife of William Penn. They had children: Edward, Richard, William and Ann. His second wife Elizabeth he married near 1710. They had a daughter, Elizabeth, born about 1712 and Rachel, born after his death. Edward Beeson
 
125 (Research):Richard Beeson, son of Edward Beeson, Sr., married Charity Grubb ca. 1706. It may be that Richard and Charity first settled in the vicinity of North Wales in Montgomery County, Pa., but with the death of Edward Beeson, Sr., they relocated at Nottingham. Although Richard and Charity may neither have been birthright Friends, they became very active Quaker leaders in their adult lives. They lived at Nottingham ca. 1712 to 1732 or 1733. Then they moved to the new Friends settlement on the Susquehanna River in Lancaster, Pa. and were members of Leacock Friends Meeting until 1736 when they moved to Berkeley County, now in West Virginia, and helped organize a Meeting known as Providence, which was a subordinant Meeting of Hopewell Monthly Meeting, centered at Hopewell Meeting near Winchester, Virginia. By 1754 Richard and Charity and a number of their family were on the move again to the North Carolina Piedmont. Richard and Charity again helped to organize a new Meeting, which became Center Friends Meeting in Guilford County, North Carolina. Richard Beeson
 
126 Richard Beeson and his wife, Charity Grubb (b. 9th Mo. 29, 1687 in
Brandywine, New Castle, Del/PA d. 11th Mo., 27, 1761 in Guilford Co., NC)
were very well-known and active members (and missionaries) of the Quaker
church. Charity Grubb was the dtr of John and Frances (Vane) Grubb.
Richard and Charity helped form Hopewell Meeting in Virginia and were
among the earliest members of New Garden Meeting in Guilford Co., NC.
They both remained in Guilford Co. until their deaths. 		Richard Beeson
 
127 (Research):Sometime after 1704, when his son Charles' baptism was recorded in Trefeglwys Parish, Richard became a member of the Society of Friends - a "Quaker." Richard Benbow's name appears subsequently in the records of Dolobran Meeting, and his home was used as a local meeting place during those years. Susanna became a prominent Quaker in the area, particularly after her husband's death. While all Benbow families in this area were probably kin, the departure of Richard from the Church of England caused problems in the relationships between the Anglican and Quaker cousins. Some Christian names, such as Richard and Charles, appear in both lines, and it is difficult to sort these out without a careful eye. We are indebted to cousin Ronald Morris, who is a historian by profession, for the invaluable information he has given us about this family, who are also his own ancestors, as he descends from Richard's son John.

From:http://www.charlesbenbowfamily.homestead.com/Index.html 		Richardus Benbowe
 
128 There is no record of his death. In 1713 his home became the Meeting Place for Quakers, and his widow married Edward Jennings, another prominent Quaker. Richardus Benbowe
 
129 From: "TDH"
To:
Date: 10/05/2003 01:36 PM
Subject: Samuel & Sarah (Weed) Benedict

Hi,
Found your request for information on those listed on the below site:

The dates you have posted are correct, however both Samuel & Sarah (Weed) Benedict died in Ashville, NY not Stamford, CT as you posted. Samuel and Sarah are buried in the Ashville Cemetery (also known as Maple Grove) Ashville, NY (Chautauqua County).
I have personally visited the cemetery and my husband is a descendant from the two individuals listed.
From the book, "Soldiers of the American Revolution" ref: Samuel Benedict --
He served in Col. Philip Bradley's Battalion, Wadsworth Brigade, also in Capt. Reuben Scofield's Company, Connecticut Militia. He is mentioned as a pensioner in the census of 1840, aged 87, residing with William Dean in the town of Harmony.[Chautauqua County] His wife, Sarah, died March 17, 1845, aged 90 years, and is buried beside him.
(William Dean was the 2nd husband of their daughter, Rebecca (Benedict) Brown Dean. My husband descends from Rebecca & her first husband, Samuel Brown).
If I can be of any further help, let me know.
Terry Heismann 		Samuel Benedict
 
130 Film 1255037
Page 340A 		Jesse Maris Bennett
 
131 With wife, Mary Jesse Maris Bennett
 
132 Page 13, line 33 Wilson Bennett
 
133 (Research):The following are notes taken from a small black notebook written by Arthur the Eldest son of Joseph Storrs Bevington and refer to this John son of William.
The Friends testimony relating to John Bevington of Ettington, who died in 1755 informs us: That in his early years he began to run in the paths of virtue and righteousness, and being of a cheerful, active, generous temper, quick of apprehension and of sound judgment, he became more than ordinarily useful in his generation as a man, as well as, though Devine favour as a Christian and a Minister. In his public testimony he was considered, sound, as from one whose lips had been touched by a live coal from the altar. He travelled much in the Ministry in England, Scotland and Ireland. Buried in F.B.G. Ettington 		John Bevington
 
134 (Research):Two children by first marriage, Elizabeth (1744), John (1745/6) John Bevington
 
135 JOHN BEVINGTON Born 21 April 1721 died 26th June 1772, a Mercer by trade - a dealer in cloth. He married Elizabeth Wills on 21st April 1742 then Martha Bright on 4th March 1749 and has children with both wives. (see below) Martha was from Foleshill Warks, but was also said to be from Chalbury - John Bevington
 
136 LDS FILM # 0098342 gives the Last Will and Testament of John Bevington who died 15th December 1755

Be it remembered that I John Bevington of Eatington in the County of Warwick, Maltster, being in health and haveing my Common Memory and understanding. Blessed be God, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following. that is to say my Worldly estate whereof I am now possessed imprimus all that my estate in Eatington aforesaid and the Libertyes thereof Consisting of my Dwelling House Malthouse Stables outhouses garden Backsides two Orchards Called by the names of the upper and loer orchard and one Rose or inclosed Ground Called the further Rose with four yard land and all its appurtainces lying Dispercedly in the open and Common fields of Eatington aforesaid as also one Dwelling house with a shop and outhouses with an orchard and Garden Hereunto belonging now in the possession or occupation of my son John Bevington. All these my several houses orchards Roses & Estate with all their appurtainces I give and Bequeath unto my son Jeffery Bevington in trust. Nevertheless and with full confidence that he my son Jeffery do pay or cause to be paid all my lawful debts and funeral Expenses and I do hereby authorise my son Jeffery and his heirs with full power either to sell Mortgage or Sell all or any part of my Estate herein before exprest for the payment and discharge of all my lawful Debts as aforesaid---- Item: I give and bequesth unto my Sons and Daughters after named to Wit JOHN BEVINGTON OF EATINGTON, MERCER, TIMOTHY BEVINGTON OF WORCESTER, GLOVER, SAMUEL BEVINGTON OF LONDON, TINMAN, SARAH BEVINGTON OF LONDON, ANN BEVINGTON OF EATINGTON, WIDOW (Ann is the second wife of John's son William who gave birth to Mary two years before the death of William) and my granddaughter Mary Bevington, Daughter of the said Ann Bevington, and unto each of them Respectively the sum of One Shilling of lawful Mony of England to be paid unto Each of them within one month after my Decease. Item I give and bequeath all my household Goods Malt Ca-- Debts & Credits of what nature or Kind soever with Whatsoever I may Die posessed off Either in Eatington aforesaid or any of the Countys adjacent in the like Confidence of trust for the Payment & Discharge of my Lawful Debts in Case my Real Estate above Mentioned Given to him for that End. Do not Prove sufficient to Discharge the same, unto my son Jeffery Bevington and I do hereby Constitute and Appoint my said son Jeffery Bevington Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament Revoking and Makeing utterly void all former Wills by me Made hereby Declaring this to be My last Will and Testament sealed with My Seal and signed by me this Ninth Day of the first Month Called January in the year 1755.

Signed and Sealed by the Testator before us
Who in his Presence & at his Request Do hear
Wittness to the signeing & Sealing hereof.

Edward Taylor John Bevington
Samuel Deen
Thomas Taylor 		John Bevington
 
137 The Last Will and Testament of William dated 7th October 1721 and proved 31st May 1722
I William Bevington of Upper Eatington in the County of Warwick, Yeoman, being of sound mind etc. I give unto my son John Bevington all that bay of building being now in my possession and being -- part of the messuage wherein my son John now inhabits situate in Eatington also that orchard belonging to the said messuage called the upper orchard and half of the garden belonging to the said messuage also all those several Rudges and Selions of land lying in the open and common fields lyber-- and precincts of Upper Eatington conteining by estimacon two yard land lying in part of --- said field called the Eighth Hyde and one land in the Sixth Hyde all now is the possession of the ---- John his undertenants or assignes and also all other lands tenements of me the said William Bevington in Upper Eatington. To have and to hold until my said son John Bevington and his heires -- ever, Provided that my son John shall pay the severall hereinafter mentioned.
I give unto my grand-daughter Mary Bevington, daughter of my son William Bevington (deceased) One Hundred and Fifty Pounds to be paid to her as soon as she attain 21 years
The following are notes taken from a small black notebook written by Arthur Bevington, who was the eldest son of Joseph Storrs Bevington 1834 - 1939.
The Father - WILLIAM BEVINGTON 1642 - 8th September 1721
"He was, whilst a boy, convinced of the principles of the Friends by the preaching of George Fox. While giving thanks before supper, at Lamcoat Farm House, near Ettington in the year 1661, which was called preaching at a conventicle, he was with 10 others arrested and taken to Warwick Jail. He must have been detained there for over 10 years, as his name appears in the pardon granted on the `13th September, 1672 for those in prison on religious grounds."

From THE BEVINGTON PAPERS
http://www.mycensuses.com/Quakers.htm 		William Bevington
 
138 EDWARD BEZER, (330), was doubtless a native of County Wilts, England, Wiltshire Friends records contain entries of his marriage, and births of four of their children. Edward Bezer, of Cannings, and Ann Fry,(*) of Blackland, were married 8 mo. 28, 1664. Their residence at the birth of their first two children is given as Bishops Cannings, and at the birth of the second two as Rowde, which is a few miles distant. They removed to Pennsylvania about 1683, and in 1686 settled in Bethel township, Chester county. In an early list of landowners of Chester county, Edward Bezer is set down as the owner of two 500 acres tracts. He was by trade a mason, and in religion a consistent member of the Society of Friends. In accordance with a late order that Friends should produce certificates, Edward Bezer (& Robert Pyle) "give this meeting satisfaction by a Sertificate & testimony of friends of their honest conversation from whence they came," at Concord Monthly Meeting, 10 mo. 12, 1687. Meetings were sometimes held at his house in Bethel. Edward Bezer
 
139 Ashbel Binford (1803-1860) was a son of Joshua and Lydia Binford. He was born in North Carolina in 1803 and came with his parents to Rush County, Indiana in 1826. He married Avis Edgerton in 1832 at Duck Creek Meeting House in Henry County. She was a daughter of Reuben and Patience Edgerton and was born in 1814. She died in 1834 and is buried at Walnut Ridge. He married second to Gulielma Symons in 1837 at Milford Meeting in Wayne County. She was born in 1805 and was a daughter of Abram and Mary Symons. He married third to Lavina (Harrell) Binford, a daughter of Charles and Rachel Harrell and the widow of Asa Binford, in 1859 at Westland Meeting in Hancock County. She was born in 1825. Ashbel Binford
 
140 Benajah Binford (1790-1858) was born in 1790 in North Carolina. He was a son of James and Hannah (Crew) Binford. He married Judith Binford, his first cousin and a daughter of John and Martha Binford, in 1811. For marrying his first cousin, he was disowned by Jack Swamp Monthly Meeting, but he was readmitted to membership the same year. In 1826 they removed from Rich Square Monthly Meeting to Duck Creek Monthly Meeting in Henry County, Indiana, though they actually settled in what is now Ripley Township, Rush County. They were early members of Walnut Ridge Friends Meeting. Benajah died in 1858, and Judith died in 1871. Both are buried in the Walnut Ridge Burying Ground. Benajah Binford
 
141 James Ladd Binford (1787-1862) was born in 1787 in Northampton County, North Carolina and was a son of James and Hannah (Crew) Binford. He married Mary at Wayne Oak Monthly Meeting in Virigina in 1812. After her death he married Jane Binford at Burleigh Monthly Meeting in Virginia in 1823. Jane was a daughter of Chappell and Martha Binford. They removed to Rush County, Indiana in 1826. They were members of Walnut Ridge Meeting. James died in 1862. Jane died in 1867. Both are buried in the Walnut Ridge Burying Ground. James Ladd Binford
 
142 John Binford (b. 1812) was a son of Benajah and Judith (Binford) Binford. He was born in 1812 in Northampton County, North Carolina. He came to Rush County, Indiana in 1826 with his parents. He married Mary Moon in 1839 at Walnut Ridge Meeting House. She was born in 1820 and was a daughter of Jeremiah and Rachel Moon. In 1851 they removed to East Grove Monthly Meeting in Iowa. John Binford
 
143 «b»John H. Binford biography
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In the memorial annals of Hancock county few names stand out with greater distinctness than that of the late John H. Binford, educator, lawyer, historian and financier, who for years occupied a position of prominence and influence in the social, cultural and commercial circles of this community. A native of this county, he spent the most of his life here and was ever devoted to the promotion of the best interests of the community to which he was so fondly attached. In 1882 Mr. Binford compiled and published a history of Hancock county, which still stands as an enduring monument to his memory-an invaluable contribution to local letters. Into that notable labor of love Mr. Binford poured the ripest fruits of his rich and varied experience and in thus preserving the results of his long and painstaking research into the musty records of the past performed a most notable service in behalf of the people of this county. Covering the period from the first settlement of Hancock county in 1818 to the year 1882, Mr. Binford's history was a complete, accurate and concise record of the chief events which had marked the progress of civilization hereabout from wilderness days and it stands today as an authoritative work along that line. It was a large undertaking successfully carried out and those books today are cherished and highly prized by all who are fortunate enough to have a copy of the same in their libraries.

John H. Binford was born on a pioneer farm in Blue River township, this county, April 13, 1844, son of Robert and Martha (Hill) Binford, the former a native of North Carolina and the latter of Indiana. Robert Binford was born in Northampton county, North Carolina, July 2, 1813, and was thirteen years old when he came with his parents to Indiana, the family settling in Blue River township, this county, and there he grew to manhood, doing well his part in the work of developing the pioneer home farm. He married Martha Hill, who lived over in the neighboring county of Rush, where she was born, daughter of John Hill, a pioneer citizen of that county, and where she lived until her marriage. After his marriage Robert Binford established his home on a farm in Blue River township, this county, and there he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring on February 2, 1884, he then being seventy-one years of age. His wife also was past seventy years of age at the time of her death.

Reared on the home farm in Blue River township, John H. Binford received his elementary education in the early district schools of that neighborhood, supplementing the same by a course of one year in Earlham College, at Richmond, which he entered in 1862, at the age of eighteen. He then began his long and useful career as a teacher, his first school being the Hopewell school, in his home township, receiving seventy-five dollars for the three-months' term. He continued teaching and attending school for a few years and then entered the National Normal School at Lebanon, Ohio, from which he presently was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science. His health becoming impaired about that time, Mr. Binford sought relief in the South and there was engaged as principal of the graded schools of Little Rick,, Arkansas. During his service there Mr. Binford did much toward the elevation of educational standards in that state and was chiefly instrumental in the organization of the first county teachers' association in that state and in founding the Arkansas State Teachers' Association. He also was twice elected delegate to the conventions of the National Education Association, the meetings of which on those occasions were held at Trenton, New Jersey, and Ithaca, New York. Upon his return to Indiana Mr. Binford was given charge of the schools at Newport and soon thereafter was appointed superintendent of schools for Hancock county. During that incumbency of two years he was appointed, in 1874, assistant attorney-general in and for Hancock county. It was during that time that he organized and conducted Hancock county's first normal school. In 1875 he was appointed deputy county treasurer for the townships of Blue River, Brandywine, Center and the city of Greenfield and in that same year was elected principal of the Greenfield public schools, a position he held for two years, during which time he instituted many valuable reforms in the local school system and gave an impetus to the work of the schools which is felt to this day.

In the meantime Mr. Binford's natural inclinations had long been turning him in the direction of the law and he had been sedulously reading law in his home. In 1877 he quit the school room and gave himself up to the pursuit of the law as a profession. Entering the law office of New & Barrett at Greenfield he made rapid advancement under that able preceptorship and was soon admitted to the bar. Not long thereafter he was appointed head of the law department of the Montgomery County Normal College and was there engaged in teaching law for one year, at the end of which time he returned to Greenfield and opened an office for the practice of his profession and thus continued in active practice the rest of his life. In addition to his legal practice Mr. Binford also became extensively engaged in the brokerage and banking business and was very successful in that line, becoming one of the wealthiest and most influential financiers in this county. For years Mr. Binford had been interested in historical research work along local lines and had been painstakingly compiling the data on which was based his notable "History of Hancock County," published in 1882. In many other ways Mr. Binford made his presence felt in good ways hereabout and there was a general feeling of real loss in the community when he died on April 20. 1912.

John H. Binford was twice married, his first marriage taking place in Wayne county, this state, on June 26, 1873, when he married Lucy Coggeshall, who was born in that county on May 2, 1852, and who died in September, 1889. To that union six children were born, namely; Gertrude, born on April 9, 1874, now deceased; Edgar A., November 26, 1875, deceased; Robert J., March 31, 1879, a lieutenant of infantry in the United States army; Paul F., December 31, 1880, a well-known lawyer of Greenfield; Frank L., May 11, 1886, of Indianapolis, and Florence, January 4, 1889, who married David C. McCutcheon and is living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

On March 25, 1891, John H. Binford married, secondly, at Fort Wayne, Indiana, Florence Clark, who was born in that city on December 29, 1854, daughter of John H. and Marian (Shippy) Clark. To John H. and Florence (Clark) Binford two children were born, John Clark and Morton C.

source: History of Hancock County, Indiana, Its People, Industries and Institutions by George J. Richman, B. L., Federal Publishing Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, 1916. Pages 1131-1133.

source: History of Hancock County, Indiana, Its People, Industries and Institutions by George J. Richman, B. L., Federal Publishing Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, 1916. Pages 872-873. 		John H. Binford
 
144 (Research):Micajah Binford, was born in Northampton County, North Carolina, March 14, 1783, He was the son of James and Hannah (Crew) Binford. In North Carolina he married Sarah Patterson in 1804. He attended the very common schools in North Carolina. The children of this union were: William, Micajah C., Rebecca, married Thomas Jessop; Anna, married Henry Winslow. His wife having died, he, in 1820, married it Miss Morris. The children of this marriage were: Sarah, married Joseph Young; Marion, married Joseph Butler; Martha, married Oliver Andrews; Margaret, married Joseph Butler: Miriam, married Jesse M. Pitts.
In 1826, in the spring, he left North Carolina with his family, tarried three months in Belmont County, Ohio, and the same year he arrived in Ripley Township, and moved onto the land he had just entered from the government. His family lived in a tent until he had his cabin ready for occupancy. He had a section of land to open and develop. He assisted in building the first meeting house at Walnut Ridge, and the first school house. He was a farmer and a respected citizen. March 25, 1865, he died after a very brief illness. He was a member of the Friends' Church, and a Republican. Micajah C. Binford, son of Micajah and Sarah (Patterson) Binford, was born July 14, 1812, in Northampton County, North Carolina.

At the age of fourteen he came with his father's family to Indiana, attended school at Walnut Ridge in Ripley Township, and passed his boyhood in assisting his father in opening up the farm. On the 22nd day of September, 1836, Micajah married Susannah Bundy, daughter of Josiah and Mary (Morris) Bundy. Her parents came from North Carolina and settled in Wayne County, Ind. Susannah was born there and removed with her parents to Ripley Township where her parents resided until they died The place is now owned by Sarah Jane Bundy and her children. Micajah and Susannah began housekeeping on the farm where both now reside, and have continuously for fifty-one years. The old cabin in which they first lived is still in existence. They are the parents of: Ruth, William P., Josiah, Levi and Micajah M. Mr. Binford is a farmer and has made a success of it. He has settled up numerous estates to the satisfaction of all concerned; was Clerk of the Friends' monthly meeting at Walnut Ridge for twenty-one years; is a member of the Society of Friends, and in politics is a third party Prohibitionist. Micajah M. Binford, son of Micajah and Susannah (Bundy) Binford, Was born December 18, 1851, in Ripley Township, Rush County, Indiana. In his youth he attended school at Walnut Ridge, and in 1867 he went to Earlham College, where he stayed one year. When twenty-two years of age he went to Mexico under the auspices of the Friends' Foreign Mission Association of Indiana. In March, 1873, he married Susannah Binford, daughter of Oliver and Mary (Foulke) Binford. In December of that. year Micajah went to Mexico accompanied by his wife. After remaining in Matamoras nearly two years, he returned to Indiana on account of his wife's health. The result of the marriage is one son. Edward Binford, born March 24, 1877. After returning to Indiana, Mr. Binford remained four years, and subsequently traveled in the Southwest in the interest of the American Bible Society. In 1882 he removed with his family to Lynn, Massachusetts, where he was pastor of a charge for five years. In May, 1887, he returned to Indiana, where he now resides. He is now a State Evangelist and belongs to the Society of Friends at Walnut Ridge 		Micajah Binford
 
145 Micajah Binford (1783-1865) was born in North Carolina in 1783. He was a son of James and Hannah (Crew) Binford. He married Sarah Patterson in 1804 at Jack Swamp Meeting House. After Sarah's death he married Miriam Morris in 1820 under the care of Symons Creek Monthly Meeting. She was born in 1792 in Pasquotank County and was a daughter of Nathan and Mary (Bell) Morris. In 1826 they removed to Rush County, Indiana, where they were members of Walnut Ridge Meeting. Miriam died in 1841. Micajah married Charlotte A. Butler after Miriam's death. She was born in 1792 and died in 1865. Micajah died in 1865. He and his last two wives are buried in Walnut Ridge Burying Ground. The children of Micajah and Sarah were William, Micajah C., Rebecca, and Anna. The children of Micajah and Miriam were Sarah, Kathy, Margaret, Martha, Miriam, and Mary. Micajah Binford
 
146 «b»Nathan C. Binford biography
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Nathan C. Binford, former president and since 1908 cashier of the Capital State Bank of Greenfield, is a native son of Hancock county, having been born on a farm in Blue River township, November 30, 1859, son of Robert and Martha (Hill) Binford, the former a native of North Carolina and the latter of Indiana, both of whom spent their last days in the neighboring county of Rush.

Robert Binford was about thirteen yeas old when he came to Indiana with his parents, the family settling in Blue River township, this county, being among the pioneers of that part of the county, and there he grew to manhood on the quarter-section claim entered by the father from the government. After his marriage to Martha Hill who was a member of one of the pioneer families of Rush county, Robert Binford engaged in farming on his own account in Blue River township and remained there until 1879, in which year he moved to Rush county, buying a farm in the Carthage neighborhood, where he spent the remainder of his life, being past seventy years of age at the time of his death. He was an extensive landowner and substantial citizen, an earnest Republican in his political views, ever devoted to the cause of good government. He and his wife were the parents of nine children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the eighth in order of birth.

Nathan C. Binford was reared on the paternal farm, receiving his elementary education in the district schools in the neighborhood of his home and supplemented the same by a course in Earlham College at Richmond, his parents having been devout Quakers and earnest supporters of that sterling old Quaker institution of learning. He then entered the Indianapolis Business College, from which he presently was graduated and was for some time thereafter employed in the office of his brother, John H Binford, banker, at Greenfield. Following his marriage in the fall of 1890, Mr. Binford moved to Carthage, this state, the home of his wife, where he built a home and engaged in the mercantile business and farming and was thus engaged for eight years, or until the time of the organization of the Capital State Bank at Greenfield, in 1898, in which year he returned to that city and was elected president of the bank, a position he held until 1908, when he became cashier of the bank and has ever since occupied that position, retaining his position as one of the directors of the bank. Mr. Binford is the owner of a valuable farm, to which he gave considerable attention while living at Carthage, and he still is actively interested in the operation of the same. He is an "independent" Republican and gives a good citizen's attention to political affairs, but has never been an aspirant for public office.

On October 16, 1890, Nathan C. Binford was united in marriage to Lucy H. Hill, of Carthage, Rush county, this state, and to this union one child has been born, a son, Donald, who was graduated from the high school at Westtown, Pennsylvania, and is now a student in Chicago University. Mr. and Mrs. Binford are earnest members of the Friends church and take a warm interest in all community good works, Mr. Binford long having been one of the office bearers in the church

source: History of Hancock County, Indiana, Its People, Industries and Institutions by George J. Richman, B. L., Federal Publishing Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, 1916. Pages 857-858.

source: History of Hancock County, Indiana, Its People, Industries and Institutions by George J. Richman, B. L., Federal Publishing Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, 1916. Pages 872-873. 		Nathan C. Binford
 
147 David Binns was born in Skipton, York County, England on January 18, 1780; migrated from there September 181 to the United States where he arrived October 1, 1818; on October 28, 1824 he was admitted to citizenship. David Binns
 
148 AARON BLACKLEDGE was born August 24, 1827, near Somerton, Belmont county, Ohio. He is a son of Robert H. and Es-ther Blackledge. His father was a native of Bucks county, Pa., and was born February 7, 1794. His mother was a native of Chester county, Pa., and born in 1798, and died in 1846, in her 48th year. Robert Blackledge emigrated with big parents to Greene county, Pa., at Rice's Landing, remained there until he was eight years of age, then with his father, William Blackledge, who was the grandfather of our subject, came and settled near Trenton, on the farm now owned by William Mitchner. This William Blackledge, was a native of Bucks county, Pa., and born September 8, 1772, and died in his 80th year; his wife was born August 2, 1769, and died October 21; 1855, in her 87th year. Aaron Blackledge, our subject, was married to Miss Lydia Dungan, October 9, 1850. They reared a fancily of three children. His wife died July 15, 1859. His father is now in his 86th year, resides with him, and has resided on this old homestead about forty-nine years. This farm was bought from the government by Benjamin Stanton, sold by Stanton to John Hollet, who improved it and sold it to Aaron Thompson and sold by Thompson to Robert Blackledge, the present owner, and father of Aaron. Aaron Blackledge
 
149 Benjamin BLACKLEDGE, a tanner in Lower Dublin Township, married Sarah PHILPOT in Philadelphia, PA. in Christs Church in 1726. In 1758 he was in Johnson Co, NC, and is joined almost immediately with his son, Richard, in a deed to Samuel Swift for the purpose of docking the entail, which they succeded in doing. He had two known children. His son Richard, Sr. was known to have been in Craven Co, NC. Richard, Sr.had 7 known children and it is believed his sons and grandsons fought in the Revolution Benjamin Blackledge
 
150 (Research):ELIZABETH BLACKLEDGE4 (William,' Thomas,'- Robert3), daughter of Robert and Joanna (Van Lude) Blackledge, was born in Phil­adelphia in 1765 or 1766, and married at Richland Monthly Meeting, 6 mo. 8, 1786, Eli Kennard, of Plumstead Township, Bucks County, Pa. He was a son of Anthony and Elizabeth Kennard, who were among the early settlers in Bedminster Township. The Kennards were probably of German ancestry, but Anthony Kennard applied for membership in Buckingham Monthly Meeting 5 mo. 2, 1757, and was accepted 8 mo. 1, 1757. His son Eli Kennard removed to Maryland in 1782 taking a certificate to Deer Creek Monthly Meeting dated 5 mo. 6, 1782. His brothers Joseph and Levi Kennard had removed to Deer Creek several years previously. Eli Kennard returned to Bucks County in 1786, bringing a certificate to Buckingham from Deer Creek dated 1 mo. 2, 1786, and two months later took a certificate to Richland to marry Elizabeth Blackledge. They lived until 1791 in Buckingham or Plum­stead. On 8 mo. 1, 1791, Eli Kennard and Elizabeth his wife and four children, William, Hannah, Thomas and Joseph were granted a certificate to Richland Monthly Meeting. Elizabeth Blackledge
 

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