Soren Justen

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IFI (7801201-54). Correct spelling: Justsen. FGS submitted by Lavina C. Fugal. Price and Associates located a probate record dated 27 Dec. 1792 whic h says he died 25 Dec . 1792 at the house of his son, Christian Sorens en Krag, in Osterbye. Listed was a son, Jus t Sorensen, deceased 4 Feb . 1787, age 46. The 1787 census record stated he was a widower.

Margaret

Thomas Minshall

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Sources: FGS submitted by Grace E. Sowby, 59 E. 17th Ave., Garfield, Utah. PROVING YOUR PEDIGREE by Archibald F. Bennett, p. 113. IGI (7028913-81). Also bap. 24 Feb 1940, end. 10 May 1940, SP 7 Mar. 1947 SL (b. in Che ster, Chester, Eng. There is a Thomas Minshall md. to Margaret Boote 22 Sep 1681 in Coppe nhall, Cheshire, Eng., SS 5 Oct 1984 JR (8410932-64). Death - Ancestral file. Born in the parish of Stoak, Lancashire. 929.273 C796d V. 1.

Margaret

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Or Martha. Her surname may have been Coppock.

Peter Lester

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Sources: Pa. B12 d p. 336-337, 49. Pa. R5 pt. 13, 18 A8#12 Early Families of Upper County, Pennsylvania. From Hinshaw's Quaker Records, Vol. 1, p. 1028: "Peter Lester, the fo under of the family of that name in Pa., and a pioneer of the Richland Settlem ent, came to Pa. about 1682 from Leicestershire, Eng., and located in Chester or Philadelphia Co. He was a member of the Society of Friends. He decl ared intentions of marriage at Chester MM with Mary Duncoff (Duncalf) th e 6th month, 6th day, 1685. He was probably accompanied by a brother or other rel atives to this country, as the will of George Lester, probated at Philadelphi a Dec. 4, 1695, mentions him as a kinsman and makes him executor, and the wil l of William Lester of the Manor of Rockland, Co. of New Castle, dated the 9th mon th, 24th day, 1691, gives him a legacy as 'cousin' Peter Lester and also a leg acy to 'kinsman' George Lester. In 1699 he purchased a tract of 316 acres i n the manor of Moreland, Philadelphia, now Montgomery Co., upon which he re sided until 1712, at which time he sold his farm there and removed with hi s family to the Great Swamp where he had purchased of Griffith Jones a tract of 6 00 acres of land by deed dated June 24, 1712. It was located on both sides o f the Philadelphia road north of the crossroads at Rich Hill, most of it be ing on the east side; the present road starting about an eighth of a mile nort h of the above mentioned crossroads dividing the tract. At that date there wa s no MM nearer than Abington in which he held membership, but Gwynnedd MM bei ng later organized, on the 8th month, 29th day, 1716, a certificate was grante d by Abington MM to Gwynnedd MM for Peter Lester, his wife Mary and thei r dau. Elizabeth, 'they having already removed to the Great Swamp.' He wa s soon joined by other Friends' families, including his sons-in-laws, John B all and Abraham Griffith, who settled on lands adjoining. About 1715 permiss ion was granted to the 'Friends in the Swamp' to hold meetings for worship a t the home of Peter Lester, where they continued to be held until 1723, when a s mall log meeting house was erected near his residence. After the death of hi s wife, Mary, Peter married a second time at Abington Friends Meeting in 1740 , Sarah Scott. He probably continued to reside at Richland until his death a bout 1742, but no records of deaths of the early Friends of that locatlity being preserved, we are unable to determine the exact time. He sold 200 ac res of his Richland land to his son-in-law, John Ball, in 1717, 200 acres to Jan e McVeigh in 1718, and the remaining 200 acres to his son, Peter, in 1721.

Mary Taylor

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Source: 929.273 C796d V. 1.

James Adamson Flax dresser|Flax dresser

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Sources: FGS submitted by Joseph W. Adamson, 137 4th Ave. North, Twi n Falls, Idaho, using Parish Register of Dundee, Forfar, Scotland. Tried corr esponding with him April 1990 and letter was returned. I can find no place cal led Benchley in Angus County, Scotland. J. Olsen Angus is the current name of Forfarshire. History of Allen Stuart Adamson by Esther Creer. Marriage: IGI (extracted). Also SS 21 Oct. 1891. Allen writes, "My father earned a living for the family partly by dre ssing flax and collecting goods. He also was, to some extent, a Publican, whic h is not the humbler sphere of life."

Ann Middleton

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Searched for her birth both in Arbroath and Dundee without success . J. Olsen. Marriage: IGI (extracted). Also SS 21 Oct 1891.

John Adamson

Jane Mike