Saturday, December 20, 2014

Gillingham, Polly - 1793

1793, 30 September
We hear of the death of Joseph Budd's wife [Ann].  Polly Gillingham died some days ago.  We hear of the following deaths, viz. Ben. Pittfield, next door but two to our house; Saml Fisher, Hatter in Market St, Jacob Hiltzheimer and a Daughter.  Heard this evening that one Trautwine, a Wigmaker, was murdered by his son; he lived somewhere in Second St.  P. T. Fentham [Philip Fentham], writer at ye Post Office, dead.

~ Genealogical Gleanings from the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker, 1759 to 1807, Page 607 in Pennsylvania Vital Records, Vol. I, by the Genealogical Publishing Company, Incorporated in 1983.

You can visit the memorial page for Polly Gillingham.

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