1793, 2 October
Heard of the death of Doct. Dodd; Joseph Hewlings [age 50 years] dead. Henry Darrock said to be dead. Parson Sprout's daughter, sometime ago; Henry Mayer's wife also dead. Looking over a list of persons buried in Friends burying ground, I met with several names that I had not before heard of, among them were the following: Jane Warner, from the Almshouse; Hannah Cadwalader, Morris Dickinson, shoemaker; F. Hoopes [Fanny Hoopes, age 17], Eliza Austin, widow Peters and 2 children, a daughter and apprentice of B. Olden, Jos. Hill, Enoch Taylor [aged 36 years] and daughter Abigail Taylor [aged 1 year and 8 months], Danl Trotter Jr. [aged 84 years], Ben. Holten, John Stall Jr., Charles Smithfield [Charles Williams Smithfield, aged about 38 years], Aaron Kimber, Edwd Reese [aged about 24 years], Eliza Volans, Nathaniel Barnes' wife, Anthony Sharp [-Sharpe, aged about 30 years], Geo. Cribs, Joshua Pearson [aged about 73 years] from Almshouse, Sarah Briton [-Britton, aged 40 years], widow Jackson [Ann, aged about 60 years], William Boice's wife [William Boyce], &c.
~ 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 Jane Warner.
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