Friday, September 4, 2015

Peters, Child #1 - 1793

1793, 2 October
Heard of the death of Doct. Dodd; Joseph Hewlings [ge 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.

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