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lUSTOXV OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



each other in Marriage before several! Pub- 

 lick Meetings of the people commonly 

 called Quakers in said Rhoad Island, ac- 

 cording to the Good order used among 

 them whose proceedings therein after a de- 

 liberate consideration thereof with regard 

 unto the righteous law- of God and exam- 

 ple of his people recorded in the Scriptures 

 of Truth in that case were approved by the 

 said Meetings, they appearing clear of all 

 others and Having consent of parents and 

 others concerned. 



Now these are to certifie all whom it may 

 concern that for the full accomplishing of 

 their said Intentions this eleventh day of 

 the Seventh month called September in the 

 year according to the English, one thou- 

 sand seven hundred and sixteen they the 

 said Jeremiah Williams and Mary_ How- 

 land appearing in a publick assemWy -&f ^ 

 the People and others met together for that 

 purpose in their Publick Meeting place at 

 said Newport and in a solemn manner, he 

 the said Jeremiah Williams taking the said 

 Mary Howland by the hand did openly de- 

 clare as foUow-eth : 



Friends, in the fear of God and before 

 this assembly whom I desire to my wit- 

 nesses I take this my friend Mary Howland 

 to be my wife promising through the Lord's 

 assistance to be to her a faithful and lov- 

 ing husband till death separate us. And 

 then and there in the said assembly the 

 said Mary Howland did in like manner de- 

 clare as followeth; Friends, in the fear of 

 God and before this assembly whom I de- 

 clare to be my witnesses I take this my 

 friend Jeremiah Williams to be my hus- 

 band promising through the Lord's assist- 

 ance to be to him a faithful and loving 

 wife till death separate us. And the said 

 Jeremiah Williams and Mary Howland as 

 a further consideration thereof did then 

 and there to these presents set their hands. 

 And we whose names are hereunto sub- 

 scribed being present among others at the 

 Solemnizing of their said Marriage and sub- 

 scription in manner aforesaid as witnesses 

 hereunto have to these presents subscribed 

 our names the dav and year above written. 

 JEREMIAH WILLIAMS, 

 MARY WILLIAMS. ■ 

 Witnesses— Johannah Mott, Elizabeth 

 Whartenby, Jacob Mott, Mary Wing, Wil- 

 liam Barker, Hannah Brinley, Bethia Fol- 

 ger, Ann Kay, Clarke Rodman, Susanna 

 Freeborne, Ephraim Hicks, Katherine Hull, 

 Thos. Leach, Hannah Hull, Samuel Col- 

 lins, Thomas Rodman, John Headly, 

 Thomas Borden, Ruth Fry, Peter Easton, 

 John Stanton, Jimr., Dorcas Easton, Sam- 

 uel Bufifum, Johannah Leach, Thomas 

 Hicks, Susannah Hicks, John Hull, Junr., 

 Mary Caine, Deliverance Cornell, Abigail 

 Hicks, Elizabeth Borden, Rebecca Bennett. 

 Hope Borden, Ann Redwood, Alice Bor- 

 den, Sarah Redwood, Mary Borden. Mary 

 Stanton, Thomas Rodman, John Easton, 

 Walter Newberry. William Anthonv, Ann 

 Cranston, John Wanton. Justice, Elizabeth 

 Bordens, George Cornell, Leah Newberry, 



Joseph Borden, Ann Richardson, John Bor- 

 den, Martha Cornell, Thos. Richardson, 

 Patience Anthony, Patience Redwood, 

 Hannah Fry, Sarah Newberry, Sarah Bor- 

 den, Ann Newberry, Blcnham Stanton, A. 

 Redwood, Catherine Clarke, Ann Clarke, 

 Hannah Rodman, Katherine Shefifield. 



At the time of her marriage to Jeremiah, 

 Mary had one son, Joseph Howland, born 

 lo mo., 25, 1710 (O. S.) The children of 

 Jeremiah and Mary Williams were : Anne, 

 born 4 mo., 17, 1719, married, first, For- 

 tunatus Woods, second, Ebenezer Carter; 

 Walter, born 10 mo., 17, 1720, married out 

 of meeting, 1744; Benjamin, born 9 mo., 

 4, 1722 (referred to hereafter) ; Mary, born 

 9 mo. 26, 1724; Jeremiah, born 3 mo. 18, 

 1726; Lydia, born 12 mo., 6, 1729; and 

 Martha, date of birth unknown, married 

 Benjamin Hill, at Kingwood, 8 mo., 3, 1753 

 (N. S.). In the year 1743 or '44 Jeremiah 

 and his two sons, Walter and Benjamin, 

 and daughter Martha moved to Kingwood, 

 Hunterdon county. New Jersey. His 

 daughter Mary came in 1758. Jeremiah, 

 at the establishment of the Monthly Meet- 

 ing at Kingwood, was made with Joseph 

 King the first elder of that meeting. Some 

 years after this his health failing he, with 

 his wife and daughter Mary, moved to their 

 son Benjamin's, he having moved some 

 years before to Nockamixon township, 

 Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He remained 

 with his son until his death, 3 mo., 15, 

 1766 (N. S.), and was buried in the old 

 grave yard at Quakertown, New Jersey. 

 His will was written in Nockamixon, i mo., 

 23, 1760, proved 6 mo., 6, 1766. His wife 

 died in 1774. Her will is dated Nockamix- 

 on, Pennsylvania, 6 mo., 12, 1766, proved 3 

 mo., 20, 1774. 



Benjamin Williams, son of Jeremiah and 

 Mary (Newbury) Williams, was born 9 

 mo., 4, 1722 (O. S.). He married Mercy, 

 daughter of John and Margaret Stevenson, 

 of Kingwood, New Jersey, in 1744. Their 

 children were: John, born i mo., 29, 1745, 

 married Hannah Pursell; Mary, born 10 

 mo., II, 1747; Jeremiah, born 5 mo., 9, 

 1749 (referred to hereafter) ; Margaret, 

 born 4 mo., 4, 1751, married John IlitT; 

 Lydia, born 8 mo., 18, 1752 (N. S.), mar- 

 ried David Burson; Benjamin, born 10 mo., 

 30, 1756, married Dorothy Leiper; Anne, 

 born 7 mo., 15, 1758, married Jacob Ritter; 

 William, born 9 mo., 20, 1760, married 

 Rachel Leiper; Samuel, bom 7 mo., 20, 

 1762, married Sarah Watson: Sui^anna, 

 born 7 mo., 30, 1765, married a Mr. Stroud : 

 Benjamin and his family moved to Nock- 

 amixon township, Bucks county, Pennsyl- 

 vania, some time prior to 1760, and must 

 have lived there some considerable time be- 

 fore receiving a deed for the property. It 

 w-as finally deeded to him in 1769. There 

 were 515 acres and 31 perches, the boundar- 

 ies reaching from near the Narrows to the 

 village of L^pper Black's Eddy along the 

 river, and extending over the hill regions 

 for a considerable distance. This was the 

 land once owned and controlled bv the 



