Dear List, I found this on one of my PML lists. I hope it will help somebody. I would like to welcome all new members that have come to our list. Please introduce yourself, and let us know who you are looking for and we will try and help you. Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: <dtourison@vcn.com> To: <LHODGE@NYCAP.RR.COM> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 11:46 AM Subject: PML Search Result matching "Blackledge" > ===================================================================== > A result of your requested PML search. To refine or cancel this > search, please visit http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > ===================================================================== > Source: ORIGINAL-13-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ORIGINAL-13] Early Families - Bucks - BLACKLEDGE > > > The following is a retype from EARLY FRIENDS FAMILIES OF UPPER BUCKS, with Some > Accounts of Their Descendants, by Clarence V. [Vernon] Roberts, assisted by > Warren S. Ely, Originally published Philadelphia, 1925, Reprinted Genealogical > Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore MD 1975. Comments in ( ) are note > inclusions from the publisher/writer; Comments in [ ] are personal from > personal observation, or other sources: > > Page 67 > IX > Blackledge Family > > 1. WILLIAM BLACKLEDGE, the founder of the family bearing his name in > Pennsylvania, came from England about 1682, and some time later settled in > Southampton Township, Bucks County, where he purchased a tract of 270 acres on > the west bank of the Neshaminy. He died intestate about 1718. > He married a daughter of Benjamin Duffield, and some time prior to his > death seems to have transferred his real estate to his father-in-law, who in > turn conveyed the same entail to his grandson, Benjamin Blackledge, the eldest > son of William, and to his male heirs in succession. This Benjamin Blackledge, > who was a tanner in Lower Dublin Township, removed to Johnson County, North > Carolina, in 1758, and almost immediately on his arrival joined with his son > Richard Blackledge of Craven County, North Carolina, in a deed to Samuel Swift, > for the purposed of docking the entail, which they succeeded in doing, and > Richard Blackledge made a conveyance of the property in fee. > William Blackledge had, besides Benjamin, several other children, among > them Thomas Blackledge, who later settled in Milford Township, Bucks County; > Robert Blackledge, who married Elizabeth Howard, at Christ Church, > Philadelphia, June 19, 1732, and John Blackledge, who married Bridget Grimes in > 1736. Benjamin, above named, married Sarah Philpot, at Christ Church, December > 26, 1726. > > 2. THOMAS BLACKLEDGE, the first of the family to settle in the Great > Swamp, > was a son of William Blackledge, and was born in Bucks County in 1707. He was > married by New Jersey license dated April 15, 1730, to Elizabeth Randall, both > being residents of Bucks County. About this date he removed to Lower Milford > Township, Bucks County, and took up land under warrant of survey which was > later patented to him. He also purchased adjoining land from Thomas Banks in > 1750. On one of these tracts he erected and operated a tannery. > The family were not originally members of the Society of Friends, but > some time after the removal of Thomas Blackledge to the Great Swamp, he and his > family united with the Richland Monthly Meeting, of which continued to be > members during their residence in that section. He died in Milford Township 12 > mo. 7, 1790, at the age of 83 years. > Children of Thomas and Elizabeth (Randall) Blackledge: > 3 William, b. 1-16–1731; d. 12-8--1761; m. Ann Lewis > 4 Robert, b. abt 1735; m. Joanna Van Lude > 5 Elizabeth, b. abt 1737; m. George Hoge > 6 Thomas, m. Margaret Wright > 7 Mary, m. 9-16–1765, John Clymer > > [Page 68] > > 3. WILLIAM BLACKLEDGE (William1, Thomas2), eldest son of Thomas and > Elizabeth (Randall) Blackledge, was born 1 mo. 16, 1730-31. He was a life-long > resident of Milford Township, Bucks County, dying there 12 mo. 8, 1761. He > married at Richland Monthly Meeting, 6 mo. 15, 1757, Ann Lewis, daughter of > Lewis and Ann Lewis, who were among the first settlers in Richland Manor. She > was born 8 mo. 11, 1738, and survived her husband many years, being mentioned > as a legatee in the will of her fathe-in-law, Thomas Blackledge, in 1790. (See > No. 12, Chapter XXIX.). > Children of William and Ann (Lewis) Blackledge: > 8 Elizabeth, b. 6-11–1758; m. Isaac Burson (See No. 16, Chapter X) > 9 Rachel, b. 4-13–1760; m. Enoch Roberts (See No. 17, Chapter XL.) > > 4. ROBERT BLACKLEDGE (William1, Thomas2), son of Thomas and Elizabeth > (Randall) Blackledge, was born in Milford Township, Bucks County, about 1735. > He learned the shoemaker trade, which he seems to have followed during the > active years of his life. In 1764 he was granted a certificate by Richland > Monthly Meeting to remove to Philadelphia, where he married Joanna Van Lude, > and on 2 mo. 18, 1768, returned to Richland with his wife Joanna and two > children, Elizabeth and Thomas. He resided for many years on a part of the > Banks’ tract set apart to him by his father, which by the latter’s will in 1790 > was devised to Robert, Jr., but Robert the father was given the privilege of > residing thereon with the rents and profits thereon during life. He, however, > removed with his son Robert to Buckingham, and joined with the latter in 1793 > in a conveyance, to Joseph Lester, of the farm in Richland devised to them by > the will of Thomas Blackledge. He and his son Robert purchased a farm in > Buckingham in 1791, which they conveyed in 1802, at which time Robert, Sr., was > a shopkeeper and is said to have been a proprietor of a store at what is now > the village of Lahaska. The date of his death is unknown to the writer. > Children of Robert and Joanna (Van Lude) Blackledge: > 10 Elizabeth, b. about 1765; m. 6-8--1786, Eli Kennard > 11 Thomas, b. –1767 > 12 Robert, Jr., b. abt 1768; m. Ruth Edwards > > 5. ELIZABETH BLACKLEDGE (William1, Thomas2), eldest daughter of Thomas and > Elizabeth (Randall) Blackledge, born in Milford Township, Bucks County, Pa., > about 1737, married at Richland [Page 69] Meeting, 12 mo. 9, 1756, George Hoge, > born in Virginia 2 mo. 6, 1733. He was a son of William and Ann Hoge who > brought a certificate from Opequan Monthly Meeting, in the Shenandoah Valley, > to Richland Monthly Meeting dated 4 mo. 16, 1748, which stated that they were > married 2 mo. 9, 1723, and included their minor children. The dates of birth > of their seven children are entered upon the birth records of Richland Monthly > Meeting and are as follows: > Children of William and Ann Hoge: > James, b. 12-6--1724-5; Probably remained in Virginia > William, b. 1-4--1726; Removed with family to Virginia in 1759 > Solomon, b. 3-21–1729; Removed with family to Virginia in 1782 > George, b. 2-6--1733; m. Elizabeth Blackledge > Joseph, b. 12-1--1735-36; Removed to Virginia in 1758 > Zebulon, b. 4-15–1738; No record in Richland > Ann, b. 12-26–1740-41; m. Everard Roberts > > William and Ann Hoge settled on a plantation of one hundred acres in > Richland Manor, purchased of William Allen by deed dated February 16, 1748-49. > William and Ann Hoge conveyed this plantation to their second son William on > November 7, 1757. William Hoge, Jr., and Esther his wife, executed a mortgage > thereon on the day following, which was satisfied in 1760. > All the male members of the family except Solomon returned to Virginia > at about the latter date. Joseph took a certificate to Virginia from Richland > Meeting 11 mo. 16, 1758, and William was granted a like certificate 5 mo. 17, > 1759. James Hoge, the eldest son, probably remained in Virginia, being of age > when his parents came to Bucks County. Solomon Hoge married out of unity and > made an acknowledgment of his error in 1774 and continued to reside in Richland > until 1782, when he also took a certificate to Virginia, which included his > wife Esther and minor children. Ann, the wife of William Hoge, Sr., died in > Richland 3 mo. 21, 1759, and her husband removed with his sons to Virginia. > George and Elizabeth (Blackledge) Hoge probably removed to Virginia > also. The only record we have of them is the mention of Elizabeth and her son > Thomas Hoge as legatees in the will of Thomas Blackledge in 1790. > Ezekiel Hoge, who remained in Richland, was probably the eldest child > of Solomon and Esther and was of age when his parents removed to Virginia in > 1782. > > 6. THOMAS BLACKLEDGE (William1, Thomas2), son of Thomas and Elizabeth > (Randall) Blackledge, was born in Milford Township, and resided there until > 1781. He was a tanner and probably associated for some years with his father > in the operation of a tannery [Page 70] established by the latter on his first > settlement in Milford. He married at Richland Meeting, 5 mo. 11, 1758, > Margaret Wright, and in 1781 removed with his wife and minor children to South > Fork, now Greene County, Penna., his married daughter, Elizabeth Burson, and > family, accompanying him. He purchased a large tract of land on the south fork > of the Monongahela River, 200 acres of which he conveyed to James Burson, upon > which Edward and Elizabeth (Blackledge) Burson settled. (See No. 17, Burson > Family, Chapter X.) > We have no complete record of his children. Although they were members > of Richland Monthly Meeting, the records of their births do not appear on the > records of that meeting. His daughter Mary married at Richland, 4 mo. 25, > 1779, Jeremiah Williams, of Nockamixon Township, Bucks County, but a member of > Kingwood Monthly Meeting, N.J., where she took a certificate from Richland > Meeting 5 mo. 18, 1780. He was a son of Benjamin and Mary (Stevenson) > Williams, and was born in Nockamixon, Pa., or Kingwood, New Jersey, 5 mo. 9, > 1749. > The Williams family was a prominent one of Upper Bucks. The first > American ancestor was Joseph Williams of Massachusetts, who by Lydia his wife > had ten children, the birth record of whom appears on the New England records > between 1670 and 1689. Jeremiah, the seventh of these children, born 6 mo. 22, > 1683, joined the Society of Friends in Rhode Island and came to Philadelphia > with a certificate from a Monthly Meeting in Rhode Island, in 1706, and two > years later took a certificate from Philadelphia to Flushing Monthly Meeting, > Long Island, where he married Philadelphia Masters, daughter of George and Mary > (Willis) Masters, of New York, but formerly of Philadelphia. Philadelphia > Masters was born in Philadelphia in 1684, and it is claimed was the first white > child born in the city, hence her name. Jeremiah Williams had a mill property > at Hemstead, L. I., which he operated for a number of years. In 1743 he > removed with his two sons, Walter and Benjamin, and daughters, Martha and Mary, > to Kingwood Township, Hunterdon County, N. J. He was one of the founders of > the Friends’ Monthly Meeting at Kingwood and one of its first elders. He died > at the residence of his son Benjamin in Nockamixon Township, Bucks County, 3 > mo. 15, 1766. The family continued their membership for several generations in > Kingwood Monthly Meeting at Quakertown, N. J., where Jeremiah Williams and a > number of his descendants are buried. His wife Philadelphia died 3 mo. 16, > 1715, and he married second, Mary (Newbury) Howland, of Newport, R. I., a > daughter of Walter and Anne (Collins) Newbury, and widow of Jebediah Howland, > who was the mother of his son Benjamin. > Benjamin Williams, the son of Jeremiah and Mary (Newbury) Williams, > born at Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., 9 mo. 4, 1722, located in Nockamixon > Township about 1750, and became a very large landholder and prominent man of > that vicinity, owning practically 1000 acres of land along the Delaware River > in Nockamixon and Tinicum and eventually a large tract of land in Buckingham > Valley, which descended to his sons Samuel and William. At that time the > Indians were still quite numerous in Nockamixon and Tinicum Townships. Many > traditions have come down of the friendly feeling existing between them and the > Williams family. Benjamin died in Nockamixon, 5 mo., 1809. He married, in > 1744, Mercy Stevenson, daughter of John and Margaret Stevenson, of Kingwood, N. > J., and a family prominent in the early history of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. > Children of Benjamin and Mercy (Stevenson) Williams: > John, b. 1-29–1745; m. Hannah Powell > Mary, b. 10-11–1747; unm. > Jeremiah, b. 5-9--1749; d. –1834; m. Mary Blackledge > Margaret, b. 4-4--1751; m. John Iliff [wondering if he connected > ILIFF’s of Denver CO] > Lydia, b. 8-18–1752; d. 2-2--1836; m. David Burson (See No. 14, Chapter > X.) > Benjamin, b. 10-30–1756; m. Dorothy Leiper > Anne, b. 7-15–1758; m. Jacob Ritter > William, b. 9-20–1760; m. Rachel Leiper > Samuel, b. 7-20–1762; m. Sarah Watson > Susanna, b. 7-30–1765; m. ----Stroud > Jeremiah Williams, who married Mary Blackledge, inherited from > his father 500 acres of land in Tinicum Township, Bucks County, and lived there > from 1779 until his death, in 1834. > Children of Jeremiah and Mary (Blackledge) Williams: > John, b. 1-27–1780; d. 6-6--1858; m. Christiana Kimbal > Thomas Blackledge, b. 4-11–1781; m. Rebecca Arndt > Benjamin, b. 12-18–1782; m. first Mary (Meredith) Burson, widow of John > W. Burson, of Springfield, and daughter of Simon and Hannah Meredity, of > Warwick Township, Bucks County; second, Rachel, daughter of Benjamin and > Dorothy (Leiper) Williams, his first cousin. > Susan, b. 6-10–1785; unm. > William, b. 6-12-1789; m. Hannah Whiting > Samuel, b. 6-18–1792; d. –1812 > Isaac Burson, b. 4-23–1794; m. Martha Shelton White > Margaret, b. 4-28–1796; m. Abel Lester of Richland (See No. 38, Chapter > XXVII) > Jeremiah, b. 12-28–1798; m. Margaret Lake > [Page 72] > Of the above named children, John and Thomas purchased their > father’s lands in Tinicum and continued to reside thereon during life. They > and their descendants, as well as their cousins, the descendants of other sons > of Benjamin Williams, were prominently identified with the affairs of Bucks > County. > Benjamin, Isaac B., Jeremiah, and their sisters Susan Williams and > Margaret Lester, removed to Ohio with their families about 1840. > > 7. MARY BLACKLEDGE (William1, Thomas2), youngest daughter of Thomas and > Elizabeth (Randall) Blackledge, married John Clymer, a farmer of Lower Milford, > but died soon after her marriage, probably without issue, as John Clymer is > given a nominal legacy as “son-in-law” in the will of Thomas Blackledge. John > Clymer died in Milford in 1805, leaving a widow Elizabeth, a son Jacob, and a > daughter who married John Funk. > > 10. ELIZABETH BLACKLEDGE (William1, Thomas2, Robert3), daughter of Robert > and Joanna (Van Lude) Blackledge, was born in Philadelphia in 1765 or 1766, and > married at Richland Monthly Meeting, 6 mo. 8, 1786, Eli Kennard, of Plumstead > Township, Bucks County, Pa. He was a son of Anthony and Elizabeth Kennard, who > were among the early settlers of Bedminster Township. The Kennards were > probably of German Ancestry, but Anthony Kennard applied for membership in > Buckingham Monthly Meeting 5 mo. 2, 1757, and was accepted 8 mo. 1, 1757. His > son Eli Kennard removed to Maryland in 1782 taking a certificate to Deer Creek > Monthly Meeting dated 5 mo. 6, 1782. His brothers Joseph and Levi Kennard had > removed to Deer Creek several years previously. Eli Kennard returned to Bucks > County in 1786 bringing a certificate to Buckingham from Deer Creek dated 1 mo. > 2, 1786, and two months later took a certificate to Richland to marry Elizabeth > Blackledge. They lived until 1791 in Buckingham or Plumstead. On 8 mo. 1, > 1791, Eli Kennard and Elizabeth his wife and four children, William, Hannah, > Thomas and Joseph were granted a certificate to Richland Monthly Meeting. > > 11. THOMAS BLACKLEDGE (William1, Thomas2, Robert3), eldest son of Robert > and Joanna (Van Lude) Blackledge, born in Philadelphia in 1767, was brought by > his parents to the old Blackledge homestead in Milford when an infant and was > reared there. > He learned the trade of a shoemaker and seems to have followed that > vocation during the active years of his life in connection with farming. By > the will of his grandfather, William Blackledge, in 1790, he was devised the > farm of 96 acres 44 perches on which the testator then lived with all the > stock, crops, and farming utensils thereon, and also 40 acres of the other > plantation, on which his father was living. [Page 73] > He sold these tracts, however, with his wife Sarah joining in the deed > therefor, dated April 1, 1795, and we know nothing of his subsequent history. > He probably followed his cousins to southwestern Pennsylvania. > > 12. ROBERT BLACKLEDGE (William1, Thomas2, Robert3), youngest son of Robert > and > Joanna (Van Lude) Blackledge, born in Milford Township, Bucks County, Pa., > about 1768, married at Buckingham Monthly Meeting, 3 mo., 1787, Ruth Edwards, > daughter of John and Elizabeth (Saunders) Edwards, of Springfield Township. He > continued to reside in Milford until 1793 and followed the vocation of a > shoemaker. By the will of his grandfather in 1790, he was devised the farm of > 62 acres on which his father was living, subject to the life estate of his > father, but in 1793 his father joined with him in the conveyance of the farm to > Joseph Lester, and they removed to Buckingham, where they purchased jointly a > farm near Lahaska. They sold the farm in 1802. Robert Blackledge, Jr., > followed school teaching after his removal to Buckingham. His five children > were all born in Milford and were included in his certificate to Buckingham > Meeting in 1792. > Children of Robert and Ruth (Edwards) Blackledge: > Robert > William > Mary > David > Margaret > > [END] > > David Wallace Tourison > Sheridan, Wyoming > > >