The following is the result of research I had done trying to piece together these relationships among first generation Quaker immigrants to Chester County, Pennsylvania. I posted this once before, but the recipients of this list changes, so.... ---- After John Dutton's death, his widow Mary married their neighbor John Neild (alternative spellings:Neeld, Nealde, and sometimes Neelde). In his Dutton genealogy Cope says (page 34) "Job and Mary Darlington of Darnhall in Cheshire, Eng., had sons of whom John and Abraham came to Pennsylvania as early as 1711 and several of the letters written to them by their parents are still preserved. In one bearing date March 28th, 1713, they say 'Good Abraham and John pray present both our dear loves to our brother John Neild, and his wife our dear sister, - their sons unknown to us - and all his family; hoping that he will take a fatherly care of you now in our stead now you are so far off us.' >From this the inference is strong that Mary Neild was a sister of Job Darlington." The copy of the Dutton chart from England lists as John Dutton's wife "Mary sis of Job Darlington of Darnhall yeo bur from Rocksavage 1758". And John Dutton is listed as "John Dutton of Overton emigr to Aston (Chester) Penn 1682, 1648-1693. Also on this chart, John's father John and grandfather Thomas are listed as "of Overton". In 1904 Gilbert Cope wrote a book with Henry G. Ashmead, "Historic Homes and Institutions and Generalogical and Personal Memoirs of Chester and Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania." That book has a section on the Darlington family of Pennsylvania. They state (page 29) "Job, bap. November, 1655, at Whitegate, married by license, December 6, 1680, Mary Neild, of Budworth Parva, at Witton Parish Church, Nantwich. She died December 18, 1728, and was buried at Over. In the records of this church it is entered that 'Job Darlington, of Darnhall, in ye Parish of Whitegate, yeoman, was interred Augt ye 11th 1731.' On page 30, in describing the emigrant to Pennsylvania, Abraham Darlington, they state "Tradition says that Abraham did not serve out his apprenticeship, but that he and his brother John came to Pennsylvania under some inducements from their mother's brother, John Neild, which were not realized after their arrival." So let's make sense of this. Job Darlington has a sister Mary who marries John Dutton. Job marries Mary Neild whose brother John goes to Pennsylvania and has land laid out right next to John Dutton. When John Dutton dies in 1693, Mary marries John Neild. At this point the two Darlington siblings (Job and Mary) are married to Neild siblings (Mary and John respectively). Thus the letter's statement "present both our dear loves to our brother John Neild, and his wife our dear sister" was literally true on both counts. Aston and Overton, Cheshire, England, are but 1-2 miles apart. Darnhall is not on my map of the area and may not exist any more but was probably right nearby. Little Budworth is about 10 miles south of Overton and Nantwich is 10 more beyond that.