The following is found in Family Tree Maker CD163 Family History: Pennsylvanai Genealogies #1 Page 502 & 503 Dr. Nicholas More (1638-1687) was chairman of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly in 1682. Secretary to the Council in 1683, member and Speaker of the Assembly in 1684, and chief Judge of the Provincial Court in the same year. The name Nicholas More of London, Gentleman, appears in "An Alphabetical List of the First Purchasers Names, With their Place of Abode," as part of An explanation of the May of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, PA 3Rd Series III. 337. He, as of the parish of St.Gregory by St. Paul, London, doctor of physic, bachelor about 32, and Mistress Mary Hedge of the parish of St.Catherine Voleman, London, spinster about 16, with consent of her father Samuel Hedge, were married 22 Dec.1670. (Register of St Dunstan in the East, London, Publications of the Harleian Society. (London 1955), 54 and Joseph Foster, ed, London Marriage License 1521-1869, (London 1887),938). This Dr. Nicholas More of London, as president of the Society of Free Traders in Pennsylvania, sailed from London in the Ship Jeoffries, probably with his family, on the 21 Sept 1682, bound for Philadelphia.("Extracts from the letter-book of James Claypoole,"PMHB<X (1886),199). Nicholas More died intestate in Philadelph! ia Co. and letters of administration were granted on his estate 23 May 1687 to his widow Mary More. (Administration Book A,28#86). This record demonstrates that Dr. More died in 1687 and not 1689, as stated in The Dictionary of American Biography. The baptisms of the children of Nicholas More and his wife Mary Hedge are not found of record in the first and third parish registers mentioned above; that of St.Catherine Coleman has not been examined here. There children are named however, in a Philadelphia deed of 12 June 1740 as: 1. Samuel More, who d. testate 6 Nov 1694 in Philadelphia; 2.Nicholas More, Jrl, who d. testate in 1729 in Penns Neck, Salem Col, N.J.: 3. Mary More, who m. Elias Keach;,4. Sarah More, who m. William Sluby who d. before 1740; 5. Rebecca More, who d. 2 Oct 1694 in Philadelphia under age and intestate (Deed Book G-6,148) Mary (Hedge) More of "Greenspring" Philadelphia Co., widow of Dr. Nicholas More, and John Holmes of Philadelphia gent, were m. 3 Jan 1687/8. (Pa. Archives, 2nd Ser VIII,vii). This was the second marriage for each. John Holmes with three servants, had arrived at Philadelphia in the Ship Desire from Plymouth, England on 23 June 1686. The said Mary (Hedge) More Holme d. intestate on 17 Nov 1694 and was bur. in Philadelphia as a person not a member of Friends. Letters of Administration on the estate of said Mary Holme "wife of John Holme of Philadelphia, Gentl, and formerly widow and administratrix of Nicholas More of said place, doctor of physic, were granted 15 Mar 1694/5 to said John Holme (Adm Book a, 209) This at least gives us the names of the children of Nicholas More, and identifies the Sarah More Sluby has his daughter. Also note how the female names carried down to the Walter More family. Ann Irwin