Dear Rebecca Martin-Sccull: I have forwarded your request for information to a Friend who lives near London Grove and knows a fair amount about the Chandler family. I am hoping that she will reply more fully. In any case I believe the records of Nottingham Monthly Meeting are on microfilm - by the Hall of Records of the State of Maryland in Anapolis, MD... and that is probably the Meeting records you are seeking. A number of years ago all the Quaker records for Maryland were microfilmed and are listed by Monthly Meetings in a work compiled by Phoebe Hansen: "Quaker Records in Maryland." I am sorry that my copy is not available right now (I still haven't completely unpacked from a cross country move). I know that there is also a (reprint) of a work dealing with the Chandlers as clockmakers in the Archives at Stony Run Friends in Baltimore and by copy of this message to the Archivist will see what is available. With best wishes. Sincerely, Ronald Mattson at bachmatts@peoplepc.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rebecca Martin-Scull" <bscull1@comcast.net> To: <QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 7:35 PM Subject: [Q-R] Chandlers in Pennsylvania 1700s > Does anyone have any information about a family named Chandler in London Grove, PA in mid-1700's? The family seems to start with my 5greats grandfather William CHandler, probably married to Rebecca Allen Mode, then his son Joseph CHandler married to 1) Kizziah Varnum and later to 2) Eleanor (Ellen) Caples in London Grove, Chester, PA in 1788. Joseph and family lived in Baltimore, MD for a few years, then Joseph eventually took the family to Ohio and was one of the first white settlers in the Mohican area of Ohio in 1812. His obituary lists him as a Quaker. I've wondered if he could have been a member of London Grove Meeting? > > Thanks! Becky Martin-Scull > > > ==== QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LIST: Send an email to: > QUAKER-ROOTS-L-REQUEST@RootsWeb.com > The ONLY word in your message should be UNSUBSCRIBE. > >
I have a William Chandler, born 2m 20 1718 in Chichester, Chester Co PA, married 10m-27-1756 in East Caln MM, Chester Co PA to Rebecca (Allen) Mode, widow of Alexander Mode. William Chandler was a son of William Chandler and Ann Bowater. Rebecca Allen was a daughter of John Allen & Amy Cox. This information was sent to me many years ago by a former Quaker-Rooter, John Rinehart. I haven't looked at it in quite a while, it contains a lot of information on this line. Alice Allen *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 10/18/2004 at 8:35 PM bscull1@comcast.net wrote: >Does anyone have any information about a family named Chandler in London >Grove, PA in mid-1700's? The family seems to start with my 5greats >grandfather William CHandler, probably married to Rebecca Allen Mode, then >his son Joseph CHandler married to 1) Kizziah Varnum and later to 2) >Eleanor (Ellen) Caples in London Grove, Chester, PA in 1788. <snip>
There were many members of the Quaker faith named Austin who settled in Burlington Co. NJ in the late 1600's. Some of these may have migrated to PA as did other families in the Burlington area.I have several Austins in the family research records. >From: "Rick Austin" <rickles285@hotmail.com> >Reply-To: QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >To: QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [Q-R] Austin Quakers? >Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 11:56:25 -0500 > >Hello - I'm wondering whether any of my Pennsylvania Austin family >ancestors were Quakers. Can anyone help? > >Thanks > >Rick Austin >> >> >> >> >> >>==== QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== >> HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LIST: Send an email to: >> QUAKER-ROOTS-L-REQUEST@RootsWeb.com >> The ONLY word in your message should be UNSUBSCRIBE. >> > >_________________________________________________________________ >Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! >http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ > > >==== QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LIST: Send an email to: > QUAKER-ROOTS-L-REQUEST@RootsWeb.com > The ONLY word in your message should be UNSUBSCRIBE. > _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! hthttp://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/
Does anyone have any information about a family named Chandler in London Grove, PA in mid-1700's? The family seems to start with my 5greats grandfather William CHandler, probably married to Rebecca Allen Mode, then his son Joseph CHandler married to 1) Kizziah Varnum and later to 2) Eleanor (Ellen) Caples in London Grove, Chester, PA in 1788. Joseph and family lived in Baltimore, MD for a few years, then Joseph eventually took the family to Ohio and was one of the first white settlers in the Mohican area of Ohio in 1812. His obituary lists him as a Quaker. I've wondered if he could have been a member of London Grove Meeting? Thanks! Becky Martin-Scull
Hi, Does anyone have a record of a Philip Sager, a Quaker, father of John P.? Philip was born around 1785, farmed first in NJ, then in Delaware/Chester Counties in PA? I have no further information on him. Thanks, Holly Baker
Thanks for that info on Austins in Burlington NJ. My ancestor was born in PA in 1812 - he was named Russell Austin. Thanks for the lead! Rick >From: "Rae Gordner" <two_cypt@hotmail.com> >Reply-To: QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >To: QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: RE: [Q-R] Austin Quakers? >Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 23:25:40 +0000 > >There were many members of the Quaker faith named Austin who settled in >Burlington Co. NJ in the late 1600's. Some of these may have migrated to PA >as did other families in the Burlington area.I have several Austins in the >family research records. > >>From: "Rick Austin" <rickles285@hotmail.com> >>Reply-To: QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >>To: QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >>Subject: [Q-R] Austin Quakers? >>Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 11:56:25 -0500 >> >>Hello - I'm wondering whether any of my Pennsylvania Austin family >>ancestors were Quakers. Can anyone help? >> >>Thanks >> >>Rick Austin >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>==== QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== >>> HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LIST: Send an email to: >>> QUAKER-ROOTS-L-REQUEST@RootsWeb.com >>> The ONLY word in your message should be UNSUBSCRIBE. >>> >> >>_________________________________________________________________ >>Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! >>http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ >> >> >>==== QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== >> HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LIST: Send an email to: >> QUAKER-ROOTS-L-REQUEST@RootsWeb.com >> The ONLY word in your message should be UNSUBSCRIBE. >> > >_________________________________________________________________ >Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! >hthttp://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ > > >==== QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LIST: Send an email to: > QUAKER-ROOTS-L-REQUEST@RootsWeb.com > The ONLY word in your message should be UNSUBSCRIBE. > _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/direct/01/
I am also a descendant of Amos Trueblood. In Stephen Richardson's will dated 7 Feb 1722 he names as his wife Mary. He mentions John and Amos Trueblood as his "trew and trusty friends ...to be a guide..." to Mary and her children after his death. One might conclude that Mary was a Trueblood and if so, the dates correspond to Mary Trueblood dau. of Amos. This is still too theoretical. I would like more primary evidence that Mary, wife of Stephen Richardson, is indeed Mary Trueblood, dau. of Amos Trueblood. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Gordon Trueblood -----Original Message----- From: Jean Leeper [mailto:grannyroots@iowatelecom.net] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 2:53 PM To: QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [Q-R] Mary Trueblood Dear Holly, I am very much interested in Mary Trueblood and her descendants. It sounds like she is the sister to my Amos Trueblood the children of John and Agnes Trueblood. I had considered her line lost when the family was split up when the parents died. On Oct 18, 2004, at 11:26 AM, Laneholly@aol.com wrote: "Actually the Quakers in North Carolina date from earlier. Pasquotank Monthly Meeting (later Symons Creek) has recorded minutes from 1699 although meetings were held earlier. These Quakers came directly from England, like my ancesors in 1682. Mary Trueblood, who was a daughter of this immigrant couple & born in 1684 married a Stephen Richardson probably n Pasquotank County." Jean grannyroots@iowatelecom.net or jeansjots@yahoo.com "Watch What You Say or Do, You Might Sell Your Parrot To The Town Gossip and If You Don't Have A Parrot Someone Above May Be Watching You" Every Name Index: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jeanlee Register Reports: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jeanlee/ leepergenealogical.html Cemetery project: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jeanlee/ cemeteriesmarionhenry.htm ==== QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== Quaker-Roots Archives - Search List Messages From 1996 On http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl
In a message dated 10/16/04 2:10:22 AM US Mountain Standard Time, QUAKER-ROOTS-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: "Bess Gillett" <bessgillett@hotmail.com> Thank you for the lead on this search as I found a different spelling for my mothers family name of BURTON. I know there are variations of all colonial surnames due to one reason or another but the one listed here has not come to my attention before. I thank you very much for this lead where ever it might lead me. Beej--Fireflower in AZ. USA Outgoing mail from this location is verified virus-free: McAfee ViruScan 2004 (8.0), Data file: 4.0.4399, dated 10/14/2004
Dear Holly, I am very much interested in Mary Trueblood and her descendants. It sounds like she is the sister to my Amos Trueblood the children of John and Agnes Trueblood. I had considered her line lost when the family was split up when the parents died. On Oct 18, 2004, at 11:26 AM, Laneholly@aol.com wrote: "Actually the Quakers in North Carolina date from earlier. Pasquotank Monthly Meeting (later Symons Creek) has recorded minutes from 1699 although meetings were held earlier. These Quakers came directly from England, like my ancesors in 1682. Mary Trueblood, who was a daughter of this immigrant couple & born in 1684 married a Stephen Richardson probably n Pasquotank County." Jean grannyroots@iowatelecom.net or jeansjots@yahoo.com "Watch What You Say or Do, You Might Sell Your Parrot To The Town Gossip and If You Don't Have A Parrot Someone Above May Be Watching You" Every Name Index: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jeanlee Register Reports: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jeanlee/ leepergenealogical.html Cemetery project: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jeanlee/ cemeteriesmarionhenry.htm
My complete list is at home, I'll check tonight and let you know. Thanks Bonnie >>> dixiejay@wcc.net 10/18/2004 12:40:54 PM >>> Does your Samuel Mather have a daughter married to John Jay in PA. . Sarah Mather was one of the ggg grandmothers and they were Quaker connected.... Dixie Jay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bonnie Woodman" <woodmanb@gvsu.edu> To: <QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 10:26 AM Subject: [Q-R] Quaker immigration source needed? > Hi, > My ancestor, Samuel W. Mather, came to America, first to Maryland, then > to Pennsylvania, married Margaret Paschall in April 1735, died approx. > 1739, Union Co, Pennsylvania. > > What I'm looking for is a way to find where he came from in Wales > and/or England. It was rumored he originally came from Wales, then to > England, before coming to Maryland in America. > > Any suggestions???? > > Bonnie (Mather) Woodman > > > ==== QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LIST: Send an email to: > QUAKER-ROOTS-L-REQUEST@RootsWeb.com > The ONLY word in your message should be UNSUBSCRIBE. > ==== QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== Visit The Quaker Corner - http://www.rootsweb.com/~quakers
"By 1750 these Quaker colonist from the north were making contact with the Quakers from long-established Meetings in lower Virginia, and the tide of Quaker migration pressed southward into the Carolinas and Georgia. " Actually the Quakers in North Carolina date from earlier. Pasquotank Monthly Meeting (later Symons Creek) has recorded minutes from 1699 although meetings were held earlier. These Quakers came directly from England, like my ancesors in 1682. Mary Trueblood, who was a daughter of this immigrant couple & born in 1684 married a Stephen Richardson probably n Pasquotank County.
Hello - I'm wondering whether any of my Pennsylvania Austin family ancestors were Quakers. Can anyone help? Thanks Rick Austin > > > > > >==== QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LIST: Send an email to: > QUAKER-ROOTS-L-REQUEST@RootsWeb.com > The ONLY word in your message should be UNSUBSCRIBE. > _________________________________________________________________ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/
Does your Samuel Mather have a daughter married to John Jay in PA. . Sarah Mather was one of the ggg grandmothers and they were Quaker connected.... Dixie Jay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bonnie Woodman" <woodmanb@gvsu.edu> To: <QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 10:26 AM Subject: [Q-R] Quaker immigration source needed? > Hi, > My ancestor, Samuel W. Mather, came to America, first to Maryland, then > to Pennsylvania, married Margaret Paschall in April 1735, died approx. > 1739, Union Co, Pennsylvania. > > What I'm looking for is a way to find where he came from in Wales > and/or England. It was rumored he originally came from Wales, then to > England, before coming to Maryland in America. > > Any suggestions???? > > Bonnie (Mather) Woodman > > > ==== QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LIST: Send an email to: > QUAKER-ROOTS-L-REQUEST@RootsWeb.com > The ONLY word in your message should be UNSUBSCRIBE. >
Hi, My ancestor, Samuel W. Mather, came to America, first to Maryland, then to Pennsylvania, married Margaret Paschall in April 1735, died approx. 1739, Union Co, Pennsylvania. What I'm looking for is a way to find where he came from in Wales and/or England. It was rumored he originally came from Wales, then to England, before coming to Maryland in America. Any suggestions???? Bonnie (Mather) Woodman
This pertains to a query submitted by Barbara Samuels dated 10/16/2004. She seems to have about 8 families of Quaker ancestors who came to America in the mid 1600s. Were they probably Quakers before coming to America? Some of the names were THOMAS, RICHARDSON, BIGGS, and HUTCHINS. They came into Maryland and Virginia. The Quaker movement originated in the English Midlands and in the Lake Country of northwest England. The movement did not gain any significant momentum until 1652. By 1656 it had spread over most of the British Isles, although it was not widely accepted in Scotland or among the native Celtic population of Ireland. The first Quaker missionaries reached the American Colonies about 1656, and English settlers were convinced in New England, in the Chesapeake Bay area of Maryland, and in the Tidewater area of lower Virginia. Progress in lower Virginia was slow because of severe persecution and probably because of poor leadership, but several Meetings had been organized in the years following 1675.----- Under the leadership of William Penn and others, there was a large influx of Quaker settlers from the British Isles into southern New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania in the years from 1675 until 1720, and the children of the earlier settlers began moving farther inland. Beginning about 1725, Quakers from the Pennsylvania area began pushing down through western Maryland into northern Virginia. By 1750 these Quaker colonist from the north were making contact with the Quakers from long-established Meetings in lower Virginia, and the tide of Quaker migration pressed southward into the Carolinas and Georgia. I am a descendant of the Hutchins family of lower Virginia. This family has been carefully outlined in the work: _ Hutchins-Hutchens: Descendants of Strangeman Hutchins_, by Rita H. Townsend. Volume I was published in 1979, followed by a two volume Supplement in 1992. This work traces the family from Nicholas Hutchins who, as a young man, was living as a member of Henrico Monthly Meeting of Friends in Henrico County, Virginia in 1699. His first wife having apparently died after a brief marriage, Nicholas Hutchins married Mary Watkins by Friends ceremony on 8 mo. 9, 1701 (O.S,) in a Friends ceremony. Mary Watkins appears to have been a daughter of Henry Watkins, who had probably been associated with Friends since ca. 1675. --- Other ancestors of the Hutchins family appear to have been living in Virginia as non-Quakers, from as early as 1610 ---- later being drawn into the Quaker orbit I understand that members of the Richardson family had been living as Quakers on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland from a very early date. Third Haven (Tred Haven) Meeting is still in operation there, near Easton. The meeting-house built ca. 1684 is still standing. Perhaps this Meeting was first setttled ca. 1659. I may have noted members of the Biggs family living in northern Virginia in the mid 1700's. Thomas is a very common Quaker name. Some Thomas ancestors may have settled in Pennsylvania before moving South with the Quaker migration. ---- Herbert Standing, Earlham, Iowa.
I have about 8 Quaker families that came to American in the mid 1600's. Were they probably Quakers before coming to America? The some of the names were THOMAS, RICHARDSON, BIGGS and HUTCHINS. They came into Maryland and Virginia. Thanks for help. Barbara
Hi, the site where I found familiar Nfld. surnames was in Hampshire. Just try typing in Quaker marriages Hampshire and there is a list of surnames, these m. took place between 1663-1837, I don't know if any of the Hampshire Quakers actually came to Nfld., but you may find a reference to the name you are looking for, good luck, Bess >From: Gallokc@aol.com >Reply-To: QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >To: QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [Q-R] Newfoundland Quakers >Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:32:07 EDT > >Do you know of any VAUGHANs in Nfld Quakers ca 1780-1820? > >Thank you. > >Mary-Vaughan G > > >==== QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== >Quaker-Roots Archives - Search List Messages From 1996 On >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >
Do you know of any VAUGHANs in Nfld Quakers ca 1780-1820? Thank you. Mary-Vaughan G
Bess Gillet, I conclude not that Newfoundland Quakers "died out", but more likely that there were never any Quakers there except possibly fishermen serving on a British fishing boat. Quakers of that period did not just go along with the nearest available "hireling minister." Quakers would not have accepted Anglican or other Protestant "christenings" because they early on rejected the outward sacraments of baptism and communion. Around the time you mention the Anglicans in Virginia were still actively persecuting and prosecuting the Quakers for their refusal to allow the Anglican clergy to conduct marriages or baptisms. A major reason for the diligent Quaker record-keeping (instituted widely beginning in 1672) was the Anglican position that Quaker marriages were nullities and Quaker children were bastards because of marriage outside the Church of England. Tom Thomas C. Hill 425 Walnut Street, Suite 1800 Cincinnati, OH 45202 U.S.A. Phone: 513-357-9334 Fax: 513-381-0205 e-mail: tomhill@nuvox.com www.quakermeetings.com -----Original Message----- From: Bess Gillett Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 9:18 PM To: QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [Q-R] Newfoundland Quakers Hi Tom, sorry to take so long getting back, but as to the Nfld. Quakers, I still can't get a handle on them, they seem to have died out. There was a Rev. Balfour who, if you go to the Trinity Nfld. records, his marriages and births are listed under the Anglican Church. After doing some reading, I found out that the Rev. Balfour (Society for the Propagation of the Gospel) was working with the Anglican Church in Trinity as they, the SPG, did not have a church of their own. So far, I'm assuming that the Quaker religion died out in Nfld., and going with the surnames that I've been interested in, most seem to have joined the SPG or Methodist church. But, as you probably already know, there seems to be a new interest in the Quaker religion in Nfld. When I first started trying to trace my Nfld. roots, one thing I was told was that I should not focus on a specific religion, as in many of the outports, the people would have their children christened by whoever happened to come along, and had the authority to have the children christened. Which, as you can imagine, has made the search even more difficult, and the name changes from Gillit, Gillet, Gillot, etc. I don't know if this is of any help, I'm hoping to get my Gillett family figured out one of these days, but if you should happen to know of a Richard Gillitt (Gillett), or a Richard Waterman who may have originated in the USA and moved to Nfld. sometime around 1730 I really would appreciate hearing from you, sincerely, Bess >From: "Tom Hill" <tomhill@nuvox.net> >Reply-To: QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >To: QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: RE: [Q-R] Newfoundland Quakers >Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:04:35 -0400 > >Bess Gillett, > > I note that the Friends memberships you list were in England, and my >_Monthly Meetings in North America: A Quaker Index_ reflect no formal Friends meetings anywhere in what became Canada until the 1780s. I note the Dartmouth, Nova Scotia meeting preparative after 1784 under Nantucket [Mass] MM <http://www.quakermeetings.com/viewRecord_display?anID=TST1240L> (again the fishing connection) and I am aware of another group from New York City who moved to maritime Canada shortly after the American Revolution. The settlements in "Upper Canada" (Ontario) also followed the Revolution. > > If you have any details of a Friends meeting in Newfoundland I would appreciate your writing me directly off-list. > > Tom > >-----Original Message----- >From: Bess Gillett >Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 8:36 PM >To: QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [Q-R] Newfoundland Quakers > >Hello, I'm new to the list and I'm hoping someone may be able to help me. I've been researching my Newfoundland Gillett family and I happened on a site that mentions a Thomas Gillett who was on the 'Welcome'. In 1730 Trinity, Nfld., there is a Richard Waterman who is the Justice of the Peace for Trinity and also a Gillet who is the constable. Mr. Waterman owns a large Plantation (fishingroom) with 2 English, and 11 Irish servants (some may be fishermen) plus he has two boatkeepers. Trinity Gilletts married into families with Quaker connections, such as Bayley, Vallis, Randall, Martin and Skeffington. In the 1600s there are Quaker surnames from Hampshire that also show up Nfld. such as Pike, Curtis, Vallis, Bayley, Tuffin, Parsons, Ayles and Brown. Also, in 1827, the Waterman Plantation is now owned by Ayles, Brown and Gillet. Apparently some of the Watermans bought land in Holdenhurst, Hampshire (Dorset) and it is said that they made their money from the Nfld. Cod Industry. Richard Gillett (Gilit) is living in Trinity North in 1753 and also living there is Richard Waterman, Sr., and other families with possible Quaker connection. I'm assuming that Mr. Gillett was either an employee of Mr. Watermans or perhaps a partner in the Plantation. I would appreciate hearing from anyone who may know of any Quaker Watermans or Gilletts who came from the U.S.A. and eventually arrived in Nfld. circa 1690-1730s. > >Thank you for your time, >Bess, British Columbia, Canada
I have two or three Dennisons and Harrisons on my tree .. with Quaker connections .. (to Backhouse, Basset and Cookworthy) maybe to Yorkshire ... not at all sure if there could be a connection. I was particular interested however in your own name .. my own family from Folkestone, Kent in the C18th - principally Quaker - connected with the Goddens. You'll find most of what I have on Rootsweb: http://www.gencircles.com/users/chalkmark/3 Happy hunting Mark In a message dated 13/10/2004 23:59:40 Paris, Madrid, anngodden@anngodden.karoo.co.uk writes: I'm trying to find information on Thomas Harrison and his wife Elizabeth Denison, who were Quakers in York, England. The only date I have is the birth of their son, Peter, in 1716. He was the famous American architect. (Peter and his brother, Joseph) became sea captains and merchants in Newport, RI). I would love to trace more about Thomas and Elizabeth, and anything else about the family.