-----Original Message----- From: Willow and Damien Aliento-Prokop [mailto:willowa@nor.com.au] Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 4:48 PM To: QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [Q-R] DeCou/Duncan/Bloom/Powell Hello all, I am the Australian-born descendant of Jacob DeCou, son of Isaac DeCou and Susanna Ashton, who were among William Penn's early settlers, and family researchers have told me the first Meeting of the new community was held in their home. Jacob's wife was Elizabeth POWELL (mothers name NEWBOLD?) and they were married in Northhampton NJ on 10-21-1699-- Their son Jacob DeCou b 19 Feb 1710/11 married Jane DUNCAN on 21 October 1699 at Abington Meeting, Montgomery County PA. Their son Jacob married Elizabeth BLOOM/E (b1736) Either this Jacob or his father broke with the Friends over the revolution, my brance of their descendants (whose name varied to Decew) went on to intermarry and ally with the families associated with the Iroquois Confederacy in the New York area and Mohawk Valley and became Canadian Loyalists and pioneers of the Niagara and Ontario areas. My maternal Grandfather's father's name was Harry DeCew McDiarmid. I am looking for any info on the wives, as all I have is what you've just read, also any extra detail or suggestions on where I can get some, about the early years of the DeCous in PA. I'm also keen for some good on-line material to read about the early years of the Quaker settlement if anyone can point me in the right direction. It would also be nice to know if I have any cousins on these lines out there. Interestingly enough, though we only discovered the Quaker heritage in our family tree a couple of years back, my mother, Step-father and I were involved with the Society of Friends during the 80s and early 90s in Canberra, and I would still say its something that comes through in how we live. Blessed be all our relations, Willow Mummulgum Australia ==== QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== Quaker-Roots Archives - Search List Messages From 1996 On http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl