1726 On day 26 of month 12, Rachel Rickey, child of Alexander and Ann Rickey, was born, according to records of the Quaker Falls monthly meeting in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5].
1746 Sims Betts was taxed as a single man in Bristol Borough, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [6]
1746 On 7 of month 8 (October), Hannah Rickey, Katharine Rickey, Rachel Rickey, Alex Rickey, Hannah Rickey Jr, and John Rickey witnessed the marriage of John Millnor, late of Burlington and Hannah Harvey, daughter of Thomas of Makefield. [7]
1757 Ann Rickey Jr, daughter of Alexander Rickey, married Mahlon Kirkbride, son of Mahlon Kirkbride, both of Lower Makefield Twp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on day 30 of month 11, at the Falls Meeting. Witnessed by Alexander and Ann Rickey, Mahlon and Ann Kirkbride, Tho and Hannah Rickey, John and Mary Rickey, James Rickey, Alex Jr Rickey, Rachel Rickey, Keirll Rickey, Randle (not Catherine) Hutchinson, and many others. [8] [9]
1758 Daughter Rachel Rickey was named in the will of Alexander Rickey, of Lower Makefield Twp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, dated 1 October 1758. [10]
1758 On June 13, Rachel Rickey was a witness at the wedding of Thomas Yeardley and Elizabeth Poole, at Middletown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [11]
1761 On 6 of 5th month, Simes Betts, of Bristoll, requested to join Falls MM society. [12]
1762 On 6 day of 10th month, at Falls MM, Simes Betts recrq [13]
1763 Hannah Rickey, daughter of [brother] Thomas Rickey of Bucks County, married Samuel White, son of Joseph White, at Falls meeting on 12 day, month 1. Witnessed by Simes Betts and many others. [14]
1764 The will of uncle John Keirl [brother of mother Ann Keirl Rickey] of Bristol Twp, Bucks County, named Thomas Rickey, John Rickey, Alexander Rickey, James Rickey, Keirl Rickey, Rachel and Mary Rickey, Catharine Hutchinson, and Ann Kirkbride as children of Alexander and Ann Rickey and as kinsmen. [15] [16]
1764 Sims Betts was taxed as a single man in Lower Makefield Twp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [17]
1766 Keirl Rickey, son of Alexander Rickey deceased, married Sarah Milnor, on April 9, at the Falls Monthly Meeting, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Witnessed by Rachel Rickey and many others. [18] [19]
1768 On 16 of month 11, at Falls meeting, Simes Betts married Rachel Rickey, daughter of Alexander Rickey, late of Lower Makefield. [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26]
1770 Keirll Rickey and Mahlon Kirkbride, both of Falls Twp, acting as executors for the estate of John Keirll, deceased, sold a lot of land to Simms Betts, of Bristol Twp, on September 29. The lot was in Bristol Boro at the intersection of Cedar and Mulberry Streets. John Keirll had purchased the land from Edward Southwood on May 5, 1736. [27]
1775 Sims Betts was taxed in Bristol Borough for house and lot, 2 cattle. [28]
1778 Sims Betts was taxed in Bristol Borough. [29]
1778 Sims Betts witnessed the will of John Bessonett of Burrough of Bristol. [30]
1786 Simes Betts was disowned for disunity by the Quakers at Bucks MM on 6 of month 9 [31]. "Bristol reports [to Falls MM] that there is a report spreading concerning Simes Betts of a reproachful nature which he doth not endeavor to cler himself of." [32]
1788 Rachel Betts, wife of Simms Betts, was listed, on 10 of 7th month, among members of Bristol Prerogative Meeting, now to be joined to Middleton monthly meeting. [33]
[1] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Bucks County Pennsylvania, Marriages and Births, Book B, 208, [AncestryImage].
[2] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, A Record of the Births and Burial Belonging to the Falls Meeting in Pennsylvania Bucks County, 37, [AncestryImage].
[3] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 968, [HathiTrust].
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[5] William W. H. Davis, with Warren S. Ely and John W. Jordan, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 2nd ed., Vol. III (1905), 727, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
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[7] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Bucks County Pennsylvania, Marriages and Births, Book B, 87, [AncestryImage].
[8] Quaker Meeting Records, Falls Monthly Meeting Bucks County, PA, Marriages, Births, Deaths 1693-1788, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[9] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Bucks County Pennsylvania, Marriages and Births, Book B, 92, [AncestryImage].
[10] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Bucks, Will 2-347, [FamilySearchImage].
[11] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, next page, center column, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[12] Anna Miller Watring and F. Edward Wright, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Church Records of the 17th & 18th Centuries, V2, Quaker Records: Falls and Middletown Monthly Meetings (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2003, ISBN 1-58549-270-1), 95.
[13] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 978, [HathiTrust].
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[15] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Bucks, Will 3-194, [FamilySearchImage].
[16] F. Edward Wright, Abstracts of Bucks County, Pennsylvania Wills, 1685-1785 (1995), 83.
[17] Terry A McNealy and Frances Wise Waite, Bucks County Tax Records 1693-1778 (1983), 42, [GoogleBooks].
[18] Quaker Meeting Records, Falls Monthly Meeting Bucks County, PA, Marriages, Births, Deaths 1693-1788, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[19] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Bucks County Pennsylvania, Marriages and Births, Book B, 103, [AncestryImage].
[20] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Bucks County Pennsylvania, Marriages and Births, Book B, 107, [AncestryImage].
[21] Quaker Meeting Records, Falls Monthly Meeting Bucks County, PA, Minutes, 1731-1767, 43, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[22] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 978, [HathiTrust].
[23] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 1023, [HathiTrust].
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[26] William W. H. Davis, with Warren S. Ely and John W. Jordan, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 2nd ed., Vol. III (1905), 727, left column, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[27] Recorder of Deeds, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1684-1866, 43-211, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
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[29] Terry A McNealy and Frances Wise Waite, Bucks County Tax Records 1693-1778 (1983), 98, [GoogleBooks].
[30] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Bucks, Will 4-30, abstract 781, FHL film 172929, [FamilySearchImage].
[31] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 978, [HathiTrust].
[32] Anna Miller Watring and F. Edward Wright, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Church Records of the 17th & 18th Centuries, V2, Quaker Records: Falls and Middletown Monthly Meetings (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2003, ISBN 1-58549-270-1), 127.
[33] Anna Miller Watring and F. Edward Wright, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Church Records of the 17th & 18th Centuries, V2, Quaker Records: Falls and Middletown Monthly Meetings (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2003, ISBN 1-58549-270-1), 301.