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Notes for Jonathan Kirkbride and Elizabeth Curtis

1739 On 10 of month 6, Jonathan Kirkbride was born. [1]

Jonathan Kirkbride was a minister. [2]

1757 Jonathan Kirkbride signed his brother Mahlon's marriage certificate in 1757.

1764 Jonathan Kirkbride was taxed in Lower Makefield Twp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [3]

1767 On 18 of month 11, Jonathan Kirkbride, of Lower Makefield Township, Bucks county, Penna. (son of Mahlon), and Elizabeth Curtis, of Burlington county, daughter of Joseph Curtis, married at Bordentown. Witnesses: Mahlon Stacy, Frances, Mahlon, Jr., Sarah, Mary and Joseph Kirkbride, Ann and Joseph Curtis, Marmaduke Watson, Isaac Horner, John Chapman and others. [4] [5] [6] [7]

1783 The will of Mary Kirkbride, widow of Mahlon named children and grandchildren. Sons Robert Kirkbride and Jonathan Kirkbride were executors. Mahlon and Mary, childen of Jonathan Kirkbride, were named. [8]

1815 Kirkbride's Ferry is shown at the boundary of Lower Makefield and Falls townships in an 1815 atlas of Bucks county, Pennsylvania. [Map, Kirkbride's ferry.]

1817 Elizabeth (Curtis) Kirkbride ... died June 4, 1817. [9]

1820 John Kirkbride, perhaps a son?, lived in Lower Makefield Twp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania in a household with males: 2 (under 10), 1 (10 thru 15), 1 (16 thru 25), and 1 (26 thru 44); and females: 3 (under 10), 1 (10 thru 15), 1 (26 thru 44), and 1 (45 and over). [10]

1824 John Kirkbride "survived until November 4, 1824, in his eighty sixth year." [11] [12]

Research Notes:

"Jonathan Kirkbride, fourth son and tenth child of Mahlon and Mary (Sotcher) Kirkbride, born on the old Kirkbride homestead in Lower Makefield, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, August 10, 1739. inherited the homestead at his father's death." [13]

"Jonathan Kirkbride married, at Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington county. New Jersey, November 18, 1767, Elizabeth, born October 16, 1744, daughter of Joseph Curtis, of Chesterfield, and his wife, Ann, daughter of Marmaduke Watson" [14]

"John Kirkbride, youngest son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Curtis) Kirkbride, born on the old homestead in Lower Makefield, Bucks county, October 5, 1777, received a good education in Friends Schools, and as a young man was for a short time a teacher. He always manifested a keen and active interest in the cause of education, and was one of the founders of Falls Library Company in 1800. He was a man of great energy and enterprise and a person of weight and influence in the community. He received from his father the lower part of the homestead tract, along the river, and before his marriage in 1808, erected there a substantial stone house which is still standing (1908)." [15]


Footnotes:

[1] 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), 19.

[2] 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), 19.

[3] Terry A McNealy and Frances Wise Waite, Bucks County Tax Records 1693-1778 (1983), 42, [GoogleBooks].

[4] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, 93, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[5] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 22. (Marriage Records, 1665-1800) (1900), 661, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].

[6] John E. Stillwell, Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. 3 (1914), 212, [InternetArchive].

[7] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1995), 5.

[8] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Bucks, Will 4-297, abstract 394, FHL film 172929, [FamilySearchImage].

[9] John W. Jordan, Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Vol. 1 (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), 555, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].

[10] United States Federal Census, 1820, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[11] John W. Jordan, Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Vol. 1 (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), 555, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].

[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), 19, reports death on 5 of month 11, 1824.

[13] John W. Jordan, Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Vol. 1 (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), 554, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].

[14] John W. Jordan, Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Vol. 1 (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), 555, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].

[15] John W. Jordan, Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Vol. 1 (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), 556, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].