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Notes for Timothy Taylor and Letitia Kirkbride

1734 On 23 of month 4, Letitia Kirkbride was born. [1]

1752 On 27 December, Timothy Taylor, son of Benjamin Taylor of Upper Makefield, and Letitia Kirkbride, daughter of Mahlon Kirkbride of Lower Makefield, were married. [2]

1756 Timothy Taylor and William Buckman were appointed guardians for the children of Isaac Ashton of Upper Lower Makefield Twp, Bucks County. [3]

1757 Mahlon Kirkbride, son of Mahlon Kirkbride, and Ann Rickey Jr, daughter of Alexander Rickey, both of Lower Makefield Twp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania were married on November 13. Witnessed by Letitia and Timothy Taylor and many others. [4] [5]

1767 On 18 November, Jonathan Kirkbride and Elizabeth Curtis, daughter of Joseph Curtis, married at Bordentown. Witnessed by Letitia and Timothy Taylor, and many others. [6]

1779 On 14 June, Mahlon Kirkbride of Lower Makefield Twp, Bucks County, (perhaps his estate) made bequests to the children of Timothy Taylor Sr: Mahlon, Timothy Jr, and Letitia over age 14 and David, Jonathan, and Bernard under age 14. Timothy Taylor, Esq appointed guardian. [7] [8] [9]

1782-83 Timothy and Stacy Taylor, perhaps sons of this Timothy, were listed as members of the "Free Quakers", a group disowned by the Quakers and they signed a petition asking for legal recognition. [10]

1783 Timothy Taylor, Esq was appointed guardian of Martha Siddon, daughter of Anthony Siddon, deceased, of Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [11]

1788 Timothy Taylor's administration was recorded in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [12]

1789 Letitia Taylor's administration was recorded in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [13]


Footnotes:

[1] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Bucks County Pennsylvania, Marriages and Births, Book B, 195, [AncestryImage].

[2] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Bucks County Pennsylvania, Marriages and Births, Book B, 112, [AncestryImage].

[3] Thomas G Myers, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Orphans' Court Records 1685-1852 (1939), 34, file #231.

[4] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Bucks County Pennsylvania, Marriages and Births, Book B, 92, [AncestryImage].

[5] John B. Linn and William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume 9. (Marriages to 1810, Volume 2) (1890), 239, [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].

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

[7] Thomas G Myers, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Orphans' Court Records 1685-1852 (1939), 83, file #663.

[8] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Bucks, Will 3-431, # 740, [FamilySearchImage].

[9] John W. Jordan, Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Vol. 1 (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), 553, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].

[10] Charles Wetherill, History of the Religious Society of Friends, called by some the Free Quakers, in the city of Philadelphia (1894), 84, 114, of 111-118, [GoogleBooks].

[11] Thomas G Myers, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Orphans' Court Records 1685-1852 (1939), 86, file #689.

[12] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Bucks, Will A-62, [FamilySearchImage].

[13] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Bucks, Will A-64, [FamilySearchImage].