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Notes for Isaac Thorn and Mary Wooley

1786 Isaac Thorn Jr, son of Isaac and Mary Thorn, was born on 5 of month 4. [1]

1785 Mary Woolley, child of James Woolley and Huldah Woolley, was born on April 13 in Burlington County, New Jersey. [2] [3] [4]

1807 Isaac Thorne, son of Isaac Thorne and Mary Schooley (daughter of Joseph Schooley, deceased), and Mary Wooley, daughter of James and Huldah Wooley, were married on 8 day of first month [January 8] at Chesterfield Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey. Witnessed by John & Diademia Thorn, Sarah & James Scholey, Mary Brown, and 40 others. [5] [6]

Isaac and Mary Thorn were members of the Chesterfield meeting.

1869 Mary Woolley Thorn died on June 21 and was buried at Fair Hill Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Mary Woolley Thorn was born on April 13, 1785. [7] [8]

1916 Charlotte S Lewis, daughter of Isaac Thorn and Mary Wooley, died on March 3, 1916, at age 92, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Charlotte S Lewis was born on October 28, 1823, in New Jersey. [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]

A biosketch of son-in-law Warner Justice reports [15]:

Warner Justice married, September 10, 1834, Huldah Thorn, born at Bordentown, New Jersey, May 11, 1811, died in Philadelphia, April 8, 1888. She was a daughter of Isaac Thorn, Jr. (born April 5, 1786, died July 16, 1844), by his wife Mary (born April 13, 1785, died 1869), daughter of James Woolley (1743-1813), by his second wife Huldah (1754-1825), who was a daughter of Abraham Skirm (1727-1785), by his wife Elizabeth, born 1731, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Harrison) Fowler, and sister to Hannah Fowler, who married George Middleton. Abraham Skirm, above mentioned, was a son of Richard Skirm, of Trenton, New Jersey (1682-1746), by his wife, Elizabeth (1700-1785), who was sister to Sarah Foulke, born February 28, 1703, the great-great-grandmother of Huldah Thorn, on the paternal side, being wife of Joseph Thorn, mother of John Thorn (1730-1807), grandmother of Isaac Thorn (1759-1837), and great-grandmother of Isaac Thorn, Jr., above mentioned. Joseph Thorn, who married Sarah Foulke, New Jersey, 1723, was son of John and Catharine Thorn, and grandson of Joseph Thorn (son of William Thorn, of Dorsetshire, England, who emigrated 1630, to Lynn, Massachusetts, where he was a freeman in 1638), by Mary, his Wife, born in New England, 1669, daughter of John Bowne, born 1627, by Mary, his wife cousin of Gov. John Winthrop, of Massachusetts."


Footnotes:

[1] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1995), 34, Chesterfield meeting.

[2] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, [AncestryRecord].

[3] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1995), 34, Chesterfield meeting.

[4] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, [AncestryRecord].

[5] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Marriages, Births, Deaths, and Marriage Intentions (from the Minutes), Certificates of Removal 1684-1847 (NJ/B2F:L), [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[6] New Jersey, Marriage Records, 1670-1965, [AncestryRecord].

[7] Find A Grave Memorial 66072380, [FindAGrave].

[8] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].

[9] Pennsylvania Death Certificates, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[10] Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985, [AncestryRecord].

[11] Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985, [AncestryRecord].

[12] Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985, [AncestryRecord].

[13] North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, [AncestryRecord].

[14] North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, [AncestryRecord].

[15] John W. Jordan, Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Vol. 1 (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), 840, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].