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Notes for Jeremiah Cresson and Martha Rickey

1738 Jeremiah Cresson was born. [1]

Jeremiah Cresson married Hannah Crean. [2]

1781 Jeremiah Cresson was a private in Capt. Tench Francis's Company, First Battalion, Philadelphia Militia, in August, 1781, in the War of the Revolution. [3]

1795 On 5 November, Samuel Rickey, of Philadelphia, son of Keirl [Carol] and Sarah Rickey, late of Falls Twp, Bucks County deceased, married Mary Cresson, daughter of Jeremiah and Hannah Cresson. Witnessed by Martha Rickey and others. [4]

Jeremiah Cresson married Martha Rickey, daughter of Keirl and Sarah Milnor Rickey, of Bucks County, sister of the husband of his daughter, Mary. [5]

1798 Martha Rickey Cresson was disowned for marriage out of unity by the Quakers at Falls MM, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [6] [7]

1800 Jeremiah Cresson died. [8]


Footnotes:

[1] John W. Jordan, Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Vol. 2 (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), 949, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].

[2] John W. Jordan, Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Vol. 2 (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), 949, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].

[3] John W. Jordan, Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Vol. 2 (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), 949, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].

[4] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Arch Street, Abstract of Record of Births, Deaths and Burials, 1688-1826, 385, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[5] John W. Jordan, Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Vol. 2 (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), 949, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].

[6] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 1015, [HathiTrust].

[7] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 1023, [HathiTrust].

[8] John W. Jordan, Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Vol. 2 (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), 949, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].