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Notes for Jonathan Humphries and Sarah Doughty

1724 Jonathan Humphries married Sarah Doughty, taken from the Burlington meetings minutes reporting the second proposal, [1]

1745 On 15 April, Jonathan Humphrys, perhaps this one, was a freeholder in Chester Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. [2]

Research Notes:

1758 On May 8, John Humphreys and Sarah Doughty of Burlington married. [3]

Jonathan was son of Daniel Humphrey and Hannah Wynn. They lived in the Bounds of Radnor MM in the Welsh Tract in then Chester County, Now Montgomery County. Sarah married a cousin of Mary's husband, John Jones. They lived in the Bounds of Radnor MM in the Welsh Tract in then Chester County, Now Montgomery County. [4] Hannah was born Chester, PA. Children Jonathan Humphrey: Hannah b 1725-10-11, Ann b 1727-04-19, Mary b 1729-02-10, Daniel b 1731-05-02, Jacob b 1731-05-02, Benjamin b 1732-06-17, Whitehead b 1734-03-20, Jonathan b 1735-12-23, Isaac b 1737-05-17, Amy b 1725.

Sarah Doughty was named as a daughter of Jacob Doughty and Amy Whitehead and as the wife of Humphries and mother of Amy. [5]


Footnotes:

[1] Amelia Mott Gummere, Friends in Burlington (Philadelphia: Collins, Printer, 1884), 89, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].

[2] Carlos E. Godfrey, "A List of the Freeholders for the City and County of Burlington," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 29 (1905), 421-26, at 425, [InternetArchive].

[3] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 22. (Marriage Records, 1665-1800) (1900), 119, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].

[4] Personal Communication, Wanda Sparks of Arizona, a descendent.

[5] Ethan Allen Doty, "The Doughty Family of Long Island," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 43 (1912), 273-87, 312-24, at 284, of 282-284, [InternetArchive].