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Notes for Alexander Rickey

1723 Alexander Rickey, child of Alexander and Ann Rickey, was born on day 26 of month 10, according to records of the Quaker Falls monthly meeting in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5].

1746 Hannah Rickey, Katharine Rickey, Rachel Rickey, Alex Rickey, Hannah Rickey Jr, and John Rickey witnessed the marriage of John Millnor, late of Burlington and Hannah Harvey, daughter of Thomas of Makefield, on 7 of month 8 (October). [6]

1749 Alexander Rickey signed the marriage certificate of brother John Rickey and Mary Hutchinson. [7]

1757 Ann Rickey Jr, daughter of Alexander Rickey, married Mahlon Kirkbride, son of Mahlon Kirkbride, both of Lower Makefield Twp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on day 30 of month 11, at the Falls Meeting. Witnessed by Alexander and Ann Rickey, Mahlon and Ann Kirkbride, Tho and Hannah Rickey, John and Mary Rickey, James Rickey, Alex Jr Rickey, Rachel Rickey, Keirll Rickey, Randle (not Catherine) Hutchinson, and many others. [8] [9]

1758 Son Alexander Rickey was named in the will of Alexander Rickey, of Lower Makefield Twp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, dated 1 October 1758. [10] [11]

1764 The will of uncle John Keirl [brother of mother Ann Keirl Rickey] of Bristol Twp, Bucks County, named Thomas Rickey, John Rickey, Alexander Rickey, James Rickey, Keirl Rickey, Rachel and Mary Rickey, Catharine Hutchinson, and Ann Kirkbride as children of Alexander and Ann Rickey and as kinsmen. [12] [13]

1777 Alexander Rickey was witness to Mahlon Kirkbride's will in 1777. [14]

c 1780 Alexander Rickey was listed for fines by Joshua Anderson, regarding Company 18, Fourth Battalion, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, American Revolution. [15]

1781 Alexander Rickey [Richy], perhaps this Alexander, was taxed for 82 acres [similar acreage to brother Thomas in 1779], 2 horses, and 1 cattle in Lower Makefield Twp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [16]

1782 Alexander Rickey was taxed for 83 acres and 1 cattle, 4 sheep in Lower Makefield Twp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [17] [18] [19] [20]

Research Notes:

Caution: there are several Alexander Rickey's in this family and their identities are not always clear in records. See these notes for Alexander, born after 1723, son of Alexander. See also notes for Alexander [21], born after 1750, son of James. See also notes for Alexander [22], born after 1733, son of Thomas.


Footnotes:

[1] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Bucks County Pennsylvania, Marriages and Births, Book B, 208, [AncestryImage].

[2] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, A Record of the Births and Burial Belonging to the Falls Meeting in Pennsylvania Bucks County, 37, [AncestryImage].

[3] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 968, [HathiTrust].

[4] 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), 28.

[5] William W. H. Davis, with Warren S. Ely and John W. Jordan, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 2nd ed., Vol. III (1905), 727, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[6] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Bucks County Pennsylvania, Marriages and Births, Book B, 87, [AncestryImage].

[7] Charles Meredith Dupuy, A Genealogical History of the Dupuy Family (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1910), 131, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].

[8] Quaker Meeting Records, Falls Monthly Meeting Bucks County, PA, Marriages, Births, Deaths 1693-1788, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

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

[10] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Bucks, Will 2-347, [FamilySearchImage].

[11] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Bucks, Will 2-347, abstract 449, FHL film 172929, [FamilySearchImage].

[12] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Bucks, Will 3-194, [FamilySearchImage].

[13] F. Edward Wright, Abstracts of Bucks County, Pennsylvania Wills, 1685-1785 (1995), 83.

[14] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Bucks, Will 4-268, FHL film 172900, image 268, [FamilySearchImage].

[15] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 6 (Revolution 1777-1789, Lieutenants) (1896), 113, [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].

[16] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 13 (Proprietary Tax Lists Bucks 1779-1786) (1897), 139, [InternetArchive].

[17] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 13 (Proprietary Tax Lists Bucks 1779-1786) (1897), 263, [InternetArchive].

[18] Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Tax Records, 1782-1860, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[19] Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Tax Records, 1782-1860, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[20] Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Tax Records, 1782-1860, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[21] Janet and Robert Wolfe, Genealogy Page for Alexander, son of James, [JRWolfeGenealogy].

[22] Janet and Robert Wolfe, Genealogy Page for Alexander, son of Thomas, [JRWolfeGenealogy].