Richard Linville

Other Events and Attributes:

• Politics: Between 1810 and 1814, Campbell Co, Tennessee ; sheriff
• Census: 1840, Platte Co, Missouri
• Possessions: 1840, Platte Co, Missouri ; Slaves
• Other-Begin: 1846, Oregon Trail
• Census: 1850, Polk (Yamhill) Co, Oregon

Notes:

"Campbell County Tennessee USA: A History of Places, Faces, Happenings, Traditions, and Things", Vol. I., by Dr. Miller McDonald. Campbell County, Tennessee County History. . As specified in the act that created the county, the first court was held at the home of Richard Linville. Linville owned his home, a farmstead, and public tavern in the area where La Follette is presently located. This site was selected because of Linville's prominence in the community and because the public house owned and operated by him was thought to be big enough to hold meetings pertaining to public affairs. Due to the size of the crowd in attendance, court was moved outside and held out of the back of an old-time wagon bed. Linville owned a copper still and was famous for the manufacture of "Indian Peach Brandy".

Campbell County Court Record Index. Chapter and Section 21.6. Campbell County Court held at his home.

Campbell County Tennessee USA (see above): History of Jacksboro, Tennessee. The town of Jacksboro and the land area surrounding it are more closely tied to Campbell County, its government and history than any other. As a small town it ranks among the oldest. ... The location of Jacksboro as the county seat for Campbell County was settled only after some debate and wrangling. The act creating Campbell County in 1806 appointed as commissioners James Grant, William Hancock, Jacent Cloud, Robert Glenn, RICHARD LINVILLE, Sampson David and John English to "lay out a place, the most suitable and convenient in said county for the purpose of erecting a court house, prison and stocks."

Campbell County Court Record Index. Chapter and Section 21.2. Richard Linville 1806, Serial #13. Designated Campbell County Commissioner.

Campbell County, Tennessee, Estate Book Roll #26
December 1806 - September 1841

http://trees.ancestry.myfamily.com/tree/24006927/person/1534280071/media/1?pgnum=1&pg=0&pgpl=pid%7cpgNum


Politics:
Name: Richard Linville
Type of Document: Elected Collector of Public and County Tax
Page Number: 27
Date: Dec 8, 1812
Other Information: James Crawley, Spencer Graham, Simeon Wilhite, Phillip Brooks, Saml Curtis Name: Richard Linville

Type of Document: Elected Sheriff
Page Number: 14
Date: Dec 4, 1810
Other Information: Benjamin Bratcher, Henry Mcunney, George Grimes, Samuel Curtis, Elisha Chambers Name: Richard Linville

Type of Document: Elected Sheriff
Page Number: 15
Date: Dec 4, 1810
Other Information: Benjamin Bratcher, Henry Mcunney, George Grimes, Samuel Curtis, Elisha Chambers Name: Richard Linville

Type of Document: Elected Sheriff
Page Number: 26
Date: Dec 8, 1812
Other Information: James Crawley, Spencer Graham, Simeon Wilhite, Phillip Brooks, Saml Curtis Name: Richard Linville

Type of Document: Elected Sheriff
Page Number: 40
Date: Dec 6, 1814
Other Information: Robert Smith, Jacob Queener, Samuel Marten Name: Richard Linville

Type of Document: Elected Sheriff
Page Number: 41
Date: Dec 6, 1814
Other Information: Robert Smith, Jacob Queener, Samuel Marten Name: Richd Linville


Census:
Name: Ruhard Lenville
[Richard Lenville]
County: Platte
State: Missouri
Free White Persons - Males - 60 thru 69: 1 Richard 63
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1 1811-1820
Free White Persons - Females - 60 thru 69: 1 molly 60
Free Colored Persons - Males - 36 thru 54: 1 1786-1804
Slaves - Males - Under 10: 2
Slaves - Males - 10 thru 23: 1
Slaves - Females - Under 10: 1
Slaves - Females - 10 thru 23: 1
Slaves - Females - 24 thru 35: 2
Slaves - Females - 36 thru 54: 1
Total - All Persons (Free White, Free Colored, Slaves): 12
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 1
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 1
Total Free White Persons: 3
Total Free Colored Persons: 1


Possessions:
Slaves - Males - Under 10: 2
Slaves - Males - 10 thru 23: 1
Slaves - Females - Under 10: 1
Slaves - Females - 10 thru 23: 1
Slaves - Females - 24 thru 35: 2
Slaves - Females - 36 thru 54: 1

Other-Begin:
Christians on the Oregon Trail: Churches of Christ
and Christian Churches in Early Oregon,
1842-1882

http://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=heritage_center

Several Christians were in the very first wagon train to take the Applegate Trail, and the leaders of this train were
Christians. This was the train led by brothers-in-law Harrison Linville and Medders Vanderpool. Vanderpool was married to Margaret Linville, a younger sister to Harrison. Among the other Christians in this train were John Bird Bounds and his wife, Elizabeth Lovelady Bounds. Their oldest daughter, Nancy Bounds Linville, was married to Harrison Linville.

Except for one 77-year-old man, the oldest travelers in the
train were Richard and Mary Linville, both in their 70s. They were the parents of Harrison Linville, Margaret Vanderpool and Catherine Crowley.

Thomas and Mary ("Aunt Polly") Lovelady were also in
this train. He was a brother to Elizabeth Bounds. Three other Christian families in this train were Absalom and Mary Ann Faulconer, Robert and Sarah Lancefield, and John Burris and Emily Smith. John Burris Smith was a gospel preacher, and his arrival brought the number of Christian preachers in Oregon to four.


Census:
Polk County was officially created from Yamhill District of the Oregon Territory on December 22, 1845. On August 13, 1848, President James K. Polk signed a bill approving the boundaries of the Oregon territory, which officially separated the territory from England. Thus came the name Polk County.
Richard living with son Harrison.

Richard married Magdaline "Molly" or "Mary" Yount in 1797 in North Carolina. Magdaline was born in 1781 in South Carolina; died on 22 Nov 1846 in Oregon Trail. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Rebecca Linville was born on 23 Mar 1798 in Stokes Co, North Carolina; died on 5 Sep 1856 in Cole Co, Missouri.
2. John Linville was born on 29 Apr 1800 in Platte Co, Missouri ; died on 25 Apr 1844 in Platte Co, Missouri .
3. Catherine Linville was born on 11 May 1802 in Tennessee; died on 6 Oct 1884 in Fulkerson Gap, Polk Co, Oregon; was buried in Etna Cem, Polk Co, Oregon.
4. Granville Linville was born in 1810 in Tennessee; died in Dec 1879 in Kansas.
5. Nancy Linville was born in 1811 in Tennessee; died after 1831.
6. Matilda Linville was born in 1812 in Tennessee; died after 1831.
7. Harrison Linville was born on 22 Sep 1813 in Campbell, Tennessee; died on 27 Nov 1893 in Corvallis, Benton (Polk) Co, Oregon.
8. Margaret Linville was born on 23 Feb 1818 in Missouri; died on 22 May 1888 in Sodaville, Linn Co, Oregon.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1771, Surry Co, North Carolina; Early Tax List

Notes:

Children & marriages from:
Jeffrey Dean Bird
10001 SW Punzo Rd
St. Joseph, MO 64504-3547
United States
816-238-3542
jeffbird@ponyexpress.net
http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/b/i/r/Jeffrey-D-Bird/index.html
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possibly parents: Thomas & Hannah. See Vol 10, 2738

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http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/b/i/r/Jeffrey-D-Bird/GENE1-0014.html

192. Thomas LINVILLE, born 1735 in Lancaster, PA; died 1818 in Tennessee. He was the son of 384. Thomas LINVILL and 385. Hannah. He married 193. Catherine.




Census:
brothers:

Name: Aaron Linville
State: NC
County: Surry County
Township: Early Tax List
Year: 1771
Database: NC Early Census Index

Name: David Linville
State: NC
County: Surry County
Township: Early Tax List
Year: 1771
Database: NC Early Census Index

Name: Moses Linville
State: NC
County: Surry County
Township: Early Tax List
Year: 1771
Database: NC Early Census Index

Name: Richard Linville
State: NC
County: Surry County
Township: Early Tax List
Year: 1771
Database: NC Early Census Index Aaron

Name: Thomas Linville
State: NC
County: Surry County
Township: Early Tax List
Year: 1771
Database: NC Early Census Index

Thomas* married Catherine* Scarlett (?) Watkins (?) about 1753. Catherine* was born about 1735; died after 1785. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Thomas Linvil
Date: Jun 3, 1755
Location: Augusta Co., VA
Record ID: 32131
Description: Neighbor
Book-Page: 7-219

Property: 500 acres on Linvil's Creek; corner to land in possession of Thomas Linvil.

Remarks: £150. Purchased by Joseph Bryan from Wm. Linvil and part of 1500 acres purchased by Linvil from Hite, &c..

This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley

Son Thomas Linville built a cabin along the Codorus Creek ( now Adams County, PA), on the other side of the Susquehanna from the Conestoga community before 1730 when Penn's government had already forbidden such moves because of agreements with the Susquehanna Indians.

Thomas* married Hannah* Morgan (?), (dau?) about 1746 in Pennsylvania. Hannah* (daughter of Edward Morgan, (immigrant) and Margaret Elizabeth Jarman (?)) was born on 19 Feb 1713 in Gwynedd, Montgomery Co, Pennsylvania; died in 1773 in North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

her ancestors are here:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=rlgabriel-3&id=I7741&style=TABLE

Notes:

Married in St.Pauls Episcopal Church. (not verified)

"Thomas WAS married to a Hannah, but as with his father, I am not sure if she is a first or second wife -- I am reasonably sure he had two. There is no place for a marriage for them and we only know that he was married to her from one record in 1746/7. Children were born to him before that and after that, but no evidence related to her definite surname or her children with Thomas."
(From Alice Echols via email, Oct 1, 2012)

Some researchers have said she was Hannah Morgan, daughter of Edward Morgan (b. Abt 1650 d. Aft 1734) and Margaret Elizabeth Jarman (?) (b. 16 Nov 1691 d. 1730); however there is no substantiation that Hannah was a Morgan, nor is there any substantiation that Edward & Elizabeth had a daughter named Hannah.

The birth order of these children is not necessarily their real birth order. There may have been one more son.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: 1682, Penn Colony, Pennsylvania
• Immigration: 1682, Fletching, Sussex, England

Notes:

The story of this historical marker begins with the story of children.

Two young boys, ages about 3 and 5, left their home in Fletching, Sussex, England to embark on an adventure that 300 years later would lead their descendants to this place after countless other journeys in between.

John Linville and his younger brother Thomas Linville sailed to Penn's Colony on one of William Penn's 22 ships in the sailing year of 1682-3 along with their mother Mary (Hart) Linville and probably their father Richard. Richard either died at sea or possibly in an epidemic in southern Jersey shortly after they arrived. Before a year was up, their mother remarried to Thomas Baldwin - the first marriage license issued by Penn's Colony.

The young boys, John and Thomas, grew up along Chester Creek in Pennsylvania in their step-father's household. In those times, few children grew to adulthood in a home with both birth parents. Thomas, the youngest son stayed close to that home base for the next 150 years. Even today some of Thomas's descendants still operate a spectacular home/farm/market just 3 miles up Chester Creek from the original Baldwin-Linville home.

But, older son John, only five when he arrived, was more adventurous. He began an association with the local merchants and Indian traders. In 1715, John at age 36 with a family of at least two sons, Thomas and William, whose life we commemorate today with this marker, joined his half- brother Thomas Baldwin and Baldwin in-laws, the Hendricks, in a new adventure - an Indian trading point along the Conestoga River only 45 miles west, but in those days, completely uncharted county. The move of this group to the west represented the first leg of a movement west which would 100 years later become a rallying cry for all young men to go west.

Two things about this move mark a pattern of human behavior in the colonial period. First, where younger brother Thomas's descendants stayed close to home in Pennsylvania for generations, older brother John's descendants were present in every "first" settlement west along the westward migration all the way to Oregon by 1846. That movement west actually began with a move south along the back side of the Appalachians.

The second pattern is that the move west was not done by isolated families as is so often the impression found in history books, but by groups of interrelated families creating large extended families and the foundation of a community which offered the support necessary to sustain a life on the frontier.

Within 15 years of John Linville's move to Conestoga his sons, Thomas, William and John, Jr. were moving again. This time farther west across the Susquehanna River, having learned the basics of frontier survival from their older relatives in the community. That survival included experience in Indian trading, bartering with neighbors and, for the most part lack of governmental oversight.

Son Thomas Linville built a cabin along the Codorus Creek ( now Adams County, PA), on the other side of the Susquehanna from the Conestoga community before 1730 when Penn's government had already forbidden such moves because of agreements with the Susquehanna Indians. Son William Linville participated in the famous Cresap Affair challenging Maryland's claim to Pennsylvania. Disguising himself as a native American and brandishing a weapon William and a group of several others tried to scare Thomas Cresap off the land which Cresap claimed as Maryland's territory and the Linvilles, Hendricks and others claimed as Pennsylvania's.

Within a year, sometime between 1733 and 1735, William developed a close association with Morgan Bryan?s family, marrying Morgan?s daughter Ellender Bryan and then moved with older brother Thomas Linville and his wife Hannah to an uninhabited 1500 acres of land around what became known as Linville Creek, VA. In the 1730s no more than a handful of families joined them at this place within sight of what would develop into the Great Wagon Road of migration a decade later.

Linville Creek was the furthest point south of European settlement on the back side of the Appalachians in the 1730s. Father-in-law Morgan Bryan was still further north in and around what is now Martinsburg, WA and brother John Linville married into the Stephens family and settled half way between the two in what is now near Stephens City, VA. Sister Ann (Linville) Hendricks was still living back at the Codorus in PA.

Such was the pattern of migration in those days, sending part of the family out along the trial, no more than a few days? distance. This made it possible to move family members up and down that trail in times of need, whether it be emotional, economic or safety.

Again, within 15 years of their settlement of Linville Creek, VA, the brothers were on the move south again along the Indian Trail which was fast becoming the Great Wagon Road. This time they left sister Alice and her new husband, Joseph Bryan (William's wife's brother) in Linville Creek and two other sisters still back in PA.

In 1747-8, William and Ellender Linville established a frontier plantation with their Bryan relatives on both side of the Yadkin River in what would become a hub of an active community in the forks of the Yadkin. What is now Blanket Creek and Lassiter Lake was then called Linville Creek, NC, a major geographic marker for all who passed down the Great Wagon Road.

Brother Thomas Linville and his family established a similar family enclave along Belews Creek to the northeast of here, before the Moravian claim was established. Brother John moved even farther to the south to the mouth of the Tyger River, SC, originally called Linville River.

Sisters Alice (Linville) Bryan and Ann (Linville) Hendricks and their families eventually joined the Yadkin enclave 10 years later, at the same time the Boone family caught up with the now thriving community in the forks of the Yadkin. It was Alice's step-daughter, Rebecca Bryan who became Daniel Boone?s wife and William Linville's daughter who married Daniel's brother George.

No matter how convoluted the intermarriages between the Linvilles, Bryans, Boones and Hendricks were, the message of that association was clear. When living on the frontier, you needed the relationships in an extended family to sustain you and the tutelage of survival skills for the younger generation was dependent on the successful older generation which had already been tested in that survival. The Daniel Boone generation had been preceded by 40 years of experience in forging a survival on the frontier and the skills became part of those families legacy to the next generation.

The Rowan County records convey the evidence of William Linville's activities in this early community from hunting wolves to speculating in Lord Granville Grants. Three of those grants - the ones encompassing Tanglewood Park, were his first plantation. A cabin he built, already referred to as old in 1757 when he sold it to John Johnson, stood somewhere near this spot along Linville's Run (now called Johnson's Creek). William then established a plantation directly across the Yadkin, surrounding himself with his in-laws and his sisters' children.

The record is unclear as to William's activities during the skirmishes of the French and Indian War which caused families to move up and down the Great Wagon Road for safety. Both of this brothers John and Thomas died before the end of that period. His wife Ellender and sister Alice outlived all their siblings, and followed the trail to Kentucky laid out by Daniel Boone and others in the extended family.

Sometime in the late summer of 1766, William, along with son John Linville and another young man went up into the mountains 70 miles west of here to hunt and fish. What happened on that trip became immortalize in two ways. The first report came in the South Carolina Gazette in Sept, 1766,

One William Linville, his son and another young man, who had gone over the mountains at the head of the Yadkin River to hunt, were there surprised by some Indians. The father and son were both killed on the spot, the other young man got off though much wounded and arrived at his settlement.

Something about the incident left an indelible imprint in the community, for sometime in the next 20 years, the location of the event became known as Linville River and later Linville Gorge and falls and much later, Linville Falls Wilderness Area.

The scant report of the event was considerably embellished and the details written down for history one hundred years later when Lyman Draper, a famous 19th century historian sought out the descendants of the early migrating families to record their experiences. In an interview with William Linville's grandson, Capt. Samuel Boone, son of his daughter Nancy, reported that William had had a premonition about his death:

The elder Linville aroused the young men just before morning, and bid them hasten away, or they would be massacred by the Indians.... "I have just dreamed that the Indians came up and massacred us. The circumstance was so vividly infused in my mind that I feel this it is a warning. So you escape and save yourselves. I am too feeble to make the attempt." The words had scarcely died upon his lips, and before the young men had time to make the least movement, when the Indians...now fired a volley and shot - killing the two Linvilles.

The story goes on to tell of the surviving, but wounded, young man's attempt to get back to the Linville household for help, eventually reaching son-in-law George Boone who, with others, including probably Daniel Boone, according to the interview, went out to bury the bodies. Local residents near Linville Falls, point to a spot ten miles above the falls where William is buried.

His widow, two remaining sons and grandchildren remained here on the Yadkin until others in the extended family encouraged them to join the settlement of Kentucky, which they did by 1792.

Today, none of William's known descendants still live in the area but hundreds of his brother Thomas's still do and thousands of their descendants live along each stop of the westward movement. The area which commemorates the "Linville Affair" in the Blue Ridge mountains remains a active recreation area, available for many others to pursue some of the same activities in the wilderness that marked most of William's live. But nothing marks his presence at this place where he established an active participation in the early development of the forks of the Yadkin.

This beautiful park remains a fitting memorial for all the families who preserved and cared for it, making it a place of joy, leisure and recreation for thousands. Today we add the Linville name to that list of families by placing this marker recognizing William and his families place in this important first settlement in western North Carolina.

Alice Eichholz, Ph.D., C.G.
24 Oct 1998

John* married Mrs. (1st wife of John)* Linville about 1702 in Pennsylvania. (1st was born about 1677; died after 1710 in of, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Research Notes: 5 Dec 2011; ancestors

Notes:

THE MORGAN LOG HOUSE -- This 1695 medieval, 2 1/2 story log house, the only one of its kind still surviving in America, was built by grandparents of Daniel Boone, the frontiersman, and forebears of General Daniel Morgan famed Revolutionary War raider." In this house the American roots of a distinguished family tree were planted. Besides Morgan offspring, Rittenhouse, Morris, Roberts, Lloyd, Robeson and Hanks are family names on its branches. The latter being ancestors of Abraham Lincoln, Lowell Thomas, the explorer, broadcaster-author, is a descendant. Eminent local Morgans include Walter L. Morgan, a pioneer in the mutual fund industry, founder of the Willington Fund and Wellington Mgt. Co., manager of 14 Vanguard funds. This cabin erected on an 800 acre site by well-to-do Welch Quaker Edward Morgan. Near Gwynedd, PA, site of historic William Penn Inn, The Morgan House adjoins Valley Force road and Allentown Road. The latter was the escape route taken by those escorting the Liberty Bell to be hidden in Allentown's Zion Church. Morgan House is open to the public on Saturdays and Sundays from 1-5 p.m. Tel: (215) 368-2480. Edward Morgan's son, Morgan, had built a house on 197 acres of the original 800 acres in 1718.

Edward Morgan and Elizabeth, his wife, both free, arrived at Philadelphia in the same ship (The Morning Star) from Liverpool, in the 9th month 1683 (20th 9th month)." (Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol 8, page 329).

The ancestry of Edward Morgan, progenitor of the Morgan family of Montgomery County, Penn., and grandfather of explorer Daniel Boone & Edward Boone, is still a matter of speculation. One of the most objective analyses of the identity and family of Edward Morgan was made some fifty years ago by Mrs. Hazel Atterbury Spraker, in her book, THE BOONE FAMILY. Excerpts from this source are as follows:

"There is an early record which states that "Edward Morgan and Elizabeth his wife, both free, arrived at Philadelphia in the same ship (The Morning Star) from Liverpool, in the 9th month 1683 (20th 9th month)." (Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol.8,page 329)

"Another Edward Morgan, recorded in Radnor Monthly Meeting, was born in Merionithshire, Wales, 25 August 1679; was a son of Cadwalader Morgan, and came to Pennsylvania with his parents."

"A third Edward Morgan is referred to by Thomas Allen Glenn in his Wlesh Founders of Pennsylvania, Vol. 2, page 1, in which it is stated that Edward Morgan of near Bala, Co. Merionithshire, a tailor, had a son named Morgan who removed to Gwynedd, PA, about 1700 and was a freeholder of 800 acres of land in Gwynedd, died in Towamencin, 1727, leaving a wife Dorothy.

A fourth record of an Edward Morgan is found in a "History of the Family of Morgan, from the year 1089 to Present Times," by James Appleton Morgan, New York (1897-1902). In this it is stated that Edward Morgan was the son of Sir James Morgan, 4th Baronet of Llantarnum, and wife, Lady Alice Hopoton; that Edward came to America with his sister Sarah, wife of Stephen Beasley, married Margaret --- and had a daughter Sarah Morgan who married Squire Boone. No authority is given for this last statement. In this book the ancestry is carried back through many royal lines to as early as the year 605.

At this late date it seems impossible to determine which, if any of the above Edward Morgans was the father of Sarah, and hence the grandfather of Daniel Boone. Althought his ancestry, his early life and the name of his wife, may always remain in obscurity, we yet have a brief history of the later life and children of Edward of Gwynedd, as given in "Historical Collections of Gwynedd by Howard Jenkins, page 410." This history of Edward Morgan reads as follows:

"The first settler in Gwynedd or its vicinity named Morgan, was Edward. He seems to have been here as early as 1704, as the road upward through Gwynedd, made in that year, was to go as far as his place. He was a tailor by trade, a Welshman by birth, no doubt, and probably advanced in years when he came. He had lived previously near Philadelphia. In February, 1708, he bought 300 acres of land in what is now Towamencin, of Griffith Jones, merchant, Philadelphia. The tract lay along William John's land, and was therefore on the township line. In 1714 he bought 500 acres more, nearby, of George Claypool of Philadelphia, who, like Griffith Jones,was a speculative holder of Towamencin lands. By 1713 he had apparently moved to Montgomery; in the deed from Claypool he is described as a "yeoman of Montgomery."

Edward Morgan no doubt had several children. His sons probably received and held the Towamencin lands. In the list of 1734, for that township there appear: Joseph Morgan, 200 acres, Daniel Morgan, 200; John Morgan, 100. In 1727, Morgan Morgan of Towamencind died leaving a will in which he mentions his wife Dorothy, his brothers Joseph, John and William, his two sons Edward and Jesse (both minors), and his niece Elizabeth, John's daughter."

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another study of Edward Morgan here:
http://wgscroggins.kueber.us/Morgan01%20Edward%20(1670-1732).pdf



Research Notes:
Tree at Rootsweb that has these ancestors.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rlgabriel-2&id=I6175
Tree name Gabriel Jones Family
curious that there are no Loveladys or Bounds

Edward married Margaret Elizabeth Jarman (?) about 1686 in Gwynedd, Philadelphia Co, Pennsylvania. Margaret was born about 1670 in Radnor, Delaware Co, Pennsylvania; died in 1730 in of, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]