Other Events:

• Will: Caleb Hayes Will I Caleb Hayes of township of Newlin in the County of Chester and State of Pennsylvania Yeoman now being under some bodily indisposition but of sound and well disposing mind and memory remembering the uncertainly of this mortal life have a desire to settle and dispose of all my temporal set which I do in the following manner viz: Imprimis my mind and will is that all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid & discharge by my executor as soon as may be after my decease Item I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Mary one feather bed and being one case of drawers the dough trough one pot kettles on a large brass one one tub four blue chairs all the pewter and tea ware and the use of the lower room in the new house with the privilege of passing and repeating to and from the same as she may have occasion & nine pounds a year all which I leave during the time she remains my widow in lieu of dower Item I give devise and bequeath unto my son Isaac Hayes all the Tenement Plantation Tenent[?] and parcel of land whereon I now dwell and situate in the said township of Newline within all & singular the appurtenances thereunto belonging to hold unto him the said Isaac hayes his heirs and assigns forever / except the reservation to the widow / Together with all the personal estate that is not herein otherwise ordered & disposed of he paying the said sum of nine pounds a year to my widow as afore said and all the legacies hereafter bequeathed to the rest of my children Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Abigail Mileson the sum of five shillings to be paid in one year after my decease Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Ann Cooper the sum of them pounds with what she have already had to be paid one year after my decease Item I give & bequeath unto my son Caleb the sum of thirty pounds to be paid when he comes of age out of which he is to be found clothes during his apprenticeship Item I give and bequeath unto my son Ellis the sum of thirty pounds when he comes of age Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Ruth the sum of thirty pounds to be paid when she arrives to the age of eighteen Lastly I nominate and appoint my said son Isaac sole executor of this my last will hereby making void all wills and writings testamentary heretofore by me made allowing this and no other to be my last will & testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seals this nineteenth day of May Anno Domini One Thousand seven hundred and eighty [19 May 1786] Caleb Hayes [seal] The within and forgoing writing was signed seal’d published & pronounced & declared by the said Caleb Hayes to be his last will and testament in the presence of us who he desired to subscribe our names as witnesses whereof John North, Caleb Pierce NB it is the will of Caleb Hayes that his son Isaac shall provide firewood for his mother at the door fit for use as much as she may have occasion for. Thornbury 20th October 1786 Then personally appeared John Worth and Caleb Peirce who on their solemn affirmations according to law did severally declare affirm and say that they were present and did see and hear Caleb Hayes the testator with named sign seal publish pronounce and declare the foregoing writing as & for his last will and testament and that at the doing thereof he was oa a sound Y well disposing mind and memory to the best of their understandings. Be it remembered that on the 20th day of October 1786 the last will and testament of Caleb Hayes deceased was proved in due form of Law and Letters Testamentary were Granted Isaac Hayes sole executor therein named he having solemnly affirmed well and truly to administer & bringing an Inventory of the Decd Estate into the register office for Chester County on or before the 20th day of November next and to render a true and just account of his admin in a Year or when thereunto lawfully required given under the seal of sd office …

Notes:

Caleb Hayes and his wife, Mary Bailey, had a daughter Abigail who married James Milleson, Jr. James Milleson, was the son of James Milleson, Sr and his wife Grace Woodward. Grace Woodward was the half-sister of Jean Woodward, mother of Caleb Hayes.

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At New Garden Monthly Meeting:
3 Mo. 25, 1758: “Caleb Hays, son of Jos. Hays decesd having run out & marryed one of another Society by a Priest,” &c. offered a paper of acknowledgment which is not to the purpose: William Jackson and James Miller to visit him.
5 Mo. 27, 1758: “One of the frds aptd in the case of Caleb Hays being since Remov’d by Death so that the appointmnt is not Comply’d with,”

Joshua Pusey and William Swayne are appointed to join with William jackson in treating with him. As he declined to make a proper acknowledment a testimony was singed against him 8 Mo. 26, 1758 and directed to be read at Londongrove Meeting.

He purchased 130 acres of land in Newlin Township and there died in 1786. By his will dated May 19, 1786, proved Oct. 20, 1786, he provided for his wife mary, devised the plantation to his eldest son, Isaac, who was to pay small legacies to his other children.

Died:
before October; will proved in October

Caleb married BAILEY, Mary on 20 Nov 1756 in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. Mary (daughter of BAILEY, Thomas and BENTLEY, Sarah) died after 1786. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Died:
in her husband’s will

Notes:

Married:
Holy Trinity (Old Swede’s) Church, married by Erick Unander

Joseph married WOODWARD, Jane on 26 Aug 1727 in Pennsylvania. Jane (daughter of WOODWARD, Richard Jr and STANFIELD, Deborah) was born about 1708 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Jane’s second husband was William Wickersham of Newlin Township, whom she married 9th month 22d, 1750.

Notes:

Married:
Quaker marriage Bradford MM

Notes:

Only source for being father of Mary, so far, is unsourced online trees.

Probate record can be found at FHL Chester County probate digitized records: Pennsylvania, Probate Records, 1683-1994Chester Estates 1700-1810 no. 2147-2255 Image 147-156 of 915: No. 2162

Only sons Josiah, John and Isaac are listed as is his wife Sarah.

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Thomas Baily, son of Joel Baily and Ann Short, was born Chester County, Pennsylvania [1699]. In 1734 he married Sarah [Ann] Bentley, daughter of John Bentley and Mary ___.

New Garden MM records of 26 October 1734 note a report from London Grove MM that "Thomas Beally is married of the unity of friends."

New Garden MM records the following dated 27 October 1759 p194, "Thomas Baily having formerly been disowned by this Meeting for Marrying out of the unity of Friends by a Priest (her parents were Baptists from Newlin) & and having a Desire to be Rec'd into Membership again Produced a Paper to this Meeting desiring Friends to Receive him under their care; which Request after sollid Consideration is granted."

Thomas got a certificate from New Garden MM to Bradford MM on 5 April 1760. It read in part: "Whereas Thomas Baily have Requested a few Lines by way of Certificate In order to be Joyned to your meeting; these Comes to Inform You that After Needful Inquirey Made we Do not find but his Life and Conversation is in a good Degree Orderly: A frequenter of meetings and his outward Affairs are Settled to Satisfactory as far as Appears.”1,2 He was received on certificate from New Garden Monthly Meeting on 18 April 1760 by Bradford Monthly Meeting.

He died ~1764 in Newlin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, intestate; letters of administration were issued to his son, John Baily, 18 August 1764.4

1. William Wade Hinshaw, Quaker Meeting Records: New Garden, Vol. X,(Kokomo, IN: Selby Publishing Co, 1990) page 4.
2. Cope, Genealogy of Bailey Family, by Cope page 28.
3. ibid, page 27.
4. Jacob Martin, compiler, Wills of Chester County, Pennsylvania: 1748-1766 (Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1994), page 139.

Thomas married BENTLEY, Sarah on 26 Oct 1734 in Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Sarah is named as Thomas’ wife in his probate file. See his notes for location of probate.
Mary Bentley names her son in law and daughter Thomas Bayley and Sarah in her will, see her will/probate notes.

Notes:

New Garden MM records of 26 October 1734 note a report from London Grove MM that "Thomas Beally is married of the unity of friends."

Other Events:

• LAND: Date of Patent 5 Nov 1717 Hayes, Henry 1484 Warantee Henry Hayes [3 entries] Date of Warrant 3 Sep 1705; 17 Jan 1705; 22 Jun 1713 Chester County.
• Will: The first day of Aprile in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty five I Henery Hayes of East Marlborough in the County of Chester and Province of Pensilvania Husbandman Do make constitute and ordain this my Last Will and Testament that is to Say: I give dispose and bequeth as in forme and manner following….. Imprimis — I give unto my son Joseph Hayes & my son James Hayes Whome I: Likewise make and ordain my only and sole execetors of this my last will and testament of all and singular my goods and chattles whatsoover that are or shall be found lebonging appertaining to mee except what shall bee hearafter excepted and specefyed to bee given….. Item — I give to my wife Isabella [his third wife] two hundred pounds, to bee paid by my exeters one year ater my deceas if shee delivers that paper too my exetors which I signed to her before marriage and do not take nor convey away nor comport? to be taken and conveyed away any of the houshold goods nor any other thing whatsoever belonging to mee without consent of my exetrs Item — I give too my son John twenty pounds: I give too my son William one shilling I give to my son Stephan ten pound to bee paid att any time when my executors thinks proper I give too my daughter Mary one shilling I give to my daughter Joanna one shilling and I also give to my executors five pounds a peice: And all the remaining part of my real and personal estate after just debts and funerall expences bee paid except what is before expressed too bee given I give to be equally divided between my daughter Margret & my daughter Elizabeth & my daughter Anne & my daughter Rachel and my daughter Ruth and my daughter Lydia and I also give to my daughter Margret twenty pounds more than either of my daughters above mentioned and my daughter Rachel have had seventeen pounds twelve shillings and sixpence which I order to bee deducted our of her share & my daughter Lidia have had fifty pounds which I order too bee deducted our ot her share: and I also order my personal and real estate to bee sold by my executors att any time after my decease: and the money of all my personall and real estate to bee immediatly paid acording to the derection of this my last will and testament and I do impower my executors to defend my estate by law or otherways and the costs to bee paid out of my estate and futhermore I : do alow this and no other to bee my last will and testament in wittness whereof I : have hearunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written. Henry Hayes Signed published delivered and pronounced by the afforesaid Henery Hayes to bee his Last Will and Testament in the presence of us the subscribing wittnesses viz Jonathan Jackson [signed] George Carsanff [signed] Chester December 30th 1745 Then personally appeared Jonathan Jackson & George Carsan the Witness to the aboce will who on their solemn affirmation did declare and say that they were sent? and saw the testator therein named sign seal publish pronounce and declare therd writing to be his last will and testament and that at the doing the ?? he was of sound mind and memory to the best of their understanding. Inventory of the Estate of Henry Hayes late of East Malborough Deced taken by us whose names are under written this 5th day of the 11 mo. 1745/6/ To wearing apparell horse and saddle………………20.0.0 To one mare……………………………………………..8.0.0 To bonds & book debts…………………..………….298.7.0 To 2 cows and one year old……………………………5.0.0 To one bed and furniture……………………………….7.0.0 To one bed and furniture……………………………….5.0.0 To one ovell table………………………………………1.10.0 To 2 tables one dough trough…………………………0.10.0 To one pair of Stillards………………………..……….0.10.0 To books and one large bible………………………..…3.0.0 To one looking glass…………………………..……….0.15.0 To 5 chairs & 2 boods……………………………………1.5.0 To tubs pail bushell & churn……………………….….0.12.0 To one broad axe & other lumber……………………1.10.0 To 4 pitchforks and hay knife………………………….0.3.6 To 2 ink horns and 2 candle sticks…………………….0.3.0 To one apple will and trough…………………………0.18.6 To one warming pan crane and racks………………..1.17.0 To pots fire shovel and tongs………………………….0.11.0 To box iron heaters and lanthorn……………………..0.10.0 To dishes 6 plates and one tankard……………………1.5.0 To one half barrell tierce sieve & earthen ware………0.4.6 To one hog & grind stone……………………………..0.15.6 To one bond more…………………………………….17.0.0 To the plantation 177 acres…………………………..250.0.0 To two years rent………………………………………20.0.0 Aaron Baker William Harlan

Notes:

Henry Hayes, born Fulwell, Oxfordshire, England, the son of Richard Hayes, arrived in America in 1705. He was a carpenter and married (1) Margaret, (2) Rachel and (3) Isabella. He died in 1745, Chester County, PA. Henry Hayes received a patent from William Penn dated Sept 17, 1718, for 1484 acres of land in Caln and Marlborough Townships, Chester County, PA. He was commissioned a justice of the Quarter Sessions, Common Pleas and Orphans' Court, August 25, 1717, and continued by re-appointment at several times until his death.

Henry married Margaret. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Will: Richard Woodward of West Bradford, in the County of Chester and province of Pennsylvania yeo., being but Weak of Body, Yet of a Sound mind and Memory, and Calling to mind the uncertainty of human Life, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament, in manner and form following, that is to say, Principally and first of all I give and Recommend my Soul into the hands of God, that gave it, and my Body I Commit to the Earth to be buried after a Christian Like, decent manner, at the discretion of my Executors hereafter named, and as for such Worldly Goods as it hath pleased God to bless me withall in this life I give and dispose as followeth this thirtieth day of the Sixth month, Anno Domini 1748: Imprimis, my will is that all my just debts and funerall Expences be fully payed and discharged by my Executors hereafter named. Item I give and Bequeathe to my well beloved wife Martha [4th wife] during her natural Life, one room in the Manshon house to dwell in with Liberty to pass and repass in and out of the same, and also one Bed with furniture belonging unto it, and the use of a Large Bible during her natural Life, and then to return to my son John, and Likewise the use of the Warming pan, during her Life, and then to be returned to my Executors, and also a small iron pott, I give to her during her natural Life, and then to return to my Executors, and my Will is that my said Wife shall have firewood delivered her at the house cut fit for her fire, and also twelve Bushels of Wheat, Yearly and every Year, to be provided for her, and if she dwells upon the said premisses to be Ground and Bolted, and brought home to supply her with Bread. And I also Give her one horse and one Cow and six sheep and Likewise pasturing for them in the summer season, and Hay sufficient for them in the Winter season; And also the free use of one halfe the Garden and the priviledge of the Orchard for fruit, for her own use, and also to be payed unto her in Cash Yearly and every Year the sum of Eight pounds in two Equal distinct payments, one upon the Sixteenth day of May, and the other on the sixteenth day of November annually, Yet with this proviso, that at the time of my decease She Shall have payed her the sum of Five pounds let the time be when it may, which shall be allowed to be a part of the Eight pounds p. annum, makeing the other payment that year to be the sum of three pounds, and also my Will is that if the horse she may Choose for her use do not suit her Conveniency to ride, my son John who I Leave in possession of said Plantation shall lend her one for her necessity while she dwells on the premisses. All which priveliges and sums of money by me Bequeathed, to my said wife, Shall be Levied and Raised out of that part of my Estate in Bradford where I now dwell. Item I give to my son William the sum of five shillings. Item I give to my daughter Easther Wilson the wife of Thomas Wilson the sum of five shillings. Item I give to my daughter Jane Hayes widdow the sum of five shillings. I Give to my daughter Sarah Jones the wife of Evan Jones the sum of ffive shillings. I give to Elizabeth Young the wife of John Young the sum of five shillings. I Give to my daughter Mary Entrikin the wife of George Entriken the sum of five shillings. I give to my daughter Hannah Underwood the wife of Joseph Underwood the sum of five pounds. I Give to my daughter Grace Milleson the wife of James Milleson the sum of five shillings. I Give to my daughter Deborah the sum of twenty pounds. Item I Give and Bequeath to my son Richard a tract of Land adjoyning to the place wher I now dwell, Butted and bounded by Lines, as they now stand, supposed to be about two hundred and thirty acres, be it more or less, which I give to him his heirs, and Assigns fforever, if he lives to have Heirs of his Body, Lawfully begotten, and for want of such Issue after his decease, my will is that the said Land shall be sold and if he Leaves a Widdow, one third part of the Value thereof shall be payed to the said Widow, and the remaining part to be Equally divided amongst all my Children that are then Living, Share and Share alike. Also I Give him a large Wainscot Chest that stands in the house. Item I Give and Bequeathe to my son John a Tract of Land & Plantation in West Bradford aforesaid, where I now dwell, to him his Heirs and assigns forever, if he lives to have heirs of His Body lawfully begotten, and for want of such Issue after his decease my Will is that the said Land and plantation Shall be Sold, and if he leaves a Widow, one third of the Value thereof shall be payed to her, and the remaining part shall be eaqually divided amongst all my Children, that are then living, Share and Share alike. Also I Give to my son John one Table, a Cloathes press, a pare of Bedsteads, and an Elbow Chair. Also I Give to my son John three horses with a Cart plow, and Harrow, with horse harness and Geer belonging to them. Item I Give a Cross-cut saw to my Three sons, and my Will is that after all my debts are fully paid and my Legacies discharged, all the remaining part of my Personal Estate, in any there be, Shall be Eaually divided amongst all my daughters, Share and Share alike. And I nominate constitute and appoint my two sons William and John my Executors, to perform this my Last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all former Wills and Testaments by me made, and do Confirm this and only this, and no other to be my Last Will and Testament. RICH. WOODWARD, [SEAL] Signed, Sealed, Published, and Declared by Richard Woodward, the Testator to be his Last Will and Testament, in the presence of Susanna Worth, Ebenezer Worth, Thos. Worth. Chester, November 17th, 1752. Then personally appeared Ebenezer Worth and Thomas Worth (two of the witnesses to the within will) and on their solemn affirmations according to Law, did Solemnly, sincerely and truly declare and affirm that they were personally persent, and did see and hear Richard Woodward the Testator within named, Sign, Seal, Publish, Pronounce and declare the within writing to be his last Will and Testament, and that at the doing thereof he was of sound mind and memeory to the best of their understandings, and that their names Subscribed thereunto as witnesses, were of their own proper handwritings. Respectively. Affirmed CORAM JO. PARKER, D. Reg'r Be it Remembered that on the Seventeenth day of November Anno Domini, 1752, the Last Will and Testament of Richard Woodward late of the said County, Yeo., deceased was proved in due form of Law, and probate and Letters of Administration was granted to his two sons William and John Sole Executors in the said Will named, being first attested well and truly to Administer & Bring in an Investory of ye deceased's Estate into the Register General's office at Chester on or before the seventeenth day of December next ensuing and rendering a true and Just account of their Administration when Legally thereunto required. Given under the seal of the said office, JO. PARKER, D. Reg'r [Source: Genealogy of the Woodward Family of Chester County, Pennsylvania, with an appendix giving a brief account of the Woodwards of some other portions of the United States.; compiled by Lewis Woodward, M.D., Wilmington, Delaware: Printed by Ferris Bros., No. 10 East Third Street. 1879.]--now get original

Notes:

Died:
between Oct 10 and Nov 7

Richard married STANFIELD, Deborah. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

STANFIELD FAMILY FROM ENGLAND TO CHESTER COUNTY, PA

Francis Stanfield m. Grace ______
Deborah Stanfield m. 1701 Richard Woodward, Jr.

Francis Stanfield from Garten, Cheshire, England, arrived in Chester County, Pennsylvania, aboard the Endeavor in the 7th month, 1683, with his wife, Grace and their children: James, Mary, Sarah, Elizabeth, Grace and Hannah. With them on board were servants Isaiah Brookeby, William Rudway and Thomas Massey (who later settled in Marple).

Francis and Grace Stanfield died in Marple, Chester County, PA. before 1700.

1. James Stanfield maried Mary Hutchinson 4/27/1690 in Philadelphi MM
2. Mary Stanfield b. 1672 in Garten, Eng. m. William Huntley 2/4/1691/2 in Chester County, PA.
3. Sarah Stanfield married first __ Clows and 2nd Edward Bennett about 1797. Their child was Joseph Bennett
4. Elizabeth Stanfield was born 1670 in Garten, Eng. and m. Thomas Hope in Chester County, PA
5. Grace Stanfield married Francis Chadsey 8/15/1695 in Concord MM, and 2nd Gwain Stephenson 7/16/1714 in Chester MM
6. Hannah Stanfield married Isaac Few 1/27/1698/99 in Chester MM

The daughter, Deborah Stanfield, was probably born in 1683 or 1684 and in 1701 married Richard Woodward, Jr. as his second wife.

See the site of Jerry F. Richmond
Stanfield Family Genforum


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Deborah Stanfield Woodward died probably before 1737 and perhaps earlier. At the marriage of son James Woodward to Ann Pyle at Concord Monthly Meeting on 21 April 1737, Richard Woodward signed the marriage certificate as parent but Deborah was not in attendance and may have been deceased. The same could be said for the marriage of William and Eliza Marshall Woodward in 1733 where Deborah is also not in attendance. This is not necessarily definitive as people could also be too ill to attend or have small children to care for. She was definitely deceased at least a year before Richard's marriage to Susannah Cureton as the waiting period would have been enforced where Richard had no small children to care for.

Notes:

BAILEY FAMILY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PA

William Bayly of England m. Mary
Thomas Baily, b. 1567, m. Ann and then Jane
Daniel Baylie of England, b. 1601, m. Mary
Joel Baily b. 1658, from Eng. to PA m. Ann Short
Thomas Baily m. Sarah Bentley
Mary Baily m. 1756 Caleb Hayes
Abigail Hayes m. James Millison, Jr.

Mary Bailey, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Bailey, married Caleb Hayes and was the mother of Abigail Hayes Millison.

William Bayly was born about 1540 in Parish of Bromham, Wiltshire, England, and died November 22, 1575 in Parish of Bromham, Wiltshire, England. He married Mary (possibly Fisher).

Their child, Thomas Baily, was born 1567 in Parish of Bromham, Wiltshire, England, and died in Parish of Bromham, Wiltshire, England. He married (1) Ann before 1601 in parish of Bromham, Wiltshire, England. He married (2) Jane 1605 in Bromham, Wiltshire, England.

Daniel Baylie, son of Thomas, was born 1601 in Chitto, Parish of Bromham, Wiltshire England, and died April 1674 in Chitto, Parish of Bromham, Wiltshire, England. He married Mary.

Their son, Joel Baily, was born 1658 in Parish of Bromham, Wiltshire, England, and died 1732 in Chester County, PA. He was the immigrant who married Ann Short on February 11, 1686/87 in PA, daughter of Miriam Ingram.

Thomas Baily, son of Joel, was born about 1700 in Aston, Chester, PA, and died about 1764 in Newlin Twp., Chester, PA. He married Sarah Bentley about 1734 in Chester Co., PA, daughter of John Bentley and Mary Miles.

It was their daughter, Mary Baily, who was born in Chester Co., PA. She married Caleb Hayes November 20, 1756 in Swede's Church, Wilmington, DE, son of Joseph Hayes and Jean Woodward. Their children were Isaac, Anne, Caleb, Abigail, Ellis and Ruth.

Abigail Hayes, d/o Caleb Hayes and Jean Woodward, married James Millison, Jr., s/o James Millison and Grace Woodward (1/2 sister to Jean Woodward). They moved to Washington County, Pennsylvania, and are responsible for almost all the Millisons who lived in that county and later in Belmont County, Ohio, by the next generation. Their daughter, Abigail Millison, married John Henry Carver, Jr. [Pat Walker]

Died:
will probated

Joel married SHORT, Ann after 1 Apr 1687 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

She and Joel Baily were named in a deed on 8 September 1713 Chester County, PA, by which 50 acres was conveyed to Thomas Dutton.

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Ann is generally accepted as one of the passengers who accompanied William Penn to Pennsylvania on the ship "Welcome". One of the most completely researched works states it is "highly probable" than Ann Short was such a passenger. George F. McCracken, The Welcome Claimants Proved Disproved and Doubtful: With An Account of Some of their Descendants (Publication of the Welcome Society of Pennsylvania, No. Genealogical Pub. Co, 1970). The argument is as follows: Isaac Ingram, a proven passenger on the “Welcome" died en route. In his will he left to "my Sister Miriam Short lately deceased her three Children Adam, Miriam, & Anne Short all that Thirty pounds lying in Ambrose Riggs hand...to be equally divided between them (viz) Tenn pounds apiece further it is my will & minde that my Sisters Children aforesaid have all the goods on board the Welcome equally divided between them". The assumption is made, as there was no provision for the sale of the goods on board for transport of the proceeds to England, those named were also on board the ship.
        Other circumstantial evidence is that Miriam Short [Ann’s sister] is recorded as a resident of Chester County shortly after the “Welcome" arrived, and married George Thompson, a proven passenger.
        William Penn was aboard the same ship as the Shorts. In July, 1682, the ship's master, Robert Greenway, began to load the ship in preparation for the trip. In August newspaper articles noted that Penn had “taken leave" of his friends and was preparing to board the “Welcome" to make the trip in the company of five other ships. On September 2nd another paper noted that Penn had sailed two days earlier with "a great many Quakers" to settle "Pensilvania". During the trip many of the passengers suffered from smallpox, and approximately 30 died, including the above mentioned Isaac Ingram (and perhaps Miriam Short, the mother of Ann, as she is "late deceased" per Isaac’s will). Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware, Book B, p. 437, note the following: "On the 27th day of October 1682; arrived before yr Towne of New Castle in Delowar from England William Penn Esqr. Proptry of Penlivinia... ye said William Penn Received possession of ye Towne of New Castle ye 28th of Octobr 1682."

Notes:

She married Joel Baily, son of Daniel Bayly and Mary ___, after 11 April 1687 Chester Co., PA; intentions were first announced at the monthly meeting for Chichester and Concord on 14 March 1686/87. Second intentions were announced at Birmingham on 11 Apr 1687. No marriage certificate was recorded, so the exact date of their marriage is not known. She died Chester Co., PA. She and Joel Baily were named in a deed on 8 September 1713 Chester County, PA, by which 50 acres was conveyed to Thomas Dutton.

Notes:

The Beginnings at Laurel
Hephzibah Baptist Church is celebrating it’s 290th anniversary the 3rd weekend in May, 2010. The prominent Chester County historians Futhey and Cope describe Hephzibah’s humble beginnings in their book “History of Chester County, Pennsylvania” in the following way:

“About 1720, Rev. Owen Thomas, who had come from Wales… in 1707, was the first Baptist minister laboring regularly in Newlin Township. He preached at John Bentley’s house. After the death of John Bentley the meetings were held at the house of his son, Jeffrey Bentley, who in 1752 gave a lot of ground and built a meeting house.”

That meeting house is gone now but the cemetery associated with it still exists just three miles down the road just across the Brandywine. This was the original site for the gatherings of Baptist believers who would years later re-locate to our present site on Hephzibah hill.

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In 1731 John Bentley sets out in a petition that he had formerly petitioned for license for selling strong lickers by small measure, and hath hitherto been disapointed, and now ask for license to sell “bear and sider by ye quart”p417

[George Young]…his farm in Newlin is part of the Old Bentley tract of 400 acres, upon which John Bentley settled about 1727.p781

Died:
will and probate

John married Mary. Mary died in 1760 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Will: Mary Bentley’s Will In the name of god amen I Mary Bentley of the township of Newlin and County of Chester and province of Pensylvania Widdow being very sick and weak an body but perfect mid & memory thanks be given unto god therefore calling unto mind the mortality of m body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die I do hereby make and ordain this my last will and testament that is to say principally and first of all I five and recommend my soul into the hands of almighty god that gave it and my body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in a christian like and decent manner at the discretion of my executors hereafter named nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by themighty power of god and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased almighty god to bless me with in this life I five and dispose of the same in the following manner and form that is to say in the first place my will and order is that all my just debts and funeral charges shall be paid and satisfied Imprimis I give and bequeath unto the Reverend Mr. Owen Thomas Minister of the baptist church in the forks of Brandywine the sum of five pounds currant money of Pensilvania to be raised and levied out of my Estate by my well beloved sons Jeffery Bently and John Bently whom I do hereby constitute and appoint sole executors of this my last will and testament Item I give unto my said executors Jeffrey Bentley and John Bentley to each of them the sum of one English Crown or the value in Pensilvania money Item I give to my son in law Thomas Bayley & Sarah his wife each of them one English Crown or the value therof in Pensilvania money Item I give to my son in law Robert Chalfant the sum of one English Crown or the value thereof in Pensilvania money Item I give and bequeath all and singular my goods chattels bonds cash bills notes and effects whatsoever in any ways belonging to me or in my possession or name belonging to be to be equally divided between my grand children that is to say the children of Jeffery Bentley, John Bentley, and my two daughters Ann Chalfant, and Sara Bayley except the aforenamed and bequeathed sums and also thirty nine pounds which my son in law Robert Chalfant justly owed me and hath kept from me for many years which said sum of money shall be taken out of my whole estate and be equally divided between the children of my two sons Jeffery Bentley John Bentley and my daughter Sarahs wife of Thomas Bayley and then afterwards my daughter Ann Chalfant deceas’d her children then shall come in for an equal share with my other grand children of all other things whatsoever and my will and mind is and I do hereby order my two sons Jefferey Bently and John Bentley my said Executors that they shall as soon as conveniently they can after my decease get my estate settled and divided amongst any said grand children according to my orders herein given and then each childs share to be forthwith delivered into the hands of each child parent to be by them taken care of for their children and I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul all and every other former testaments wills legacies bequeaths and executors by me in any ways before named willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this & no other to be my last will and testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty second day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty nine. 22 Mar 1759 Mary her M mark Bentley [seal] Signed sealed published pronounced and declared by the said Mary Bentley as her last will and testament in the presence of us the subscribers Saml worth Wm Sorsby Chester, April 26th, 1760 Then personally appeared Samuel Worth and on his solemn affirmation according to law did solemnyly sincerely an truly delcare and saffirm that he was personally present and did see and hear Mary Bently the testatix within named sign seal publish pronounce and declare the within writing to be her last will & testament and that at the doing thereof she was of asound and well dsiposing mind and memory to the best of his understanding and also that his name therunto subscribed as a witness was of his own proper hand writing. Affirmed before Henry H. Graham DReg Be it remembered that onthe twenty sixth day of April Anno Dome 1760 the last will and testament of Mary Bentley deceased was proved in due form of law and letters testamentory were granted to Jeffery Bentley and John Bentley sole executors therein named who were solemnly sworn well and truly to administer and bring in an inventory of the deceased estate into the registers office at Chester on or before the twnety seventh day of May next and to render a true and just account of their admininstration in a year or when legally required given under the seal of said office. SS Henry H. Graham DRegn

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Died:
will probated in 1760 see will notes