Mary Harlan

Other Events:

• Beneficiary: 8 May 1732; in the will of her father, Aaron Harlan
• Beneficiary: 5 Feb 1747/8; in the will of her mother, Sarah Harlan, as Mary Evans
• Executor: 5 Feb 1747/8; Mary Evans named executrix in the will of her mother, Sarah Harlan

Mary married Owen Evans in 1734 in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, United States. Owen was born in 1718 in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States; died in 1747 in Kennett Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America; was buried in 1747 in Kennett Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church

Mary married Hugh Laughlin on 23 Oct 1748 in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, British Colonial America. Hugh was born in 1715 in Ireland; died on 26 Feb 1765 in Cane Creek, Orange County, North Carolina, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church

Other Events:

• Emigration: 1687
• Beneficiary: 21 Apr 1714; in the will of his father, George Harlan
• Executor: 21 Apr 1714; sons Aaron and Exekial Harlan were named as executors in will of their father, George Harlan
• Will: 8 May 1732, Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America
• Probate: 2 Oct 1732, Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America

Notes:

Aaron Harlan, Yeoman, Friend, was born in the Parish of Donnahlong, County, Down, and Province of Ulster, Ireland. He was but two years of age when his parents reached the shores of the New World, and settled in the wilderness of the Colony of William Penn.

ABSTRACT OF WILL.....
Page 122
Aaron Harlan..........Kennet..................Yoeman
May 5, 1732...........Oct. 2, 1732..........A. 381
Provides for wife, not named. Inc. Real Est. until son George is 21. To son George when 21 my now dwelling place being the las part of my Tract of land on Brandywine. Cont. about 300 acres. To son Samuel when 21, the West part of said Tract as lately surveyed by Zachariah Butcher cont. 230 acres. to son Aaron, when 21, my Plantation in Kennet whereon my Father Law now lives. To son Jacob, when 21, an equal portion of my Est. as either of above named sons. To dau Charity, one gray filly. To daus Mary & Elizabeth L20 each, when 21. Lands to be valued & sons shares to be made equal. Extr - wife & friend Samuel Hollingsworth & Saml Pyle & Bro Joshua Harlan Trustees. Witnesses - Thomas Strode, Geor. Hollingsworth, Dinah x Heald [Source: Carmen J. Finley, "Hackney, Harlan & Heald - Our Quaker Ancestors", (Computer printed: C. J. Finley, Santa Rosa, CA, 1987), pg. 16]

Aaron married Sarah Heald on 2 Nov 1713 in New Castle County, Delaware, British Colonial America. Sarah (daughter of Samuel Heald and Mary Bancroft) was born on 19 Jul 1692 in Mobberley, Cheshire, England; died on 6 Feb 1748 in Kennett Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America; was buried in Feb 1747/8 in Kennett Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Beneficiary: 8 May 1732; in the will of her husband, Aaron Harlan
• Executor: 8 May 1732; Sarah Harlan and Samuel Hollingsworth were named executtors in the will of her husband, Aaron Harlan
• Will: 5 Feb 1747/8, Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America
• Probate: 3 Mar 1747/8, Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America

Notes:

The eldest daughter of Samuel and Mary (Bancroft) Heald, Sarah, married Aaron Harlan in 1713 at the ceremony of Friends at Newark Meeting, New Castle County, Delaware. Both Sarah and Aaron lived their lives in Kennet Township and were buried in the Friends Burial Ground, along with Sarah's parents. [Source: Carmen J. Finley, "Hackney, Harlan & Heald - Our Quaker Ancestors", (Computer printed: C. J. Finley, Santa Rosa, CA, 1987), pg. 44]

WILL
I Sarah Harlan of the Township of Kennett in the County, of Chester and Province of Pennsylvania, being weak in body but of perfect mind and memory and calling to mind the mortality of the Body and the Immortality of the Soul do make this my Last Will & Testament as followeth first I commit my Soul into the hands of God that gave it & my Body to the Earth to be decently buried according to the Directions of my Executors hereinafter named. As to my wordly Estate which hath pleased God to bless me with I Give & Dispose of the same in the following manner & form that is to say First and foremost after my just Debts & funeral charges are fully paid & Discharged, I Give & Bequeath unto my three Sons to wit George, Samuel, and Aaron, each of them the sum of Five Shillings lawfull money to be paid to each of them within one year after my Decease, and I Likewise Give & Bequeath unto my three Daughters towit: Charity Baldwin, Mary Evans, and Elizabeth Hollingsworth each of them the sum of Twenty pounds Lawful money to be paid to each of them within one year after my Decease. I also Give unto my Cozen Martha Way the sum of four pounds Lawful money to be paid to her when she arrives to the age of Eighteen years and as for the remainder of my Estate my Will is that the same shall be Equally divided between all my Grandchildren that is now born that is the children of my Sons & Daughters above named. And lastly I nominate Constitute & appoint my well beloved Daughter Mary Evans my Executrix wholy & Soley to this my Last Will & Testament Justly & Truly executed and I do hereby disannul & make void all other former Will or Wills by me made ratifying and Confirming this to be my Last Will & Testament sealed with my seal.

Dated the 5th Day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty seven-eight. 1747/8.
Sarah (her mark) Harlan (Seal)
Witnesses:
Jno. Clark
Francis Clark

(proven March 3, 1747/48)
An Inventory of the Goods Effects & credits belonging to the Estate of Sarah Harlan of Kennett deceased & appraised by us whose names are hereunto subscribed this 4th Day of March 1747/8," totals L119, 10s, 3d. [119 pounds, 10 shillings, 3 pence]

Chester County, PA
Orphan's Court, 19 September 1749, Book V, Page 48
Hugh Laughlin and Mary his wife who was executrix of Sarah Harlan dec'd. having exhibited their accts of their administration on said estate which being read and heard and no material objection being made therefore allowed of & confirmed. [Alpheus H. Harlan, "History and Genealogy of the Harlan Family", (Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, 1988), pg. 17]

Other Events:

• Religion: Society of Friends (Quakers)
• Baptism: 11 Mar 1650, Durham, England; [11d 1st m 1650]; Address:
  Monkwearmouth
• Immigration: 1687, Christiana Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, British Colonial America
• Will: 1 Apr 1714, Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America; [21da 2mo 1714]
• Probate: 2 Oct 1714, Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America

Notes:

George Harlan "Ye sone of James Harland of Monkwearmouth, was Baptised at the Monastery of Monkwearmouth in Oald England, ye 11th day of First Month 1650." As young men, in company with his brothers Michael and Thomas crossed into Ireland and located in the Parish of Donnahlong, County, Down. Marriage records indicate that all three sons of James Harland had become Quakers.

Most Harlans are descendants of two English brothers, George and Michael Harlan, who arrived in 1687 at New Castle, Delaware - then part of the colony of Pennsylvania - and of a third brother, Thomas, who never came to America but some of his sons arrived fifty years later. James Harland, son of William is the earliest paternal ancestor of the Harlans in America that we know much about. He was born near Durham, England, about 1625 and was the father of Thomas, George and Michael Harlan. His three sons were baptized in the Church of England, at the formerly Catholic monastery of Monkwearmouth near Durham.

A 16th-century religious revolution in the Christian Church, called the Reformation, caused Britain to be in constant religious conflict and resulted in the establishment of Protestant churches. As George and Michael were growing up in the mid 1600s, a radical religious movement swept over England led by the Reverend George Fox, known as the Society of Friends, more often called Quakers. These groups, stressed an individual approach to religion, strict discipline and the rejection of an authoritarian church, had no clergy, practiced freedom of worship and opposed all forms of violence including war and slavery. They refused to take oaths and would not pay tithes to the Church of England. Both the civil and religious authorities were perturbed and began to persecute the preacher and his followers.

George and Michael Harlan and their brother Thomas became Quakers, and were forced to flee England to northern Ireland where they located in the Parish of Donnahlong, County, Down, only to find that English persecution followed them there. While residing there he married by ceremony of Friends, November 27, 1678, Elizabeth Duck of County, Armagh. At the time of his residence in Ireland, William Penn was urging Friends of England to become settlers upon his new lands in America. He cautioned them against "leaving their own country out of idle curiosity or of a rambling disposition."

Members of the Society of Friends began to emigrate to the American colonies. They settled in New Jersey and the Pennsylvania colony, which was granted to William Penn and where they found a haven. In the early months of 1687, George in the company of his wife Elizabeth and four young children, Exekiel, Hannah, Moses and Aaron and brother Michael sailed from Belfast, Ireland to the new colony of Pennsylvania. After arriving in Delaware, they had five additional children, Rebecca, Deborah, James, Elizabeth and Joshua...all recorded as hvaing been born in New Castle County, Delaware. The first Friends meetings in Delaware were those located at New Castle and at Newark, both being established during the years 1682-85. The meeting at Newark was located about three miles northeast of present day Wilmington. Newark Friends generally lived along the little Shellpot Creek. Their leader was Valentine Hollingsworth.

Delaware was originally created as part of Pennsylvania and became the "Three Lower Counties". George Harlan had bought land in Pennsylvania (now Delaware) before leaving Ireland. They came up the river Delaware and landed at the town of New Castle, and settled near the present town of Centerville. He became one of the leading citizens, and in 1695 when William Penn decided that the "three lower counties," were so remote from Philadelphia that they needed their own government, he appointed George Harlan one of the governors. Soon, however, around 1698/99 George bought land higher up the Brandywine Creek and moved his family to what is now Pennsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania and settled as a farmer near where his brother Michael had already settled.

George Harlan first belonged to Newark Meeting, but after his removal up the Brandywine and westward, he was too remote from this meeting for punctual attendance, especially in the winter, and at a request of himself and others, a meeting "beyond Brandywine" was established and called Centre Meeting House. In those early days, Newark, New Castle, Centre, and "Old" Kennet meetings were all part of Newark Monthly Meeting. The strongest meetings of this group came to be Centre and Kennet, and by 1720 the monthly meetings for business tended to alternate between these two places.

While living in Kennet township, George had for neighbors a settlement of Indians who lived in the "Great Bend" of the Brandywine. After they had gone he obtained, in 1701, a warrant for 200 acres of land in the bend, which was granted to him "in regard for the great trouble and charge he had borne in fencing and maintaining the same for said Indians while living thereon."

George was elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1712, but died two years later, leaving nine children. His brother Michael, about ten years younger, married three years after reaching America. He was not as prominent as his brother, but his will and the inventory of his estate show him to have been a prosperous farmer. Michael died in 1729, leaving eight children. Many of his descendants moved to New York and then westward along the northern tier of states. Meanwhile their brother Thomas's descendants arrived in Pennsylvania from Ireland.

On the first day of March, 1713, George deeded 203 acres to his son-in-law, William Webb, for a consideration of 30 pounds. On the ninth day of the same Month, "in consideration of the Natural Affection & fatherly love which he hath" and also "for divers other good causes and valuable considerations," he deeded 200 acres each to his sons James and Joshua. He died in "Fifth Month" 1714. He left an estate valued at L355-12-00, exclusive of land, which was considerable for those days. It is puzzling that there is no mention of his land in either his will or his inventory.

After coming to America George and Michael dropped the final "d" and the name was spelled Harlan. The family's history includes two members of Congress, a U.S. Senator, a member of President Lincoln's cabinet, and two justices of the United States Supreme Court, the first Sheriff of Warren County, Ohio, a Warren County, Judge, and Warren County, Commissioner, among others.

WILL
I George Harlan of Brandywine Creek and in the Township of Kennet and County, of Chester in the province of Pennsylvania Yeoman. Being weak at this time in body but of sound and disposing mind and memory & calling to mind the certainty of Death & the uncertainty of the time thereof doe make & ordain this my last will & testament in manner & form following, That is to say, ffirst I yield up my soul into the hands of almighty God as unto a ffaithful Creator hoping through the merrits sufferings Resurrection & mediation of my blessed Savior Jesus Christ to find mercy & forgivness with compleat salvation & my body to be buried by my deare wife in the new burying place on Alphonsus Kirks land at the discretion of my Executors hereinafter named. Also my will is that all my Just debts & funeral Expenses be fully paid & discharged. Also I Give unto my son Aaron my Clock & my Great Brass Kettle. Also I Give unto my Brother Michael Harlan the young Susquhanna Mare. Also I Give unto my servant woman names Mary Mathews at the expiration of her time on cow & calf & one young mare not less than three yeares old. And lastly I make nominate & appoint my brother Michael Harlan aforementioned & my son Samuel Hollingsworth Trustees & assistants to my Executors aforementioned in the performance & Accomplishment of this my Last will & Testament. Also my will is that after my debts Legacies Bequests & expenses aforesaid are fully payed & satisfied that what shall then remain of my moveable & personal Estate if any so there be then it shall be equally divided between all my children Sons & Daughters share & share alike. In witness thereof I have to this my said will set my hand & seal this one & twentieth Day of the Second month call Aprill in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fourteen.
George Harlan (Seal)

Sealed signed & published & declared by Testator George Harlan to be his last will & Testament in the presence of us who have subscribed our names as Witnesses hereunto in his presence.
Daniel Mc Farson
Nathan Maddock
Thomas Pierson.

*(note: dates prior to 1751 are given "old style", counting March as the first month of the year)

George married Elizabeth Duck on 17 Nov 1678 in Parish of Shankill, County Armagh, Ireland. Elizabeth (daughter of Ezekiel Duck and Hannah Hoope) was born on 5 May 1660 in Parish of Shankill, County Armagh, Ireland; died before 1714 in Pennsbury Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America; was buried in Pennsylvania, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Religion: William Penn stock of Friends (Quakers)
• Immigration: 1687, Christiana Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, British Colonial America

Notes:

Immigration:
emigrated to America, and settled near Christian Hundred

Notes:

Transcript of Marriage record:
George Harland in the parish of Donnahlong in ye County, of Down and Elizabeth Duck of Lurgan in ye parish of Shankill and County, of Armagh, having intentions of marriage (according to God's ordinance) did lay their said intentions before ye men and womens meetings who taking it into their considerations, desired they waite a time in which time several Friends were appointed to make enquiry in ye several places where their residences are or of later years have been wheather ye man is free of all other women, and ye woman free from all other men and wheather their relations and parents are satisfied with their said intentions. And they presenting themselves the second time before ye men and womens meetings and an account being brought to ye meeting, where all things being found clear and their intentions of marriage being several times published in ye meeting to which they do belong, and nothing appearing against it.
A meeting of ye people of God was appointed at the house of Marke Wright in ye parish of Shankill on the twenty seventh day of ye ninth month anno 1678, where they being contracted the said George Harland declared publickly and solemnly in the presence of God, and of his people in these vows, I take Elizabeth Duck to be my wife, and said Elizabeth Duck declared in like manner, I give myselfe to George Harland to be his wife and I take him to be my husband, as witness our hands.
George Harland
Elizabeth Harland
1678

Daniel Stamper.......................Timothy Kirk............................Wm. Porter
George Bullock.......................George Hodghson...................Michel Scaife
John Wright.............................Alphonsus Kirk.......................Ann Hodghson
Henry Hollingsworth................William Crook........................Ann Peirson
John Calvart............................Deborah Kirk..........................Thomas Atkinson
Francis Hillary.........................Elinor Hoope..........................Mary Walker
Alexander Noble.....................Robert Hoope..........................Mary Rea
George Lowder.......................Thomas Harland......................Elinor Greer
Roger Kirk...............................Bridgett Harland
................................................Mark Wright
................................................Ezekell Bullock

Other Events:

• Immigration: Bef 30 Jul 1703, Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America
• Religion: 30 Jul 1703, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America; received on certificate from Morely MM, Chester, England dated 1702, 10, 3; Address:
  Philadelphia Monthly Meeting
• Will: 30 Mar 1736, Kennett Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America
• Probate: 1 Oct 1736, Kennett Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America

Notes:

May 30, 1703 - Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (pg. 547), Samuel Heald and wife Mary, received on certificate from Mobberly Monthly Meeting, Chester County, England, dated October 3, 1702.

Samuel, eldest child of William and Jane (Donbobbin) Heald, was born at the Healdmill Farm in Mobberly. Samuel and Mary Heald were the parents of eight children. They emigrated to America, bringing with them a certificate bearing the date October 3, 1702 from Mobberly Monthly Meeting and were received on certificate by the Monthly Meeting of the Philadelphia Society of Friends on May 30, 1703. At the time of their emigration to Pennsylvania in 1702/1703, the Healds had five children ranging in age from less than 1 year to about 10 years: Sarah, William, Mary, Jane and Samuel. Records of birth for Sarah and Mary were found inthe records of Quaker Quarterly Meeting, Cheshire, indicating Samuel and Mary were probably following the Quaker faith at the time of their marriage in 1691. After their arrival in America, they had four additional children born in Kennet Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania: Bancroft, Dinah, Jacob and Joseph. Samuel and Mary were the last of the Hackney/Harlan/Heald family of Quakers to arrive in America. Samuel died in Kennet township, Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1736 and is buried in the Friends Burial Ground there. Mary (Bancroft) Heald is buried beside her husband.]

Birth:
[12da 9mo 1668]

Will:


WILL
I, Samuel Heald of the Township of Kennett in the County, of Chester, being at this time weak of Body but of an understanding mind & memory & calling to mind the certainty of Death, do make & ordain this my last will & Testament in manner & form following. Impremis (first) I committ my Soul into the merciful hand of God that gave it and as touching my Body to be buried in a Christian life & decent manner at the descretion of my Executris here after named. And as touching the finals (part) of wordly estate where with it has (surely) pleased God to bless me with I give dispose and (devise) the (same) as follows. I bequeath to my son William all my wearing apparell except my thin worsted druggett coat & vest & worsted pair of stocking to whom I give the same to my Son Samuel & my Riding Saddle to my son Joseph (also) the rest & residue of my Estate of what nature or kind Soever I give & dispose unto my dearest well beloved wife for and during her natural life and what remains at her death I leave to her disposing among all my children in such parts & shares as she concieves their necessity most reguires. Lastly I constitute, nominate & appoint my well beloved wife Mary my sole Executris hereby revoking & disannuling all former will & wills heretofore by me made declaring this & no other to be my last will & testament in witness whereof I have here unto (set) my hand & seal this 30th day of March 1736.
Samuel Heald
Sealed published (pronounced) &
declared by the testator to be his
last will & testement in the presence of us.
Wm. Webb
Joseph Harlan
Abraham Parker
[Source: Carmen J. Finley, "Hackney, Harlan & Heald - Our Quaker Ancestors", (Computer printed: C. J. Finley, Santa Rosa, CA, 1987), pg. 19, 20, 45

Samuel married Mary Bancroft on 16 Apr 1691 in Cheshire, England. Mary (daughter of John Bancroft and Mary Janney) was born on 13 Jul 1673 in Etchells, Cheshire, England; was christened on 21 Aug 1673 in Whitegate, Cheshire, England; died in 1736 in Kennett Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America; was buried in Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Immigration: Bef 30 Jul 1703, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America
• Religion: 30 Jul 1703, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America; received on certificate from Morely MM, Chester, England dated 1702, 10, 3; Address:
  Philadelphia Monthly Meeting
• Beneficiary: 30 Mar 1736; in the will of her husband, Samuel Heald
• Executor: 30 Mar 1736; Mary Heald was named executrix in the will of her husband, Samuel Heald

Notes:

Mentioned in the Will of Samuel Heald as son wife Mary and also Executrix.

May 30, 1703 - Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pg. 547, Mary Heald, received on certificate from Mobberly Monthly Meeting, Chester County, England, dated October 3, 1702.

Will dated 25th day 11th month 1706/07 (LDS #22775 part 230). "Bancroft" means a bean farmer (tender of the bean farm); from the Anglo-Saxon bean (bean) and croft (a farm).

Birth:
[13da 5mo 1673]

Other Events:

• Religion: The Church of England (Episcopalian)

Notes:

James Harland, Yeoman and member of the Episcopal Church, was born about the year 1625 in the "Bishoprick, nigh Durham, England" and is the earliest paternal ancestor known to the family in America bearing the name Harlan. He lived and died an Englishman, and was buried upon English soil, no one today knows where. Tradition says that the name of his father was William.

James was married according to the usages of the the Established Church. His children were baptized and recorded therein; and established by the fact that the earliest record we have of his son, George, is that he was "Baptise at the Monastery of Monkwearmouth in Oald England." We have no record giving the name of his wife and mother. So far as known, James Harland was the father of three sons.

Monkwearmouth Monastery was founded by Benedict Biscop in the year A.D. 672. It is situated in a town of the same name in the east division of Chester, County, Durham, and 1/2 mile north of Sunderland. It receives its name from name from its location near the mouth of the river Wear. Burned and plundered time and again, only the tower and some detached parts of the church remain. In 1790 the parish registers, with the exception of some of the late records, were destroyed by fire. [Resource: Alpheus H. Harlan, "History and Genealogy of the Harlan Family", (Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, 1988) pg. 1]

Other Events:

• Name: Ezekieliah Duck

Ezekiel married Hannah Hoope. Hannah was born in 1632; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

William Heald, father of our immigrant ancestor, Samuel, was also born in Mobberly in 1647, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Hobson) Heald. He married Jane Donbobbin in 1667 and in addition to Samuel, they had children William and Mary. William, his wife, Jane and their youngest child, Mary all died in 1677 within a month's time of each other suggesting they may have been stricken with some epidemic or other catastrophe. At least one Heald researcher believes that Samuel, orphaned at age 9, was then reared by his uncle, James Heald, who lived on Broadoak Farm. [Source: Carmen J. Finley, Hackney, Harlan & Heald - Our Quaker Ancestors, (Computer printed: C. J. Finley, Santa Rosa, CA, 1987), pg. 19]

William married Jane Dunbabin on 17 Nov 1667 in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. Jane was born in 1647 in Lancashire, England; died on 9 Oct 1677 in Mobberley, Cheshire, England; was buried in Oct 1677 in Mobberley, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
[17da 9mo 1667]

Notes:

John Bancroft was born 1633 in Etchells, Cheadle Parish, Cheshire. At the time of his death in 1699/1700 he was said to have been a Quaker "minister" for forty years. If this is so, he must have become a Quaker not later that 1659/60. Considering that 1652 is generally accepted as the beginning of Quakerism in England, John Bancroft must have been almost a charter member. He married Mary Janney of Wilmslow in 1663 in Handforth, Cheadle Parish. The birth of their children, Jacob, David, Dynah, Joseph, Mary, Sarah and John dated 1664 to 1682, all in Etchells, were recorded in the Quaker Quarterly Meeting Records for Cheshire. John was the son of Richard and Ellen (Burgess) Bancroft and had at least two brothers, Robert and Alexander and a sister, Mary. Richard Bancroft was a Churchwarden at Crossacres, Northenden Parish in 1630. He died in Northenden November 18, 1634 and in inventory of his estate was taken shortly after. The Bancrofts of Cheshire date back two more generations to John's grandfather, William who married Anne and wo lived at Scowhill. He left a will dated March 1631 and was mentioned in the wills of his father, William (1596), and brother Robert (1610). The earliest Bancroft record is for John's great-grandfather, William of Cheadle. William left a will dated January 26, 1596/97 and proved October 1600. [Source: Carmen J. Finley, "Hackney, Harlan & Heald - Our Quaker Ancestors", (Computer printed: C. J. Finley, Santa Rosa, CA, 1987), pg. 19,20]

Buried:
[28da 12mo 1699]

John married Mary Janney on 6 Sep 1663 in Pownall Fee, Cheshire, England. Mary (daughter of Randle Janney and Ann Knevett) was born on 6 Jan 1639 in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England; died on 5 Mar 1706 in Stockport, Cheshire, England; was buried on 9 Mar 1706 in Stockport, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The most comprehensive work found on the Janneys is "The Quaker Janneys of Cheshire" by Miles White, Jr., compiled in 1904 and based on earlier work by Samuel M. Janney of Loudon County, VA. Much of the following is based on his work which was very carefully documented.

White gives many variations in the spelling of the Janney name. Included among them are Jeny, Jenny, Jenninges, Genys, Genynges (in York) and Janion, Janny, Jannye, Jannyon, Jannyne, Jannys, Jenion, Jenney, Jenny, Jennys, Jenyngs, Jenyus, Jenys, Guynes, Gynes, Gynney, Gynny, Yannes and Yannis (in Lancashire and Cheshire).

Mary (Janney) Bancroft of Wilmslow was christened 1639/40, daughter of Randle and Ann (Knevett) Janney of Handforth. Wilmslow records show there was also a younger child, William, christened in 1641. It is a bit puzzling that no other children of Randle and Ann were found in that they apparently, lived to an advanced age. The will of Ann Janney, of Ashton under Lyne, was proved in 1676, but there is no external evidence to lead to the supposition that it was the will of Randle's wife. Friends records show the death of an Anne Janney of Etchells February 28, 1698/99; and Etchells was where her daughter, Mary, was living at the time.

"Sufferings of the People Called Quakers" by Joseph Besse, published in 1753 in London, gives accounts of many persecutions of the Quakers because of their religious beliefs. Ann Janney, in 1663, is listed along with William and Thomas Janney as the subject of persecution and she 'suffered distress of goods.' It seems likely that this is the mother of Mary (Janney) Bancroft. White also believes Randle was not a Friend. It would appear that they may have lived elsewhere for a period and the records of other children have not been found. Mary's brother, William, was born in Staffordshire, and these records have not been searched. [Source: Carmen J. Finley, "Hackney, Harlan & Heald - Our Quaker Ancestors", (Computer printed: C. J. Finley, Santa Rosa, CA, 1987), pg. 21]

Buried:
[9da 1mo 1706]

Notes:

Married:
[6da 7mo 1663]