Jonathan Palmer1

b. 20 November 1690, d. 24 November 1765
Jonathan Palmer|b. 20 Nov 1690\nd. 24 Nov 1765|p10893.htm|John Palmer|b. c 1656\nd. 11 Aug 1726|p10886.htm|Christian (—?—) (Palmer)|b. 1654\nd. 28 Sep 1740|p10887.htm|||||||||||||

5th great-granduncle of William Lemuel Horn Jr.
7th great-granduncle of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Horn and Allied Families
     Jonathan Palmer was born 20 9m 1690 (20 November 1690) according to the Quarterly Meeting records of births and deaths for Bucks County, Pennsylvania.2 He was the son of John Palmer and Christian (—?—) (Palmer).1 His birth was also recorded, probably years after the fact, at Middletown Monthly Meeting.3,1 Falls Monthly Meeting in Bucks County granted a certificate 2 11m 1721 (3 January 1721/22) to Chester Monthly Meeting, Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, to marry Jonathan Palmer and Sarah Simcock.4 On 2 8m 1734 (2 October 1734) Falls Monthly Meeting granted a certificate to Middletown Monthly Meeting to marry Jonathan Palmer and Frances Durrance.4 They married 17 8m 1734 (17 October 1734) in Middletown Meeting House. Among the witnesses were Jonathan's brothers John and Daniel and sisters Hannah Hedley, Ruth Shallcross and Rachel Thackray.5 Click to view image His death on 24 9m 1765 (24 November 1765) at age 75 was recorded at Falls Monthly Meeting.6
     
Additional Data
On 2 May 1759, Jonathan Palmer requested leave of Falls Monthly Meeting for his sister Ruth Shallcross to build a house on the Meeting's land, but it was refused at the following meeting, 6 June 1759.7

Children of Jonathan Palmer and Sarah Simcock

Child of Jonathan Palmer and Frances Durrance

Citations

  1. [S1020] John T. Humphrey, Pennsylvania Births, Bucks County, 1682-1800 (Washington, D.C.: Humphrey Publications, 1993).
  2. [S1034] Anna Miller Watring and F. Edward Wright, Quaker Records: Falls and Middletown Monthly Meetings, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Church Records of the 17th & 18th Centuries Series (Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2003), 2: 173. Hereinafter cited as Quaker Records: Falls and Middletown.
  3. [S1034] Anna Miller Watring and F. Edward Wright, Quaker Records: Falls and Middletown, 2: 206.
  4. [S358] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, 5 vols. (Ann Arbor: Edwards Borthers, 1938), 1018.
  5. [S1038] Unknown, trans., "Marriage Certificates beginning with 1681", Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania vol. 2 (June 1900): 1: 71.
  6. [S358] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, 2: 966.
  7. [S1027] John W. Jordan, ed., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, 3 vols. (New York and Chicago: n.pub., 1911; reprint Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978), 1: 314.
  8. [S1034] Anna Miller Watring and F. Edward Wright, Quaker Records: Falls and Middletown, 2: 27.