April 1740, Pennsylvania

April 18, 1740- Stephen Potts is born to Nathan Potts & Esther Rhoades in Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

(Stephen Potts is my second cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Potts & Elizabeth Baset.)

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April 1740, Rhode Island

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April 14, 1740- Nathan Sisson is born to William Sisson & Hannah Mullins in Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island.

April 27, 1740- Benjamin Strange is born to James Strange & Sarah Cory in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island.

(Nathan Sisson is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are George Sisson & Sarah Lawton.
Benjamin Strange is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Lawton & Elizabeth Salisbury.)

April 1740, Connecticut

April 13, 1740- Thomas Cornwall is born to John Cornwall & Mary Foster in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.

April 28, 1740- Amy Dowd is born to Janna Dowd & Desire Cornwall in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut.

(Thomas Cornwall is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are John Cornwall & Martha Peck, and George Hubbard & Elizabeth Watts, and William Cornwall & Mary Bailey.
Amy Dowd is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are John Cornwall & Martha Peck. Thomas Cornwall is her first cousin.)

March 1740, Virginia

March 5, 1740- My fifth great grandmother, Elizabeth Potts, is born to David Potts & Ann Roberts in Hillsboro, Loudoun County, Virginia.

March 1740, Pennsylvania

March 3, 1740- Catharine Cunnard is born to Dennis Cunnard & Lydia Potts in Pennsylvania.

(Catharine Cunnard is my second cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thones Kunders & Elin Magdalen Tyson and Thomas Potts & Elizabeth Baset.)

March 1740, Rhode Island

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March 3, 1740- Hannah Lawton is born to Adam Lawton & Martha Slocum in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island.

March 23, 1740- Jane Peckham is born to Isaac Peckham & Jane Sisson in Middletown, Newport County, Rhode Island.

(Hannah Lawton is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Lawton & Elizabeth Salisbury.
Jane Peckham is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are George Sisson & Sarah Lawton.)

March 1740, Connecticut

Wethersfield, Connecticut

March 3, 1740- Lois Wright is born to Jonas Wright & Bathsheba Goffe in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut. She would die young.
Reuben Tuttle is born to Ezekiel Tuttle & Susannah Merriman in New Haven, Connecticut.

March 5, 1740- Hannah Cornwall, daughter of Benjamin Cornwall & Mary Ward, dies at the age of  4 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.

March 26, 1740- My eighth great granduncle, Theophilus Doolittle, dies at the age of 61 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut.
Born in 1678, Theophilus was the youngest child of Abraham & Abigail (Moss) Doolittle. He was just 12 years old when his father died. When he came of age, his father's estate was divided up, and he inherited considerable land. He settled at Wallingford, and became a farmer.
In 1699 he married Thankful Hall; service performed by Samuel Street. Following her death in 1715, he wed Elizabeth Howe.

(Lois Wright is my second cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Nathaniel Hubbard & Mary Earle.
Reuben Tuttle is my third cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestor is Abraham Doolittle.
Hannah Cornwall is my first cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are John Cornwall & Martha Peck.)

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February 1740, Pennsylvania

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February 28, 1740- John Jarrett marries Alice Conard in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. They are first cousins.The Jarretts are among the oldest families in Montgomery county, their ancestor having come, it is said, from the Highlands of Scotland to America.

(John Jarrett is my second cousin 8 times removed. Alice Conard is his first cousin. Alice is my first cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graeff.)

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February 1740, Rhode Island

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February 28, 1740- Isabel Sherman, wife of Robert Hall, dies at the age of 43 in Kingston, Washington, Rhode Island. The daughter of Daniel Sherman & Sarah Jenney, she was born in Dartmouth in 1696.

(Isabel Sherman is my second cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Lawton & Elizabeth Salisbury.)

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February 1740, Connecticut

February 1, 1740- Ann Doolittle is born to Thomas Doolittle & Hannah Fenn in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut.

February 7, 1740- Jonas Wright marries Bathsheba Goffe in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.

February 26, 1740- Mary Peck, daughter of Deacon John Peck & Susannah Street, dies at age 45 in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut. She was the wife of Joshua Atwater.

(Ann Doolittle is my second cousin 8 times removed. Mary Peck is her first cousin once removed. Mary Peck is my second cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are Abraham Doolittle, Paul Peck & Martha Hale, and John Moss & Abigail Charles.
Jonas Wright is my first cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Nathaniel Hubbard & Mary Earle.)

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January 1740, Connecticut

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January 20, 1740- Mary Turner is born to John Turner & Abigail Richards in Hartford, Connecticut.

January 28, 1740- Amos Miller, infant son of Amos Miller & Abigail Cornwall, dies at the age of 2 in Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut.

(Mary Turner is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Edward Turner & Mary Sanford.
Amos Miller is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are John Cornwall & Martha Peck. )

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January 1740, England

January 17, 1740- Gulielma Maria Penn, wife of Charles Fell, dies at the age of 40 in London, England.

A letter in the Penn collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 

from Charles Fell to John Penn, is dated January 8, 1740. The writer
speaks of his wife as then very ill. She is in care of Dr. Dover, and can
only take "thin caudle through the spout of a teapot." The letter gives no
place of address, but appears from later allusions to have been written from
Westminster. Other letters immediately following disclose a pathetic story. 

Fell to Penn, Thursday, January 17, 1740: 

"This morning at one o'clock my Dearest Guly left me for ever. . . . begg the
continuance of yor Friendship to me and her Children." 
Fell to Penn, January 22, 1740: 

"My poor Dear Guly is this night to be buried in a private but as decent a
manner as I am able in a Vault in Saint Margaret's Church, Westminster." 
Fell to Penn, January 29, 1740: 

" . . . I am most unhappy, left greatly in debt, and am oblig'd to dispose of
all my Goods, wch will be sold next Thursday, to satisfy as many as the poor
amount of them will come to, but what to do afterwards God only knows. My
poor Dear Girls are gone this day wth their Grandmother1 to Hampton Court, in
order to have their Cloaths a little righted up before they go to a School wch
she has recommended. [The little boy, he adds, is taken by one of the ushers
of Westminster School to board with him. The writer himself has taken a
sleeping-room at the coffee-house; he is very anxious for some employment.]" 

Gulielma was born November 10, 1699, at Worminghurst, Sussex County, England. She is "the Beauty", and "Sweet Girl", so often mentioned in her grandfather William Penn's letters.

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She married first "early in life" Aubrey, son of Rees and Martha (Aubrey) Thomas, of Merion, Pennsylvania, the nephew of William Aubrey who had married her aunt, Letitia Penn. Aubrey did not long survive his marriage and left one son, William Penn Thomas. She next married Charles Fell,an officer in the army, and they had three children, Mary Margaretta, Gulielma Frances, and Robert Edward. It seems to be commonly assumed that this line of William Penn the Founder, through his granddaughter, Gulielma Maria Penn, and Charles Fell, is now extinct.
Gulielma lies buried in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, London.

Philad'a, May Wh, 1781. To his Excellency the President of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the Supreme Executive Council of the State: (Regarding land in Pennsylvania.)

The Petition of John Barron, Israel Morris, Susanna Rodney, Henry Remson, William Pollard, Owen & Clement Biddle and Thomas Bartow, John Brown, Respectfully Sheweth:

"William Penn, the second, died intestate, leaving Issue several Children, of whom Gulielma Maria, afterwards Wife of Charles Fell, was entitled to one-fourth Part of her said Father's Estate, or Six Thousand two Hundred and fifty Acres of the said Great Tract. The said Gulielma Maria Fell afterwards died intestate, leaving Issue Robert Edward Fell, Maria Margaretta, late the Wife of the Petitioner John Barron, and Gulielma Maria Frances, late the Wife of Newcomb, who became entitled to the Whole Estate of their said Mother."

The Church: Originally founded in the 12th century by Benedictine monks, so that local people who lived in the area around the Abbey could worship separately at their own simpler parish church, and historically part of the hundred of Ossulstone in the county of Middlesex, St Margaret's was rebuilt from 1486 to 1523. It became the parish church of the Palace of Westminster in 1614, when the Puritans of the 17th century, unhappy with the highly liturgical Abbey, chose to hold Parliamentary services in the more "suitable" St. Margaret's, a practice that has continued since that time.

(Gulielma Penn is my fourth cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Pletjes Driessen & Alet Gobels Syllys.)

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January 1740, Pennsylvania

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January 8, 1740- David Hallowell is born to William Hallowell & Margaret Tyson in Cheltenham Township, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

(David Hallowell is my third cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graeff and Coentgen Lenssen Coenis & Anna Entgen Thones.)

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January 1740, Rhode Island

January 3, 1740- Mary Sherman is born to Thomas Sherman & Mary Sanford in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

January 22, 1740- Daniel Hall is born to Robert Hall & Isabel Sherman in North Kingston, Washington County, Rhode Island.

(Mary Sherman is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are George Sisson & Sarah Lawton and Thomas Lawton & Elizabeth Salisbury. Daniel Hall is her second cousin.
Daniel Hall is my second cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are William Hall & Mary Thomas and Thomas Lawton & Elizabeth Salisbury.)

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