August 1743, Pennsylvania

August, 1743- Mary, daughter of William Hallowell & Margaret Tyson, dies at the age of one year in Abington Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

August 3, 1743- A son, Dyonisius, is born to Dennis Conrad & Ann Knight in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

August 18, 1743- Benjamin Gilbert, son of Nicholas Gilbert & Sarah Chamberlin, marries Mary Conard, daughter of John Conard & Alice Lukens, in Abington, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British America.
It is Mary's second marriage, her first husband Henry Evans died in 1739.

(Mary Conard is my first cousin 8 times removed.  Dyonisius Conard is her nephew. Dyonisius Conard is my second cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thones Kunders & Elin Magadalen Tyson and Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graeff .
Mary Hallowell is his third cousin.
Mary 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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June 1743, Pennsylvania

In 1682 William Penn and his fellow Quakers came to the New World. They named their new colony Pennsylvania. This meant Penn's woods.

June 30, 1743- A son, Jonathan, is born to George Burson & Sarah Cox in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

William Penn established the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania with the goals of religious tolerance and peace. Further, he sought to bring the Society of Friends (Quakers), who long suffered religious intolerance in Europe and the Colonies, to his new Colony.
There were three waves of migrations of Quakers to Pennsylvania.
According to Elliott, “The first and largest group were the English Quakers from London, Bristol, and counties in the west and north. A small minority were wealthy and they purchased the best lots in Philadelphia. The early nucleus of wealthy merchants in Pennsylvania was dominated by English Quakers from Barbados, Jamaica, New York, and West Jersey. English Friends also predominated the first tier of counties in Pennsylvania along the Delaware River. Later, a group of English Friends settled in Ceres in northwestern Pennsylvania.” -Quaker Records (by Wendy L. Elliott, CG, published 1987 by American Genealogical Lending Library)


(Jonathan Burson is my third cousin 6 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Potts & Elizabeth Baset.)

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