January 1743, Pennsylvania

January 3, 1743- A son, Joseph, is born to Ezekiel Potts & Magdalen Miller in Bristol Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania.


SVG of Pennsylvania state seal (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

January 8, 1743- My fifth great granduncle, Ezekiel Potts, is born to David Potts & Ann Roberts in Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

January 25, 1743- John Lukens and his wife, Sarah Lukens, are separated from their church, Horsham meeting, having been disowned for having married first cousins.

(Joseph Potts is my second cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Potts & Elizabeth Baset.
John Lukens and Sarah Lukens are my second cousins 8 times removed. They are first cousins. Our common ancestors are Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graeff.)

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November 1742, Pennsylvania

November 11, 1742- Robert Roberts, son of Cadwalader Roberts, marries Sarah Ambler, daughter of Joseph Amber & Ann Williams, at the Gywnedd Monthly Meeting in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

November 30, 1742- Six years after his marriage to Esther Rhoades, Nathan Potts was required to make acknowledgement for his "outgoing," to Abington Monthly Meeting.
The couple had been married at the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, and was accomplished contrary to the "usage of Friends".

(Nathan Potts is my first cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Potts & Elizabeth Baset.
Sarah Ambler is my second cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Aret Klincken & Niske Agnes Jensen.)

An interesting article about politics, violence and Quakers in Philadelphia:
THE BLOODY ELECTION OF 1742

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July 7, 1742- A daughter, Eleanor, is born to Anthony Williams & Sarah Shoemaker in Cheltenham Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

(Eleanor Williams is my second cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Aret Klincken & Niske Agnes Jensen.)

In July, 1742, George Thomas, the Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, presided over treaty negotiations with the Iroquois. The Treaty Held with the Indians of the Six Nations was signed in Philadelphia.
Tribes involved included the Mohawk, Onayuit, Onantago, Jenontowano, Caiukquo, and Tufcarora.

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November 16, 1741- Isaac Shoemaker is born to Jacob Shoemaker & Margaret Conrad in Philadelphia County (Now Montgomery County), Pennsylvania.

(Isaac Shoemaker is my second cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thones Kunders & Elin Magdalen Tyson and Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graeff.)

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July1741, Pennsylvania

July 1, 1741- Margaret Tyson is born to Henry Tyson & Ann Harker in Wrightstown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

English: Seal of Germantown Pennsylvania, 1691 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

July 7, 1741- Peter Lukens dies at the age of 45 in Horsham, Montgomery, Pennsylvania. He is survived by his wife, Gaynor (Evans), and ten children.

Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography, Volume 23 By Historical Society of Pennsylvania:

Lucken—luken—Family Records.—Miss Annie M. Daniels, of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, contributes the following records of the Luken family, copied from the Bibles of Jan Lucken, who settled in Philadelphia County in 1683:

1696 the 30"1 of ye 1" mo. Peter Lucken was Born.

Peter Lukens was born January 30, 1696 in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
On October 28, 1719, Peter married Gaynor Evans, daughter of William Evans & Elizabeth Brooke in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
By 1734, Peter and Gaynor had moved to Horsham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, where they resided on 75 acres. The Quaker couple lived on Horsham Road, near the Horsham Meeting House. Horsham Road ran up to their neighbor John Bartholomew's property.

Will Abstract:

LUCKENS, PETER. Philadelphia County. Yeoman. April 27, 1741. Februa ry 22, 1741. F.227.

Exec: Wife Gaynor and Abraham Luckens. Children: Peter, John, Abraha m, Joseph, Benjamin, Eseu (Evan), Mary, Susanna, Anne and Gaynor. Witnesse s: John Crossley, John Palmer and Robert Healon.

(Peter Lukens is my first cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graef. Margaret Tyson is his first cousin once removed.
Margaret Tyson is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graef, and Coentgen Lennsen Coenis & Anna Entgen Thones.)
 

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