John and Mary Woodward Newlin
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| Mary Woodward born 1/9/1691 Chester Co, Pa died 11/24/1790 Delaware Co, Pa |
John Newlin born 2/28/1691 Chester Co, Pa died 2/10/1753 Chester Co, Pa |
| Married: 2/30/1711 (OS) Concord Monthly Meeting, Chester Co, Pa. They were married on the same day as brother Nathaniel Newlin, Jr., and sister Jane Woodward.
Children: Mary Newlin born about 1711, Chester Co, Pa; married John Hall Jane Newlin born about 1713, Chester Co, Pa; married Samuel Sharples John Newlin born 1716, Chester Co, Pa; married Mary Pyle Rebecca Newlin born 1718 Chester Co, Pa; married Richard Fawkes 2/16/1740 at Concord Abigail Newlin born 11/22/1722 Chester Co, Pa; married Moses Palmer 2/17/1745 at Concord Sarah Newlin born about 1724 Chester Co, Pa; married John Worrall Nathaniel Newlin born about 1726 Chester Co, Pa; married Jane Woodward (first cousin), daughter of Edward and Alice Woodward (We have not researched the Quaker records for the children's birthdates; they are from A Mendenhall-Newlin Alliance, by Russell Newlin Abel (Church Hill, Maryland, 17 June 1989). As time permits we will attempt to get the full birth dates from Quaker records.) |
Quaker RecordsJohn Newlin and his brother-in-law Ralph Eavenson were appointed overseers of Concord Meeting on 17th of 5th month of 1732.Land Records in Chester CountyWhen John's father Nathaniel Newlin died intestate in 1729 the land was divided according to law among his children. In these deeds we learn that John & Mary Woodward Newlin lived adjoining Richard & Jemima Newlin Eavenson when those two received 913 acres in 1733 as their share of land. When John Newlin's brother Nathaniel died he named John trustee in the sale of his lands comprising 1620 acres. When Ellis Lewis, husband of deceased Elizabeth Newlin, John's sister was granted land for his children. John participated with his brothers and sisters in providing them an 1133 acre share. John & Mary Woodward Newlin received a 443 acre tract as part of their share of the land and resold it on February 16, 1733.On 10 May 1746 Benjamin Johnson gave a mortgage to Joseph Parker for a tract of land in Newlin Township with a bolting mill and grist mill located on them. The grist mill land was bounded by John Newlin's land and Brandywine Creek. On 1 October 1744 John Newlin, yeoman, granted a lease to Johnson with full power to build a dam on the west branch of Brandywine Creek on John Newlin's plantation bounded by the creek and to dig a water course through the said land of John Newlin for the use of a mill now being built. The lease was for 999 years with a yearly rent of 1 pound. (Land information is from Abstracts of Chester County, Pennsylvania Land Records by Carol Bryant, Vols 1-3). More on Newlin ChildrenNote: We have more information on the family descendants so please contact us if you have a connection (email on About Us Page). Paula Picken is a descendant of John and Mary Woodward Newlin and would be happy to share information on this family.Nathaniel Newlin: Son Nathaniel Newlin married his first cousin Jane Woodward daughter of Mary's brother Edward Woodward and his second wife Alice Smedley Allen Woodward. Because of the first cousin relationship they did not have a Quaker marriage but were married 11/30/1757 at Old Swede's Church, the usual place for Quakers marrying out of unity in Chester County. This is the same church where Abraham & Hannah Thornbrough Woodward were married three years later. Jane Newlin Sharples: Daughter Jane Newlin married Samuel Sharples 3/26/1736, at Concord Monthly Meeting. Their wedding had a large attendance, and the following signed as family members: Joseph Sharples, Jane Woodward, John Newlin, Lydia Sharples, Mary Newlin, Richard Woodward, Benjamin Mendenhall, Thomas Woodward, Hannah Woodward, John Sharples, Mary Lewis, Christopher Wilton [Wilson, husband of Esther Woodward], Benjamin Mendenhall, Jr., Samuel Lewis, Robert Lewis, Joseph Woodward, William Woodward, James Woodward, Joseph Lewis, Nicholas Newlin, Lydia Mendenhall. A Genealogy of the Smedley Family gives information on this family and lists twelve children. This was verified by a descendant, Dian Youngs Hamby, who has birthdates and marriages for the children. Jane was 83 years old when she died. The names of the children were Mary, John, Thomas, Lydia, Abigail, Samuel, Hannah, Susanna, Phebe, Rachel, Samuel,Jr., and Joel. Death of Mary Woodward NewlinMary Woodward Newlin's birth and death dates are from The Woodward Family of Chester County, Pennsylvania, J. Gary Woodward (Leavenworth, Kansas, September, 1995.) This source has proven to be very well researched. Mary would have been about 100 years old when she died but that would not have been unusual in this family. Her grandfather Abraham Marshall lived to nearly 100. Her son Nathaniel Newlin died 9/10/1823 per Quaker records and thus would have been about 97 years old. Again, we will try to independently verify the dates in Quaker records.OBITUARY Died, on ye 24th of this instant, Mary Newlin, of Concord, in the one hundred and second year of her age. She was born in the township of Thornbury in ye County of Chester in Pennsylvania, about twenty-six miles from Philadelphia, which was as that time the western frontier on the then province. She was a woman of hale constitution, affable and Cortious to her frds; Hospitalbe and kind to strangers and ye poor, Industrious & temperate. She retained her memory and sight to the last period of her life. She spun and knit till within nine weeks of her death. Idleness & Sloth were her greatest bane. She was buried in friends burying ground at Concord, attended by a large concourse of relatives and friends, 11th month 26th, 1790. She told me, about sixteen months past, that she remembered when her father and others deaded the timber, and burned the leaves, and hoed in their wheat by hand, there being few horses and scarce a plow in the settlement; that the natives were very kind to them, supplying them with bear's meat, venison, wild fowl, and eggs in plenty, and thought the white people conferred an obligation on them by receiving it. (Original in possession of Mary Newlin, of Waterville, Delaware County, Pennsylvania) (Lewis Woodward writing in 1897). Paula Picken is a descendant of John and Mary Woodward Newlin and would be happy to share information on this family. We have to comment on the obituary age of 102 vs. her actual birth and death dates. We have noted that people just weren't very sure about their age until the advent of people actually having to acquire birth certificates to prove their age which didn't happen until the twentieth century. Now that I am older I know that in conversations I often don't know my correct age and only really check on it when it is required for some legal reason. There is an interesting story in a part of my family. There was an ancestor who regularly shaved five years off her real age in all kinds of records. Someone evidently wanted to set the record straight and on her tombstone they give her birthdate, her death date and her real age. |