Ancestors of Joseph Morrison Harley

Citations


464. John Michener

1Anna E. Shaddinger, More Micheners In America (Bonekemper Typesetting, Inc), pp1-2, FHL, 50 East North Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150, USA.

2Anna E. Shaddinger, More Micheners In America, p1.


470. John Scarborough Jr

1Milligan, Fred J., The Quaker Ancestors of Paul and Sarah Preston, pioneer settlers of Carroll Co., OH: Scarborough, Michener, Fisher, Cust. (Westerville, OH: Millstone Publications, c1996), pp4-5, 17 Jul 1997, FHL, 50 East North Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150, USA, US/CAN 929.273 A1 no.9019. "JOHN SCARBOROUGH, son of John Scarborough and Sarah Ashley, was born 1667, London, ENG, died 27 Apr 1727 Solebury TWP, Bucks, PA, at 60 years old. He was burioed, Buckingham FBG, Bucks, PA. John married c1690, Middletown MM, Bucks, PA, Mary Pierson. No proof had been found concerning Mary's maiden name. Mary was born c1676, Middletown TWP, Bucks, PA, died 23 Jan 1751 at nearly 85 years old. Mary married 2} PHILLIP TORREY. John came to America with his father and when his father returned to England, he stayed here. It was said that hje ran away from the family to which he was apprenticed and lived with the Indians for five years and later served as William Penn's interpreter. In 1700 he sold a farm in Middletown TWP, Bucks, PA and bought 510 acres in Solebury TWP, Bucks, PA and moved there. In 1705 he traded for 520 acres adjoining it near Lahaska Station. in 1709 he traded his farm for 820 acres with Jacob Holcombe. He was thought to be the first white settler in the Buckingham-Solebury valley. Part of his farm was later owned byu a third g-grandson, ISAAC PEARSON SCARBOROUGH. John was a farmer and minister. He and Mary were members of the Middletown and Falls MM. On 3 Sep 1705 John was condemned by the Falls MM for too much celebrating of so-called Christmas the previous year. On 2 Oct 1724 he was recorded minister. John and Mary were charter members of the Buckingham MM, Bucks, PA, where he was memorialized: "in his youth somehwat airy...a man of remarkable self-denial and endowed with much mildness...with loving and kind deportment". His will was dated 13 Mar 1725/1727 and was confirmed 2 Oct 1727 by the original witnesses at Doylestown, Bucks, PA."


484. Nicholas Hartford

1Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, et al, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.; Baltimore; 1988), p309, 9 Apr 1999, Family History Library, Snohomish Stake Building, 10120 Chapel Hill Road, Lake Stevens, WA 98205, e-mail: d.wintch@juno.com, USA; Maine; 320.04.