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Title: Annals of our colonial ancestors and their descendants, or, our Quaker forefathers and their posterity embracing a genealogical and biographical register of nine generations of the Shotwell family in America, together with the pedigree and near kindred of the author's parents, Nathan and Phebe B. (Gardner) Shotwell
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Shotwell, Ambrose Milton, 1853-
Subjects: Shotwell family Shotwell, Abraham, fl. 1679 Society of Friends. New Jersey
Publisher: Lansing, Mich. : R. Smith & Co.
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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erdon Co., N. J., wheretheir 5 children left numerous descendants.(4.) SamueV Willson, b. 1 of 5 mo,, 1681, inScarborough, Eng., removed in 1730 from Burl-ington Co., N. J., to Hunterdon Co., iu com-pany with the Etnley, Large and perhaps otherfamilies, where he purchased of Jacob Doughtya tract of 600 acres of land in Bethlehem Tp.for the sum of i;300, the deed bearing date, Jan. wood. He m., of 11 mo., 1705, Hester or Esther, Overton, b. 10-26, 1682, dan. of Samuel & Hannah ( ) Overton. They had 8 children, all born in Chesterfield, BurlingtonCo., N. J. James Willson, b. 21 of 11 mo., 1713. (ofSamueF, Robert), m. 18 of 9 mo , 1736, MarthaLaing, b. 1715, dan. of John & Elizabeth(Shotwell) Laing, of Piscataway, (of John (p.127)), and had: James Willson, b. 1-20, 1760.m.. 1781, Lucretia Freeman, and had SamuelWillson, b. 11-27, 1782. dw. Franklin Tp.. nearKingwood (now Quakertown), N. J., m. HannahMason, dau. of John Mason, and had JamesWillso7i, b. 11-2, 1811, in Kingwood (now
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FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE AT KINGWOOD (NOW QUAKERTOWN), N. J., BUILT IN 1745-7, AND TAKEN DOWN IN 1862.(From a drawing kindly lurnished by Miss Evangeline Vail, of Quakertown.) 22, 1730. In 1735 he built thereon a stonedwelling, which is still standing in a fair stateof preservation and is still owned and occupiedby his descendants, never having passed out ofthe possession of the family and not untilrecently out of the name. The Large home-stead was near, and it is related of Samuel Will-son and his sister Rebecca that in their old agethey frequently visited each other and playedtogether like children, the one visited alwaysaccompanying the visitor on the homeward wayas far as the stile, where they would separatewith tears. He was a minister among Friendsfor many years; d. 19 or 13 of 12 mo., 1761. andwas buried in Friends Burial Ground at King- Franklin) Tp., Hunterdon Co., N. J , engagedin farming there, and there d., B-21. 1884, ofangina pectoris, m. by Joseph Cougle, J. P.,2-3, 1836,

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