This is a continuation to the blog post that follows, so please go back and read the earlier blog posts before reading this.
So I have taken John and Sarah Elliott from Burlington Monthly Meeting to New Garden/Nottingham. This would have happened in 1722.
John died before 1735. Sarah married John Farmer. Other researchers say he was the next door neighbor. In 1735 New Garden Monthly Meeting dis Sarah for marrying out of unity:
So Sarah was still affiliated with the New Garden Monthly Meeting in 1735.
it was approximately 1745 when the first Quakers settled in Warrington Township and Warrington Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) was established. Our Elliott family had first settled at the Nottingham Lots and attended Quaker meeting there. At least this is my theory based on information that the land west of the Susquehanna was not yet settled. Since they moved in 1722, they must have lived somewhere on the east side of the Susquehanna River for at least five to ten years and maybe much longer. Perhaps Sarah and second husband, John Farmer, moved to York County after their marriage in 1735,
Lauren sent me a brochure of the Nottingham Lots. It does include man original owners of the plats that I am not including here. There are no Elliott names on the list.
At the time of John and Sarah's move, the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland was in dispute. This continued until the Mason Dixon line was drawn in April 1765. You can see that only a very small part of a few of the lots were in Pennsylvania after 1765. By that time John Elliott would have been deceased for 30 years and Sarah and her second husband were living in York County, PA on the western side of the Susquehanna River. Lauren says that John and Sarah were paying taxes in West Nottingham Township in
1724, 1725, 1726/27. But by 1731 and 1732 they are paying taxes in Sadsbury township and by 1734 widow Elliott is paying taxes in Sadsbury. So perhaps they never actually lived in the Nottingham Lots.
Here is another map that helps to clarify the location of the Nottingham lots
In 1729, John and James Hendricks established the first authorized settlement in what is now called Kreutz Creek in York County. Germans, originally lured from the Rhenish Palatinate by William Penn's agents, soon followed Englishmen into the new frontier.
1755 Jacob Elliott was a part of Sadsbury MM in Lancaster County, PA as in the 10th month of 1755 the men's minutes state that Jacob has condemned his outgoing in marriage:
The next month's meeting minutes James Moore reports that he read Jacob's condemnation of his outgoing in marriage to the membership:
at the next Sadsbury meeting, Jacob requests a certificate to take with him to Warrington MM. James Moore and Joseph Williams are asked to enquire into if indeed Jacob is in good standing and if so to prepare a certificate to present at the next meeting.
Jacob and his family appear to have moved west of the Susquehanna River in 1755 and lived there for the next eight years. I believe there were Indian troubles in the area that caused them and others to make the move to North Carolina in 1763
The 11th month of 1763 Jacob and family have requested a certificate to take with them for New Garden MM in North Carolina
There are some more Quaker records after the Elliott family move to NC. I am not at this time going to insert screen shots. I am going to summarize these records:
26 Nov 1763 Jacob Elliott and wife and 5 children received on certificate from Warrington MM, PA dated 20 Sep 1763.
Center MM Set off from New Garden MM in NC in 1773
New Garden MM n NC on 27 April 1782 Jacob Elliott and wife Elizabeth and 4 children received on certificate from Center MM dated 21 Jul 1781 (this was in preparation for their move to the area on Chestnut Creek in what is now Carroll County, Virginia
New Garden MM on 31 Jan 1784 Jacob Elliott and wife Elizabeth and 4 children granted certfiicate to Center MM. (This is the move back to Randolph County at the end of the Revolution)
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