Coming from England, William Cooper, settled at Pyne Point in 1680. He and other Quakers who had settled further south on Newton Creek (by the Walt Whitman Bridge) worshipped with Friends who had settled at Shackamaxon on the Pennsylvania side. With the arrival of William Penn, the Pennsylvania Quakers were gathered into meetings on their side and New Jersey Friends formerly formed the Newton Meeting in 1682. The first meetinghouse was built on Newton Creek, in what would now be West Collingswood, in 1684......
https://newtonmeetingcamden.org/about-us/history-of-the-newton-meeting/
Pyne Point is just above this outlined in Red across the river from Philadelphia.
A meeting for worship at Pine Point was established in 1681 by Burlington Monthly Meeting. In 1682, the meeting became part of a short-lived monthly meeting for Pine Point and Shackamaxon (Pa.) established by Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. It became part of Newton [Haddonfield] Monthly Meeting at its formation, possibly as early as 1682. A preparative meeting was established in 1717.
I went through the entire Vol II of Hinshaw and found only the mention of the Certificates for John and Sarah Elliott. However, I did have a bit of interest in the last meeting mentioned. It is Falls Meeting in Bucks County.
There is an Elliott couple mentioned in the births for this meeting:
It is not impossible that this couple could have been parents of John Elliott.
And among the minutes and marriage records is the following:
I had to look up ltm in the abbreviations and it stands for is at liberty too marry. Again it is not impossible that this Elliott group could be related to John Elliott.
The below map shows Buck County and the blue marker is approximately where the Falls Meeting was located.
Remember that in the early days the members of Falls Meeting met in their homes for worship but went to Burlington for Monthly Meeting for business. By the time the Elliott family was in the minutes, they had formed a monthly meeting of their own. But My guess is that there was a bit of back and forth between the two communities. Bucks County is outlined in red.
Now a bit of quick and dirty tree making via Ancestry. Ann Elliott's father was Willam Elliott. william was born in 1645 in Somerset, England. He died in 1721 in Bucks County, PA. One tree says that William's father was Andrew and his mother was Ann Holmes.
Somerset is outlined in red in above map. It is just below Wales on the map and last county before the land runs out in the south west.
Among them was a marriage for William Elliott and Mary Bart in 1680. This works very well for the children found in the trees that I have looked at. There is a will for William Ellliot on this site. There are no sons mentioned. Only four daughters. The William Elliott that is on this lady's tree is not the father of my John Elliott. On this same site is a Quaker record for a William Ellot born in 1688 in Bucks County
Next I looked at Andrew Elliott who married Hannah Mead in 1706.
The above tree had information about the arrival of this couple on our shores in 1678.
Ok....slow down. This is not the same Andrew who arrived on these shores in 1678. I am going to start a new blog post about this Elliott family found in Bucks County as early as 1678. Date of new blog is Feb 19, 2022.
The above tree has William Ellet married to Mary/Ann Holmes with son John Born in 1680. And William's father, Andrew Ellet is the original immigrant and dies in Bucks County in 1684,
After spending much of the day looking at these families, I realize that almost everything that I have pertains to William Ellet who is the brother of Andrew Ellet who arrived on the ship Factor of Bristol around 1681 with wife Ann and two servants. I can find nothing of Andrew Ellet. He is not in the Quaker records nor can I find a will for him. The Ancestry trees who include him call him father to William but have birth dates that indicate that Andrew was 8 when he fathered William. This is both good and bad news. No one seems to have found anything at all about Andrew's family. Perhaps there is nothing to find? But also perhaps he had a son named John who did join the Quakers when he married Sarah?
I found this about Newtown:
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