William Trotter 1627-1676 Cutbury Gibbs 1628

William Trotter
Born 4 Apr 1630 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Note:  Newbury existed as a plantation prior to its being settled in 1635.  Some sources claim William may have been born in England because his birth year is 1630. 
Parents George Trotter and Gertrude Wren
Religion:  Quaker
Married 1) Cutbury Gibbs 9 Dec 1652 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Note: Her name IS Cutbury not Catherine in the record
2) Alice Ebel 28 Sep 1667 New York City, New York
Died September 1676 Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey
Sources
Marriage to Cutbury : Massachusetts Marriages 1695-1910  Film 0886202-03 Batch M50032-2
Marriage to Alice:  Clemens, William Montgomery. American Marriage Records Before 1699. Pompton Lakes, NJ, USA: Biblio Co., 1926
A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England Before 1692 Volume 4 Treadway-Trow By James Savage
Passenger and Immigration Lists Index 1652 page 292
Ipswich Court Records and Files, The Essex Antiquarian, vol. 10, 1906
http://www.dougwilson.com/family/reports/fam1058.html
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=49075126
Cutbury Gibbs (Some say Catherine others say Ann, but in their marriage record it IS Cutbury)
Born 8 Jul 1628 Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey
Parents John Gibbs and Joan Scott
1667 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Sources
A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England Before 1692 Volume 4 Treadway-Trow By James Savage Note:  Savage disparages her given name, calling it "unchristian"

CHILDREN (those he had with Cutbury)

Mary Trotter
Born 22 Jan 1652 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Note:  the calendar used at the time began in March so the real year for Mary's birth would be 1653.  With that said, in Newbury court records, in 1653: “William Trotter and wife fined and to be whipped for defiling themselves before the marriage bed.”
Sources
Massachusetts Births and Christenings 1639-1915 Batch C50032-1 Film 823653
Rebecca Trotter
Born 5 Jul 1655 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Married Reverend John Drake 7 Jul 1677 Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey
Note:  Alternate city for marriage place is Elizabethtown
Children: Hannah, John, Francis, Samuel, Joseph, Benjamin, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ebenezer, Ephraim, Rebecca, Abigail, Mary
Buried 1702 Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey
Sources
Massachusetts Births and Christenings 1639-1915 Batch C50032-1 Film 823653

Lineages of Members of the National Society of Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, Vol. I page 527

http://ringleib.com/Ringleib_Info/Family_Tree/ColinR/d782.htm#P2357
Samuel Trotter
Born 5 Jun 1657 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Note: given name is spelled Samuell in record
Married Hannah Higgins abt 1680 New Jersey
Children:  Abigail, Benjamin, William, Hannah, Rebecca, Sarah, Mary, Phoebe
Died Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey
Sources
Massachusetts Births and Christenings 1639-1915 Batch C50032-1 Film 823653 ref 2
Massachusetts, Town Vital Collections, 1620-1988
Benjamin Trotter
Born Jun 1659 Newbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Note:  his given name is not on the record
Married Hannah
Children: Sarah, Abigail, Benjamin, William, Hannah, Rebecca, Mary, unnamed baby
Death abt 1726 (Will Proved 18 Apr 1726)  
Sources
Massachusetts Births and Christenings 1639-1915 Batch C50032-1 Film 823653
New Jersey Abstract of Wills page 472-3 
*William Trotter
Born 1661 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Occupation: Sawyer working in Philadelphia
Married Rebecca Theach 18 Apr 1693 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Children:  William, Joseph, Benjamin
Died 11 Sep 1699 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Note:  he died of yellow fever a few months before the birth of their last son
Sources
https://sites.google.com/site/webstergriggsfamilies/webster/trotter
Abigail Trotter
Born 1 Feb 1663 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Note:  name spelled Abigaill in record
Died 11 Sep 1699 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Sources
Birth:  Massachusetts Births and Christenings 1639-1915 Batch C04442-7  Film 877468 ref 15
Sarah Trotter
Born 3 May 1665 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Note: Her given name is spelled Sara in the record
Married Joseph Martin 25 Nov 1679 Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Children:  James, Joseph, Abigail, David, Joshua, Moses
Died Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey
Sources
Birth:  Massachusetts Births and Christenings 1639-1915 Batch C04442-7  Film 877468 ref 18
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/z/i/z/John-F-Corleto/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0864.html
Robert Trotter
Born 1667 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Died Baltimore, Maryland
Sources
Family Search

William Trotter 1661-1699 Rebecca Theach 1675-1731

The Trotter family immigrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, sometime before 1692.  They were part of the Quaker middle-class in Philadelphia.

William Trotter
Born April 1695 Abington, Montgomery, Pennsylvania
Note: some say he was born in Elisabethtown, Union, New Jersey. His parents were married in Newbury, therefore, it is likely that this information is based on that fact.
Parents William Trotter and Cutbury Gibbs
Occupation:  Sawyer, Farmer
Married Rebecca Theach 18 Feb1693 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Owned 100 acres in White Marsh, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
In 1735 Isaac Price and his wife Margaret of Plymouth sold to William Trotter 100 acres of land in that town
Died 11 Jul 1699 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Friends Burial Ground, Plymouth
Sources
https://sites.google.com/site/webstergriggsfamilies/webster/trotter
The Winterthur Library The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera Title: Papers
Dates: 1741-1815, bulk 1788-1800 Call No.: Col. 325 Location: 17 L 4
Marriage: Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy Vol 2 (New Jersey and Pennsylvania Monthly meetings) Philadelphia monthly meeting page 670

Rebecca Theach
Born 1675 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Buried 20 Nov 1731 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sources
https://sites.google.com/site/webstergriggsfamilies/webster/trotter
The Winterthur Library The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera Title: Papers
Dates: 1741-1815, bulk 1788-1800 Call No.: Col. 325 Location: 17 L 4

CHILDREN

William Trotter
Born Jun 1695 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Married Hanna Maurle abt 1720 Pennsylvania
Children:  Rebecca, John, Esther, Lydia, Margaret, Joseph
Occupation: Farmer (they called it husbandman) in White Marsh, Philadelphia county, Minister
Died 19 Dec 1748 Plymouth, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

“William Trotter was the son of William Trotter, and was born in the neighbourhood of Abington, fourth month, 1695. His memorial says: ‘Of religious parents, and amongst Friends was educated. As he grew in years, he was blessed in that he grew in grace, and in the fear and knowledge of our blessed Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. About the twenty-first year of his age, he received a gift in the ministry, in which he as frequently exercised during the course of his life. His ministry was sound and savoury, attended with a good degree of that life and power by which the dead are raised, and without which preaching is vain. He was not tedious or burthensome, but often very reaching and edifying to her hearers.’

“He removed to the neighbourhood of Plymouth, towards the close of 1721, taking a certificate from Abington to Gwynedd Monthly Meeting in the first month following. Here he soon became extensively useful in religious Society, and continued active and laborious for the good of others until within a short time of his death.

“His friends thus characterize him: ‘in his life and conversation he was grave, yet innocent, cheerful, and, we think, strictly just in his dealings; also a lover and promoter of peace and unity and brotherly love amongst Friends, of which he was himself a good pattern. He was generally beloved during his life, and at his death left a good savour behind him. His removal from time to a happy eternity, though certainly his great gain was a considerable loss to the meeting where he belonged. He departed this life on the 19th day of Tenth month, 1749; aged about 53 years and 6 months, and was decently interred on the 21st day of the same month, in Friends’ burying-ground at Plymouth. We believe he is gone from his laborious service, to receive an heavenly reward “where the wicked shall cease from troubling, and the weary soul shall be at rest.”’

Will: Date: 5 Feb 1748

Prove Date: 24 Feb 1749

Name: William Trotter

Residence: Plymouth, Philadelphia Co.

Description: Decedent BookPage: J:228 Remarks: Trotter, William. Plymouth, Co. of Philadelphia. 2 mo. 5, 1748/9. Feb. 24, 1749. Wife: Hannah. Children: Rebecca, Esther, Lydia, Margaret and Joseph. Son-in-Law: William Jones. Brother-in-Law: John Jones. Freinds: Elizabeth and Catherine Ellis. Exec: Hannah and Joseph Trotter. Guardians: Joseph and John Jones. Sources http://www.ancestry.com/ http://www.findingaid.winterthur.org/ https://sites.google.com/site/webstergriggsfamilies/webster/trotter

Joseph Trotter

Born 1697 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Occupation: Furniture Maker (Cutler)

Member of the Provincial Assembly

Married Dinah Shelton 25 Feb 1718 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Children: Rachel, James, Hannah,Rebecca, Mary, Elizabeth, Spencer, Nathan, William, Joseph

Died 25 Nov 1770

Mentioned in his will

TROTTER, JOSEPH. City of Phila. Cutler. May 22, 1770. December 10, 1770.

Children: Joseph, Mary, Hannah.

Son in law: David Bacon.

Daughters in law: Sarah Trotter, Margaret Trotter.

Grandchildren: Thomas and Dinah Trotter. Children of son Nathan (decd.); Joseph, Daniel, and Benjamin Trotter. Children of son William (decd.). Jeremiah and Josiah Elfreth.

Cousin: John Wood.

Execs.: James Pemberton, David Bacon.

Wit: Cha. Jervis, Jesse Lane, Paul Isaac Voto.

Codicil. August 22, 1770.

Daughter in law: Sarah Trotter. Daughters: Mary, Hannah.

Sources

Online: http://www.librarycompany.org/

http://www.findingaid.winterthur.org/

https://sites.google.com/site/webstergriggsfamilies/webster/trotter

*Benjamin Trotter

Born Nov 1699 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Note:  he was born three months after his father's death

Occupation: Chair maker (Sawyer)

Married: Mary (Fisher) Corker (widow of William Corker)  4 Jun 1734 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Children:  Mary

Died 16 Mar 1768 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Mentioned in his will:

TROTTER, BENJAMIN. Phila. Chair maker. 2 mo. 25, 1768. 1 April 1768.

Daughter: Mary Browne.

Grandchildren: Mary, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Dinah, Joseph, Hannah and Benjamin Browne.

Execs.: cousin David Bacon and John Pemberton.

Negro: Rose.

Wit: Hannah Elfreth, Jno. Elliott, Jr. and Wm. Norton. O.220

Sources

http://www.findingaid.winterthur.org/

https://sites.google.com/site/webstergriggsfamilies/webster/trotter

Marriage to Mary Fisher Corker:  Genealogies of Pennsylvania Families from the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine. Volume I: Arnold-Hertzel page 563-4

Benjamin Trotter 1699 Mary Fisher 1711-1750

Benjamin was a Quaker
this symbol is known as a
Quaker Star

Benjamin Trotter
Born  Nov 1699 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Parents: William Trotter and Rebecca Theach
Occupation: Chair maker, Quaker preacher for 40 years
Religion: Quaker
Married Mary Fisher 4 Jun 1734 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died 26 Mar 1768 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Buried: Friends Arch Street Meeting House

A Testimony of the monthly meeting of Friends in Philadelphia concerning our friend, Benjamin Trotter, who was born in this city in the ninth month of the year 1699

Newspaper Obituary extraction 

He was one whom the Lord early visited and reached unto by the reproofs of His devine light and grace, for those youthful vanities and corrupt conversation, by which nature he was prone to and pursued, to the grief of his pious mother, who was religiously concerned to restrain him; but as he became obedient to the renewed visitations of the heavenly call, denying himself of those things he was reproved for, he not only ceased in doing evil, but to live in the practice of doing well; and continuing faithful, became an example of plainess and self-denial, for which he suffered much scoffing and mocking of those who had been his companions in folly; yet he neither fainted nor was turned aside by the reproaches of the ungodly, which thus fell to his lot, for his plain testimony to their evil conduct.

In the twenty-sixth year of his age, he appeared in the work of the ministry, and laboured therein in much plainess and godly sincerity, adorning the doctrine he preached by a humble cirumspect life and conversation, being exemplary in his diligence and industry to labor honestly for a livelihood, though often in much bodily infirmity and weakness desiring, as he sometimes expressed, that he might not owe any man any thing but love. His inoffensive openess and affability, drawing many of different denominations to converse with him, he had some seasonable opportunities of admonishing and rebuking the evil doer and evil speaker, which he did, in the plainess of an upright zeal for the promotion of piety and virtue, tempered with true brotherly kindness and charity; respecting not the person of the proud nor of the rich, because of his riches, but with Christian freedom, declaring the truth to his neighbor, and was thus in private as well as in public, a preacher of righteousness.

In his public ministry, he was zealous against errors both in principle and practice, and constantly concerned to press the necessity of obedience to the principle of divine grace; a manifestation which is given to every man; knowing from his own experience that it bringeth salvation to all them that obey and follow its teachings, and was frequently enabled with energy and power, to bear testimony to the outward coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, his miraculous birth, his holy example in his life and precepts, and his sufferings and death at Jerusalem, by which he  hath obtained eternal redemption for us.

In his public testimony, a little before his last sickness, he expressed his apprehensions, that his time among us would be short, and fervently exhorted to watchfulness and care, to keep our lamps trimmed and our lights burning, and urged the necessity of being prepared to meet the bridegroom, as not knowing what hour he will come.  

He travelled several times and and visited most of the meetings of Friends in this province and New Jersey, and some of the adjacent provinces, but was not much from home; being upwards of forty years a diligent attender of our religious meetings in this city, zealously concerned for the maintaining our Christian discipline in meekness and true charity,  careful in the exercise of pure religion, visiting the widow and fatherless in their afflictions, and often qualified to administer relief and consolation to their dejected minds.

Afflictions of divers kinds, and some very deep and exercising, fell to his lot through the course of his life, which he was enabled to bear with exemplary patience and resignation, and particularly through his last illness, in which, in upwards of six weeks, he underwent great difficulty and pain, being afflicted with the asthma and dropsy, so that he suffered much, yet was never heard to utter a murmur or complaint, but frequently expressed his thankfulness that he had not more pain, and often engaged in prayer, tha the might be preserved in patience to the end,which was graciously granted him; so that he was capable of speaking to the comfort and edification of those who visited him; and from the fervrent love of the brethren, which evidently appeared through his life, and most conspiciously during his last illness, and even in the hour of his death, we have a well-grounded assurance that he is passed unto life, and hath received a reward of righteousness.

His body was attended by a great number of Friends and others, his fellow citizens of divers religious denominations, to our meeting house in High Street, on the 24th of the third month 1768, and after a solemn meeting, in which several living testimonies were borne, was interred in our burial ground in this city.  Signed James Pemberton, Clerk, the fourth day of the 8th month, 1769

Date: 25 Feb 1768 Prove Date: 1 Apr 1768 Name: Benjamin Trotter

Residence: Philadelphia

Description: Decedent Title: Chairmaker BookPage: O:220 Remarks: Benjamn Trotter. Phila. Chair maker. 2 mo. 25, 1768. 1 April 1768. Daughter: Mary Browne. Grandchildren: Mary, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Dinah, Joseph, Hannah and Benjamin Browne. Execs.: cousin David Bacon and John Pemberton. Negro: Rose. O:220.

His will, dated 5 Feb 1768 was offered for probate 1 Apr 1768 "...First, I do give, desire and bequeath to my dear daughter, Mary Brown, my wearing apparel, and having heretofore assisted my said beloved daughter Mary as I have been well capable, yet consdiering she may continue under Tryals & difficulties (Mary's husband, Abraham Browne, had been disowned by the Quakers for 'bearing arms' in the war - perhaps the French and Indian War?), I do give unto her the interest which my yearly  ...from the money hereafter bequeathed in my grandchildren during their minority...I give and bequeath unto Rose, a Negro woman whome I have set free and at liberty, a small feather bed, a trundle bedstead with sacking bottom, two blankets and a pair of sheets....The money arising from such sale or sales (his executors were to sell what they could) unto my loving grandchildren, Mary, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Dinah, Joseph, Hannah, and Benjamin Brown, to be paid to them as they respectively attain to age or marry...."

Sources
US Newspaper Extractions, Index of Obituaries 1704-1800 page 474
https://sites.google.com/site/webstergriggsfamilies/webster/trotter
Will:  ancestry.com
Book: The Friends (Quaker) Library for his memorial pages 183-184
US Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy Volumes 1-6
US Quaker Meeting Records
Genealogies of Pennsylvania Families, Page 563
Family Search
A source listed on findagrave: Genealogical Gleanings from the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker, 1759 to 1807, Page 591 in Pennsylvania Vital Records, Vol. I, by the Genealogical Publishing Company, Incorporated in 1983
Occupation, Religion: The Winterthur Library The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera
Note: I found information about the Trotters of Philadelphia online. Apparently, many members of the family were locally famous for their hand-crafted furniture.
Memorial:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155016869
Mary Fisher
Born 26 Mar 1711 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Note:  This birth date has to be wrong as her marriage to William Corker took place in 1709 on Quaker records.  More likely, she was born much earlier, perhaps as early as 1690.
Parents: William Fisher and Bridget Hodgkins
Married 1) William Corker
Children:  Elizabeth
Died 28 Mar 1750 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sources
Death date:  US Quaker Meeting Records
US Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy Volumes 1-6
US Quaker Meeting Records
ancestry.com
Family Search

CHILDREN

Mary Trotter
Born 24 Jan 1734 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Married Abraham Browne 29 Mar 1754 West Grove, Chester, Pennsylvania
Children:  Mary, Elizabeth, Dinah, Rebecca, Joseph, Abraham, Hannah, Benjamin
Died 11 Feb 1802 West Grove, Chester, Pennsylvania
Buried: New West Grove Friends Cemetery
Sources
For a look at the some of the land that Abraham Brown owned: Book:  Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 1907 Official Documents Case:  No. 7 A. 35  18 Dec 1907  Evidently there was a question about the land that Mary Trotter owned and had surveyed in 1794 (before her death)
Family Search
Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190646031/mary-browne