Charles Wren 1564-1621 Gertrude Thornhaugh abt 1570

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Binchester like this:

BINCHESTER, a township in St. Andrew-Auckland parish, Durham: on the river Wear, adjacent to the Weardale railway, 2 miles N by E of Bishop-Auckland. Acres, 500. Real property, with Newfield, £3,473,-of which £2,294 are in mines. Pop., 33. Houses, 5. The manor has belonged to the Wren family since the time of James I and their mansion on it, a venerable building with wings, appears to have been built about the beginning of that King's reign. A spot on the brow of an eminence, commanding an extensive view, and now enclosed and cultivated, was the Roman station Binovium or Vinovium, and has yielded a great variety of Roman relics. The extent of the station was probably about 30 acres. The Roman Watling-street passed either through it, or close on its western side.

In the Book: North Country Diaries by John Crawford Hodgson there is a reference to the family as the "Wrathful Wrens" by the Bishopric and that there was difficulty with the pedigree which was cleared up by a Mr. Farnham Burke (who had access to the original records preserved at Heralds College) and solves a problem caused by a book, Visitation of Durham, published in 1887 written by Mr. Joseph Foster.  However, the problem has not been solved.  I'm still unsure about Gertrude.  According to Foster, Gertrude daughter of Sir Charles Wren became a nun.  I originally gathered this information from Ancestral File.


(Sir Knight) Charles Wren
Christening 26 Jun 1564 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Parents: Anthony Wrene (no mother listed)
Married: Gertrude Thornhaugh abt 1597
Attended Brasenose College in Oxford
Knighted 28 May 1607
Buried 24 Mar 1621 Auckland, St Andrew, Durham, England
Sources
Christening: IGI Film 0091080 Batch P000211 dated 1558-1653
Book:  North Country Diaries by John Crawford Hodgson page 206
Gertrude Thornhaugh
Born abt 1570 Fenton, Nottingham, England
Parents:  John Thornhaugh
Buried 4 Dec 1616 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Sources
Book: North Country Diaries by John Crawford Hodgson page 206

CHILDREN

Frances Wren (she belongs to a Charles Wren, just not sure this one)
Christening 1 Sep 1598 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Married Ralph Blackstone abt 1618
Note:  Ralph's surname is spelled Blakiston in Family Search.  His marriage to Frances was his second.
Sources
Christening: IGI Film 0091080 Batch P000211 dated 1558-1653
Marriage: Ancestral File
Lynley Wren
Born 22 Sep 1600
Christening 14 Oct 1600 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Note: His given name is spelled Lynley in record
Married Barbara Blackstone 27 Sep 1622 Durham, England
Children: Barbara, William, Lindley, Anthony, Ralph, Elizabeth, Charles
Sources
Birth and Christening: IGI Film 0091080 Batch P000211 dated 1558-1653
Book: North Country Diaries by John Crawford Hodgson page 206
Marriage: North County Diaries by John Crawford Hodgson page 12 and on page 8 he is physically described as followed: "...a fine gentl. very livelye, and of a free cariage etc."  his wife Barbara is described as "a mightye gallant, a fine daintie gentlewoeman if shee knew not how to value and prise the perfections that God hath given hir"
Charles Wren
Christening 1 Nov 1601 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Died unmarried
Sources
Christening: IGI Film 0091080 Batch P000211 dated 1558-1653
Unmarried status:  Book: North Country Diaries by John Crawford Hodgson page 206
John Wren
Christening 22 Jul 1604 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Died unmarried
Sources
Christening: IGI Film 0091080 Batch P000211 dated 1558-1653
Unmarried status:  Book: North Country Diaries by John Crawford Hodgson page 206
Jeremy Wren
Born abt 1605
Buried 9 Jul 1616 in the quire of Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Sources
Book: North Country Diaries by John Crawford Hodgson page 206
Henry Wren
Born abt 1607
Married Mary Pemberton
Sources
Book: North Country Diaries by John Crawford Hodgson page 206
William Wren
Christening 31 Dec 1609 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Note: His name is abbreviated Willm in record
Buried 23 Jul 1616 in the quire of Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Sources
Christening: IGI Film 0091080 Batch P000211 dated 1558-1653
Book: North Country Diaries by John Crawford Hodgson page 206
*Gertrude Wren
Christening 20 Oct 1611 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Note: Her given name is spelled Garthrude in record
Married George Trotter 21 Apr 1629 England
Sources
Christening: IGI Film 0091080 Batch P000211 dated 1558-1653
Elizabeth Wren
Christening 17 Jul 1614 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Note: Her surname is spelled Wrenn in record
Buried 1 Nov 1614 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Sources
Christening: IGI Film 0091080 Batch P000211 dated 1558-1653
Burial: ebook North Country Diaries by John C Hodgson

James Trotter abt 1549

James Trotter
Born abt 1549 likely in Durham, England or Scotland (there is a branch of furniture-making Trotters there including one named George)
Married: UNKNOWN abt 1569 England (could be Catherine as that is the only girl)

CHILDREN

*George Trotter
Christened 4 Dec 1570 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Note: Surname is spelled Troter in record
Sources
England Births and Christenings 1538-1975 Batch P00021-1 Film 91080

Anthony Trotter
Christened 28 Sep 1572 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
SourcesEngland Births and Christenings 1538-1975 Batch P00021-1 Film 91080

James Trotter
Christened 4 Jul 1574 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
SourcesEngland Births and Christenings 1538-1975 Batch P00021-1 Film 91080

Thomas Trotter
Christened 5 Jun 1582 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
SourcesEngland Births and Christenings 1538-1975 Batch P00021-1 Film 91080

Ralph Trotter
Christened 20 Apr 1584 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
SourcesEngland Births and Christenings 1538-1975 Batch P00021-1 Film 91080

Richard Trotter
Christened 17 Mar 1586 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
SourcesEngland Births and Christenings 1538-1975 Batch P00021-1 Film 91080

Catherine Trotter
Christened 19 Oct 1589 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Sources
England Births and Christenings 1538-1975 Batch P00021-1 Film 91080

Lancelot Trotter
Christened 21 Mar 1591 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Sources
England Births and Christenings 1538-1975 Batch P00021-1 Film 91080

George Trotter 1570

George Trotter
Christened 4 Dec 1570 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Note: His surname is spelled Troter in record
Parents: James Trotter (no mother listed)
Married: UNKNOWN abt 1594 England (her name could be Mary since the only girl born had that name)
Sources
IGI Film 0091080 Batch P000211 dated 1558-1653

CHILDREN

James Trotter
Christened 17 Feb 1595 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Note: His surname is spelled Troter in record
Source
IGI Film 0091080 Batch P000211 dated 1558-1653
Mary Trotter
Christened 23 May 1599 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Source
IGI Film 0091080 Batch P000211 dated 1558-1653

Note: There is a 7 year span here and may mean there are more children/marriages to be found


*George Trotter
Christened 7 Jun 1607 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Married Gertrude Wren 21 Apr 1629 Durham, England
Children:  William
Source
Christening: IGI Film 0091080 Batch P000211 dated 1558-1653

George Trotter 1607 Gertrude Wren 1611

Here we go with controversy.  I found the original information for George's and Gertrude's christening in the Auckland St Andrew parish.  However, according to the Book North Country Diaries by JC Hodgson, Charles Wren's daughter Gertrude was a nun. 

Gertude Wren listed below might not be the right woman.  I need to find the original marriage record.  The fact I found both George and Gertrude together in the same Parish is a good and bad thing.  This information came from a Family Group Sheet if I remember right, so there is a likelihood that it is not correct.

George Trotter
Christened 7 Jun 1607 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Parents: George Trotter (no mother listed)
Married Gertrude Wren 21 Apr 1629 England
Note: The place of marriage may be Massachusetts
Sources
England Births and Christenings Film 0091080 Batch P000211
Gertrude Wren
Christened 20 Oct 1611 Auckland St Andrew, Durham, England
Note: Her given name is spelled Garthrude in record
Parents: Charles Wren (no mother listed)
Sources
Christening: IGI Film 91080 Batch P00021-1
CHILDREN

William Trotter 
Born 4 Apr 1630 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Married 1) Cutbury Gibbs 9 Dec 1652 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Children:  Mary, Rebecca, Samuel, Benjamin, William, Abigail, Sarah, Robert
2) Alice Ebell 28 Sep 1667 New Jersey
Died 1676 Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey
Sources
Ancestral File

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

Abraham Browne 1730 Mary Trotter 1734

Abraham Browne
Born 23 Apr 1730 Plumstead, Bucks, Pennsylvania
Parents Joseph Browne and Ann Dawson
Religion:  Quaker
Note:  Abraham was disowned by the Quakers in 1756 when they charged him with "bearing arms in the war"  When a member's offense came to the attention of the Monthly Meeting which was not supposed to happen before one or more Friends had already admonished the offender without success, the meeting would appoint a committee (usually of two solid Friends) to ascertain the facts about the matter reported, and (if the member complained of was guilty) to learn whether he or she was repentant. It the individual did not seem contrite the visiting Friends would labor with him or her in meekness and brotherly compassion, hoping to bring the offender to sincere repentance. If this was successful the Friend would offer a written apology (often called an acknowledgment ) expressing that what he or she had done was contrary to the principles of Friends, that s/he was sorry for it and intended with God's help to behave better in the future. This was also referred to as condemning one's action. There was no shunning involved in disownment; familial and secular relationships continued as before. http://www.quaker.org/disown.html
Married Mary Trotter 29 Mar 1754 West Grove, Chester, Pennsylvania
Died 15 Mar 1822 West Grove, Chester, Pennsylvania
Sources
1779 Tax list for Plumstead owning 17 1/2 acres and 1 horse, 1 cow
1782  Property Tax list for Montgomery county: http://newrivernotes.com/va/mont782a.htm
1790 US Census for Bucks County, Pennsylvania page 123
Marriage: Book: Pennsylvania Archives Vol 9 (1880) page 204 Marriages Authorized by the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends 1682-1756
Book:  Proprietary and other Tax Lists for the county of Bucks (Plumstead) for the year 1787 page 774
Mary Trotter
Born 24 Jan 1734 Plumstead, Bucks, Pennsylvania
Parents: Benjamin Trotter and Mary Fisher
Note:  Mary was in good standing in the Quaker community and given a certificate to Buckingham Meeting
Died 11 Feb 1802
Sources
https://sites.google.com/site/webstergriggsfamilies/webster/trotter

CHILDREN

*Mary Browne
Born 1755 Plumstead, Bucks, Pennsylvania
Married William Mitchell 14 Nov 1776 Friends (Quakers) meeting, Buckingham, Bucks, Pennsylvania
Children:  William, Abraham, Phoebe, Benjamin, Mary, Nancy, Hannah, Rebecca, Sarah, Deborah, Daniel
Sources
Marriage: Book: Pennsylvania Archives Vol 9 (1880) page 253 Marriages Authorized by the Buckingham Monthly Meeting of Friends 1730-1810
Elizabeth Browne
Born 1756 Plumstead, Bucks, Pennsylvania
Married John Shaw 17 Oct 1782 Friends (Quakers) meeting, Buckingham, Bucks, Pennsylvania
Children:  Susannah, Mary, Jonathan, Benjamin, Sarah, Jane, Joseph, Rebecca
Sources
Marriage: Book: Pennsylvania Archives Vol 9 (1880) page 253 Marriages Authorized by the Buckingham Monthly Meeting of Friends 1730-1810
Dinah Browne
Born 1758 Plumstead, Bucks, Pennsylvania
Married Isaiah Williams 14 Oct 1784 Friends (Quakers) meeting, Buckingham, Bucks, Pennsylvania
Children: Martha, Mary
Sources
Marriage: Book: Pennsylvania Archives Vol 9 (1880) page 253 Marriages Authorized by the Buckingham Monthly Meeting of Friends 1730-1810
Rebecca Browne
Born 1762 Plumstead, Bucks, Pennsylvania
No record of marriage
Sources
Ancestral File
Joseph Browne
Born 4 Apr 1762 Plumstead, Bucks, Pennsylvania
Married 1) Elizabeth Michener 1785 Plumstead, Bucks, Pennsylvania
Children:  Sarah, Mary, Rebecca, Benjamin, Rachel, Deborah, Elizabeth, Tabitha, Joseph, Rebecca, Esther, Hannah
Note:  Joseph and Elizabeth with children, Sarah and Mary were granted a certificate of removal from Buckingham MM to New Garden MM 7 May 1787
 2) Elizabeth Weis
Died 5 May 1851 Pennsylvania
Sources
1790 US Census for Bucks County, Pennsylvania page 193
Abraham Browne
Born 1763 Plumstead, Bucks, Pennsylvania
Married Rebecca Black 20 Oct 1791 Plumstead, Bucks, Pennsylvania
Sources
Ancestral File
Hannah Browne
Born 1765 Plumstead, Bucks, Pennsylvania
No record of marriage
Died 1816
Sources
Ancestral File
Benjamin Browne
Born 1766 Plumstead, Bucks, Pennsylvania
Married Anne Sebring 1790 Plumstead, Bucks, Pennsylvania
Sources
1790 US Census for Bucks County, Pennsylvania page 129

William Fisher 1658 Bridget Hodgkins 1665

William Fisher
Born 1658 England
Note: I didn't find anything on him in Hertford (or Hereford)
Parents: William Fisher and Mary (no surname given)
Married Bridget Hodgkins 28 Feb 1686 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Buried 14 Jul 1728 Pennsylvania
Source
Ancestral File

Bridget Hodgkins
Born abt 1665 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Parents: (No father listed) Millicent (no surname)
Died 1725 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Note: Ancestral File had her buried before she died so I only put the year
Source
Ancestral File

CHILDREN

William
Born abt 1688 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Married Tabitha Janney 27 Mar 1709 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Children: Elizabeth, Millicent, Elizabeth, Thomas, William
Died 8 Aug 1734 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Source
Ancestral File
Sarah
Born abt 1692 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Married Joseph Taylor 12 Feb 1716 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Children: Hannah
Died 15 Nov 1738
Source
Ancestral File
Samuel
Born abt 1694 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Married Sarah Laine 25 Jun 1721 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died or Buried 15 Sep 1741
Source
Ancestral File
Millicent
Born abt 1696 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died 22 Jun 1707
Source
Ancestral File
*Mary
Born abt 1698 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Married Benjamin Trotter 4 Jun 1734
Died 22 Nov 1708 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Source
Ancestral File

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
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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)
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Memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190646031/mary-browne

William Mitchell 1750-1819 Mary Browne 1755

M - 5th ggparents

William Mitchell
Parents William Mitchell and Elizabeth Harmer

Born abt 1750 Plumstead, Bucks, Pennsylvania

Military: Revolutionary War (as a drummer)

January 1779

Revolutionary War Record

William was a Quaker and therefore, practiced pacifism. According to Quakers in the Military During the American Revolution, many Quakers helped the military. In Philadelphia, these Friends called themselves “Free Quakers”. This caused such a rift that the Free Quakers built their own meeting house. In other areas, few actually enlisted and those that did probably were expelled from the Society. Many Quakers provided supplies, financial aid, or medical assistance.)

Occupation:
Married Mary Browne 14 Nov 1776 Buckingham, Bucks, Pennsylvania
Died 1819 Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Sources
1782 Tax Records Plumstead, Bucks, Pennsylvania in which he had one cow.

1790 US Census page 46 (middle column) he was listed as the head of a household containing 1white male over age 16, one white male under 16 and 6 free white females

1800 US Census Muncy, Lycoming, Pennsylvania free white males under 10 - 1 free white males 45+ - 1 Free white females under 10 - 2 Free white females 45+ - 1 for a total of 5 people in the household

Marriage:  U.S. Quaker Records and Pennsylvania Compiled Marriage Records

United States Revolutionary War Records

AGBI Vol 119 page 63

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William and Mary's Marriage record

Transcription: Whereas William Mitchell in the Township of the County of Bucks of Province of Pennsylvania, (son of William Mitchell heretofore of the same place), and Mary Brown of Plumstead of the county and province aforesaid, daughter of Abraham Brown of the same place, having declared their intention of marriage with each other, before several monthly meetings of the people called Quakers at Buckingham, according to the good order used among them and having the consent of parents and relations concerned their said proposals of marriage were allowed by the said meeting.
Now, these are to certify all whom it may concern, that for the full accomplishment of their said intentions, on the 14th day of the 11th month, in the year of our Lord, 1776, they, the said William Mitchell and Mary Brown appeared in the public meeting of the said people at Plumstead and the said William Mitchell, taking the said Mary Brown by the hand, and i a solemn manner openly declare that he took her to be his wife, promising (With the Lord's assistance), to be unto her a loving and faithful husband until death should separate them (or words to that purpose). And then and there, in the same assembly, the said Mary Brown did in like manner, openly declare that she took the said William Mitchell to be her husband, promising (With the Lord's assistance), to be unto him a loving and faithful wife until death should separate them (or words to that purpose). And moreover, they the said William Mitchell and Mary Brown (she according to the custom of marriage assuming the name of her husband as a further confirmation thereof did then to these presents set their hands and we whose names are hereunder also subscribed being present at the solemnization at the said marriage and subscription have as witnesses thereunto set our hands the day and year above written. 
Signed: Column One: Nathan Preston, John Simpson, Charles Brooke, James Shaw, Jonathan Shaw, Daniel Stradling, Sarah Stradling, Elizabeth Brown
Column Two: John Brown, Joseph Pickering, Alexander Brown, Phoebe Moore, Francis Goode, Sarah Goode, John Carlile, Sarah Carlile
Column Three: Jonathan Shaw Jr., John Shaw, John Simpson, Benjamin Cutler, Thomas Wood, Robert Fisher, Joseph Stradling, Sarah Stradling Jr.
Column Four: William Mitchell, Mary Mitchell, Asa Fell, Elizabeth Fell, Abram Brown, Mary Brown, George Mitchell, Susanna Mitchell, Sarah Updegrave, Edward Updegrave, Joseph Brown, Elisabeth Brown, Dinah Brown, Benjamin Brown, John Cutler, Jane Cutler, Sarah Mitchener, Sarah Poe, Deborah Preston, Ann Rich, Alice Kelsey
 
  

Mary Brown

Parents Abraham Brown and Mary Trotter

Born 1755 Plumstead, Bucks, Pennsylvania
Died

Buried
Sources
Marriage:  U.S. Quaker Records

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CHILDREN

William Mitchell
Born abt 1777 Philadelphia?

Died 1840
Sources
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*Abraham Mitchell
Born 29 Oct 1779 Muncy, Lycoming, Bucks, Pennsylvania
Married Annie Colpetzer 1811 Pennsylvania
Children:  Benjamin, Julia
Died 4 Mar 1863 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Buried March 1863 Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake, Utah
Sources
1790 US Census

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Phebe Mitchell
Born 1781 Bucks, Pennsylvania

Possible Marriage: Henry Scott abt 1811

Note: I am not convinced that she is the Phebe he married. That Phebe was supposedly born ten years later than this one

Died April 1786 (if she actually married Henry)

Sources
Family Search

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Benjamin Mitchell
Born 1783 Plumstead, Bucks, Pennsylvania

Married  - have not found a believable one yet

Children

Died

Buried

Sources
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Mary Mitchell
Born 1785 Plumstead, Bucks, Pennsylvania

Married - have not found a believable one yet

Died

Buried

Sources
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Nancy Mitchell 
Born 1787 Plumstead, Bucks, Pennsylvania

Married - have not found a believable one yet

Children

Died

Buried

Sources
Family Search

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Rebecca Mitchell
Born 1790 Muncy, Lycoming, Pennsylvania

Married

Children

Died

Buried

Sources
Family Search

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Sarah Mitchell
Born 27 May 1795 Muncy, Lycoming, Bucks, Pennsylvania
Married Benjamin E Paxson 22 Dec 1814 Muncy, Bucks, Pennsylvania

Marriage record 

Children:  William, Benjamin, Charles, Sarah, Rachel, Oliver, Mary, George

Died 6 Jul 1835 New Garden, Columbiana, Ohio

Buried Woodsdale Cemetery, Butler, Ohio

Note: someone has requested a photo of the headstone

Sources
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Deborah's headstone

Deborah Mitchell
Born 1796 Muncy, Lycoming, Pennsylvania
Married Daniel Nicholas abt 1823 Pennsylvania

Children: Ivan, Elizabeth, Joseph, Edward, Rosanna, Samuel

Died after 1850

Buried New Union Cemetery, Eureka, Lawrence, Indiana

Sources
1850 US Census Perry, Martin, Indiana (age 57)

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Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/147428840/deborah-nicholas

Daniel Mitchell
Born 1799 Muncy, Lycoming, Pennsylvania

Occupation: Ship Builder

Married Mary Shillingforth about 1831 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Children: Mary, Frances, James, Daniel, Theodore, Napoleon, William, Rinaldo, Charles

Died 10 May 1878 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

COD: Debility (old age)

Buried 16 May 1878 Gloria Dei (Old Swedes Church Cemetery) 

Sources
1860 US Census Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (age 48)

1870 US Census Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (age 70)

Death Certificate

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