Usually only the first mention of a given source will give the entire citation, so scroll up till you find it.
1. William W. H. Davis, History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 2nd. ed., 3 vols. (New York: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1905), 3:176.
2. Marilyn London Winton Totten, e mail Dec. 5, 2009, and facsimile of the first page of her mms that corrects Roger S. Boone, Some Quaker Families: Scarborough/Haworth (pub. by Marjorie Morgan, 1991), 1:1.
3. William "Scarborowe", Sr.'s will, ABP/W 1616/_6 [?] at Bedfordshire [oops? Buckinghamshire?] Record Office, County Hall, Bedfordshire [Buckinghamshire?]; St. Mary's Register, Woburn.
4. St. Mary's Register, Woburn; records of Peel Monthly Meeting, Devonshire House, London; Swanbourne ___??.
5. Peel MM rec.?? reference to Peel mtg hse??
7. Peel Meeting Records, and e mail from Marilyn London Winton Totten, Dec. 5, 2009.
8. All seven children's baptisms are from St. Mary's Church registers in Soulbury, all under the surname "Scarbrow". The Registers are now at the Buckinghamshire Record Office.
9. The marriage is in Register of marriages, St. Bride's Church, Fleet St., London. See also Roger S. Boone, Some Quaker Families: Scarborough/Haworth (pub. by Marjorie Morgan, 1991), 1:1. Marjorie Morgan typed up information that many Haworth descendants had sent her over the years, but did not have access to primary sources herself. She was a volunteer at the Friends Collection room at Friends University, Wichita, Kansas. Marjorie found Roger's mimeographed information there. The data is continually being updated and enlarged, and can be seen at http://www.haworthassociation.org/Publications/some_quaker_families-sh.htm.
10. E mail from Marilyn London Winton Totten, Dec. 5, 2009.
11. My thanks to Dan Kangley, 3/2004, who sent me the image. I think it is from the John Scarborough file (Gen Z 52 #207), at the Historical Soc. of Pennsylvania.
12. St. Sepulcre Church Register??? on file at ???
13. Samuel Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England, 5th ed. (London: 1842), 3:142. See also, "Holborn deanery Anglican churches in 1890/1903" on http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/genuki/MDX/HolbornStAndrew/churches.htm, seen 4/24/2008.
14. Robert Proud lists him as a coach-smith, while he is identified as a blacksmith in Penn Papers. There is no reason he could not, at one time or another, have been both, and also a whitesmith, which he was also called. Robert Proud, The History of Pennsylvania, in North America, from the Original Institution and Settlement of that Province, under the first Proprietor and Governor William Penn, in 1681, till after the Year 1742;... (Philadelphia: Zachariah Poulson, Junior, 1797) 2 vols. 1:222; Richard S. Dunn and Mary Maples Dunn, eds., The Papers of William Penn (Phila.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982), 2:653.
15. Proud, The History of Pennsylvania, 1:222. I could find no specific mention of either William or John Scarborough, with any spelling variations, in Joseph Besse, A collection of the sufferings of the people called Quakers, for the testimony of a good conscience from the time of their being first distinguished by that name in the year 1650 to the time of the act commonly called the Act of toleration granted to Protestant dissenters in the first year of the reign of King William the Third and Queen Mary in the year 1689. This does not mean they did not suffer. Besse does not include all names. For specific mentions of Peel Meeting, see 1:410, 413-5, 430, 470, and 474.
16. Dunn and Dunn, eds., The Papers of William Penn, 2:653; Davis, History of Bucks County, 3:176.
17. Proud, The History of Pennsylvania, 1:222-23. The punctuation and italics are in the original. Special Collections, Case Western Reserve University library.
18. Proud, The History of Pennsylvania, 1:223; Eastburn Reeder, Early Settlers of Solebury Township Bucks County, Pa., 2nd. ed. (Doylestown, Pa.: The Bucks County Historical Society, 1971), 20, citing Bucks Co. Deed Book 2, p. 251 in Doylestown. See also Davis, History of Bucks County, 3:176, 669. Which Friend was given charge of young John I have not yet discovered.
19. Photostatic copy of original presented to Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, in 1933 by Henry Scarborough, a lawyer of Philadelphia, a descendant of this John Scarborough's son John. Copy received through Dr. Jerome Shaffer of Swarthmore College. This information and the text were kindly given to me by Dan Kangley, 3/2004, who noted that he visited the Historical Society of Pennsylvania 24 October 2000 and in the John Scarborough file (Gen Z 52 #207) found a photocopy of the will and the following information:
"The original of this apparently unprobated will was purchased by Henry W. Scarborough, Esq., of Philadelphia, Pa., from Miss Sarah B. Paxson of Solebury, Pa. 7/9/32. She received it from her father W. Wallace Paxson and he from his father John Knowles Paxson and he from his father Aaron (son of Thomas Paxson). Aaron Paxson was one of the executors of the will of his wife's kinswoman Jane (Margerum) Scarbrough the wife of the noted Quaker Preacher John Scarborough into whose possession the will had doubtless come from John Scarborough his father (the son of the testator) John Scarborough of London. All the said Scarboroughs and Paxsons resided in Solebury Township, Bucks Co., Pa." [spelling corrected]
[On the reverse of the photostat of will is written] "John Scarborough, son of Wm. Scarborough of Hoosier Lane, London, who was born 1598, belonged to Peel Monthly Meeting of Friends and is buried at Bunhill Fileds. (letter from Henry W. Scarborough 15 June 1922 to the Pennsylvania Genelogical Society)" Henry seems to conflate two generations of John Scarboroughs, identifying the son of William as the testator of the 1696 will. I think the will was written by the son of John, and grandson of William.
20. The date of April 11 is from Marilyn Totten; Fifth month 21 is from Davis, History of Bucks County, 3:176. It may be partly a confusion over Quaker and Old Style dating.
5. Samuel Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England, 5th ed. (London: 1842), 3:142. See also, "Holborn deanery Anglican churches in 1890/1903" on http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/genuki/MDX/HolbornStAndrew/churches.htm, seen 4/24/2008.
6. Robert Proud lists him as a coach-smith, while he is identified as a blacksmith in Penn Papers. There is no reason he could not, at one time or another, have been both, and also a whitesmith, which he was also called. Robert Proud, The History of Pennsylvania, in North America, from the Original Institution and Settlement of that Province, under the first Proprietor and Governor William Penn, in 1681, till after the Year 1742;... (Philadelphia: Zachariah Poulson, Junior, 1797) 2 vols. 1:222; Richard S. Dunn and Mary Maples Dunn, eds., The Papers of William Penn (Phila.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982), 2:653.
7. Proud, The History of Pennsylvania, 1:222. [Still need to check Besse's Sufferings.]
4. Davis, History of Bucks County, 3:176.
8. Dunn and Dunn, eds., The Papers of William Penn, 2:653; Davis, History of Bucks County, 3:176.
9. Proud, The History of Pennsylvania, 1:222-23. The punctuation and italics are in the original. Special Collections, Case Western Reserve University library.
10. Proud, The History of Pennsylvania, 1:223; Eastburn Reeder, Early Settlers of Solebury Township Bucks County, Pa., 2nd. ed. (Doylestown, Pa.: The Bucks County Historical Society, 1971), 20, citing Bucks Co. Deed Book 2, p. 251 in Doylestown. See also Davis, History of Bucks County, 3:176, 669. Which Friend was given charge of young John I have not yet discovered.
11. The photocopy at the Historical Soc. of Penna. had on it: "The original of this apparently unprobated will was purchased by Henry W. Scarborough, Esq., of Philadelphia, Pa. from Miss Sarah B. Paxson of Solebury, Pa. 7/9/32. She received it from her father W. Wallace Paxson and he from his father John Knowles Paxson and he from his father Aaron (son of Thomas Paxson) Aaron Paxson was one of the Executors of the will of his wife's kinswoman Jane Margerum Scarbrough the wife of the noted Quaker Preacher John Scarborough into whose possession the will had doubtless come from John Scarborough his father (the son of the testator) John Scarbrough of London. All of the said Scarbroughs and Paxsons resided in Solebury Township, Bucks Co., Pa."
12. Photostatic copy of original presented to Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, in 1933 by Henry Scarborough, a lawyer of Philadelphia, a descendant of this John Scarborough's son John. Copy received through Dr. Jerome Shaffer of Swarthmore College. This information and the text were kindly given to me by Dan Kangley, 3/2004, who noted that he visited the Historical Society of Pennsylvania 24 October 2000 and in the John Scarborough file (Gen Z 52 #207) found a photocopy of the will and the following information:
"The original of this apparently unprobated will was purchased by Henry W. Scarborough, Esq., of Philadelphia, Pa., from Miss Sarah B. Paxson of Solebury, Pa. 7/9/32. She received it from her father W. Wallace Paxson and he from his father John Knowles Paxson and he from his father Aaron (son of Thomas Paxson). Aaron Paxson was one of the executors of the will of his wife's kinswoman Jane (Margerum) Scarbrough the wife of the noted Quaker Preacher John Scarborough into whose possession the will had doubtless come from John Scarborough his father (the son of the testator) John Scarborough of London. All the said Scarboroughs and Paxsons resided in Solebury Township, Bucks Co., Pa."
[On the reverse of the photostat of will is written] "John Scarborough, son of Wm. Scarborough of Hoosier Lane, London, who was born 1598, belonged to Peel Monthly Meeting of Friends and is buried at Bunhill Fileds. (letter from Henry W. Scarborough 15 June 1922 to the Pennsylvania Genelogical Society)" Henry seems to conflate two generations of John Scarboroughs, identifying the son of William as the testator of the 1696 will. I think the will was written by the son of John, and grandson of William.
13. Davis, History of Bucks County, 3:176. The suggestion of his death in April is on Family Search. It may be a confusion over Quaker and Old Style dating. The information on William Scarborough, thought to be the father of John, is from Dan Kangley, e mail 7 Mar. 2004, citing C. J. Scarborough Thomas, "The Family of Scarborough, Partly a Genealogical and Historical Record of the Descendants of John Scarborough, who came to America in 1682 from London, England, with his son John Scarborough, Junior" (unpublished mms, 1956), 33-34.
14. The only proven children are John, William, and Elizabeth, all named in their father's will. The rest of the children listed here are clearly to be taken at your own risk, as it seems possible that several families are conflated. Nevertheless they are included while this page is still under construction, until I have time to check the original sources and get them right. It can provide a start for your own searches. The web offers an assortment of choices, most with little documentation, only citing secondary sources, or without proof that a given child is the offspring of this particular John Scarborough.
15. Information from Dan Kangley, 3/2004.
16. Davis, History of Bucks County, 3:176. His birth date is in a biographical sketch in the Friend, 29:244; his great grandson Samuel Preston's letter of 1823 told of John's running away to the Indians.
17. Dan Kangley, e mail 7 Mar. 2004, has pointed out the lack of solid documentation for Mary's surname. He cites an article in the "Scarborough-Haworth Events" newsletter, Vol. 3, no. 1 (Aug. 1992) for some details on the various proposed surnames.
18. Middletown Monthly Meeting Men's minutes and records; Davis, 3:176, citing the Friend, 29:244.
19. Davis, History of Bucks County, 3:176-77. Eastburn Reeder, Early Settlers of Solebury Township Bucks County, Pa., 2nd. ed. (Doylestown, Pa.: The Bucks County Historical Society, 1971), 30-31, citing Philadelphia Deed book A, vol. 3, p. 170 and Book 17, p. 133.
19a. E mail from Marilyn Totten, who visited the place in Solebury. The original settler was John Jr., as his father purchased and settled the land in Middletown Township.20. Ezra Michener, A Retrospect of Early Quakerism (Philadelphia: T. Ellwood Zell, 1860--facsimile reprint Washington, DC: Cool Spring Publishing Company, 1991), 78, 79; Buckingham Monthly Meeting Men's minutes, Quaker Collection, Haverford College.
21. Davis, History of Bucks County, 3:177.
22. Proud, The History of Pennsylvania, 1:223.
23. Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Bucks County, Pa., Abstracts of Wills 1685-1795 (Phila., 1899), Book 1, 107. (Hereafter cited as Bucks Will Abs.) Reeder, Early Settlers of Solebury, 21-22, gives longer excerpts of the will. See also Davis, History of Bucks County, 3:177.
24. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 45 (1891), 300-301, as cited by Dan Kangley, e mail 7 Mar. 2004. For an example of the assumption that Mary married (2) Philip Torrey, see http://www.familysearch.com/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp; Mary's AFN: 96CG-KP; Philip Torrey's AFN: R3LK-Q0.
25. His birth is recorded in Middletown MM records. Reeder sez that although he could not find a record of William's marriage, on some deeds his wife was named as Mary. Early Settlers of Solebury, 22. The disownment is in William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy (Richmond, Ind.: Friends Book and Supply House, Distributors, 1938), 2:1025. For a more extensive biography, see Davis, History of Bucks County, 3:178-79.
27. Hopewell Friends History: 1734-1934, Frederick County, Virginia (Strasburg, Va.: Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc., 1936), 191. President Hoover's line is traced in a holograph document filed with the photocopy of John Scarborough's 1696 will in the Historical Society of Philadelphia. I am indebted to Adam Boyd for sending it to me, e mail 4/24/2008.
28. Sarah's birth was recorded in Middletown MM records. Her marriage under the care of Falls MM, in Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, 2:1025. Her children and some of their lines, in Davis, History of Bucks County, 3:177. I think Davis is pretty accurate here. But other folks offer other possibilities, such as http://www.familysearch.com/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp that supplies four husbands for Sarah, but the dates are definitely somewhat screwy. AFN: 972S-B1 gives Sarah a middle initial M; agrees that she m(2) Matthew HALL 29 Dec. 1731/2 in Falls MM; and then goes on to add m(3) John KNOWLES; m(4) David HALL; claims that George Haworth d. 28 Nov. 1724, with 12 children named; Matthew Hall d. Sept. 1766 with 5 children named; John Knowles d. 1743 (huh? before Matthew Hall's death!) no children. My guess is that two Sarahs are being conflated, that Sarah with the middle initial was the wife of the third and fourth husbands. When using the web, and no sources are posted, it is strictly caveat emptor.
29. Mary's birth was recorded in Middletown MM records. Her marriage reported in Falls MM minutes, Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, 2:1025. Mary's date of death has been confused with a misprint of the death of Mercy Twining, the first wife of Joseph Lupton. That, and Mary's second marriage are in Hopewell Friends History: 1734-1934, Frederick County, Virginia (Strasburg, Va.: Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc., 1936), 99, 476.
30. Davis, History of Bucks County, 3:177. Her marriage and her daughter's cert. of rem. reported in Falls MM minutes, Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, 2:1025. http://www.familysearch.com/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp, AFN: LQCC-SW gives Susannah's b. 29 May; her death in 1726; and names 5 children. I have not yet researched these bits myself.
31. Her marriage reported in Falls MM minutes, Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, 2:1025. http://www.familysearch.com/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp, AFN: 8XL2-KB gives Elizabeth's date of death; also says that Benjamin d. 12 Feb. 1675 [huh? do they mean 1775? 1765?]; gives 12 children.
32. Buckingham MM marriages, as listed in Penna. Archives, ser. 2, 9:257, 264. Children and Benjamin's additional wives from Buckingham MM records as transcribed in Anna Miller Watring, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Church Records of The 17th and 18th Centuries, (Bowie, Md.: Willow Bend Books, 2003), 3:156-7. All the dates given there are Old Style. See Davis, History of Bucks County for Fell family.
33. Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, 2:1025, meaning that the marriage itself took place a little earlier, probably within the previous month, John's birth date are given in http://www.familysearch.com/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp, AFN: HB8M-CJ.
34. Some Account of the Life and Gospel Labours of William Reckett (Philadelphia: reprinted by Joseph Crukshank, 1783), 121-23.
35. The two eldest children from Buckingham MM records as transcribed in Watring, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Church Records of The 17th and 18th Centuries, 3:178. Reeder, Early Settlers of Solebury, 31. Davis, History of Bucks County, 3:177 provides more detail on Robert's descendants.
36. The letter was found in Thomas Paxson's old Bible, printed in 1706, and at the turn of the last century in the possession of Wallace Paxson of Solebury. It is printed in Reeder, Early Settlers of Solebury, 23-23. It is now in the Spruance Library, BCHS. The letter is now on the web, thanks to JSTOR, making available 3 pages from The William and Mary Quarterly, 2nd Ser., Vol. 5, No. 4 (Oct., 1925), pp. 276-278.
37. William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy (Richmond, Ind.: Friends Book and Supply House, Distributors, 1938), 2:1025. The second marriage is in Wrightstown MM Men's minutes as abstracted in Watring, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Church Records of The 17th and 18th Centuries, 3:48. The children of both wives are given in http://www.familysearch.com/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp, AFN: PDS7-VG; Elizibeth's AFN: PDS7-WM; Mary's AFN: XLK0-ZX.
38. Buckingham Mo. Mtg. records as transcribed in Anna Miller Watring, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Church Records of the 17th & 18th Centuries 3:175; Hopewell Friends History, 476.
39. Paul Forstad, citing Frederick County, Virginia Will Book, 2:308, on his website http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1932384&id=I10788. William's date of death is in "Family Records of Hopewell" as transcribed in Hopewell Friends History, 476.
40. Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, 2:1025. Their dates of death from Buckingham MM records transcribed in Watring, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Church Records of The 17th and 18th Centuries, 3:158.
41. Bucks Co. Will Abstracts, 3:122.
42. Births and some deaths from Buckingham MM records transcribed in Watring, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Church Records of The 17th and 18th Centuries, 3:158. Marriages dates from Buckingham MM records as transcribed in Penna. Arch., ser. 2, 9:257.
43. Wrightstown MM Men's minutes as abstracted in Watring, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Church Records of The 17th and 18th Centuries, 3:41.
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