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From: "Tim Robinson" <>
Subject: Re: Quaker will? REES
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:42:22 -0400
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This Will of another REES seems to indicate that that they are Quaker.
"Wills of Chester County, Pa. 1778 - 1800" Jacob Martin...............

** REES, ISAAC. W. Whiteland
3-28-1785 Nov. 5, 1787.
Directs body to be buried at Friends burial ground at Radnor by wife's. To
daughter Mary Lewis all household goods. Remainder to be devided amoung
my 6 surviving children, Thomas, John, Isaac, David, Hannah and Mary, the
3 children of my son Philip, deceased, and the 3 children of son Daniel,
deceased, in equal 1/8 shares.
*Executors: Son-in-law Samuel Lweis, Jonathan Roberts of U.Merion.
Letters to Lewis, the other being absent.
Wit: Daniel Thomson, William Thompson, Jesse Jones.***

Tim
***

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandra Ferguson" <>
Subject: [PaOldC] Quaker will?


> I'm not sure this will indicates the family was a Quaker one....I could,
of
> course, be wrong but haven't persononally seen Quaker wills that used
terms
> like "Christians in profession of Faith" in any of them.....(has anyone
> else?) ...and the use of the words Friends wouldn't indicate to me that
he
> meant them in the Quakers=Friends context, for the next words were Rev.
John
> Davis, and the Quaker religion did not have ministers so the Rev couldn't
> have been a "Friend" in the Quaker sense of the word...this would, to me,
be
> much more an indication that they were members of a religion with
'regular'
> ministers, like the Presbyterians, etc.....It would really be a good idea
to
> get an actual copy of the will and see exactly what it says.....possible
> from Records and Archives in West Chester.
>
> S.
>
> Description: Son Thomas in will of another Thomas REES!
> > Date: 6 4 1765
> Prove Date: 4 5 1765
> BookPage: N:279
> Remarks: Thomas Rees. Upper Merion. Co. of Phila. Yeoman. 6 April
> 1765. 4 May 1765. Son: Thomas. Christians in profession of Faith in
> Tredyrun. Friends: Rev. John Davis, James Davis, Thomas Davis, Mary Lewis,
> Catherine Evans, Thomas Thomas, Negro - Peptin. Trustees: Thomas Davis,
> George George. Execs.: Thomas Rees. N:279.
>
> "Seems this last will of 1765, they could have been Quaker? "


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