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From: Johnson Sherry <>
Subject: [PAMONTGO-L] SAMUEL(S) family of Radnor/Plymouth twp.
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 16:47:24 -0800 (PST)

I am a new subscriber to this list and am hoping someone can help me find some missing pieces in my major 'brick wall' line. The family as I know it is as follows:

1. William Samuel (d. bef Sep 1704); of Barcominsa

sp: Mary (b.1664; d. 3rd mo. 14th 1760, Richland Mo.Mtg.)


2. Joseph Samuels (b. 21st 2 mo. 1697, Radnor Mo.Mtg; d. 28 Mar 1753, Plymouth twp., Phil'a Co., PA)


sp: Sarah ? (b.Abt 1707; m. 1733 Great Swamp; d. 13th 1mo. 1782, Phil'a)

3. William Samuels (b. Abt 1734, Plymouth twp.; d. 20th 3mo. 1784, Phil'a)

3. unknown--mentioned in Joseph's estate inventory as one of "two infants"

2. Isaac Samuels (b.12th mo 27th 1700, Radnor Mo.Mtg.; d. 4th mo 6th 1781, Upper Saucon twp., Lehigh Co., PA) Married at the age of 63 years.


sp: Eleanor Thomas (b. 19 Jan 1723/1724; m. 23rd 11mo. 1763, Richland Mo.Mtg.; d. 6th 6mo 1800)

3. William Samuels (b.2 Dec 1764, Richland Mo.Mtg.; d.1831)

sp: Mary Foulke (m. 25 4mo. 1793)


4. Jane Samuels (b.18 1mo. 1794)


4. Jesse Samuels, Dr. (b.17 3mo. 1795)


sp: Mary Engleman

4. Mary Samuels (b. 10 8mo. 1800)


sp: James Reinhard

4. William Samuels (b. 7 8mo. 1806)


sp: Lydia Becher


3. Jane Samuels


sp: Jesse Silcott
2. Elizabeth Samuels (b.7 Nov 1702)

sp: Joseph Jones, s/o Hugh Jones (b. 12 4mo. 1697; m. 22 Apr 1726; d. 31 Mar 1781)


The widow Mary Samuels married 2nd Owen Owen of Plymouth twp. at Plymouth Meeting House.

1. Owen Owen (d. 21 Aug 1742)

sp: unknown (m. bef 1704)

2. David Owen (b. bef 1704; d. 15 Jun 1790)

sp: Sarah Schmetzer (b. 1 Mar 1724; m. 1740; d.13 Apr 1792)
3. Rachel Owen (b.1744; d.10 Aug 1823)




sp: Gerrard Irwin (m.1 Jan 1762)


sp: Samuel Bachman (b.14 Jan 1738/1739; m.18 Jan 1763)

3. Thomas Owen (b.1746; d.bef 24 Mar 1783)


sp: Margaret

4. Owen Owen (b. bef 1782)

4. Hannah Owen (b. bef 1782)


4. Sarah Owen (b. aft 20 Dec 1782)


3. David Owen Jr. (b.1748; d.Abt 1791)


sp: Margaret

4. Elizabeth Owen

4. Hannah Owen

4. Solomon Owen

4. David Owen

3. Jonathan Owen (b.1750)


sp: Susan B. Hartsell (m.24 Jul 1771)

3. Joseph Owen (b.1752)

3. Nathan Owen (b.1754)



sp: Leah Hartzell

3. Mary Owen (b.1756)


sp: William Grothouse (b.1756)

3. Sarah Owen (b.1758)


sp: Jonathan Scott


4. John Scott Jr. (b.8 6mo. 1786)


4. Samuels Scott (b.13 4mo 1788)


4. Abraham Scott (b.10 9mo 1791;d.17 9mo 1801)

3. Abigail Owen (b.1760)


sp: Jacob Zieglerfuss

3. Lydia Owen (b.1762)


sp: Mary (b.1664; m.12th mo. 21 1704; d. 3rd mo. 14th 1760)

2. Margaret Owen (b.18th 12mo. 1705;d.Aft 1783)


sp: Richard Thomas, s/o Abel Thomas and Elizabeth Humphreys (b.11 12mo. 1693; m.22 Jan 1722/1723 Gwynedd Mo.Mtg.;d.Abt Sep 1754)

2. Thomas Owen (b.26 Jun 1709; d. abt 1773)


sp: Jane Thomas, d/o Abel Thomas (b.13 Mar 1707/1708; m.abt 25 3mo 1736;d.Abt 1783)


In the letters of administration granted to his widow in 1704, William Samuel was referred to as "of Barcominsa," but I've yet to determine where this might have been located. The births of his three children Joseph, Isaac and Elizabeth were recorded at Radnor Monthly Meeting between 1697 and 1702. Shortly after William Samuel's death, his widow Mary married Owen Owen at Plymouth Meeting House. They continued to appear in the records of Gwynedd Monthly Meeting until shortly after 1730. Elizabeth Samuels and Margaret Owen, daughters of Mary by her two husbands were both married there with their brothers witnessing the marriages. In 1730, Joseph & Isaac Samuels and Owen Owen all received warrants for land in (then) Bucks County. On 8mo.30 1733, the monthly meeting at Gwynedd was notified: "our friends of Swamp Acquaints us That Jos. Samuel hath proceeded in marriage contrary to the order of Friends..." The Owen/Samuels family had moved with others from the area of Gwynedd Mee!
ting to
what was first known as Great Swamp, but would eventually become Richland Monthly Meeting. After his marriage, Joseph disappeared from the Quaker records, though Mary & Owen Owen and Isaac Samuels' family continued to appear in them. Mary Owen died at Richland 3rd mo. 14th 1760, in her 96th year. Joseph Samuels purchased several tracts of land in Upper Saucon township, which he sold in 1743 to his brother Isaac, half-brother David Owen, and Henry Brunner. Joseph and his wife Sarah moved back to Plymouth where he probably still had land, perhaps inherited.

Joseph Samuels, a joiner & yeoman, owned a plantation described in an early petition to the Court of Quarter Sessions as being "in the fork where the high road branches to Plymouth and Norriton Mills." He was mentioned at this location in a survey done for a new road in 1722 by Henry Pannebacker, surveyor for the Penns. "From the Indian Town fford to the next established King's Road that will suit best the Inhabitants of Oletheho to the said city of Philadelphia...Upon an order of the Court to run a road from Olekton(sic) to Philadelphia." Henry Pannebecker made a survey beginning "at a white oak standing in the King's High Road near ye plantation of Joseph Samuel on Plymouth, and then by various courses running north to Perkiomen Creek, and thence "to the Indian Ford on Schuylkill..."

A mortgage on this plantation in 1749 appeared as follows:

Mortgage: Joseph SAMUEL & Sarah, his wife to George EMLEN. Dated 9 Jan. 1747. 21 acres in Plymouth... "All that his messuage Plantation & Tract of Land...situate in Plymouth afsd. Beginning at a Stone at a corner of the [ ] Road leading to Phil'a Thence by William HILLs Land North 59 Degrees East 96 Perches to a Stone for a Corner Thence by Edward RIDGEWAY's Land South 62 Perches to another stone for a corner Thence by Katherine RIDMITZER's Land South 64 Degrees West 64 Perches and a half to a crooked Hickory Then by the said land & crossing the afsd. Road South West 33 Perches to another Stone for a Corner thence North East across the sd. Road [ ] Perches to another Stone for a Corner thence along ye same Road North five Degrees West 34 Perches to the place of beginning containing 21 acres...
[Mortgage to secure a one half of a loan to Joseph SAMUELS & John HAMMER, Jr. of Plymouth in the amount of 200 pounds lawful money of 'Pennsilvania'--payment due with interest 9 Jan 1748. Joseph is referred to as "yeoman" and George Emlen as a brewer. This indenture does not state how Joseph acquired the property. The debt appears to have been paid as Sarah listed a 21-22 acre tract ofland in her accounting of Joseph's estate in 1753.]

When Joseph Samuels died in March 1753, his widow remarried within a few weeks to Arnold Francis of Providence township. Joseph Samuels left no will, but the widow's inventory, with her new husband, of Joseph's estate mentioned the tract of land, her widow's third of the rent, and an allowance for the "care and maintenance of two infants for a period of three years." The next year her new husband offered for sale to the public a quantity of farm implements, possibly Joseph's, which he did not need. A final accounting five years later made no mention of either child or the land.

I have not been able to locate a deed where the land was sold out of the family by anyone with the surname Samuels or Francis. I'm hoping to find a record that might mention the names of those two "infants," who were probably actually within a few years of being of age in 1753. A William Samuels continued to appear in Plymouth records through the Revolutionary War era, but is listed as unmarried in tax lists and he appears to have had no property. He may or may not have been the William Samuels listed in Quaker records at Philadelphia as having died 20th 3mo. 1784, aged 50 years. I suspect that he is the same man. This man's calculated birth in 1734 matches well with Joseph Samuels' marriage in 1733. The same records include a Mary Samuels who died 13th 1mo. 1782, aged 75 years. After Mr. Francis's death she could have resumed use of her previous married name, as she had children by that name. I've found no mention of the other child, my prospective missing link ancestor. W!
hen Sarah
and her two children moved to Providence with her new husband, it would have put her into proximity with the two families, Pennabacker and Dehaven, with whom my ____ Samuels and his children eventually intermarried.

In 1756, Dirck Pennybacker (s/o John Pennebacker of Providence) married Hannah Dehaven (d/o Abraham Dehaven of Trappe). Hannah's sister Ann Dehaven was, by oral tradition, the wife of my unknown Samuels. Abraham Dehaven mentioned both married daughters in his will, but not their married names. After both families moved to Virginia, two children of each sister married their first cousins. Elizabeth Pennybacker (b.1766) married in 1785 Isaac Samuels (b. 1762) and her brother Benjamin D. Pennybacker (b. 1760) married 1787 Sarah Margaret Samuels (b. 1768 ). Isaac and Sarah Margaret had another brother Joseph Hope Samuels (b. 1763), with all three possibly born in Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania. Considering the family's given names Joseph, Isaac, Sarah and Margaret...all of which were used by the early Plymouth Samuels family, the proximity supplied by Sarah Samuels' marriage to Arnold Francis of Providence, the connections between the Pennybacker (Pennebacker) and Dehaven famili!
es, my
interest in this particular family is tremendous. Added to all of the above is the following tantalizing mortgage that links in yet another related family...the Keysers of Germantown. The Dirck Keyser mentioned was probably the brother of Anneke Keyser (d/o Dirck) the wife of John Pennebacker of Providence.

Bucks County, PA Deed Book A, v. 3, p. 413
Mortgage. John Tool of Upper Saucon, Bucks Co.., husbandman, to secure a debt of 120, to Dirck Keyser of Germantown, Philadelphia Co., cordwainer, Isaac Samuel of Bucks Co., yeoman and Thomas Owen of Bucks Co., gentl, 200 acres of land in Bucks Co., bounded by the lands of Joseph Samuels, John Landis, and William Murray. Said land was patented (dated 24 Sep. 1747 and recorded at Philadelphia in Patent Book A, V. 13, pg. 309) to John Tool. To be repaid on 22 Dec 1748. Made 27 Dec. 1747. Wit: Barak Wright, Christian Lehman. Ackn: 28 May 1748, JP: John Jemison. Rec. 21 Jun 1748.

If anyone recognizes any of the names mentioned in any of these records, or can help me identify the location of this tract of land in Plymouth township, I would love to hear from you. Perhaps the neighbors mentioned in the mortgage were the ancestors of another subscriber to this list. What I need is the name of any individual who owned this tract of land after the Revolutionary War. It appears to have been location with more than average value, in a prime location, so if I can find a later deed, perhaps I can back-track to my missing link through the land records. Not knowing how these old roads may have changed routes is a handicap that's difficult to overcome from here in Texas. I'm supposing that this is the Germantown Pike. I've read somewhere that Joseph's land was near the Plymouth/Whitemarsh township line. Can anyone tell me what might be at this location today? Any help will be appreciated.

Sherry Johnson




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