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From: Jeff Palmer <>
Subject: Re: RIGBY/RIGBEY family of PA
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 22:38:40 -0400 (EDT)


According to "Pennsylvania Births - Delaware County - 1682-1800", by John T.
Humphrey, 1995, Delaware County meeting houses (and other churches) with
available birth (or baptism) records from that time period include:

1. Chester Monthly Meeting, Chester (est. 1681)
2. Concord Monthly Meeting Concord Township, (est. 1684)
3. Darby Monthly Meeting, Darby, (est. 1684)
4. Radnor Monthly Meeting, Radnor Township (est. 1684)
5. St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, Chester (est. 1702)
6. St. David's Protestant Episcopal Church, Radnor Township (est. 1700)

I expect that the records for those meetings are maintained at the Friends
Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081.
Unfortunately, "Pennsylvania Births...", which proportedly lists all
AVAILABLE birth records for those meetings for those years, lists no one
by the name of Rigby, Rigbey or Abigail Baker. This suggests that your
Rigbys may have attended a meeting in an adjacent county and have had
their records maintained there.

"The Hoopes Family Record, Volume I", edited by G. R. Fuller, J. M.
Hoopes, and L. F. Webster, 1979 (p. 132) mentions an Abigail Rigby born
8Jan1785 in Delaware County to Daniel and Abigail (Baker) Rigby
(supporting your suggestion that Daniel married Abigail before 1785.)

According to "A Newlin-Mendenhall Alliance", compiled by Russell Newlin
Abel, 1989 (p. 122), a James Rigby married a Hannah Brown who was the
daughter of Daniel and Susannah Brown. Daniel died in 1767 and his estate
papers are available in the Chester County Archives, 117 W. Gay street,
West Chester, PA. Daniel and Susannah's other children included Susannah,
Joseph and Nathaniel Brown. (With any luck, Daniel's estate papers may
mention a grandson named Daniel Rigby!)

Good luck!

Jeff Palmer - - NO ARCHIVE

On Sun, 6 Oct 1996, Jennifer Shank wrote:

> Looking for information on the family of DANIEL RIGBY/RIGBEY said to
> have been Quakers in Delaware Co., PA before moving to Columbiana Co.,
> OH. Daniel is said to have been born in 1757, his wife Abigail BAKER
> was said to be born in 1764. They probably married in Delaware county
> before 1785 and moved to OH after 1807. I have some indications that
> Daniel was the son of a James & Hannah[BROWN] RIGBY.
> What Monthly Meetings were in existence in Delaware Co., PA in that time
> frame? Where would I find the records? Does anyone have access or are
> they on the net? Are there others out there researching this name?
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> TIA
> Jennifer

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