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From: Jerry Richmond <>
Subject: Re: REYNOLDS, Henry Jr. & Ann HOWELL, Benjamin REYNOLDS
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 20:46:16 -0700


Cheska & Marie -

Looks like I really stirred up the hornets on these folks <G>. A couple of
points:

(1) I failed to mention that the Nottingham article in the NGS Journal was
written by A. Day Bradley, who appears to have "some" aura of authority
on Quaker matters, at least in the pages of the NGS Journal. It was he
who called Ann Howell the dau of William Howell, as opposed to his widow,
as would appear from the other references cited.

(2) It is not terribly unusual to have records of Marriage Intentions and/or
Report of Marriage Accomplishment from the Monthly Meeting Minutes but
still be lacking the actual date of Marriage ceremony due to a separate
Marriage book possibly not surviving. My practice, is to accept as the
Marriage date in these cases, the date Reported Married if that is all
that is available. If the date of 2nd Declaration of Intention & the
Liberation to Marry is available, then that is the better date, as usually
the actual ceremony would have been accomplished in most instances within
the week following, if not that same day. Notwithstanding these
observations, one should still seek after the date of the actual ceremony.

(3) To the newbies amongst us, I'd like to point out that one of the joys of
Quaker research is that they kept multiple records relating to one event.
Thus, even if one of the records did NOT survive, the odds are good that
one of the related records DID survive.

Regards, Jerry Richmond

On Thu, 02 Oct 1997, Cheska Wheatley <> wrote:
>> Does anyone have a marriage date for Henry REYNOLDS (JR) with his first wife,
>> Hannah BROWN? I have the year of the marriage as1717 from Futhey & Cope
>> "History of Chester Co., PA". I was sent a copy of a page (p. 74?) from
>> Newark Men's Minutes, Newark Meeting (Delaware?). The minutes state on
>> 3rd-6mo-1717 Henry RENNELS and Hannah BROWN signified their first intentions
>> to marry. A later entry for 7th-7mo-1717 (at our Monthly Meeting held at
>> Newgarden) records their second intention to marry and were given "liberty to
>> accomplish their said marriage". Has anyone seen any records listing when
>> this marriage took place?
>
>Marie:
>
>>From the William Wade Hinshaw Pennsylvania Quaker Meeting Records,
>Kennett Monthly Meeting, Vol. VI, Selby Publishing, 1990.
>
>p. 268:
>RENNELS
>6-3-1717 Henry & Hannah Brown ann m int
>7-7-1717 Henry & Hannah Brown ann m int 2nd time
>
>Note: Newark and Kennett MM were one in the same and located in Chester
>Co., PA.
>
>p. 32
>BROWN
>8-5-1717 Hannah Brown & Henry Rennels rpt m
>
<snip,snip>

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