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From: "Joan Whitney" <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Parents of Hannah Worrall (1767-1857)
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:27:47 -0800
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Dan, have you tried to get a pension record for Benjamin? If
there is one it should have records as to his wife and family. Just a
thought. Joan Whitney, Washington State, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel W Treadway" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 5:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Parents of Hannah Worrall (1767-1857)


> The identification of Hannah Clendenon as the daughter of Benjamin
> Worrall is iffy at best. Indeed, my only source for her maiden name
> is one of the family charts in the back of /Our Ancestors The
> Stantons/. I've never found her maiden name in any primary record.
>
> Supposing, though, that her maiden name is Worrall, Benjamin is a real
> possibility to be her father. There was a Benjamin Worrall, a
> Revolutionary pensioner, who died in Morgan County, Ohio, and is said
> to have been buried in the Chesterfield Friends Burial Ground at
> Chesterhill. Whether this Benjamin Worrall is the same as the one who
> married Elinor Morris, I do not know.
>
> This is another longstanding brick wall for me, and I welcome all
> attempts to solve it, even those that go against my own speculation.
>
> It would be good if someone could find a civil marriage record for
> Isaac and Hannah. Isaac was a birthright Quaker, while Hannah
> evidently was not. After they had moved to Ohio (1804 or so, I
> suppose) Isaac wrote a letter back home to Robeson, as follows:
>
> The minutes of Robeson Monthly Meeting, Pennsylvania, for 7th month,
> 1808, contain the following entry:
>
> "A letter of information respecting Isaac Clendenon from Stillwater
> monthly Meeting in the State of Ohio, also a written acknowledgement
> from him was received here, which being read was accepted as
> satisfaction, it being as follows,
>
> "To Robeson monthly Meeting 5th mo 22nd 1808. Dear Friends, Whereas I
> having had a right amongst Friends, but, for want of taking heed to
> the dictates of Truth, I so far deviated from the good order and
> discipline of Friends as to marry a woman not in membership by the
> assistance of an hireling Teacher, having been precautioned, for which
> they justly disowned me, for which misconduct I am very sorry and do
> hereby condemn the same desiring that Friends would again receive me
> into membership as my future conduct may deserve.
>
> --Isaac Clendenon--
>
> Evan Thomas and Thomas Jackson are appointed to prepare a certificate
> for him to stillwater monthly Meeting and produce it at our next
> montly
> Meeting for approbation."
>
> The marriage record would give her maiden name (if she were not a
> widow) and the location of the marriage might help us determine who
> her parents were.
>
> I have looked without success at wills and land records in Morgan
> County, Ohio, to try to determine who Benjamin Worrall's heirs were.
> He evidently died poor. For all I know he lived his last days in
> Isaac and Hannah's home.
>
> Once again, all help is welcome!
>
> Dan Treadway
>
>
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:59:16 -0800
> Gregory McReynolds <> wrote:
> >Hello Lawrence,
> >
> >I show Hannah Worrall wife of Isaac Clendenon as the daughter of
> >Benjamin
> >Worrall (d. 1798) and his wife Elinor Morris. I have not personally
> >done
> >research into this family as I don't descend from them. I believe Dan
> >Treadway is the expert on Isaac Clendenon and Hannah Worrall.
> >
> >Sincerely,
> >Gregory McReynolds
> >Pasadena, California
> >
> >
> >
> >On 10/30/03 6:24 PM, "Lawrence Bouett" <> wrote:
> >
> >> Can anyone provide proof of the parentage of Hannah Worrall (ca.
> >> 1767-1857), the wife of Isaac Clendenon (1768-1834)?
> >>
> >> Hannah is presumed to be the daughter of Thomas Worrall and Lydia
> >> Vernon. There is abundant documentation that Thomas was the brother
> >>of
> >> Peter, and that they were sons of John Worrall and Hannah Taylor;
> >>that
> >> Lydia was the daughter of Jonathan Vernon and Ann Cloud; and that
> >>Thomas
> >> and Lydia were married. What eludes me is proof that Hannah was
> >>their
> >> daughter.
> >>
> >> Best wishes,
> >>
> >> Lawrence Bouett
> >>
>
>
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