1749 Solomon Rockhill and Susannah Taylor were married on August 8 in New Jersey, British Colonial America. Solomon Rockhill was of Burlington. Susannah Taylor was of Chesterfield Twp, Burlington County. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
1755 "Solomon Rockhill said that he doth not think himself under Friends care, nor desires to have any. But the Meeting (Chesterfield) thinks him under their notice, being a son of a Friend in unity." [6] [7]
1755 Richard Brown of Nottingham and Sarah Taylor of Chesterfield were married on 15 of month 5 at Chesterfield Meeting, Burlington County, New Jersey. Witnessed by Susannah (where was Solomon?) Rockhill and Edward (where was Elizabeth?) Rockhill and others. [8] [9]
1764 Susanna Rockhill and others were appointed by the Chesterfield meeting to attend the quarterly Meeting. [10]
Research Notes:
The relationship, if any, to Solomon Rockhill Sr is unknown. Solomon Rockhill Sr married Susannah Bullock. They had children John (married Hannah Mathis), Joseph, Samuel, Sarah, Rebecca (married Jedediah Lines), Amy (married Thomas Shourds), Elizabeth (married Levi Davis), Susan (married John Sutton), Hope, and Nancy (married John Norris). Solomon lived in Tuckertown during the Revolutionary War. [11] [12]
1851 Rebecca Line, widower, daughter of Solomon Rockhill and Susan Rockhill, died on March 5 in Burlington County, New Jersey. [13]
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[2] New Jersey, County Marriages, 1682-1956, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[3] New Jersey, County Marriages, 1682-1956, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[4] New Jersey, Marriage Records, 1670-1965, [AncestryRecord].
[5] New Jersey, U.S., Marriage Records, 1683-1802, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[6] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, Chesterfield Meeting, Intentions of Marriage and Certificates of Removal, 1685-1756, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[7] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Book of Records, 1684-1756, date 1756, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[8] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, 81, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[9] "Old records of the Foulke, Skirm, Taylor, Coalman, Wooley, and Gaskill families," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 11 (1887), 207-212, at 207, [InternetArchive].
[10] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1688-1809, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[11] Proceedings, constitution, by-laws, list of members of the Surveyors' Association of West New Jersey (1880), [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[12] Major E. M. Woodward and John Hageman, History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1883), [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[13] New Jersey, U.S., Birth, Marriage and Death Records, 1711-1878, [AncestryRecord].