Notes:

UA Record #:2342 A John Hariss was a witness to the marriage of Henry Woodward and Mary Townsend in 1731, 1745, and 1747 in Birmingham and 1757 at Concord who might be this John. Like his older brother, John Harry acknowledged that he was married by a priest. He lived in York County, was taxed in Kennett Township, Chester County for 1732-1748, and died in Chester County. (C-437, p.4)

John married Frances UNKNOWN about 1732 in , York, PA, USA. Frances was born est 1697; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Miriam HARRY was born in 1727; died in 1809.

Notes:

UA Record #:2338 The Welsh name Harry was spelled Harri or Hari. Hugh Harry, sometimes called Harris, was a Quaker being noted in Pennsylvania Quaker records in 1671, 1680, 1681, 1682, and 1685. He was a weaver who immigrated with his brother, Daniel, from "Maukinleth" (Machynlleth) in Montgomeryshire aboard the "Vine of Liverpoole", William Freeson, Master. They arrived in Philadelphia on the 7 month, 17th day, 1684 from "dolyserne nere dolyules in Merionethshire." He settled in Birmingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania, on two hundred and fifty acres of land given to him by his father-in-law, William Brinton, two months after the Quaker Records say he and Elizabeth Brinton "were free to proceed" with their marriage plans (2nd month, 12th day, 1686 and 4th month, 12th day). They were members of the Radnor MM. Hugh and Elizabeth were witnesses at Elizabeth's brother William's marriage in 1690. On Nov. 19, 1707, he bought an additional 430 acres in Marlborough, Chester Co, PA which can be verified in Deed records. (C-2139) He died probably in late September 1708 leaving the following will. "To all Christian people to whom these presents may come, whereas, I, Hugh Harris of Brumingham (Birmingham) in the County of Chester, West Randolph, greeting this twenty fourth day of the first month called March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eight, being sick and weak in body, but of sound and perfect memory, prayse be to God for the same, and knowing the uncertainty of this life on earth & being disposed to better things, I do hereby make this my last will & testament in manner and form following - that is to say - First and principally I commend my soul to almighty God, my estate & my body to the earth from whence it was taken. To be buried in such decent & Christian manner as my Executrix here after named be thought wise and convenient, as touching such worldly estate as the Lord in mercy hath sent me. My will and meaning is the same shall be employed and bestowed as hereafter by this my will is expressed, that is to say - I make and certify my well-beloved wife Elizabeth Harris my whole and sole Executrix of my last will & testament. Item - I give to my sonn Evan:Harris the sum of five pounds to be paid at the age of twenty one yeras. With my weaving loom, the gears thereunto belonging. Secondly - I give to my sonn William Harris the sum of five pounds to be paid at the age of twenty one years. Thirdly - I give to my sonn Hugh Harris the sum of five pounds to be paid at the age of twenty one years. Fourthly - I give to my sonn John Harris the sum of five pounds to be paid at the age of twenty one years. Fifthly - I give to my daughter Elizabeth Harris the sum of five pounds to be paid at the age of twenty one years. Sixthly - I give to my daughter Ann Harris the sum of five pounds to be paid at the age of twenty one years. Seventhly - I give to my daughter Jane Harris the sum of five pounds to be paid at the age of twenty one years. Eighthly - I give to my daughter Lois Harris the sum of five pounds to be paid at the age of twenty one years. Ninethly - I give to my daughter Olive Harris the sum of five pounds to be paid at the age of twenty one years. Tenthly & lastly - I give full power to my well-beloved wife, Elizabeth Harris, which I have hereby constituted my whole and sole executrix of this my last will and testament. To sell, & dispose of all & all manner of my real & personal estate, to the best advantage as may be. To pay my funeral charges & my just debts, with the legacys herein mentioned. In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand & seal the day of year above written. Hugh Harris (H for his mark) (Seal) Witnesses: Richard Webb, Jonathan ?, William Brinton, John Bennett. (Photostats of Original Philadelphia Wills & Inventories, 1681-1710. GSP, PH:13 Will #96:1708., or Philadelphia Will Book C, p. 126 #96:1708, GSP XW Pennsylvania PH 2. He is buried at Radnor MM in Pennsylvania. (C-956) It is widely published that this Hugh Harry's ancestry goes through many Royal lines. However, a Harry Family Association Newsletter dated 1995, has cast serious doubt on this. Hugh's father, Hugh Thomas Owen, was the son of a Thomas Owen. A researcher has found a second Thomas Owens in Machynlleth who could be this Harry Thomas's father. He believes this Thomas who was not prominent in English affairs, to be Harry Thomas' father because 1) Hugh Thomas was a weaver when he came to America and 2) The Quaker minutes after he arrives mention that his parents were having financial trouble. The sons promised they would pay any member back who could help send money to their parents on March 13, 1686. (This would not have been true for the son of the affluent Thomas Owen. [FN:Thomas Underwood, 1650 Immigrant:FN] The support for Hugh being the grandson of Thomas Owen, of Royal Lineage, is that 1) Harry Thomas Owen became a Quaker, was imprisoned and heavily fined, making impoverishment for his family a likely occurrence. This would explain the lower station and practical trades of his sons. 2) It is an accepted, published line in [UL:Ancestors of American Presidents:UL].

Hugh married Elizabeth BRINTON on 12 Apr 1686 in Chichester, Chester, PA, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of William BRINTON and Ann BAGLEY) was born on 9 Aug 1665 in , Worcestershire, ENG; died after 8 Nov 1727. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her birth date might also be Oct. 6, 1665. (C-527) Elizabeth came with her brother, William Jr. and possibly her parents in the summer of 1684 to avoid Quaker persecution. (C-636) She was living on Nov. 8 1727 when she deeded 177 acres that had belonged to her deceased husband to their son, William. (C-2139)

Notes:

UA Record #:2405 Harry Thomas Owen was sometimes called Henry Thomas Owen or Harry Thomas. He was the original Quaker in this line. He decided upon the truth of the Quaker religion as a young man and is listed in Besse's "Suffering of the Quakers" along with Evan Harry as imprisoned, very hardly used, lodging on bare boards and having their water sometimes kept from them. From 1662 to 1681, his name frequently occurs in the Quarter session records of Montgomery County as fined for non-attendance of the established church (Anglican?) and it notes that he was a Quaker. He was presented to the Grand Jury, as a Quaker, in the April Sessions, 1681. (C-437, p.574) His birth and death dates are not known but estimated. He was likely to be alive in 1686 when he is mentioned in PA Quaker records as the father of Hugh Harry who needed monetary help from his son's in America. (C-437, p.6)

Harry married Elizabeth UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In UA Record #:2762 on CD-102 an alternate birthday of 1634 is given. It's listed as 1632 in Harry's book. When William and Ann had married, Ann had been a Quaker for about three years previous. William and Ann emigrated from England in 1684 and settled in Grubbs Landing, New Castle Co., Delaware. He and his family had been living at Nether Gornall, Sedgley, Stafford, England when his eldest daughter had married on 4/18/1684, shortly before their departure. William and Ann were received on certificate from the Dudley Monthly Meeting by the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting on 9/4/1684.

William and family barely survived their first year in the colonies. They had only a temporary shelter for both of them and their son, William during that very severe first winter. The only way they made it through was from game supplied by the Indians that traversed the route by their shelter. Once the weather cleared, William built them a log cabin and planted a pear tree as a symbol of fruitful future. He purchased 50 acres from Thomas King in March of 1686 and 450 acres in Oct. of that same year in Birmingham. These purchases included the lands on which he was already living. In 1688 he purchased an additional 400 acres. (C-1364)

William and Ann came to the Americas and endured this hardship, because as a Quaker, he had lost much of what he owned to the British government. He again was on the unpopular side of religion within seven years of coming to America as he joined up with the rebellious Quaker, George Keith.

This group after a few years, fractured and broke up and which point William and family returned to the Orthodox Quaker church where he was a member in good standing at Concord Monthly Meeting at the time of his death. He lived in Birmingham, Chester Co., PA when he wrote his will on the 6th month, 20th day, 1699. It was proved at Philadelphia on Dec. 1, 1700. (C-749)

Both Ann and William died around 1700. They are buried at the Concord Monthly Meeting in New Castle Co., DE. His will follows: Know all men whome it may Concerne that on the __ day of the Sixth month 1699 I William Brinton of Burmingham in the County of Chester in the Province of Pennsilvania -- being by the goodness of the Lord in good and perfect mind and memory -- and being far in yeares -- And knowing that all flesh is as grass and the goodliness thereof as the flower of the field' -- Also Calling to mind what the Lord said to Hezekiah Set they house in order for thou must die and not live. -- Now in the Sence of my latter end and putting off this my Tabernacle And the trouble my Children may be in and exposed to if I should die without a will to prevent the last And in the Sence aforesaid do make and declare this to be my last Will and Testament Contained in maner and forme following. I doe give unto my daughter Ann Bennit one hundred pounds -- Also I give unto my daughter Elizabeth Harry wife of Hugh Harry one hundred pounds -- and for the more sure provideing that the one hundred pounds that I give unto my daughter Elizabeth Harry shall doe her and her Children good my will is that twenty-pounds part of the saide one Hundred pounds shall be paid presently after my decease -- And the foure-score pounds the remaine of the said one hundred pounds shall be paid by twenty pounds a yeare and every yeare Successively by my executors Hereafter named -- Also I give unto my daughter Easter Willis wife of John Willis one hundred pounds -- Also I gove unto my grand Children of my three daughters aforesaid and of my Son William Brinton -- two Shillings and Sixpence each or every one of them -- Also my Will is, -- And I doe hereby apoint, ordaine, make and Consitute my Loveing Son William Brinton and my Son in Law John Bennit my full and Sole executors of this my last Will and Testament. -- And further my will is, and I doe give unto my Son William Brinton five pounds -- also I doe give unto my other executor my Son in Law John Bennit five poiunds, -- Also my Will is, and I doe apoint Constitute and make my oveing friend George Harlan of Brandywine my true and Legall Oversee of this my last will and Testament, And my Will is and I doe give unto Said George Harlan five-pounds to be paid by my executors -- And further more my Will is -- what is over and above more what aforesaid I have given away of my personal estate and reall estate -- with the house all goods Shall be equally divided betwixt my three daughters that is to say my daughter Anne Bennit my daughter Elizabeth Harry and my daughter Easter Willis, -- excepting alwazys one feather-bed and bolster one Rug one Blanket which foure things my Will is that my Son William Brinton shall have. -- also excepting what I shall here unto annex -- In Wittness hereof I have Set my hand and Seal this twentieth day of the Sixt month one thousand six hundred ninety-nine 1699. --William Brinton (seal) (C-956, EL)

William married Ann BAGLEY about 1659 in , Staffordshire, ENG. Ann (daughter of Edward BAGLEY and Olive UNKNOWN) was born before 27 Apr 1634 in Sedgeley, Staffordshire, ENG; was christened on 27 Apr 1634 in St. Edmund, Dudley, Worcestershire, ENG; died before 20 Aug 1699 in Birmingham Twp., Chester, PA, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Farmer's book gives her surname as Sedgley. One of these surnames is likely a misinterpretation of the handwritten first hand document or a mix-up of the place they lived with their surname. She is also UA Record #:4178 in CD-100. (C-956) Though all sources found so far list her as the daughter of Edward Bagley, it is not certain that she was also the daughter of Olive.

Notes:

It is not now certain that Harry Thomas Owen's father was Thomas. Even if his name was Thomas as suspected from Welsh naming patterns, there appear to have been two Thomas Owens living in Machynlleth. The famous Thomas Owen who has been presented as his father in even the American President's genealogies is now considered unlikely to be Harry's father. This Thomas served as Mayor of Machynlleth in 20 James (1622) and later as Magistrate. He was a well-to-do landowner like his father around Machynlleth. In the REGISTRUM UNIVERSITATIS OXONIENSIS is lists that he graduated from Oxford specifically Jesus College, Oxford on May 3, 1616 at age 20. That would place his birth date around 1598 even though other source estimates are around 1607. (C-437,p6) He died in 1672. The Owen home, originally built around 400 years ago, called "Llynlloed" is possibly where the Magistrate Thomas lived. Photographs and diagrams of it are in the Harry Harold, July. 1991 issue. The original home is inside the structure that has been added to and currently stands in Wales. (C-750) This Magistrate Thomas Owen line goes back maternally through many branches of Royalty. However, it is now considered HIGHLY suspect because 1) Hugh Thomas Owen's son Hugh Harry is listed as a pauper in his son's American Quaker records, 2) Hugh Harry when he came to America was a weaver, a profession not likely for the grandchild of someone with the stature of the above Thomas Owen, 3) Hugh Thomas did not live in Macynlleth originally, but apparently moved there from elsewhere (which is not the case with the well-to-do Thomas Owen above described) and 4) Thomas Owen, the magistrate, in his will, lists 2 sons and 8 daughters and all his grandchildren. He does not list Harry or Henry as a son. This last point might not matter since he could have disowned a son Harry when he became a Quaker. (C-1209, E)

Thomas married Joyce PUGHE in 1624 in Machynlleth, , Montgomeryshire, Wales. Joyce was born in 1600 in Machynlleth, , Montgomeryshire, Wales; died in 1630 in Machynlleth, WA, Montgomeryshire, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her name was originally Joyce Vertz Hugh meaning Joyce the daughter of Hugh. This in time got translated as Pughe or Pugh by U.S. naming customs.

Notes:

UA Record #:4217. He was from Sedgely, England. Some sources list that in Worcester Co., some list it in Staffordshire. (C-527) He might have been the Thomas who died in 1587 or the one who was buried on Aug. 14, 1687. (C-1364, Lewis, "Thomas Underwood.")

Thomas married Ann BIDDLE on 27 Jun 1631 in Sedgeley, Staffordshire, ENG. Ann was born about 1611 in Sedgeley, Staffordshire, ENG; died before 2 Sep 1684 in Nether Gournal, Stafford, ENG; was buried on 2 Sep 1684 in Nether Gournal, Stafford, ENG. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Even though various second hand sources like CD-100, #4227 and the "Brinton Genealogy" state that Anne's father was a William Biddle. This is conjecture based upon the burial record for a William Biddle in St. Thomas Parish, Worcester, England on Feb. 4, 1625/6. (C-1364) Her mother may have been the widow Biddle who was buried the 6th of November 1641 in Sedgeley Parish records, Staffordshire, England. (C-2131)

Notes:

When Edward Bagley's daughter, Ann died in 1699, her husband, William Brinton, wrote about her life. In it he stated that Edward, her father, had died about fifty years earlier and that her family was "not of mean rank as to worldly account." He called his father-in-law a "very honest and loving man." Edward received 30 lbs. from Elizabeth Tomlinson's nuncupative will dated July 3, 1629. Elizabeth was the mistress to Lord Dudley and all of her children were the children of this Lord. Edward was listed as "nepoti ex matre" to Elizabeth when he was assigned by the courts to be the administrator of her estate. The normal latin meaning of this term would be grandson, but according to a published authority, in this case it legally meant nephew. Which interpretation is correct is of great controversy as it determines whether Edward is a direct descendant of Lord Dudley or a descendant of Elizabeth's sister instead. He died before his father in 1645 and is buried at St. Thomas Parish in Dudley, England. Before his death, in April 1645 Edward is shown as elected one of the Overseers for the Poor in the St. Thomas Parish records. (C-1364, UA Record #:4237)

Edward married Olive UNKNOWN before 1637 in Dudley, Worcestershire, ENG. Olive was born about 1612 in Sedgeley, Staffordshire, ENG; died in 1675. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Many second hand sources say that this person's name is Ann, but Hansen who has checked the first hand records, finds that Edward's only listed wife is named Olive at the christening of their first child. She was a "Friend" by religion and outlived her husband by some thirty years. (C-1364)