Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Samuel Mickle and Thomazine Marshall




Husband Samuel Mickle 1 2 3

           Born: 10 Feb 1684 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 18 Feb 1765 3
         Buried: 


         Father: Archibald Mickle (      -1706) 3
         Mother: Unknown (      -      )


       Marriage: 28 Dec 1716 - Philadelphia, PA 3



Wife Thomazine Marshall 1 2 3

           Born: 15 Dec 1692 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 28 Mar 1747 3
         Buried: 


         Father: James Marshall (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Rachel Garthwaite (      -      ) 3




Children
1 F Elizabeth Mickle 1 2 4

           Born: 1729 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 1 Jan 1805 3
         Buried: 
         Spouse: Joseph Fox (Abt 1710-1779) 1 2 4
           Marr: 25 Sep 1746 or 1749 - Philadelphia, PA 1 4



General Notes: Husband - Samuel Mickle


He was a merchant of good standing, became a member of Common Council of the city [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?] in 1732, and so continued until his death.

Benjamin Franklin in his autobiography gives the following description of Samuel Mickle:
"There are croakers in every country, always boding its ruin. Such a one then lived in Philadelphia; a person of note, an elderly man, with a wise look and a very grave manner of speaking; his name was Samuel Mickle. This gentleman, a stranger to me, stopt one day at my door, and asked me if I was the young man who had lately opened a new printing-house. Being assured in the affimative, he said he was sorry for me, because it was an expensive undertaking, and the expense would be lost; for Philadelphia was a sinking place, the people already half-bankrupts, or near being so, all appearances to the contrary, such as new buildings and the rise in rents, being to his certain knowledge fallacious; for they were, in fact, among the things that would soon ruin us. And he gave me such a detail of mis-fortunes now existing, or that were soon to exist, that he left me half melancholy. Had I known him before I engaged in this business, probably I never should have done it. This man continued to live in this decaying place, and to declaim in the same strain, refusing for many years to buy a house there, because all was going to destruction; and at last I had the pleasure of seeing him give five times as much for one as he might have bought it for when he first began his croaking."


Notes: Marriage

They were married at Philadelphia Meeting (Quaker).

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Sources


1 A. J. Davis, History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., 1887), Pg 635.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 942.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 319.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 318.


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