Thomas Downing and Jane Edge

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Husband Thomas Downing ^{1 2}

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           Born: 14 Dec 1691 - Bradninch, Devonshire, England 2 3
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           Died: 15 Mar 1772 3
         Buried: 

       Marriage: 15 Feb 1756 3

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   Other Spouse: Ellen [Unk] (      -      ) 3

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   Other Spouse: Thomazine [Unk] (      -      ) 3

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Wife Jane Edge ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died: 23 Mar 1759 3
         Buried: 

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         Father: John Edge (1685-Abt 1734) 1
         Mother: Mary Smedley (      -1781) 1

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   Other Spouse: James Albin (      -1750) 1

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Downing

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His second wife was perhaps the mother of all the children, two of whom were born in England. He was a taxable in Concord township from 1718 to 1732. At Concord Monthly Meeting, Aug. 3, 1730, "Thomas Downing & his wife made application to this meeting to com under the care of friends; they having produced papers from under severall friends hands of their sober and orderly conversations where they have Lived, this meeting receiveth them." In 1733 they removed to Sadsbury, but in two or three years after settled at the place thereafter known as Downingtown. There is reason to think that while in Concord he operated a mill belonging to Nathaniel Newlin, and he and his descendants continued to be mill-owners at Downingtown for several generations. [HCC 1881, 525]

He was born in Bradninch, in Devonshire, England, in 1691, and as early as 1718, resided in Concord township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Later he resided at Sadsbury, and still later at Downington, in the same county. From him descended the numerous families of Downings in that county. For generations the Downings were farmers and millers.

1 J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881), Pg 525, 528.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 70, 79.

3 J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881), Pg 525.