Joseph Gilbert and Sarah James

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Husband Joseph Gilbert ¹

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           Born: Abt 1675
     Christened: 
           Died: 1765 2
         Buried: 

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         Father: John Gilbert (      -1711) 1 3
         Mother: Florence [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 1744 1

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   Other Spouse: Rachel Taylor (1664-      ) 1 - Abt 1699

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Wife Sarah James ^{1 4}

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           Born: 1 Sep 1704 1 4
     Christened: 
           Died: 1789 5
         Buried: 

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         Father: Aaron James (      -      ) 1 4
         Mother: Elizabeth [Unk] (      -      ) 1 4

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Gilbert

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He settled on land obtained from his father, in Byberry, and carried on farming the remainder of his long life.
Isaac Comly, in his sketches of Byberry, makes the following notice of him:
"Joseph Gilbert endeavored to maintain a strict moral discipline in his family; he was rigidly temperate and bore such a faithful testimony against the slavery of negroes that Benjamin Lay could consider him as his intimate friend, and put up at his house when he came to this neighborhood. He also protested against the use of spirituous liquors, especially by abstaining altogether from them himself. He diligently attended religious meetings and encouraged his family to a regular observance of the same practice. Even the workmen he occasionally employed were left at liberty to go to meeting with him in the middle of the week, but in case they did not incline to do so he enjoined them to suspend their labors till he returned. His bodily and mental powers retained their strength and vigor to old age. He generally led his reapers in the harvest; drank nothing but water and that from the running brook, kept in a jug in the sunshine, but he provided beer for his workmen. After the decease of Abel Hinkson he occupied the head seat in Byberry Meeting and gave the signal for closing the meeting as long as he was able to attend it. He was at different times active both in the capacity of elder and overseer of the meeting. He died 8 Mo. 20, 1765, aged near 90 years."

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General Notes: Wife - Sarah James

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She was born 7 Mo. 1, 1704.

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Notes: Marriage

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They were married 9 Mo. 16, 1744.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 471.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 472.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 373.

4 J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881), Pg 612.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 4741.