Nicholas Newlin and Elizabeth [Unk]

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Husband Nicholas Newlin ^{1 2 3}

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           Died: May 1699 - Concord Twp, Chester (later Delaware) Co, PA 2 4
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Wife Elizabeth [Unk] ^{2 4}

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           Died: 1717 2 4
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Children

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1 M Nathaniel Newlin ^{3 5 6}

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           Born: Abt 1660 - Ireland
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           Died: May 1729 2 4
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         Spouse: Mary Mendenhall (      -      ) 3 5 6
           Marr: 17 Apr 1685 2 5

         Spouse: Mary Fincher (      -1730) 4
           Marr: 17 Feb 1729 4

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2 M John Newlin ^{2 4}

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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3 F Rachel Newlin ^{2 4}

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         Spouse: Ephraim Jackson (      -      ) 4
           Marr: 1685 4

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4 F Elizabeth Newlin ⁴

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         Spouse: Thomas Burton (      -      ) 4
           Marr: 1683 4

         Spouse: William Pagett (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Nicholas Newlin

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from Mount Molock, Tyrone, Ireland, in 1683, to Concord township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

A gentleman in easy circumstances, with his wife and children, he emigrated from Mountmellick, in the county of Tyrone, Ireland, in 1683, and settled in Concord, in what is now Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
It is claimed by some of his descendants that he was an English gentleman of ancient family, and that he was descended from the De Newlandes, who were manor lords under the early Norman kings of England. Be this as it may, he was a member of the Society of Friends, and brought with him to this country a certificate of membership, in which the meeting expresses dissatisfaction with his intended removal, and intimates that he was fearful of suffering there for the testimony of Jesus, or that he coveted worldly liberty.* Whether the intimation therein conveyed as to the cause of his removal was correct or not, his conduct here showed him to be a man firm in the performance of what he believed to be his duty under all circumstances.
In 1685 he was appointed to a seat in the Provincial Council, and was for a time one of the justices of the courts of Chester County. He had a large estate in Concord and Birmingham, and built a mill at the former place in very early times. Friends' meetings were held at his house as early as 1687, and after his death were continued for a number of years at his widow's. He died at Concord in May, 1699, and was there buried. [HCC 1881, 668]

He was a member of the Provincial council of Pennsylvania, 1685 to 1688, and a Justice of the courts of Chester county, 1685-91, was long a resident of Mount Mellick, Queens county, Ireland. He was a man of considerable wealth for that period, and a devout member of the Society of Friends long before his emigration to America and suffered many distraints of goods for participating in the Meetings of Friends. This determined him to remove with his family to Penn's colony in America, and Mount Mellick Meeting granted him a certificate dated 12mo. (February) 25, 1682-3, to remove with his family "Out of this Nation into New Jersey or Pennsylvania in America," in which they give him a high recommendation but add,
"But our Meeting is generally dissatisfied with his removing with his family, and having sufficient substance for food and raiment, which all that possess godliness in Christ Jesus ought to be contented with for we have brought nothing into this world and we are sure to take nothing out. And he hath given us no satisfactory reason for his removing, but our godly jealousy is that his chief ground is fearfulness of suffering here for the testimony of Jesus or courting worldly liberty."
He was accompanied to Pennsylvania by his wife Elizabeth, his sons Nathaniel and John and daughter Rachel, sailing in the "Levee" of Liverpool. They settled on a tract of land in Concord township, Chester (now Delaware) county, Pennsylvania, where he built and operated a mill and was an important man of affairs. The early Meetings of the Society of Friends were held at his house as early as 1687, and continued after his death.

1 J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881), Pg 668.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 615.

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 875.

4 J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881), Pg 669.

5 J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881), Pg 655, 669.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 614.