Joseph Painter and Lydia Marshall

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Husband Joseph Painter ¹

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           Born: 5 Jul 1782 1
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           Died: 12 Aug 1855 1
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         Father: Joseph Painter (1748-1804) 1 2
         Mother: Elizabeth Woodward (1748-1808) 1

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       Marriage: 12 Sep 1805 - Bradford Meeting, Chester Co, PA 1

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Wife Lydia Marshall ¹

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           Born: 2 Aug 1788 1
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           Died: 10 May 1857 1
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         Father: Samuel Marshall (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Rachel [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 F Mary Ann Painter ¹

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           Born: 11 Jul 1806 1
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           Died: 11 Nov 1809 1
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 F Rachel M. Painter ¹

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           Born: 17 Apr 1808 1
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           Died: 15 Nov 1865 1
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3 M Samuel M. Painter ¹

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           Born: 16 Sep 1809 1
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         Spouse: Ann Vickers (      -      ) 1
           Marr: 17 Oct 1839 1

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4 F Elizabeth P. Painter ¹

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           Born: 31 May 1813 1
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         Spouse: Joseph Vickers (      -      ) 1

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5 F Lydia S. Painter ¹

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           Born: 3 Aug 1815 1
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           Died: 24 Nov 1832 1
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6 F Sarah Painter ¹

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           Born: 8 Dec 1816 1
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           Died: 30 Jun 1817 1
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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7 M Joseph H. Painter ¹

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           Born: 5 Oct 1818 1
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         Spouse: Esther Kersey (      -      ) 1
           Marr: 19 Feb 1840 1

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8 F Mary H. Painter ¹

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           Born: 30 Sep 1820 1
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         Spouse: Chalkley M. Valentine (      -      ) 1
           Marr: 30 Dec 1840 1

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9 M James G. Painter ¹

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           Born: 12 May 1823 1
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         Spouse: Mary H. Pierce (      -      ) 1

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10 M Cyrus P. Painter ¹

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           Born: 20 Nov 1825 1
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         Spouse: Abigail A. Alison (      -      ) 1

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11 M Thomas Painter ¹

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           Born: 7 Jul 1830 1
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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Painter

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He and his wife resided for many years in East Bradford, Chester County, Pennsylvania, but settled in West Chester in 1829.

Joseph Painter was a man of strong character, and for many years wielded a controlling political influence in Chester County. Immediately succeeding the alleged abduction and murder of Morgan by the Freemasons, the feeling against the Masonic order was very high all over the land. In 1829, Mr. Painter published a few numbers of a paper at Yellow Springs, which was printed by Alexander Marshall, and devoted to the interests of the Anti-Masonic party. Later in the same year he established at West Chester the Anti-Masonic Register. About six months after starting his paper at West Chester, he built a frame office at the east end of what is now the Mansion House. He began his paper at Yellow Springs with only one hundred and fifty subscribers, but in two or three years his list increased to over two thousand. His papers were delivered all over the county, at the stores and elsewhere, to subscribers by riders outside of the post facilities. For a decade of years the Anti-Masonic party, of which his paper was the organ, swept the county, and elected Governor Ritner to the gubernatorial chair.
Mr. Painter was an able writer and first-class business man, and in the publication of his paper a power in the county and state. He amassed a snug competence. His paper took advanced ground in favor of the cause of temperance, and was strongly anti-slavery, opposing the holding of human beings in bondage, and attacking the slave dynasty and interests in every conceivable way. Mr. Painter was one of the agents of the "Underground Railroad," through whom many a slave found a channel for escape to Canada and the more northern states. During the height of the Anti-Masonic furor the Masonic lodge at West Chester surrendered its charter. Mr. Painter was a humanitarian in its broadest sense, a friend of liberty and good society, and a foe to tyranny, whether in governmental, religious, or mental economies, and for a long period was the brilliant and trusted leader of a party whose most able exponent he was with his trenchant pen and iron will.

1 J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881), Pg 671.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 427.