Edward Blackfan and Rebecca Crispin

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Husband Edward Blackfan ¹

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         Father: John Blackfan (      -      ) 1
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       Marriage: 24 Aug 1688 - County of Sussex, England 1

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Wife Rebecca Crispin ¹

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         Father: Capt. William Crispin (Abt 1610-Abt 1682) 1 2
         Mother: Anne Jasper (      -      ) 1

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   Other Spouse: Nehemiah Allen (      -      ) 3 - 1725 3

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Children

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1 M William Blackfan ¹

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         Spouse: Eleanor Wood (      -      ) 1
           Marr: 20 Apr 1721 - ? Philadelphia, PA 1

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General Notes: Husband - Edward Blackfan

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He was a member of the Society of Friends, and came in for a share of the ill treatment afforded that Society. In 1681 he was indicted, with others, at Horsham Assizes, for absence from the national worship, and in 1684 for being present at some Quaker meetings at Stenning, and according to Besse, he "was fined £7, 18s, which, at the Pursuasion of some Justices and others, he paid in order to Appeal, but when the Sessions came on, he found so little Encouragement in prosecuting the same, that he chose rather to lose his Money, than to be put to farther Charge."
He intended to go to Pennsylvania, but was prevented by death. He is spoken of in Penn's letters in 1689 as being about to take official documents to the Council, and was on the point of sailing when he died in 1690.
His widow, with their son William, afterwards went to Pennsylvania, in the same ship with Thomas Chalkley and other Friends, about 1700. She was a member of the Free Society of Traders in Pennsylvania. On her arrival, her relatives, the Penns, sent her to take charge of their manor of Pennsbury, in Bucks county, where she lived a number of years.

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Notes: Marriage

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They were married at Ifield Friends' Meeting, in Sussex, England. Her cousin, William Penn, Proprietary of Pennsylvania, and some of his family attended the wedding.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 357.

2 Frederic A. Godcharles, LL.D., Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography, Vol. 19 (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1931), Pg 346.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 358.