Richard Ridgway and Elizabeth Chamberlayne

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Husband Richard Ridgway ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - Berkshire, England
     Christened: 
           Died: Bet 21 Sep 1722 and 5 Apr 1723 1
         Buried: 

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         Father: [Ancestor] Ridgway (      -      )
         Mother: 

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       Marriage:  - England

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   Other Spouse: Abigail Stockton (      -Bet 1726/1726) 1 - Bef 1 Feb 1694 1

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Wife Elizabeth Chamberlayne ¹

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           Born:  - ? England
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           Died: 31 Mar 1692 - Crewcorn, Falls Township, Bucks Co, PA
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         Father: Robert Chamberlayne (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 M Thomas Ridgway ^{1 2}

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           Born: 27 Jul 1677 1
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           Died: 24 Aug 1724 - Little Egg Harbor, NJ 1
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         Spouse: Anna Paws (      -      ) 2
           Marr: 1699 1

         Spouse: Elizabeth Andrews (      -      ) 1
           Marr: 6 Nov 1712 1

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2 M Richard Ridgway, Jr. ^{1 2}

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           Born: 27 Aug 1680 1
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           Died: Bet 12 Feb 1718 and 4 Apr 1719 1
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         Spouse: Mary Willits (      -      ) 1
           Marr: 9 Oct 1702 1

         Spouse: Mary Stockton (      -      ) 1 3 4
           Marr: 11 Nov 1714 1

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3 F Elizabeth Ridgway ¹

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           Born: 17 Apr 1682 1
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         Spouse: Richard Willits (      -      ) 1
           Marr: 15 Sep 1704 1

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4 M William Ridgway ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died: in infancy
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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5 F Sarah Ridgway ¹

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: in infancy
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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6 M Josiah Ridgway ⁵

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           Born: 6 Sep 1690 - Crewcorn, Falls Township, Bucks Co, PA 6
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           Died: 
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         Spouse: Sarah Ridgway (      -      ) 6

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7 M Joseph Ridgway ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died: in infancy
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - Richard Ridgway

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He was a native of Berkshire, England, where the name had been prominent for many generations. His great-grandfather, Thomas Ridgway, is said to have been held in high favor by both Queen Elizabeth and King James I, and to have been the intimate friend and companion of Robert Cecil, the son of Lord Burleigh, who became the first Earl of Salisbury and prime minister to both the sovereigns mentioned. It is said that at the baptism of Thomas Ridgway's eldest son his friend Robert Cecil was godfather, and gave the child his own name, Robert.

Shortly after his first marriage Richard Ridgway, with his wife and eldest child, left Wallingford, Berkshire, and sailed across the Atlantic in the ship "Jacob and Mary" of London, arriving in the Delaware River in September, 1679. On the 12th of that month he was in Burlington, but after a short stay there he removed to Crewcorn, in what is now Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where on April 12, 1680, he signed the petition to the governor to suppress the sale of "brandy and strong liquors to ye Indians." On May 3, 1686, the governor's council recommended him as a "fit person for ye Keeping an Ordinary," and his petition for a license was therefore granted. On Oct. 7, 1690, he bought six hundred acres in Maidenhead, west of the Province line, and running from the Great Meadows at Port Mercer northward for about a mile. Here he lived several years. On Feb. 7, 1697, he purchased from John Hollingshead a farm in Springfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, where he afterward resided, giving an acre of this property to the Society of Friends for a meetinghouse and burying ground. The original building has disappeared, but the acre is still used for the purpose intended. On Aug. 8, 1700, he was appointed a judge or justice of Burlington County, holding the office until April, 1720.

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 509.

2 —, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 61.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 362.

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

5 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 509, 510.

6 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 510.