The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, Vol 46, No 1, Title and Contents

THE PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE ,:gv Number — Spring/Summer Volume 46 1 2009 Published by the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania 1 300 Locust Street Philadelphia, PA 19107-5699 THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA OFFICERS Elected March 20(E) Eresident : Claire Keenan Agthe, JI> Vice Presidents: Kay Haviland Freilieh, SANDRA M. Hewlett, <(. Susan Koelble Secretary: Anita Shcahan Coralu//i Treasurer: Aaron Goodwin Counsel: Michael S. Ramage, JD, CO CC;L DIRECTORS Terms expiring 2010 Mark Frazier Lloyd Kenneth Milano Jefferson M. Moak Carol Sheaffer, MI) Terms expiring 20! I Donn Devine, <:<; Karen Higgins Linda Stanley Terms expiring 2012 Daniel Dailey Clarke Glennon Deborah Coombe Haas Norman Douglas Nicol, PIID FELLOWS OF THE GENEALC )GICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA Annette Kunselman Hurgert James M. Duffin Jane Adams Clarke Rev. Carl T. Smith Peter Stebbins Craig I)r. Don Yoder THE PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE Before 1948 called Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania Volume 46 Number 1 Spring/Summer 2009 Patricia Law Hatcher, FASG, Editor Sandra M. Hewlett, Proofreader ©2009 by the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1300 Locust Street, 2nd Floor, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107-5699 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine (ISSN 0882-3685) is published twice per annum (Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter). Nonmember subscriptions are sold by volume only (4 issues), $45.00; foreign subscriptions, add $2.00 per issue sur¬ charge; single issues, $12.00 each; back issues, contact the Society office. The Society does not assume liability for statements of fact or of opinion made by con¬ tributors. EDITOR’S NOTES ADDED DETAILS AND SERENDI PITIES A s genealogists, we sometimes seem to focus our research efforts on filling in the dates for births, marriages, and deaths or on the prob¬ lem of identifying a wife or parents, thereby reducing our ancestors to information on a family group sheet or pedigree chart. Our ancestors, however, were three-dimensional. To add that dimension accurately, we must gather as many documents as possible to provide those added details. In this issue we have all of these elements. Family Bible records and church marriage records provide dates for vital events, sometimes with added details. Quaker marriage certificates provide the marriage date, of course, but in the names of the numerous witnesses, they provide an added detail about each witness— attendance at the wedding. An article identifying parents shows the value of researching the whole family, in this case each sister providing pieces of the puzzle. The abstracts of vot¬ ers lists, jury lists, and court records provide many instances of added details, albeit primarily for our male ancestors. In the voters’ lists it is interesting to notice the variations from our cur¬ rent voting process. There appears to have been no slate of candidates. Rather, each freeholder named the men they thought most qualified. Thus, there was often a long list of men who received votes, sometimes only one or two apiece. This issue also contains some serendipities. As some of our readers know, 1 also edit the New York. Genealogical and Biographical Record. Recently, as a result of housecleaning preparatory to a move, a stack of Bible records was shipped to me from what had been the editor's office in New York City. They had been accumulating since the 1940s in the editor’s office, the stack slowing increasing. Some were not appropriate for publication in the Record because they were geographical orphans, with no New York connection, including some for Pennsylvania families. We have been given permission to publish those in PGM ; two are in this issue. Patricia haw Hatcher, FASG 2 Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Vol. 46(2009) THE PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE Volume 46 Number 1 Spring/Summer 2009 CONTENTS EDITOR’S NOTES ADDED DETAILS AND SEREN DIPITIES 2 PARENTS OF ELEANOR ANN JENKINS AND MARY E. JENKINS OF NEW YORK, NEBRASKA, AND PENNSYLVANIA S Susan Kilbride ROGERS-LEVERING FAMILY BIBLE RECORD NORTHAMPTON AND MONROE COUNTIES IS MOWRY FAMILY BIBLE RECORD WYOMING COUNTY 16 MCGLAUGHLIN FAMILY BIBLE RECORD DELAWARE COUNTY 17 ELLIOTI -WHITE FAMILY BIBLE RECORD NOR TH CAROLINA 18 QUAKER MARRIAGE CERTIFICATES HAINES-JOHNSON, DELAWARE, 1797 20 MARRIAGES RECORDED AT ST. GEORGE’S METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, PHILADELPHIA, 1789-1817 21 transcribed by Aaron Goodwin ELECTION RETURNS, LISTS OF VOTERS, 1776-1790 4o ELIZABETH TOWNSHIP, ALLEGHENY COUNTY, 1789 MIFFLIN DISTRICT, ALLEGHENY COUN TY, 1790 PITTTOWNSHIP, ALLEGHENY COUNTY, 1788 41 42 43 PLUMB |PI.UM] TOWNSHIP, ALLEGHENY COUNTY, 1790 ST. CLEAR [CLAIR] DISTRICT, ALLEGHENY COUNTY, 1790 VAKSII.I.I S [VERSAILLES] DISTRICT, ALLI;CIII;NY COUNTY, 1790 45 45 BIILLSKIN DISTRICT, FAYETTE COUNTY, 1787 FRANKIJN DISTRICT, FAYETTE COUNTY, 1787 . . . GERMAN DISTRICT, FAYETTE COUNTY, 1786 GERMAN DISTRICT, FAYETTE COUN TY, 1790 LUZERNE DISTRICT, FAYETTE COUNTY, 1790 SPRINOHILI. DISTRICT, FAYETTE COUNTY, 1789 . . TYRONE DISTRICT, FAYETTE COUNTY, 1786 WASHING TON DISTRICT, FAYETTE COUNTY, 1786 48 49 49 47 50 51 52 53 5.3 54 FIRST DISTRICT, LUZERNE COUN TY, 1789 .. SECOND DISTRICT, LUZERNE COUN TY, 1789 SECOND DISTRICT, LUZERNE COUNTY, 1790 THIRD DISTRICT, LUZERNE COUNTY, 1789 . 55 56 UPPER BALD EAGLE TOWNSHIP, MIITI.IN COUNTY, 1789 57 57 COURTS OF OYER AND TERMINER, 1 757-1787 transcribed by Elizabeth B. Bunting MINUTES, CUMBERLAND Cot INTY (concluded) . . . 59 JURIES AND APPOINTMENTS, LANCASTER COUNTY 68 JURIES AND APPOINTMENTS, PHILADELPHIA COUNTY 79 ARTICLES OF PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST IN NON-PENNSYLVANIAJOURNALS 96