James Harker1

M, #2198
Last Edited: 18 Jun 2023

Parents:

Father: James Harker2

Family 1:

Elizabeth Battersbie

Family 2:

Emme (?)

Notes

  • Note*: "m. (1) 2-23-1701, at Lower Bentham, Yorkshire, Elizabeth Battersbie; m. (2) ----- Emme -----. He brought a certificate from the monthly meeting of Sedbergh, in Yorkshire, which was received by Middletown Mo. Mtg., 11-1-1718. He represented Wrightstown Preparative Meeting at Middletown Mo. Mtg., in 1724, and in the same year was appointed to attend Quarterly Meeting. He and his wife Emme were witnesses to a number of marriages; they were living in 1754, when they were both provided for in the will of Adam Harker."1
  • Note: A James Harker requested a certificate from the Middletown Monthly Meeting in Bucks Co. to Chester Monthly Meeting in Delaware Co., 12th mo. 1723/24, and produced the certificate at Chester Monthly Meeting 2nd mo. 1724. This may or may not be the same James Harker as named in the will of Adam Harker.3,4

Citations

  1. [S405] Roberts, Clarence V., Ancestry of Clarence V. Roberts & Frances A. (Walton) Roberts : comprising a chart and sketches of some fifty-six ancestral families who settled mostly in or near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Wm. F. Fell, printers, 1940), p.119.   Roberts--Roberts.pdf
  2. [S405] Roberts, Clarence V., Ancestry of Roberts, p. 119, citing 'Digest of Marriages, Quarterly Meeting of Yorkshire.'
  3. [S523] Watring, Anna Miller and Wright, F. Edward, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Church Records of the 17th & 18th Centuries, Volume 2, Quaker Records: Falls and Middletown Monthly Meetings (Westminister, Maryland: Family Line Publications, 1994), p. 259.
  4. [S255] Launey, John Pitts and F. Edward Wright, Early Church Records of Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Vol. 1 (Family Line Publications, 1997), p. 108.