Rash's Surname Index

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Notes for Robert PYLE

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Robert PYLE (chr 29.12.1660 Bishops Cannings-d 17.1.1730 Bethel Twp,Chester Co,PA) Malster in Bishops Cannings,Wiltshire. Emigrated to Pennsylvania c1683. An active Quaker & clerk of meeting. (The Quakers were founded by George FOX in 1647.)
Bought 150 acres in Bethel Twp,Chester Co (now Delaware Co) from William SMITH.
A member of the Chichester meeting. In 1698 he issued a statement on the emancipation of slaves owned by Friends. This was later printed in the Friends Intelligencer in 1874 and again in the Journal of Negro History 1937 (Vol 22 p488).
A juror of the Chester Court, Member of the Provincial Assembly of Penn. and a Justice of the Peace. Will 2.1.1729/30 proved in Chester Co 29.8.1730.
m1 16.11.1681 Bishop Cannings/Hilperton sp-Ann STOREY/STOVEY

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