Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Joseph TYSON
JOSEPH TYSON, son of John and Priscilla (Naylor) Tyson, born 3mo. (May)13, 1737, in Abington township, died there 2mo. (February) 2, 1787, and was buried in the Abington Friends Graveyard. (Abington death register). He married (first) 5mo. (May) 13, 1766, at Abington Meeting, Agnes,daughter of Isaac Cleaver, of Cheltenham township, and granddaughter of Peter and Catharine Cleaver, early settlers at Germantown, and the progenitors of the Cleaver family in Pennsylvania.
After the death of his first wife, Agnes Cleaver, in 1779, Joseph Tysonmarried another Agnes , daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Powell) Lukens, ofUpper Dublin township. She was born 12mo. 7 , 1756, and was, as well asher husband, a descendant of Reynier and Mary Tyson, her father, J osephLukens, being a son of William Lukens, by his wife Elizabeth Tyson, adaughter of Reynie r and Mary, the original American ancestor of theTysons of Pennsylvania.
By his will, dated November 17, 1785, proved February 28, 1787, andregistered at Norristown , Montgomery county (Will Book I, p. 105),
"Joseph Tyson, Senior, of Abington Township," devised to his wife, Agnes,all household goods and furniture that her father, Joseph Lukens, bought for her, "before, at and after our Marriage, to the amount of about one hundred pounds, hard money;" also two hundred pounds in cash and five pounds per annum during her widowhood; to daughter Rebecca Tyson, a house and ten acres of land in Abington township, "devised to me by my father,John Tyson" and fifty pounds hard money, also "all her mother's household goods I now have;" to daughter Sarah Tyson, twelve acres in Abington township, "heretofore conveyed to me by Joseph Tyson, Junior," in default of issue of said Sarah to go to her brother John Tyson; also to Sarah,fifty pounds, when she arrives at the age of eighteen years; to son John Tyson, the mansion house and plantation of one hundred and forty-fiveacres, more or less, "devised to me by my father John Tyson," also wearing apparel, silver watch "that was my father's," and a riding horse; residuary estate to be equally divided between wife and children,Rebecca, Sarah and John; executors, brother Rynear Tyson, brother-in-law,Thomas Hallowell, and Thomas Leech; in case none of his children left issue, the real estate to go to his brother Rynear Tyson's sons, Joseph,William, Rynear, Abraham and Thomas, and brother John Tyson's son Isaac.
The issue of Joseph and Agnes (Cleaver) Tyson, who survived their parents, were (no list of births appearing on Abington register):
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