↑ "Records of the Society of Friends of the City of New York and Vicinity, from 1640 to 1800", in The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. (New York, New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society) Vol. 6, p. 106.
The tenth Day of the ninth month in ye year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and fourty two - At Newtown - Abraham Shotwell of Elizabethtown in ye county of Essex and province of East New Jersey and Mary Pots of Newtown on Long Island. [Note: In old-styles dates, the ninth month is November. More info may be found here.] [Newtown became Elmhurst in 1896]