Family:Samuel Beverly and Jennet Hunter (1)

Biography

Samuel BEVERLY was an Irish Quaker. He resided in the north of Ireland, in County Antrim, where he was a member of the Ballynacree Monthly Meeting. He was married at the house of James MOORE January 19, 1703/4 to Jennet/Jane HUNTER.

Nineteen years later, on February 9, 1722/3 Samuel, wife Jennet, son William and daughter Mary, having settled in East Marlborough Township of Chester County, Pennsylvania, were received by the New Garden Monthly Meeting of Friends (Quakers). They were among some of the earliest Irish Friends in that area, along with Ezekiel and William HARLAN and Thomas JACKSON.

Samuel's son, William BEVERLY, was married April 22, 1730 to Mary MILLER (b. May 7, 1707). They had at least three children: Samuel, James and Mary. This Samuel married Ruth JACKSON, daughter of Samuel JACKSON, in 1753. Samuel and Ruth had a daughter, Mary, who married William GAUSE. Jonathan GAUSE, their son, became principal of Chester County's celebrated Unionville Academy, attended by distinguished author and traveller, Bayard TAYLOR.

Samuel and Jennet's daughter, Mary BEVERLY, became the wife of Robert MICKLE on December 19, 1733 at the London Grove Meeting in Chester County. At least three daughters and one son were born to them: Ann, b. Oct. 7, 1734, married a McFARLAN; John, b. Oct. 12, 1736; Sarah, b. May 12, 1739; Jane, b. Nov. 9, 1741.