↑ "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. 100.
The fifth day of ye tenth month in ye year Seventeen hundred and twelf At flushing - Abraham Shadwell son of John Shadwell of Staten Island and Elizabeth Cowperthwite daughter of John Cowperthwite of West Jersey. [Note: In old-styles dates, the tenth month is December. More info may be found here.]