Person:David Binns (4)

RELIGION: Christian - Religious Society of Friends.

BIRTH: 1396.157 1397.214 David Binns, son of John and Abigail, Biggin, Carleton parish, born 2 viii 1721.

MARRIAGE: 1396.241397.139 1613.43 David Binns, of Skipton, shoemaker, son of John and Abigail, of Carlton Biggin, married Ann Wilson, daughter of Matthew and Mary Wilson of Skipton, 24 xii 1754 at Skipton.

DEATH: 1311.207 David Binns of Skipton, leather cutter, died 31 x 1801, 80 years

BURIAL: 4 xi 1801 at Skipton.

OCCUPATION: Shoemaker, leather cutter.

RESIDENCES: 1721 - At birth - Carleton Biggin, Yorkshire, England. Galton, Somerset(stays with brother Jonas about 18 months). Removes to CarletonBiggin. Bainbridge, Wensleydale - 13 Jan 1745/6 Skipton, Yorkshire - 2 Jun 1753 Whilst in Skipton David purchases the house that was David Hall's and removes thither - 6 May 1765. Yeadon, Yorkshire - 20 Jun 1786 (with Son-in-Law B. Hustler) Otley, Yorkshire - 21 May 1792 Yeadon, Yorkshire - 12 May 1794

OTHER_RECORDS: James Howard Binns wrote of his impressions of his 3xgreat grandfather (the subject of this record) as follows: "David must have been an extremely particular, exacting sort of man, a perfectionist judging from his carefully prepared family record. Following the deaths of his parents, John and Abigail Binns, he wrote a short account of each of them telling of their character and outstanding traits. "We can understans something of the loneliness of this old man. He had outlived both of his parents, then his wife and daughter-in-law had died, but in the meantime his only son upon whom he was counting on leaning in his old age had also died leaving him entirely alone except for a young grandson of 21 years and a younger one about eleven. The older boy was to become my great-grandfather, another David Binns. "In another record I have in my possession the old grandfather had set up an account for the expenses of his expenses for the care of the youngest grandson and his widowed mother who was not able to care for herself. The old man had given up his personal affairs thingking that he was becoming incapable of handling such things but here was again pressed into such activity. One cannot help having special admiration for this elderly man and his ability."

MEMORIAL: [by David Binns] Being now entered into the 75 Year and feeling a decline in nature, my memory, etc. failing, I thought it best to return and live with my son in Skipton. Having given up all business and settled all my worldly affairs to my mind so that I am quite content about these things being favoured to a sufficiency for the necessaries of life for which I am thankful, desiring to live as to the World, Independant as much as I can.

MISCELLANEOUS_NOTES: David must have had an unusual interest in family records. He kept a very complete record of the births, deaths and marriages of his many brothers and sisters and their children and grandchildren. There were thirteen in this family but three of them died in infancy. This would indicate that they must have been an unusually healthy and rugged family for at that ime a survival of ten out of a family of thirteen must have been quite unusual . David kept this record in a little handmade book made from sheets of brown paper sewn together by hand. His meticulous record in his very excellent penmanship was kept until his death in 1801. Following that it was kept up by someone in the family, but only incompletely. This record has been the foundation of my Binns genealogy. (James Howard Binns)

INITIAL_SOURCE: Leicester.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 ? Arthur Chamney Leicester. An Account of the Family of the Binns from 1663 (Leicester Document). (Unpublished Family Tree).
2. ↑ Joseph John Binns (1839-1922). An Account of the Family of the Binns from 1663 (Sunderland document). (Largely collected materials from Friends' Registers)
   Line 9, pp 43-44.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Nancy Barnard. Gunder Family Tree. (Ahnentafel Chart from her family records (dated 1 January 1980)).
4. ↑ Irene Stafford Ferguson in 1911; revised by Virginia Stafford Ferguson in 1984. An Account of the Family of the Binns from 1663 (Ferguson document). (Unpublished. An American version of the Binns family history.)
   p. 5.
5. ↑ Irene Stafford Ferguson in 1911; revised by Virginia Stafford Ferguson in 1984. An Account of the Family of the Binns from 1663 (Ferguson document). (Unpublished. An American version of the Binns family history.)
   p. 24.
6.   Joseph John Binns (1839-1922). An Account of the Family of the Binns from 1663 (Sunderland document). (Largely collected materials from Friends' Registers).
7.   James Howard Binns (1894-1987). Descendants of David Binns and Ann Wilson. (unpublished work).
8.   Kenneth Wilson. Lothersdale Chart. (unpublished chart of Binns families derived from Lothersdale records).