Person:James Willson (10)

BIRTH: MARRIAGE: DEATH: Source: "The Lundy Family & Their Descendants" by W. C. Armstrong.

BIRTH: MARRIAGE: DEATH: Source: Records of Mary Francis, 7 Picton St., Suite 805, London, Ontario, Canada N6B3N7.

OCCUPATION: James was a physician, farmer, and elder in the Kingwood Monthly Meeting. Source: Facts & Fantasies of Franklin by J. E. Stout; page 31.

MARRIAGE: Quaker Records: Rahway & Plainfield Monthly Meetings Essex County, New Jersey

         Name: Martha Laing
            Relative: daughter of (perhaps) John & Elizabeth
            Birth Date: (if so) 01/10 Dec 1715
         Spouse's Name: James Willson
         Marriage Date: 1736

Comment: Cert to Kingwood 4-18-1770, John & family Quaker Records: Rahway & Plainfield Monthly Meetings Essex County, New Jersey Name: James Willson

         Spouse's Name: Martha Laing
         Marriage Date: bet 18/9 Nov & 16/10 --- 1736

Essex County, New Jersey Quaker Records Source Information: Ancestry.com Essex County, New Jersey Quaker Records. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001. Electronic reproduction of Cox, John, Jr., comp.Quaker Records: Rahway & Plainfield Monthly Meetings Essex County, New Jersey.

OBITUARY: http://content.ancestry.com/Browse/BookView.aspx?dbid=13794&iid=dvm_LocHist001352-00014-1 Page 25 MEMORIALS TESTIMONY OF KINGWOOD MO. MEETING HELD AT HARDWICK THE 13TH DAY OF THE 8TH MONTH 1778 CONCERNING OUR DECEASED FRIEND AND ELDER JAMES WILLSON He was born in Chesterfield in the County of Burlington the 21st of the 11th Month 1713 and removed with his Parents within the verge of this Meeting, who Educated him in the way of truth and after he Arrived to mature Age he was married to Martha Laing a virtuous young Woman after which he settled among us the Day of his Death. He was a diligent attender of our religious Meetings both for Worship and Discipline and a humble waiter therein and encourager of the humble faithful Travellers remarkably Charitable to the Poor and well beloved by all who knew his Virtues He underwent much pain in his last Illness all of which he bore in a good degree of patience and seemed much resigned to the Lord's Will whether to Live or Die was favoured with his Senses to the Last and departed on the 26th day of the 8th month 1777 and decently inter'd in Friends Burial Ground at Kingwood aforesaid the 28th of the same. Signed in and on behalf of our said Meeting by Isaac Lundy Clk. Source Information: Ancestry.com. Record of the Kingwood monthly meeting of Friends, Hunterdon County, New Jersey [database on-line]. Provo, UT: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004. Original data: Moore, James W.,. Record of the Kingwood monthly meeting of Friends, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Flemington, N.J.: H.E. Deats, 1983.