Person:Jonathan Binns (6)

RELIGION: Christian - Religious Society of Friends. Is reported to have left the Friends.

RESIDENCES: Skipton, Yorkshire, England. 1818 - Brownsville, Fayette Co., Pennsylvania, USA. 1855 - Red Oak, Montgomery Co., Iowa, USA.

MISCELLANEOUS_NOTES: Jonathan Binns disowned by Westland Meeting May 23, 1822. Jonathan, Hannah and their family of eight or nine children migrated to a location in south-west Iowa in 1855. They bought land and eventually established a town called Red Oak. [J. Howard Binns - 1984] Jonathan and Hannah Binns left Brownsville for south-western Iowa in 1851- or within a year of that date (sic) with all their children. The eldest son, Henry Clay Binns , had gone ahead a year earlier to scope out the situation and lay claim to some land. The whole story is quite a minor epic, as are so many stories of the pioneer families. The furniture went round by boat to what is now Omaha, and some of it was lost in the Missouri River when the boat sank. (I have a rocking chair that survived the trip.) If I remember correctly, the family went overland in two groups, in covered wagons, and several of them caught typhoid on the way and were delayed for many weeks in eastern Iowa until they recovered. The Binnses were among the original settlers of the Red Oak area and helped to found a bank and a Baptist Church. For a while, at least, there was a place in the county called Binns Grove. My ancestor was the youngest Binns child, Margaret, who was 10 or 11 when the migration took place, and she married into another early Red Oak family, the Staffords. [Michael Eversmeyer eda@pgh.net, 26 Aug 2003]

INITIAL_SOURCE: Leicester.

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 (Unpublished Family Tree).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).
3. ↑ David Binns Book. binns.FTW.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Edited by Sara SHELDON (Née SMITH). Descendants of Samuel Binns and Hannah Green. (Family Genealogy based initially upon the work of James Howard BINNS (1894-1987)).
5. ↑ Jana Eversmeyer. e-mail message.
6. ↑ Original Account of Binns Family Written ca 1795 by David Binns 1721-1801.
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 (unpublished work).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 (unpublished chart of Binns families derived from Lothersdale records).