Person:Martha Laing (1)

BIRTH: MARRIAGE: Source of data is from O. B. Leonard Collection; Salt Lake City Genealogy Library (LDS); film #s 0945947 - -945950.

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

BIRTH: MARRIAGE: Quaker Records: Rahway & Plainfield Monthly Meetings Essex County, New Jersey Name: John Laing Comment: mbr 1684, Meeting at his house in winter, 1721 Spouse's Name: Elizabeth Shotwell Child: Sarah; Elizabeth; John; Margaret; Ann; David; Martha; Mary; Abraham; Isaac; Jacob; Christiana Birth Date: 16/9 Nov 1706; 11/10 Dec 1707; 28/2 Apr 1709; 09/9 Nov 1710; 01/7 Sep 1712; 05/2 Apr 1714; 01/10 Dec 1715; 08/4 Jun 1717; 08/12 Feb 1718/19; 10/10 Dec 1720; 08/12 Feb 1722/3; 02/1 Mar 1724/5 Death Date: -; -; -; 16/8 --- 1713; -; -; -; -; -; -; -; - 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 FROM KINGWOOD MO. MEETING HELD AT HARDWICK THE 13TH DAY OF THE 8TH MONTH 1778 CONCERNING OUR DECEASED FRIEND AND ELDER MARTHA WILLSON She was born at Plainfield in the County of Middlesex East New Jersey and was married to our friend James Willson and came to live within the verge of this meeting where she fill'd the place and station of a loving faithful Wife a tender Mother a kind Friend and a Good Neighbor. She was a diligent Attender of our Religious Meetings when of ability humbly waiting therein to feel that Life which is the Crown of our Assemblies was taken Ill of a violent Disorder in the midst of which She lost her Dear and tender Husband all of which she bore with much resignation to the Divine Will. She departed this Life the First Day of the 9th month 1777 and was decently interr'd in Friends Burial Ground on the 2d. in the 64th year of her age. Signed in and on behalf of our said meeting by Isaac Lundy Clk. Our Friend Samuel Willson father to the above named Children being from home at the Muncey Settlement of Friends was seized with a violent Purging and Vomiting in the Evening which continued untill 9 o'clock the next morning with fainting Fits; at which time he Expired, without Sign or Groan on the 22d. of the 5th month 1794 aged 66 years. During the time of his Sickness he appeared devout in Supplication, and desired to be found in a state of acceptance, having his Senses preserved to the last. In the Evening previous to the Sickness, being at the house of Jos. Carpenter severa NEIGHBORS BEING PRESENT he seemed remarkably bright and recollected about past transactions and enter'd into profitable conversation about serious matters which was a satisfaction to his Surviving Friends after his Departure. 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.