[Smoke Ferree CD - November 2004]
Biography: Rebecca was a Quaker by birth and attended the Dunnings Creek Meeting. for worship after its establishment in 1797, but was still under the care of Menallen Meeting.
At Menallen Meeting, August 22, 1797: "The women complain of Rebecca Griffith, late Blackburn, for marriage by a hireling teacher to her first cousin, not a member."
Rebecca was later reported "...tender, but not in a suitable disposition to condemn her misconduct."
She was disowned November 20, 1797.
Her tombstone says she died in the 52nd year of life.
The marriage announcement of The Menallen Monthly Meeting gives parents as Thomas and Alice Blackburn.
Will dated March 30, 1840, probated November 9, 1841. St. Clair Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania (Page 205)
Mentions:
Thomas Griffith, late husband;
Sophia Penrose and my niece Elizabeth Way;
Edith Miller; Mary Walker; Margaret Gooden; Rachel Way daughter of Elizabeth Way;
niece Elizabeth Blackburn daughter of my brother, Thomas (deceased);
niece Rachel of Thomas;
Thomas and Robert McCoy;
to Thomas and Rachel Miller (minor children of Eli and Edith Miller);
to Abner and Thomas Walker (minor children of Benjamin and Mary Walker);
to Margaret wife of Philip Gooden;
to Thomas son of Philip and Margaret Gooden;
to Henry Whitaker; to Hugh McCoy; to Hannah Bowen daughter of Benjamin and Mary Bowen;
to my nephew James Blackburn;
to Hugh McCoy.
Executors: James McGrail, Hugh McCoy.
Witnesses: Alex. McGregor, Thomas Blackburn, Thomas K. Miller.
