William Biddle II (1669 - 1743)

Born 4 Oct 1669 in London, England

Ancestors

Husband of Lydia (Wardell) Biddle — married 13 Dec 1691 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey, British Colonial America

Descendants

Died 1743 at about age 73 in Mansfield Township, Burlington, New Jersey, British Colonial America

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Biography

William was a Friend (Quaker)

WILLIAM BIDDLE II of "Mt. Hope," New Jersey was born 4th October, 1669, at Bishopsgate Street Without, London, England. He died at Mt. Hope, New Jersey on 1743. Various genealogies report that WILLIAM BIDDLE II arrived in New Jersey with his parents in 1681 at age 12, was Sheriff of Monmouth County, New Jersey in 1683 at age 14, member of House of Deputies in 1688 at age 19, member General Assembly in 1692 at age 23 and died in 1743 at age 74. He was married to Lydia WARDELL (daughter of Eliakim (Wardell) WARDWELL and Lydia PERKINS) on December 13, 1691 in Township of Mansfield, Burlington Co., NJ. Lydia WARDELL was born about 1671 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, NJ. She died in Township of Mansfield, Burlington Co., NJ.. Our ancestor Lydia Wardell had an uncle named Samuel (Wardell) Wardwell who was hung at Salem for witch craft on Sept 22, 1692 and on another occasion her Mother Lydia (PERKINS) Wardwell was stripped to her waist naked,tied to a fence post and whipped as a result of her Quaker religious beliefs.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Owen Picton, Biddle Genealogy, ( 1998), accessed 28 Dec. 2014, http://www.picton.us/biddle/biddle-geocities .

• Birth record: Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Original data: General Register Office: Society of Friends' Registers, Notes and Certificates of Births, Marriages and Burials. Records of the General Register Office, Government Social Survey Department, and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, RG 6. The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, England. https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/7097/41815_b0152815-00078/538281

See Also:

Biddle, Henry D., "Notes on the Genealogy of the Biddle Family", Philadelphia, W.S. Fortescue & Co., 1895. https://archive.org/details/notesongenealogy00bidd/page/n45