Deborah Haines (1724 - 1734)

Born 14 Apr 1724 in Nottingham, West Nottingham Township, Chester, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Died 24 Sep 1734 at age 10 in Nottingham, West Nottingham Township, Chester, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Deborah was a Friend (Quaker)

Deborah Haines was born in 1724 in what was then Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Joseph Haines and Elizabeth (Thomas) Haines.

Deborah lived in West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The area was known as the Nottingham Lots, 52 lots laid out by William Penn in a bold move to cement claim to land at the heart of a border dispute with Lord Baltimore. Argument over the boundary continued for generations and was finally resolved by the Mason-Dixon Line (the line marking the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland was decided in 1767, but surveying of the complete Mason-Dixon Line was not completed until 1782 and not fully marked until 1784.) Therefore, the Thomas and Haines families would, during their lifetimes, probably be recorded as living in Pennsylvania, but their land fell on the Maryland side of the Mason-Dixon line, as does the Brick Meeting House where much of the family is buried.

Deborah died in 1734, aged 10 years. She is presumed buried at the Brick Meeting House Cemetery in what is now Calvert, Cecil County, Maryland.

Sources

• Haines, John W., Richard Haines and his Descendants. A Quaker Family of Burlington County, New Jersey Since 1682. Boyce, VA: Carr Publishing Company, Inc., 1961. Volume I, pp. 63, 67.
• Haines, Richard and George Haines, M.D.,Ancestry of the Haines, Sharp, Collins, Wills, Gardiner, Prickitt, Eves, Evans, Moore, Troth, Borton and Engle families. Camden, NJ: Sinnickson Chew & Sons Company, 1902. pp. 21, 48.

1724 - Birth in West Nottingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania (now, Cecil County, Maryland):

• "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6CTT-PJWB : 11 January 2021), Deborah Haines, 1724.