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"Ann Mercer daughter of Thomas and Ann Mercer of Ringwood [Quaker Meeting, Dorset, Hampshire,] was borne on the 24th day of the 12th month 1666[/67]".[1][2] Her mother died before Ann immigrated to Pennsylvania with her father in 1681/2.
Ann and her father, a Quaker, immigrated to Pennsylvania. They lived in Aston Township, Chester County. They were referred to in an English Quaker document published in 1709, titled a catalogue of Public Quaker Friends who had died in Pennsylvania. It read;
The document notes that Thomas and Ann were from Andover in Wiltshire but maps show that Andover lay on the Hampshire side of the border. The exact year of their arrival may have been as early as 1681, according to an early landowners' map.[4][5]
Ann married a young widower, William Brown, in 1684. The Chester Monthly Meeting acknowledged Ann Mercer's and William Brown's first intentions to marry, and then in Nov 1684, their second intentions, clearing them to do so at their liberty. [6][7]
Ann and William had six children who were all born in Chester County, Pennsylvania.[8] The oldest child in the Brown household was Joseph though, William's son from his first marriage who was born in 1682.
Ann died in 1696, as noted in the Publick Ffriends document.[3]
There were two Mercer families in Chester County who are easily mixed up but who can be differentiated with some insight. The easiest way to recognise one from the other is that Thomas Mercer and Ann Mercer, sailed to Pennsylvania before 1682. They were the only two members of their family and will only be associated with a very limited number of locations, among them Aston and Chester.
The other Thomas Mercer was from Aynho on the Hill in Northamptonshire, and travelled with his family; wife Mary, son Thomas, and daughter Ann. They are usually associated with Thornbury Township in Pennsylvania and figure in a larger number of baptisms, deaths, Wills, and marriages. They also arrived in the province at a later date than Thomas and Ann.
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Categories: Pennsylvania Quakers | Chester Monthly Meeting, Chester, Pennsylvania | William Penn and Early Pennsylvania Settlers Project
I've embedded the new citation into the bio and included its relevant text in quotes. I've retained the Ancestry reference to the same source just for more reader options: I'm not sure if unregistered users can open the JStor article. All bases covered, I hope.
Not sure about unregistered users to jstor either, but it's very simple to register for free. Not everything is available for free, but most of the older journals are (including this one).