William Trotter (1659 - 1699)

Born Jun 1659 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Died 11 Sep 1699 at age 40 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Note: There is no record of a William Trotter, son of William of Newbury and Elizabethtown. The Quaker Trotters of Philadelphia must have been a different family. The Trotters of Elizabethtown, like all of the settlers there, were New England Puritans by origin and belief -- and hence hostile to Quakers and Quakerism. Monnette's Settlers of Piscataway makes this connection but sourcing is obscure.^[1] Also listed by Genealogical Society of Bergen County, without source.^[2]

William Trotter was born in June 1659 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, to parents William Trotter 1630-1676 and Cutbury Gibbs 1628-1667. No

He married Rebecca Theach on 18 April 1693 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.^[3][4] Children: Nathan, William, Joseph, Benjamin, Rebecca.

He died on 11 September 1699 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Sources

1. ↑ Monnette, Orra Eugene, First Settlers of ye plantations of Piscataway and Woodbridge, olde East New Jersey, 1664-1714... (Los Angeles, CA: Leroy Carman Press, 1933), 4:635.
2. ↑ Family Files, Nov. 2015, William Trotter.
3. ↑ US Quaker Meeting Records; Ancestry.com.
4. ↑ Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy 2:670, Ancestry.com.

• US Quaker Meeting Records
• Massachusetts Town and Vital Records
• US Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy Vol I-VI
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/148651267/william-trotter

Acknowledgments

• WikiTree profiles Trotter-248 and Trotter-258 created through the import of Stough Family Tree.ged on Nov 1, 2011 by Lindsay Coleman.