Lucretia (Vail) Brown (1748 - bef. 1775)

Ancestors

Wife of Valentine Brown — married 4 Apr 1771 in Dutchess, New York Colony

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Biography

Lucretia was a Friend (Quaker)

Lucretia was born on 26d 8m 1748 [26 Oct 1748].^[1] She was the daughter of Aaron Vail and Martha (Ward) Vail.^[1][2]

She married Valentine Brown on 4d 4m 1771 [4 Apr 1771] in Dutchess, New York Colony. The following excerpt is from the records of the Nine Partners monthly meeting:^[2]

Nine Partners fourth day of the fourth month one Thousand Seven hundred and Seventy one [1771].
Whereas Valentine Brown and Lucretia Vail both of the Nine partners in Dutchess County … declared their intentions before several Monthly meetings … Consent of parents …
as witnesses there of here unto set our hands

Aaron Vail Benidick Brown Moses Vail Justice Brown Aaron Vail Junr. Nathaniel Brown Joshua Haight Solomon Haight Obediah Griffen Joseph Reynolds Aaron Haight Gershom Butt Gilbert Titus Jacob Dean Isaac Vail Micah Palmer Tripp Mosher Bartholomew Griffen Obediah Palmer David Smith Joshua Haight Junr. John Mott Othanial Allen John Macomber Solomon Barton Pearsall Brown William Gould

Martha Vail Rebeckah Brown Hannah Vail Sarah Palmer Patience Hoag Anne Haight Elizabeth Dean Mary Titus Rose Barton Mary Griffen Anne Mott Ester Palmer Martha Palmer Diner Smith Martha Canston? Debrah Haight Jane Deuel Phebe Haight Charity Haight Hannah Barker Mary Moore Sarah Palmer

She died before 1775 when her husband remarried.^[3]

Birth and Siblings

Children of Aaron and Martha Vail:^[1]

• Lucretia Vail b. 26 of 8m, 1748.
• Moses Vail b. 5 of 3m, 1753.
• Aaron Vail b. 9 of 1m, 1755.
• Esther Vail b. 19 of 3m, 1758.
• Jacob Vail b. 22 of 6m, 1759.

Notes

• Quaker Calendar - There has been much confusion over the dates in Quaker records. Friends used numbered months and days rather than what they considered pagan names for them (i.e. "Thursday" coming from "Thor's Day"). Thus, when the secular calendar was changed in 1752, making January the first month instead of March, Friends began calling January "First Month".

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} [Quaker Births From Oblong Monthly Meeting], Dutchess County, New York, LDS Film # 873511, Records of Josephine Frost, Transcribed by Debbie Axtman, Pages 37-40
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Nine Partners Digest. 1769 - 1798. A book of testimonies, marriages, births, deaths, removals and the manumission of slaves. Canadian Friends Historical Association. 2015. page 68-69.
3. ↑ Monthly meeting records, Births, Deaths, Marriages, Disownments, Manumissions 1769-1798, Society of Friends, Nine Partners Monthly Meeting (Society of Friends : 1955- : Millbrook, N.Y.), p. 174.

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