William Bezer (1650 - 1683)

Born 1650 in Wiltshire, England

Descendants

Died 1683 at about age 33 in Chester Chichester, Delaware, Pennsylvania,

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Biography

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Native of Wiltshire, England, but residing in Cichester Twp., PA

Sarah Coole's first husband (1), William Bezer, came to America in 1682,before the arrival of Penn, settled in Chichester township, and died about December, 1683.

He had a brother (2), John Bezer, who was a maltster, of Bishop's Cannings, Wiltshire. John was one of Penn's Commissioners to purchase land from the Indians, and to select a site for, and to lay out Penn's capital city, Philadelphia. He came over with his wife Susanna in the ship with his brother William, settled at Marcus Hook, and died in 1684, leaving four children, Susanna, Frances, John and Richard. His wife Susanna married, August, 1686, Nathaniel Lamplugh.

John Bezer was a member of the first Legislative Assembly of Pennsylvania, which met February 20, 1683. His son Richard was, in 1693, a ward of Philip Roman. His widow died in 1693.

(3) Edward Bezer, from Rowde, Wiltshire, who married in England,emigrated in the fall of 1683, and died in 1688.

(4) Frances Bezer married, in 1667, Edward Brown, and remained in England.

(5) Elizabeth Bezer married, in 1682, John Mason, of Painswick, Gloucestershire, England.

The Collateral Ancestry of Stephen Harris, Born September 4, 1798 and of Marianne Smith, Born April 2, 1805 (Philadelphia, 1906), 176.

Birth

Birth: ABT 1660 Wiltshire, England

Birth: 1650 England Wiltshire, Wiltshire, , England^[1]

Found multiple copies of BIRT DATE. Using ABT 1660

Death

Death: 1683 Chester Chichester, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Public Member Trees Ancestry.com Record for Mary Bezer
2. ↑ Public Member Trees Ancestry.com Record for Mary Bezer

• WikiTree profile Bezer-12 created through the import of Hutchinson Family Tree_2012-09-06.ged on Sep 7, 2012 by Bonnie Hutchinson.

• Graves Family Association Genealogy 85, https://graves-fa.org/gen-histories/gens/gen085.html