Born in Darby, Pennsylvania
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Jacob Lightfoot
— married
21 May 1735 in Delaware, Pennsylvania
Descendants 
Mother of
Anna Elizabeth (Lightfoot) Durst, Joseph Lightfoot, Sarah (Lightfoot) Parvin, Thomas M. Lightfoot and Grace Lightfoot
Died
at age 69
in Exeter, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 16 Feb 2013
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Biography
| Mary (Bonsall) Lightfoot was a Friend (Quaker). Join: Quakers Project Discuss: quakers |
Mary (Bonsall) Lightfoot was a prominent Quaker minister. [1]
In 1735 she married Jacob Lightfoot (1707-1774), a son of Thomas and Sarah Lightfoot.
In 1757 she made a religious visit with Grace Fisher to Quaker meetings in the Concord Quarter. The family settled in Maiden Creek, Pennsylvania.
As reported "In the southern District of Philadelphia": [1]
- "In Exeter. Our worthy friend Mary Lightfoot, a Minister, (died) on the 10th day of the 8th mo: 1777, in the 70th year of her age"
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Minutes, 1764-1781" [no p. no. on image record] Reprinted (subscription online db) Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Accessed 28 Dec 2021. https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/26858016?h=802c4c
- Swarthmore College; Lightfoot Manuscripts, 1737-ca. 1948
Acknowledgements
- Thank you to Esther Cass for creating WikiTree profile Bonsall-53 through the import of Upole.ged on Feb 15, 2013.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mary:
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