Cephas Child Jr. (1727 - 1815)

Born 18 Jan 1727 in Plumstead Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Husband of Priscilla (Naylor) Child — married about Apr 1751 in Gwynedd Township, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 14 Jul 1815 at age 88 in Plumstead Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Cephas was a Friend (Quaker)

Cephas, son of Cephas Child, was born in 1727. He was first married 16 February (April?) 1751 to Priscilla Naylor (b. 1730; daughter of Joseph Naylor, Naylor-535), and Cephas and Priscilla had 9 children. Much later (24 March 1774) he married his second wife, Mary Cadwallader.

On 15 October 1761, in a newspaper posting (in the Philadelphia Gazette) by John Kinman of Plumstead, John asks that his sister Sarah contact him through Cephas Child of Plumstead (that would be Cephas Jr., because Cephas Sr. had died several years earlier). John Kinman (Kinman-103) would soon after (in May 1762) be married to Margaret Smith, whose mother Cassandra Child (Childs-1163) was a cousin of Cephas.

Cephas Child who was married to Priscilla, and father of her children born between 1751 and 1762 departed this life the 14th of 7th Mo 1815.^[1]

Research Notes

Cephas and Priscilla's children include:^[1]

1. Mary Child (31 Jan 1752)
2. Joseph Child (29 Oct 1753)
3. Cephas (10 Apr 1755)
4. William (9 Feb 1757)
5. Jane (20 Feb 1759 - 16 Nov 1762)
6. Richard (3 Jan 1761)
7. Naylor (15 Jul 1762)

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Death and Children's Births: "U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935"
   Pennsylvania > Bucks > Buckingham Monthly Meeting > Births, Burials and Marriage Certificates, 1720-1801 > image 19 of 242
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Image (accessed 28 February 2022)
   Cephas Child Father of the above children departed this life 14 of 7th Mo 1815.

• https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/110556748/person/120079795740/facts

• (Secondary source material) Child, Elias. Genealogy of the Child, Childs and Childe Families of the Past and Present in the United States and the Canadas from 1630 to 1881. NE Historic Genealogical Society, Curtiss & Childs, Printers, Utica, NY, 1881. Page 735.

• Pennsylvania Gazette, Thursday 15 Oct 1761

• First Marriage Intention: "U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935"
  Pennsylvania > Chester > Goshen Monthly Meeting > Minutes, 1747-1767 > image 35 of 164 (page 49-50) [Note: These are actually Minutes of the Gwynedd Monthly Meeting]
  Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2189 #99447129 - Ancestry Image (accessed 1 March 2022)
  "Cephas Child jun and Priscilla Naylor declared their Intentions of Marriage with each other the first time he is desired to produce a Certificate of his clearness from the Monthly Meeting he belongs to, to our next Monthly Meeting in order to make way for their further proceeding."
• Religious Affiliation: "U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935"
  Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2189 #100097353 (accessed 1 March 2022)
  Name: Cephas Child Jr; Event Type: Admittance; Residence Date: 4 Mar 1751; Residence Date on Image: 4 1st mo 1751(March 4, 1751); Residence Place: Bucks, Pennsylvania; Spouse: Priscilla Naylor; Monthly Meeting: Buckingham Monthly Meeting; Yearly Meeting: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting; Meeting State: Pennsylvania; Meeting County: Bucks.
• Second Marriage Intention: "U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935"
  Pennsylvania > Chester > Goshen Monthly Meeting > Minutes, 1747-1767 > image 37 of 164 (page 53) [Note: These are actually Minutes of the Gwynedd Monthly Meeting]
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Image (accessed 1 March 2022)
  2nd "Cephas Child Jun & Priscilla Naylor declared the continued their Intentions of Marriage with each other, And he produced a Certificate of his Conversation & clearness and clearness from the Monthly Meeting to which he belongs to this Meeting, and therefore they are left to their Liberty to Consumate their said Intentions. Joseph Ambler and George Lewis are appointed to see it orderly accomplished."
• Marriage Registration: "U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935"
  Pennsylvania > Chester > Goshen Monthly Meeting > Minutes, 1747-1767 > image 38 of 164 (page 55) [Note: These are actually Minutes of the Gwynedd Monthly Meeting]
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Image (accessed 1 March 2022)
  30th of the 2nd mo 1751 [30 Apr 1751]: 1st "The Friends appointed to attend the Marriage of Cephus Child jun'r do Report that it was Orderly accomplished for ought they know."