Mary Catherine (French) Buzby (1675 - 1728)

Born 1675 in Nether Heyford, Northamptonshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Nicholas Buzby — married 30 Aug 1695 in Burlington County, New Jersey

Descendants

Died 21 Dec 1728 at about age 53 in Willingborough Township, Burlington County, New Jersey

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Mary (French) Buzby was born in Northamptonshire, England.

Biography

Mary (French) Buzby was born in Nether Heyford, Northamptonshire, England.

Mary was the 6th daughter of Thomas French and Jane Atkins. c: 8 Aug 1675 in Nether Heyford, Northampton, England

Brothers Nicholas Buzby and Richard Buzby married sisters Mary French and Hannah French in a double Quaker ceremony in Burlington, New Jersey, Chesterfield Quaker Meeting in Burlington, New Jersey, on August 30, 1695.

Nicholas and Mary French Buzby remained in the Burlington New Jersey area on French family lands and established their family there and Richard and Hannah French Buzby returned to the original Buzby homestead lands near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and established their family there.

Nicholas died 1727, and Mary died 1728, both leaving wills. Nicholas Busby was a son of John Busby, weaver, of Milton, in the Parish of Shipton, belonging to Friends' Meeting, Milton, England. He came with a certificate to Philadelphia, 4-2 mo., 1682, and is, no doubt, the John who settled at Rancocas, Burlington County, New Jersey.

A great deal of research seems to have been done on the Nicholas (New Jersey) Buzby family and very little on the Richard (Pennsylvania) Buzby family.

Source: Colonial families of Philadelphia, by Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, Publication date 1911. Page 1215. [1]

Mary and Nicholas Buzby had ten children: (Birth dates not recorded, only marriage dates) [2]

• Thomas Buzby,
• John Buzby, died 1754
• Isaac Buzby,
• William Buzby, b. 5th mo. 10th, 1714.
• Benjamin Buzby,
• Lydia Buzby, md 30-8 mo., 1695 James Mason, Sr.,
• Mary Buzby,
• Jane Buzby,
• Elizabeth Buzby,
• Sarah Buzby.

Mary is mentioned in "HISTORY OF THE BORTON AND MASON FAMILIES IN EUROPE AND AMERICA", Compiled by FREEMAN C. MASON, M. D., Hillsdale, Mich. Pg. 218.

Sources

• "Baptism" [3]

• Genealogy of the descendants of Thomas French : who came to America from Nether Heyford, Northamptonshire, England and settled in Berlinton, Burlington, in the province and country of West New Jersey, of which he was one of the original proprietors, together with William Penn, Edward Byllynge, Thomas Olive, Gauen Laurie and others ... by Howard Barclay French, 1848-1924. Publication date 1909-1913. Page 176.

• https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=chart20&id=I1059

• Notes and sources about Mary French and Nicholas Buzby [4]

• http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/m/a/s/Sarah-Mason-/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0530.html

• History of the Borton and Mason families in Europe and America, Author Freeman C. Mason, Printed by H. E. Agnew, Dowagiac, Michigan. 1908. Page 218.

1728/1729 Will New Jersey Abstract Wills

Mary Busby of Wellingborow Township, Burlington County, New Jersey

Widow of Nickles

Children:

Son: John Busby

Son: Isaac Busby

Son: William Busby

Son: Bengman Busby

Daughter: Lydia, wife of John Marson

Daughter: Mary

Daughter: Jane, wife of Jacob Burshall

Daughter: Elizabeth

Daughter: Sary

Son: Thomas Busby

Executor: son Thomas

Witn: Thomas Reves, Nathan Crosby, Hugh Sharp

Will written: December 5th 1728

Will Proved: January 21, 1728/29

Inventory: January 21, 1728/29, made by Hugh Sharp and John Milborn

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