POWNALL family of early Pennsylvania

Date: 1682 to 1800
Location: Pennsylvania
Surnames/tags: Pownall Quakers Pennsylvania

The following is taken from the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. IX published in 1885, page 223:

"George Pownall and Ellenor, his wife, of Layloch, in the County of Chester, in old England, yeoman. Came in the ship the "Friends' Adventure." The Master, Thomas Wall. Arrived the 28th of the 7th Month, 1682. Children, Reuben, Elizabeth, Sarah, Rachel, and Abigail Pownall. Servants, John Brearley, Ro. Layler, Martha Worrall. Time of Service & Freedom, To serve 4 years; loose the 29th of the 7th Month, 1686. Wages & Land, 50s. at the end of their time, and 50 Acres of land apeice".

See: Friends Adventure, sailing of 1682

Contents 1 George Pownall 2 Reuben Pownall 3 Quaker Record Abstracts 3.1 Falls Monthly Meeting 3.2 Chesterfield Monthly Meeting 3.3 Buckingham Monthly Meeting 4 Sources

George Pownall

Name	Spouse	Parents
George Pownall (Feb. 26, 1634 - Aug. 30, 1682)	Eleanor ____	George & Elizabeth (Hewitt) Pownall
George Powanll	Hannah Hutchinson m. June 6, 1707
George Pownall	Ann Twinings

Reuben Pownall

Name	Spouse	Parents
Reuben Pownall	Mary Stacy m. 6 March 1700	George & Eleanor (____) Pownall
Reuben Pownall (8 March 1718/9 - 1784)	Effie Bird	George & Hannah (Hutchinson) Pownall
Reuben Pownall (6 November 1750 - 1826)	Mary Lee m. 9 October 1782	Reuben & Effie (Bird) Pownall
Reuben Pownall (26 April 1784 - 1837)	Mary Hopper	John & Rebecca (Phillips) Pownall
Reuben Pownall	Maria Paskell
Reuben Pownall		Elisah & Abigail Pownall
Reuben Pownall 30 August 1786		George & Ann (Twining) Pownall

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Hannah Pownall
second wife of Thomas Lee
daughter of George & Eleanor Powell of Leylock England.

Thomas Lee, eldest son of William and Hannah (Smith) Lee, was the ancestor of Mary Eleanor (Lee) Sheppard. He was born in the year 1730, at the old Lee homestead near the present site of Buckmanville, Upper Makefield township, Bucks county, and spent the greater part of his life in Solebury township, removing later in life to New Jersey, where he died about the year 1812. He married (first) in 1754, Mary Burgess, by whom he had ten children, and (second) in 1785, Hannah, daughter of Reuben and Effie (Burd) Pownall, of Solebury, and great-granddaughter of George and Eleanor Pownall, of Leylock, county Chester, England, who also came to Pennsylvania in the "Friends' Adventure" September 28, 1682, and settled in Bucks county. Two brothers of Hannah (Pownall) Lee, Reuben and George, married daughters of Thomas Lee by his first wife Mary Burgess. She was born in Solebury, Bucks county, August 6, 1759, and was younger than the first three daughters of her husband by Mary Burgess. Thomas and Hannah (Pownall) Lee had three children, Reuben, Effie and William. Franklin Lawrence Sheppard and Howard Reynolds Sheppard, Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania[1]

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Quaker Record Abstracts

Falls Monthly Meeting

Information from the Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, vol 2 ^[2]

• 5m, 6 1692 : Elizabeth Pownall is given leave to marry Joseph Clowes
• 2m, 5 1693 : Eleanor Pownall given leave to marry Joseph Hoops
• 12m, 5 1695 : Abigail [Pownall?] (daughter of Eleanor Hoopes, w Joshua Hoops, given leave to marry Wiliam Paxson.
• 9m, 3 1697 : Rachel Pownall given leave to marry Thomas Jenney
• 1m 6, 1700 : Abel Janney granted Certificate to Chesterfield MM to marry Elizabeth Stacy, daughter of Mahlon Stacy
• 1m, 6, 1700 Reuban Pownal given certificate to Chesterfield MM to marry Mary Stacy, daughter of Mahlon Stacy
• 10m 17, 1702 Sarah Stacey, daughter of Mahlon, Burlington County West New Jersey, married Joseph Kirkbridge of Bucks County at the house of Mahlon Stacy
• 3m, 2 1705 : William Beaks granted Certificate to Chesterfield MM, West Jersey to marry Ruth Stacy
• 4m, 4 1712 : Certificate ordered to be prepared before next Meeting for Mary Pownal to England with her husband
• 10m, 4 : Elinore Pownall rmt John Neel Jr.
• 10m, 1 1742 : Mary Pownal given Certificate to Haddonfield Monthly Meeting

Chesterfield Monthly Meeting

Intentions of Marriage and Certificates of Removal, 1685-1756

Minutes of Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington County, New Jersey (Cook, Lewis D. FGSP 17 September 1970)

Dates are those of Second Declaration of Intentions of Marriage

• 7 March 1699/1700 : Certificate of Marriage for Abel Jenny & Elizabeth Stacy
• 7 March 1699/1700 : Certificate of Marriage for Ruben Pownall and Mary Stacy

Buckingham Monthly Meeting

Marriage of Reuben Pownall 1746

Monthly Meeting 1st day of 7th month 1746 (September 1, 1746) At this meeting the overseers gave this meeting an account that Reuban Pownall hath acomplished his Marriage out of unity of friends with one not of our Society Therefore it is Left for further Consideration.[3]

Monthly Meeting 3rd day of 6th month 1747 (August 3, 1747) At this Meeting it was again Reviewed and Discoursed Concering Reuben Pownall He having Married out of the unity of Friends with one not of our Society therefor the Meeting Appoints Joshua Ely & John Scholefiled to Speak with him and let him know that his Meeting Expects he will appear at the Monthly Meeting and give Satisfaction or he may Expect to be further Dealt with.[4]

Monthly Meeting 4th day of 11th month 1747/8 (January 4, 1748) At this Meeting Reuben Pownall Appeared and Produced a paper of Acknowledgement & Condemnation for his outgoings on the Account of his Marriage which was Read and Accepted as Satisfaction.[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Pennsylvania Founding Families, 1681-1911, database online ($) Ancestry.com, access 6/21/2015
2. ↑ Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol I–VI, 1607–1943, ($) Ancestry.com
   • POWNALL, vol. 2, page 1022
   • STACY, vol. 2, page 1029
3. ↑ Buckingham Monthly Meeting (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting), Minutes 1720-1763; copy of microfilm material on deposit in Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA. (437p.) p.206 ($) Ancestry.com
4. ↑ Buckingham Monthly Meeting (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting), Minutes 1720-1763; copy of microfilm material on deposit in Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA. (437p.) p.217 ($) Ancestry.com
5. ↑ Buckingham Monthly Meeting (Philadelphia Yearly Meeting), Minutes 1720-1763; copy of microfilm material on deposit in Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA. (437p.), p.223 ($) Ancestry.com