Isaiah Willets (1732 - 1793)

Born 19 Dec 1732 in Secatague, Suffolk, New York

Ancestors

Husband of Susannah (Boone) Willets — married 23 Oct 1755 in Berks, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 13 Sep 1793 at age 60 in York, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Quaker. Ted Bartlett's book " The Willits Family" gives the birth date as Dec 12, 1733 - Easelman Genealogies of Berks County, Pennsylvania, gives the birth date as Dec 19, 1732 as does the Quaker records. The Quakers disowned him for contrary to discipline on July 29, 1756.

• There were 12 children of this marriage : 5 boys and 7 girls - Rachel, Martha, Jemima, Hannah, Deborah, Samuel, Thomas, Isaac, Elizabeth, James, ( female ), Isaiah, ( TMLa80, shows all of the above, except Jemima as " Jemina ", and ( female ) as - A young daughter not named ). This was taken from " The Willits Family " book by Ted Lawrence Bartlett, 1982.

Sources

• Ancestral File Number: N9DG-W4
• Source: S-2046909198 Repository: #R-2138127636 Title: Family Data Collection - Individual Records Author: Edmund West, comp. Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Note: APID: 1,4725::0
• No REPO record found with id R-2138127636.
• Source: S-2047177890 Repository: #R-2138127636 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com.

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• 1780 he established the first Tannery in the thinly settled township of Hughesburg, in the county of Northumberland, state of Pennsylvania, USA. The tannery was located at the corner of Third and South streets. The ferry was operated by Knappenberger and Willits. This information is taken from The Historical and Biographical Annals of Columbia and Montour counties of Pennsylvania, Vol 1, J.H.Beers and Co, 1915, page 189.

* Pennsylvania, Septennial Census, 1779-1863 York> 1786 Isaiah Willits on page 81.

* North American, Family Histories1500-2000,G> Grubbs> Samuel Moody Grubbs, a descendant of Boone Family ( page 50) The Boone Family, marriage of Susannah Boone to Isaiah Willits. Married Oct 23, 1755 Berks co, Penn, USA from Ted Bartlett's book The Willits Family.

* U.S., Quaker Meeting records,1681-1935 Pennsylvania> Berks> Exeter Monthly Meeting> genealogy of Births, deaths and marriages - page 373, and from Eshelman Genealogies of Berks County, Pennsylvania.