TALBOT Family History (1881); Chester County, PA

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from Futhey and Cope's THE HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY (1881);


 According to Cope, Gilbert (compiler), Genealogy of the Sharples Family,
 Descended from John and Jane Sharples, Settlers near Chester, PA 1682,
 (Philadelphia, 1887, Published for the Family, under the auspices of the Bi-Centennial
 Committee), p. 275--
     "John Talbot, the grandfather of Jacob, is said to have come from England
 and settled in Middletown about the year 1700, and he was certainly here in
 1710.  John Turner, perhaps the brother or father of John Talbot's wife, bought
 of Joshua Hastings, Oct. 30, 1718, 268 acres of land in Middletown, near the
 Friends' Meeting-house, and conveyed one-half thereof Nov. 22, 1718, to John
 Talbot.  The latter made his will June 12, 1721, which was proven July 22,
 1721, in which he mentions his wife, Mary (also calls her Elizabeth), and children
 Mary, Joseph, Benjamin, John, Elizabeth, Sarah, Rachel and one unborn
 (Hannah).  John Turner devised the other half of his purchase to Benjamin Talbot, but
 the will was probably declared void, and cannot be found.  Joseph Talbot, as
 heir at law of John Turner, released the land to his brother Benjamin, Apr.
 26, 1734, but in 1741, purchased it from him, having previously taken the land
 of his father, and thus became the owner of all the Turner tract.  He also
 purchased from William Hill June 10, 1738, 98 acres in Middletown, which was the
 same that had been cut off the original Sharples survey as overpluus land; and
 this he conveyed, Jan. 22, 1741-2, to Edward Grisell (Griswold), whose eldest
 son and heir, Thomas Grisell, conveyed it April 5, 1754 to Samuel Sharples.
     Joseph Talbot was first married about 1732 to Hannah, dau. of Joseph and
 Mary Baker of Thornbury.  Her father was the son of Joseph and Mary Baker of
 the same place and her mother the dau. of John and Ann (Maris) Worrilow, of
 Edgmont.  Her mother had married a second Husband, Dr. John Taylor, who purchased
 and settled on the land of her first husband, being 430 acres, and who 
 established iron works on Chester Creek, at what is now Glen Mills.  In 1761, Joseph
 Talbot and all of his children except Margaret, Mary and Martha, who were
 then married, became members of the Friends' Meeting at Middletown.  He was
 married there 5 mo. 8, 1761, to Lydia Townsend, widow of Joseph, and dau. of
 Francis Reynolds, and a third time, 8 mo. 21, 1776 at Concord Mtg., to Ann Sharples,
 widow of Jacob and dau of Charles and Susanna Blakey.  His residence was in
 Aston township from 1773, till his death in 1783.  His children all by the
 first wife, were--
     Margaret, m. Thomas Grisell, son of Edward, of Edgmont.
     Mary, m. Robert Rogers and John Brinton.
     Joseph, m. Hannah Pennell, 1 mo. 13, 1762; d. 7 mo. 22, 1807.
     Martha, m. Daniel Broomall, and d. 5 mo. 3, 1812.
     John, m. Sarah Levis, and d. 1 mo. 20, 1820.
     Rachel, b. 9 mo. 27, 1745; d. 9 mo. 22, 1784; m. Francis Townsend.
     Jacob, b. 8 mo. 19, 1748; d 12 mo. 4, 1831, m. Susanna Sharples.
     Elizabeth, m. Isaac Sharples, 2 mo. 13, 1777, and Rees Cadwalader.
     Hannah, m. about 1775, Francis Dutton, and went to Virginia.
     Susanna, m. Nathan Pennell, 4 mo.10, 1776, and d. 10 mo. 16, 1816."




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