James Lindley

1681-1726 · Ballinaclash

Born 1681, Ballinaclash, County Wicklow, Ireland

Died 1726

Children include Thomas

James Lindley was born on 16 April 1681 at Ballinaclash in County Wicklow, Ireland. He was a cutler, a maker of knives and edged tools. In 1705 he married Eleanor Parke of Ballyredmond at Kilconnor Meeting in County Carlow.

In 1713 he brought his wife and children to Pennsylvania with a certificate from Carlow Monthly Meeting. He bought 200 acres at New Garden and 400 at London Grove in Chester County. He was a leading settler of the New Garden meeting from its first year, and in 1723 he became the first constable of New Garden Township.

He fathered twelve children, and the New Garden meeting register enters every one. Thomas was the eldest, born in Ireland in 1706. Rachel, James and the twins Robert and Margery were also born in Ireland, the twins in June 1712. William, Alice, Mary, Jonathan, Elizabeth and Hannah were born in Pennsylvania between 1715 and 1723. The last, Eleanor, was born in March 1727, three months after her father died. James died on 13 December 1726. His inventory came to 1,115 pounds, and one account calls it the most considerable estate in the Pennsylvania Quaker records of its time. Eleanor later married Henry Jones.

Children

Thomas Lindley 1706-1781

Sources

New Garden Monthly Meeting, Chester County, Pennsylvania, minutes 1746-1768, p. 20 (U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935); image on Find a Grave memorial 18791487

Albert Cook Myers, Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750 (1902); Newark Monthly Meeting records; New Garden meeting histories; NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography), James Lindley; Lindley genealogy, FamilySearch Full Text 3:1:3Q9M-CSPY-XS58-V; letter of Robert Parke, 1725, in Myers (1902), pp. 70-79, and Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 5:349; J. Smith Futhey and Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County (1881), p. 638, archive.org cu31924005813518; New Garden Monthly Meeting minutes 1746-1768, p. 20 (U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935), image on Find a Grave memorial 18791487; Myers 1902, pp. 70-79, from the Taylor Papers; also Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 5:349

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