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Ancestors

Ruth Hadley

1711-1785 · Ireland
Born 1711, Ireland
Died 1785
Father: Simon Hadley
Mother: Ruth Hadley
Children include Capt.

Ruth Hadley was born in Ireland on 6 February 1711/12. The meeting register of her parents' children enters her as "born in Ireland the 6th of the 12 mo 1711", the twelfth month then being February. Her parents, Simon and Ruth Hadley, were Friends of Moate Meeting in County Westmeath. They crossed to Pennsylvania in 1712, when she was an infant. Her father later became one of the trustees of New Garden Meeting.

She married Thomas Lindley at New Garden Meeting House in 1731. In 1753 they moved to the Cane Creek country of North Carolina, and her brother Joshua and sister Hannah came with their families. Thomas built a gristmill there in 1755.

Her son James took the King's side in South Carolina and was killed in the Revolution. In September 1781 a battle was fought at her husband's mill, and Thomas died on the day of it or the day after. She outlived him by four years and died on 4 December 1785. The date is from the memorial stone set for her and Thomas at Spring Meeting in 1928.

Parents

Simon Hadley 1675-1756

Ruth Hadley (d. 1750)

Children

Capt. James Lindley 1735-1779

Sources

Spring Monthly Meeting Cemetery, Snow Camp, Alamance County, North Carolina; photograph by Lucinda Hawkes, 2018, WikiTree Lindley-57; the same stone on Find a Grave memorial 18791487
Meeting register of births, page image on Find a Grave memorial 8442512, uploaded 2015; the meeting and volume are not named with the image
NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography), Thomas Lindley and James Lindley; Cane Creek Monthly Meeting records; family trees for the birth date; register of the children of Simon and Ruth Hadley, image on Find a Grave memorial 8442512; the 1928 memorial stone at Spring Monthly Meeting Cemetery, Find a Grave memorial 18791487 and WikiTree Lindley-57

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