Thomas Lindley

1706-1781 · Bally Brommell

Born 1706, Bally Brommell, County Carlow, Ireland

Died 1781

Father: James Lindley

Mother: Eleanor Parke

Children include Capt.

Thomas Lindley was born on 25 April 1706 at Bally Brommell in County Carlow, Ireland. He was the eldest son of James Lindley, a Quaker cutler, and Eleanor Parke. He came to Pennsylvania at seven, in the Quaker emigration of 1713, and grew up at New Garden in Chester County.

On 21 October 1731 he married Ruth Hadley at New Garden Meeting House. Her father, Simon Hadley, was one of the men who held the meeting's land in trust. In 1753 Thomas and Ruth moved to the Cane Creek country of Orange County, North Carolina. Ruth's brother Joshua and sister Hannah came with their families.

In 1755 he built a gristmill on Cane Creek. It still runs today as Lindley Mills. He held 950 acres there by 1759, and he and Ruth gave six acres for the Spring Meeting in 1773. In 1928 a memorial stone to the two of them was set at the Spring Meeting burying ground, saying they "gave these lands to Spring Meeting."

He stayed a Friend all his life. His son James did not: James took the King's commissions in South Carolina and was killed in the Revolution. His son Jonathan stayed in the meeting and went on to the North Carolina Assembly and the Indiana frontier.

On 13 September 1781 the war came to his mill. Patriot militia ambushed David Fanning's Loyalist column at the Cane Creek crossing beside it. Thomas died on 14 September, the day of or the day after the battle.

Parents

Eleanor Parke (b. 1683)

James Lindley 1681-1726

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

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

NCpedia (Dictionary of North Carolina Biography), Thomas Lindley and Jonathan Lindley; Lindley Mills heritage account of the Battle of Lindley's Mill; Cane Creek Monthly Meeting records; family trees for the birth date; New Garden Monthly Meeting minutes 1746-1768, p. 20; the 1928 memorial stone at Spring Monthly Meeting Cemetery, Find a Grave memorial 18791487 and WikiTree Lindley-57; family trees; NCpedia gives 1706-81

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