Edward THORNBURGH Esq

  Noted events in his life were:

• Religion: Quaker.

The Thornboroughs were Quakers from the late 1650s after George Fox established the Society of Friends in England. Many followers of the Quaker religion left England in the late 1600s; many to Ireland and many to America.

In early 1708, he was disowned by the Lurgan Friends Meeting for marrying out of unity.

Edward may have attended Quaker Meetings in the Delaware area, but he officially joined the Kennet Quaker Meeting at Newark, Delaware just across what is now the border of Delaware and Pennsylvania. The minutes at Kennet indicated that on November 6, 1725, Edward Thornbury was received on his certificate from the Lurgan Meeting, County Armagh, Ireland.

• Immigration: from Ireland, Abt 1717, America.

• Land, 1722. In the early 1700s, Delaware was part of Pennsylvania and Wilmington was a major port of entry to America. Edward Thornbury, also listed as Edward Thornborough, is shown as owning land in 1722 in what was called The Christiana Hundred in what is now Newcastle, County, Delaware.

• Residence: Warwick Township, 1726, Chester County, PA.
Edward, Jean and their children then moved to Chester County and settled in Warwick Township sometime around 1726. When Lancaster County was formed out of the western portion of Chester County in 1729, Edward's lands became part of Lancaster.

• Will, 13 Apr 1734, Lancaster County, PA.
IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN the thirteenth day of the second month in the year 1734 I Edward Thornbrugh of the township of Warwick and County of Lancaster yeoman being very sick and weak in Bodey but in perfick mind and mery thanks be given to God therefore fore calling to mind the morality of my Bodey and knoing that it is apointed for all men to Day doth make and Barder this my Last Will and Testament ------THAT is to say first of all I Reomend my Soul to God gav it mee and for my Bodey I recommend it to the Earth to be buried in a Cristen like maner at the Disceson of my Exectors and as toching worly asteat wherewith it hath pleased God in this life to give me I give and Despose of like form and maner Senen my Dearly BELOVED Wife Jean Thombrough and my son George and my Cosen Thomas Thornbrough to be my Exectector I give Jean my Beloved wife all the thirds of the Movabels and her bed and Forneter and to have and to hould the said pleace that we now live one untell my son John Comes to the age of one and Twenty years and then he shall have it and the said John my son shall give and it shall be given en equil Shear Twenty Pound betwin Jean William and Joseph and Margaret and I give my Son Thomas two ews and my son Robert my joon and my son George one cow and my son Waltes one ew and one Lamb and my son Joseph and my Son William Shall when the come to the Age of one and Twenty thy shall have a third Equall Sheare of the Estate therewith ther sisters my Dafters Elesebeth Shall have one Fether Bed and my dafter Jean shall have one fether bed and my son Edward shall have the Cart and Tocklen and my and my wife shall at her Death give her bed to my dafter Margee SIGNED AND Sealed being my Last Will and Testament.
Edward Thornbrugh (SEAL)
LANCAST. Decr. 28th. 1734 Then Personally came Thomas Thornbrugh and Sarah Thornbrugh the witnefses to the within Will and on their Solemn
Affirmacons did Declare they saw and heard Edward Thornbrugh the Testator Above Named Sign Seal Publish and Declare the within Will to be his last Will and Testament and that at the doing thereof he was of Sound mind Memory and Understanding to the best of their Knowledge.
Coram Sam: Blunston Dep. Reg.
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In his will written in 1734, Edward refers to his brother Thomas as 'cosen.' This terminology in old wills is often used regardless of the relationship of the two parties, similar to the expression 'my good friend' when the party may actually be a relative. The records have unfortunately been copied by typing in Lancaster County so it is difficult to know which is the old spelling and which is an error in transcription.

THORNBRUGH, EDWARD. Warwick Twp. December 20, 1734.
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/lancaster/wills/willabstt-z.txt

• See also. http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~mygermanfamilies/ThornEdPa.html

http://www.billputman.com/Thornburgh.pdf

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/i/s/Stacia-Misner/BOOK-0001/0021-0016.html

Edward married Jean BROOKBANK in 1708 in Lurgan Monthly Meeting, County Armagh, Ireland. (Jean BROOKBANK died after 1734.)