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About Elizabeth Tyndall
Daughter of Robert & Margaret Gilbert. She Migrated from England with the Oglethorp Colony in 1735. Husband was lost at sea. She continued on with her son John and went to Georgia with Quakers.
Elizabeth married William MEARS Jul 1733 in Everton, England. He was lost at sea in 1738. Elizabeth remarried abt 1754 to Benjamin Tyndall and moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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William MEARS, a Moravian, became acquainted with John and Charles Wesley, founders of Methodism when the Wesleys arrived on 14 Oct 1735 at Savanna, GA at the invitation of Oglethorpe. It has been said that, "The deeply personal religion that the Moravian pietists practised had a great influence on Wesley's theology of Methodism."
William MEARS was lost at sea in 1739 during the War of Jenkins' Ear against the Spanish. He left a young widow, Elizabeth (GILBERT) MEARS and one infant child, John MEARS, born 4 June 1738. The widow, Elizabeth (GILBERT) MEARS, married Benjamin TYNDALL, a Moravian. Her son, John MEARS, joined the Society of Friends (Quakers) after marrying 8 May 1760 to a Quaker girl, Susanna TOWNSEND, dau. of Charles and Abigail (EMBREE) TOWNSEND of the Philadelphia MM.
For more on the history and genealogy of the descendants of William MEARS through his only child, John MEARS see: Mears, Prof. John W., D.D., BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE of HENRY HALLER MEARS, Sr., to which is appended a GENEALOGY of the MEARS FAMILY (James B. Rodgers Co., Philadelphia 1873).
- Updated from Ancestry Genealogy via son Benjamin Lyndal by SmartCopy: Nov 23 2015, 1:04:24 UTC
- Updated from Find A Grave Memorial by SmartCopy: Nov 23 2015, 1:10:57 UTC
- http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=cj0203&id...
- Type: Book Author: George Adolphus Hanson Periodical: Old Kent: The Eastern Shore of Maryland Page: 316 Text: Genealogy of Rhinard and Weaver Families
- Page 76 of Georgia's Frontier Women: Female Fortunes in a Southern Colony By Ben Marsh. "About a quarter of the husbands who wrote wills between 1733 and 1775 specified that certain bequests would fall to their widows only while they remained single. Just such a situation might explain the relationship between John Lyndall and Elizabeth Gilbert, the widow of William Mears. Contemporaries were confused that this pair had never been married, yet everyone looked on both her children by her first marriage and those she had borne since as Lyndall's. The rules, it appeared, could easily be bent."
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Elizabeth Tyndall's Timeline
| 1715 |
December 19, 1715
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Stafford, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom
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| 1734 |
August 7, 1734
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Georgia, United States
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1734
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Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, United States
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| 1738 |
June 4, 1738
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Province of Georgia
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| 1750 |
1750
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Pennsylvania, United States
Name: Elizabeth Lyndall
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1750
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Pennsylvania, United States
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1752
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