Joseph Satterthwaite

"The name comes from O(ld)E(nglis) sætr, meaning shieling, or mountain hut, and O(ld)N(orse) pveit, for pasture." So: Sætrpveit = Satterthwaite http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~paulrswan/Sattert...

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~paulrswan/Bibliog...[Satterthwaite,%201999-2003] Search on Satterthwait

Some ideas as to James' parentage might be gleaned form the following: We know that Joseph's wife Rebecca was raised in West Jersey. Perhaps this is where they encountered each other leading me to guess that Joseph is the son of either James or WIlliam Satterthwaite. But, on the contrary, the following document does not detail a Joseph Satterthwaite http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/NJ/2002-09/1032803328

Burlington County, New Jersey

In Burlington County, New Jersey, across the Delaware from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, were numerous Quaker Satterthwaites descended from immigrants James and William who came about 1678. These were the earliest Satterthwaites in this part of the country, but later than those who came to Virginia in a previous generation. The descents from these two families were identified as completely as possible from published New Jersey records (mainly Friend’s Monthly Meetings, tax and court records)

(Joseph) was a miller, and had a mill at Byberry, near Philadelphia, which was burned, and the various meetings contributed different sums to assist him as was the custom among Friends, and the only meeting which demurred was Byberry, his own meeting, which he attended.

If he married Rebecca in c. 1692 then he would have spent at least approx. 20 years of marriage with her as a Quaker in Byberry

• http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/montgomery/history/local/mchb0046.txt source: CHAPTER XXXIX. PART I ABINGTON TOWNSHIP. [By Wm. J. Buck.] In Bean's history of Montgomery County (page 680)

“Mills no doubt were erected quite early in the township. Mention is made in the Abington Minutes, under date of 25th of Twelfth Month, 1711, of relief being furnished to Joseph Satterthwaite for "having had his mill burnt." We cannot locate it, but it was evidently in this vicinity. The mill, now the property of Daniel R. Rice, on the Tacony Creek, below Abington Station, was built before 1725 by Isaac Knight, and carried on by Andrew Keyser in 1780.” http://ttfwatershed.org/images/TTF-Watershed-Map.html

• there is this concerning a mill that burned in 1712: "HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. page 109

"In the spring of 1712 Joseph Satterthwait and Hannah Albertson (~• first name wrong?, or is mother-in-law referred to here?) sustained a loss of £500 by a fire, and the council gave them license to ask charity of the public, to replace it. This was one of the earliest fires recorded in the county. "

• Not to be confused with the Satterthwaites of Hyde Co. NC... prior errors link Joseph to that family

•http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=loisebran...

The elder William (Albertson) owned a grist-mill on Poquesin Creek, apparently in partnership with his son-in-law Joseph Satterthwaite......His will, dated Dec 7, 1709....names wife Hannah and seven children. (the four youngest being minors), son-in-law Jervis Stogdale and dau.-in-law Ruth Stogdale (Philadelphia Co. Wills, C:189). Part of the family were members of the Friends' Meeting at Abington, PA, the members helped "widow Alvinson" and her son-in-law " Shaterthite " when their mill burned in 1711-12. Widow Hannah Albinson and family transferred their membership from Abington to Philadelphia in 1720.