Martha Armitage

As Ebenezer and Anna’s children matured and married, they were forced to look increasingly farther away for cheap farm land; oldest daughter Martha moved to Catawissa, Pa.

Came to Canada with her husband in May 1804.

While Armitage and his wife were busy carving out a livelihood for themselves in the new settlement, they were equally busy in the service of the Society of Friends. Both Amos and Martha were appointed Overseers in 1805, and later became Elders as well; Amos also became the Clerk of the business meetings of both the Yonge Street

Monthly Meeting and the Canada Half Years Meeting of which it was a part. Thus, when

Isaac Wiggins first forbade David Willson, the minister who would lead the Children of Peace, from preaching, Amos Armitage’s support was critical. In April of 1812 the Elders of Yonge Street met to discuss Willson’s heresy, and Armitage emphasized “he could have no hand in stopping [Willson] from speaking, but requested he might be faithful to the witness of God within.” Willson left the Quakers in July 1812, and opened his own home in East Gwillimbury to meetings for worship. By September, Armitage lent his joiner’s shop on Yonge Street to the group for meetings; “he told them that he was ready to open his shop for them, and that he had been waiting for the time to come for him to sit down with them.” Armitage thus left his prominant position in the Society of Friends to support the fledgling group in its fight to gain recognition for Willson’s ministry. The appeals of the Children of Peace were not successful, however, and the Children of Peace were left to chart their own course. Disputes emerged within the group about 1815 when David Willson went to New York and Philadelphia to appeal their disownments with Rachel Lundy, leading to charges of adultery. Willson and Lundy denied the charges, but Armitage was unconvinced. When the rest of the meeting sided with Willson, and eliminated the position of Elder, Amos and Martha left the group and rejoined the Quakers; Martha was reaccepted on 13 June 1816, and Amos on 12 Dec. 1816. By 1819, they had been appointed Elders in the Yonge Street Monthly Meeting again. In 1828, when the Quakers were again torn apart by schism, the Armitages sided with the Hicksites; the Hicksite Quaker Meeting House was eventually built at the small settlement of Armitage on Yonge Street named after the family.

The Hicksites: http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/pm.php?id=story_line&lg=English&fl=0&ex...

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Martha DOANE
_born 15 Feb 1758 in Wrightson Bucks Co. Pennsylvania USA. _died 18 Oct 1840 in York Co. Ontario Canada
_buried in Hicksite Burying Ground Newmarket Ontario Canada.
Daughter of Ebenezer DOANE and Anna Savilla SLOY,

Martha married Amos ARMITAGE on 14 Sep 1785 in Buckingham Monthly Meeting Bucks Co. Pennsylvania USA.

Amos ARMITAGE
_born on 21 Jul 1764 in Catawissa Columbia Co. Penn. USA,
_died on 20 Sep 1847 in York Co. Ontario Canada
_buried in Hicksite Burying Ground Newmarket Ontario Canada.
Son of Samuel Armitage and Mary HARVEY

Children of Amos and Martha (Doan) Armitage:

i. Seba ARMITAGE was born on 11 Jun 1786 in Solebury Bucks Co. Pennsylvania USA and died on 27 Aug 1819 in Middletown Butler Co. Ohio USA at age 33.

ii. Anna ARMITAGE was born on 26 Sep 1787 in Bucks Co. Pennsylvania USA, died on 29 Dec 1865 at age 78, and was buried in Hicksite Burying Ground Newmarket Ontario Canada.

iii. Harvey ARMITAGE was born on 2 Mar 1789 in Catawissa Columbia Co. Pennsylvania USA, died on 23 Apr 1877 in Mariposa Twsp. Victoria Co. Ontario Canada at age 88, and was buried in Apr 1877 in Friends Cemetery Woodville Mariposa Victoria Ontario Canada.

iv. Amos ARMITAGE Jr. was born on 10 Apr 1790 in Solebury Bucks Co. Pennsylvania USA, died on 30 May 1871 in Whitchurch Ontario Canada at age 81, and was buried in Hicksite Quaker Burying Ground Yonge Street Newmarket Ontario Canada.

v. James ARMITAGE born on 10 Jan 1792 in Bucks Co. Pennsylvania USA.

vi. Mary ARMITAGE born on 5 Apr 1795 and died on 7 Jun 1801 at age 6.

vii. Seth ARMITAGE born on 24 Nov 1796 in Northumberland Co. Pennsylvania USA and died on 25 May 1877 in Whitchurch Ontario Canada at age 80.
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∼Born near Wrighstown, Bucks Co, PA. Daughter of Anna Savilla Sloy and Ebenezer Doane, Sr.(5), Joseph(4), Daniel(3), Daniel(2), Deacon John Doane(1). Married to Amos Armitage on 14 Sep 1785 in Buckingham, Bucks Co, PA. Possibly buried in Religious Society of Friends Burial Ground.

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Martha Doan in the U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935

Name: Martha Doan
Marriage Date: 14 Sep 1785
Marriage Date on Image: 14 Ninth 1785
Marriage Place: Buckingham Mtg, Pennsylvania
Father: Ebenezer Doan
Mother: Anna Sevilla Doan
Spouse: Amos Armitage
Spouse Father: Samuel Armitage
Spouse Mother: Mary Armitage
Event Type: Marriage
Monthly Meeting: Wrightstown Monthly Meeting
Historical Meeting Data: Search for this monthly meeting in the 'Quaker Monthly Meetings Index'
Yearly Meeting: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
Meeting State: Pennsylvania
Meeting County: Bucks* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Sep 5 2023, 17:46:33 UTC