Mary [Engle] [Cattell] French

Two Mary Cattells

Mr. French corrected his statements made in Volume One on page 116 concerning Jonas Cattell?s wife Mary Pearce Cattel being the one who married Thomas French. In Volume Two on page 665 he includes the notation that Mary Cattell died 8/17/1724 and that Haddonfield Meeting minutes showed Jonas married Mary Engle. ?This Mazy Cattell doubtless was Mary (Engle) Cattell, second wife of Jonas Cattell and not Mary (Pearce) Cattell.?

A little background about the two Mary Cattells is in order. Jonas Cattell had been received on certificate from Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting by Burlington Monthly Meeting on 10/7/ 1713 (Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, W.W.Hinshaw,2:206). The minutes of Burlington MM now on microfilm at the Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore, Pa., state ?Jonas Cattle and Mary Pearce, both of Springfield Twp. Co, had consent of relatives and guardians concerned.? They were married 2/8/1714 and he signed his name on the certificate, but she could only make her mark ?M? (ibid ,2:249). Mr. French later discovered that their marriage certificate also carried the added notation of Mary?s death in 1724.

On 3/ 1 I 1727 Jonas Cattell received a certificate of dearness from his home meeting of Burlington (ibid , 2:206). He took this to the Monthly Meeting at Newton-Haddonfield in April 1727 where he and Mary Engle, widow with children , declared their intentions of marriage and sought per- mission from her hcme meeting to proceed with their plans (GMNJ 3:65). This meeting found them free to marry and at the Monthly Meeting dnJune 14, 1727, it was duly reported that the marriage had been accomplished.

Apparently Jonas Cattell (Cattle, Kettle, etc.) had settled in Gloucester County about the time of his second marriage. He was a yeoman of Deptford Township there when he wrote his will, dated February 23, 1730/1, and proved April 20, 1731 (NJA 30:88). His wife Mary was named as executor and his four children, James, Hannah, William, and Jonas, were listed.

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Mary Cattell and Thomas French declared their intentions of marriage at Haddonfield MM of 7/11/1732 and a committee was appointed to inquire into their ?clearness with others on account of marriage.? At the Monthly Meeting on 8/19/1732 after again declaring their intentions, they were at liberty to wed. At the Monthly Meeting on 9/13/1732 Friends of Haddon field learned that it was ?orderly accomplished? (GMNJ 3:66). This Mary Cattell had been active in Haddonfield Meeting affairs for many years and throughout her first two marriages.

Mary?s step-daughter Hannah Cattell married in 1737 her step-son Robert French. Robert was appointed one of his father?s executors, but declined to serve (French, 1:116, 134).

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