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Mary Minshall (Barber)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States
Death: 1785 (52-53)
Middletown, Dauphin County, PA, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Robert Barber and Hannah Barber
Wife of Thomas Minshall, Sr
Mother of Jean Jane Crabb; Elizabeth Fisher; Thomas Minshall; Hannah Minshall; Joshua Minshall and 1 other
Sister of Eleanor Wright; John Barber; Robert Barber, Esq.; Thomas Barber; Nathanial Barber and 4 others

Managed by: Joel Putnam
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About Mary Minshall

Genealogy

SEVENTH BRANCH.

(1260) II. 7. MARY BARBER, third dr. of Robert and Hannah Tidmarsh Barber, was b. in Lancaster Co., Pa., 3d mo. 8th, 1732; m. (probably in 1754), THOMAS MINSHALL,[33] eldest son of Joshua Minshall (Quaker) and Jane Atkinson. Thomas inherited the mansion farm of 300 acres, about one and a half miles back of Wrightsville, Pa. He became a very prominent man in York Co. In 1758 he raised a company of volunteers, and marched to Bedford to join Gen. Forbes' army. The Barbers and Wrights raised such a hubbub that he was compelled to resign. About 1772 he sold his farm and moved to Middletown, Pa. She d. about the close of the Revolutionary war, at Middletown. He d. about 1784 or '85. p. 103
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  • 33 T. M. in this year requested to come under the care of Friends of Sadsbury Meeting. He was a birthright member.

Issue (Minshall) :

(1262) III. 1. HANNAH, m. CRABB. Senator Crabb, who d. about 20 years ago, was of this branch.

(1264) III. 2. JOSHUA
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(1265) III. 3. JOHN
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(1266) III. 4. ROBERT.

(1267) III. 5. THOMAS, m.,Sept. 20th, 1791, REBECCA YOUNG, of Middletown.

Issue (Minshall) :

(1269) IV. 1. HENRY b. in 1797 ; m. a dr. of Maj. John Benjamin.

Issue (Minshall) :

  • (1271) V. 1. A son, who was appointed midshipman by Gen'l Simon Cameron, and was lost at sea.

(1272) III. 6. JEAN.

(1273) III. 7. ELIZABETH.

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Mary Minshall's Timeline

1732
March 8, 1732
Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States
1747
1747
Middletown, Dauphin County, Province of Pennsylvania, British Proprietary Colony
1754
1754
Middletown, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA
1757
1757
Middletown, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA
1759
1759
Middletown, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA
1762
1762
Middletown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
1764
1764
Middletown, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, USA
1785
1785
Age 52
Middletown, Dauphin County, PA, United States