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About Robert Turner, Province of West Jersey
Keithian Quaker
Some Prominent Irish Friends page 261
1686, he was elected a member of the Provincial Council, being re-elected in 1693 and 1700. In 1688, he was one of the five Commissioners from the Council appointed by Penn to govern the Province.^
He seems to have been active in the business of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, but in the con- troversy between the Friends and George Keith he took the side of the latter.'-
Three Marriages
Robert Turner was first married in Dublin, i Mo. 27, 1662, to Elizabeth Ruddock, of Dover, who survived only one year.^ He then was mar- ried at Rosenallis, Queen's County, 10 Mo. 7, 1665, to Martha Fisher, of Cheshire. She died 3 Mo. 1682,^ and at the time of his emigration, as his certificate states, he was a " Widdow man and clear from all women upon account of marriage." He was married the third time, under the care of Newark Monthly Meeting, New Castle County, about 12 Mo., 1686, to Susanna Welch," of New Castle, daughter of William Welch. Turner died in 6 Mo., 1700, and was buried on the 24th.® His daughter Martha, was married, 8 Mo. 18, 1689, to Francis Rawle, the younger, of Philadelphia, and left numerous descendants.' Another daughter, Mary, married Joseph Pidqcon, and died before her father.
children
Elizabeth Ruddock
^ By her he had one child, Elizabeth, born i Mo. 12, 1663, died 1678.
Martha Fisher
<The births of their children were : Martha, 7 Mo. 24. 1668; Robert, 6 Mo. 25, 1672 (died same year); Abraham, 7 Mo. 28, 1673 (died 1675);
and Mary, 12 Mo. 7, 1674. — Records of Dublin Meeting.
Susanna Welch
- By her he had one son, Robert, who was buried 10 Mo. 18, 1692.
Robert Turner, Province of West Jersey's Timeline
1635 |
October 1635
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
a prominent
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1657 |
1657
Age 21
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Grange, Charlement, Armagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
We first
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1658 |
1658
Age 22
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In 1658,
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1659 |
1659
Age 23
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Kob. Turner, for speaking a few words in the Steeple house at Battdon,
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1660 |
1660
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Age 24
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"In 1660 and also in 1661, for attending Quaker
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1663 |
March 12, 1663
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1668 |
September 24, 1668
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Ireland
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1672 |
August 25, 1672
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