Sarah West

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3. JOHN W. WEST (THOMAS, WILLIAM) was born 28 October 1690 in Long Crandon/Credon/Crendon Parish, Buckinghamshire, England, and died 05 October 1776 in Marlborough, Oxfordshire, England. He married (1) ELIZABETH BEISLEY 1714. He married (2) SARAH PEARSON 1718 in Chester Co., Pennsylvania.

Child of JOHN WEST and ELIZABETH BEISLEY is:

1. i. THOMAS WEST.

Children of JOHN WEST and SARAH PEARSON are:

1. ii. HUGH WEST.
2. iii. JOSEPH WEST, SR., b. 1718, Springfield, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania; d. 1802, Pittsylvania County, VA, at home of son George.
3. iv. SARAH WEST, b. 1719, Springfield, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania; m. REES? HOWELL.
4. v. MARY WEST, b. 1721, Upper Providence, Pennsylvania; m. JONATHAN MORRIS.
5. vi. WILLIAM WEST, b. 1724, Upper Providence, Pennsylvania; m. (1) SARAH CROPPER; m. (2) HANNAH SHAW.
6. vii. RACHEL/RACHAEL WEST, b. 1726, Upper Providence, Pennsylvania; m. JOHN LEVINUS CLARKSON.
7. viii. HANNAH WEST, b. Abt. 1728, Upper Providence, Pennsylvania; m. _____ THOMSON.
8. ix. ELIZABETH WEST, b. Abt. 1729, Springfield, Delaware Co., Pennsylvania; m. JOHN MORRIS.
9. x. SAMUEL WEST, b. 1732, Upper Providence, Pennsylvania.
10. xi. JOHN (JR.) WEST, b. 1734, Upper Providence, Pennsylvania; m. (1) MARY _____; m. (2) MARGARET PEARSON TERRETT.
11. xii. BENJAMIN WEST, b. 10 October 1738, Springfield, Chester Co., Pennsylvania; m. ELIZABETH SHEWELL.

Notes

According to an online Google book, "Art As Evidence: Writings on Art and Material Culture," by Jules David Prown, "Extract from Albert Cook Myers, 'Benjamin West's Mother, Sarah Pearson and her Family,' printed in Celeste Terrell Barnhill, Joseph West and Jane Owen (William Mitchell Printing Company, Greenfield, Indiana, circa 1930?); Lippincott, 24; Reading and Warboro Monthly Meeting, Book 67, 286, "Digest of Register of Births, Quarterly Meetings of Berkshire and Oxfordshire," Friends House, London: Barnhill, 10-11 and 55, gives the 1718 date for the marriage of John West and Sarah Pearson on the basis of family records. Alberts takes the later date from "Data on the West Family," a manuscript at the Friends Library, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, by Kate D. West, January 5, 1922. The Records of the Chester Monthly Meeting, of which the Springfield Meeting to which she belonged as a part, indicate that Sarah Pearson was "disowned December 24, 1717, for fornication" (Lippincott,27). It is not clear whether or not this involved John West. If it did, it would support the earlier date for the marriage. That this was a matter of civil as well as theological significance is indicated by the existence of a Bill of Indictment against Sarah Pearson recorded in the Chester County Court Record, 1718 (Chester County Historical Society Archives). The shame caused Sarah's father, Thomas Pearson, a prominent Quaker who had been William Penn's surveyor (Stern, 142) to resign from the Springfield Meeting, the meeting to which John West's brothers also belonged.

John Pemberton recalled that John West, "a very sober man" who lived in Newtown, Chester County, about fourteen miles from Philadelphia, was not a Quaker, but frequented meetings of the Friends (Case 24, "Journal, 1789." Benjamin Smith Barton Collection, Historical Society of Pennsylvania).

Pemberton also noted that an older brother of Benjamin West (William) who had been received into the Society of Friends was still (1789) living in Newtown, "a very hard-working man; and poor." William had worked as a cooper in Philadelphia, but after his wife died in 1765 he returned to farming. He served in the legislature for five years, died in 1808, at the age of 84, and left many descendants (Stern, 142).

For John West, Barnhill, 11-13; letter from Lucy Simler to Jules D. Prown, October 14, 1977; Stern, 142; Fulthey, 176, Alberts, 7-8, says that John West has been variously identified as a tinsmith, hosier and sailor, "but only his innkeeping is a matter of record in America." However Lucy Simler has called to my attention a document dated February 1760 concerning a debt of 25.14.4 pounds owed to Susannah West by John West, cooper (Records of Th Court of Common Pleas, Chester county, May Term, 1762, narrative no. 1686, Chester County Archives, West Chester, Pennsylvania). SOURCE: https://books.google.com/books?id=e_9ztofdxRsC&pg=PA128&lpg=PA128&d...

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