William Satterthwaite, Sr.

a study of the origins of the name Satterthwaite and variations

MIDDLETOWN MM. 7TH MONTH, 1734:

AT THIS MEETING WILLIAM SATTERTHWAITE, A YOUNG MAN LATELY FROM SWARTHMORE MM IN LANGINSHIRE, RECCOMMENDING HIM AS A YOUNG MAN OF ORDERLY CONVERSATION AND IN MEETING IS SATISFIED AND ORDERLY AND THAT IS TO BE DEPT WITH SUCH MEETING

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4TH MONTH 1735:AT THIS MEETING WILLIAM SATTERTHWAITE AND PLEASANT MEAD APPEARED AND DECLARED THIER INTENTION OF MARRIAGE, EACH WITH EACH OTHER FOR THE FIRST TIME, THEREFORE IN ORDER FOR THEIR FURTHER PROCEED INGS, JOHN STACKHOUSE AND WILLIAM BRIGGS APPOINTED TO MAKE INFORMATION OF HIS CLEARENCE WITH OTHERS AND WHAT ELSE MAY BE NEEDFUL AND REPORT TO NEXT MEETING.

WILL AND TESTAMENT OF WILLIAM SATTERTHWAITE PROVED FEB. 8, 1788 IN M

BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. WILL BOOK NUMBER 5 AND PAGE 7 #2150.

"I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY SON WILLIAM SATTERTHWAITE ALL MY LAND AND PLANTATIONS THAT I PURCHASED OF SAMUEL GARY AT SUNDERY TIMES AND OF JOHN PALMER AND DANIEL WEST WITH ALL THE BUILDINGS, WOODS, AND WATERS THEN UNTO BELONGING ALL LYEING AND BEING IN THE TOWNSHIPS OF LOWER MAKEFIELD, FALLS AND MIDDLETOWN ALL IN THE COUNTY OF BUCKS AND PROV NCE OR STATE OF PENSYLVANIA FOR TO HOLD TO HIM, HIS HEIRS AND ASIGNS FOR EVER HE... AND PAYING UNTO HIS MOTHER THE BEFORE NAME ARTICLES TO BE PAID YEARLY AND EVERY YEAR UNTO HER DURING HER NATURAL LIFE OR WIDOWHOOD. I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY SON WILLIAM SATTERTHWAITE A CERTAIN TENEMENT OR DWELLING HOUSE AND SHOPS, ANN AND ALL OTHER APPORTENCOUS THERE UNTO BELONGING THE LOTT WHEREON THE HOUSE IN THE CITY OF LONDON FOR THE KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITTAIN FOR TO HOLD TO HIM HIS HEIRS AND ASSIGNS FOR EVER, HE ALLOWING UNTO MY FIVE DAUGHTERS BEFORE NAMED OR THEIR SURVIVING CHILDREN FIVE YEARLY RENTS WHEN...IS TAKEN OUT... TO BE PAID AS CAN BE OBTAINED AND I GIVE AND BEQUEATH UNTO MY SON WILLIAM SATTERTHWAITE THE CLOCK AND THEREUNTO BELONGING TO HIM HIS HEIRS AND ASIGNS FOR EVER AND THE WRITINGS OF WILLIAM PENN COMMONLY CALLED WILLIAM PENN'S HISTORY ...ONE HUNDRED POUNDS OF THE MONEY THAT HATH IN ABEL JAMES HANDS TO PAY FOR THAT LAND COMMONLY KNOWN BY THE NAME OF MENAGE FIELDS AND RUTHER WITH WILL AND MIND THAT ANY OF MY BEFORE NAMED DAUGHTERS SHOULD DIE BEFORE THAT THEIR LEGACY CAME DUE THEN IT SHALL BE GIVEN TO THEIR SURVIVING CHILDREN, SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE.

Elizabeth Satterthwaite in The Burial Ground at Colthouse says that one of the few Satterthwaites to leave his native land was William, eldest son of Michael of the Cragg and his wife Hester Tyson. A certificate from the Swarthmore Monthly Meeting held 5 Feb 1733/34 at Rook How in Lancaster, England, recommended him as a young man of sober and orderly life and converstion, "clear from all women in these parts on account of Marriage so far as we know and also free from the contracting of any debts being an able and industrious workman in the tilling of land and husbandry" [Satterthwaite, 1914]. The Middletown Monthly Meeting in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, received William and accepted that certificate in September, 1734 [Mead, 1998]. The next year, in the 4th month 1735, William and Pleasant Mead appeared and declared their intention to marry. Mena Mead has the date of marriage as 15 Feb 1735/1736, which is eight months later, and notes that Elizabeth Mead signed in the place usually designated for parents.

Witnesses to the will of Samuel Cary, of Newtown, signed 4th mo., 2d. 1764 and proved June 16, 1766, included both Willliam Satterthwaite Sr. and Jr. as well as a James Moon. The will of Isaac Hodgson, of the Falls Twp., signed 8th mo., 31, 1767 and proved October 17, 1767 and for which James Moon of Middletown was executor, bequeathed £5 to Pleasant Satterthwaite, with William one of the witnesses. William Satterthwaite the elder was the executor along with the widow Sarah for the will of James Price, of Middletown, signed April 16, 1770, proved June 26, 1770. William, Jr. was one of the witnesses.page 2150], William bequeathed land in Lower Makefield, Falls and Middletown townships of Bucks County to his son William, with provisions for Pleasant's support as long as she lived as a widow. He also bequeathed to William "certain tenement or dwelling house and shops" belonging to a lot in the City of London, and allowing his five daughters the yearly rents therefrom. Also to William went "the clock", "the writings of William Penn commonly called William Penn's History", and £100. Pleasant's brothers William and Samuel are known from letters written concerning the purchase of land [Mead, 1998; citing "Mead Family" by Pritchard].

All of the children and descendants of William are from Mena Mead [Mead, 1998]. Extensive notes from her file have been selectively rewritten (as they were all in caps and garbaged somewhat in file translations) and added here. She has 456 direct descendants of William and Pleasant.

sources

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research

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