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- Edmund Kinsey, b. 1683, second son of David and Magdalen Kinsey, married Sarah Ogburn on August 21, 1708. The records of Newark Monthly Meeting held at Center, May 3, 1708, show that Howell James (Edmund's stepfather) appeared and produced a letter from his wife's son, Edmund Kinsey, requesting certificate of this meeting of his clearness in relation to marriage, and at the following meeting a certificate was signed for Edmund Kinsey to Woodbridge Meeting in order for his marriage with Sarah Ogburn. The marriage took place at the house of Nathaniel Fitz-Randolph, stepfather of the bride. In 1715 the Woodbridge Monthly Meeting granted a certificate of removal to Falls Monthly Meeting in Bucks County, PA, to Edmund Kinsey, his wife, Sarah Ogburn Kinsey, and Jane Fitz-Randolph, his mother-in-law. Edmund settled in Buckingham Township, purchasing five hundred acres surrounding Buckingham Meeting House, which had been erected only a few years prior to his removal. He was a very earnest Quaker, and in the Falls Monthly Meeting of December, 1717, he received a minute of approval to the Meeting of Ministers and Elders. He was one of the early prominent ministers of Buckingham Meeting, and traveled considerably "in the service of the truth." He also established the first scythe and axe factory in Buckingham, in which a tilt hammer, run by water power was used. He died at the residence in Buckingham on December 21, 1759, having served forty years in the ministry. His wife, Sarah Ogburn Kinsey, survived him and died in her ninety-seventh year.
Jane and Samuel Ogburn, parents of Sarah Ogburn, Edmund Kinsey's wife, came from Scotland and settled in New Jersey. After the death of Samuel, Jane Ogburn married secondly, John Hampton, and thirdly, Nathaniel Fitz-Randolph, and after her remoal to Bucks County with her daughter and son-in-law, she married fourth, Hugh Sharp. Her sons by John Hampton followed her to Bucks County, and their descendants are prominently identified with that county for several generations.
In a deed recorded at Trenton, in the West Jersey records, Liber B., part 2, page 705, there is a reference to "Lots lately in the tenure of Samuel Ogburn, first husband of Jane Hampton."
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EDMUND KINSEY,
Son of David Kinsey, the immigrant, and his wife, Magdalen Kinsey, was born in 1683 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died 12-24-1759 in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He married 8-21-1708 at Woodbridge, New Jersey, Sarah Ogborn (No. 121), daughter of Samuel Ogborn and Jane (Curtis) Ogborn. She was born about 1691 and died aged 96 years (1787?).
Edmund Kinsey was the younger son of David Kinsey. After his father's death, his mother, Magdalen Kinsey, married Howell James and they lived at New Castle, now Delaware. In 1708, Howell James asked Newark, now Kennett Meeting, for a certificate for Edmund Kinsey's clearness to marriage. The marriage records state: "Ye Monthly Meeting at New Ark in ye County of New Castle, territory of Pennsylvania, having reported that the young man was clear from all women in their parts upon ye account of marriage and whilst among them did behave himself soberly." Date 5-3-1708. This was to Woodbridge Meeting in New Jersey. At the succeeding meeting, the certificate was granted and seemed to be accepted for removal as well as marriage.
Edmund Kinsey and his wife remained at Woodbridge until 1715, when they were granted a certificate of removal to Falls Monthly Meeting in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. This certificate included Edmund Kinsey, his wife and Jane Fitz Randolph, his mother-in-law. He settled in Buckingham, purchasing 500 acres surrounding Buckingham Meeting House, which had been erected only a few years before. He was an early and prominent minister of that meeting and "travelled considerably in the service of truth."
He died at the age of 76, having served forty years in the ministry. A memorial of Edmund Kinsey is published in the Friend, Vol. 33, page 12.
Edmund and Sarah (Ogborn) Kinsey had nine children, six sons and three daughters:
1. Samuel (No. 60), b. 8-20-1710 at Woodbridge, N. J.; d. 12
mo. 1776; m. 8-2-1733, Elizabeth Crew (No. 61); she d.
ca. 1795.
2. David, b. 7-3-1712; d. Sept. 1765; m. 1st. 11-30-1734, Tamar
Fell, daughter of Joseph and Bridget (Willson) Fell; b. 1-25-1706;
d. between 1744-1750. David m. 2nd. 6-3-1751, Sarah
(Yardly) Canby, widow of Benjamin Canby, b. 7-13-1712.
3. Mary, b. 2-20-1714/5 at Woodbridge, N. J.; d. 12-29-1769;
m. 1-4-1735 Joseph Fell, son of Joseph Fell, the immigrant
and his first wife, Bridget (Willson) Fell. Joseph, b. 4-29-1701
in Cumberland, England; d. 2-22-1777.
4. Elizabeth, b. 7-23-1717; m. 10-1-1742, Thomas Smith, son of
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Page 3. Edmund Kinsey of Buckingham, Yeoman. 6th mo., 22nd day, 1758.
Proved January 31, 1760.
Codicil November 26, 1758. Wife Sarah. Son Benjamin and Bro-in-law
Joseph Hamton of Wrightstown, exrs. Sons Samuel, Benjamin, David,
Joseph and Mary and Jonathan, children of December'd. son Jonathan.
Daus. Mary Fell, Elizabeth Smith, and Sarah Smith, and Dau-in-law
Jemima, widow of Jonathan. Wit: Wm. Hough, Andrew Ellicott, Samuel
Kinsey Taylor, Samuel Kinsey.
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Davis Uriah I | Born 1707
1683 - 1759 (76 years)