Fourth Generation
Family of Adrian DAWES Sr. (18) & Susannah WILKINSON

28. Margaret DAWES.18

On 11 August 1762 Margaret married Samuel FISHER, son of John FISHER & Elizabeth SCARBOROUGH.18 Born on 29 May 1738.18

They had the following children:
37 i. Ruth (1763-)
38 ii. Samuel (1765-)
39 iii. Joseph (1767-)
40 iv. Eunice (1769-)
41 v. Josiah (1772-)

29. Mary DAWES.

On 8 October 1778 Mary married James EGBERT, in Plymouth, PA.2

30. John DAWES Sr. Born on 8 August 1742 in Whitemarsh, PA.18 John died in Lebanon, NJ on 21 February 1826; he was 83.18

On 25 January 1769 when John was 26, he married Alice JANNEY.18 Born on 4 July 1748.18 Alice died on 25 May 1815; she was 66.18

They had the following children:
42 i. Joseph (1770-1777)
43 ii. Martha (1772-)
44 iii. John (1775-1777)
45 iv. Susanna (1777-)
46 v. Thomas (1780-1781)
47 vi. Mary (1782-~1868)
48 vii. Janney (1784-~1860)
49 viii. John (1787-1850)
50 ix. Amy (1790-)

31. Adrian DAWES Jr. Born about 1750.19 Adrian died in 1830 in Easton, PA.18

Adrian Dawes, Jr, (about 1750 - 1830) married Hannah Coate 2 July 1778 at the Kingwood Monthly Meeting, New Jersey. Two of their sons (Joseph and Francis) are recorded in the Quaker records, but their third son, John W. Dawes, is not imentioned.

Subsequent research of Quaker documents reveals that Adrian Dawes, Jr. was not paying his debts and was disowned from the Society of Friends. This happened about 1783, the year of John Wilkinson Dawes' birth, and may explain the lack of records surrounding his birth. Richard Marion Dawes was confident that John's father was Adrian Jr. He believed that Adrian Jr. had to leave Pennsylvania to stay out of jail and that explained the birth of John in New Jersey. Sometime after John's birth, Adrian moved his family back to Easton, Pennsylvania, and was listed there in the 1800 census. He must have satisfied his debts by that time and Richard Dawes surmises that Adrian's uncle helped in this matter. Adrian's mother, Susannah Wilkinson, was the sister of John Wilkinson, Jr., who was born 1711 in Hunterdon, New Jersey, was a colonel in the militia, and a member of the Pennsylvania legislature. John Wilkinson was quite prosperous and may have helped his nephew in the financial difficulties that Adrian faced. Adrian may have named his son John Wilkinson Dawes in gratitude for this help. John Wilkinson, Jr. died 31 May 1782 before his namesake was born.

On 21 May 1778 Adrian married Hannah COATE, daughter of Thomas COATE & Elizabeth KING, in Kingwood, NJ.20,21 Born on 12 June 1755 in Amwell, Hunterdon Co., NJ.20

They had the following children:
51 i. Joseph (1779-1861)
52 ii. Francis (1781-)
53 iii. John Wilkinson (1783-1864)

Marriage date & place - 2 Jul 1778, Kingwood, NJ, The Problem of the Ancestry of John W. Dawes, Richard M. Dawes, May 1965, Addendum 2, pg. 2 (letter with abstracts of Kingwood MM records, Alice Allen to R. M. Dawes, 24 Oct. 1968)

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