John Routledge

   FamilySearch ID: 3FNX-TYH. Find a Grave ID: 167896462.

  General Notes:

Evidently removed to the Middletown MM in 1711 per the certificate granted to him, his wife and family that year. Was an elder in the Quaker community. Records show him attending quarterly and yearly meetings in Philadelphia.

  Research Notes:

See pages 145 ff of http://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/429391 for extensive information and location of wills.

in 1725 Mary Routledge was granted a certificate to the Falls MM. Not sure who this might be. Margaret returning? or another daughter?

John Rutledge appears in the index of Births 1728-1935 to be on page 49 (see Middletown MM > Births 1728-1935).Have looked through this 51 image scratched microfilm and page 49 appears to be missing.

Wills: also indexed in http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/bucks/wills/willabstbk1.txt
Found: -use link
ROUTLEDGE,JOHNNeshaminey Creek.1st. mo.,10th day, 1721 1.86.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G99B-2Y3Z?i=67

ROUTLEDGE,MARGARETNO LOCATION GIVEN.February 9, 1735.1.228.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-899B-2TZG?i=140

"Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994," images, FamilySearch > Bucks > Wills 1713-1759 vol 1-2
Gives many names ²²¹²

  Events

• Certificate: to Middletown MM, 4 May 1711, Falls Township, Bucks Co., PA. ²²¹² Falls MM - John [Rutledge] & w., Margaret, & fam, get (abbreviation for granted certificate) Middletown MM

• Received: Middletown MM, 4 Aug 1711, Middletown, Bucks Co., PA. ²²¹⁷

• Memorial: Also Mary Routledge. ²²¹⁸ Also on his Find-a-Grave memorial but not the section below on Mary Routledge.

• Cemetery: Middletown Friends Cemetery: Langhorne Borough, Bucks Co., PA.

• Will: Proved July 30th 1725, 21 May 1724, Bucks Co., PA. ²²¹⁹ Dated: "twenty first Day of the third Month in the year of our Lord One Thousand and Seven Hundred Twenty four."
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G99B-2Y3Z?i=67

Leaves one-half to wife Margaret and the other half to his seven children to be divided equally after the one cow to his son Jon.

• Memorial: from the Wrightstown Meeting, 1757. ²²²⁰ Image also posted to his Find-a-Grave memorial

John married Margaret Dalton 9 May 1701 in Falls Township, Bucks Co., PA ²²¹³.^,2214 (Margaret Dalton was born 16 Aug 1681 in Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, Wales,²²²¹ died 29 Apr 1735 in Southampton, Bucks Co., PA ²²²¹ and was buried in Langhorne Borough, Bucks Co., PA.)

  Marriage Notes:

Marriage and witnesses are at Ancestry.com. U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 > PA > Bucks > Falls MM > Falls Copy Births, Deaths and Marriages > image 15. (one witness was Wm Routledge)