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Abi LONGSHORE m. Dec. 8, 1796 to Unknown SCOUT, Bucks Co. PA

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Abi LONGSHORE m. Dec. 8, 1796 to Unknown SCOUT, Bucks Co. PA

Virginia  (View posts) Posted: 12 Dec 2002 4:04PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: SCOUT, LONGSHORE, MINOR
I am looking for further information on Abi LONGSHORE, daughter of Euclides LONGSHORE and Sarah Gillam or ?Susanna (Vanhorn) ? Sarah Gillam might have been Euclides' 2nd wife and Abi's step mother. (Bucks County, PA Vol. 2, Middletown Monthly Meeting: Men's Minutes, June 6, 1782,
Euclidus LONGSHORE requests that his children by a previous marriage, to wit, Abner, Asher, Asa, Anna, Alice, and Abi LONGSHORE be joined in membership.)

Abi was b. circa 1774. I have evidence Abi married outside of Unity of Friends, Middletown Monthly Meeting of Friends to an Unknown SCOUT in Bucks Co. PA. I found reference in Bucks County, PA, Vol. 2, Middletown Monthly Meeting: Men's Minutes
Dec. 8, 1796 Informed that Abi LONGSHORE has accomplished her marriage out of the Unity of Friends and by the assistance of a hireling minister.
and
1/5/1797, Middletown Friends presented a Testimony of denial against Abi SCOUT, late LONGSHORE, but she refused to appeal.

As I am researching the SCOUT family in Bucks County PA, for my ancestry, I would like to find out which of the Scouts she married. I don't have access to the original record of Minutes but apparently the first name of the unknown SCOUT was illegible for transcript and does not appear in references I have available to me.

I believe she possibly had a son Tom SCOUT and likely a son James SCOUT. On the tax lists for Northampton Twp., Bucks Co., for the years 1813 and 1814, under poor children, there is listed James SCOUT, age 7 years, son of Abi SCOUT. Abi might have later remarried to an Unknown MINOR.
Abi SCOUT is mentioned in her father's Will.
Abstracts of Bucks Co, PA, Wills, 1785 - 1825
Page 10. Euclides LONGSHORE, Middletown Twp. April 28, 1804. Proved June 22, 1804.
Wife Sarah. Simon Gillam and James Wildman exrs. 12 ch. Abner, Anna Vanhorn, Alice Cremer, Abi SCOUT, Euclides, Margaret, Abraham, Joseph, Grace, Rachel, Thomas and James LONGSHORE.
Wits: John Blakey, William Gillam.

I believe the Theory of Descendants for Abi's family group is as follows:
1-Euclides LONGSHORE
+Alice Stackhouse
|--2-Euclides LONGSHORE b: Apr 1735, d: Apr 28, 1804, Middletown Twp., Bucks
| Co., PA
| +Sarah Gillam , m: May 11, 1780, Middletown Monthly Meeting of Friends
| |--3-Abi LONGSHORE b: 1774
| | +Unknown SCOUT , m: Dec 8, 1796, Outside of Unity of Friends, Middletown
| | Monthly Mtg.
| | |--4-Tom SCOUT b: 1797-1806
| | |--4-James SCOUT b: 1805-1806
| | +Unknown Minor
| |--3-Abner LONGSHORE b: Abt 1762
| |--3-Euclides LONGSHORE Jr.
| |--3-Anna LONGSHORE b: Abt 1768
| | +Unknown Vanhorn
| |--3-Alice LONGSHORE b: Abt 1769
| | +Unknown Cremer
| |--3-Margaret LONGSHORE
| |--3-Abraham LONGSHORE
| | +Rhoda Skelton , m: Mar 11, 1807, "Marriages Authorized by the Buckingham
| | Monthly Meeting of Friends, 1730-1810, " page 249-268.
| |--3-Joseph LONGSHORE
| |--3-Grace LONGSHORE
| |--3-Rachel LONGSHORE
| |--3-James LONGSHORE
| |--3-Thomas LONGSHORE
| +Susannah Van Horn
|--2-Robert LONGSHORE b: Oct 13, 1716, Bucks Co, PA, d: Aug 16, 1776, Bucks Co,
| PA
| +Ursula Jolly
| |--3-Jolly LONGSHORE b: Abt 1752, Bucks Co, PA
| +Rachel Bowlsby b: 1756, Sussex Co., NJ, m: Dec 12, 1782, New York
| |--4-Sarah LONGSHORE b: Nova Scotia, Canada
|--2-Thomas LONGSHORE d: Jan 11, 1777, Middletown, Bucks Co., PA, bur:
| Middletown Monthly Meeting of Friends
+Joanna //Longshore// d: Apr 22, 1792, Middletown, Bucks Co., PA, bur:
Middletown Monthly Meeting of Friends

I would appreciate any clues from LONGSHORE researchers that will help me to fill in the blanks on Abi LONGSHORE and husband SCOUT, and to confirm her children to SCOUT.

Regards,
Virginia

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