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- Name Suffix: Senior
Thomas would have been old enough to serve duringthe Revolutionary War, but
the Quakers were generally opposed to military service.
1800 census, Bucks Co, pg 257, 20010-20110-00
1810 census, Wrightstown Twp, pg 972, 00110-12010
1820 census, Wrightstown Twp, pg 305, 000010-02000(next to John Vanhorn)
1830 census, Upper Makefield, pg 054 or 055? (wrong age!)
1840 census, Wrightstown Twp, pg 043 (wrong age!)
1850 census, Newtown Twp, #33, (with wife Sarah and children) (near Elizabeth Conrad age 52)
1860 census, Newtown Borough, pg 510, Martha Martindale 15, with Elizabeth
Conrad 63, and Grace Stonesman (?) 49, nurse
another Thos Martindale in Upper Makefield in 1820 (as Marlendale)
Note:
Thomas really did marry the young Sarah Conrad. It's shown in both the
marriage record that she was young as well as the 1850 census. Go figure!
death date is from FHC info : AFN: FLX5-1F
From The History of Byberry and Moreland, pg 338:
(13) Thomas, born 1765, married, first Mary Boothe. Children: William, Sarah,
Rebecca, Thomas, and Mary. His wife died, and at the age of 82 he married,
second, Sarah Ann Conrad, aged 22, by whom he had two or three children.
pg 343:
(63) Sarah, married John Vanhorn. Children: Thomas and one other.
(64) Rebecca, married William Pearson.
(this same information shows up in The Welcome Claimants, pg 90)
From Beers History of Washington County, pg 35:
THOMAS MARTINDELL. Among the wealthy, enterprising and generally respected
citizens of East Bethlehem township,none are more favorably known than this
prominent agriculturist. He is a native of the county, born October 28, 1824, in West
Pike Run township, where he was reared on his father's farm, and educated at
the subscription schools of the vicinity, and a select school in Centreville, taught by
John Reid.
ThomasMartindell, his grandfather, was of English descent, and one of the early
settlers of Bucks county, Penn., where he passed almost his entire life, dying at
the advanced age of ninety-five years. His wife was Mary Booth, who was
descended from an old and well-known family of Bucks county. Thomas and
Mary Martindell were the parents of the following children, all now deceased:
Sarah (who married John Van Horn), Rebecca, Mary and William.
William Martindell was born September 6, 1793, in Bucks county, Penn., where he
was reared to farming pursuits. When a young man he removed to and settled in
West Pike Run township,this county, where he learned shoemaking, although he
never worked much at the trade, his time and attention being too much taken up on the farm. He marriedElizabeth, daughter of John Fleming, in his lifetime a prominent
farmer of Washington county, and the young couple then took up their home on a
farm in West Pike Run township, where they passed the remainder of their lives.
Their children were Mary Ann (Mrs. McMillan), Catherine (Mrs. Baker) and Thomas.
The mother of this family was called from earth April 7, 1833, the father
April 6, 1852; he was a Quaker in religious faith, in politics a member of the
Whig party.
birthdate from James N Davis - internet
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1765 - 1852 (86 years)