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From - Early Friends Families of Upper Bucks
JONATHAN HEACOCK, son of John and Jane Heacock, was born at Slindon, parish of Eccleshall, County of Stafford, England about 1680, was the virtual founder of the family in Pennsylvania, since his father after spending a few years in Bucks County, returned to England, and died there in 1695. He came to Pennsylvania with his wife, Ann Till, in the Ship "Three Sisters" which sailed from London, 1 mo. 14, 1710-11, bringing a certificate from the Friends Meeting at Stafford, dated 12 mo. 27, 1710, only a few months after their marriage at the same meeting. A fragmentary diary in his handwriting has been preserved from which we learn that while in England he was a dealer in wool and manufactured worsted goods, and travelled to London and other parts in the prosecution of his business. At the time of his sailing for Pennsylvania, he is mentioned as a resident of the "Borough of Stafford, in Staffordshire." The diary above referred to shows that he was in London on 12 mo. 27, 1710, and sailed from there as above stated on 1 mo. 14, 1710-11. They evidently touched at Belfast, Ireland, as he wrote a letter from "Belfast Lough" on 1 mo. 20, 1710-11, to Staffordshire. They were at Koughrane, Scotland, on 2 mo. 23, 1710-11, and "sayld from thence the 26th, at one o'clock in the morning."
The certificate from Stafford Meeting was deposited at Chester Monthly Meeting, 7 mo. 29, 1718. Their whereabouts in the interim between their arrival and that date are unknown, but they were probably in Philadelphia and that part of Chester County now composing Delaware County. There is no evidence of record in Bucks County of his having contested the title of the land taken up by his father in Falls Township, Bucks County, and confirmed to him by his uncle William Heacock and Mary, his wife, on the eve of his sailing for Pennsylvania. The family settled in Marple Township, Chester (now Delaware) County, where he was first a renter but later purchased a farm near the Springfield Township line on which he lived until his death in 1764 at an advanced age.
Ann Till, the wife of Jonathan Heacock, was a daughter of John Till, of Whitegreave, Staffordshire, and his wife Mary Jackson, and was born at Whitegreave, 5 mo. 13, 1681.
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