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Gilbert Rodman was born to Quakers William Rodman (May 5, 1720 - January 30, 1794) and Mary Reeve in Bensalem, Pennsylvania on July 21, 1748. [1] Rodman's ancestry was predominantly English whose ancestors settled in Barbados before arriving to the American colonies. [2]
John Campbell (abt. 1720–1776) is credited for founding Campbelltown, Pennsylvania. [1] He was part of the wave of Scotch-Irish immigrants who voyaged to the New World in the 1700s. These immigrants, mostly of Scottish origin, were lured to the New World by a promise of cheap land and a fresh start.
The Biddle family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is an Old Philadelphian family descended from English immigrants William Biddle (1630–1712) and Sarah Kempe (1634–1709), who arrived in the Province of New Jersey in 1681.
Lost in Pennsylvania? Try the Published Pennsylvania Archives by Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer, M.L.S., 1999, The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania [1]; Guide to the Published Archives of Pennsylvania Covering the 138 Volumes of Colonial records and Pennsylvania Archives, Series I-IX by Henry Howard, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1949 [2] [3]
Issue typically means a person's lineal descendants—all genetic descendants of a person, regardless of degree. [1] Issue is a narrower category than heirs, which includes spouses, and collaterals (siblings, cousins, aunts, and uncles). [2]
In common law jurisdictions, probate is the judicial process whereby a will is "proved" in a court of law and accepted as a valid public document that is the true last testament of the deceased; or whereby, in the absence of a legal will, the estate is settled according to the laws of intestacy that apply in the jurisdiction where the deceased resided at the time of their death.