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From: "eleanordeyeson" <>
Subject: Re: [PA-QUAKERS] Disownment
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 03:43:26 -0500
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So, am I understanding this right--If there is a reference somewhere that
moses starr was disowned for "??" there would be more details in the minutes
of the monthly meeting? And how would one go about obtaining copies of
these minutes??

Here's what another researcher posted on a Starr family website a while
back. I would really like to find out more than just the abstracts, but
don't know exactly how to do that. Please help.

James Starr was for a while clerk of the Newark MM and then the New Garden
Meeting. I don't know what meeting they would have attended once they moved
to Phoenixville. (According to Myers book)

It appears that Moses was disowned for some behaviour other than marrying
Margaret Quattlebaum.

Janet Harder
Unadilla, NE
The Quaker records show that Moses Starrand his brother Samual were
admonished

for something ----- perhaps not attending church and on September 20,

1754, they were read out of Meeting Quaker. They became Methodists.

This must have been when he went to New Jersy and married his second wife,
Margaret Quartlebaum, probally around 1755/56.

Mose Starr, son of James and Rachel laybourne Starr, was born 21, Dec 1720
in Longdon Grove twp. Chester Co, Pa. He removed at the age of eleven with
his parents in 1731 to Phoenixville, Pa. He lived on the Starr farm in the
Manavon tract, became a miller, and operated a mill with his brother James
Starr but sold the business in 1748 to Samuel Jones and Jacob Hilderbrand.

Moses Starr was married 1st in a Quaker Meeting in Chester Co. to Sarah
Davis, born in 1718. Some sources say they were married April 26th, 1745
Radnor M.M. at East Town, Pa., daughter of Edward Davis.

*J. Edward Starr FTM Home Page 7/98, gives info re Sarah, he says they had a
daughter Rachel?

Supposedly there are Quaker records of this first marriage and of a
disagreement between Moses Starr, his wife and her father. The marriage must
have been disolved. Have never been able to located these records.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alice Allen" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 11:41 PM
Subject: Re: [PA-QUAKERS] Disownment


> I'd like to add a quick comment on this subject as well. When reading
> the abstracts, the disownment process seemed very harsh, as the
> abstracts would only show that someone was disowned on a particular
> date, and often the reason why. What the abstracts don't show is that
> the disownment usually came after months of trying to get the member
> to change his or her ways. After reading some of the minutes (not the
> abstracts), I came away with a better sense of the love our Quaker
> ancestors had for their fellow members in trying to work with them to
> change their ways.
>
> Alice Allen


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