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From: Evelyn K Davis< >
Subject: Re: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH- BUNTING, Samuel
Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 19:00:49 -0500


Sally:
"QUAKER BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES of Ministers and Elders, andOther
Concerned Members of the Yearly Meeting of Philadelphia
[1682-1800]"edited by Willard Heiss (Indianapolis: IHS) 1972Page
88"Samuel BUNTING was one of the early settlers of West Jersey, being
there
about 1678. He was at that time ranked among the useful and valuable
Friends.
A gift in the ministry was committed to him, which he exercised to the
comfort and edification of the church. He was very diligent in the
attendance of religious meetings, and was frequently employed by the
General Meeting of Ministers on important appointments, which manifested
their unity with him, and confidence in his judgment.

His residence was at Chesterfield and except at the time of his
attendance at this Quarterly and Yearly Meeting, we find little mention
of his being from home. In 1722 he was with John Oxley at Shrewsbury
Yearly Meeting. His Friends have given forth this short memorial
concerning him.

"Samuel Bunting departed this life the 20th of Second month, 1725, in an
advanced age. He was one of the first settlers in Chesterfield, before
any meeting-house was built. [He} had a public testimony, and was very
servicable to that meeting in the discipline of the church. At [that]
place his service lay chiefly, he not having travelled much abroad. He
was a liberal entertainer of travelling Friends, but a discourager of
forward spirits"

There was a Rachel Bunting in 1702, a minister among Friends, who was
probably the wife of Samuel. Of the time of her death, I have found no
record."

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