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- Lived in Beayles County Warwick England and migrated to New Jersey on the "Paradise" in 1681. He settled in Chester Twp. Burlington Co. N.J. -- Painter Family. p. 5
"In 1681 the ship "Paradise" brought a body of colonists, among whom were Timothy Hancock and his sister Mary, from Warwickshire.... Timothy was a young man when he came to New Jersey. Three years later, Nov 16, 1684, he married Rachel Firman, in Evesham Monthly Meeting. Rachel died before 1690 and Timothy married 2nd to Susannah Ives.... In Autumn of 1713 two daughters of Timothy Hancock married Strattons; these two young men, Emanuel Stratton and Mark Stratton were brothers." -- From a Book of Strattons, pages 238 to 256 as quoted in Painter Ancestry, p. 3
Timothy, b. ca. 1653; m. Rachel Surman [?]; He came to West Jersey 'free' on the "Paradise," which arrived at the Delaware River March 7, 1681/2, when he was 28, with his sister, Mary, aged 15; she apparently went to live with the family of Daniel [possibly Wille] to whom William Matlack was indentured; they were poor but Mary married and Timothy was granted 100 acres next to William Matlack's plantation. Beginning in 1685 Friends met at his home on alternate first days.
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