6 Three Quaker genealogies, centered on the Watson, Smedley and Sharples/Sharpless familes yielded the following results for children born between 1675 and 1750:
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10. Daniel |
10. Rebecca |
The next ten names for males were Benjamin, Nathan, Joshua, Richard, Caleb, Henry, Amos, Ezra, Edward and Adam; and for females, Rachel, Margaret, Grace, Phebe, Susanna, Abigail, Alice, Edith, Patience, Mercy and Deborah (the last three tied). The sources are Sharp-less, Family Record; Gilbert Cope, Genealogy of the Smedley Family (Lancaster, 1901).