Person Sheet


Name Mary Constable Bridgman
Death 7 Dec 1726, Newton Township, Bucks Co., PA
Birth 18 Dec 1687, Bucks Co., PA
Religion Quaker
Father Walter Bridgeman (1655-1688)
Mother Blanche Constable (1655-1688)
Spouses:
1 John Martindale
Birth 24 Aug 1676, Lincolnshire, England
Death 5 Oct 1750, Newton Township, Bucks Co., PA
Burial 10 May 1750, Newton Township, Bucks Co., PA
Religion Quaker
Occupation cordwainer (shoemaker)
Father John Martindale (1620-1693)
Mother Anne Tucker (~1646-~1676)
Marriage 1705, Newton, Bucks Co., PA
Children: William (1723-1808)
Alesbrathe (1715-)
William (1707-1707)
Thomas (1708-)
Ann (1709-1714)
Mary (1711-1714)
Rachael (1719-)
Elizabeth (1716-1716)
John (1719-)
Hannah (1717-1719)
Notes for Mary Constable Bridgman
Middletown Men's Minutes (BucksÕ County Quaker Church):

7/1/1695 (both of MaryÕs parents died after she was born - she was 8 at this time)
- Nicholas Walne, a trustee for Mary Bridgman, daughter of Walter Bridgman, deceased, and she the said Mary having lived with John Penquite on her father's plantation, now the said John Penquite
being about to remove to Wrightstown the said Nicholas desires we advise whether she should go with the said John Penquite or that he should take her away. This meeting doth advise that she remain with him.

From donna@wazoo.com,
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/9095/martindale.html

ÒJOHN MARTINDALE (Martindell) b. 24 Oct. 1676 in England; came to America in 1684; settled in Newtown, Bucks couonty, PA., before 1700 he mar. MARY BRIDGEMAN, daughter of WALTER and BLANCHE (Constable) BRIDGEMAN who were mar. 26 June 1686 (OS) at Middletown, Bucks county having come to America on the same ship in 1682, Blanche in company of her brother THOMAS CONSTABLE. The Constables were from Cornwall, England. Mary Bridgeman was b. 1687. John Martindale was a cordwainer (shoemaker) and the family lived in Philadelphia. Mary inherited land in
Bucks county originally entered by her father. I have a copy of that document and it clearly shows William Penn's signature on it. John Martindell d. 5 Oct. 1750 and Mary d. 7 Dec. 1726. They were members of the Society of Friends. Mary Bridgeman's diary which was presented to her on her 18th birthday is in the library of the Buck's County Historical Society, Doylestown, PA., and contains some records of her children. I have a transcribed certified copy of Mary's diary. Children:

..........William b. 2 Oct. 1707; d. 19 Oct. 1707 ..........Thomas b. 24 Sept. 1708
..........Ann b. 16 Nov. 1709; d. 10 June 1714 ..........Mary b. 22 Dec. 1711
..........Alabrethe b. 6 July 1715
..........John b. 22 June 1719
..........WILLIAM b. 30 Aug. 1723Ó
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