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By Janet Dagley Dagley
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'The King can go to the Devil' (but Junior can go to America)

I turned my back on the news today, as I had no interest in seeing even more photos of the dead Hussein brothers. Instead of current events, I decided to look into some events that happened a long, long time ago, never imagining that I would find a story almost as gruesome, this one involving some of my own ancestors. Fortunately, there is no videotape in this case.

It had been more than a year since I had looked into my ancestry online, and I was amazed at how many blanks had been filled in by my distant kinfolk. Previously, the farthest back we'd been able to trace my mother's side of the family was one James Bunch, born in 1765 in Virginia. But today when I researched his name, I found a new piece of the puzzle: his wife's full name: Ruth Elizabeth Hibbs. Most of the wives in the family connections I looked up were listed either by first name only, or with "MNU" (maiden name unknown), or with a full name but little or no information about their parents or siblings. Ruth, who was my great-great-great-great-great grandmother, was herself the great-great granddaughter of William Hibbs, Sr., and his wife Joanne (no further information), of Dean Forest, Gloucestershire, England, Quakers by religion. William, and possibly Joanne, were beheaded at the behest of King James II, the king who wanted all England to become Catholic because he was. William's crime, according to one account, was that "he did not attend church services required by English law or pay the tithes as required and said 'The King can go to the Devil.' His refusal to go to the Church of England resulted in several fines which he paid. The fines wre not a burden as he was moderately weallthy. He sent his 12 year old son, William Jr to America for his safety and to help establish the Quaker Colony proposed by William Penn. William's son Jonathon was executed in 1698, 14 years after his father for similar resistance to forced religion and support of the Quaker doctrine." They're not sure whether Jonathan was beheaded; he may have been drawn and quartered. (CAUTION: the description at that link is even more gorey than the Uday and Qusay images).

William Jr., my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather, was one of the founders not only of the Penn Colony, but of the town of Burlington, New Jersey. One of my distant-distant-distant (etc.) cousins reports that "William Hibbs Jr. came to America in 1677 on the ship 'Kent' at the age of 12 with 2 companies of 'Friends' from Yorkshire and London - founders of Burlington, NJ. William lived in Burlington until 1680 and them moved to Byberry township in PA, where he bought a 100 acre farm."

William Jr.'s grandson Isaac (father of Ruth), born in 1740, fought in the American Revolution. He may have heard stories about his family's heritage when he was growing up, or he may not have. In any case, the beliefs of the Quakers apparently were not as important to him as to William Sr., Joanne, and Jonathan. He was "disowned by the then Low Dutch Church of North and South Hampton (now the Presbyterian Church, Churchville, Bucks County, PA) for marrying outside his faith in the Quaker Church." His bride, Elizabeth Roberts (my great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother), was "Presbyterian German/Dutch." That might not have been enough to get him kicked out of the Low Dutch Church, but his other transgression ("having a child too soon after the wedding") was the last straw.

Tomorrow: the Dagleys and Daniel Boone, friends, neighbors and in-laws

posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @7:53 PM

25.7.03