Isaac Painter, born on 23 May 1751 in Haddonfield, Province of New Jersey, was the youngest child of Quaker couple Hannah (née Braddock) and John Painter, senior.[1] The Painter family moved permanently to Frederick County, Colony of Virginia, by the early 1760s, becoming pioneers of the Shenandoah Valley. At John Painter's request, his young children—Thomas, Isaac, and Hannah—were also received into membership of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting (MM), near Winchester, Virginia, in 1763.[2]
The Hopewell MM was advised on 1 January 1770 that Isaac Painter had "been guilty of fornication."[3] He was disowned by the MM on 2 November 1770, not because of the transgression itself, but for his unwillingness to prepare a written condemnation of his transgression.[4] (This doubtlessly shamed his parents. His father passed away in early 1771.) Isaac Painter returned to New Jersey.
Isaac Painter and Sarah Haines, a Quaker, were married probably in 1771, probably in Burlington County, New Jersey. There is no civil or Quaker record of the marriage itself, but Sarah Haines submitted a letter, dated 1 January 1772, to the Evesham MM in New Jersey acknowledging her own misconduct, "Condemning her Breach of good order in marriage" and her unchaste conduct with her husband prior to their marriage.[5] It appears that Isaac Painter may not have been forthcoming about having been disowned, since Sarah's marriage to a non-Quaker would have constituted the more serious matter of having married out of unity, often resulting in disownment.
As early as 1770, Sarah's father, Ezekiel Haines, had requested a certificate to transfer his family to the Hopewell MM in Virginia. The cause for delay is not known, but in August 1772, Evesham MM was preparing this certificate for "Ezekiel Hains and Abigail his Wife and five Children (to wit) Carlile Sarah Isaac Jacob and Samuel."[6] (This seems to have disregarded both Sarah's marital status, and that Sarah then had a child, Beulah, born in June 1772.) The Hopewell MM received the Haines family into membership on 1 February 1773.[7]
By early 1773, Sarah and Isaac Painter may have been living on or near his late father's plantation near Nineveh, Virginia (about 13 miles south of Winchester). Isaac Painter's disownment would have been known by his neighbors. The Crooked Run Preparative Meeting near Nineveh advised its superior Hopewell MM that "Sarah Painter formerly Hains hath gone out in Marriage with A man not of Our Society." According to Hopewell's records of 3 May 1773, women Friends were to meet to with Sarah and her mother Abigail Haines, and report back.[8] The Hopewell MM on 20 October 1775, finding "Sarah Painter formerly Hains" to be unwilling to "Condemn her Misconduct," disowned her.[9]
It was not until 1785 that the Hopewell MM, being satisfied with a letter from Isaac Painter and Sarah his wife "condemning their past misconduct," recommended their membership with Crooked Run (which had been upgraded to a separate monthly meeting).[10] The couple's children were admitted to membership in the Crooked Run MM the following year.[11]
Isaac and Sarah Painter were the parents of nine children, eight of whom are known to have lived to maturity and married. Four of those eight continued their family's pioneering tradition, settling in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
Isaac Painter died in 1805, sometime between the signing of his will on 26 May and its being proved on 2 September.
Sarah Painter survived her husband, and was enumerated in the 1810 U.S. Census in Frederick County, Virginia. (Isaac's brothers John and Robert Painter are on the same page). It is reported that she died in 1827-29, but the source of this is not known.
Notes
Will of John Painter, senior, of the parish and county of Frederick in the Colony of Virginia, dated 6 Feb 1770, proved 5 Mar 1771: "I give and bequeath to my well beloved son Isaac Painter the plantation whereon I live after the marriage or death of my widow [...] It is my will that all the remainder of my movable estate be equally divided amongst my said children as I allow, Sarah Humber, John Painter, Robert Painter, Jane Branson, Thomas Painter, Isaac Painter, and Hannah Painter to them their heirs and assigns forever."
John Painter's will also bequeathed to his wife Hannah "the full use of the plantation whereon I now live during her widowhood." That Hannah Painter's death on 26 November 1786 was recorded by the Crooked Run MM, alongside the birthdates of Sarah and Isaac Painter and their children, suggests that she had been living with her son Isaac's family on the Painter plantation.
Isaac Painter witnessed the marriages and signed the marriage certificates of—
• Martha Branson and Thomas Fawcett on 11 January 1769 at Crooked Run.
• Sarah Painter and Jesse Holloway on 12 January 1780 at Crooked Run (with Sarah Painter).
• Margaret Smith and Robert Haines on 12 April 1780 at Crooked Run (with Sarah Painter).
• Mary Ellis and John Griffith on 19 March 1784 at Crooked Run. A person named Margery Ellis died on 28 September 1798 "at the Dwelling House of Isaac Painter."
• Martha Faulkner and David Painter on 8 February 1786 at Middle Creek.
• Mary Hains and Jacob McKay, Jr., on 9 January 1799 at Crooked Run.
• Lydia Richards and John Mullin, on 9 October 1799 at Crooked Run.
The will of Isaac Painter, 26 Mar 1805, bequeathed his plantation to his wife Sarah for her natural life or widowhood. About 224 acres of land were to be sold; the proceeds divided evenly among his three eldest sons: Isaac, Abraham, and Mahlon. Son John was to receive the plantation upon the death or remarriage of wife Sarah. Daughter Hannah Ramey, wife of Benjamin Ramey, was to receive 2 years' rent on the plantation where they resided. Daughter Abigail (then unmarried) was to receive various household effects, two milk cows, two ewes, and a new side saddle. The two eldest daughters, Beulah Branson and Rachel Jewell, were not named in the will. However, upon the death or remarriage of wife Sarah, all of Isaac Painter's personal property was to be sold. From the proceeds, each of his daughters (or their heirs) were to receive $30; the remainder to be divided equally among all of his sons and daughters. (Harold Painter, The Painter Family (typescript, 1975), pp. 45-46.)
References
[1] Iona Lupton, A Record of Birth and Burials for Crooked Run Monthly Meeting 1785 (manuscript), p. 8. Because her death date was recorded with birth dates of her son Isaac and his wife and children, it is likely that she had been living in Isaac's household.
[2] Minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1759-1776 (manuscript), p. 98.
[3] "The Representatives from Crooked Run [Meeting] informed this [Hopewell Monthly] Meeting that Isaac Painter has been guilty of fornication with Hannah Wright & doth not Deny the Charge, but appears unwilling to Marry her." (Minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1759-1776 (manuscript), p. 245.)
[4] Minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1759-1776 (manuscript), p. 256.
[5] The First Book of Minutes of the Evesham T[ownshp]. Monthly Meeting, 1760-1782 (manuscript), p. 262.
[6] The First Book of the Minutes of Evesham T[ownship]. Monthly Meeting (manuscript), p. 285.
[7] Minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1759-1776 (manuscript), p. 258.
[8] Minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1759-1776 (manuscript), pp. 289, 291.
[9] Minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1759-1776 (manuscript), p. 339.
[10] Minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1777-1791 (manuscript), p. 334
[11] "The friends that was appointed to visit Isaac Painter's Children namely Bulah, Rachel, Rebeckah, Isaac, Abraham & Mahlon report that [...] they thought it best for them to be received as members [...]" (Womens Meeting Minutes of the Crooked Run Monthly Meeting, 1782-1789 (manuscript), p. 32.)
Reviewed 6 January 2024.
The Hopewell MM was advised on 1 January 1770 that Isaac Painter had "been guilty of fornication."[3] He was disowned by the MM on 2 November 1770, not because of the transgression itself, but for his unwillingness to prepare a written condemnation of his transgression.[4] (This doubtlessly shamed his parents. His father passed away in early 1771.) Isaac Painter returned to New Jersey.
Isaac Painter and Sarah Haines, a Quaker, were married probably in 1771, probably in Burlington County, New Jersey. There is no civil or Quaker record of the marriage itself, but Sarah Haines submitted a letter, dated 1 January 1772, to the Evesham MM in New Jersey acknowledging her own misconduct, "Condemning her Breach of good order in marriage" and her unchaste conduct with her husband prior to their marriage.[5] It appears that Isaac Painter may not have been forthcoming about having been disowned, since Sarah's marriage to a non-Quaker would have constituted the more serious matter of having married out of unity, often resulting in disownment.
As early as 1770, Sarah's father, Ezekiel Haines, had requested a certificate to transfer his family to the Hopewell MM in Virginia. The cause for delay is not known, but in August 1772, Evesham MM was preparing this certificate for "Ezekiel Hains and Abigail his Wife and five Children (to wit) Carlile Sarah Isaac Jacob and Samuel."[6] (This seems to have disregarded both Sarah's marital status, and that Sarah then had a child, Beulah, born in June 1772.) The Hopewell MM received the Haines family into membership on 1 February 1773.[7]
By early 1773, Sarah and Isaac Painter may have been living on or near his late father's plantation near Nineveh, Virginia (about 13 miles south of Winchester). Isaac Painter's disownment would have been known by his neighbors. The Crooked Run Preparative Meeting near Nineveh advised its superior Hopewell MM that "Sarah Painter formerly Hains hath gone out in Marriage with A man not of Our Society." According to Hopewell's records of 3 May 1773, women Friends were to meet to with Sarah and her mother Abigail Haines, and report back.[8] The Hopewell MM on 20 October 1775, finding "Sarah Painter formerly Hains" to be unwilling to "Condemn her Misconduct," disowned her.[9]
It was not until 1785 that the Hopewell MM, being satisfied with a letter from Isaac Painter and Sarah his wife "condemning their past misconduct," recommended their membership with Crooked Run (which had been upgraded to a separate monthly meeting).[10] The couple's children were admitted to membership in the Crooked Run MM the following year.[11]
Isaac and Sarah Painter were the parents of nine children, eight of whom are known to have lived to maturity and married. Four of those eight continued their family's pioneering tradition, settling in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
Isaac Painter died in 1805, sometime between the signing of his will on 26 May and its being proved on 2 September.
Sarah Painter survived her husband, and was enumerated in the 1810 U.S. Census in Frederick County, Virginia. (Isaac's brothers John and Robert Painter are on the same page). It is reported that she died in 1827-29, but the source of this is not known.
Notes
Will of John Painter, senior, of the parish and county of Frederick in the Colony of Virginia, dated 6 Feb 1770, proved 5 Mar 1771: "I give and bequeath to my well beloved son Isaac Painter the plantation whereon I live after the marriage or death of my widow [...] It is my will that all the remainder of my movable estate be equally divided amongst my said children as I allow, Sarah Humber, John Painter, Robert Painter, Jane Branson, Thomas Painter, Isaac Painter, and Hannah Painter to them their heirs and assigns forever."
John Painter's will also bequeathed to his wife Hannah "the full use of the plantation whereon I now live during her widowhood." That Hannah Painter's death on 26 November 1786 was recorded by the Crooked Run MM, alongside the birthdates of Sarah and Isaac Painter and their children, suggests that she had been living with her son Isaac's family on the Painter plantation.
Isaac Painter witnessed the marriages and signed the marriage certificates of—
• Martha Branson and Thomas Fawcett on 11 January 1769 at Crooked Run.
• Sarah Painter and Jesse Holloway on 12 January 1780 at Crooked Run (with Sarah Painter).
• Margaret Smith and Robert Haines on 12 April 1780 at Crooked Run (with Sarah Painter).
• Mary Ellis and John Griffith on 19 March 1784 at Crooked Run. A person named Margery Ellis died on 28 September 1798 "at the Dwelling House of Isaac Painter."
• Martha Faulkner and David Painter on 8 February 1786 at Middle Creek.
• Mary Hains and Jacob McKay, Jr., on 9 January 1799 at Crooked Run.
• Lydia Richards and John Mullin, on 9 October 1799 at Crooked Run.
The will of Isaac Painter, 26 Mar 1805, bequeathed his plantation to his wife Sarah for her natural life or widowhood. About 224 acres of land were to be sold; the proceeds divided evenly among his three eldest sons: Isaac, Abraham, and Mahlon. Son John was to receive the plantation upon the death or remarriage of wife Sarah. Daughter Hannah Ramey, wife of Benjamin Ramey, was to receive 2 years' rent on the plantation where they resided. Daughter Abigail (then unmarried) was to receive various household effects, two milk cows, two ewes, and a new side saddle. The two eldest daughters, Beulah Branson and Rachel Jewell, were not named in the will. However, upon the death or remarriage of wife Sarah, all of Isaac Painter's personal property was to be sold. From the proceeds, each of his daughters (or their heirs) were to receive $30; the remainder to be divided equally among all of his sons and daughters. (Harold Painter, The Painter Family (typescript, 1975), pp. 45-46.)
References
[1] Iona Lupton, A Record of Birth and Burials for Crooked Run Monthly Meeting 1785 (manuscript), p. 8. Because her death date was recorded with birth dates of her son Isaac and his wife and children, it is likely that she had been living in Isaac's household.
[2] Minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1759-1776 (manuscript), p. 98.
[3] "The Representatives from Crooked Run [Meeting] informed this [Hopewell Monthly] Meeting that Isaac Painter has been guilty of fornication with Hannah Wright & doth not Deny the Charge, but appears unwilling to Marry her." (Minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1759-1776 (manuscript), p. 245.)
[4] Minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1759-1776 (manuscript), p. 256.
[5] The First Book of Minutes of the Evesham T[ownshp]. Monthly Meeting, 1760-1782 (manuscript), p. 262.
[6] The First Book of the Minutes of Evesham T[ownship]. Monthly Meeting (manuscript), p. 285.
[7] Minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1759-1776 (manuscript), p. 258.
[8] Minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1759-1776 (manuscript), pp. 289, 291.
[9] Minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1759-1776 (manuscript), p. 339.
[10] Minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1777-1791 (manuscript), p. 334
[11] "The friends that was appointed to visit Isaac Painter's Children namely Bulah, Rachel, Rebeckah, Isaac, Abraham & Mahlon report that [...] they thought it best for them to be received as members [...]" (Womens Meeting Minutes of the Crooked Run Monthly Meeting, 1782-1789 (manuscript), p. 32.)
Reviewed 6 January 2024.
Isaac Painter, born on 23 May 1751 in Haddonfield, Province of New Jersey, was the youngest child of Quaker couple Hannah (née Braddock) and John Painter, senior.[1] The Painter family moved permanently to Frederick County, Colony of Virginia, by the early 1760s, becoming pioneers of the Shenandoah Valley. At John Painter's request, his young children—Thomas, Isaac, and Hannah—were also received into membership of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting (MM), near Winchester, Virginia, in 1763.[2]
The Hopewell MM was advised on 1 January 1770 that Isaac Painter had "been guilty of fornication."[3] He was disowned by the MM on 2 November 1770, not because of the transgression itself, but for his unwillingness to prepare a written condemnation of his transgression.[4] (This doubtlessly shamed his parents. His father passed away in early 1771.) Isaac Painter returned to New Jersey.
Isaac Painter and Sarah Haines, a Quaker, were married probably in 1771, probably in Burlington County, New Jersey. There is no civil or Quaker record of the marriage itself, but Sarah Haines submitted a letter, dated 1 January 1772, to the Evesham MM in New Jersey acknowledging her own misconduct, "Condemning her Breach of good order in marriage" and her unchaste conduct with her husband prior to their marriage.[5] It appears that Isaac Painter may not have been forthcoming about having been disowned, since Sarah's marriage to a non-Quaker would have constituted the more serious matter of having married out of unity, often resulting in disownment.
As early as 1770, Sarah's father, Ezekiel Haines, had requested a certificate to transfer his family to the Hopewell MM in Virginia. The cause for delay is not known, but in August 1772, Evesham MM was preparing this certificate for "Ezekiel Hains and Abigail his Wife and five Children (to wit) Carlile Sarah Isaac Jacob and Samuel."[6] (This seems to have disregarded both Sarah's marital status, and that Sarah then had a child, Beulah, born in June 1772.) The Hopewell MM received the Haines family into membership on 1 February 1773.[7]
By early 1773, Sarah and Isaac Painter may have been living on or near his late father's plantation near Nineveh, Virginia (about 13 miles south of Winchester). Isaac Painter's disownment would have been known by his neighbors. The Crooked Run Preparative Meeting near Nineveh advised its superior Hopewell MM that "Sarah Painter formerly Hains hath gone out in Marriage with A man not of Our Society." According to Hopewell's records of 3 May 1773, women Friends were to meet to with Sarah and her mother Abigail Haines, and report back.[8] The Hopewell MM on 20 October 1775, finding "Sarah Painter formerly Hains" to be unwilling to "Condemn her Misconduct," disowned her.[9]
It was not until 1785 that the Hopewell MM, being satisfied with a letter from Isaac Painter and Sarah his wife "condemning their past misconduct," recommended their membership with Crooked Run (which had been upgraded to a separate monthly meeting).[10] The couple's children were admitted to membership in the Crooked Run MM the following year.[11]
Isaac and Sarah Painter were the parents of nine children, eight of whom are known to have lived to maturity and married. Four of those eight continued their family's pioneering tradition, settling in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
Isaac Painter died in 1805, sometime between the signing of his will on 26 May and its being proved on 2 September.
Sarah Painter survived her husband, and was enumerated in the 1810 U.S. Census in Frederick County, Virginia. (Isaac's brothers John and Robert Painter are on the same page). It is reported that she died in 1827-29, but the source of this is not known.
Notes
Will of John Painter, senior, of the parish and county of Frederick in the Colony of Virginia, dated 6 Feb 1770, proved 5 Mar 1771: "I give and bequeath to my well beloved son Isaac Painter the plantation whereon I live after the marriage or death of my widow [...] It is my will that all the remainder of my movable estate be equally divided amongst my said children as I allow, Sarah Humber, John Painter, Robert Painter, Jane Branson, Thomas Painter, Isaac Painter, and Hannah Painter to them their heirs and assigns forever."
John Painter's will also bequeathed to his wife Hannah "the full use of the plantation whereon I now live during her widowhood." That Hannah Painter's death on 26 November 1786 was recorded by the Crooked Run MM, alongside the birthdates of Sarah and Isaac Painter and their children, suggests that she had been living with her son Isaac's family on the Painter plantation.
Isaac Painter witnessed the marriages and signed the marriage certificates of—
• Martha Branson and Thomas Fawcett on 11 January 1769 at Crooked Run.
• Sarah Painter and Jesse Holloway on 12 January 1780 at Crooked Run (with Sarah Painter).
• Margaret Smith and Robert Haines on 12 April 1780 at Crooked Run (with Sarah Painter).
• Mary Ellis and John Griffith on 19 March 1784 at Crooked Run. A person named Margery Ellis died on 28 September 1798 "at the Dwelling House of Isaac Painter."
• Martha Faulkner and David Painter on 8 February 1786 at Middle Creek.
• Mary Hains and Jacob McKay, Jr., on 9 January 1799 at Crooked Run.
• Lydia Richards and John Mullin, on 9 October 1799 at Crooked Run.
The will of Isaac Painter, 26 Mar 1805, bequeathed his plantation to his wife Sarah for her natural life or widowhood. About 224 acres of land were to be sold; the proceeds divided evenly among his three eldest sons: Isaac, Abraham, and Mahlon. Son John was to receive the plantation upon the death or remarriage of wife Sarah. Daughter Hannah Ramey, wife of Benjamin Ramey, was to receive 2 years' rent on the plantation where they resided. Daughter Abigail (then unmarried) was to receive various household effects, two milk cows, two ewes, and a new side saddle. The two eldest daughters, Beulah Branson and Rachel Jewell, were not named in the will. However, upon the death or remarriage of wife Sarah, all of Isaac Painter's personal property was to be sold. From the proceeds, each of his daughters (or their heirs) were to receive $30; the remainder to be divided equally among all of his sons and daughters. (Harold Painter, The Painter Family (typescript, 1975), pp. 45-46.)
References
[1] Iona Lupton, A Record of Birth and Burials for Crooked Run Monthly Meeting 1785 (manuscript), p. 8. Because her death date was recorded with birth dates of her son Isaac and his wife and children, it is likely that she had been living in Isaac's household.
[2] Minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1759-1776 (manuscript), p. 98.
[3] "The Representatives from Crooked Run [Meeting] informed this [Hopewell Monthly] Meeting that Isaac Painter has been guilty of fornication with Hannah Wright & doth not Deny the Charge, but appears unwilling to Marry her." (Minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1759-1776 (manuscript), p. 245.)
[4] Minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1759-1776 (manuscript), p. 256.
[5] The First Book of Minutes of the Evesham T[ownshp]. Monthly Meeting, 1760-1782 (manuscript), p. 262.
[6] The First Book of the Minutes of Evesham T[ownship]. Monthly Meeting (manuscript), p. 285.
[7] Minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1759-1776 (manuscript), p. 258.
[8] Minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1759-1776 (manuscript), pp. 289, 291.
[9] Minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1759-1776 (manuscript), p. 339.
[10] Minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1777-1791 (manuscript), p. 334
[11] "The friends that was appointed to visit Isaac Painter's Children namely Bulah, Rachel, Rebeckah, Isaac, Abraham & Mahlon report that [...] they thought it best for them to be received as members [...]" (Womens Meeting Minutes of the Crooked Run Monthly Meeting, 1782-1789 (manuscript), p. 32.)
Reviewed 6 January 2024.
The Hopewell MM was advised on 1 January 1770 that Isaac Painter had "been guilty of fornication."[3] He was disowned by the MM on 2 November 1770, not because of the transgression itself, but for his unwillingness to prepare a written condemnation of his transgression.[4] (This doubtlessly shamed his parents. His father passed away in early 1771.) Isaac Painter returned to New Jersey.
Isaac Painter and Sarah Haines, a Quaker, were married probably in 1771, probably in Burlington County, New Jersey. There is no civil or Quaker record of the marriage itself, but Sarah Haines submitted a letter, dated 1 January 1772, to the Evesham MM in New Jersey acknowledging her own misconduct, "Condemning her Breach of good order in marriage" and her unchaste conduct with her husband prior to their marriage.[5] It appears that Isaac Painter may not have been forthcoming about having been disowned, since Sarah's marriage to a non-Quaker would have constituted the more serious matter of having married out of unity, often resulting in disownment.
As early as 1770, Sarah's father, Ezekiel Haines, had requested a certificate to transfer his family to the Hopewell MM in Virginia. The cause for delay is not known, but in August 1772, Evesham MM was preparing this certificate for "Ezekiel Hains and Abigail his Wife and five Children (to wit) Carlile Sarah Isaac Jacob and Samuel."[6] (This seems to have disregarded both Sarah's marital status, and that Sarah then had a child, Beulah, born in June 1772.) The Hopewell MM received the Haines family into membership on 1 February 1773.[7]
By early 1773, Sarah and Isaac Painter may have been living on or near his late father's plantation near Nineveh, Virginia (about 13 miles south of Winchester). Isaac Painter's disownment would have been known by his neighbors. The Crooked Run Preparative Meeting near Nineveh advised its superior Hopewell MM that "Sarah Painter formerly Hains hath gone out in Marriage with A man not of Our Society." According to Hopewell's records of 3 May 1773, women Friends were to meet to with Sarah and her mother Abigail Haines, and report back.[8] The Hopewell MM on 20 October 1775, finding "Sarah Painter formerly Hains" to be unwilling to "Condemn her Misconduct," disowned her.[9]
It was not until 1785 that the Hopewell MM, being satisfied with a letter from Isaac Painter and Sarah his wife "condemning their past misconduct," recommended their membership with Crooked Run (which had been upgraded to a separate monthly meeting).[10] The couple's children were admitted to membership in the Crooked Run MM the following year.[11]
Isaac and Sarah Painter were the parents of nine children, eight of whom are known to have lived to maturity and married. Four of those eight continued their family's pioneering tradition, settling in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
Isaac Painter died in 1805, sometime between the signing of his will on 26 May and its being proved on 2 September.
Sarah Painter survived her husband, and was enumerated in the 1810 U.S. Census in Frederick County, Virginia. (Isaac's brothers John and Robert Painter are on the same page). It is reported that she died in 1827-29, but the source of this is not known.
Notes
Will of John Painter, senior, of the parish and county of Frederick in the Colony of Virginia, dated 6 Feb 1770, proved 5 Mar 1771: "I give and bequeath to my well beloved son Isaac Painter the plantation whereon I live after the marriage or death of my widow [...] It is my will that all the remainder of my movable estate be equally divided amongst my said children as I allow, Sarah Humber, John Painter, Robert Painter, Jane Branson, Thomas Painter, Isaac Painter, and Hannah Painter to them their heirs and assigns forever."
John Painter's will also bequeathed to his wife Hannah "the full use of the plantation whereon I now live during her widowhood." That Hannah Painter's death on 26 November 1786 was recorded by the Crooked Run MM, alongside the birthdates of Sarah and Isaac Painter and their children, suggests that she had been living with her son Isaac's family on the Painter plantation.
Isaac Painter witnessed the marriages and signed the marriage certificates of—
• Martha Branson and Thomas Fawcett on 11 January 1769 at Crooked Run.
• Sarah Painter and Jesse Holloway on 12 January 1780 at Crooked Run (with Sarah Painter).
• Margaret Smith and Robert Haines on 12 April 1780 at Crooked Run (with Sarah Painter).
• Mary Ellis and John Griffith on 19 March 1784 at Crooked Run. A person named Margery Ellis died on 28 September 1798 "at the Dwelling House of Isaac Painter."
• Martha Faulkner and David Painter on 8 February 1786 at Middle Creek.
• Mary Hains and Jacob McKay, Jr., on 9 January 1799 at Crooked Run.
• Lydia Richards and John Mullin, on 9 October 1799 at Crooked Run.
The will of Isaac Painter, 26 Mar 1805, bequeathed his plantation to his wife Sarah for her natural life or widowhood. About 224 acres of land were to be sold; the proceeds divided evenly among his three eldest sons: Isaac, Abraham, and Mahlon. Son John was to receive the plantation upon the death or remarriage of wife Sarah. Daughter Hannah Ramey, wife of Benjamin Ramey, was to receive 2 years' rent on the plantation where they resided. Daughter Abigail (then unmarried) was to receive various household effects, two milk cows, two ewes, and a new side saddle. The two eldest daughters, Beulah Branson and Rachel Jewell, were not named in the will. However, upon the death or remarriage of wife Sarah, all of Isaac Painter's personal property was to be sold. From the proceeds, each of his daughters (or their heirs) were to receive $30; the remainder to be divided equally among all of his sons and daughters. (Harold Painter, The Painter Family (typescript, 1975), pp. 45-46.)
References
[1] Iona Lupton, A Record of Birth and Burials for Crooked Run Monthly Meeting 1785 (manuscript), p. 8. Because her death date was recorded with birth dates of her son Isaac and his wife and children, it is likely that she had been living in Isaac's household.
[2] Minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1759-1776 (manuscript), p. 98.
[3] "The Representatives from Crooked Run [Meeting] informed this [Hopewell Monthly] Meeting that Isaac Painter has been guilty of fornication with Hannah Wright & doth not Deny the Charge, but appears unwilling to Marry her." (Minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1759-1776 (manuscript), p. 245.)
[4] Minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1759-1776 (manuscript), p. 256.
[5] The First Book of Minutes of the Evesham T[ownshp]. Monthly Meeting, 1760-1782 (manuscript), p. 262.
[6] The First Book of the Minutes of Evesham T[ownship]. Monthly Meeting (manuscript), p. 285.
[7] Minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1759-1776 (manuscript), p. 258.
[8] Minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1759-1776 (manuscript), pp. 289, 291.
[9] Minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1759-1776 (manuscript), p. 339.
[10] Minutes of the Hopewell Monthly Meeting, 1777-1791 (manuscript), p. 334
[11] "The friends that was appointed to visit Isaac Painter's Children namely Bulah, Rachel, Rebeckah, Isaac, Abraham & Mahlon report that [...] they thought it best for them to be received as members [...]" (Womens Meeting Minutes of the Crooked Run Monthly Meeting, 1782-1789 (manuscript), p. 32.)
Reviewed 6 January 2024.
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