Paul Armor and his wife Esther spoke Indian fluently and Mrs. Preston served as an interpreter at an Indian treaty at Hollekonk.

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Paul and Armor Preston were two different men - they were brothers, both sons of Wm and Ann (Taylor) Preston. Amor was born 11mo 7, 1684/85 and married Esther Large of Bucks in 1710. Paul was born 9mo 10, 1690, recorded at Abington Mtg; he married widow Elizabeth (Oldman) Gilbert. Paul was apprenticed to Joshua Gilbert, a blacksmith, and upon Gilberts death in 1711, by his Will dtd 7mo 18, 1722, he left his blacksmith shop to his father John Gilbert, but it contained a proviso that if his servant/apprentice Paul Preston desired to purchase same, he could for the sum of £24, 15s. Paul Preston then married the widow of Joshua Gilbert, Elizabeth (Oldman) Gilbert, on 2mo 22, 1713 and apparently did take possession of same. This shop was in what is now the historic Elfreths Alley in old Philadelphia [the area of Frankford/Oxford that is now defunct and absorbed into the City of Philadelphia in 1854].

I have copies of the Wills (not abstracts) of William Preston, Ann (Taylor) Preston, Paul Preston and Joshua Gilbert

Contributor: Kari Jo (47939166)

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Birth date 7 Jan 1684/85 and location per U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, and three other sources. Note: he died after 29 Nov 1732 as that was the date that his mother Ann Taylor Preston wrote her will, naming him and other children per Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Wills, 1682-1819.
Contributor: Beth Bauchet (46956129)∼Born 7 Jan 1684/85 in Frankford, Bucks, Pennsylvania per U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 and died after 29 Nov 1732 when he was named in his mother Ann Taylor Preston's will per Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Wills, 1682-1819. He was a tailor by trade per The History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania: From the Discovery of the Delaware to the Present Time, Volume I, by William Watts Hart Davis. His marriage contract to Esther / Hester Homer, widow of Richard Large, was dated 9 Oct 1710 and they married 6 Jan 1710/11 in Falls, Bucks, Pennsylvania per U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935.

Amor was the son of William Preston, baptized 30 Apr 1650 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England per England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 and the Preston family Bible (which contained numerous errors), William married Ann Taylor 10 Sep 1672 per the family Bible, a transcript of which can be seen in "Preston Bible, 1599," M. Atherton Leach, The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, Volume 7 Number 1, March 1918. He died 19 Sep 1717 in Frankford, Bucks, PA per U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935. He and his family immigrated 10 Jun - 20 Aug 1683 on the "America," master Joseph Wasey to Chester Co., PA per the family Bible and "William Preston of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Philadelphia," Charles Starne Belsterling, Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, Volume 11 Number 2, Mar 1931. He was a mason and master builder per those articles.

Ann Taylor was baptized 18 Jul 1654 in Tynemouth, Northumberland, England, the daughter of Edward, per England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 and the Preston family bible (year incorrect). Her mother is unproven, but may be Mary Mellon. The family Bible stated mother Margaret, which may be accurate, but she may have been a step-mother. Ann died 4 Dec 1732 in Frankford, Bucks, PA per U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935.