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Jeremiah Hibbs

Male 1706 - 1796  (74 years)

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  • Name Jeremiah Hibbs
    Birth 1706  Byberry, Bucks Co, PA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male
    DAR.org See Notes -- #A105108 -- David Smith - son-in-law - for lineage only 
    Death Between 1780 and 1796 
    Person ID I271  Butler Family Tree
    Last Modified 6 Jun 2026

    Father William Hibbs, Jr,   b. 23 Jan 1665, Gloucestershire Co, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 28 Sep 1708 and 05 Mar 1709, Byberry Township, Philadelphia Co, PA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 43 years)
    Relationship natural
    Mother Hannah Howell,   b. 11 Nov 1662, Byberry Township, Philadelphia Co, PA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 13 Jun and 30 Aug 1737, Byberry Township, Philadelphia Co, PA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Relationship natural
    Marriage 02 Feb 1686  Philadelphia Co, PA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • Abington Monthly Meeting
    Notes 


    • - married at the Home of John Hart, Cheltenham, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) Co, PA
    Family ID F114  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Hannah Jones-xx,   b. 13 Apr 1708   d. 1736 (Age 27 years)
    Marriage 25 Dec 1735  Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co, PA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Notes 

    • Children:

      dau Hannah Hibbs 1736 - 1785 Union Co, SC
      - on 4/11/1761 in Churchville, Bucks Co, PA married David Smith 4/25/1735 - 1801
      - ** See marriage record later **
      - ** See their findagrave.com pages later **
      - they had 6 boys and 5 girls
      - Hannah's mother probably died in childbirth
      - grandfather Jones left her a considerable estate
      - father Jeremiah squandered some of it
      - grandmother Margaret (???) (Jones) Bolton went to orphan' s court and got legal custody
      - she was raised by her aunt Sarah (Hibbs) Cooper because her grandmother was 'old and infirm'

      - ** See Misc-Docs-Pics/Hibbs/John Smith Esquire **

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      found at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WF-R4XF

      Name: Jeremiah Hibbs ****
      Event Type: Marriage
      Event Date: 25 Dec 1735
      Event Place: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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      Spouse's Name: Hannah Jones ****
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      GS Film Number: 000823996
      Digital Folder Number: 004034497
      Image Number: 00454

      Citing this Record
      "Pennsylvania, Church Marriages, 1682-1976," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2WF-R4X2 : accessed 15 November 2018), Jeremiah Hibbs and Hannah Jones, 25 Dec 1735; citing Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, various churches and archives, Pennsylvania; FHL microfilm 823,996.
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      Found at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2XQ-DZL

      Name: David Smith ****
      Spouse's Name: Hannah Hibbs ****
      Event Date: 11 Apr 1761
      Event Place: Reformed Dutch Church,Churchville,Bucks,Pennsylvania

      Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M50712-1
      System Origin: Pennsylvania-ODM
      GS Film number: 974.8 B2P V.20

      Citing this Record
      "Pennsylvania Marriages, 1709-1940," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V2XQ-DZG : 11 February 2018), David Smith and Hannah Hibbs, 11 Apr 1761; citing Reformed Dutch Church,Churchville,Bucks,Pennsylvania; FHL microfilm 974.8 B2P V.20.
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      Found at findagrave.com on 8/27/2019

      Hannah Hibbs Smith

      Birth: Nov 1736 Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
      Death: 1785 (aged 48–49) Union County, South Carolina, USA
      Burial: Padgett's Creek Meeting House Cemetery, Sedalia, Union County, South Carolina, USA
      Memorial #: 158313622
      Bio:
      Her mother probably died in childbirth, for Hannah was taken by her Aunt Sarah (Hibbs) Cooper at the age of 7 months and Orphan's Court petition mentions that her grandmother had been contributing towards her support (although the child had an estate of her own). In 1742, at the time of her grandmother's death, she was still a minor.
      Copy of petition, "Ancestors and Descendants of John Smith Esquire, by Mittie Owen McDavid, 1918, page 15.
      Proved by petition in Orphan's Court, Bucks County, Pennsylvania of Johnathan and Sarah Hibbs Cooper who reared Hannah from the time she was 7 mos. old, which mentions estate left Hannah Jones by her father John Jones, and now descended to Hannah Hibbs, minor dau. of Jeremiah and Hannah Hibbs. It also mentions her grandmother, Margaret Bolton. Guardian appt'd.

      Married at Dutch Reformed church of North and South Hampton, at what is now Churchville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Hannah agreed to become a Quaker after the marriage.

      Family Members
      Spouse
      David Smith 1735-1800
      Children
      David Smith 1771-1806
      Created by: David Roberds (47162555)
      Added: 18 Feb 2016
      URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158313622/hannah-smith
      Citation: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 27 August 2019), memorial page for Hannah Hibbs Smith (Nov 1736–1785), Find A Grave Memorial no. 158313622, citing Padgett's Creek Meeting House Cemetery, Sedalia, Union County, South Carolina, USA ; Maintained by David Roberds (contributor 47162555) .
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      Found at findagrave.com on 8/27/2019

      David Smith, Sr

      Birth: 25 Feb 1735 Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
      Death: 1800 (aged 64–65) Union County, South Carolina, USA
      Burial: Padgett's Creek Meeting House Cemetery, Sedalia, Union County, South Carolina, USA
      Memorial #: 158312641
      Bio:
      David Smith married (1) ANN MUSGROVE. He married (2) HANNAH HIBBS April 11, 1761 in Presbyterian Church, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, daughter of JEREMIAH HIBBS and HANNAH JONES.
      David offered his acknowledgement or apology and was accepted and restored by Wrightstown Monthly Meeting on the 5th Mo. 4th da. 1762. This was after his marriage and disownment. Wrightstown Monthly Mtg. Bucks County, Pennsylvania

      Removals
      3 Jan 1769, David Smith, wife Hannah, and children Margaret, Mercy and Hannah, to Bush River, South Carolina. ( a son Jeremiah Smith, was also b, in PA. but died before 1769)Other children b, in South Carolina.Margaret, widow of John Jones, m. 2nd Everard Bolton at Abington, Mo. Mtg., 29 Jun 1709.letters of administration granted on her estate 1742, Philadelphia (BK. D-264)The Bush River Quaker settlement was in Newberry County, When the Quakers first came, all records were kept at Bush River, the Mother meeting house. Later Cane Creek on Tyger river was organized, and some records kept there. Padgett Creek was a branch of Bush River.David purchased land at various times in Newberry, Laurens, and Union counties. There are records of his activities in all three counties, but he finally, in 1775, received his homestead land grant of 250 acres on Padgett Creek in Union County, not far from the Laurens line, and between the Tyger and the Enoree Rivers. His brother, Ralph, had settled just over the line in Spartanburg County, and their property lines bordered at the back.

      During 1768-69 there was quite an exodus of families from Pennsylvania, all related, who came south at the same time David Smith came.Among these were the families of Pearson, Heaton, Addington, Lee, Hawkins, Wilson, Duncan, Thickpenny, Penquoite.

      Regardless of his activities in the Quaker meetings, he became a Revolutionary soldier.His brother Ralph and Ralph's sons, over in Spartanburg, the adjoining county, were taking on active part in the war, and David could not contain himself; so leading Quaker that he was, he enlisted in the Revolution in the early fall of 1783.For this "Indiscretion" "David Smith of Padgett Creek" was disowned and dismissed from Bush River Meeting House. This public dismissal occurred November 29th, 1783.(See Bush River records and Hinshaw's Quaker Genealogies, Vol. I., pg. 1037. date 1783, and 11th 29th, 1784, 4-24). When David had served the several months of his enlistment, he was "restored" the following year. April 24th, 1784. after he had apologized for his "misconduct". David, it seems had a habit of falling out of the Quaker church and being restored. It was a year later that David received his final army payment from the State of South Carolina.

      Family Members
      Parents
      William Smith 1669-1743
      Mercy Brock Smith 1690-1743
      Spouse
      Hannah Hibbs Smith 1736-1785
      Siblings
      Ralph Hoard Smith 1725-1784
      Elizabeth Smith Hartley 1730-1769
      Half Siblings
      Margaret Croasdale Smith Pearson 1691-1758
      Thomas Smith 1696-1750
      Mary Smith Atkinson 1696-Unknown
      Children
      David Smith 1771-1806
      Created by: David Roberds (47162555)
      Added: 18 Feb 2016
      URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158312641
      Citation: Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 27 August 2019), memorial page for David Smith, Sr (25 Feb 1735–1800), Find A Grave Memorial no. 158312641, citing Padgett's Creek Meeting House Cemetery, Sedalia, Union County, South Carolina, USA ; Maintained by David Roberds (contributor 47162555) .
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    Family ID F1392  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 6 Jun 2026

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1706 - Byberry, Bucks Co, PA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 25 Dec 1735 - Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co, PA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 

    • - ** See marriage notes for list of children **

      - ** See Misc-Docs-Pics/Hibbs/John Smith Esquire **

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      Found at DAR.org on 8/27/2019

      SMITH, DAVID SR Ancestor #: A105108

      Notice: FUTURE APPLICANTS MUST PROVE CORRECT SERVICE (WHY?)
      Birth: 2-25-1736 BUCKS CO PENNSYLVANIA
      Death: P 1797 UNION DIST-PROB SOUTH CAROLINA

      Comments
      (Overview)

      1) THIS MAN WAS A QUAKER. UNABLE TO DETERMINE IF HE PERFORMED
      2) MILITARY DUTY AT THIS TIME.

      Residence
      1) District: NINETY SIX DIST - State: SOUTH CAROLINA

      Spouse
      Number Name

      1) HANNAH HIBBS

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      Associated Applications and Supplementals
      Nat’l Add Docs Child [Spouse #] Spouse
      Num Vol.
      537115 DAVID [1] SARAH FLEWELLYNG Purchase

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      Descendants List
      Member: Nell Cowley Hereford Nat'l #: 537115 Ancestor #: A105108

      1. Rufus D Cowley born on 30 - Oct - 1885 at Kelso TN
      died at _______________ on - - and his ( 1st ) wife
      Lavonia Franklin born on 6 - Jun - 1895 at Kelso TN
      died at Kelso TN on 2 - Dec - 1956 married on 24 - Sep - 1913

      2. The Said Rufus D Cowley was the child of
      John P Cowley born on 7 - Jan - 1845 at Mulberry TN
      died at Kelso TN on 26 - Sep - 1926 and his ( 2nd ) wife
      Susan J Ervin born on 9 - Jun - 1854 at Moore Co TN
      died at Kelso TN on 8 - Jan - 1921 married on 11 - Jan - 1882
      married at Moore Co TN

      3. The Said Susan J Ervin was the child of
      Samuel Greene Ervin born on 12 - Dec - 1813 at NC
      died at Moore Co TN on 28 - Dec - 1891 and his ( 1st ) wife
      Martha C Gray born on 28 - Sep - 1825 at Lincoln Co TN
      died at Moore Co TN on 22 - Apr - 1909 married on 25 - Sep - 1851

      4. The Said Martha C Gray was the child of
      Colby Gray born on - - 1790 at NC
      died at Lincoln Co TN on 20 - Sep - 1852 and his ( 1st ) wife
      Hannah Smith born on 22 - Jul - 1799 at Union Dist SC
      died at Lincoln Co TN on 9 - Jul - 1864 married on 10 - Oct - 1816

      5. The Said Hannah Smith was the child of
      David Smith Jrborn on 20 - Apr - 1771 at Unionville SC
      died at Union Dist SC on 4 - Mar - 1806 and his ( 1st ) wife
      Sarah Flewellyng born on 1 - Dec - 1769 at Laurens Co SC
      died at Lincoln Co TN on - - 1844 married on c - Apr - 1793

      6. The Said David Smith was the child of
      David Smith Srborn on 25 - Feb - 1736 at Bucks Co PA ****
      died at Union Dist SC on p - - 1797 and his ( 1st ) wife
      Hannah Hibbs born on c - - 1735-1740 at Bucks Co PA ****
      died at Union Dist SC on - - 1784/85 married on 11 - Apr - 1761

      Associated Ancestor (Revolutionary) Record

      SMITH, DAVID SR Ancestor #: A105108

      Notice: FUTURE APPLICANTS MUST PROVE CORRECT SERVICE (WHY?)
      Birth: 2-25-1736 BUCKS CO PENNSYLVANIA
      Death: P 1797 UNION DIST-PROB SOUTH CAROLINA
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  • Sources 
    1. [S43] Military documents.

    2. [S46] See Documents.

    3. [S48] See Notes.