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WILLIAMS-WESTBROOK marriage 1780-1784

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WILLIAMS-WESTBROOK marriage 1780-1784

Posted: 30 Jan 2005 1:36PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 1 Jul 2005 3:16PM GMT
Surnames: Williams, Westbrook, Emmons, Emans
I am seeking the marriage of Ezekiel Williams to Lydia Westbrook 1780-1784. It is not in the Minisink Church records.

Ezekiel Williams bp 1755 (Minisink Ch records). He was raised across the river in Smithfield, Northampton Co., PA.
In 1782, he served in the Rev for Northampton Co., PA.

Lydia Westbook, I assume, was raised by her step-father Nicholas Emmons aka Emans and mother Catherine Westbrook (widow of Benjamin Westbrook). They lived near Walpack Center in Sussex Co. and no where else.

My guess is that Ezekiel Williams would have met Lydia Westbrook by 1780 in the vicinity of Walpack Centre and that they would be married somewhere around there 1780-1784.

If not in Minisink church records, where could this marriage have been recorded?

Their first child, daughter Catherine, was born c. 1785. Again, no record of a bp in Minisink church records. She was the namesake for her grandmother (Lydia's mother) Catherine Westbrook. The grandmother was still alive in 1785. One would think she would be a witness to her namesake grandaughter's baptism. Again, NO RECORD in Minisink church records.

The bptsms of Lydia's brother's children are in Minisink church records indicating that was the church he went to. Grandma Catherine Westbrook was a witness to one of his children's baptisms. Were there other churches in the vicinity during the 1780-1785 time period where Ezekiel Williams and Lydia Westbrook could have been married? HELP!

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