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I have been researching the Matlack Family since 1980 and had collected most of this information before access to the computer and the internet made it so easy to organize and record my facts.
The information that I have includes 13 generations of descendants of William and Mary (Hancock) Matlack. Also, I have recently found the names of WILLIAM's BROTHERS and SISTERS, his PARENTS and GRANDPARENTS, who lived in Cropwell Bishop, Nottinghamshire, ENGLAND.
William Matlack, American progenitor of the Matlack family of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. was a native of Nottinghanshire, England, where he was born in 1648 in the village of Cropwell Bishop. He embarked from London, England early in 1677, on the ship "Kent" with Daniel Wills, to whom he was apprenticed as a carpenter, and arrived at New Salem, New Jersey on the Delaware River on June 23, 1677. He, along with his master, Daniel Wills, settled in Burlington, Burlington Co., New Jersey where they built several of the very first homes.
In 1682, William Matlack married Mary Hancock, b. 1664, d. November 20,1728, who came to Burlington in 1681 with her brother on the ship "Paradise" from Brayles, Warwickshire, England.
William's grandson, TIMOTHY MATLACK, was a Colonel (5th Rifle Bat. 1 which was commanded by Brig. Gen. John Cadwalader) during the Revolutionary War and he known as a "Fighting Quaker." He was the pennman who wrote the DECLARATION of INDEPENDENCE, he was a delegate to the Continental Congress fron 1780 to 1787 and the first secretary of the Supreme Executive Council of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
I have recently put all the information that I have collected into my Family Tree Maker Program and I find that I have over 1500 names. These are all descendants of, or people who married descendants of William Matlack.
I'd like to hear from anyone who is also interested in the Genealogy of the Matlack or related families..
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