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- This Evan Thomas, Jr., was a son of Evan and Catherine Thomas, who came from East Nottingham, Pennsylvania, and settled on lands adjoining the elder William Jolliffe and Alexander Ross. He afterwards married (before the year 1741) Albenah Ross, second daughter of Alexander Ross and sister of John Ross, who married Lydia Hollingsworth, October 11, 1735. This John Ross died 1748. His estate was inventoried by William Barrett, William Jolliffe, Jr., and William Dillon, and sworn before John Neill, Gent. (a brother of Lewis Neill the elder), January 18, 1748-49, Lydia Ross administratrix. Early in September, 1750, William Jolliffe, Jr., married his widow, Lydia Ross (nee Hollingsworth). She was a daughter of Stephen Hollingsworth and Ann, his wife, a great-granddaughter of Valentine Hollingsworth, who came to America with William Penn. She was a second cousin of the Lydia Hollingsworth who was then married to Lewis Neill. Lydia (Ross) Jolliffe left children by her first husband,?viz., John Ross, David Ross, born September 18, 1742, Stephen Ross, and Alexander Ross. By her second husband she left children as follows: John Jolliffe, born June 18, 1751; Phoeby Jolliffe, born December 15, 1752, who died when eighteen months old; Gabriel Jolliffe (probably named after Gabriel Jones), born May 19, 1755; and Phoeby Jolliffe (second of this name), born February 12, 1758. The wife, Lydia Jolliffe, died December 30, 1759, and their son, Gabriel Jolliffe, December 22, 1762.
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1706 - Abt 1791 (84 years)
