Individual Details

Marriage

On 7mo. 25, 1727, Abington Meeting gave him a certificate to proceed to some other meeting, not named, to marry

Marriage

Derrick Tyson m. (second) 3mo., 1738, Susanna Thomas; granted permission to marry by Abington Monthly Meeting, 2mo. 24, and the marriage was reported accomplished at next Monthly Meeting, 3mo. 28.

Event

He was an active member of Horsham Particular Meeting of Friends, was made an overseer of that meeting 5mo. 30, 1744

Event

appointed by Abington Monthly Meeting as its representative to Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting, 11mo. 27, 1745. 

Event

He was a resident of Moreland in 1771, at the time of the death of his second wife, and carried on the manufacture of whips there.

Death

His will, dated 12mo., December, 9, 1775, proved March 8, 1776, registered at Philadelphia in Will Book Q, p. 263, directed his executors to sell all his real and personal estate whatsoever and divide the proceeds as follows: to his three daughters, Deborah, Mary, and Margaret, forty pounds each; one-sixth of the residuary estate to be invested for his daughter Hannah, and at her death to be equally divided among her children, but if her husband predecease her, the principal to be paid to her; the executors, his sons Jonathan and Daniel, and his son-in-law John Cleaver, to have five pounds each; the residue equally to his children, Jonathan, Daniel, Deborah, Mary and Margaret.