Nicholas Weirman ¹³⁶⁷

  General Notes:

Irish Quaker Immigration into Pennsylvania
Contribution by Andi Harmon


About nine miles south-west of Warrington, in Latimer, now Huntington, Township, Adams County, is Huntington Meeting House, situated on a wooded ridge overlooking Bermudian Creek, some two miles south-east of the Borough of York Springs, formerly Petersburg. Unauthorized meetings were held in the neighborhood as early as 1745, for at Sadsbury Monthly Meeting, 9 Mo. 4, 1745, William Garretson was directed to read three papers of acknowledgment “at Huntington Meeting.” These meetings evidently convened at the house of John Cox, where nearly all the early marriages

Footnote
Minutes and Marriage Book of Sadsbury Monthly Meeting. The first marriage at Huntington was that of Nicholas Wierman, son of William Wierman, of Huntington, to Sarah Cox, daughter of John Cox, of the same place, 8 Mo. 24, 1745. The signers were: Alexander Underwood Rebecca Kenworthy NICHOLAS WIERMAN William Underwood Sarah Cook SARAH WIERMAN Joseph Cox Martha Garretson William Wireman John Powell Naomi Garretson Gertruyed Wireman John Wireman Hannah Cox John Cox Thomas Powel Ann Hussey Thomas Cox Jacob Beals Mary Garretson William Cox Valintine Isickers Naomi Cox Samuel Cox Benj. Underwood Rachel Beals Ann Cox Richard Underwood Hannah Wireman Joseph Garretson John Pope Pricila Wireman Henry Wireman William Wireman Sarah Proctor Benjamin Cox Joshua Kenworthy Elizabeth Brown John Beals Elizabeth Powel Caleb Beals Jane Underwood Olive Underwood Ruth Underwood
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Nicholas married Sarah Cox, daughter of John Cox and Mary Harlan, on 24 Aug 1745 in Latimer, Now Huntington, Township, Adams County, PA.¹³⁶⁷ (Sarah Cox was born in 1721.)