Husband Caleb Haines 1
Born: 17 Jun 1754 1
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Died: 12 Nov 1846 1
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Father: Isaac Haines (1718- ) 1
Mother: Mary Cox ( - ) 1
Marriage: 1791 - Chester Co, PA 1
Wife Ann Ryant 1
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Father: Charles Ryant ( - ) 1 2
Mother: Hannah Townsend (1718-1790) 2 3
Children
1 M Townsend Haines 1
Born: 7 Jan 1792 - West Chester, Chester Co, PA 1
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Died: Oct 1866 4
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Spouse: Anna Maria Derrick ( -1865) 5
Marr: 4 Jan 1819 5
2 M William Haines 5
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Died: Autumn, 1822 5
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General Notes: Husband - Caleb Haines
He was living with his father, and had about attained his majority when the war between the colonies and the mother-country began. The Friends of the period, being averse to war, were accused by their ardent and patriotic countrymen of being disaffected to the American cause. Caleb Haines was frequently involved in disputes in consequence of accusations against his friends and family, and came to be regarded as a partisan of the royal cause. Deeming himself unsafe at home in the heated political condition of the country, he in the autumn of 1777, in company with two companions of about the same age, fled to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and took refuge with the British army, then occupying that city. There, after a short delay, he enlisted in the troop of Col. Tarleton, and served in that troop to the end of the Revolutionary war. This troop suffered large losses in the campaigns of 1779, '80, and '81, in the Carolinas and Virginia. He stated to a friend on one occasion that there were three times as many men belonging to this troop killed as it at any time contained. On the termination of the Revolutionary struggle, Caleb Haines became a refugee from his country, and lived in Nova Scotia till an act of amnesty was passed by Congress. He then returned to West Chester, Pennsylvania, where he married.
In 1796, he removed from West Chester to a farm in West Goshen, which he leased of the heirs of Francis Hoopes. In 1806 he became a lessee of Mary Ellicott, of 400 acres of the Avondale farm in New Garden, and resided there till April, 1809. He then purchased a farm of 179 acres in East Nottingham, and resided there till his death, in the ninety-third year of his age. He was a man of excellent sense, quiet manners, and amiable disposition.
General Notes: Wife - Ann Ryant
She was a woman of poetic temperament, fond of reading, and addicted, when young, to versification.