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GEORGE COULSON was born October 12, 1776, at West Nottingham, Cecil County, Maryland, and died March 28, 1838, probably in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, at the age of sixty-one. He married first in 1801 to SARAH GREGG. They moved from Cecil County, Maryland, to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on April 12, 1814. Sarah died in 1832. There were no children born of this marriage. He married second to DUCETTA MORGAN. George Coulson operated a tanyard.

GEORGE COULSON and DUCETTA MORGAN were the parents of the following children:

• GEORGE MORGAN COULSON, born November 11, 1835; died February 7, 1843, at the age of seven.

• THOMAS MORGAN COULSON, born April 4, 1838.

LETITIA COULSON was born February 17, 1778, at West Nottingham, Cecil County, Maryland, and died March 20, 1832, at the age of fifty-four. She married on November 17, 1808, to JACOB JOB (son of DANIEL JOB and MARY UNKNOWN) who was born October 18, 1775, and died July 7, 1834, at the age of fifty-eight. They were members of Little Britain Monthly Meeting, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

The record of this family was obtained by Henry J. Coulson from the family Bible of Jacob Job which in 1898 was in the possession of Everett E. Massey of Elkview, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

LETITIA COULSON and JACOB JOB were the parents of the following children:

• RACHEL BROWN JOB, born September 12, 1809.

• MARY JOB, born October 21, 1812; died March 6, 1845, at the age of thirty- two; married on April 6, 1835, to HUGH KILLAUGH. According to Henry J. Coulson, they are believed to have left no descendants and lived near Penn Hill, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

• ANN ELIZA JOB, born February 23, 1815.

• SOPHIA MILLER JOB, born February 24, 1817.

MARGARET COULSON was born September 1, 1781, at West Nottingham, Cecil County, Maryland. She married URIAH BLACKBURN of Baltimore, Maryland.

MARGARET COULSON and URIAH BLACKBURN were the parents of the following children:

• JOHN BLACKBURN who was a lawyer in Baltimore. He married UNKNOWN UNKNOWN, a Catholic woman from Baltimore.

• JEHU BLACKBURN married UNKNOWN UNKNOWN, a banker's daughter from Baltimore.

• CASSANDRA BLACKBURN married UNKNOWN BLACKBURN, a cousin. They were childless.

• MARGARET AMELIA BLACKBURN.

• RACHEL BLACKBURN followed the Catholic faith and entered the convent at Emmetsburg, Maryland.

• MARY BLACKBURN also followed the Catholic faith and entered the convent at Emmetsburg, Maryland.

ELI COULSON was born April 4, 1786, at West Nottingham, Cecil County, Maryland, died there on March 26, 1853, shortly before his sixty-seventh birthday, and is buried there at the Friends Burying Ground. He married on December 31, 1812, to JANE EAGAN who died April 25, 1875.

Henry J. Coulson reported that "Eli Coulson's descendants of Cecil County, Maryland, have an OLD parchment deed of land transfers in Derbyshire, England, dating sometime in 1690."

In 1808 Eli Coulson made application for membership in the Quakers and his request was granted. However, after his marriage to Jane Eagan, the following is noted in the minutes:

At Nottingham M.M. held 11, of 6 Mo. 1813. West Nottingham Preparative meeting reports that Eli Coulson has accomplished his marriage, with a woman not in membership with us, by the assistance of a hireling minister. Robt. Brown & Wm Preston are appointed to treat with him on account of his deviation.

.....8 of 10 Mo. 1813...Eli Coulson having had a right of membership among friends, but for want of living in the fear of the Lord, and keeping a strict watch over the temptations of the enemy, hath been guilty of being married to a woman by the assistance of an hirling minister, in order to convince them of the evil of his conduct, friends have treated with him, but he not appearing so sensible of his transgression as suitably to condemn it, We disown him from membership with us, untill through true repentance he can condemn the same to the satisfaction of this meeting.

ELI COULSON and JANE EAGAN were the parents of the following children:

• GEORGE EAGAN COULSON.

• RACHEL MARY COULSON, born in November of 1814.

• JOHN THOMAS COULSON, born July 31, 1816.

• JAMES ABNER COULSON, born July 23, 1818.

• JESSE ROBERT COULSON, born August 17, 1820.

• ELI JOSEPH COULSON, born in May of 1822; died in September of 1869, at the age of forty-seven.

• SARA JANE COULSON, born March 13, 1824.

• MARY ELIZABETH COULSON, born in March of 1827. Henry J. Coulson recorded that Dr. William R. Kirkwood was a professor at a college located in Emporia, Kansas, and was a grandson of Mary Coulson, daughter of Eli Coulson. However, the Mary Coulson he refers to here is a descendant of the three brothers, William, Charles and Francis Coulson who emigrated to America and have not yet been tied into this line.

• WILLIAM PENN COULSON, born March 26, 1831.

LAVINIA COULSON was born August 13, 1792, at West Nottingham, Cecil County, Maryland, and died October 8, 1828, at the age of thirty-six. She married on March 2, 1819, to NATHAN SIDWELL (son of JOB SIDWELL and REBECCA WILSON) who was born June 8, 1797 in East Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and died July 2, 1825, at the age of twenty-eight. The minutes of Nottingham Monthly Meeting recite that Lavinia "accomplished her marriage out of the order of friends."

LAVINIA COULSON and NATHAN SIDWELL were the parents of the following children:

• THOMAS FULTON SIDWELL, born January 1, 1820.

• ESTHER ANNA SIDWELL, born August 20, 1822.

• MARGARET SIDWELL, born November 11, 1825.

ENOCH COULSON married BETSEY BROWN in Pennsylvania. They are reported to have had several children but only one survived:

• ELIZA COULSON married SOLLOMAN SMITH.

ELIJAH COULSON was born in 1777 and died in 1853, at the approximate age of seventy-six. He married MARY PIERCE who was born March 18, 1815, and died in January of 1883 at the home of her son ELIJAH COULSON in Tennessee. She was sixty-five years old at the time of her death.

ELIJAH COULSON and MARY PIERCE were the parents of the following children:

• SARAH COULSON, born March 14, 1833.

• SAMUEL COULSON, born February 14, 1835.

• ELIZABETH COULSON, born July 29, 1837.

• SUSAN COULSON, born August 18, 1839; died in 1889 of dropsy, at the approximate age of fifty; never married.

• WILLIAM COULSON, born May 5, 1841; died in 1841.

• NANCY ANN COULSON, born in 1843.

• RACHEL COULSON, born in 1845; died in 1879 at the approximate age of thirty-four; never married.

• DEBORAH COULSON, born October 18, 1847; married in 1894 to JOHN W. SHAW.

• ELIJAH COULSON, born in 1850.

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