WILTBANK FAMILY RECORD
[Copied from Wiltbank Bible, in possession of St. Peter's Church,
Lewes Delaware.]
Judge John Wiltbank, departed this life, 1792
Mary Wiltabank wife of John Wiltbank, departed this life 1795
Cornelius Wiltbank son of Judge John and Mary Wiltbank died
9 November, 1813
Ann Wiltbank, wife of Cornelius Wiltbank, departed this life
9 April, 1801
Esther Wiltbank wife of Cornelius Wiltbank, departed this life
1 November, 1802
John Wiltbank, son of Cornelius and Ann Wiltbank, was born
23 January, 1795; married Eliza Paynter, A.D. 1817; died 13
February, 1830
Cornelius Wiltbank, son of John and Mary Wiltbank, departed
this life 9 November, 1813
Ann Hudson, wife of Henry Hudson, and daughter of Cornelius
and Ann Wiltbank, departed this life 24 January, 1812.
Mary Metcalf, wife of Thomas Metcalf, and daughter of Cornelius
and Ann Wiltbank, departed this life 29 October, 1814.
Thomas Metcalf, son of Jehu and Esther Metcalf, departed this
life, 1 November, 1814 (He survived his loving wife only two weeks)
Robert Wiltbank, son of Cornelius and Ann Wiltbank, departed
this life on Sunday, the 22 January, 1815, at the house of his
grandfather, Judge John Wiltbank, "Dover" Delaware was buried
at the family burial ground on Wednesday, 25 January, 1815,
(at Tower Hill Farm near Lewes)
John Wiltbank, son of Cornelius and Ann Wiltbank, departed
this life on Saturday morning, 13 February, 1830, aged thirty-five
years, twenty-one days. Sermon delivered by Rev. John Mitchell
from Luke 12, 37. Buried in Family Ground near Lewes.
John and Eliza Wiltbank's first son was born 5 September, 1818;
and departed this life 15th of the same month.
Samuel Paynter Wiltbank, son of John and Eliza Wiltbank was born
19 April, 1820.
John Cornelius Wiltbank, son of John and Eliza Wiltbank, was born
on Tuesday , 15 July, 1823
Alfred Stockley Wiltbank, son of John and Eliza Wiltbank, was born
on Saturday, 12 September, 1829
John Cornelius Wiltbank, departed this life 9 September, 1829
Alfred Stockley Wiltbank and Hannah Richards Wolfe were married
by Rev. John L. M'Kim, 28 January, 1852
Samuel Rowland, John Paynter and Alfred Stockley, children of
Alfred S. and Hannah R. Wiltbank, all died in infancy
Frank Comly Wiltbank, son of Alfred and Hannah R. Wiltbank was
born 9 July, 1859
Alfred Stockley Wiltbank, M.D. son of John and Eliza Wiltbank,
departed this life 7 August, 1860
Comly J. Wiltbank M.D. departed this life 23 December, 1886
Samuel Paynter Senr was born 20 October, 1736
Samuel Paynter, son of Samuel Paynter Senr, was born 25 August,
1768
Elizabeth Rowland was born 9 December, 1779
Samuel Paynter Junr and Elizabeth Rowland were married by the
Rev. James Wiltbank, at the house of Mr Cornelius Wiltbank, on
Wednesday, 16 March, 1796, at four o'clock. That and the next day
were remarkably stormy days, but it is hoped that prudence and
economy may render the married life a happy one.
Mary Paynter, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Paynter, was born
Mary Paynter and Simon K. Wilson, M.D. were married.
Samuel I. Wilson, son of Simon K. Wilson, and Mary Paynter
was born July 1820; died in 1849.
Mary P. Wilson, wife of Simon K. Wilson, M.D. and daughter of
Samuel and Elizabeth Paynter, departed this life 12 November, 1820
Eliza Paynter, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Paynter, was born
8 December, 1798; died 14 November, 1857, at Lewes, Delaware
John Wiltbank and Eliza Paynter were married by the Rev. James
Wiltbank, on Thursday, 7 August, 1817
Samuel Rowland Paynter, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Paynter,
was born
Sarah Paynter, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Paynter, died
10 August, 1820.
John Parker Paynter, son of Samuel and Elizabeth
Alfred Stockley Paynter, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Paynter, died
aged five years.
Elizabeth Paynter, wife of Samuel Paynter, departed this life 10
November, 1820, aged forty years.
Samuel Paynter departed this life on 2 October, 1845 in the 78th
year of his age.
"With unfeigned regret that we announce the death of Ex Governor
Samuel Paynter at his residence at the Dracot Bridge, Sussex County
Delaware on the 2nd inst. in the seventy-eighth year of his age"
---Delaware Journal October 1845
Comly I. Wiltbank was baptized by the Rev. Walter Franklin at
St. Peter's Church, Lewes, Delaware, 4 August, 1844, making the
seventh generation baptized in that church; Sponserd his great-
grandfather Ex Governor Paynter of Delaware and grandmother,
Eliza P. Wiltbank. He was born 12 May, 1844
J. Comly Jones married, 10 September, 1821 by the Rev. Mr
Meyer, Mary Hillborn, daughter of Joseph and Rachel Roberts.
Rachel Roberts Jones, daughter of Comly and Mary H. Jones was
born 7 May, 1824
Samuel Paynter Wiltbank was married to Rachel Roberts Jones
4 August, 1842, by the Right Reverend Bishop H.M. Onderdonck
Mary Elizabeth Wiltbank, daughter of Samuel Paynter and Rachel
Roberts Wiltbank, was born 1 August
Died at Philadelphia on the 10th day of June, 1845, J. Comly Jones
aged forty-nine years
Died on the 23rd February, 1850, Charles B. Jones in the seventeenth
year of his age
Died on 7 June, 1860, Mary R. Jones, in the nineteenth year of her age
Died in Philadelphia on 7 August, 1860 Dr A.S. Wiltbank of Lewes,
Delaware
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