Re: Who was the Reverend Joseph Anthony??
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Re: Who was the Reverend Joseph Anthony??
Suzanne Anthony Gorey 6/14/02
This is very interesting!Could you steer me to a reference for this Society so that I can try to determine just how this fits to my Joseph ANTHONY?I ask as I am trying to confirm just which Joseph ANTHONY belongs to which family.I am aware that the records indicate that at this point in time there was Joseph ANTHONY who was a Quaker and married Elizabeth CLARK.I note that you are placing another Joseph ANTHONY who would appear to be of the same generation (your comment regarding the efforts in the mid 1700's) who was possibly a baptist.The Reverend Joseph ANTHONY who was the Baptist minister (my ancestor) was born ca 1750 and I believe that he wasn't baptized until ca. 1770.After which he became an avid preacher and minister for the Baptists.If you have a Reverend Joseph ANTHONY who was trying to free slaves ca 1750 then this could be my Joseph ANTHONY's father and this might show that both were Baptists.Then it is a matter of connecting the earlier Joseph ANTHONY who was a baptist to one of the Virginia ANTHONY families.