The DILLEY Family
HISTORY OF HANOVER TOWNSHIP AND WYOMING VALLEY
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
By: Henry Blackman Plumb, 1885, 498 pp.
Robert Baur, Printer and Stationer, Wilkes-Barre, PA
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THE DILLEY FAMILY
CONTAINED IN THE HANOVER GENEALOGICAL TABLES TO 1830, pp. 408 - 409
This page last updated: 16 Jun 2009
Note: Additions to the information found in Plumb's History of Hanover are shown below in red text.
Richard DILLEY 1 was born in New Jersey; came to Hanover with his family before the Revolutionary War, but as early as 1784 settled on the River Road at Buttonwood; married [blank]; died in Hamover in 1799. They had:
Richard DILLEY, m. Polly VOKE, d. 1840
Susannah DILLEY
Adam DILLEY
Jerusha DILLEY, m. Edward INMAN
Prudence DILLEY, m. Edward EDGERTON
Jonathan DILLEY, m. Polly BURRITT
Mary DILLEY, m. David RICHARDS
John F. DILLEY, went South
Ruth DILLEY, m. Joel BURRITT
Nancy DILLEY, m. Nathan WADE
Richard DILLEY 2 (Richard 1) was born in New Jersey; came to Hanover with his father's family in 1784; lived at Buttonwood; married Polly VOKE. They had:
James DILLEY, b. 1792, m. Margaret CAMPBELL, d. 1862
Jesse DILLEY, b. 1794, m. Hannah K. LEUDER, d. 1852
Dayton DILLEY, m. Lorinda MARCY, d. about 1855
Susan DILLEY, b. 1788, d. 1879
Sally DILLEY, m. John DOLPH
Anor DILLEY, m. [blank] QUITHEL
Jersuha DILLEY
Jonathan DILLEY 2 (Richard 1) was born in New Jersey; came to Hanover with his father's family in
1784; married Polly BURRITT; lived near Behee's mill pond; died there. They had:
Amanda DILLEY, m. William BROWN
John DILLEY, m. [blank] BARKER
Abigail DILLEY, m. Joshua WILLIAMS
George DILLEY, m. [blank] PHIPPS
Lovina DILLEY, m. Daniel CAREY
Mary Ann DILLEY, m. [blank] TRACY
Matthias DILLEY, m. [blank], went to Minnesota
Rev.Alexander B. DILLEY, b. c. 1818, m. [blank] MAN
James DILLEY 3 (Richard, 2 Richard 1) was born in Hanover in 1792; lived on Dilley's Hill on the River Road; married Margaret CAMPBELL; died in Hanover in 1862. They had:
William DILLEY, m. Catharine BUTLER
Richard DILLEY, m. in New York
Stewart DILLEY, m. [blank] WERTZ
James DILLEY, m. Jane COX
Charles DILLEY, m. [blank]
Alvah DILLEY, m. Mary Catharine RINEHIMER
Harriet DILLEY, m. [Charles BUEL
Mary DILLEY, m. [blank] BROWN
Margaret DILLEY, m. [blank] HOWARD
Ann DILLEY, m. William MCCULLOUGH
Jesse DILLEY 3 (Richard, 2 Richard 1) was born in Hanover in 1794; married Hannah K. LUEDER; lived in Wilkes-Barre; died in 1852. They had:
Sylvester DILLEY, m. Mary Ann BARKMAN
Anning DILLEY, m. Eliza HOUPT
Lyman DILLEY, died in the Mexican War in 1847
Charlotte DILLEY, m. Charles E. LATHROP
Urbane DILLEY, m. Lydia Ann WEBBER
Butler DILLEY, m. [blank] PETTEBONE
Friedland DILLEY, m. [blank]
Monroe DILLEY, m. Joanna MARKS
Mary DILLEY, m. Edwin H. JONES
Dayton DILLEY 3 (Richard, 2 Richard 1) was born in Hanover; married Lorinda MARCY; lived and died on the River Road near the old homestead. They had:
Richard DILLEY, m. Polly BARNES
Ira DILLEY, b. 1830, m. [blank] FERGUSON
Loretta DILLEY, m. [blank]
Sarah DILLEY, m. [blank] HUMPLE
Mary Ellen DILLEY, m. [blank] EGBERSON
Jared DILLEY, died in the Army in 1863
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