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"George, eldest son of John Laing formerly of Craigforthie, now inprovince of East Jersey, America" married in 1688. Source: KinmuckMonthly Meeting records, book 1, p. 20. I believe the birth year youhave for George is way off, and by implication the marriage date ofhis father is also incorrect. A better candidate to have been John'swife was Margaret McPherson. A lady of that name mar. a John Laing innearby Kemnay in 1670. http://members.tripod.com/~PlainfieldFriends/dudley.htm: The Laing family composed a prominent part of the first permanentsettlers in this neighborhood. John Laing, the progenitor of this longline in East Jersey, came over from Craigforth, Aberdeen County,Scotland, August 1685, landing in Amboy, near which place for a fewyears he lived with his wife Margaret and his children, John, Abraham,William, Christiana and Isabel. In 1698 he moved to "the Plains" nearwhere South Plainfield now is. His son John married, in 1708,Elizabeth Shotwell, a direct descendent of the original AbrahamShotwell. His daughter Isabel, in 1700, married Joseph Fitz Randolph,son of Nathaniel. Both families were always active Friends. In 1725weekday meetings were established at John Laing's. The location was soeasy of access to Friends living along Green Brook, Cedar Brook andvicinity, that by 1731-36, a meeting house was built which was thebeginning of the Plainfield Society.
Karl-Heinz
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