The Society of Friends (Quakers) began in England in the 1650s, when they broke away from the Puritans. Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn, as a safe place for Friends to live and practice their faith.
William Dillon was born about 1715.
He married Mary Susannah Rees in 1743 in Frederick County, Virginia.
James Dillon (1742),
Ann Dillon (1746, married Richard Haworth,
John Dillon (1751, married Rebecca Fisher),
Susannah Dillon (1755),
Mary Dillon (1757, married Jacob Pickering son of William Pickering),
Hannah Dillon (1760).
