180. JOHN⁵ PURNELL (OF SUSSEX DE) (WILLIAM⁴, JOHN³, THOMAS², THOMAS¹) birth date unknown.

He married twice. He married ELIZABETH MAY. Elizabeth was from Delaware.

He married SARAH SEYMORE MINORS. In 1802, John sold land as son of William of John to Elizabeth Purnell daughter of Thomas. (Ruth T. Dryden, Worcester Land Records, p. 615) (John's children and information about them-Suzanne B. Hurley, Ocean City Lifesaving Museum)

JOHN PURNELL (Of Sussex DE) had the following children:

396 i. THOMAS⁶ PURNELL. He married ESTHER WALTON.

397 ii. SALLIE SARAH PURNELL. She married CURTIS BISWICK. She was named a niece by Thomas Purnell in 1833.

398 iii. ELISA PURNELL. She married CHARLES POLK (Gov. of DE).

399 iv. ZIPPORAH PURNELL. She married UNKNOWN BURKLEY (husband of Zipporah Purnell).

400 v. WILLIAM THOMAS PURNELL was born about 1805. WILLIAM died December 16, 1873 in Worcester Co., MD, at 68 years of age. His body was interred in Worcester Co., MD. He married twice. He married HENRIETTA ZIPPORAH SPENCE. HENRIETTA was born 1819. HENRIETTA was the daughter of JOHN SELBY SPENCE (Dr.) (Senator) and SALLY MARIA PURNELL. HENRIETTA died 1893 in Worcester Co., MD, at 74 years of age. He married HENRIETTA SMITH. (dates-Suzanne B. Hurley, Ocean City Lifesaving Museum; Melanie Ayres Merryweather, Genealogy of the Purnell Family, p.13) His three children and grandchildren are traced by Melanie Ayres Merryweather in Genealogy of the Purnell Family, p. 13.

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