THE HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, CHAPTER V, SOME ACCOUNT OF THE EARLY IMMIGRANTS, 1682 TO 1685. from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time by W. W. H. Davis, A.M., Democrat Book and Job Office Print., Doylestown, PA, 1876. USGENWEB NOTICE: Printing this file by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Transcriber's note: Liberty has been taken with numbering footnotes so as to include all footnotes from both the 1876 and 1905 editions, plus any additional text and pictures in the 1905 edition. All 1905 material will be noted with an asterisk. Note: Where names differ, the 1905 edition spelling is applied. ___________________________________________________________________________________ CHAPTER V SOME ACCOUNT OF THE EARLY IMMIGRANTS 1682 TO 1685 Holme's map. -Townships seated. -Some account of settlers that followed Penn. -Ann Milcomb, John Haycock, Henry Marjorum, William Beaks, Andrew Ellot, Thomas Janney, John Clows, George Stone, Richard Hough, Ann Knight, John Palmer, William Bennett, John Hough, Randall Blackshaw, Robert Bond, Ellis Jones, Jacob Hall, Sarah Charlesworth, Richard Lundy, Edward Cutler, David Davis, James Dillworth, Peter Worrell, William Hiscock, Christopher Taylor, George Heathcote, John Scarborough, Thomas Langhorne, Thomas Atkinson, William Radcliff, James Harrison, Phineas Pemberton, Joshua Hoops, and Joseph Growden. Thomas Holme commenced a survey of the west bank of the Delaware soon after his arrival, in 1681, and in 1686 or 1687 published his map of the province, in London, giving the land seated, and by whom. Of what is now Bucks county it embraced Bensalem, Bristol, Falls, Middletown, Southampton, Northampton, the two Makefields, Newtown, Wrightstown, Warwick, and Warrington. There were more or less settlers in all these townships, and their names are given, but the major part were in those bordering the Delaware. Some of the names, no doubt, were incorrectly spelled, but cannot now be corrected. Among them are found the names of some of the most influential and respectable families in the county, which have resided here from the arrival of their ancestors, now nearly two hundred years ago. Several who purchased land in the county never lived here, and some were not even in America, which accounts for their names not appearing on our records. At that early day not a single township had yet been organized, although the map gives lines to some which are nearly identical with their present boundaries. All beyond the townships of Newtown, Wrightstown, Northampton and Warrington were "terra incognita." Colonel Mildway appears to have owned land farther back in the woods, but of him we know nothing. The accuracy of Holmes' map may be questioned. James Logan says that when the map was being prepared in London, Holme put down the names of several people upon it to oblige them, without survey of land before or afterward, but other parties were permitted to take up the land. This accounts for some names of persons being on the map who were never known to have owned land in this county. [Original Map of Bucks county portion of Holme's Map, appears here.] More interesting still, than the mere mention of the names of the settlers, is a knowledge of whom and what they were, and whence and when they came. We have already noticed those who preceded William Penn, and came with him in the Welcome, but now we notice those who arrived about the same time, or soon afterward, and previous to 1684, (1) viz.: (1) It must be constantly borne in mind that all these dates are old style. The year commencing the 25th* of March. ANN MILLCOMB, widow, of Armagh, Ireland, arrived in the Delaware, 10th month, first, 1682, with her daughter Mary, and servant Francis Sanders, and settled in Falls. There was an Ann Milcomb living in this county about this time, whose daughter Jane married Mauris Liston, August 8, 1685; (and settled in Kent County on Delaware *); JOHN HAYCOCK, of Shin, county of Stafford, farmer, arrived 7th month, 28th, 1682, with one servant, James Morris, settled in Falls, and died November 19, 1683; HENRY MARJORUM, of the county of Wilts, farmer, arrived 12th month, 1682; with him, wife, Elizabeth; had a son born September 11, 1684 (2); (2) Some account of the Marjorum family may be found in Lower Makefield, where they settled, and are still represented in both the male and female lines. WILLIAM BEAKS, of the parish of Baskwill, in Somerset, farmer, came with Marjorum, and settled in Falls. He brought a son, Abraham, who died in 1687; ANDREW ELLOT, salter, of Smallswards, in Somerset, his wife Ann, and John Roberts and Mary Sanders, arrived in the Factor, of Bristol; THOMAS JANNEY, of Stial, in Cheshire, farmer, and wife Margery, arrived 7th month, 29th, 1683, and settled in Lower Makefield. He brought children, Jacob, Thomas, Abel and Joseph, and servants John Nield and Samuel Falkner. He was a preacher among Friends, and returned to England in 1695, where he died February 12, 1696, at the age of 63. He was several times in prison for his religious beliefs (3); (3) See Janney, Vol III, this work. JOHN CLOWS, of Gawsworth, in Cheshire, yeoman, Margery his wife, and children Sarah, Margery and William, and four servants, arrived with Thomas Janney and settled in Lower Makefield. He was a member of assembly, and died in 1688; GEORGE STONE, of Frogmore, in Devon, weaver, arrived in Maryland, 9th month, 1683, and came to the Delaware the following month, with a servant, Thomas Duer. (He was Stone's nephew and complained of him in 1700, for not fulfilling his agreement *). RICHARD HOUGH, of Macclesfield, in Cheshire, chapman, arrived 7th month, 29, 1683, with servants, Hannah Hough, Thomas Woods, and Mary his wife, and James Sutton. He settled in Lower Makefield, and married a daughter of John Clows, the same year. He became a prominent man in the province; represented this county several years in the assembly, and was drowned in 1705, on his way down the river to Philadelphia, to take his seat. When William Penn heard of it, he wrote to James Logan, "I lament the loss of honest Richard Hough. Such men must needs be wanted, where selfishness, and forgetfulness of God's mercy so much abound." The original name, del Houghe, Norman French, was changed to Hough in the sixteenth century (4). [The family came to England with William the Conqueror, and the name is found in the Doomsday book (5)]; (4) See Hough, Vol. III, this work. (5) Dr. John Stockton Hough, of Philadelphia (footnote not found in 1905 edition). ANN KNIGHT arrived in a ship from Bristol, Captain Thomas Jordan, 6th month, 1682, and 4th month 17th, 1683, was married to Samuel Darke; JOHN PALMER, of Yorkshire, farmer, arrived 9th month, 10th, 1683, with his wife Christian, and settled in Falls; WILLIAM BENNET, of Hammondsworth, in Middlesex, yeoman, and his wife Rebecca, arrived in November, 1683, and settled in Falls. He died March 9, 1684. An Edmund Bennet settled in Northampton, and married Elizabeth Potts, 10th month, 22d, 1685, and his name is also among those who settled in Bristol township; JOHN HOUGH, of Hough, county of Chester, yeoman, Hannah his wife, with child John, and servants, George and his wife Isabella, and child George. Nathaniel Watmaugh and Thomas Hough arrived 9th month, 1683. What connection, if any, there was between him and Richard Hough is not known; RANDALL BLACKSHAW, of Holinger, in Chester, and wife Alice, arrived in Maryland, 4th month, 1682, and came to Pennsylvania with child Phoebe, 11th month, 15th, 1682. His wife came with the other children, Sarah, Jacob, Mary, Nathaniel, and Martha, and arrived 3d month, 9th, 1683. One child, Abraham, died at sea 8th month, 2d, 1682. He brought several servants, some with families and settled in Warwick. In the same vessel came ROBERT BOND, son of Thomas, of Wadicar hall, near Garstang, in Lancashire, about sixteen years old. He came in care of Blackshaw and settled in Lower Makefield; died at James Harrison's and was buried near William Yardley's. The following persons came at the same time in the Submissive; ELLIS JONES, of county Denbigh, in Wales, with his wife and servants of William Penn, Barbara, Dorothy, Mary, and Isaac; Jane and Margery, daughters of Thomas Winn, of Wales, and mother; Hareclif Hodges, a servant; Lydia Wharmly, of Bolton; James Clayton, of Middlewich, in Chester, blacksmith, and his wife, Jane, with children, James, Sarah, John, Josiah, and Lydia; JABOB HALL, of Macclesfield, in Chester, shoemaker, and Mary, his wife, arrived in Maryland 12th month, 3d, 1684; came afterward to the Delaware, where his family arrived 3d month, 28th, 1685. He brought four servants, Ephraim Jackson, John Reynolds, Joseph Hollingshead, and Jonathan Evans; SARAH CHARLESWORTH, sister-in-law of Jacob Hall, came at the same time, with servants, Charles Fowler, Isaac Hill, Jonathan Jackson, and James Gibson. John Bolshaw and Thomas Ryland, servants of Hall, died in Maryland, and were buried at Oxford. Joseph Hull, William Haselhurst, and Randolph Smallwood, servants of Jacob Hall, and Thomas Hudson, who settled in Lower Makefield, arrived 3d month, 28th, 1685. Other servants of theirs arrived July 24th, and still others in September. Among them were William Thomas, Daniel Danielson, and Van Beck and his wife, Eleanor; RICHARD LUNDY, of Axminster, in Devon, son of Sylvester, came to the Delaware from Boston, 3d month, 19th, 1682. He settled in Falls, and called his residence "Glossenberry." He married Elizabeth, daughter of William Bennet, August 26, 1684. His wife came from Longford, in the county of Middlesex, and arrived in the Delaware 8th month, 1683; EDWARD CUTLER, of Slateburn, in Yorkshire, "webster", with his wife Isabel, children Elizabeth, Thomas, and William, and servants, Cornelius Netherwood, Richard Mather, and Ellen Wingreen, arrived 8th month, 31st, 1685. He was accompanied by his brother, John Cutler, and one servant, William Wardle; also James, son of James Molinex, late of Liverpool, about three years of age, who was to serve until twenty-one. Cutler returned to England, on a visit, in 1688; DAVID DAVIS, surgeon, probably the first in the county, son of Richard, of Welshpool, Montgomery, arrived 9th month, 14th, 1683, and settled in Middletown. He married Margaret Evans, March 8, 1686; died the 23d, and was buried at Nicholas Walne's burying place; JAMES DILLWORTH, of Thornbury, in Lancashire, farmer, arrived 8th month, 22d, 1682, with his son. William, and servant, Stephen; EDWARD STANTON, son of George, of Worcester, joiner, arrived 8th month, 10th, 1685; PETER WORRELL and Mary, his wife, of Northwich, in Chester, wheelwright, arrived in the Delaware 8th month, 7th, 1687; WILLIAM HISCOCK settled in Falls before 1685, and the 23d of 10th month, same year, he was buried at Gilbert Wheeler's burying ground. His will is dated the 8th; CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR, of Yorkshire, arrived in 1682. He was a fine classical scholar, and a preacher among the Puritans until 1652, when he joined the Friends, and suffered much from persecution. He was of great assistance to William Penn, and he and his brother Thomas wrote much in defence of Friends in England. He was a member of the first assembly that met at Chester, in December, 1682, and died in 1696. He was the father of Israel Taylor, who hanged the first man in Bucks county. He settled in Bristol, but took up a tract of five thousand acres in Newtown, toward Dolington. He had two sons, Joseph and Israel, and one daughter, who married a Buzvy; GEORGE HEATHCOTE, of Rittilife, in Middlesex, was settled in the bend of the Delaware above Bordertown before 1684. He was probably the first Friend who became a sea-captain, entering the port of New York as early as 1661, and refused to strike his colors because he was a Friend. He was imprisoned by the governor of New York in 1672 because he did not take off his hat when presenting him a letter. He sailed from Hew York in 1675, and was back again the following year. In 1683 he was fined in London for not bearing arms. He followed the sea many years, and died in 1710. His will is on file in New York city. By it he liberates his three negro slaves, and gave five hundred acres of land, near Shrewsbury, New Jersey, to Thomas Carlton, to be called "Carlton Settlement." He married a daughter of Samuel Groom, of New Jersey, and left a daughter, who married Samuel Barber, of London, and two sisters. In 1679 Captain Heathcote carried Reverend Charles Wooly home to England, who does not give a flattering account of the meat and drink furnished by the Quaker sea-captain, and says that they had to hold their noses when they ate and drank, and but for "a kind of rundlett of Madeira wine" the governor's wife gave, it would have gone worse with him;" JOHN SCARBOROUGH, of London, coachsmith, arrived in 1682, with his son John, a youth, and settled in Middletown. He returned to England in 1684 to bring his family, leaving his son in charge of a friend. Persecutions against the Friends ceasing about this time, and his wife who was not a member, not caring to leave home, he never returned. He gave his possessions in this county to his son, with the injunction to be good to the Indians, from whom he had received many favors. Paul Preston, of Wayne county, has in his possession a trunk that John Scarborough probably brought with him from England. On the top, in small, round brass-headed nails are the letters and figures: I. S. 1671; ELLEN PEARSON, of Kirklydam, county of York, aged fifty-four, arrived in 1684; ANN PEACOCK, of Kilddale, county of York, arrived in the Shield with John Chapman and Ellen Pearson in 1684; ABRAHAM WHARLEY, an original settler, removed to Jamaica in 1688, and died the next year. Nathan Harding also returned to England; THOMAS LANGHORNE, of Westmoreland, arrived in 1684. He had been frequently imprisoned, and in 1662 was fined 5 pounds for attending Friends' meeting. He represented this county in the first assembly; was the father of Chief Justice Jeremiah Langhorne, and died October 6, 1687. Proud styles him "an emminent preacher. He settled in Middletown; THOMAS ATKINSON, of Newby, in Yorkshire, became a Friend in early life, and was a minister before his marriage, in 1678. He arrived in 1682, with his wife Jane and three children. William, Isaac and Samuel, settled in Northampton township, and died October 31, 1687; WILLIAM RADCLIFF was probably born in Lancashire; was imprisoned as early as his fifteenth year for his religious belief; came to America in 1682, and settled in Wrightstown. He was a preacher among Friends, and died about 1690; RUTH BUCKMAN, widow, with her sons Edward, Thomas, and William, and daughter Ruth, arrived in the fall of 1682, and lived until the next spring in a cave made by themselves south of the village of Fallsington. The goods they brought were packed in boxes, and weighed nearly two thousand pounds. It is not known whether her husband was related to William Buckman who settled in Newtown. Among the immigrants who arrived about the same time, but the exact date cannot be given, were William and James Paxson, from the parish of March Gibbon in Bucks; Ezra Croasdale, Jonathan Scaife, John Towne, John Eastbourn, Yorkshire, Thomas Constable and sister Blanche, and servant John Penquite, Walter Bridgman from county Cornwall, and John Radcliff, of Lancaster. Edward and Sarah Pearson came from Cheshire, and Benjamin Pearson from Thorn, in Yorkshire. James Harrison, shoemaker, and Phineas Pemberton, grocer, Lancashire, were probably the most prominent immigrants to arrive in 1682. They sailed from Liverpool, 6, 7 mo, and landed in Maryland 2, 9 mo. [being 58 days from port to port. Randall Blackshaw was among the passengers *]. Pemberton, who was the son-in-law of Harrison, brought with him his wife Phoebe, and children Abigail and Joseph, his father aged seventy-two, and his mother aged eighty-one. Mrs. Harrison accompanied her husband, and several servants and a number of friends. Leaving their families and goods at the house of William Dickinson, Choptank, Maryland, they proceeded by land to their destination, near the falls of Delaware. When they arrived at the site of Philadelphia, where they stayed over night, they were unable to get accommodations for their horses, but had to turn them out in the woods. In the morning they were not to be found, and they were obliged to go up to the falls by water. They stopped at William Yardley's, who had already commenced to build a dwelling. Pemberton, concluding to settle there, purchased a tract of three hundred acres, which he called "Grove Place." They returned to Maryland, where they passed the winter, and came back to Bucks county with their families, in May 1683. Harrison's certificate from the Hartshaw monthly meeting, gives him an exalted character, and his wife is called "a mother in Israel." James Harrison was much esteemed by William Penn, who placed great reliance on him. Before leaving England Penn granted him five thousand acres of land, which he afterward located in Falls, Upper Makefield, Newtown and Wrightstown. He was appointed one of the Proprietary's commissioners of property, and the agent to manage his personal affairs. In 1685 he was made one of the three provincial judges, who made their circuit in a boat, rowed by a boatman paid by the province. Pemberton probably lived with Harrison for a time, but how long is not known. He owned the "Bolton farm," in Bristol township, and is supposed to have lived in Bristol at one time. He married Phoebe Harrison a few years before leaving England, and had nine children in all, but only three left issue; Israel, who married Rachel Kirkbride, and Mary Jordan; James who married Hannah Lloyd, Mary Smith, and Miss Morton, and Abigail who married Stephen Jenkins. Israel became a leading merchant of Philadelphia, and died in 1754. Of ten children, but three survived him. Israel, who died in 1779; James in 1809; and John in 1794, while in Germany. Phineas Pemberton was the first clerk of the Bucks county courts, and served to his death. No doubt the Permbertons lived on the fat of the land. His daughter Abigail wrote him in 1697, that she had saved twelve barrels of cider for the family; and in their letters frequent mention is made of meat and drink. In one he speaks of "a goose wrapped up in the cloth, at the head of the little bag of walnuts," which he recommends them to "heep a little after it comes, but roast it, get a few grapes, and make a pudding in the belly." Phineas Pemberton's wife died in 1696, and he March 5, 1702, and both were buried on the point of land opposite Bile's island. One of his daughters married Jeremiah Langhorne. James Logan styles him "that pillar of Bucks county," and when Penn heard of his death he writes: I will mourn for poor Phineas Pemberton, the ablest, as well as one of the best men in the province." He lived in good style, and had a "sideboard" in his house. He owned land in several townships in Bucks. [Among the members of Pemberton's household was Mary Becket, a young girl descended from the great family of Northumberland, who was married to Samuel Bowne, of Flushing, Long Island, October 4, 1694. When her mother married Becket she was a ward in chancery, and they had to fly to the continent, where he was killed in the religious war in Germany. May was the only child. Eleanor Becket, her mother, now married one Haydock, had two daughters who became Friends and came to America, but the time is not known.] (6) (6) Paragraph in brackets replaced by following: Phineas Pemberton (7), who settled at first in Makefield, did not remain there very long, but removed to Falls township, where he spent his useful life of twenty years. He was the son of Ralph Pemberton and Margaret, his wife, daughter of Thomas Seddon, Warrington, England, and were married June 7, 1648. She died September 2, 1655. They had issue Phineas, born January 30, 1650, married first Phebe Harrison, daughter of James Harrison, and by her had issue, Ann, born October 22, 1677, died July 3, 1682; Abigail, born June 14, 1680, married Stephen Jenkins, November 22, 1750; Joseph, born May 11, 1682, died November, 1702; Israel, born February 20, 1684, married Rachel Reed, died January 14, 1754; Samuel, born February 3, 1686, died January 23, 1692; Phebe, born February 26, 1689, died August 30, 1698; Priscilla, born April 23, 1692, married Isaac Waterman; Ralph, born September 20, 1694, died November 18, 1694; Phineas Jennings, born April 17, 1696, died 1701. On the death of Phineas Pemberton's first wife he married Alice Hodgson, Burlington, by whom he had no children. Ralph Pemberton had a second son by his wife Margaret Seddon, Joseph, born April 12, 1652, died August 3, 1655. Phineas Pemberton acted a prominent part in the new colony; he was a member of Assembly from Bucks county for several terms, and chosen speaker, 1698. (7) Lower, in his "Patronymica Brittanica," states that the family name of Pemberton is derived from the chapelry of that name in the parish of Wigan, in the hundred of West Derby, Lancashire, England, and it is certain Pembertons are found at a very early period as lords of the manor of Pemberton, in Wigan, within a few miles of Aspul. As early as 1675, four brothers, NATHANIEL, THOMAS, DANIEL and WILLIAM WALTON, from Byberry, England, settled in that township, in Philadelphia county, which they named after their native town. They came on foot from New Castle, and lived in a cave, covered with bark, several months; and two of them returned thither for a bushel of seed wheat, fifty miles. The eldest brother joined the Keithians, in 1691, but afterwards united himself with All Saints' church. At what time the Waltons came into this county is not known, but early, as a son of Nathaniel was teaching school in Falls township, where he died in 1759 (8) (8) Born in Bucks county, 1684. JOSHUA HOOPS, the ancestor of the family of that name in Chester county, of Cleveland, Yorkshire, arrived 9th month, 1683, with his wife, Isabel, and children Daniel, Margaret and Christian. He settled in Falls, and his wife died April 15, 1684. He took an active part in affairs. His son Daniel removed to Chester county, in 1690, married Jane Worrilow, settled at Westtown, and had seventeen children (9). (9) Gilbert Cope. Like the Waltons, the Knights came into this county through Byberry, where Giles with his wife Mary and son Joseph arrived from Gloucestershire, in 1682. They lived in a cave on the Poquessing creek, where he built a house. He kept the first store in the township, and died in 1726, at the age of seventy-four. Dr. A. W. Knight, of Brazil, Indiana, the fifth in descent from Giles, owns the gun his ancestor brought from England. They had nineteen children in all, Joseph marrying Abigail Antill, in 1717, and settling in Bensalem. He died in 1799; was a man of influence, and filled several public stations, and was an elegant and imposing man in appearance, when in full dress. A descendant of a half-brother of the first Giles was a senator in Congress from Rhode Island. There were upwards of twenty of the name of Knight on the Revolutionary pension roll (10). (10). Dr. Knight, mentioned above, who was born in Bucks county, September 5, 1807, died at Brazil, Indiana, December 5, 1877. He graduated at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia; married Achsah Croasdale, March 4, 1832; went to Ohio that fall, but removed to Indiana. He became a prominent man and at his death left a widow and five children. JOSEPH GROWDEN, the son of Lawrence Growden, of Cornwall, England, came to Pennsylvania in 1682, with wife and children, and settled in Bensalem, where he took up ten thousand acres for himself and father. His first wife, Elizabeth, dying in 1699, he married Ann Buckley, of Philadelphia, in 1704. He died in December, 1730, leaving two sons, Joseph and Lawrence, who inherited most of his real estate, and three daughters. He held many places of public trust in the infant colony; was a member of the privy council; was member of the assembly, and several years speaker of that body; he was frequently upon the bench of this county, and was appointed a supreme judge in 1705. His son Joseph was less distinguished than his father. He was one of the first persons of note, in Philadelphia, who allowed himself to be innoculated for the small-pox, in 1731. At his death, the landed estate of the Growdens passed to his brother Lawrence; who dying in 1769, left it to his daughters Elizabeth and Grace, the latter receiving that in this county as her portion. She married Joseph Galloway, of Philadelphia, and Elizabeth, Thomas Nicholson, of Trevose, England. Notwithstanding the first English settlers to this county began to marry soon after they came, our county records show by twenty-three marriages the first four years after Penn's arrival. In the books of the Friends' monthly meeting there is a much fuller and more reliable record, including births, marriages and deaths. End of chapter V.