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Marking cattle was a subject that early engaged the attention of the new law-makers west of the Delaware. Ear marks of cattle were recorded in Upland court as early as June 1681, before the arrival of William Markham. As there were but few enclosures, and the cattle were turned loose to graze in the woods, it was necessary that each owner should have a mark, to distinguish his own from his neighbor's. The law obliged every owner to have a distinctive mark, and the alteration by another was a punishable offence. These marks were entered in a book kept for the purpose in the register's office. In this county Phineas Pemberton, the register, prepared a bookus and entered therein the ear and brand marks of the early settlers. The registry was begun in 1684, and
15 This curious old record belonging to the register's office, Doylestown, has been deposited in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, for safe keeping.
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all are in his hand writing but the last one, and all but a few were entered that year. It contains the names of one hundred and five owners of cattle in Bucks county. The first entered is that of Mr. Pemberton, and reads, "The marks of my cattle P. P. the 10, 6- mno., 1684. Among others is the entry of the earmarks of William Penn's cattle, as follows :
"William Penn Propriatory and gournr of Pennsilvania And Territorys Thereunto belonging."
"His Earmarke Cropped on both Eares."
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Below there is the following entry :
" Att the fall of the yeare 1684 there came a long- bodyed large young bh cow with this earemarke. She was very wild, and being a stranger, after pub- lication, none owning her, James Harrison, att the request of Luke Brindley, the Rainger, wintered her, and upon the 23d day of the 7th month, 1685 sd cow was slaughtered and divided, two thirds to the Gournr, and one third to the Rainger, after James Harrison had had 60 lbs of her beef, for the wintering of her att jof." (10 shill- ings sterling.) In only one instance is the number of cattle owned by a settler stated in the record, that of Phineas Pemberton ; "one heifer, one old mare, one bay mare, one horse somewhat blind, one gelding, one red cow."
We insert the following engravings of earmarks as fair samples of the whole number, and belonging to families now well known in the county.
ANTHONY BURTON.
HENRY PAXSON.
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WILLIAM YARDLEY.
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THOMAS STACKHOUSE.
JOHN EASTBOURN.
The following are the names of the owners of cattle in Bucks county in 1684, according to the entry in the original record : Phineas Pemberton, John Ackerman, Thomas Atkinson, Samuel Allen, William Biles, Nicholas Walne, Thomas Brock, J. Wheeler, Joshua Boare, Daniel Brinson, James Boydon, Jeremiah Langhorne, John Brock, Randall Blackshaw, H. Baker, George Brown, Lyonel Britton, Edmond Bennet, Charles Brigham, Job Bunting, Walter Bridgman, William Brian, Henry Birchham, William Buckman, Anthony Burton, Stephen Beaks, Charles Biles, William Biles, Jr., Abraham Cox, Arthur Cook, Philip Conway, Robert Carter, Thomas Coverdell. Thomas Cowgill, John Coates, Edmund Cutler, William Crosdell, Edward Doyal, Thomas Dungan, William Dungan, Samuel Dark, William Dark, Thomas Dickerson, Andrew Ellot, Joseph English, John Eastbourn, Joseph Harror, Dan. Gardner, Joseph Growden, John Green, Joshua Hoops, Thomas Green, Robert Lu- cas, Edmund Lovet, Giles Lucas, John Loe, Richard Lundy, James Moone, Henry Margerum, Joseph Milner, Hugh Marsh, Ralph Milner, John Ottor, John Palmer, Henry Paxson, William Paxson, James Paxson, Eleanor Pownal, John Pursland, or John Penquoit, Henry Pointer, Richard Ridgway, Francis Rosell, Charles Rowland, John Rowland, Thomas Royes, Edward Stanton, William Sanford, Thomas Stackhouse, Henry Siddal, Jonathan Scaifc, Thomas Stack- house, jr., John Smith, Stephen Sands, William Smith, John Swift, Thomas Tuncelif, Israel Taylor, John Town, Gilbert Whee-
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ler, Shadrick Walley, John Webster, John Wood, Abraham War- ley, Peter Warral, Thomas Williams, William Yardley, Richard Wilson, John Clark, William Duncan, David Davids, William Penn and John Wharton.
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CHAPTER V.
SOME ACCOUNT OF THE EARLY IMMIGRANTS.
1682 TO 1685.
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Holme's map .- Townships seated .- Some account of settlers that followed Penn .- Ann Millcomb, 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 1684 he published his map of the province, in London, giving the land seated, and by whom. Of what is now Bucks county it embraces 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
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two hundred years ago. Several who purchased land in the county never lived here, and some were not even in America, which ac- counts 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, Wrights- town, 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 of 1684 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.
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 .:
ANN MILLCOMB, widow, of Armaugh, Ireland, arrived in the Del- aware, 10th month, first, 1682, with her daughter Mary, and ser- vant Francis Sanders, and settled in Falls. There was a Jane Mill- comb living in this county about this time, whose daughter Jane married Mauris Leyten, August 8, 1685 ;
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 Septem- ber 11, 1684 ;
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 ;
1 It must be constantly borne in mind that all these dates are old style. The year commencing the first of March.
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THOMAS JANNEY, of Still, in Chester, farmer, and wife Marjorum, 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 belief ;
JOHN CLOWS, of Gosworth, in Oxfordshire, 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 Mary- land, 9th month, 1683, and came to the Delaware the following month, with a servant, Thomas Dyer ;
RICHARD HOUGH, of Macclesfield, in Chester, chapman, arrived 7th month, 25th, 1683, with servants, Hannah Hough, Thomas Woods, and Mary his wife, and James Sutton. He settled in Lower Makefield, and married Mary Ann, daughter of John Clows, the same year. He became a prominent man in the province ; rep- resented 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, De la Houghe, Norman French, was changed to De Houghe, Le Hough, and to Hough in the six- teenth century. The family came to England with William the Conqueror, and the name is found in the Doomsday book.2 ;
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 9th, 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.
2 Dr. John Stockton Hough, of Philadelphia.
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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 Phobe, 11th month, 15th, 1682. His wife came with the other children, Sarah, Jacob, Mary, Nathaniel, and Martha, and ar- rived 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 ser- vants 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 Middlewith, in Chester, blacksmith, and wife, Jane, with children, James, Sarah, John, Josiah, and Lydia ;
JACOB HALL, of Macclesfield, in Chester, shoemaker, and Mary, his wife, arrived in Maryland 12th month, 3d, 1684; came after- ward to the Delaware, where his family arrived 3d month, 28th, 1685. He brought four servants, Ephraim Jackson, John Rey- nolds, 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, ser- vants 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 ;
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Falls, and called his residence "Glossenberry." He married Eliza- beth, daughter of William Bennet, August 26th, 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, ar- rived 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, in Montgomery, arrived 9th month, 14th, 1683, and settled in Middletown. He married Margaret Evans, March 8th, 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 inan in Bucks county. He settled in Bristol, but took up a tract of five thousand acres in Newtown, toward Doling- ;on. He had two sons, Joseph and Israel, and one danghter, who narried a Bennet ;
GEORGE HEATHCOTE, of Rittilife, in Middlesex, was settled in the end of the Delaware above Bordentown before 1684. He was probably the first Friend who became a sea-captain, entering the
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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 present- ing him a letter. He sailed from New 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. Ilis 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 1 undlett 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 for attending Friends' meeting. He represented this county in the first assembly ; was the father of Chief Justice Jeremiah Langhorne, and died October 6th, 1687. Proud styles him " an emminent preacher." He settled in Middletown;
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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, settled in Northampton township, and died October 31st, 1687 ;
WILLIAM RADCLIFF was probably born in Lancashire; was im- prisoned 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, from New York, 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, glover, both of Boston, in the county of Lancaster, were probably the most prominent immigrants to arrive in 1682. They sailed from Liver- pool the 7th of July, and landed in Maryland the 30th of October. Pemberton, who was the son-in-law of Harrison, brought with him his wife Phobe, 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 des- tination, 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-
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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 Phobe Harrison a few years before leaving England, and had nine children in all, but only three left issue ;3 Israel, who married Sarah 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 Ger- many. Phineas Pemberton was the first clerk of the Bucks county courts, and served to his death. No doubt the Pembertons 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 5th, 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 mourn for poor Phineas Pemberton, the ablest, as well as one of the best men in the prov- ince." He lived in good style, and had a " sideboard" in his house. He owned land in several townships in Bucks.
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