As the seventeenth century drew to a close, the pace of our family’s emigration slowed with thirty-five family members making the Atlantic crossing in eighteen voyages. The patterns again shifted with an increase in ancestors coming from Germany (12) and a wave of immigrants from Wales (9). The number from England (14) continued to decline and four came from Ireland.
http://digitalheritage.org/2012/10/german-settlers-in-the-appalachians/ http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/ward_1912/england_wales_1644.jpg
Destinations also continued to change: None of the new arrivals went to the New England colonies during this period and seven chose Maryland. Fewer also went to Virginia (10) during this period while the influx into Pennsylvania (23) continued to grow including all the German émigrés. Much of the migration to Pennsylvania was a direct result of the efforts of William Penn’s desire to create a colony that would provide a place for Christians to worship freely and the land grant he petitioned from King Charles II. Also of interest, all of the Welsh families come from the Kesslers, Glenna’s maternal line.
1678 Robert Ellis Hill came from St. Mary Woolnoth, London, England to the colonies where he met and married Mary Shaugh in Port Tobacco, Charles, Maryland. Mary had come from Ireland ten years earlier. They are 7th great-grandparents in David’s paternal line.
1680 Elizabeth Williams came from England to Accomack,Virginia, sometime prior to 1680 when at the age of twenty she married William Brittingham She is an 8th great-grandmother in David’s paternal lilne.
Historical Note: The "Quakers"
In 1648 the Religious Society of Friends began in northern England. Detractors mockingly called them Quakers because they sometimes shook or "quaked" during religious observances. Friends believed God could speak to everyone through their "inner light." They refused to bear arms, swear oaths of allegiance, and endorse a state supported church, landing many Quakers in England's prisons. William Penn petitioned Charles II, King of England, for a grant of land in America to repay a debt owed to the Penn family. The king likely agreed to Penn's requests as a step towards removing the bothersome Quakers from England. Penn's 1681 charter set the boundaries of the colony, established Penn as Proprietor with the right to dispose of the land and write laws for its inhabitants. The King bestowed the name Pennsylvania upon the land in honor of Admiral Sir William Penn. While he guaranteed freedom of religion, Penn permitted only Christians to serve in government. William Penn arrived in Pennsylvania on October 29, 1682 after almost seven weeks at sea. In two years Penn returned to England. He traveled back to Pennsylvania in 1699 and left again for England in 1701, never to return.
1678 Robert Ellis Hill came from St. Mary Woolnoth, London, England to the colonies where he met and married Mary Shaugh in Port Tobacco, Charles, Maryland. Mary had come from Ireland ten years earlier. They are 7th great-grandparents in David’s paternal line.
1680 Elizabeth Williams came from England to Accomack,Virginia, sometime prior to 1680 when at the age of twenty she married William Brittingham She is an 8th great-grandmother in David’s paternal lilne.
Historical Note: The "Quakers"
In 1648 the Religious Society of Friends began in northern England. Detractors mockingly called them Quakers because they sometimes shook or "quaked" during religious observances. Friends believed God could speak to everyone through their "inner light." They refused to bear arms, swear oaths of allegiance, and endorse a state supported church, landing many Quakers in England's prisons. William Penn petitioned Charles II, King of England, for a grant of land in America to repay a debt owed to the Penn family. The king likely agreed to Penn's requests as a step towards removing the bothersome Quakers from England. Penn's 1681 charter set the boundaries of the colony, established Penn as Proprietor with the right to dispose of the land and write laws for its inhabitants. The King bestowed the name Pennsylvania upon the land in honor of Admiral Sir William Penn. While he guaranteed freedom of religion, Penn permitted only Christians to serve in government. William Penn arrived in Pennsylvania on October 29, 1682 after almost seven weeks at sea. In two years Penn returned to England. He traveled back to Pennsylvania in 1699 and left again for England in 1701, never to return.
William Penn Receiving the Charter of Pennsylvania from Charles II
Unknown, 19th Century, The London Printing and Publishing Company Limited
http://statemuseumpa.org/penn-treaty/brother/
Unknown, 19th Century, The London Printing and Publishing Company Limited
http://statemuseumpa.org/penn-treaty/brother/
1682 George Northrup was the seven year old son of Johannes and Mary (Neissender) Northrop who emigrated from the German Palatinate as a family and settled in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Dutch language spoken by the Amish in the United States is derived primarily from the German dialect spoken in the Palatinate, which many Palatine refugees brought to Pennsylvania in the early decades of the 18th century. Johannes and Mary are 7th great-grandparents in Glenna’s paternal line while George is a 6th great-grandfather.
Port of Philadelphia in the early 1700s by Peter Cooper
http://www.hagenbuch.org/andreas-sails-aboard-charming-nancy/
http://www.hagenbuch.org/andreas-sails-aboard-charming-nancy/
1683 Paulus Kuster at the age of thirty nine, was an early settler of Germantown, PA, emigrating from Kaldenkirchen, Rheinland, Germany, with his wife Gertrude Theisson (Doors), and son Arnold, possibly arriving on the ship Concord. Paul was a stonemason and brick layer, people in Philadelphia were beginning to build houses from stone. Paul was a stonemason and bricklayer at a time people in Philadelphia were beginning to build houses from stone. In Kaldenkirchen the couple belonged to the Reformed Church, http://www.friendsjournal.org/the-concord-a-story-of-two-stamps/
possibly to avoid persecution as Mennonites, the faith to which they gave open expression when they arrived in Germantown. They are likely among the earliest Mennonites there, maybe the second Mennonite family. The Concord, also known as the "German Mayflower",sailed from Rotterdam on July 6 1683 under Captain William Jeffries, bringing the first group of German emigrants to America. On board the galleon were 13 Mennonite families from Krefeld totaling 33 of the 57 passengers. The journey from Germany to Philadelphia (Germantown) took 74 days. (http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jamesbaud&id=I0425 ) Gertrude’s life was one of pain and suffering in many ways. Gertrude experienced an emotional crisis after the birth of one of her children so severe the baptismal her parents had to take responsibility for the child. She died in her early sixties in 1707, one year before the death of Paulus. Paulus and Gertrude are 8th great-grandparents in Glenna’s maternal line.
1683 Pieter Keurlis, his wife Elizabeth (Doors) and their daughter Martha arrived in Germantown, Pennsylvania having emigrated from Germany. Elizabeth likely was Gertrude’s sister. The Keurlises are 8th great-grandparents in Glenna’s maternal line.
1683-1699 John Potts left Llangirrig,,Montgomeryshire,Wales with his wife Elizabeth (McVeigh) and their son Thomas, arriving in Germantown, Pennsylvania where Thomas met and married Martha Keurlis (see above) in 1699. They are 8th great-grandparents in Glenna’s maternal line.
1685 Peter Cleaver and his wife (Gertrud Schumacher) arrived in the port of Philadelphia accompanied by her sister and brother with his daughter, and a cousin. They all emigrated from Kriegsheim, Palatinate, Germany sailing from London on The Francis and Dorothy, Richard Bridgeman, captain. Gertrude would marry Peter Cleaver who arrived six years later. Gertrud and Peteris are 7th great-grandparents in Glenna’s maternal line.
1685/86 Edward Way II sailed from England to Chester, Virginia at the age of 22 or 23. He was part of David’s paternal line.
Abt 1686 Louis Tacquett at the age of one emigrated to the Virginia colonies with his parents as Hugenots they first left France for Enland and shortly after
sailed on to the colonies. It was in1686, the peak of persecutions that Louis XIV boasted that out of a Huguenot population of almost a million only 1,000 or so remained in France (https://biblenumbers.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/1686-ad.pdf). Louis Tacquett is a 7th great-grandfather in Glenna’s maternal line.
possibly to avoid persecution as Mennonites, the faith to which they gave open expression when they arrived in Germantown. They are likely among the earliest Mennonites there, maybe the second Mennonite family. The Concord, also known as the "German Mayflower",sailed from Rotterdam on July 6 1683 under Captain William Jeffries, bringing the first group of German emigrants to America. On board the galleon were 13 Mennonite families from Krefeld totaling 33 of the 57 passengers. The journey from Germany to Philadelphia (Germantown) took 74 days. (http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jamesbaud&id=I0425 ) Gertrude’s life was one of pain and suffering in many ways. Gertrude experienced an emotional crisis after the birth of one of her children so severe the baptismal her parents had to take responsibility for the child. She died in her early sixties in 1707, one year before the death of Paulus. Paulus and Gertrude are 8th great-grandparents in Glenna’s maternal line.
1683 Pieter Keurlis, his wife Elizabeth (Doors) and their daughter Martha arrived in Germantown, Pennsylvania having emigrated from Germany. Elizabeth likely was Gertrude’s sister. The Keurlises are 8th great-grandparents in Glenna’s maternal line.
1683-1699 John Potts left Llangirrig,,Montgomeryshire,Wales with his wife Elizabeth (McVeigh) and their son Thomas, arriving in Germantown, Pennsylvania where Thomas met and married Martha Keurlis (see above) in 1699. They are 8th great-grandparents in Glenna’s maternal line.
1685 Peter Cleaver and his wife (Gertrud Schumacher) arrived in the port of Philadelphia accompanied by her sister and brother with his daughter, and a cousin. They all emigrated from Kriegsheim, Palatinate, Germany sailing from London on The Francis and Dorothy, Richard Bridgeman, captain. Gertrude would marry Peter Cleaver who arrived six years later. Gertrud and Peteris are 7th great-grandparents in Glenna’s maternal line.
1685/86 Edward Way II sailed from England to Chester, Virginia at the age of 22 or 23. He was part of David’s paternal line.
Abt 1686 Louis Tacquett at the age of one emigrated to the Virginia colonies with his parents as Hugenots they first left France for Enland and shortly after
sailed on to the colonies. It was in1686, the peak of persecutions that Louis XIV boasted that out of a Huguenot population of almost a million only 1,000 or so remained in France (https://biblenumbers.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/1686-ad.pdf). Louis Tacquett is a 7th great-grandfather in Glenna’s maternal line.
Contemporary cartoon depicting French policies towards the
Huguenots,a “dragonnade” or “dragon” was a type of musket
used by cavalry,hence “dragon missionnere”, “dragonnade
missionary”
https://kickasshistory.wordpress.com/page/5/
Huguenots,a “dragonnade” or “dragon” was a type of musket
used by cavalry,hence “dragon missionnere”, “dragonnade
missionary”
https://kickasshistory.wordpress.com/page/5/
Abt 1686 Mary (Spiller) Tacquett emigratedfrom England to Virginia, likely with her husband Lewis and her mother Rachel Tacquett. Rachel was the older sister of Mary’s father-in-law. While logical, this conflicts with other reports that indicate Lewis came to America with his parents at the age of one. She is a 7th great-grandmother in Glenna’s maternal line.
Abt 1686 John Henry Sprogell left Wolfskrug, Rendsburg-Eckernforde, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, coming to Berks County, Pennsylvania sometime near the birth of his daughter Anna. He is an 8th great-grandfather in Glenna’s maternal line.
1675-1692 The wife of George Northrop, Susannah emigrated from England to Philadelphia where she and George met and married in 1692. She and George are 6th great-grandparents in Glenna’s paternal line.
1669-1693 It is not clear exactly when Arnold and Rebecca (Nuzam) Kuster, the parents of Paulus, made their journey from Kaldendirchen, Rheinland, Germany to Pennsylvania. It seems logical that they would have made the journey with Gertude, but could have come earlier with Paulus’ first trip. They are 7th great-grandparents in Glenna’s maternal line.
Abt 1686 John Henry Sprogell left Wolfskrug, Rendsburg-Eckernforde, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, coming to Berks County, Pennsylvania sometime near the birth of his daughter Anna. He is an 8th great-grandfather in Glenna’s maternal line.
1675-1692 The wife of George Northrop, Susannah emigrated from England to Philadelphia where she and George met and married in 1692. She and George are 6th great-grandparents in Glenna’s paternal line.
1669-1693 It is not clear exactly when Arnold and Rebecca (Nuzam) Kuster, the parents of Paulus, made their journey from Kaldendirchen, Rheinland, Germany to Pennsylvania. It seems logical that they would have made the journey with Gertude, but could have come earlier with Paulus’ first trip. They are 7th great-grandparents in Glenna’s maternal line.
Historical Note: Pennsylvania
Interestingly, the name Pennsylvania began to be used by cartographers at roughly the same time William Penn secured the land grant from Charles II (1682) in England. John Seller was the first English mapmaker to compete with the Dutch cartographers, publishing Atlas Maritimus of 1682 contained the map "A Chart of the Sea Coasts" and was the first map to show Philadelphia by name. One year later Atlas Maritimus included a new map, "A New Mapp of the World", that was the inaugural appearance of Pennsylvania on a map of the world.
John Seller's New Jersey
http://www.mapsofpa.com/article3.htm
1685-1708 Joseph Haslip left England, possibly with his father Thomas in 1699, and settled I n Anne Arundel, Maryland. He is an 8th great-grandfather in David’s paternal line.
Historical Note: Welsh Migration
“Until the late 17th century, most emigration from Wales had been on an individual basis.
However, when Charles II was restored to the English throne in 1660, he instigated a wave of religious intolerance which threatened the rights of several groups to worship in the way that they chose. Significant numbers of people - in some cases, whole communities - began to leave Wales.
The Court of Great Sessions in Bala, North Wales, threatened to burn Quakers, prompting the Welsh Quakers to acquire land (approximately 40,000 acres) in and around what is now Pennsylvania. They emigrated there in 1682.
In 1683, Baptists from mid and west Wales made the journey to Philadelphia, where they settled and acquired 30,000 acres of land on the banks of the Delaware River. http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/history/sites/themes/society/migration_northamerica.shtml
“Until the late 17th century, most emigration from Wales had been on an individual basis.
However, when Charles II was restored to the English throne in 1660, he instigated a wave of religious intolerance which threatened the rights of several groups to worship in the way that they chose. Significant numbers of people - in some cases, whole communities - began to leave Wales.
The Court of Great Sessions in Bala, North Wales, threatened to burn Quakers, prompting the Welsh Quakers to acquire land (approximately 40,000 acres) in and around what is now Pennsylvania. They emigrated there in 1682.
In 1683, Baptists from mid and west Wales made the journey to Philadelphia, where they settled and acquired 30,000 acres of land on the banks of the Delaware River. http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/history/sites/themes/society/migration_northamerica.shtml
1698 Coming in that first wave of Welsh immigrants, our ancestors boarded the ship Robert and Elizabeth on 3 April 1698 and finally cleared Liverpool fifteen days later. Leaving intense persecution behind, In spite of the cramped conditions their hopes must have soared as they got underway; they were leaving the pain and sorrows of religious persecution behind. They had no idea that tragedy was again to overtake them in the coming eleven week voyage to Pennsylvania. During that passage 45 of the Wales émigrés would die of dysentery. Martha (Caimot) Hugh, an 8th greawt-grandmother in Glenna’s line would be one of these; her husband John and son Ellis survived. Also 8th great-grandparents in this line and surviving this tragic voyage were Edward and Ellin (Hugh) Foulke and their nine children, including Jane who later married Ellis Hugh. Edward and his family were from Merionethshire, Wales, and after arriving in the New World he “took up seven hundred and twelve acres in Gwynedd township, then Philadelphia county.
The overwhelming nature of this tragedy is heard in words penned by Robert Foulke, himself:
“But in process of time I had an inclination to remove with my family to the Province of Pensilvania; and in order thereto, we set out on the 3d. Day of the 2d. Month, A. D. l6g8, and came in two days to Liverpool, where, with divers others who intended to go the voyage, we took shipping the 17th of the same month on board the Robert and Elizabeth, and the next day set sail for Ireland, where we arrived and staid until the first of the third month, May, and then sailed again for Pennsylvania, and were about eleven weeks at sea. And the sore distemper of the bloody flux broke out in the vessel, of which died in our passage, five and forty persons. The distemper was so mortal that two or three corpses were cast overboard every day while it lasted. "But through the favor and mercy of Divine Providence, I with my wife and nine children escaped that sore mortality, and arrived safe in Philadelphia, the 17th of the Sth Month, July, where we were kindly received and hospitably entertained by our friends and old acquaintance.” https://www.pinterest.com/pin/7529524348020095/
The ship and its surviving passengers arrived in the port of Philadelphia, PA on the 17th of July, 1698.
1698 Hans and Jennekin (Blomen) de Neus traveled from Lurrip (near Krefeld), Pfalz, Germany also settled in Germantown, Pennsylvania and were 6th great-grandparents in Glenna’s paternal line.
1700 Rev. Bartholomew Yates,an 8th great-grandfather in Glenna’s maternal line, left Donnigton Parish, Shropshire, England for the colonies, settling in Christ Church Parish, Middlesex, Virginia. There he married Sarah Stanard, the grandauther of Edwin and Martha Conway, 10th great-grandparents in Glenna’s maternal line.
1680/1709 Francis Donnaly and his wife Sarah emigrated Ireland and settled in Augusta County, Virginia. They are 8th great-grandparents in David’s paternal line.
The overwhelming nature of this tragedy is heard in words penned by Robert Foulke, himself:
“But in process of time I had an inclination to remove with my family to the Province of Pensilvania; and in order thereto, we set out on the 3d. Day of the 2d. Month, A. D. l6g8, and came in two days to Liverpool, where, with divers others who intended to go the voyage, we took shipping the 17th of the same month on board the Robert and Elizabeth, and the next day set sail for Ireland, where we arrived and staid until the first of the third month, May, and then sailed again for Pennsylvania, and were about eleven weeks at sea. And the sore distemper of the bloody flux broke out in the vessel, of which died in our passage, five and forty persons. The distemper was so mortal that two or three corpses were cast overboard every day while it lasted. "But through the favor and mercy of Divine Providence, I with my wife and nine children escaped that sore mortality, and arrived safe in Philadelphia, the 17th of the Sth Month, July, where we were kindly received and hospitably entertained by our friends and old acquaintance.” https://www.pinterest.com/pin/7529524348020095/
The ship and its surviving passengers arrived in the port of Philadelphia, PA on the 17th of July, 1698.
1698 Hans and Jennekin (Blomen) de Neus traveled from Lurrip (near Krefeld), Pfalz, Germany also settled in Germantown, Pennsylvania and were 6th great-grandparents in Glenna’s paternal line.
1700 Rev. Bartholomew Yates,an 8th great-grandfather in Glenna’s maternal line, left Donnigton Parish, Shropshire, England for the colonies, settling in Christ Church Parish, Middlesex, Virginia. There he married Sarah Stanard, the grandauther of Edwin and Martha Conway, 10th great-grandparents in Glenna’s maternal line.
1680/1709 Francis Donnaly and his wife Sarah emigrated Ireland and settled in Augusta County, Virginia. They are 8th great-grandparents in David’s paternal line.