Hi Joan, The connections between Phildelphia and the West Indies is also an area of interest that I have in my family research. Can you give more details and sources? Were these brothers both born in America? Do you know if they were practising Quakers or nominal ones? Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joan Higgins" <jmhiggins@comcast.net> To: <CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 1:28 PM Subject: Isaac Streaper > Hello, > I am deep into the Streeper family research. > > My research tells me that an Isaac Streaper went to the West Indies in 1796. > He would have been about 19 years old. He may have had some money to buy > property. His family was of Quaker heritage and of German/Dutch/Palatine > descent. > > Later, his brother, Richard, is a confectioner, not a baker, at the port of > Philadelphia. It sounds like he handled sugar. > > How could I learn more about Isaac? > > Streeper can be spelled many ways. This branch of the family spelled it > Streaper most often. > > Thanks so much for any help or advice that anyone can give. > > Sincerely yours, > Joan Higgins > > > > ==== CARIBBEAN Mailing List ==== > ROOTSWEB MAILING LIST HELP PAGES > What is a Mailing List? > http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/help/mail1.html > >

Connie I have also sent this to you as I know you are interested in the West Indies. Richard, You asked, "Can you give more details and sources?" *-*-*-*-* My answer - William Penn was given the land in the New world because he and his Quaker buddies were a thorn in the side of the King. Penn had been imprisoned but apparently his father had some connections and figured away to free his son and get him out of everybody's hair by giving him land. William or some one close to him suggested that he develop the land. A man named Holmes laid out Philadelphia in blocks between 2 rivers. The people from Europe, in the area that we now call Holland and Germany, were also undergoing Religious persecution. Penn's emissary laid out a plan of Religious freedom to them and "invited" the tradesman to come to America. In 1683 first of that group arrived, William Streyper, a weaver, was among the "Original 13" heads of households. The cleric Daniel Pastorius arrived soon after. It is said that when he met William Penn he was so impressed that he became a Quaker. Many of the Original 13 settlers, from "the Palatines" as they are sometimes called, also became Quakers. In 1688 Daniel Pastorius drafted the first protest against slavery in America. You asked, "Were these brothers both born in America?" *-*-*-*-* My answer - Yes, they were probably born in Merion, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. My source for this is the estate records of their Father, Lt. Abraham Streaper; he was the great grandson of William Streyper, the 1683 immigrant. You asked, "Do you know if they were practising Quakers or nominal ones?" *-*-*-*-* My answer -- I beleive they were nominal ones. They lived next to the Merion Meeting house and probably attended some meetings and their life style seemed to uphold many of the Quaker beliefs. The record of the Free black man is part of the census records for their houshold. As near as I can figured both of Isaac's parents, Abraham Streaper and his wife Hannah Roberts, were raised Quaker. (Hannah is the daughter of Phineas ROBERTS and Anne WYNN.) Abraham's father died and when his mother remarried she was "Written Out" of the Monthly Meetings. The excerpt from the Abington Monthly Meeting, that I read, started "Mary Streeper Guilty of Fornication". It was so brutal, I think it shocked the young Abraham. He and his bride Hannah Roberts were not married as true Quakers should be. Hannah petitions and is given a letter to take to her new Meeting. I did not find any evidence that she continued to be part of the monthly meetings although she may have attended the weekly meetings in Merion. Isaac has another brother William who eventually is recorded as being a Quaker, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Some additional information -- Isaac also had neighbor and probably distant relatives in the "West Indies" Isaac's next door neighboor Joseph Price wrote a diary. (Joseph Price (1752-1828), was the fourth generation of that Quaker family to live in Lower Merion.) This diary told of Isaac going to West India, "... August 26, 1796 Isaac there Just agooing to Set of[f] to the West India" also the return of , "...Esqr Curwen & Son George their He Just returnd from West Indias " also the loss of a ship in June 3, 1798 ...Rees Price his Son Edward their been at Sea or West Indien Islands this two years, Came to New York had the Command of fine 3 Mast brig Harmony Loaded with Navel Store, & founderd in about 24 hours after he went out, She up Set in Whirl Wind, 9 or 10 hands Drowned, the Rest about 10 Savd by hanging on the Rock, the Sea Roaring overing [over] them, was taken up by a vessel after 15 or 16 hours, Lost Cargo Ship & his all " You can read Joseph Price Diary on-line at http://www.lowermerionhistory.org/texts/price/ Here is a link for Pastorius and Germantown http://www.ushistory.org/germantown/people/pastorius.htm Here is a link which deals with the "Original 13" http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Eoriginal13/index.htm The library at Swarthmore College has many records for the Philadelphia Quakers. http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/ Happy Hunting, Joan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Allicock" <richwyn@idirect.com> To: <CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 4:27 AM Subject: Re: Isaac Streaper > Hi Joan, > > The connections between Phildelphia and the West Indies is also an area of > interest that I have in my family research. Can you give more details and > sources? Were these brothers both born in America? Do you know if they were > practising Quakers or nominal ones? > > Richard > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joan Higgins" <jmhiggins@comcast.net> > To: <CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 1:28 PM > Subject: Isaac Streaper > > > > Hello, > > I am deep into the Streeper family research. > > > > My research tells me that an Isaac Streaper went to the West Indies in > 1796. > > He would have been about 19 years old. He may have had some money to buy > > property. His family was of Quaker heritage and of German/Dutch/Palatine > > descent. > > > > Later, his brother, Richard, is a confectioner, not a baker, at the port > of > > Philadelphia. It sounds like he handled sugar. > > > > How could I learn more about Isaac? > > > > Streeper can be spelled many ways. This branch of the family spelled it > > Streaper most often. > > > > Thanks so much for any help or advice that anyone can give. > > > > Sincerely yours, > > Joan Higgins > > > > > > > > ==== CARIBBEAN Mailing List ==== > > ROOTSWEB MAILING LIST HELP PAGES > > What is a Mailing List? > > http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/help/mail1.html > > > > > > > ==== CARIBBEAN Mailing List ==== > For information on individual islands, research aids, island bulletin boards or history please visit the CaribbeanGenWeb project at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~caribgw/ >

Richard and all, I just found this site of "Quaker" links. http://www.quaker.org/chestnuthill/qlinks.htm Joan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Allicock" <richwyn@idirect.com> To: <CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 4:27 AM Subject: Re: Isaac Streaper > Hi Joan, > > The connections between Phildelphia and the West Indies is also an area of > interest that I have in my family research. Can you give more details and > sources? Were these brothers both born in America? Do you know if they were > practising Quakers or nominal ones? > > Richard > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joan Higgins" <jmhiggins@comcast.net> > To: <CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 1:28 PM > Subject: Isaac Streaper > > > > Hello, > > I am deep into the Streeper family research. > > > > My research tells me that an Isaac Streaper went to the West Indies in > 1796. > > He would have been about 19 years old. He may have had some money to buy > > property. His family was of Quaker heritage and of German/Dutch/Palatine > > descent. > > > > Later, his brother, Richard, is a confectioner, not a baker, at the port > of > > Philadelphia. It sounds like he handled sugar. > > > > How could I learn more about Isaac? > > > > Streeper can be spelled many ways. This branch of the family spelled it > > Streaper most often. > > > > Thanks so much for any help or advice that anyone can give. > > > > Sincerely yours, > > Joan Higgins > > > > > > > > ==== CARIBBEAN Mailing List ==== > > ROOTSWEB MAILING LIST HELP PAGES > > What is a Mailing List? > > http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/help/mail1.html > > > > > > > ==== CARIBBEAN Mailing List ==== > For information on individual islands, research aids, island bulletin boards or history please visit the CaribbeanGenWeb project at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~caribgw/ >