Woody and List: Here is another cross posting from Quaker Roots. Herbert is held in High Esteem. Kate Kellum Billett snooks1@frontiernet.net Dear List Members: I have received a request from Kate Ross --- jkross4@yahoo.com --- that I post to the QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb mailing list a copy of the e-mail which I posted to Kate Ross dated 02/12/2001. It includes information not readily available which may be of interest to many. Therefore, I will post a substantial portion of this e-mail: (I had sent her by post certain portions of Vol. I of "Some Quaker Families: Scarborough/Haworth" --- since she lives in a remote situation where this set of books is not available to her.) -------- In response to your questions, I must say that I fear that I don't know much about your Fisher family. My mother's ancestors, except for one little branch, tended to settle in Delaware and Chester Counties in Pennsylvania and in northern Delaware, except for some who lived in lower Virginia in Colonial times. I am a descendant of a Thomas Brown who married Ruth Large in Buckingham Meeting, Bucks County, in 1716. They later moved down to Hopewell in northern Virginia.----I have seen Buckingham Meetinghouse, also Falls Meetinghouse at Fallsington, and also Wrightstown Meetinghouse, but not Solebury. ----- I did not have any part in compiling the first volume of the Scarborough/Haworth genealogy, but I contributed some items of information concerning members of later generations who lived in Iowa and the Midwest. ------ I do know something about a Fisher family who settled in Sussex County, Delaware in the general vicinity of the town of Lewes. I do not know how they were related to the Bucks County family of Fishers, but there must have been some relation. ---- About twenty years ago I wrote a paper, "Quakers in Delaware in the Time of William Penn", which was published in the Fall-Winter issue of "Delaware History", the publication of the Historical Society of Delaware. In this paper I had a section, "The Friends in Lower Delaware". Following are some excerpts from this section: "There had been a Quaker presence in Lewes from as early as 1678. William Clark (or Clarke) settled there at about that time. He was one of six businessmen living in the vicinity of Dublin, Ireland, who had joined together in 1677 to purchase a proprietary share in West Jersey lands from Edward Bylling. William Clark arrived in New Jersey late in 1677, but he soon made his way across the Delaware River to what became Sussex County, Delaware.---- "While William Clark was considered to be the most prominent Quaker in Lewes during his lifetime, it appears that the Fisher famillly was primarily responsible for the continuing presence of Quakerism in Lewes. John and Margaret Fisher and their sons, Thomas and John, had arrived in the Pennsylvania colony in 1682. John Fisher, Sr. had acquired property in the vicinity of Lewes, believing that the new city of Philadelphia was being built too far upstream on the Delawarea River to become a viable port. However, he spent much of his time in Philadelphia, where he was involved in governmental matters. His career in the new land was brief, since he died in 1685/86. "Thomas Fisher was probably scarcely seventeen years old when his father died, but he soon took charge of the family affairs. In 1692 he married Mary Maude, daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth Maude. They had four daughters and three sons. Thomas Fisher was a member of the Provincial Assembly in 1697 and in 1700.. " On 6-16-1712 Thomas Fisher and Cornelius Wiltbank attended Duck Creek Monthly Meeting and requested that a Meeting be settled in the Lewes area, to meet at Lewes one week and at the home of Cornelius Wiltbank the other. However, Thomas Fisher probably became ill shortly after this and died in 1713/14. A recognized Friends Meeting was not established in the area until 1720 when Cold Spring (or Cool Spring) Meeting was organized. It was locaated about eight miles outside of Lewes. The Meeting was discontinued in 1817. "---- The Rowland and Miers families were associated with the Lewes Quaker community from early times. Samuel Rowland had come to Sussex County from England in 1682. His son, Thomas Rowland, married Sarah Miers, daughter of John and Mary (Haworth Miers. James Miers, son of John and Mary, married Margery Fisher, sister of Thomas Fisher. As the years went by, the Fisher, Rowland, and Miers families became even more interrelated." (Accompanying note: For an extensive account of John Fisher and his descendants, see Ann Wharton Smith, "Genealogy of the Fisher Family" (Philadelphia, 1896), particularly 9-36.) (Writing twenty years later, I remember that certain members of the Delaware Fisher family migrated to Philadelphia, perhaps during the time of the Revolutionary War and in years following. Miers Fisher was prominent in Philadelphia affairs.) Your letter mentions George Haworth. It appears that this George Haworth was a brother of Mary (Haworth) Miers, wife of James Miers. George Haworth evidently visited the Miers home on the "Whorekill" (lower Delaware} upon arriving in the new land from England and wrote letters to his family in England before proceeding to Bucks County. As I remember it, I found a copy of the Fisher Family genealogy by Anna Wharton Smith , in the library of the Quaker Collection of the Magill Library at Haverford College outside of Philadelphia. The book is probably fairly rare and available for reading only in some of the larger Quaker libraries and in historical libraries in the Philadephia area. ----- I have been away from the large Quaker libraries for so long, that I do not have any other source books in mind about Bucks County Quaker families that I know would be helpful. I hope that others with whom you correspond may give you suggestions. This is about all I can say for now. ----- Herbert Standing.