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    1. Re: [PABUCKS] Emigrants to Pennsylvania
    2. Tootsie
    3. Thank you Tom for such a kind offer. I am interested in George Pownall is my line. Tootsie Shoemaker Michigan ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 9:31 PM Subject: [PABUCKS] Emigrants to Pennsylvania >I happened to come across an interesting source that might be helpful to > some of you on this list.. In the document "Immigrants to Pennsylvania, > 1600s-1800s" there is a section titled "Emigrants to Pennsylvania, > 1641-1819, A > Partial List of the Families Who Resided in Bucks Co., PA, Prior to 1687". > It's > just twelve pages, but I found my ancestor, "Richard Hough, of > Macclesfield, > in the County of Cheshire, chapman. Arrived in Deleware (sic) river in > the > 'Endeavor,' of London, George Thorp, Mr. [master], the 29th 7th Mo., > 1683. > Servants, Franfcis Hough, to serve 2 years, and to have 50 acres of land; > loose > the 29th 7th Mo,,1685. Thomas Wood and Mary Wood, his wife; he to serve 5 > years and she 4 years, and each to have 50 acres of land. James Sutton, > to > serve 4 years, to have 8 L [pounds] 15s. per Annum, and 50 acres of land > at the > expiration of the term." On the same page I found his wife's family: > "John > Clows, of Gosworth, in the County of Chester, yeoman, and Marjory, his > wife. > Arrived in the aforesaid ship, the time aforesaid. Children, Marjory, > Rebecca, and William Clows. Servamts. Kpse[j Chorley, to serve 2 years; > loose > the 29th 7th Mo., 1685. To have 50 acres of land. Samuel Hough, 5o > serve 4 > years; loose the 29th 7th Mo., 1687. To have 50 acres of land. John > Richardson, to serve 4 years; loose the 29th 7th Mo., 1687. To have 50 > acres of land." > > Looks like there might have been a shipboard romance, as Richard Hough > later > married Marjory Clows. Or maybe their families were acquainted in > Chester. > > Other families in the list: > George Pownall > William Yardley Charles Biles > Robert Lucas > Luke Brinley Thomas Janney > Daniel Brinson > John Clows, Jr George Stone > John Hough > John Brock Gilbert Wheeler > William Dark > Ann Milcom John Chapman > Randulph Blackshaw > William Venables Ellin Pearson > James Harrison > John Heycoc Ann Peacock > Phineas Pemberton > Henry Marjorum Henry Paxson > Ralph Pemberton > William Beakes Thomas Paxson > Robert Bond > Anrew Ellet John Palmer > Ellis Jones > John Purslow Richard Ridgway > James Mode > John Rowland Samuel Dare > Lydia Wharnby > Thomas Rowland Ann Knight > James Clayton > Joshua Boare Joshua Hoops > David Hall > William Buckman William Bennet > Richard Lundy > Gideon Gambell Lionel Brittain > Elizabeth Bennet > William Biles Thomas Fitzwater > Edmund Cutler > John Cutler David Davis > Richard Amor > James Ditworth Edward Stanton > Peter Worral > > If any of these names is meaningful to you, I'll send you the text. > > Tom Aiken > Virginia Beach > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

    02/08/2007 04:40:59