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    1. [Q-R] RE: FW: [Hope CLIFTON, Christopher HOLDER] plus SHATTUCK and NORTON
    2. S. Newton
    3. I do not have a list of Quakers on the 1661 charter voyage to Boston. Samuel Shattuck for sure, and probably Nicholas Phelps and Josiah Southwick, who fled to England from Boston with Shattuck. I speculate that Christopher and Mary Holder--with baby Mary?--might also have sailed with Shattuck on the Ralph Goldsmith ship the Quakers chartered, for Christopher had helped prepare the case which Edward Burrough took to the king, and the Holders were settled at Newport by 1662. Humphrey Norton, who came to America on the Woodhouse in 1657, seems to have been from Co. Durham, in the North, and to have spent some time in Ireland as a Quaker missionary. He was cruelly treated during his American imprisonments and returned to England embittered. I have not been able to tell from what I have read whether he dropped out of the Quaker movement completely or not. The Index to Besse's record of early Quaker Sufferings lists several other Nortons but no Joseph. There were two Nortons in Yorkshire, one in the East Riding near Malton, and one in the West Riding near Sheffield. Two Nortons in Lincolnshire were excommunicated as Quakers in 1663/4. Richard Norton of Essex had goods taken in the late 1650s. Wm. Norton, a long-time prisoner in Sussex, was released by the Gen. Pardon of 1672. Fox called on a widow Norton in VA in 1672. Katharine McLaughlin, who grew up near Coleraine, in northern Ireland, in a “good family,” took ship for Barbados at 16 and married someone there named Norton. She was convinced of Quakerism when the Fox party came to the island in 1671, and in the winter of 1677/8, returned to her homeland as a traveling minister, one of the only Friends to reach out to the non-English population of Ireland by preaching in the marketplace in Irish. -- S. Newton

    01/23/2009 05:27:52