Petitions and Passes

Petitions and Passes Annotations by HANNAH BENNER ROACH, F.G.S.P., F.A.S.G. T HIS third installment continues the entries extracted from Volume XII of The Minutes of the Supreme Executive Council (Harrisburg, 1853). For prior similar entries see the No. 3 and No. 4 issues of Volume XXVI (1970) of this Magazine. Since the extracts presented here are often condensed and not given verbatim, the interested reader is directed to the appropriate entry in the Minutes for a literal account. All pertinent data, however, is included in the present extracts. 1781 2 January: Petition rejected of MARY BRYAN for pass to New York. Pass for CATHERINE HOLMES to New York, she not to return again. 8 January: Pass for MRS. STANSBURY, wife of Joseph Stansbury,' six children, a servant maid, with her cloathing, bedding, etc. Pass for CLEMENT STOCKER, now of New York, son of Anthony Stocker, to come from New York in order to settle the accounts of the partnership between the said Anthony and His Excellency Thomas Wharton, Jr., late President of this State, with his books of accounts. 15 February: Pass for MRS. ELIZABETH PETIT to New York, she not to return during the present war. 19 February: Petition granted of Mary Hamilton, widow, for a pass for her son WILLIAM HAMILTON 2 to return to this State for four to six weeks in order to compleat the settlement of his affairs. 7 March: Petition granted of John, Frederick, Peter and Jacob Kuhn for a pass for their brother DR. ADAM KUHN to return and reside in this State. 12 March: Petition rejected of EDWARD DAVIS and wife ANN for a pass to go to New York. 1 See this Magazine, XXVI (No. 4, 1970), 261, for entries of 13, 18 December 1780, relating to the Stansburys. /bid., 261, for William Hamilton entry of 21 November 1780. 2 Early in October, 1780, on ho arrival from St. Croix by way of New York under a pass from Sir George Bridgers Rodney, Dr. Kuhn had been examined by the Council and, as very suspicious character, whose going at large is dangerous to the Commonwealth,” was committed to the new prison. Three days later he was ordered to depart the state with his wife and family, and to give £100,500 security not to return during the war. Minutes, XII, 501, 504, cited 41 the text. 119 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 120 16 March: Passes for ANN SHEEPSHANKS, DOROTHY COOK and MARY TURNER to New York, they not to return again. 22 March: Pass granted for ALICE BROTHERS to the city of New York, she not to return again. 26 March: Petition rejected of MARY EMMES for a pass to New York. 28 March: Pass granted for SAMUEL JACKSON to the city of New York, he not to return during the present war without the special permission of this Board. 5 April: Petitions rejected for passes to New York for JOHN BATES, CHRISTIANA PHILIPS, and of James Clark for his daughter JANE BosWELL. 16 April: Pass for SAMUEL and DAVID POTTS to Elizabethtown in New Jersey to meet their brother John Potts who is about to embark for England. Pass for ISAAC HICKS of Bucks County and his family to go to New York, they not to return during the war. 18 April: Petition rejected for a pass for BARBARA Pow SON to New York. 19 April: Petition granted of Captain Stephen Decatur for his mother PRECILLA [sic] DECATUR TO come from New York to this city. 28 April: Petition rejected of SUSANNA COLLINGS to go to New York. IT May: Pass for MRS. ELIZABETH Fox, wife of John Fox,' late of Philadelphia, an attainted traitor, to go to New York, she giving security not to return again without permission of this Council. 2 June: Pass for MARY HARDING to New York, she giving security not to return without special permission. 4 June: Pass for JOHN DEANS to New York, he to give security not to return without permission of this Board. 8 June: On petition of SARAH BALL for a pass to New York and return, ordered a pass on condition she give security not to return during the present war. ', Her husband, John Eames, a river pilot, was reported to have deserted from the State Genies and joined the British Navy, but was recaptured and tried by court-martial in September, 1779, after an imprisonment of some fifteen months. He was released by m order of the Continental Congress, dated 4 November 1779. He had married Mary Mitchell by license dated 20 April 1771, and they had lived on Elfreth's Alley in 1774 and 1770. See also William Bell Clark, "James Josiah, Master Mariner," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and BiograPhy (PMHB), LXXIX (1933), 418, 463; Pennsylvania Archives [1st Series}, VII, 704. 0 They were the sons of R&M Potts (1710-1760) and his wife Ruth Savage. John Potts, the younger, had been proclaimed a traitor by the Act of Assembly of 6 March 1778. A cutler by trade, John Pox had been proclaimed a traitor 27 July 1710. Pennsylvania Archives, sod Serie', X, 138. Petitions and Passes 121 14 June: Pass for FRANCIS OBERLIN,' merchant of Northampton County, and his family to New York, he to give security not to return during the war. 27 June: Petition from SAMUEL YORK to go to Elizabeth Town in New Jersey to meet his brother Thomas York,' dismissed. 9 July: Pass for ANN FLORENTINE to New York, she giving security not to return during the war. 10 July: Pass for JOHN FREDERICK REICHEL,' Missionary of the United Brethern [sic] Church, now sojourning at Bethlehem in the forks of the Delaware, to return to Saxony, the place of his residence, by way of New York, with his wife, the son of Mr. Sweinitz of Bethlehem, a child of about ten years old, and a servant man; he to give security not to return to this State or any of the United States during the war. Pass for BENJAMIN SHOEMAKER to Shrewsbury, New Jersey, and return, for the recovery of his health. 28 July: Pass for ELIZABETH WADE and her daughter to New York, on condition she give security not to return again. 2 August: Pass for CHRISTIANA Pkinirs to New York, she giving sufficient security not to return again during the continuance of the war. 14 August: A pass for WILLIAM KREAMER to go into the city of New York, on the recommendation of John Phile and Isaac Jones, Overseers of the Poor, said Kreamer being likely to become a publick charge to this city. 15 August: Pass for SAMUEL SIMPSON of Philadelphia County, and his two sons, BENJAMIN and WILLIAM, to go to New York, and from thence to Ireland, in order to recover an estate lately devised them by the last will and testament of Benjamin Simpson. Samuel Simpson to produce a certificate from the Lieutenant of his county that they have paid their militia fines, and also of their having taken the oaths or affirmations of allegiance to this State. 16 August: Pass for MARGARET MAGUIRE to Charlestown, within the enemy's lines, she to give security not to return again during the war. "i He had been manager of the Bethlehem Stage in the rod-1765,. Pennsylvania Gazelle, I November 1764, 26 September 1765. 8 A son of Thomas Yorke and Margaret Robacm, Thomas Yorke was a sailmaker and merchant and had been proclaimed 22 June 1779. Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, X, 536. 0 Reichel had arrived "about Two years age with a few colonists for Pennsylvania and North Carolina. His purpose was to visit the various Moravim congregations and then to return to Snotty. His tour was now finished, but the pus he had received on his arrival was nmr expiration. Before returning to Saxony he wanted to visit the "Brethren Congregation at Staten Island and in Nov York and from thence to proteed to Europe." /bid., [1st Series) IX, 265. 2 ° This is the first pass issued 1n Volume XIII of the Minutes. 122 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 24 August: Pass for Thomas Bolesby's daughter MARY BOWLINGS, and her two children to Elizabethtown, New Jersey. Pass for ELIZABETH OTLAHERTY to New York, she giving security not to return during the war. 6 September: The Council, upon reconsidering the case of SAMUEL Simrsox and his sons BENJAMIN and WILLIAM, resolved that the resolution of this Board of 15 August last, as respects their taking the oath of allegiance to this State, previous to their obtaining permission to go into New York, be dispensed with. 14 September: Pass for BENJAMIN DUNCAN to go to New York, he not to return again. 18 September: Pass for ELIZABETH HYDE to New York, she giving security not to return during the war. 26 October: Petition dismissed of Richard Rundle in behalf of DANIEL RUNDLE " for a pass for said Daniel to come from New York to Philadelphia. 7 November: Pass for John Swanwick's " mother MARY SWANWICK. and MARY CONNOR to Elizabethtown and to return. Pass for ANNE MOORE to New York, she giving security not to return during the war. 21 November: Petition rejected of MARY EDDY " for a pass to the city of New York. On petition of Sarah Coombe for JoHN COOMBE, son of the Reverend Thomas Coombe," late of Philadelphia, for a pass to go to New York, granted. 22 November: Pass for MARTHA ROBBINS to the city of New York, she not to return again during the present war. 26 November: Pass for THOMAS PIXLEY to go to New York, and thence to England granted on condition he do not return again. 28 November: Pass for MRS. MARY LAWRENCE " and her daughter 11 A merchant in the city, Daniel Rundle had been in partnership with Richard Roadie, vmdue master. Daniel had been proclaimed 27 July 1780. Ibid., 3rd Series, X, 538. Although the news of Cornwallis's surrender had been received on 24 October, the Council did not intend to relax its caution until the British evacuated New York. 50 See Volume XXVI, 260, of this Magazine for a petition from John Swanwick on 10 November 1780. 16 She had kept an ironmongery store in Second Street, and may have been the widow of James Eddy, merchant. The Charles and Thomas Eddy who were both ironmongen of Philadelphia and were proscribed 22 June 1779 and 27 July 1780, were probably her sons. Pennsylvania journal, 5 August 1772, 21 January 1778; Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, XIV, 154, 246; ibid., X, 536, 537. ' 5 5m Volume XXVI, 171, of this Magazine, for a prior notice of the Reverend Thomas Coombe on 17 September 1778. no present petition was offered by his maher, the former Sarah Rutter, for her grandson John, born in October, 1778, the child's mother, Sarah (Badger) Coombe, wife of the Reverend Thames, having died at his birth. See The Evening Post, 19 October 1778. , 18 She was the widow of Thomas Lawrence (d. 1775), former Mayor of Philadelphia, and daughter of Lewis Morris of Morris.* New York. Charles P. Keith, Provincial Councillors of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1883), 433-434. Petitions and Passes 123 MARY LAWRENCE to go to New York, not to return during the war, and a pass for JOHN LAWRENCE and STAATS LAWRENCE to g0 to Elizabeth town. 12 December: Petition rejected of Amos Wilkinson in behalf of MRS. MARY TURNER to come from New York to see her friends. 18 December: Petition granted of William Semple " for a pass for his brother ALEXANDER SEMPLE, to come from New York to Philadelphia, Alexander to take the oath of allegiance to the State on his arrival here; permission for WILLiAm SEMPLE to go to Elizabethtown. 19 December: Petition granted of John Stile for a pass for EDWARD YORK " (a lad of about twelve years of age) to go to New York. 24 December: Pass for BARBARA YOUNG to New York, she giving security not to return during the war. 28 December: Pass for MRS. SARAH TRICKET 18 to go to the city of New York, she giving security not to return during the war. 1782 9 January: Pass for CATHARINE LIKENS to go to Elizabethtown, but not to New York as requested. 18 January: Pass for JUDITH ELDERTON to New York, she giving security not to return during the war. 26 January: Pass for MARCUS MCCAUSLAND to Elizabethtown and return, but not to New York and return as requested. 30 January: Pass for JOHN Hiu. to Elizabethtown and return, but not to New York and return as requested. 31 January: Pass for WILLIAM BENNET'. to Elizabethtown and return, but not for him, his wife and son Barnet to New York and return as requested. 4 February: Passes for JOSEPH EGG, and for MARY REINE and MICHAEL REINE " to Elizabethtown and return. 06 H. had been appointed Sub-Lieutenant of the City Militia ist July, 1777. The Evening Post, 10 July 1777. April 1781, and his wife Sarah Mille, who subsequently married Thomas Vanderpool. At the time of the application, she was living at the maltase corner of Second Street and Elfreth's Alley. " She was the widow of William Trick., a stationer and bookbinder from London who had died in the fall of 1780. They had lived on Front Street "neat door to the Coffee House." Philadelphia Administration Book I, 30, #37:1780. Evening Post, 24 November 1778; Pennsylvania Packet, 21 September 1779. " Possibly the John Hill, limeburner of Buckingham Township, Bucks County, who had been proclaimed 15 June 1778, Pennsylvania Archives, sod Series, X, 256. 2. Mary and Michael keine rnay have had some relationship to the George and John Rid., of Lancaster County who had been proclaimed 18 May 1778. Ibid., 520. 17 He was probably a son of the mariner Edward Yorke who had died 12 124 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 21 February: Pass for MARTHA TODD to Elizabethtown and return. 22 February: Pass for RACHEL WnrrE " to New York, she not to return; her petition for her son, a boy aged fourteen, to go to New York, rejected. 1 March: Pass for SARAH WHITEBREAD " to New York and return. Pass for LUKE THOMAS to come from New York on petition of his mother Mrs. Elizabeth Sower, he giving £S00 specie security for his good behaviour during the war. 30 March: Pass for MARY KNIGHT to Elizabethtown and return. 3 April: Pass for CAPTAIN JAMES WILSON and MARCUS YOUNG TO L'Orient in France. Passes for OWEN JONES, JR., DEBORAH MITCHELL, ANN HOWELL and MARGARET RHOORBACH TO Elizabethtown and return. 8 April: Pass for SOLOMON MEYERS COHEN " to New York and return. Pass for ISABELLA CAMPBELL to Elizabethtown and return, but not to New York as requested. 10 April: Passes to HENRY GEIGER 24 and JOSEPH STUMP to go to foreign parts, other than the dominions of the King of Great Britain. 23 April: Pass for MRS. SUSANNA LINDLEY to come from New York to Philadelphia. 24 April: Pass for GEORGE INGLIS, on petition of his brother Samuel Inglis," to come from New York, George Inglis to give security of £1000, and two sureties in the sum of £1000 specie each, for his good behaviour during the war, and to take the oath of allegiance to the State. 27 April: Pass to MISS MARGARET HODGE to come from New York to Philadelphia. Passes for JOHN TAYLOR, SARAH COXE " and her three children and servant MARY BRITT to come from New York to Philadelphia, Sarah Coxe and her children and Mary Britt to remain in Philadelphia one week and no longer. 3 May: Pass for THOMAS SIRES, his son JOSEPH and daughter RACHEL, 21 Perhaps she was wife of Robert White, merchant and mariner of Philadelphia, who was proclaimed 30 October 1778. /bid., 821. .2 See this Magazine, 30CVI (No. 1, 1970), 172 for an earlier pass for Sarah Whitebreed. 23 He had fled New York when the British occupied that city. See Edwin Wolf, 2nd, and Maxwell Whiteman, The History of the Pao of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1957), 96, 115, for an account of his activities. 241n 1779 he had been in business with Jacob Geiger at the corner of Market and Third Street, opposite the Old Gad. Pernssylvanis Parket, 28 December 1779. George and Samuel Inglis appear to have been the sons of John Inglis, a native of Scotland, and his wife Catherine McCall, daughter of George and Anne (Yeates) McCall. Sr. Gregory B. Keen, "Descendants of Joran Kyn," PMHB V (1881), 135-339. 2 . She appears to have been the wife of Daniel Core of New jersey, and daughter of John and Mary (Sober) Redman of Philadelphia. Her husband Daniel had been proclaimed 21 May 1778. Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, X, 523. Petitions and Passes 125 on petition of Joseph Hillbourne, to come from New York to Philadelphia, on condition said Sikes report his arrival to the Secretary, take the oath or affirmation of allegiance, give bond for his good behaviour during the war, himself in the sum of £1000 and two sureties in the sum of £1000 each, and if his son is of age, he to also take the oath or affirmation. 6 May: Passes to Elizabethtown for SARAH CRAWFORD, CALEB LOWNES,27 ANNE PLUCKROSE and HANNA JAAnsow. 8 May: Passes to Elizabethtown for JANE DuNN and SARAH BALL. 10 May: Passes for SARAH GUFFEY and SUSANNA EDWARDS to Elizabethtown and to return again. 13 May: Passes for DANIEL HEISTER, JR., ESQUIRE," and for MARY PRICE to Elizabethtown and to return. 14 May: Passes for HANNAH LABBOYTEAU " and ELIZABETH LEE to Elizabethtown and to return. Passes for RACHEL SIRES and HANNAH WRIGHT to Elizabethtown. 15 May: Passes for STJSANNA MORGAN, SYBILLA HOFF, BARBARA DELABAR, and MRS. HAMBLE to Elizabethtown. 16 May: Pass for MARGARET CAIRL to Elizabethtown. 17 May: Pass for SAMUEL CORREY. 18 May: Passes for MARGARET OXLEY and MARGARET LOOFBOROUGH. 20 May: Passes to ELIZABETH COZENS and MARY BAKER to Elizabethtown and to return. 29 May: Pass for MRS. JANE BARTRAM " to come from New York to Philadelphia. 8 June: Pass for CATHERINE MCFEE to Dobbs' Ferry ' 1 on the North River and return, in order to try to obtain a release for her husband Matthew McFee, a prisoner with the enemy, and not to return to New York as requested. A like pass for SARAH WALSH. Petition rejected of Rum HAE-rsHoEN for pass to Elizabethtown. 10 June: Pass for MARGARET MUNN to Dobbs' Ferry and return, but not to New York as requested. 12 June: Passes for KITTY CASWELL and for SAR.AH COCHRAN to Dobbs' Ferry and return. 27 An engraver, III 1779 Lownes had cut a seal for the Court of Admiralty. Minute; XII, 102. 28 Ten days after the pass was granted, he was elected a brigadier general of the militia by the Council. Minnie+, XIII, 289. 29 She was the widow of John Labboyteau who had died prior to Jody, 1780, when she, as his administrator, was living or Water street near the Drawbridge. Pennsylvania Gazette, 26 July 1780. 08 See this Magazine, 3MT' (No. 4, 1970), 258, for a prior entry regarding her and her husband. As Jane Martin she bad married Bertram 26 January 1767, at Zion Lutheran Church. 51 Dobho' Ferry was the only post from which flags were sent or at which they were received. See Minster, XIII, 419. 126 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 13 June: Passes for JACOB SNEVELY and ADAM RICE to HOISCOD 'S River in the State of Virginia and return. 15 June: Passes to Dobbs' Ferry and return for ANN HAMPTON, SARAH KERR and CATHARINE WARE. 22 June: Pass for WILLIAM Ross and his family to New York. 25 June: Pass for JOSEPH CARLETON to Cape May, New Jersey, and return, with a mulatto named PETER PRICE, a light waggon and two horses. Pass to JANE WELLS to Dobbs' Ferry and return. 29 June: Pass to ANN CARPENTER of Philadelphia to Dobbs' Ferry and return, but not to New York as requested. 2 July: Pass for JOHN MOTES to New York, he not to return again. 3 July: Passes for GERRALD FORRESTER and JOHN HENRY to New York and return. 9 July: Pass for ANN MORRISON to Dobbs' Ferry and return. 11 July: Petition rejected of CATHERINE DRQTJHART for pass to New York. 12 July: Passes for HANNAH GORDON " CO Island of Granada, for ANN WALL to Dobbs' Ferry, and for ANN ---- to New York, not to return. 23 July: Pass for MARY PICKLES to Dobbs' Ferry, not to return. 24 July: Pass for MARGARET THompsoN to Dobbs' Ferry and return. 25 July: Petition rejected of THOMAS PERIAM for pass to New York. 26 July: Passes for WILLIAM FORD, ESTER EASTBURNE, ROSE STARK and SUSANNA FINDLEY and ROBERT BLACK to Dobbs' Ferry and return. Pass for CHRISTIAN MUSSELMAN to Boston. Petition rejected of MARY MCKONKY for pass to Dobbs' Ferry. 30 July: Passes to Boston and return for ADAM SEIBERT, CONILAD JUMBLER, JESSE JUSTICE, PETER JUSTICE, WILLIAM SICKLE, JOHN BOYER, JOHN PEROT and THOMAS DENTON. " 31 July: Pass for MARGARET HAYES to New York, she not to return. 2 August: Passes to Bermuda and return for ELIZABETH GOODRICH, and REBECCA TitEsTEu. Pass to New York for HANNA GORDON," she not to return. 3 August: Passes to New York and return for HENRY PRATT, Pinup 32 She may have been the wife of Captain Harry Gordon, Royal Engineers, whom she had married at Christ Church 30 January 1762, and was perhaps the daughter of John and Margaret Meredith, baptized at Christ Church in 1742, aged 11 years. ...These men may have ban trucking supplies to Boston. 2.4 Compare the entry of 12 July,. above. Petitions and Passes 127 HAGNER, MATTHIAS KEELY, LEONARD JACOBI, " CHARLES SHELBACH and WILLIAM HUNTER. 8 August: Passes to Boston and return for JoHN JEN -Ks and GARRET FORRESTER. 9 August: Passes to Boston and return for DANIEL PARKER, JR., JOHN YOUNG, NICHOLAS REIDNER, HENRY BOYER and SAMUEL WILEY. 21 August: Pass to Dobbs' Ferry and return for ELIZABETH LEmoNT. 22 August: Pass for ABRAHAM BACHMAN and ANDREW ANGLEMOYER to Boston and return, with two teams. 27 August: Pass to Boston and return for WILLIAM BROWN FOGGON. Passes to come from New York to Philadelphia for DANIEL BUCKWALTER and MARTHA DODDS. 31 August: Pass to Albany in the State of New York and return for JOSEPH GREEN. 12 September: Pass to New York and return for MARGARET SHEILAMAN. 16 September: Pass to Woodbridge and return for JEDEDIAH SNOW.. DEN " and SARAH SNOWDEN. Pass for EVE SHARP to go to New York In the flag ship now returning, she not to return again. 19 September: Pass to ANN TOY to Dobbs' Ferry and return. Pass to HANNA ROBIGLIO to New York, she not to return. Pass to Boston and return for CONRAD WICHERLY. 23 September: Pass to Boston and return for WILLIAM DICKSON. 28 September: Passes to Boston and return for GEORGE RITTER, ABRAHAM REX and GEORGE ROCHER. Passes to Dobbs' Ferry and return for ANN GALLAGHER and ELIZABETH HYNES. Passes to ANDREAS READ to go to head-quarters; for JOHN MITCHELL to Woodbridge and PIUSCILLA GWIN to New Jersey and return. 2 October: Passes to JAMES SITZELS to Albany, to SAMUEL PRICE to Lowden [sic] County, Virginia, and to CASSIMER DEWICK to the White Plains in New York, and return. 3 October: Passes to New York for SUSANNA HULL, ELIZABETH PLINNER and ELIZABETH YOUNG. 8 October: Pass to Providence, Rhode Island, for HUGH Cou.ox, SAMUEL BARR and MATTHEW LINN, in one pass, and to return. Pass to New York and return for ELIZABETH Ducx. 55 A merchant, he had married on 17 September 1778 at St. Michael's and Zion Church, Maria Margaretha Epple, daughter of George and Maria Epple. 86He had been appointed board inspector by the Assembly in the spring of 1777, and ho September. Evening Post, 1779, had unsuccessfully solicited the Conned for the posinon of clerk of the market. 12 June 1777; Pennsylvania Archives [1s0 Series], VII, 708; Minutes, XII, 110. 128 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 11 October: Pass to THOMAS BARTOW and DANIEL BENEZET, JR. to Elizabethtown and return. 14 October: Passes for WILLIAM JORDEN to Boston, for ELIZABETH MURKEY, ELIZABETH KINTZINGER, and JOHIN [ '11 CRAIG CO New York and return. Petition rejected of LAETITIA BARTHOLOMEW for pass to New York. 17 October: Pass to New York and return for FREDERICK TATER. 18 October: Petition rejected of DR. ABRAHAM ScNovErr [CHovEr] "for pass to New York and return. Pass for CHARLOTTE STELLARS and SARAH GUY to New York and return. 19 October: Pan for JANE MARY LEVINS to go into New York and to return again. 22 October: Pass to JACOB SNEIDER to go to Boston and to return again. 28 October: Pan for JOSEPH WEBB tO go to Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, with one team loaded with flour and hemp, and to return again. 5 November: Petition of SAMUEL JEFFERIS, praying leave to go to New York, taking with him the tools of his trade, granted, he not to return again. 5 November: On application, and a pass from headquarters being produced, pass granted to WILLIAM BAY to go to Maryland. 6 November: Pass to DANIEL BUCKWALTER " and CHRISTIAN MARIE, to go to Boston and Salem, in the State of Massachusetts, and to return. 7 November: Pan TO CATHARINE JONES to go to Dobbs' Ferry, on the North river, and to return. 9 November: Passes for MARGARET RHOORBACH to go to Second River in the State of New Jersey, and to JOHN LONG to go to New Windsor in the State of New York, and to return again. 12 November: Pass to ELIZABETH PRICE to go to New York by way of Dobb's Ferry, and to return again. 13 November: Petition dismissed of JOHN FULLERTON for his daughter to come from New York. 16 November: Pass for DANIEL LONG, JOHN HENDERSON and DANIEL TILLINGHURST to go to Boston and return again. Also a pass to New York by way of Dobbs' Ferry and to return again for ANN BARTHOLOMEW. 19 November: Pass for CATHARINE RICHARDS to go to New York 11 A promMent elderly phyaician in Philadelphia who numbered among his patients many Quaken and Tories, he had been taken up by the Committee of Safety in order to be sent to Winchester with other disaffected persons, but because of hit age and reputation he had been allowed to remain in the city on his Permyivolia Gszette, 7 May 1777; promising to hold not treasonable corre-spondence with the enemy. 7 The Autobiography of Peter Stephen Du Ponceau," PMHB, LXIII (1939), 324-329 00 H, had been granted a pms to come into Pluladelphia on 27 August 1782. Petitions and Passes 129 by way of Dobbs' Ferry, and to return. 21 November: Petition of FRANCIS HirrcHiNsoN, late of the State of New York, praying for a passport to New York was read; and thereupon ordered that the petitioner with his recommendation, be referred to the Executive of the State of New Jersey. Ordered that a pass to New Jersey be granted the said Francis Hutchinson. Pass to PHILIP NEWCOMER to go to the State of North Carolina and to return again, with a waggon and four horses. 23 November: Pass to REBECCA YOUNG to go to New York by way of Dobbs' Ferry, not to return again. Pass to ESTER Ham to go to New York and to return again. 26 November: Passes for JANNET ANNAN to go to New York by way of Dobbs' Ferry and to return again, and to FRANCES MCAULEY and arm; BRIDDLE, with permission to return. 27 November: Pass for MARY GOFORTH " to go to New York by way of Dobbs' Ferry, and to return. 30 Novembt.tr: Pass for GEORGE RAPPALL, JOSEPH SWERT, BENJAMIN BURRELL and SAMUEL GRANT to go to Newberry Port in New England, not to return again. 2 December: Pass to MARGARET WCONNEL to go to New York by way of Dobbs' Ferry, and to return. 4 December: Pass to BARBARA BENDELOW, to go to New York and to return again. 5 December: Pass for JACOB KECHLER and WILLIAM JORDAN CO g0 to New London and return. Pass for GARRET COTTINGER to go to the city of New York by way of Dobbs' Ferry, and to return. 10 December: Pass to Boston granted to GILBERT DUBOIS, EDMUND DUNCAN and JOHN THOMAS, and WILLIAM hrsoN, a servant. Pass to Boston granted to Pxrcip Fxrrz, PETER ADAMS, PATRIC% MCCARTY and ROBERT WRIGHT, with three teams loaded with cordage and hemp. 11 December: Pass for ANN RICHIE to go to New York by way of Dobbs' Ferry and return. Pass for MONSIEUR DE GOUTHEIRE to go to New Orleans, by way of Fort Pitt, and to return. 12 December: Pass for JOHN RICE, of Delaware State, to go to New York by way of Dobbs' Ferry and to return. 24 December: Pass for THOMAS HENDERSON to go to Dobbs' Ferry and return. Pass for JOHN RAINEY to go into New York by way of Dobbs' Ferry and from thence to Ireland, and to return again by way of Holland or France. 31 D;:cember: Passes to SARAH BONSALL and JANE HEATER to go into the city of New York and not to return again. She may have been Mary Dunning, wife of the dry goods merchant William Goforth, whom she hid teiffitd at debt thoth II Degendoet OIL