Petitions and Passes

Petitions and Passes Annotations by HANNAH BENNER ROACH, F.G.S.P., F.A.S.G. Pir HE following petitions and passes granted to Pennsylvanians desiring to quit the State or enter it are extracted from The Minutes of the Supreme Executive Council, Volume XII (Harrisburg, 1853). Since these extracts are often condensed, and not given verbatim, the reader is directed to the appropriate entry in the Minutes for a literal account. All pertinent data, however, is included. 1780 3 February: Passes to New York for MARY HARDING and her two children, with her bed and clothing; for ELIZABETH VOIGHT, and for OWEN RYAN, wife and child, each petitioner to give security of 0000 not to return without special permission of this Board. 4 February: Whereas, it is represented that ELIZABETH FEGAx," wife of an attainted Traitor, having obtained permission to go to New York, yet continues in this City, and is of a very suspicious character; therefore Ordered, that she do immediately leave this State, and go within the lines of the enemy, and if she be found within this State after ten days from this date, that the Sheriff be directed to arrest and confine her in the Common Goal, and make report to the Council. 9 February: Petition of JOSEPH WALKER for a pass to the city of New York rejected. 12 February: Petitions of ROBERT MATTHEWS and WILLIAM RIPPON for passes into the city of New York rejected. 'Orhereas the frequent applications of persons to go to New York is attended with many inconveniences and delay of publick business, Resolved, that the Secretary do give notice that all persons desirous to go into the Enemies lines, are to apply within ten days from this date, giving to his Office their names and those of their securities, not to return without leave; after which time no Applications will be received untill the first day of May next. 15 February: MRS. SUSANNA PAPLEY to have a pass to go into New York, with her two daughters, her son and a servant Girl, (two Beds and Cloathing). Petitions of JAMES WALSH, CHRISTOPHER CAIRNS and SAMUEL MYLON to go into New York rejected. The Petition of ANTHONY SHOEMAKER, setting forth that he has a wife and children on She was the wife of Lawrence Pegan, ravernkeeper of the Northern Liberties, proclaimed a traitor IS June 1778. Pennsylvania Archives, Sod Series, X, J2S-531. 253 254 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Long Island within the lines of the Enemy; that they are suffering many hardships and insults, and labouring under many difficulties on account of his attachment to the American Cause, and praying a pass to Elizabeth town, and a recommendation to the Officer commanding on that Station, in order to concert some plan to remove his Wife and Children from the Enemey, was granted. 17 February: Pass granted for CHARLES MIFFLIN for himself and family to go into New York. Petition of SUSANNA MCGINNIS praying leave to go to New York, rejected. 18 February: Pass granted for WILLIAM BARTON and MR. PAUL ZANTZINGER to go to Elizabeth town, there to confer with Mr. and Mrs. Barton.' Pass granted for ANN SHROUDY to go to New York. The petition of CORNELIUS EERY to go to New York rejected. 19 February: Pass for MARY MACHBANKS to go into New York granted on security being given not to return. On application of ANN RICHE to go into New York and return again, ordered a pass for her to New York, she giving security not to return again without leave, and not otherwise. 22 February: The petition of REBECCA PAUL to go to New York with two children, or if that cannot be granted, to Elizabeth town, to send said children to their parents in New York, read, and ordered a pass to proceed to Elizabeth town. Pass granted for JANE EVANS to New York with two children, she giving security not to return to this state without leave. Ordered the Secretary to write to CHARLES HURST, requiring his attendance on this Board at twelve O'clock tomorrow, and that he bring with him the Pass given him last fall from this Board.' 23 February: Pass granted MRS. MAGDELAN DIVINE to go into New York, she giving security not to return. 26 February: Petition rejected of WILLIAM TRETWELL to go to England by way of New York. 7 March: The Board taking into consideration the many inconveniencies and dangers which the publick interests have suffered, and to which they will be exposed during the continuance of the War, from the intercourse which wives of sundry persons who have joined the enemy He wss presumably the son of Benjamin Shoemaker and his 20d wife, Elizabeth Morris. Anthony had resided in Flushing, Long Island, before the Revolution, having married 5 20n 1757, Penelope Rodman, b. 5 2m 1737, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Rodman of Flushing. The children were: Elizabeth, b. 1765; Benjamin, b. 1766; John Rodman Shoemaker, b. 1770. See Benjamin H. Shoemaker, Genealogy of the Shoemaker Family of Cheltenham, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1893), 65. 0Th, Reverend Thomas Barton and his wife had received a pass 17 Sepsember 1778, to go to New York. See the last issue (No. 3) of this Magazine, 171. 'Ibid., 176. Petitions and Passes 255 still hold with them at New York, and the intelligence they give, of which proofs frequently occur, Resolved, that notice be given them that passports will be granted to go within the enemies lines to their respective Husbands, before the fifteenth day of April next, and that their neglect of proceeding thither, pursuant to this matter, will make it necessary. to take farther measures for this purpose, as the public security shall require. 10 March: Pass granted for the REVEREND NATHANIEL SEIDLE,' On behalf of sundry persons of the Moravian Society who are arrived at New York from England, to come into this state in order to proceed to Bethlehem. 20 March: Petition rejected to MRS. ANNE RICHE to go into New York and return. 25 March: Petition rejected of CHARLES COOK, for permission to stay a few weeks longer; if he do not depart this state on board one of the three first vessels now sailing to the West Indies, he is to be apprehended and committed to Prison. 31 March: Pass granted to EDMUND GRIMSHAW and JANE, his wife, to go into New York. 3 April: Application rejected of DOCTOR ANDREW HARPER for permission to go to Scotland by way of New York. 7 April: Petition granted of Francis Hopkinson, on behalf of his sister, ELIZABETH DUCHE, praying leave for herself and family to go to New York, &ca., with her family and effects.' 10 April: Petition rejected of ELIZABETH RINEDOLLARS to g0 into New York. 12 April: Petition rejected of MR. BARTON and MR. ZANTZINGER to go into New York. 14 April: Permission granted for WILLIAM BARTON, ESQ. and MR. PAUL ZANZTINGER to pass to Elizabeth town to meet his father on business.' 4 May: An application from Hon'ble Governor Morris, on behalf of MRS. ELIZA FRANCIS, wife of Mr. Samuel Francis, late of the city of New York, Inn-holder, for ptrmission for the said Mrs. Francis to come from New York to this city was read; ordered that the same be granted, on condition that she do not return to New York during the present war, Born at Lauban, Silesla, 2 October 1718, Nathaniel Seidel came to Bethlehem in 1742. He was consecrated bishop in 1758 by Zimendortf, and in 1760 marned in London Anna Johanna Pinch. He travelled widely as a missionary among both Indians and white settlers. He died in BetMehem 17 May (Bethlehem, A History of the Beginnings of Moravian Work in America, Publication No. 1 1782. Pa., 1955), 178. See the entry for 19 February, above. See also the entries for 27, 30 April, 8, 9 June, and 1 July 1779, in the last Issue of this Magazine. See the entry for 18 February, above. 256 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine nor hold any correspondence with any person there during her residence in Philadelphia. Application of Mrs. Mary Miller, on behalf of her son, WILLIAM MILLER, now in New York, for a pass for him to come from New York to Philadelphia, granted, on condition that William Miller do not return to New York during the war, nor hold any correspondence with any person there during his residence in Philadelphia. 6 May: Petition rejected of PAUL ZANTZINGER and WILLIAM BAR' TON praying leave for the REVEREND THOMAS BARTON and wife to return from New York, or for the petitioners to go into that city and return. 10 May: Petitions rejected for passes to New York for SAMUEL JACKSON, JANE GALLAGHER, ANN TONRY, MARGARET FOWLER, HUGH QUIN, TERENCE LYNCH, ROBERT ANDERSON, PETER KNELL, JOHN WHITTINGHAM, MATTHEW TREACY, CHARLES COECIL, MARY MATHEWS, JAMES MORGAN, SARAH CLARK, JANE LUTET, MARGARET GREW, CHRISTOPHER MCDOWELL, MARGARET LEARY, ELIZABETH SUTHERLAND, TIMOTHY MCCALLA, THOMAS HALFPENNY, ELEANOR MCMICHAEL, OLIVER Ross. Passes granted for ROBERT DUNLAP, MARY RORER and MARY BIRD to go into New York, on condition they severally give security in the sum of £5000 not to return again without special permission of this Board. 11 May: The Council resumed the consideration of the Petition of ELIZABETH RHINEDOLLAR, and agreed to grant her a pass TO New York. The petition of ANN DUNKIN of this city, widow of Robert Dunkin, late a Lieutenant on Board the Milford Ship of War belonging to the King of Great Britain, for permission to go into New York to obtain her half pay, was rejected. The petition of MARGARET M'KEWN for a pass to New York was referred. The petition of JOHN and MARY WHITTINGHAM for a pass to New York rejected. On consideration, ordered that this Board will not receive petitions for recommendations to pass into New York, untill the first day of August next. A Memorial read from the REVD BERNARD GRUBE, requesting a pass and recommendation from the President and Council to the Commanding Officer at Fort Pitt, for himself and GorLIEB SENSEMAN & his wife, the said Grube intending to visit the present Missionaries and Indian Congregations on Muskingum River, and said Senseman proposing to become an assistant in propagating the Gospel and the Ministry in the Indian Congregation. Ordered that the request be granted, and I Senseman was the son of the Moravian missionary, Henry Joachim Senseman, who had come to Bethlehem in. 1742 and had died at Carmel, Jamaica, in 1774. A History of • • • Moravian Work, 173, cited in Note 5. Petitions and Passes 257 they be recommended to Colonel Broadhead, or officer commanding at Fort Pitt, and any other officers of the state. 16 May: On application of MRS. SHOEMAKER," wife of Samuel Shoemaker, for leave to go into New York and return again in one year, ordered she be permitted to go into New York, giving security not to return again at any time, with out leave first obtained from this Council. 19 May: On the petition of William Barton and Paul Zantzinger, that the KEV'D MR. THOMAS BARTON and his wife may be permitted to return from New York to this state, ordered that the many and great inconveniencies which must attend the examples, as well as from the impropriety of the thing itself, the Council cannot, consistent with their duty to the publick, consider granting the said petition. 27 May: Petition granted for JOSEPH MYERS for a pass into New Jersey to give Testimony on a case in hearing in that State. 6 June- Whereas, the residence of the wives and children of those persons who have Joined the enemy, has at all times proved inconvenient to the publick interest, in consequence of the correspondence and intercourse which has been constantly preserved, and as it is now become too dangerous to be longer permitted or connived at: Resolved, that publick notice be given to such persons, that they depart this State within Ten days, and any of them remaining after that time will not be deemed as entitled to any protection, but liable to be proceeded against as enemies of the State. 13 June: Passes granted to the following persons to go into New York, agreeable to the order of the Board of the sixth instant: MARY FERGUSON, ANN KIRK, SARAH HOPKINS, MARY ARNOLD, ELIZABETH LOOSELY, JANE GALLAGHER and RACHEL SANDERS. 16 June: Passes granted to the following persons to go into New York, agreeable to the order of the sixth instant: HANNAH FAIRLAND, SARAH KNIGHT, MARGARET FOWLER, CATHERINE FERGUSON, JANE BOSV7ELL, MARY SCANDLEN, ELINOR jATJNCY, ANN EVE, MARGARET DELANEY and SARAH GILL. " 7 July: Pass granted for MARY SPANGLER," wife of George Spangler, 10 She was Rebecca (worn,,) Ronde, w)cloar of Francis Rawle and the 2nd w)fe of Samuel Shce- maker, the former Mayor of Philadelphia, a procla5med Loyalist. 11 It should be noted that only a .few of the women granted passes in this and the immediately preceding list can be even tentatively identified as wives of proclaimed traitors. Elizabeth Loosely may be the wife of Robert Loosley, shoemaker of Philadelphia, proclaimed 15 June 1778; Hannah Fairland, wife of Samuel Fairland, yeoman of the Borough of Chester, not proclaimed until 27 July 1780: Ann Eve, wife of Oswald Eve, merchant and gun-powder maker of the Northern Liberties, proclaimed 21 May 1778; Ann Gill, wife of Joseph Gill, maltster of Chester Township, proclaimed 15 June 1778 For the proclamations, see Pennsylvania Archives, sod Series, X, 519-552. Ibid. 11 Her husband was proclanned 15 June 1778. 258 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine convicted and executed as a Spy, in 1778, to leave this State and proceed to New York with her family of three children, her Bedding, one Chest, and a small Box, she to depart immediately. 16 July: Ordered that MRS. JANE BARTRAM, MRS. STARK, MRS. VOLANS, and MRS. PRESTON, wives of Alex'r Bartram la and others, late of this State, now in the service of the enemy, be apprehended and delivered to the keeper of the workhouse, there to remain untill they respectively give security to leave this State forthwith, and not to return again. 9 September: Pass granted for ELIZABETH HARRISON to go to New York, on condition she do not return. 11 September: Pass granted to New York for JoHN and SARAH HOLT, they not to return again. Petition for a pass to New York by JOHN MAGUIRE rejected. Application made to this Board on behalf of a certain MARY MEYRE, for a pass to New York, her husband being a prisoner there, and she being recommended by William Scott, Esq., Lieutenant of York County, thereupon ordered a pass granted her with permission to return. 2 October: Passes granted to REBECCA BRYANT and ABIGAIL RAN— KIN to go into New York, pursuant to a late order of this Board, their husbands being with the enemy. 6 October: Resolved that DAVID FRANKS and WILLIAM HAMILTON do depart this State within fourteen days from the date hereof, they giving security each in the sum of £200,000 to go within the enemies lines, and not return again to any of these United States during the continuance of the present war. 11 October: Petition for passes to go into New York rejected for C. D. G. HAERKERMAN and E. BUCKHOLTZ. Pass granted for JOHN ANIDOWN to go into New York. Pass granted to MARJERY MATHERILL to go into New York, pursuant to a late order of this Board for sending off the wives of traitors who have joined the enemies army. The petition of WILLIAM HAMILTON to go to the island of St. Eustatia, and also longer time for his departure than is allowed by the resolution of the no Alexander Bartram, trader of Philadelphia, had been proclaimed 18 May 1778. The names of the husbands of the other, wives in this entry do not appear on the lisc of proclaimed traitors. .4 See the entry for 20 October and 11 December 1779, in the last issue of this Mosa.,ine for previous applications of David Franks. William Hamilton (1745-1813) was the son of Andrew Hamilton and his wife Mary Till, and was the owner of Woodlands mansion in what o nosy West Philadelphia. In October, 1778, he had been accused of aiding British troops while they had been in the city, was tried and found not guilty. Evening Post, 16 October 1778. On 3 October 1780, he and others, including David Franks, were arrested, brought before the Council and committed to the NOV Prison under authority of the Act of Assembly of 10 October persons. Minutes. XII, 495, 499. the 1779, empowering the Board to apprehend suspected Petitions and Passes 259 sixth instant, granted, but he to depart within the time mentioned in the said resolution. 13 October: Pass granted to SAMUEL JEFFIUES to go to England by way of New York, on condition that he enter into security, himself and two sufficient sureties, in the sum of £50,000, to depart New York for England on or before the first day of December next, and not to return to any part of America during the present war. Pass granted for THOMAS MENDENHALL "to New York, in order to take shipping from thence to Ireland, on condition he enter into security as aforesaid, to leave New York by the first of December next, and not to return to any part of America during the present war. On a petition to go to New York by DAVID FRANKS for himself, his daughter, and one man servant and two maid servants, granted a pass for himself and daughter, and also for one maid servant, provided she be an indented servant. 16 October: ESTHER YELDALL, wife of Doctor Anthony YeWall,' an attainted traitor, ordered to depart this State within seven days from the date hereof, with her five children, and go within the enemies lines, she giving security in the sum of £20,000 not to return to any of these United States during the present war. Passes granted to JAMES GIBSON and SUSANNA, his wife, and CO CHRISTIAN GEORGE, TO go to New York, on condition they do not return during the war. Pass granted to MISS HANNAH ARNOLD, and her nephew, with their baggage, to go to the State of Connecticut. 17 October: Petition rejected . of ELIZABETH LANGDALE to go into the city of New York. A petition from DAVID FRANKS praying this Board to allow him a longer time for his departure, on account of an indisposition of body, was read; ordered Doctor James Hutchinson to visit said Franks, now confined in the new Prison, and report on the situation in which he shall find him with regard to his health. 20 October: Petition rejected of JONATHAN CLAY to go into the city of New York. 24 October: Pass granted for MOSES JUDAH to go into New York, on condition that he do not return during the present war. 25 October: Pass granted to SARAH MORGAN to go into New York, pursuant to a late order of this Board of 6th June last, for sending away iO san,uel Jeffries, a watchmaker M the city, had been proclaimed Ii June 1778. Mendenhall was a dry-goods merchant in Market between Second and Third Streets. Pennsylvania Packet, 19 September 1778. 1° He had been proclaoned Ii June 1778. Pennsylvania 17 In 1779 and 1780, a Moses Judah, single, was rated in Upper Delaware Ward. Archives, sod Series, XIV, 557; XV, 316. 18 Possibly she was the wife of C.harles Morgan, a shipwright of Southwark, who had been proclaimed IS June 1771. 260 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine the wives of traitors who have joined the enemy. 26 October: Petition rejected of MOSES SAMUEL JUDAH to go into the city of New York." 27 October: MRS. MARGARET ARNOLD, ( the wife of Benedict Arnold, an attainted traitor with the enemy at New York,) ordered to depart this State within fourteen days from the date hereof, not to return again during the continuance of the present war. MR. WILLIAM HAMILTON permitted to retire to his country seat for seven days, pro vided Captain Shewell does not go for Coracoa sooner; Robert Jewell, Esq., keeper of the new prison to take Mr. Hamilton's parole to return into his custody when demanded. 28 October: Pass granted for HANNAH MOORE to go into New York on condition she not return again during the war. 30 October: Pass granted to REBECCA GRIFFITH (wife of Evan Griffith, an attainted traitor, late of York County," and now with the enemy) to go into New York, pursuant to the order of this Board of 6th June last. 2 November: The petition granted of Gifford Dalbey, for permission for his mother-in-law, MRS. ELIZABETH PETTIT, to come out of New York with her family and effects, she intending to reside in this state. Pass granted for MARTHA BARTRAM to go to New York, on condition she do not return during the present war. 7 November: Petition of Theophilus Garden for a pass to the Island of Jamaica by way of New York, for his son-in-law BENJAMIN HOGELAND, rejected. 10 November: The petition dismissed of John Swanwick, on behalf of his mother, the wife of RICHARD SWANWICK," an attainted traitor, for her to return to this State. 11 November: A memorial from Isaac Austin, praying permission to meet his brother WILLIAM AUSTIN " on the lines of the enemy was rejected, information having been received that an embarkation of troops is taking place at New York. 20 November: A letter from DAVID FRANKS read, requesting he be if. If this was the man usually known as Samuel Judah, broker of Philailelphia, it is possible his request for a pass was rejected because he was one of the more prosperous Jews in the city. In 1780 he Pennsylvania was listed as "gentleman" when rated in Mulberry Ward as a tenant of John Barclay. Archives, sod Series, XV, 338. Griffith, a yeoman of York Township, had been proclaimed 18 May 1778. 2 . Richard Swanwick "late of the Custom House," had been proclaimed 21 May 1778. John Swan18 May 1778. wick, also of the Cuitorn House, had been proclaimed II William Austin, late keeper, of the New Jersey ferry o the foot of Arch Street, had been proclaimed 21 May 8 778. He and baac are thought to be the sons of Samuel Austin who had also kept ebe fern, Petitions and Passes 261 allowed 'till Thursday next for his departure from this State, and that the pass lately granted to himself and daughter may be extended to a woman servant and the necessary baggage; ordered the same be granted. 21 November: Petition read from WILLIAM HAMILTON to be permitted to continue in this State, or retire into one of the other States, also to be allowed six weeks to settle his affairs; resolved that he be permitted to retire forthwith into a neighboring State, not nearer to the enemy at New York than the State of Pennsylvania, and that he give security, himself and two sufficient sureties, in the sum of E100,000, not to return again without permission of this Board, and not to hold any correspondence with the enemy during the war. 8 December: Pass granted for ELIZABETH RUELL to go into the city of New York, on condition that she do not return again. 9 December: Petition rejected of TERRALL WADE to go into the city of New York. 13 December: Petition from JOSEPH STANSBURY " to retire within the lines of the enemy was rejected, so far as it respects his going to New York. Pass granted to WILLIAM HAMMILL to go to Elizabeth town in the State of New Jersey, in order that he may endeavour to send some relief to his son, who is a prisoner with the enemy. 14 December: Pass granted to ANN HERVEY to go to the city of New York, on consideration that she do not return again during the war. 18 December: Ordered that JOSEPH STANSBURY, with his family, be permitted to go to New York, he giving his promise upon honor to proceed immediately to that city and use his utmost endeavours to have Abijah Wright and Casper Geyer, now prisoners on Long Island, released and permitted to return home, and that he will not do any thing injurious to the United States; that his effects be restored to him and himself liberated as soon as he shall be ready to set out for New York; that the agent for confiscated estates be directed to deliver up the keys of his property." N Stansbury had been proclaimed a traitor 15 June 177s, but may have been discharged for want of witnesses against him. Then in mid-Novernber he had been discovered to be in illicit trade with Neer Minutes, York (Pennsylvania Gaulle, 29 November 1780), was arrested and confined in the old gaol. XII, 579. Stansbury appears to have made some kind of a deal with the Council, for on 21 December the Board granted his petition for restoring to him "such of his books and papers as may not be necessary for the Council to retain," and the "opportunity of taking copies of such others as cannot be restored, promising to return them when demanded." Ibid. He conducted a "China-store in Front, ten doors below the Coffee-house." Evening Posh 27 April 1778. 262 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 19 December: Petition rejected of WILLIAM ExsittNE to go to Ireland by way of France. Pass granted to MARTHA WILSON to go to Elizabeth town. 27 December: Pass granted to one CAVENAUGH to go to New York. Perry Family Record* Joshua Vaughn Perry was born on the twenty fifth day of December in the year one thousand eight and eight. Departed this life March 17. 1864 Catharine S. Perry was born on the twenty ninth day of August one thousand eight hundred and fourteen Mary WL Perry was born the 14t 5 day of June 1838 John S. Perry was born on the 10t 0 day of December 1840 Albert G. Perry was born the 27 . day of August 1843 Jacob S. Perry was born the 17 ° day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and fourty five George Justice Perry was Born April 22 1848 Hafriet A. Perry was Born Sept. 20 . 1853 SsNiia S. Perry was Born November 28 0e 1856 Jacob S. Perry and Florence Potts Were married the 30 tt day of January 1878 Children of Jacob and Florence Perry George Sherman Perry Was born April 17 . 1882 Aliene Perry was born May 28. 1884 Ethel Perry was born February 13. 1886 Estella Perry Was born June 24 1895 Albert G. Perry Departed this life Sep5 5 50 1918 Aged Seventy five years 9 days • This record was entered in The Holy Bib!, containing the Old and Hen Testaments translated oat of The Original Tongues. and 5100 the former Translations Diligently Con/mod and Revised. Published at New York by the American Bible Society, 1869. The Bible was purchased in 1969 by Mn. Christian Brenneman at an auction in BuckIngham, Pa.