Additions and Corrections

Additions and Corrections The Pennsylvania Genealogicat Magazine, XXIII, No. 2, contains an article by Hannah Benner Roach, "Philadelphia Business Directory, 1690". On page 107, it is stated that "Andrew Griscom, carpenter, married 15 April 1685, Sarah Dole who had come to Philadelphia as a servant with her brother John Dole in 1682". Mrs. Roach in a footnote to Marion Balderson's article "William Penn's Twenty-three Ships" [PGM, XXIII, 43, footnote 55], says of John Dole who shipped various goods on The Society of Bristol, and is believed to have accompanied his property, arriving August 1682, that "His sister Sarah Dole, who m. 1st in 1685, Andrew Griscom, and 2nd, John Kaighn, came in indented as a servant". It should be noted that it was customary for immigrants who were under age to apprentice themselves to a master from whom they would learn a trade and act as servants for two years, or until of age. The master paid for their passage. Since navigation was not nearly as absolute a science as it is today, some ships missed their target locations and unloaded elsewhere, leaving final travel overland to the destination. It was almost unheard of for an indentured servant to travel otherwise than with the master who had paid the passage costs, and was owed two years of servitude in return. if the servant came by other shipping the master might never see the servant again. [See the discussion of ship passenger lists in the preface to Passengers and Ships Prior to 1684, published by the Welcome Society of Pennsylvania in 19701 Except for this reference, quoted above, there had never been, so far as this writer is aware, any positive statement that would identify the ship on which Sarah Dole traveled to the Colonies, and no evidence has been cited to support the statement. Yet on the basis of this statement made some years ago, the Eligibility Committee of the Welcome Society accepted Sarah Dole as an eligible ancestress, arriving on The Society of Bristol. The identification of the ship on which she traveled was called into question in 1984, and since at that time no evidence was offered to show to whom she was apprenticed, and so with whom she traveled, her name was removed from that list. We are now happy to report that Mr. Weston Adams has uncovered the evidence that was missing from our record. In the City of Philadelphia Archives, Letter Book D., pps. 36-39, #79, provides copy of the records of the survey made to Randle Vernon (Randal in this record), showing the sources of the warrants on which the survey was based. Two of these warrants, each for 50 acres, awarded to Sarah Dole, 25th 9 mo. (Nov.) an 9th 10th mo. (Dec.) 1684, were grants to an indentured servant on release from indenture. With these is a deed showing the purhase of these two warrants by Randle 366 Additions and Corrections 367 Vernon, 28th 3mo. (May) 1702, from Sarah and her second husband, John Kaighn. The texts of these documents and consideration of the laws of Proprietorship under which these grants were made [See Cheesman A. Herrick, White Servitude in Pennsylvania, (1926), p. 26, and Futhey & Cope, History of Chester county, Pennsylvania, (1881), pps. 146-7.] make it clear to the genealogists on the Eligibility Committee, that Sarah Dole had been apprenticed to Randle Vernon. He was a wealthy man who arrived with his baggage on The Friendship of Liverpool, in August 1682. [See PGM, XXIII, p. 4191 We are therefore agreed that Sarah Dole came with Randle Vernon on The Friendship, and the Society has returned Sarah Dole to the list of eligible ancestors with the identification of her ship corrected. . FASO, FGSP, FLAGS. Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, "Harris of Cumberland County, New Jersey" by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. and Lewis D. Cook, was published in The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, XVII, in 1949. This is an addendum to that article. On page 101, under Unidentified Harris, I discussed a David Harris who died in Fairfield Township, 20 November 1823 aged 58 years, "20 years an Elder of the Presbyterian Church of Fairton" (commonly known as the Old Stone Church) according to the inscription on his gravestone in the churchyard. His will of 4 November 1823; proved 26 November of that year, names his wife Rhoda, and children David, Ebenezer, Ephriam, John, James, Rhoda and Jonathan D. Harris. The children received gifts of $12.50 from a legacy left to them of $100 from their grandmother, Sarah Diament. [Original record, Cumberland County, N.J., probate, Book H., pps 286-7.] Ethan, son of David and Rhoda Harris died 10 March 1813, age 1-6-9. David, the testator, had married 4 January 1797, Rhoda Terry. The article citing Craig's Cumberland County General Data, p. 77, identified her as Rhody Semy, but an examination of the original record shows her name to have been Rhoda Terry, and that Craig misread it. It is suggested that this David Harris was the David named in the will of Nathaniel Harris [See "Harris of Cumberland County . .", p. 92] in which the testator leaves 20 acres to David, son of his deceased son David, and use of the property to son David's widow during her widowhood, then to his grandson David. The will also names a son of Nathaniel, named Jonathon, who was a twin of David the testator's son. [New Jersey Archives, 1st Series, Vol. V., p. 230] It was suggested that the David who died intestate was the father of the David whose will was probated in 1823. We can now demonstrate that this David, intestate 1770, was indeed the son of the Nathaniel Harris [p. 92 of the cited article] who was born 1693 and died in 1775. 368 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine id The Administration on the estate of David Harris of Hopewell, 20 October 1770, was granted to Joshua and James Ewing, the widow Mary renouncing on 26 October 1770, the inventory was taken by Maskell Ewing and Jonathan Harris (probably David's twin). [New Jersey Archives, 1st Series, Vol. IV., p. 179] 2.] Thomas Ewing, Sr., of Cohansey, Salem County, left a will dated 7 January 1744/5; proved 7 April 1748, naming his wife Mary and children: Maskell, John, Thomas, Mary, Joshua, Samuel and James. He left real estate including his dwelling and a marsh on Stow Creek. His executor was his son Thomas. The inventory was taken 11 March 1747 by Thomas Wathman and the son and executor, Thomas Harris. [New Jersey Archives, 1st Series, Vol. III., p. 171] Note the same Ewing men in both probates. 3.] Mary Ewing, widow of Greenwich, Cumberland County, died leaving a will dated 14 February 1781; proved 29 March 1785, in which she names her sons Maskell, Thomas, John, Samuel, James and Joshua, and her daughter Mary Diameni. Her executor was her son, Joshua, her sons Maskell and John Ewing took the inventory, 20 December 1784. [New jersey Archives, 1 st Series, Vol. VI, pps. 140-1] Note the same Ewing man again. 4.] Jonathan Diament of Jones Island, Fairfield Township, Cumberland County, left a will dated 6 March 1798; proved 10 December 1805, in which he bequeathed to his wife Sarah the household furniture and 1/2 his personal property and 1/2 his real estate, consisting of a farm on Jones Island and a cedar swamp in Maurice Township purchased from William Reeve, plus the use of two rooms in his house during her widowhood. The balance of his estate he left to his first wife's son David Harris, and after his widow Sarah's death or re-marriage David is to receive this as well. The inventor), was taken 13 December 1805 by James Diament and Henry Brooks, and was attested by David Harris, administrator on 26 February 1806. [New Jersey Archives, 1st Series.] On his father's death it seems apparent that young David Harris, aged about five, would have accompanied his mother on her re-marriage, along with any other under-age siblings, and would have been raised by his mother's second husband. This would account for his naming his youngest son Jonathan D(iament) Harris after his step-father, and on his mother's death accepting Jonathan's second wife as his step-mother. In the absence of children of his own, Jonathan would have accepted his step-son as his own and since Mary, the first wife and mother of David died, according to her tombstone, 15 August 1781, this would account for David referring in his will to his step-mother Sarah as his children's grandmother. It has been stated in various publications that there were two surviving siblings of young David, Ebenezer, an older brother and Lydia, born about 1757. While it is possible that there was such a sister, this writer has seen no contemporary record of her. As for Ebenezer, the date of his birth, if there