The Lyon of Liverpool in the Chester Port Books, 1682

THE LYON OF LIVERPOOL IN THE CHESTER PORT BOOKS, 1682 BY MARION BALDERSTON In the often quoted letter to his partner John ap John, written 26 6m (August) 1682, shortly after his arrival in the Delaware, Dr. Edward Jones wrote that "most of the things [he and his fellow passengers had brought with them] will not be sold until you come over because so many things had previously been brought here." When Jones wrote this, at least six ships had arrived at Upland since the first of that August, and no doubt their cargoes, piled up on the river's bank, made an impressive sight. The ship on which Jones had sailed, the Lyon, had been registered in and come from Liverpool. The only goods mentioned in the Liverpool port books for that year of 1682 for that ship were put on board for the master, John Compton. Yet four Welsh families numbering sixteen persons are known to have come on this trip, while the ship transported forty passengers in all, including servants.' Who were the other passengers, where were they from, and what were their goods? • Mrs. Balderston points out that she is mot a Dame of the British Empire, as incorrectly stated in the asterisked note at the foot of page 27 of this Vol,,,,,. She was, however, awarded the Ring's Medal (A.M.), and was made • Member of the Order of the Bricish Empire (M.B.E.). , Foe th, latff, see Charles H. Browning, Weleh Settkeneni of Pennsylvania (Fhiladelphir. 1912), I -70. 2 For John Compton', goods stowed on the Lyon, see The Pennsylvania Genealogies: Magazine (ECM), 30[111, 39, and for the four known Welsh families, ibid., Note 39. 281 252 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Fortunately, two books for the small port of Chester exist for 1682. These give the names of five additional shippers, and list enough merchandise to fill that 90-ton vessel. From these books it becomes obvious that John Compton, having loaded his own goods at Liverpool on 22 April 1682, sailed out of the estuary of the Mersey to the Irish Sea, veered west and then south and then eastward and up the Dee to Chester, in all only a few days' sail. He and other Liverpool captains often stopped there at Chester between longer voyages to load coal from the Welsh mines which they then transported to Dublin or Cork. The following entries from these Chester port records are from the Collector's Book and the Searcher's Book.' The Collector totalled the duty to be paid by each shipper, itemizing the dutiable goods, and enter ing the "value in toto" of the shipment. The Searcher was interested in the number and size of bundles and packages, since he had to stow them in the ship. He therefore entered the goods, item by item, in his records, thereby providing a more complete list of goods belonging to the shipper than the Collector had noted. These two lists are hereinafter combined, the Searcher's list being entered first, then the Collector's, in which the duty and "value in into" are shown. The Lyon of Liverpool John Compton, master, for Pennsylvania 2 [May 1682] OWEN FOULKE: 1 bundle qty. [quantity] 60 yds. flannel; 2 sacks qty. 8 Winchester bushels oatmeal. [Duty] 2s. 41/4d.* 5 [May] Joim Woon: 1 cwt. wrought iron; 2 cwt. nails; 6 single bayes [narrow wool cloth]; 1 pail qty. Y2 cwt. of butter; 1 liarra qty. 9 measures of oatmeal and groats; 1 hhd. qty. 3 cwt. biscuits; 1 flitch 'The Chester port hooks are in the Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, London: the Collector ' s Book, E 190/1344/13, the Searcher's Book, E 190/1344/6. lin K OVEN FOULKE, tanner horn Betrws-y-Coed, .Caesnaryonshne, Wales, had purchased on 2) (March) 1681/2, for E3 20. 6d. a two-thirtieth share of the .1000 acres sold to John ap Thom, end Thomas Wynne by William Penis. See Philadelphia Deed Book C-1, 291: 29 1 rn 1681 /2). John op Thomas et al. to Owen Foulke. On 12 4m 1683, Foulke obtained a warrant for laying our 200 acres of this purchase. The survey was returned into the surveyor general's office five days later on 17 June 1683. (Pennsylvania Archives, Sod Series, III, 125.) On 13 July 1686, Foulke obtained another warmnt for 400 acres. to be hid out in New Castle Co. (ibid., Rod Ser)es, VII, 196.) On 27 4m 1692, as Owen "bike," he sold 150 acres in Darby Twp. (now Delaware Co.) to Samuel Levis. (Records of the Cowls of Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1681-1697 [Philadelphia, 1910], 268.) Listed as person "not a Friend," Owen "Folk" was buried 5 6m 1695. (W. W. Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of A1/1071[00 Qrsaker Genealogy (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1938), II, 444.) In 1719, one Ellenor "FowIte," widow of Duck Creek Hundred, Kent Co„ possibly the relict of Owen Foulke, wrote her will. Mentioned 'therein were her son Henry Fowke, daughter Ann, grandchild Ann, widow of Thomas Gillett; Mary Owens, John, Stephen, Lydia, James and Peter Sanders, John Owens, Ellenor Fowke, Owen, Stephen and Sarah Fowke, Rebecca Banco and Jane Gano, the last of whom %KU named executrix. See Calendar of Delaware Wills, 26820800 (Wi)mington, 1911), 12. • The Lyon. of Liverpool 253 bacon; 34 yds. English listen. From the Collector's Book: 7 lbs. pewter. [Duty] us. 6d. Value in into, £11 9s...9d.' [5 May] THOMAS TAYLOR: 1/4 cwt. butter; 1 barrel salt; % cwt. gunpowder; 14 lbs. lead shot; % cwt. haberdashery; 2 cwt. nails; 2 cwt. wrought iron; 98 yds. flannel; 10 yds. English linen; 1 cwt. & 2 quarters cheese; 8 lbs. Norwich stuffs [wool]; % cwt. lead shot. From the Collector's Book: 2/2 barrels, 1 firkin, 1 stound [a woolen vessel], 1 tub, 2 churns, qty. 8 Winchester bushels oatmeal, and other wares. [Duty] 9s. 4d. Value in toto, £9 6s. 2d.° [5 May] EDWARD JONES & CO: For Dublin: 120 yds. flannel; 63 yds. English linen; 1 firkin soap; 40 lbs. leather manufactured [Skins already dressed]; 12 lbs.. Norwich . stuffs; 22 doz. men's woolen hose; 40 yds. flannel; 14 lbs. haberdashery; 1.quarter & 2 lb's. oatmeal ; 2'flitches bacon; 6 lbs. shot;• 16 lbs. manufactured leather. From the Collector's Book: 20' bundles, 8 cases; nrunks, 8 boxes, 2 panniers, 7 rubs, 4 sacki, 1. barrel, qty. 2 34 cwt. wrought iron, and other wares. [Duty] . .£1 13s. 7d. Value in'toto £33 I Is. 11Y2d.' . 15 [May] RICHARD CROSBY: 2 chests, 1 box qty. 4 cwt: wrought iron; 3 doz. plain leather gloves; 20 lbs. new shoes; 1 box 'qty. 16 doz. rpen's woolen hose; 1 box qty. 1 chest window glass; % cwt. gunpowder; % cwt. cast lead; 2 parcels, 1 bundle qty. apparel and bedding; 1 sack ° John Wood was not a purchaser of land horn any, of the Welsh companies,, and has nor bmn identified. If he was the representative from Bucks County at the Assembly held 12 Im 1682/3, and again on 24 Sm ibis, he was almost certainly the John Wood of Sheffield Parnh, Yorksh -we, who had arrived in 1678 in the Shield of Hull with his falstily. He had taken up 478 acres in what became Falls Twp., in Bucks Co. See "Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the Province of Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Archives, hth Series. I, 13, 44; also W. NV. H. Davis, Tbe History of Bucks County. . . . (Doylestown, Pa, 1876), 36. 0 This was probably THEM. TAVLoa of Worthenbury, Flimshire, bap,. 30 March 1628, who married by 1674, Frances, b. 1644, daughter of John Yardle. Taylor purchased 500 acres of John ap John; the warrant of survey for 450 sera was returned into the surveyor general's office 9 Dec. 1682. See Browning, 175, cited in Note I above, and Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, III, 171. Thomas Taylor must have died shortly thereafter, for on 5 12m (February) 1682/3, Chester Monthly Meeting agreed "yo widdow Taylor have slowed her, towards widdow Stedmans dyer ten shillings Starling by ye quarter," and on 11 4rn 1683, agreed that she was to be pod 8s. for the "widdow Steedman's quarteridge 2s. more for Thomas Colborn." See Digest of Minutes of the Business of the Monthly Meeting of Chester, 1681 - 1720, 274, 276, Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania (GSP). On 5 9m 8480.and 10 lm 1683, Widdow Taylor and John '67orsa5 proposed their intentioris of marriage, and passed meeting. As Frances Worrall, Me died 13 10m 1712, in Middletown Twp., Chester Co., aged "Mout 68 years." Thomas Taylor and his wife Frances had issue three ohildrrn I. Thomas, b. 4 fris 1675, who ro. 9 1 Ins 1700, Rachel Minshall; 2. Phoebe. b. 3 2m 1677; 3. Philip, b., 3 10m. 1640, who m. m 1701, Ann, daughter of Thomas and Mary Conway. See Gilbert Cope Collection, Vol. Co79, 63, and George Sniith, History of belasonn County. . (Philadelphia, 1862), 507. , 'From Edward Jones' letter, quoted in Browning, as cited In Note 1 above, it is known that a ,quantity of merchandise was brought over by him on the Lyon. It is therefore puzzling that his goods entered. in the Chester port books were marked for Dublin. However. many Liverpool and Chester ships stopped at Dublin, taking on passengers there—the Lyon in 1683 picked up Robert Turner there, for instance. Possibly Jones' goods were sold in Dublin, and a fresh mrgo loaded there, of which there is no newt 254 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine meal; 1 cwt. bread for private use. From the Collector's Book: 144 cheeses qty. 8 cwt., and other wares. [Duty] 145. I Id. Value in tom, £14 18s. 8d.5 22 [May] JAMES TAYLOR: 2 pcs. single bayes; 1/2 pcs. calico; 21 lbs. haberdashery; 14 lbs. wrought iron; 1 trunk qty. 1/3 of a short cloth. From the Collector's Book: 1 parcel qty. 40 yds. frieze, and other wares. [Duty] 3s. 6d. Also 1/3 of a short cloth. [Duty] Is. 1/2d. Value in tom, E3 10s. ° This was Rieueuto Camay (Crosbie) of Moore in the parish of Runcorn, hundred of Bucklow, in the Northern Division of Cheshire. Not a number of any of the Welsh companies, though a First Purchaser of 1000 acres from William Penn, he had m. 11 stn 16712, Ellinor Done, by whom he had two children: John, b. 6m 1672, end Katherine, b. 19 10m 1673. See Digested Copy of Records of Quarterly Meeting of Cheshire and Staffordshire, GOP. With his wife and two children he sutted ha Middletown Twp., Chester (now Delaware) Co., having obtained two warrants of survey. The first, dated 10 7m (Sept.) 1682, was granted by William Mukham, and the second, dated 13 9m 1683, was from the Proprietor. Pursuant to these warrants 750 acres was laid out in two tracts along Chester Creek. (Warrants and Surveys of the Province of Pennsylvania, 1682-1759, III, 150-136, Municipal Archives, Deputment of Records, City Hall, Philadelphia.) Richard Crosby's city lots, appurtenant to his purchase of 1000 acres, he sold to Robert Turner, for which see Philadelphia Deed Book E-1-5, 667: 1 12.0 1687/8, Richard Crosby to Robert Turner. His land transutions, because of the peculiarities of seventeenth century calligraphy, often have been confused with those of Richard Coesky, of Bristol, who was also a First Purchaser of 1000 acres from 07illion Penn. Corsley (sometimes Croslie), however, assigned his purchase to Thomas Hohne I Oct. 1688, and died in Bristol in 1694. See Digested Registers of Quarterly Meeting of Bristol and Somenetshire, GOP, and Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, 500 .006, 301 , Corsley's widow Sarah m. no Bristol 11 610 1695, Charles Jones, Jr., father of Mary Jones who became the wife of William Penn, Jr. Sox Howard M. Jenkins, "The Family of William Penn," Th., Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (PMHB), XXI (1897), 137-140; for further data on Richard Crosby, no Gilbert M. Cope Collection, Vol. Co21, 147-149, GOP. James Taylor has not been identified. So for as is known, how,, not a First Purchaser, but may have been the man of that name who subscribed £50 to the Free Society of Traders, for which see PMHB, XI, 179. Near the Meeting House in Merion at the House of Robert Novell are to be sold all sorts of merchant goods, Holland,, Linens, Woolens, English Ware of all Sorts, Earthen Ware, Glass Ware, Books and Pamphlets in Great Variety, Spices, Sugar molasses and all sorts of Grocery ware at very reasonable rates, he having brought most of his goods over from Wales with him. Note the house is a white House a little below Dr. Jones's on the Road side. No. LXXXIV, PennsylvaWa Gazette. 18-23 June 17)0