The Hendricksons of Crum Creek and the Old Swedes House

THE HENDRICKSONS OF CRUM CREEK AND THE "OLD SWEDES HOUSE" BY H. EDGAR HAMMOND AND RUTH L. SPRINGER, F.G.S.P.* Until the autumn of 1958, on a plot of ground on the east side of Crum Creek, near the Delaware River, there stood a small stone house which was built in 1690 for Andrew Hendrickson, a young Swedish farmer, and his bride, Brigitta, daughter of Morton Mortonson, a neighbor whose descendant, John Morton, was destined to become a Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Three generations of Hendricksons lived in the house, and then at the close of its first century it went into other hands. One hundred and thirty years later, the Baldwin Locomotive Works purchased the Crum Creek property, including the dwelling still called, familiarly, the Hendrickson house, but appearing thereafter on Baldwin maps as the "Old Swedes House." In the autumn of 1956 it became generally known that this house and a considerable portion of the Baldwin real estate holdings had been sold, news which focused attention on the rapid pace of industrial development in this entire area. Realizing that a landmark long taken for granted was in grave danger of being lost, individuals, committees, and societies began to search for a means of preserving the ancient structure. It could not remain where it was, so much was clear, but the difficult and costly task of moving it could be justified only by full certainty of the real historical value of the house. The time had come for putting away legend and tradition, no matter how cherished, and for making sober inquiry into facts. Research began in December 1956, and continued until the origin of the house and its subsequent history had been firmly documented and verified. Even then, however, the obstacles in the way of moving it were very great, and by the spring of 1958 there was reluctant agreement that it could not be saved. Nevertheless, there is a happy ending to the story—which is not an ending at all, but the beginning of a whole new chapter in the life of the house. As for the research which was done, it would, of course, have been impossible to trace the house simply as an inanimate structure of stone • Credit belongs to Mrs. F. Spencer Roach. F.G.S.P., for expanding and arranging the genealogical content of this article and for contributing to it her own thoughtful analysis of Pennsylvania's Militia Act of 1777 as implemented in Chester County. 45 46 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine and wood. Only when its people could be found and put into it, or related to it, could the story be read. Here genealogy and history indeed went hand in hand! The history of the house properly begins with the land on which it was built: "Whereas there are two Certain Peices of Land at Delaware River Near New Castle Now in the Tenour & Occupation of Hendrick Jansen & Bartle Escheilson as thier Proper Right.... " So runs the patent of confirmation issued on I May 1671 by Governor Francis Lovelace,°. from whose vantage place on Manhattan Island distances between points on the far-away Delaware looked negligible. Actually, the lands so confirmed are in what is now Delaware County, Pennsylvania, and are within the bounds of the original township of Ridley, from which several boroughs have since been set off. This township has a good deal of interest for students of Swedish history on the Delaware. Tinicum Island, a part of Ridley until 1780, when it became Tinicum Township, was an early center of both religious and civil authority, although its land was too marshy to support extensive settlement. 2 The mainland just across Darby Creek, however, was convenient in location and well adapted to farming; those who were able to settle there were considered fortunate. Amosland, where several "Old Swedes" dwelt, 8 2 Because of its reference to New Castle, the pamnt was recorded in New Castle Co. Deed Hook A-I, 32s 1 May 1671, Promo of confirmation, Francis Lovelace to Hendrick Jansen and Bartle Esclaielson, Delaware County was created from Chester County by an Act of Assembly 26 Sept. 1789. Until after the middle of the eighteenth century Tinicum Island, as a place of habitation, remained what it had been from the first—a sort of one-family empire, beginning with Governor Prinm, and then passing to his daughter, to Arnoldus Delagrange, and to the Taylor family. In the 1760's, however, as road papers, tax lists, and even Philadelphia newspapers confirm, much of the marsh was drained and sold, new families came in, and farming began on a large enough scale to justify a ferry over Darby Creek. The landing on the mainland side was near Morton Mortonson's house, where ho great-grandson, Jonas Morton, was then living. A ferry at the upper end of the island, for Philadelphia travel, had been established somewhat ttrlier. Today one may drive the length of Tinicum on the Industrial Highway without even thinking of it as an island. Or, on reaching the pleasant community of Essington, he may either decide to turn towttd the river to visit Governor Printa Park and the adjoining Corinthian Yacht Club, or turn in the opposite direction and go across the bridge which hes replaced the Darby Creek Ferry, to see the old Morton Homestead, now administered as one of Pennsylvania's historic sites. It must be remembered that many of the Swedes on the Delaware, including the Morton,, were of Finnish bitch or ancutry. From the year 1154 to 1809, Finland was a part of the kingdom of Sweden; the pastor who recorded the death of the aged Morton Mortonson, Sr., of Amosland, in 1706 was making a perfectly ordinary statement when he wrote that Morton was born 'In Finland in Sweden." This is one of the entries which Peter Kalm, Swedish naturalist, copied in Philadelphia about 1750 from Gloria Dei Church records now lost. These extracts from the church book were omitted from Dr. Adolph B. Benson's translation of Kalm's American notes, . . . Travels in North America (New York, 1957), but can be found in Vol. W of the Swedish text, Pehr Kalm, liesa till Noma Amerika (Hdsingfors, 1929), available at the Hendrickson Flouse Library in Wilmington or at the Swedish Museum ha Philadelphia. Morton Mortonson's death is recorded on p. 219 of the Swedish volume. A census taken ca. 0671-1674 lists the eight heads of families in "Ammersland" as Henrick Johnson, Bartill Eschillson, 011a Slouboe (William Slubey), John Grilsaw (Grelson), Mathias Mattison, Martin Martinson, Jacob Clementson, Hendrick Tama (Tortola). The State Library at Albany has the original list, and the Hendrickson House Library at Wilmington, a photostat copy. An additional name, that of Hance Pactson, found in published transcripts of the census (Nero York Colonial Documents, XII, 646-649; Pennsylvania Archives, Sod Series, VII 11891), 858-062B was borrowed from the roll of nearby Calcoon Hook, the present Darby TwO. The Hemlricksons of Crum Creek 47 was the part of this area nearest the original church on Tinicum Island. It comprised the present boroughs of Prospect Park and Norwood, part of Ridley Park, and adjacent portions of Ridley Township. The 1671 patent to HENDRICK JANSEN (John's son, Johnson) and Bartle Eschielson (Eskel's son, Eskelson), proceeds to describe one "Parcell" of their land as "lying & being upon the Place Called Ames Land Stretching from the Kill or Creeke [Amosland Run] betwixt the Place where they live and Jan Cornelleys Mattys Mattson Marten Martensen [Morton Mortonson] S. E. & N. W. to Hendrick Thaetens [Torton's] Land and from the Great Kill [Darby Creek] in length to the Wood Land." The second "pice of Land" confirmed by the patent lay on the west side of Hendrick Torton's land, and "between two kills or Creeks the One known by the Name of the Stone kill [Stony Creek] the other of Crorck kill [Crorttck, Crum Creek] being in Breadth alongst the River on the West syde betweene the two Kills aforementioned and in length North West from the River to the Wood Land." Valuable marsh along the Delaware, with plenty of well-drained fast land behind it, made this piece especially desirable. Together, the tracts comprised about "fouer Hundred Acres or two hundred Morgan of Land." ° Before these two tracts were officially surveyed for their owners, "boysterous times" intervened. A "Barbarous murder committed by some Indyans on the East side" of Delaware River "upon two Christians at Matiniconck [Burlington] Island" later in the summer of 1671 aroused the inhabitants on the west side of the river. Some were in favor of declaring war against the savages in retaliation, but a council held at Peter Cock's thought otherwise, considering that "att this time of the year itt is to late to begin a warr ag` the Indyans." They favored instead the erection of fortifications at such places as "Passayunck," Tinicum, and Upland, "whereto the out plantacons" could retire in case of danger. The following summer a band of Marylanders, sent by Lord Baltimore, audaciously plundered the inhabitants about the Whore Kill (Lewes, Delaware), and carried off their goods. Hard on this assault came news that the Dutch States General were at war with England, and orders went out for "the great gunns [to] bee w" all convenient speed sent up to the Block houses in Delaware River." ° 4 Although the family itself used but one spelling, Torton, others wrote many variants of this name, such as Taden, 'fate, Taten, Tathe, Tauten, Thaden, Thaeten, Thaten, etc. 'For survey of both tracts, see Albert Cook Myers, rd. Walter Wharton', Land Survey Register, 1675-1679 (Wilmington, Del., 1955), 94: 2 7br (September) 1675, Survey for "henr;ck John 85 Bartell Esskells two peace or persells of Land... • " As laid out by the surveyor, each "prsell of Land" eon. mined 154 acres ..more or Lease." OPennsylvenia Archives, Sod Series, VII (1891), 790, 799, 801. 806. 48 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Late in the spring of 1673 Peter Andries and Jonas Nielson of "King- sesse" fell to quarreling over their lands, whereupon the Court at Upland directed Hendrick Jansen and five others to view the property and settle the dispute.' Five different claims were made by Peter and Jonas, and a proper settlement must have required considerable time and effort on the part of the peacemakers. Two years later, when the English had regained jurisdiction along the river after an interval of Dutch ascendancy, Hendrick and Bartle, mindful perhaps of the dispute in Kingsessing, asked for a resurvey of their lands. Walter Wharton made the survey on "7br [September] r 2 Day 1675." It was high time, too, that their boundaries were determined, for Hendrick died the following year. In the Court at Upland on 14 November 1676 an action brought by one Thomas Spry against "the estate of Hend: Johnson deceased" was nonsuited, the plaintiff not appearing. At the same time it was "Represented to this Court that the Estate of Hendrick Johnson deceased was made wait of & that the heirs of s' hendrik Johnson (as Yet being in minority) haue no guardian to take Ceare of them & also of the said Estate," whereupon the court appointed Jan Jansen (John Johnson) and Morton Mortonson overseers and guardians, charging them to "bring a true Inventory of the s' Estate into the office for to bee Recorded." If they complied with the order, the papers have not survived, and as a result, our acquaintance with Hendrick's family is limited. Only two sons, John and Andrew, are known. His wife's name has not been found, nor do we know whether or not she was living at the time of his death. Known Children of Hendrick Johnson: 1. JOHN HENDRICKSON, a minor in 1676; deceased by 5 June 1721, of whom further. 2. ANDREW HENDRICKSON, a minor in 1676; deceased by 9 July 1722, of whom further. 7 Award of the Coon at Upland in Pennsylvania, 1676-1681, 161, Logan Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP); also published in Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, VII (1160), 172-174, hereinafter cited as Memoirs. "Aingsesse," where a number of old Swedish families had settled, became Kingsessing Township, Philadelphia County, and is now within the bounds of the city of Philadelphia. Logan Papers, op. oil., 9, 10; Memoirs, 45, 44. It is a temptation to mune that John johneon, one of the overseers and guardians named by the court, was Hendrick Johnson's brother, md to try to identify him as the man of that name who lived farther down the river “in Marcus Kill, - and died re. 1686, leaving a widow, Eleanor, who subsequently married 'William Talley. However, at present ohms, not enough ml evidence to justify either assumption. For further data on the John Johnson family and on William Talley and his wife, Eleanor, who removed to New Castle County where mop of their descendants live, see Dehnuare History, VI (September, 1914). 140-145. The Hendricksons of Crum Creek 49 1. JOHN HENDRICKSON, elder son of Hendrick Johnson, was born probably between 1655 and 1663.' As the elder son he inherited his father's home in Amosland on Darby Creek, and presumably was at least twenty-one in the summer of 1684 when he was appointed supervisor "for ye High Wayes for Amos Land and Calcoone hooke." In December 1687, he appeared at Chester Court as a witness against Thomas Boules (Bowles) "of ye Island of Tenecum" who was accused of "killing and Converting to his owne use divers Hoggs and Piggs of Thomas Smith with others belonging to ye Kings [Leidge] People." Hendrickson attested that "last fall he was up mill or Darby Creeke where he heard two gunns goe of and when he came to ye place he heard dogs barque & saw Thomas Boules with his Gunn Presented and did Shoote att his Neighbours Hogs." He also reported that he heard James Hayes, who was with Boules, say "that Boules was an Old Foole for shooting twice and missing." " Married by May 1693, to MAGDALENA, surname unknown, he and his brother Andrew were that year enrolled as heads of families on a census prepared for the King of Sweden, and both were taxed in Ridley Township. The following year John was reappointed supervisor "off the Roade wayes For the Township of Ridley," and was named township constable in the spring of 1697, an office he again held ten years later.' Although a deed dated in 1786 recites that "Hendrick Janson and Bartle Eschielson made Partition Between them" of the lands patented in 1671 "& afterwards died Whereby the said Bartle Eschielson's Moiety ... John Hendrickson, son of Hendrick Johnson, was obviously under the age of 21 in 1676 when guardians were appointed for his father's heirs, and he is assumed to have been at least 21 in 1684. As son of Hendrick, John had Hendrickson for his surname, but his own sons departed fmns the Swedish pattern whereby they would have been called Johnson, and continued to keep the name Hendrickson, following the style of their English neighbors. The earlier practice is well described by descendants of Bartle Eschielson in a deed which explains that ;0 was "the Constant Usage and Custom among the Swedes and first Setlers of Pennsylvania for the sons to assume and take upon themselves the Christian Name of their father with the Termination son as & for their Surname." See Chester Co. Deed Book A-2, Vol. 25, 343: 10 Jan 1786, indenture tripartite betwem Sketchley Morton and wife Rebecca, Aaron Morton and John Comer. Record of the Cowls of Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1681-1697 (Philadelphia, 1910), published by the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, 38, 60, 114, 123. The original is in the Prothonotary'. Office, West Chester. See also transcript of Chester County Court Rmords, Cope Collection, Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 18, 34, 77, 84. 11 For the May 1693, census of Swedish families on the Delaware, a landmark among murce materials, see Jehu Curtis Clay, Annals of the Swedes (Philadelphia, 1835); Benjamin Perris, History of the Original Settlements on the Delanowe (Wilmington, 1846); and William M. Reynolds' translation of Israel Acrelius' A History of New Sweden (Philadelphia, 1874). The first two of these works present the names as originally set down, neighbor following neighbor, not in alphabetical order. For the tax list, see the MS Tax List, 1693, Township of Ridley, Chester County Miscellaneous Papers, 16844847, HSP. For the court records, see Record of lb. Cowls of Chester County, op. dl., 338, 404, and UM. scnpu of subsequent court records in Chasm Coumy Historical Society, West Chester. 50 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Decended to his only [sic] son John Bartleson," " the division may have been only an oral agreement. On 16 Xbr (December) 1701, Isaac Taylor, deputy surveyor for Chester County, received a warrant to resurvey to John Hendrickson a tract of land reputed to contain 400 acres. By January 1703/4 John Hendrickson had the 160-acre home place on Darby Creek, Andrew Hendrickson had 164 acres on Crum Creek, and John Bartleson had two tracts, one of 160 acres, between John Hendrickson and Hendrick Torton, and the other, containing 103 acres, west of the Torton tract and next to Andrew Hendrickson's land. It appears, however, that John Hendrickson was not satisfied, and perhaps refused to accept this division as final. In any event, John Bartleson filed suit against him, and the Chester County Court of Quarter Sessions heard the case on 29 February and 1 March 1703/4. As Hendrickson said nothing in his own behalf, the court, by judgment nihil dicit, ordertd partition to be made." As late as the spring of 1713, eight years after Bartleson had made over all his land to his nephews John and Andrew Morton and their brother-in-law George Vanculin," there was still "uncertainty of the pres't Division of the Lands that were Bartlesons' from those of Hendrickson," and still danger "of Disputes hereafter Concerning the Said Division, unless better settled." " Perhaps it was to rectify this, at least 10 Recited in Chester Co. Deed Book A-2, Vol. 25, 343, of. cit., Note 9 above. 11 "Minutes of the Board of Property," Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX (1893), 413. See also transcript of later court records, as cited in Note 11 above, 'under date of 29 Ilm (January) 1703/4 for the judgment, and Taylor Papers, Chester County Warrants, 1682-1733, 1, 49, in HSP, for the warrant to Isaac Taylor, dated 16 Xbr (December) 1701, to rmurvey to John Hendrickson a tract of land reputed to contain 400 acres. "The date of Bartle Eschielson's death is not known, but his share of the patented land was conveyed 23 Feb. 1704/5 by his son John Bartleson (his other heirs having released their rights) to Andrew and John Morton of Darby Twp., and George Vanculin of Ridley Tom. See Chester Co. Deed Book A. Vol. 1, Part 1, 213 (5). Andrew and John Morton were sons of Morton Mortonson, Jr. and his wife Margaret who was a daughter of Bartle Embielson and a sister of John Bartleson. George Varmulin, son of John and Annika Culin, or Van Colin, had manned Margaret Morton, daughter of Morton Mortonson, Jr., and was a brother-in-law of Andrevr and John Morton. The deed of gift from John Bartleson to his "kinsmen" recites the location of his two tracts of land, containing by estimation 300 acres: the One Tract Bounded Westward with Andrew Hendrickson'. Land & Eastward with the Land late of Hendrick Tauton's [d. 1703]. The other Tract Bounded Westward with the ad Teutons Land & Eastward with the Land of John Hendrickson According to Devision lines by Agreemt Late made Between the ad John Bartleson & John Hendrickson & Andrew Hendrickson." 10 Soon after William Penn's "first comeing," the Swedes as "alleleoo settlers" were told to bring in their New York patents "in order to obtain firm titles for their lands from the Prom." At the time John Bartleson conveyed his lands to his kinsmen, he made the statement that their patent had been "Delivered to Philip Lhemain Then Secretary to William Penn . . • As by a Certain Certificate Under the ad Philip Lhemain's hand for the Retch thereof may Appear." It may not have been returned to them, for in June 1709, John Hendrickson joined with 26 other Swedes—including John and Andrew Morton— in petitioning the Assembly for relief, "complaining that their old Patents, whereby they held their Lands, have been fraudulently gotten from them by the Proprietary, or his Officers, and greater Quitrent, Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, exacted from them than at first they were obliged to pay. • . " The Hendricksons of Crum Creek 51 in part, that during the following year Isaac Taylor surveyed for "John and Andrew Hendricks their marsh, meadow and cripple" along the Delaware and adjoining John Morton's marsh, formerly Bartleson's." John Hendrickson died between 10 April 1720, when his will was written and 5 June 1721, when it was offered for probate. One-third of his personal estate was bequeathed to his well-beloved wife Magdalena, the remaining two-thirds to be divided equally among all his daughters after his wife's death or remarriage, excepting only the utensils for the plantation and the corn then growing in the ground, which was to be sold for the use of the family. His daughter Mary, already married, was to have an equal share with the other girls, in addition to what "she hath already had towards her portion." John's real estate he devised to his three sons, "Andrew John & Israel to Be Equally Devided In Quantity and Quality," Andrew "to Have His part Where I Now Dwell together with the Buildings and orchard and In Consideration thereof He shall Assist His Brother John to Build A House and A Barn When He is disposed to settle on His part and that they Both Andrew and John Do assist their Younger Brother when He Comes of to [sic] age and is disposed to settle His part to Build Him A House And Barn and to take Care of Him till He Comes of age." As executors, John named his wife and his son Andrew. An inventory of his personal property, taken the following 23 June 1721 by Andrew Morton and George Campinett, totaled a trifle over £136." X17E, op. cif! Note 11 above, 501, 543; "Votes and Proceedings of the House of Reprmentatives of the Province of Pennsylvania," ibid., 8th Series, IL 856; Minutes of the Provincial Connell of Pennsylvania. . . • (Philadelphia, 1852), II, 465-466, hereinafter cited as Colonial Records. Pastor Sande' copied the Swedes' petition of 1 June 1709—which he probably had written—into his records at Gloria Dei Church; it is published in Clay's Annals, of. cit., Note II above, 90-93. A contemporary copy of the signatures to the petition is found in the Logan Papers, IV, 71, HSI. 1. 0 The Taylor surveys, arranged by townships and fully catalogued, are in the manuscript collections of HSP. An Atlas of Delaware County (Philadelphia, 1880), prepared by Benjamin Hayes Smith from these and other surveys, grants, patents, warrants and road papers, is a useful reference murce for early holdings. The map for Ridley Township, No. 14, shows clearly the relative positions of the Hendrickson, Torton, Colin, Morton and neighbOtinla ProPeeties• "Ch..., Co. will Book A-1. 121, #129: 1721, will of John Hendricks of Ridley. This contraction of Hendrickson (actually the Swedish possessive form, which has no apostrophe) appears on various maps and documents, but was not used by members of the family. In taking inventory of John Hendrickson's personal estate the appraisws evidently listed first dm items they considered most important: "Nine Mikh Cows," valued at L18, 3 heifers, a bull, 4 yearling calves, 8 young calves, 24 sheep, 15 Iambs, 2 plowing horses, John's riding horse, 2 two-year-old colts, 2 mares and their colts, "forty five Gas," "Nine Hives of Bees," and the corn standing in the ground. Moving to the house, the appraisers noted three beds, with blankets and bolsters, only one of them having "Bedstmd & Curtans," but valued, in all, at 08 10 0., "One pair Chest of Draws" and "One old Chest Drawes," eight chairs, one table with turned legs and one "Broad Table," two them, one of them bound with iron, and old; pewter dishes, "Basons," tankard, "&c," appraised at £4; assorted iron pots and "scillets," jugs, glass bottles,. and earthenware. There Imre also three spinning wheels, snore than 50 yards of linen, part of it "tow LIM), " a "Fishing Rnett," a "Cornew," and "Two Barrels of Shadds," the last three items giving evidence of one “tivity engaged In, by the men of the family. 52 The Pennsylvania Genealog;cal Magazine John Hendrickson's widow, Magdalena, survived him by many years. Assessed in Ridley Township late in 1721 on a taxable estate of £22, she was rated thereafter through 1727. By 1729 her son John had assumed the tax. Her will, written 19 October 1742, was not probated until 11 October 1752," when her youngest son, Israel, was appointed executor, his brother John, who was to have served with him, "having departed this life in the lifetime of the said Testatrix." The exact date of Magdalena's death is not known, for there is no mention of it in Gloria Dei Church records. The pastor may simply have failed to make the entry in the book, or she may have died during the period prior to 1750 for which the church records are missing. Children of 1. John Hendrickson and his wife Magdalena:" I. ANN MARY HENDRICKSON, b. ca. 1693; m. by 10 April 1720, when her father's will was written, but her husband's name is not known. IL ELIZABETH HENDRICKSON, b. Ca. 1695. No further record. iii. ANDREW HENDRICKSON, b. 6 August 1687; d. after 26 June 1758, the date of his will, and before 2 September 1758, when it was proved in New Castle County," where he had lived since his marriage 6 November 15 Chester Co. Will Book C-3, 176, #1412, 1752, will of Maudlin Hendrickson of Amosland, Ridley Twp. In her will she directed that she be buried "in the Sweeds Church Yard at Wickaco," at the side of her late husband, John Hendrickson. To her son Andrew, who had lived in New Castle County since his marriage in 1721, she left £12, and to his daughter Susanna a bed, "coverlid," and other small items. To her son Israel she left a negro girl, cattle horses and shmp: co his eldest daughter and to her son John's son, Matthias Hendrickson, her still, "to be equally divided between them;" and to her grandson Ebenezer Stedwell, a black mare. 19 Dr. Nicholas Collin, at some time during his own pastorate at Gloria Del Church (1736-1831), had a translation prepared of what was in effect • congregational census made by Rev. Andreas Rudman, whose notes were "inserted in the book still preserved which also contains the records of baptisms, marriages, burials, etc." This mrly record book has been lost, but the translation remains. Dr. Collin'a notes say the census was taken in 1697-1698, but a letter written by Pastor Rudman himself in November 1700, to his mother and others in Sweden, gives a different timing. Having arrived in America in midsummer, 1697, Mr. Rudman calls 1698 "the first year,” when he divided the congregation into groups and "summoned each group, both the young and the old, for examination.. • . The second year (1699], I gathered the groups at appointed places and went to them, making in this way a visitatIon to see where they lived and how. . . . The third year, which was this summer [1700], I did the same thing, going from house to house through the whole congregation." For the letter quoted here, see The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, LXXXIV (1960), 200-209, hereinafter cited,, shwa; for, a somewhat abbreviated transcript of the census, see ibid., II 11870, 224-228. This transermt furnishes the names and ages of four of John Hendricksonh children under the entry which begins: "Henric Johnson. His no John Henricson." It is a mislmding heading, seeming co indicate that Hendrick Johnson was still living. The names of the remaining children of John Hendrickson are supplied by John's will and that of his son-in-law Thomas Stedwell. 20 New Castle Co. Will Book Miscellmeous-1, 211, will of Andrew Hendrickson of Christiana Hundred. His marriage and the births and baptisms of his children are recorded in the original registers of Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church, Wilmington. The title page of the published Records of Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church, Wilmington DeL, front 1697 to 1779, Translated from the Original Swedish by Horace Barr, with an Abstract of the English Records from 1773 to I ell) (Wilmington, Del., 1890), does not fully describe the contents of the book. To Dr. Burr's translation and abstracts of Swedish and English records (pastoral journals and vestry minutes) were a.dded, for publication, mar- The Hendricksons of Crum Creek 53 1723 at Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church, to MARIA HENDRICKSON, daughter of Hendrick and Judith Hendrickson of New Castle C,ounty,21 who survived him. Issue, all bapt. at Holy Trinity Church: I. SUSANNA HENDRICKSON, b. 20 October 1724; m. 23 January 1750 JESPER JUSTIS, b. 22 May 1720, son of Mins Gustafsson (Justis) and his wife Catharina Walraven. 2. ANDREW HENDRICKSON, b. 6 February 1727, not named in his father's will. 3. MARIA HENDRICKSON, b. 23 June 1729; m. by 1758 to a RAMBO, whose first name has not been found. 4. JOHAN HENDRICKSON, b. I f March 1733, who was to have all his father's real estate, after his mother's death. 5. ISRAEL HENDRICKSON, b. 8 June 1735; not named in his father's will. 6. CATHARINA HENDRICKSON, b. 29 November 1737; living in 1758. 7- JONAS HENDRICKSON, b. 18 November 1740; named in his father's will. 8. LYDIA HENDRICKSON, b. 21 February 1743; living in 1758. 9. SARAH HENDRICKSON, b. 15 April 1745; living in 1758. 10, TOBIAS HENDRICKSON, b. 26 January 1749; living in 1758. iv. SARAH HENDRICKSON, b. 6 August 1697, twin of her brother Andrew. Na further record. JOHN HENDRICKSON, b. ca. 1699; d. intestate before 26 April 1748 in Amosland, Ridley Township; m. CATHARINA, surname not known, though there is evidence indicating she may have been a daughter of Mathias Netsillias (Natsilles, Nezelius), Sr., and his wife who was a daughter of Justice Otto Ernest Cock. John's widow m. 2nd, before 17 March 1712, Andrew CulM, and d. before 6 December 1752. On 24 November 1731 riage and baptismal records, a few communicant ILSM and a partial list of burials. These were transcribed by obviously inexperienced persons, for whore Dr. Burr made penciled notations on the manuscript records, where they still remain. The resulting volume has become a standard reference work, but its contents can not be used with safety until they have been checked against the onginal church records or, in the cue of burial and communicant records, the transcripts published in Delaware History, V. VI, and VII, during the years 1953 - 1956. It is expected that marriage and baptismal records will soon be published m part of the program of the Hendrickson House Library of Old Swedes Church. The marriage record of "Anders Hindrichsson" and "Maria Hindrichsson" is found in the MS record, Second Book, 139. 25 Hendrick Hendrickson was a son of Hendrick Jacobson, an early resident of Chuter County who died in New Castle County in 1704, but whose will was recorded in Philadelphia Will Book B, 139, #033,0704. Another son, Jacob Hendrickson, had land surveyed on Crum Creek above the land of "the orphants of Hendrick Johnson." See MS Record of Upland Court, op. cit., 107; Memoirs, VII, 124. Another tract, surveyed 27 July 1680, rttended Jacob's holdings still farther up "the Crump Rill." See Land Surveys, Pennsylvania and Delaware, 1671-1681, photostats, HSP, of manuscripts in the State Library at Albany, N. Y. There is no indication that Jacob ever lived on the Cnsm Creek land; it was soon in other hands. By 1690 Jacob appears to have been living is the Penns Neck area of West New Jersey, as indicated by • deed, dated 1690, from William Penn to Joshua Gillett wherein the names of adjoining landholders, including that of Jacob Hendrickson, are given. See "Calendar of Records in the Office of the Secretary of State, 1664-1703," New Jersey Archives, 1s0 Series, XXI, 646, hereinafter cited as N. 9. Archives. Jacob Hendrickson and his brother Hendrick Hendrickson had applied for and received fairly extensive grants of land in New Castle County. On 26 Apr. 1692, Jacob Hendrickson, then "of Salem County in Delaware River," sold a tract in New Castle County which had been surveyed 16 Mar. 1684. A statement by his brother is appended to the deed: .1 underwritten Hendrick Hendrickson Brother unto Jacob Hendrickson doe by these presents acknowledge that the one half of this ... Land which I have formerly taken up with my Brother that I have fully and absolutely given it over tmto my brothers whole At sole dispose." New Castle Co. Deed Book 11.1, 169; Jacob Hendrickson to Erick Anderson. 54 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine John's brother Andrew Hendrickson, of New Castle County, made over to John all Andrew's rights in the home place, which had been devised to him by his father's will, then being 154 acres and messuage, and 36 acres of marsh and meadow. In later years, however, Andrew's right to dispose of his inheritance was questioned, and after his death a share in the property was awarded to his eldest son, John. An opinion handed down in this case by Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, on 11 November 1758 survives in manuscript. On 28 August 1744 John Hendrickson of Amosland "upon Darby Creek where Great numbers of Travellers as well by land as Water daily resort," made application for a license to sell liquor at his house. Recommended by 37 friends and neighbors, his petition was allowed. Issue: 1. MATTHIAS HENDRICKSON, b. probably between 1735 and 1739; deceased by 15 October 1760, when letters of administration were granted on his estate. 2. REBECKAH HENDRICKSON, b. probably between 1735 and 1739; m. by 1760 MATHIAS NEZELIUS (Netsillias), son of Otto (Arthur) Netsillias and his wife Christina. Mathias and his wife were appointed administrators of her brother Matthias' estate. 3. MARGARET HENDRICKSON, b. probably after 1739. 4. JEREMIAH HENDRICKSON, b. probably af ter 1739." vi. ISRAEL HENDRICKSON, b. after 1700; d. intestate before 15 April 1767 in Amosland, Ridley Township, when letters of administration on his estate were granted; probably m. 1st, in Gloucester County, N. j., 19 February 1730, AMY JOHNSON or JONES ("Emi Jonse" in Raccoon Creek Church records) ; m. 2nd, by 29 October 1750, ELIZABETH, surname unknown, who d. 14 April 1751 "at Ammasland," aged 27 years, and was bur. at Gloria Dei Church; m. 3rd, 6 July 1758, at Gloria Del, SUSANNA PETERSON of Chester County, who survived him. As early as 28 August 1739, Israel, having built "a new house" upon the Great Road from Philadelphia to Chester, petitioned for a license to keep a public house. It was refused, although he had been recommended by inhabitants who had known him from his infancy. He petitioned again, unsuccessfully, the next year, twice in 1741, and again in 1743. On 28 August 1744, when he was "of Chester," his petition was finally allowed, he halt - 21 See Cheater Co. Administration Docket 2, 52, #1127: 1748 for estate of John Hendrickson of Anaosland. The administration bond was Sled 26 Apr. 1748, with Charles Grantum and John Sketchley as sureties. The inventory, totaling £270 Or 4d., was made by Hans Torton and Jacob Archer on 14 May 1748 and bled 25 May 1748. The date of death of John's wife Catharine is established by the settle. ment accounts of his estate. See Chester County Mitcellaneous Papers, 1684-1847, 93, HSP, for the deed from Andrew Hendrickson to John Hendrickson, dated 24 Nov. 1731. For the opinion of Benjamin Chew on this conveyance, see ibid., 221. According to him, John's land had been devised by his father I. John Hendrickson in equal shares to the latter's three sons, Andrew, John and Israel, in fee tail as tenants-in-common; consequently Andrew had only a life estate in the land, his one-third share descending upon his death to his eldest son John "who will undoubtedly recover the same on an Ejectment brought against the Descendmm or thou possessed thereof under his tinkle John who purchased as above of his Father." The names of the children of John of Amosland are found in his estate papers in Chester Co. Orphans' Court Records, Minors' Estates, File Boo H, 1734-1809. His daughter Rebeckah's marriage to Mathias Hemline is establtshed by the administration of the estate of her brother Matthias Hendrickson, when letters were granted to them 15 Oct. 1760. Philadelphia Administration Book G, 235. See also Chester Co. Orphans' Court Records, Vol. 6 (1752-1761), 5, 12, 27. For John's license petition, see abstract in Chester County Tavern Petitions, Cope Collection, cited in Note 10 above, or the original petition in Chester Co. Historical Societr The Hendricksons of Crum Creek 55 ing leased the building where William Graham had formerly kept a public house. By 1747, however, he was back in Ridley, where the year he died he was assessed on 45 acres, 5 horses, 1 cow, and 9 sheep. Issue: 1. JOHN HENDRICKSON. 2. REBECCA HENDRICKSON, m. by license dated 22 March 1769, DANIEL CULIN, JR. 3. RACHEL HENDRICKSON, m. by 1769 to JACOB LAMPLUGH. 4. ISRAEL HENDRICKSON, a minor under 14 in September 1769, when lus mother, Susanna, petitioned the Chester County Orphans' Court for a guardian for him.. vii. DINA HENDRICKSON, I. probably between 1700 and 1710; m. 28 August 1726 at Christ Church, Philadelphia, THOMAS STEDWELL of Ridley Township who d. between 15 March 1726/7 and I April 1727, when his nuncupative will was offered for probate; bur. in "Chester church-yard." Issue: EBENEZER STEDWELL, b. 1727; deceased by 27 March 1749 when letters of administration on his estate were granted to Michael Rambo.. 2. ANDREW HENDRICKSON, younger son of Hendrick Johnson, received as his inheritance the extreme west portion of his father's land— that lying next to Crum Creek on its east bank—and an equal share with his brother, John, in the marsh and meadow fronting on the Delaware River. Here, on fast land just above the upper reaches of the marsh, was built the house around which this research has centered. Facing southwest, it stood near the creek, and at a distance from the river's bank which has changed remarkably little, by presenrday measurements, from that shown on surveys made while Andrew lived in the house. When Isaac Taylor surveyed John and Andrew's marsh, meadow, and cripple in 1714, as part of a general review of the Hendrickson-Morton-Culin boundaries, he gave his course as "Begining at a point of fast Land by Crum Creek near Andrew Hendricks House." He then followed down the creek the several courses thereof 220 perches to the Delaware River." When John Hendrickson inherited the family home he had also inherited an obligation, that of helping his younger brother to build a good house to live in when he was ready to marry. In a country where establishing a new home meant clearing land, assembling and preparing mate...ch..... Co. Administration Docket 2, 191, #2352: 1767, estate of Israel Hendrickson of Ridley Twp. A writ in 1769 for the division of his estate, in original Orpham' Court records of the estate, lists his children. Poe his second marriage inference, see Chester Ca. Dud Book K-I0, 437: 29 Oct. 1750, Israel Hendrickson and wife Elizabeth to Henry Trimble. Her burial is noted in the transcript of the,Burial Rmords of Old Swedes Church, Philadelphia (1750-1831), in Collections of the Genmlogical Society of Pennsylvania (OSP), 5; lasePs third marriage is in the transcript of the same church's Baptisms sod Marriages (1750-1789), 337, alm is, GOP. For his various petitions, see the transcript of Chester County Petitions, GOP, or the originals in Chester Co. Historical Society. 24 Cheater Co. Will Book A-I, 228, #250: 1727, will of Thomas Stedwell of Ridley, wherein he turned his wife Dina and brother-in-law John Hendrickson as executors. See Chester Co. Administration Docket 2, 65, #1235: 1749, for administration of Ebenezer Steadwell (Stedwell) "late of the township of Finney Young rum Deceased." Sureties for die PM bond were John Sketchley and Israel Hendrickson. The inventory listed only his "Purse and Appearel," one bond for £45, and "One Oval Table." 25 Taylor Papers, HOP, VIII, No. 1631. 1714, map of John and Andrew Hmdricks' marsh, etc. 56 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine rials for house and barn, and, in most cases, doing the actual work of building, the giving and receiving of help was a practical necessity as well as an honored custom. In this instance, the nature of that help was affected by the presence on Andrew's land of a ready and plentiful supply of good freestone. For a young Swedish farmer on the Delaware to have a stone house at a period when even in Stockholm itself most dwellings were of frame construction would, of course, be regarded as unusual, at the very least. Andrew's brother, however, and the highly respected Morton Mortonson, his former guardian, must have decided that the advantages of using this more permanent building material so close at hand outweighed any other considerations. Thus the site was chosen, the builder engaged, the stone prepared, and the work begun, either in 1690 or very shortly thereafter. When completed, the house which looked toward both river and creek, and across into Gloucester County as well, measured 30 by 20 feet. In the center of each of the two longer walls, front and back, there was a door, flanked by a window on either side, all set in solid, plank-front frames, mortised and pegged. The gambrel roof was supported by the end walls and by heavy, hand-hewn pine beams which extended two feet beyond the face of the front and rear walls to form protective eaves over the first floor doors and windows. Inside, on the first floor, the northwest wall was completely filled by a huge fireplace, an adjacent wood closet, and, in the righthand corner, a narrow, winding stair leading to the second story. A small square framed opening in the back wall of the fireplace, near the left-hand corner, doubtless covered by an outside wooden shutter, was used as a hatchway for logs. The space over the high mantel was plastered, as were the other walls. The rather shallow cellar was reached by a hinged trap-door in the corner of the room diagonally across from the stairway to the second floor. Upstairs, the single room was used for sleeping quarters. Either at the time of the first building or at a later date, a second fireplace, over the one downstairs, but not so large, was constructed, utilizing the great chimney which served the hearth below." While no actual reference to a barn is found until a good many years later, when it was in need of repairs, there is no doubt that one was built at about the same time as the house itself. 28 When the present dormers were construcud has not been firmly established. A 1798 tax schedule reports only four windows in the house. AS the windows are presumed to have been casement type; each of those presently on the first floor of the house has S lights or panes of glass, while each dormer has 6 lights. Apparemly the original panes were smaller, wxth 12 to a window, making a total of 4$ for the four, original windows as listed in 170' The Hendricksons of Crum Creek 57 In the May 1693 census of Swedish families on the Delaware, previously referred to, "Anders Hindersson" is listed as head of a household which included four persons (not necessarily all members of the family). As this was the year his eldest child was born, his marriage to BRIGITTA MORTONSON) daughter of Morton Mortonson, Sr., and Helena, his wife, had probably taken place in 1691 or 1692. When the family's pastor, Andreas Rudman, of the Wicaco congregation, came to visit the home on Crum Creek in the summer of 1699 he entered the names and ages of Andrew's three children, two boys and a girl, in his records." In 1700, when pew sittings in the new church at Wicaco " (in Philadelphia County) were assigned, Andrew was given a place on the "Long Bench" under the windows on the menfolk's side, among such elders of the congregation as John Stille, Andrew Rambo, and Peter Cock, Sr. That Andrew was so honored indicates his close and responsible ties to the church of which he and his family were members. Manuscript building accounts which remain at the church note his substantial contributions for 1698-1700 and for 1704. Also in the church account-book, in Pastor Rudman's hand, there is an entry for 8 January 1701 telling of a gift from "Anders Hind:" wife," after childbirth. On the second Sunday in Advent, 1702, the following record was made by Pastor Andreas Sandel, Mr. Rudman's successor: And: Hind: gave to the church for his wife's burial Andrew Hendrickson, with four children to care for, soon remarried. In his will his second wife's name is written—by an English hand— as Katherine, for which the Swedish spelling would have been CATHAIUNA. While no final proof of Catharina's identity has been found, there is some evidence that she was a daughter of John Cock, Sr., for ■ 07 10 the congregational census made ho 1699.1700, cited in Note 19 above, Brig tta is referred to I, the entry headed Cram Creek, "Andrew Henricson. His wife Brigitte, d. of Morton [in Swedish, Brigitte Mortonsdotter]. Their Children: Henri; 6 years; Jacob, 4; Helene, 1." .1 5econd only to the coming of ministers and books from Sweden in 1697 was the isnportance to the Swedes on the Delaware of building new churches to replace the two log structures, both in the form of blockhouses, which for years had served as houses of worship. One of these stood at Crane Hook, just Mow the present city of Wilmington, and the other at Wicaco, now a part of Philadelphia. On 4 June 1699, the new church at Christina (WilmIngton) was consecrated and named "The Holy Trinity's Church," or Holy Trinity Church. On 2 June 1700, the new church at Wicaco was consecrated and named "The House of God's Glory," or Gloria Dei Church. Both had grown almost venerable, however, before they were called by the names with which they had been chrismned; they long remained the Wicaco Church and the Christina Church. Today both am called "Old Swedes"1 58 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine several years one of Andrew's neighbors.' John, a son of Peter Cock, Sr., of Philadelphia County, was called "Senior" to distinguish him from his brother Peter's son, called John, Jr. Catharina Cock was sixteen when Pastor Rudman set down the record of his visit to her family; she would have been about nineteen at the time of Brigitta Hendrickson's death. If she married Andrew Hendrickson she was then about twenty, considerably younger than Andrew. Certainly Catharina Hendrickson, Andrew's widow, survived him by nearly forty years. Primarily, Andrew was a farmer, but he was a fisherman, too, using a seine in the Delaware River to supplement both family food supply and income. To what extent hunting and trapping were important to him we can only surmise. Wicaco Church records say that when gifts of furs were assembled in 1714, to be sent to the King of Sweden and to Bishop Jesper Swedberg, "Anders Hindricson" contributed "1 espan," or raccoon, and "3 minkar." Unlike his brother John, Andrew apparently held no township office, but court records tell of his serving on the grand jury and of his being appointed one of the "viewers" to lay out a new road. Andrew's taxable estate rose from £35 in 1718, as compared to John's £34, to £36 10s. in 1720 and £37 in 1721, the last time his name appears on the lists. In 1722, at some time between 27 June and 9 July, he died. In his will, which was dated 27 June 1722 and probated 6 August 1722," Andrew named as executors his "Well beloved neighbour George Vanculin & dear wife Katherine Hendrickson," she to oversee all the affairs of the plantation until John, "eldest son now with me," should be of age. After giving directions for his burial "In the Churchyard belonging to the Sweades at Wickaco in the County of Philadelphia," Andrew's will went on to make provision for each of his five sons and five daugh29 Cock purchased a large tract of land on St. George's Creek in New Castle Coumy to which he removed With his family. He died there in 1713. Sm New Castle Co. Will Book, Miscellaneous-1, 38: will of John Coo of St. George. Creek. The manuscript will, dated 3 Dec. 1713, and now in the State Archives at Dover, is in the handwriting of Andreas Hesselius, pastor at Christina, who had ridden on horseback to St. George's to bring the Lord's Supper to John Cock in his illness. Two weeks later he returned to bury him in his garden. See Delaware Hillary V. 182, 274. In Cock's will, which expresses a "Desier" that his children .'help one a nother from the binge, to the Least to build its [each] of you a house to Live In," no mention is made of his daughter Catharina by name, or of Andrew Hendrickson. Catharine is listed, however, in the congregational census of 1699-1700 with Cock's other children. 09 Chester Co. Will Book A-1, 136, #143: 1722, will of Andrew Hendrickson of Ridley. That Andrew was dead by 9 July 1722 is inferred from receipts signed on that date by his sons-in-law John Jones and Peter Dalbo. These were entered in the accounting filed 27 Jan. 1747/8 by Andrew's widow, Cadmium. The Hendricksons of Crum Creek 59 ters. To Hendrick, the eldest son, however, only a token bequest of five shillings was made, as he was already living across the river on a 120-acre farm in Greenwich Township, Gloucester County, which his father had given him at the time of his marriage. Jacob, the second son, who was not capable of owning real estate, was given a bed and bedding and eighteen shillings in silver money, and careful provision was made for his future maintenance by his brothers, he "abiding on my plantation and working what he can." The plantation itself would belong, equally, to John, Peter, and Gabriel, the other three sons, when they were old enough, and each would have a share in the personal estate. Catharina, though not the eldest daughter, apparently had received her marriage portion, but in addition she was given a horse. Bequests to Helena (Eleanor), named for her grandmother Helena Mortonson, were a bed, a chest and its contents, a horse, and some cattle and sheep. The three youngest daughters, Mary, Christina, and Rebecca, were each to receive, at age eighteen, a bed and bedding, and cattle and sheep. Of the personal estate remaining after legacies to the older children had been taken out, Andrew's wife Catharina would have one-third. An inventory of the personal estate which Andrew's widow had so large a share in administering bears the same date as the probate of his will, 6 August 1722. Two neighbors, John Archer and John Crosby, served as appraisers. They recorded 15 "bigg" cattle, 5 young cattle, 5 calves, 23 sheep, and 5 horses, with a total valuation of £66 5s., fanning equipment and tools, including two pairs of plough irons, two pairs of horse chains, an iron-toothed harrow, two hoes, two spades, a mattock, "Three old sithes and 9 old sickles," three axes, and "3 augers and two Chesels," valued, in all, at £4 14s., two men's saddles and bridles worth £2, and a gun, 15 shillings. The "scean and Ropes belonging to it" which Andrew used in his fishing, and an assortment of tubs, barrels, hogsheads, and other containers for holding the catch, were appraised at £2 10s. Within the house the furnishings were of the simplest: three chests, three spinning wheels, three chairs, a pair of "fire Tongues," two candlesticks, "a small porcell of books" valued at Ll 5s., a collection of pewter: ten plates, two "beasons," six large dishes, two small dishes, two "potts," two "little Potts;" and three iron pots. Appraised at £20 and so esteemed as equal in worth to Andrew's five horses, were four feather beds, with their "furniture"—blankets or other bed coverings, bolsters, curtains, etc. There was no mention at all of bedsteads or tables, which doubtless were homemade and regarded by the appraisers as having no monetary 60 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine value. Cash in the house amounted to £10, and the total inventory to £114 3s. 6d. Widow Catharina Hendrickson seems to have managed the affairs of the plantation capably, and her name as head of the household appears on assessment lists through 1733, after which her son John, probably at the time of his marriage, assumed the tax. In 1749, three years after John's death, she was rated once more for the Crum Creek property. In her final accounting as executrix of Andrew's estate, filed 27 January 1747/8, Catharina reported the payment of legacies totaling £65 to the husbands of the five Hendrickson daughters: John Jones and Peter Dahlbo (Dalbo), by their receipts dated 9 July 1722; John Lock and Gunner Cox, by their receipts dated 1 August 1747; and William Culin, "in Right of his Wife Mary one of y' Daughters of y° Deced`," with no date given. Each of the five Hendrickson daughters, when she married went to Gloucester County to live, although Maria and her husband William Culin, or Vanculin, as it was often written, later moved to Salem County. In a census of the congregation of Raccoon Creek Church in Gloucester County, taken in 1754," the name of the mother, Catharina Hendrickson, is enrolled. She was then living in the home of John Lock, although her daughter Rebecca, John's wife, had died and he had remarried. The one surviving Hendrickson son, Peter, lived nearby with his wife, Catharina Lock, and their two children. In the spring or early summer of 1761, after a widowhood of nearly forty years, Catharina Hendrickson died in her son Peter's home. An inventory of her possessions was made on 22 June, and on 18 July, the same day the will of her son Peter was probated, letters of administration on her estate were granted to Peter's widow, who also served as executrix of her husband's will." No record of Catharina's burial place has been found. 8 0 Th, original of the 1754 congregational census for Raccoon end PUlat Neck is now in the church archives at Uppsala, Sweden. A microilm copy of the census is in the Hendrickson House Library in Wilmington, and a transcript at HSP ho "Archivum Americanumi Swedish Churches on the Delaware," I, which also contains transcripts for Wien. and Christina. 02 Gloucester Wills, Ube, 10, 436, #7s OH, estate of Catharine Hendrickson of Greenwich Twp., "Calendar of Wills, IV, 1761-1770," N. J. Archives, Ist Series, XXXIII, 187. After the death of her son 4. John Hendrickson in 1746, Catharine had received her widow's one-third share of the rent of the Crum Creek property from the administrators of his estate; in their accounting of 1751 the amount came to £41 13s. 4d., and in that of 1752, the sum of 436 2s. 3d., thus it is not surprising that her inventory, which corm to £192 I Is. fd., included such items sw ready cash amounting to £27 130. gd., "Debra due upon Bonds and promisary Notes," fill 16s. 3d., end "Debts Due on Account !ifs," fig 138. The rest of the inventory conaprised her "Wareing Apparel," valued et £11, lier feather bed and furniture at £13, one small copper at £8, and "Some Divinity Books," a chest, chair, scale and weights, and one old "Linn= wheel," all of which totaled only £2 81. 6d. nal The Hendricksons of Crum Creek 61 Children of 2. Andrew Hendrickson by his first wife Brigitta Mortonson: 88 3, HENDRICK HENDRICKSON, b. ca. 1693; deceased by 23 November 1749, of whom further. JACOB HENDRICKSON, b. ca. 1695; d. ca. February 1749, unmarried and without issue. M. HELENA (Eleanor) HENDRICKSON, b. ca. 1698; d. before 1754; m. by July 1722, JOHN JONES (Jonson), probably son of Stephen and Anna (Matson) Jones of Gloucester County." Issue, from Raccoon Creek Church records: 1. JOHN JONES, b. 1 July 1723. 2. BRITA (Brigitta) JONES, b. 4 December 1724. 3. JONAS JONES, b. 14 June 1726. 4. JACOB JONES, b. ca. 1727; m. 1st, by 1756, ANNE DODD; m. 2nd, 16 July 1768, REGINA LOCK, b. 1748, sister of Jacob's son Abraham's wife, Maria Lock. 5. ISAAC JONES, listed in the 1714 church census. 6. ANDREW JONES, listed in the 1754 church census; m. by 1760 MARY DODD, sister of the above Jamb Jones' 1st wife, Anne Dodd; d. 1786." 7. HELENA JONES, b. 23 October 1736. iv. CATHARINA HENDRICKSON, b. ca. 1701; m. before 5 February 1721, when she was a baptismal sponsor at Raccoon Creek Church with her husband, PETER DALBO (Dahlbo, Dolby), who was b. ca. f March 1690, son of Vahan (Olave, 011e, Voile, Wooley, Woolley) and Catharina Dalbo of Gloucester County. Both Peter and Catharina (Hendrickson) Dalbo were living at the time of the 1754 church census, but were deceased by 1786." Issue, from Raccoon Creek Church records: 1. 88 Unless otherwise indicated, specific birth, baptismal, marriage, death and burial records for the New Jersey members of rise Hendrickson family have been taken from parish records of the RiC<O013 Creek Church in Gloucester County, now Trinity Church, Swedesboro, and from the congregational census of 1754, noted above. The church records have been published, with some inaccuracies, in The Records of the Swedish Lutheran Churches at Raccoon and Penns Neck, 1713-1786, published in 1958 as part of the American Guide Series, Federal Writers' Project. Reference has also been made to the "Parish Register of Names, 1786," compiled by Nicholas Collin, which has been published in Amandus Johnson, The Journal and Biography of Nicholas Collin, 1746-1831 (Philadelphia, 1956), 299-545, and to the transcript is GOP of a smond parish register of Raccoon Creek Church, arranged alphabetically, which gives more detailed information than that found in the published register. Conjectural dates given in the text are based on these various sources, and the data found in wills, administrations and similar legal documents. 84 yn Raccoon Creek Church mcords the entry "Ellen Jones died Novemb. 23, 1741" may refer either to John Jones' wife or to his daughter of the same name. In Clement Papers, Deeds, 1677-1798, HIP, • deed dated 9 Dec. 1791 from Peter Lock of Greenwich Top., Gloucester Co., surviving executor of Meredith Jones, to Andrew Hendrickson of same place, stating that "Whereas there was surveyed to John Budd of Greenwich 500 acres of land in Greenwich . . . and John Budd conveyed 100 acres to Steven Jones, who conveyed the same to his son John Jones by deed dated July 12, 1720," appears to relate to Helena's husband. See also entry for Stephen and Anna (Matson) Johnson and their family in the 1699-1770 list, PMHB, II (1878), 225. 00 See Gloucester Wills, Liber 19, 81, #1591H, abstract in N. J. Archives, XXXV (Wills 17s117S5), 226, for will of Andrew Joan of Woolwich Two., whose inventory was made 1 May 1786. 86 Peter Dalbo, Sr., "being of great age." was living in 1767 when his son Peter was drowned. See also Gloucester Wills, Liber 13, 112, #934H, abstract in N. J. Archives, )(XXIII, 104. William Dalbo, father of Peter Dalbo, Sr., was a younger brother of Peter Matson, also of Gloucester County, one of whose daughters, Elizabeth, m. Rev. Andreas Rudman of Wicaco Church, and another. Maria, m. Rev. Andreas Sande!, Mr. Itudmm's su«essor. Brits, the eldest daughter of Peter and Catharine (Rambo) 62 The Pennsylvania Geskalogical Magazine HELENA DALBO, b. 6 January 1722; living in 1786; m. before 1751, when their son "Dahlbow" was born, DAVID LLOYD, d. between 1779 and 1786. 2. CATHARINA DALBO, b. 24 August 1723; m. 1st by 1754, LAWRENCE COX(Cock); m. 2nd before 1764, THOMAS ADAMS, who was deceased by 1786. 3. REBECCA DALBO, b. 30 April 1725. 4. GABRIEL DALBO, b. 29 June 1727; m. lst—JUSTIS, a daughter of Gustaf and Anna Jusds; m. 2nd before 1763, MARY ADAMS, b. ca. 1736; both living in 1786. 5. SARAH DALBO, b. 3 October 1729; m. probably by 1749, when both were baptismal sponsors at Raccoon Creek Church, HANS (Hance) STEELMAN, JR., d. November, 1761." 6. BRIGITTA DALBO, listed in 1754 census. 7. ANDREW DALBO, b. 2 February 1734; not listed in 1754 census. 8. JONAS DALBO, b. 27 June 1736; d. ca. 1795-96; as m. after 1772, SARAH ARCHER, b. 7 January 1736, widow of Hendrick Hendrickson, Jr., and d. ca. 1795-96. 9. PETER DALBO, b. 28 February 1739; a boatman, he drowned in Raccoon Creek during a severe gale on 4 March 1767. 10. SUSANNAH DALBO, b. ca. 1741; m. by 1765, MATTHEW LORD, b. 1734; both living in 1786. 11. DINA (Diana) DALBO, listed in 1754 census; m. by 1770, EDWARD HAMPTON; both living in 1786. Children of 2. Andrew Hendrickson by his second wife Cat haying: v. MARIA HENDRICKSON, b. after 1703; deceased by 1746; m. by 1727, WILLIAM (Olaf) CULIN (Vanculin, Van Cub), son of Jacobus and Brigitta (Swanson) Van Cohn of Gloucester and Salem Counties; d. between 27 December 1746, when his will was written, and 15 January 1746/7, when the inventory of his estate was made in Penns Neck, Salem County. The inventory includes "Wearing Apparel Force [Purse] Horce Bridel & Sadel, House hould Goods, Utenchels of Husbentery. Grane in the Ground, his Wood bote & Rigin, A parcel of Pine Loges at the Land' ing, Cattel Horns & Shipe & Swine Hea, & Grane." The appraisers were Tim. Rain and Benjamin Bispham. Issue, all named in their father's will: 1. CATHARINA CULIN, b. 30 October 1727. 2. JOHN CULIN, to. 28 August 1729. 3. REBECCA CULIN, b. 29 September 1731. 4. JACOB CULIN, b. 9 January 1734. 5. WILLIAM CULIN, b. 12 August 1737, 6. SARAH CULIN, b. 30 March 1739. 7. ANDREW CULIN, Matson, m. John Hendrickson—not of the Ridley Township family—and moved to New Castle County where many of their descendants live Elizabeth "Dolby," mother of Peter Matson and William DaRoo, was widowed before the census of 1671-1674 (see Note 4 above) was taken. On 12 Feb. 1687/8, some years after moving to Gloucester County, she, her sons Peter and William, and John Massey, as executors of the will of Elizabeth "Dolby's" husband, sold the family home in Ringsessing Township, Philadelphia County, to James Hone See Philadelphia Deed Rook E-24, 51. 19 11in 1687; see also the Rudman census of 1699-1700, PMHB, II. 224-221, for Peter Matson and Olave (William) Dahlbo families. 57 0,, Gloucester Wills, Liber 11, 112, #77208, abstract in N. J. Archives, XXXIII, 407, for will of Hans Steelman of Greenwich Twp., written 4 Nov., probated IS Dn. 1761, the inventory having been made 21 Nov. 1761. 66 See Gloucester Wills, Liber 15, 532, #201111, abstract in Pr J. Archives, XXXVIII (Wills 17961500), 96, for will of Jonas Dalbo of Woolwich Twp., written 13 Apr. 1791 and proved 16 Apr. 1796, by which time his widow Sarah, whom he had named executrix, had died intestate Letters of administration, d.b.n., were granted to Peter Hendrickson, her The Hendricksons of Crum Creek 63 b. 12 March 1742, bapt. at Holy Trinity Church, '37ilmIngton. 8. RACHEL CULIN, b. 1 October 1744, baps. at Holy Trinity Church." vi. CHRISTINA HENDRICKSON, b. after 1703; d. between 1754 and probably before 1759; m. between 1733 and 1736, GUNNAR COX (Cock), listed in the 1754 census as a tailor, presumably the "Gornor" COX who d. between 18 March 1759 when his will, naming his wife Magdalen, was written, and 12 May 1759 when the inventory of his estate was made." No known issue. 4. vii. JOHN HENDRICKSON, b. between 1703 and 1712; d. ca. November 1746, of whom further. viii. REBECCA HENDRICKSON, b. after 1703; d. before the 1754 census; rn. probably by 1742, JOHN LOCK, bapt. Raccoon Creek Church in 1714, son of John Lock and his wife Catharina Hoffman, and d. between March and June 1791. Issue: 1. PETER LOCK, b. 22 September 1744; d. 3 April 1797; m. 28 December 1763, REGINA VAN NEAMAN, who d. 18 June 1794, aged 56 years, 4 months, 6 days; both bur. Trinity Church, Swedesboro, N. J. 2. PRISCILLA LOCK, bapt. 9 June 1745; d. young. 3. REBECCA LOCK, b. 31 October 1748; listed in the 1754 church census; bur. 18 August 1763. John Lock m. 2nd, 13 November 1754, Sarah Van Neaman, b. ca. 1734; living in 1791. 4' ix. PETER HENDRICKSON, b. after 1703; d. in Greenwich Township, Gloucester County, between 20 April 1761, when his will was written, and 22 June 1761, when an inventory was taken; m. before 1748, CATHARINA LOCK, who survived him. When be bought land in Greenwich Township on 16 October 1741 he was still living in Ridley with his mother and his brother 4. John Hendrickson, although his name does not appear on existing Chester County tax lists. By 4 July 1747, when he acquired more Gloucester County land, he was called "of Greenwich Township." The inventory of his estate, made the same day his mother Catharina's possessions were appraised, totaled £214, of which more than half, £123 10s. 3d., represented "Outstand,ng Debts" due him. In addition to four "Saddle Creatures," with three saddles and bridles, Peter owned sheep and swine, "Geese, and other Fowls" which were valued exactly the same as his "Cart, Plow, Harrow, etc.," at £4 10s., "Eighteen Horn Cattle" and some "Milck vessels." Within the house, which stood "uti skogen" (in the woods), near that of Peter's brother-in-law John Lock, there were walnut and pine IN see Salem Wills, Lib. 5, 498, #848Q, for will of William Vanculin of Penns Neck, and ibid., 385, #766Q, for will of Jacobus V911 Clio of Salem Co., abstracts in N. J. Archiver, XXX (Wills 1730-1750), 495. The original will of William Vanculin clearly shows that his wife Maria had pred.eased him, but that hi parents were still living. William's first five children were baptized at Raccoon Creek Church. 405. Gloucester Wills, Liber 9, 271, #647H, abstract in N. J. Archives, XXXII (Wills 1751 - 1760), 74, for will of "Gomm, Cos, gentleman," who named his presumed second wife Magdalen and John Reynolds mecutors Andrew Cog and Lawrence Lock were witnesses. ..See Gloucester Wills, Liber 32, 195 #178014, abstract in N. J Archives, =VII (Wills 17911797 ), 232, for will of John Lock, Sr., of Greenwich Twp. For the administration of his son Peter Lock's ecate, see Gloucester Wills, Liber 37, 109, #2112H, abstract in N. J. Archives, XXXVIII, 232. For baptismal record of John Lock's children, see transcript copy in GSP of Moravian Register of Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths in West Jersey, 1742-1794. John Lock and his Bed wife Sarah had a daughter Priscilla, b. 1 Aug. Ins. entered in the Raccoon Creek church record. 64 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine chests, tables, table linen, knives and forks, "Divinity Books & Chairs," and "four feather Beds & furniture," as well as "Chimney furniture." By the relatively high valuation given to "a flax Break and Hackle, Lirmen and Wooling Wheels Cards Reil and flax, Linnen and Tow thread," and "Wool, and Woolling Cloath," their importance can be measured.'" Issue: I. ANDREW HENDRICKSON, b. 17 August 1749; d. 22 March 1824, bur. Trinity Church, Swedesboro; m. by 1770, JUDITH JONES, b. 23 February 1751, daughter of Meredith and Elizabeth Jones. 2. CATHARINA HENDRICKSON, listed in the 1754 census, but not in her father's will. 3. MAGDALENA HENDRICKSON, b. 17 October 1756; living with her brother Andrew in 1786. x. GABRIEL HENDRICKSON, b. after 1703; d. before November 1746, intestate, of full age, and without issue." 3. HENDRICK HENDRICKSON, born about 1693, eldest son of Andrew Hendrickson by his first wife, Brigitta Mortonson, was of full age by 1714, and may have been married in that year. On 4 April 1715 he and his wife, REGINA PETERSON, were sponsors at the baptism of a child of Hermanus Helm, of the Raccoon Creek congregation." Regina, born about 1697 according to Pastor Rudman's census, was the youngest child of Hance Peterson and his wife Christina Fisck, of Greenwich Township, who had moved to West New Jersey from their home in Philadelphia County by 1684, with other members of the Wicaco congregation. Hance died at about the time of Regina's birth, and his widow married Andrew Lock." ex For will of Peter Hendrickson, see Gloucester Wills, Likes 11, 97, #712H, abstract in N. J. Archives, XXXIII, 187. For it'ss purchases of land in Greenwich Township, see Gloucester Co. Deed Book F, 201-201, at Woodbury, N. J. 48 No dates have been found for this son of 2. Andrew Hendrickson; the statement that be died intmtate and without issue, but of full age, "whereby his one third share descended to his eldest brother, the said John Hendr'ickson," is recited in Chester Co. Deed Book D-2, Vol. 28, 15, 30 June 1788, Isaac Hendrickson to John Crosby, and implies that he died before his brother John. ,4 The Raccoon Creek congregation, made up of the Swedish families in Gloucester County, 'hued their pastor, Rev. Abraham Lidenius, with the Penns Neck parish farther down the Delaware in Salem County., The church records begin in 1711 and are preserved at Trinity Church, Swedesboro, but do not include the Hendrickson'Peterson marriage. Keeping the church books as permanent records, and in as nearly perfect order as possible, was one of the major duties of Swedish pastors an the Delaware; it is not unusual to find a whole year's marriages or baptisms obviously entered at one time, so that the writing would be neat, the ink uniform, and the whole appearance of the page better than when entries were made day by day. Meanwhile, temporary records were kept, sometimes on slips of paper which were not always arranged in chronological order before being copied into the book. One belated entry in the account-book at '37icaco Church, entered 1 May 1719, when Pastor Sandel was about to semen to Sweden and evidently was going through his papers, implies that the Hendrickson-Peterson marriage took plus, in Pennsylvania, probably in the house on Crum Creek. It reads: "Hindrick PEndrickson paid to the church for his marriage 4[s.] 6[d.] " 45 See Pastor Rudman', record for the family of Andrew Lock who had married the widow of Hance Peterson, PMHB. II (1878), 221, and the will of Pet.r Pete•son, Regina's brother, in which he named his "brother" Henry Hendrickson as executor and chief legatee, m Gloucester Wills, Liber 2, 549, #9IH, The Hendrick-sons of Crum Creek 65 The Greenwich Township land on which Hendrick and Regina settled had been purchased for £26 10s. by Hendrick's father 2. Andrew Hendrickson on 4 June 1713 from Jonas Sandeland and Richard Clark. When the property was resurveyed for Hendrick on 12 February 1716/7 it was described by the surveyor, Richard Bull, as containing 120 acres and as being "on r Lower Side & neare y° mouth of a Certaine Creek Within y° County of Gloucester In r Western Division of y° Province of New Jersey being Known by the Severall names Following Vizt Rapapa [Repaupo], Newport or Hornans Creek [also called Trumpeter's Creek], & being the Same Land which was Formerly belonging to one [Peter] Erickson & hath Been Severall times Transferred From one to another untill it became The Right of the S° Hendrickson as may appeare by the Severall Conveyances thereof &c."" By 1720 Hendrick was an active member of the Raccoon Creek congregation, donating a day's work on the glebe on occasion, preparing shingles for the parsonage, mending the fences around it, and contributing money to the support of the pastor. Bibles were sent from Sweden that year, one of which he purchased for two shillings, and a psalmbook, or hymnal, for sixpence. When burial places were chosen by members of the congregation in 1724, Hendrick's lot fell in the eighth row from the north on the western side of the churchyard. By 1731 he was considered one of the elders of the congregation, and sat in a front pew, a privilege for which he was expected to contribute fifty shillings "when the church needed money." His wife Regina sat with Peter Lock's wife. In 1733, after the church had been robbed by "wicked hands" of a burying pall, a surplice, a chalice, and the minisabstract in N. J. Archiver, XXIII (Wills 1670-1730), 362. See also Wert Jeney Proprietors' Records, Surveys 2, M-2, 1711-1742, 247, for resurvey dated 31 July 1758 for Hendrick Hendrickson, of land devised to him by his brothrt-in-law Peter Peterson in 1726, being land sold to Hance Peterson, Peter's father, in 1684. Microfilm copies of the West Jersey Proprietor's Records are now in HSP. 88 Recited in Gloucester co Deed Book Zr, 237: 16 June 1727, John, Peter and Gabriel Hendrickson, all of Ridley Tarp., to Henry Hendrickson, on which date the grantors released all their rights in the property on their brother Henry, the grantee. The deed is of record at Woodbury, Isl• J., where it was entered 18 Feb. 1830. Woo Jersey Proprietors' Records, Surveys I, Sharp's Book, 1716-1729, 73. The resurvey for Hendrick Hendrickson includes a draft of the property. Peter Erickson was already "of Roppaupey Creek" on 26 March 1684, when he bought 100 acres of hod "betweene y° Lands in 30' Tenure of Israeli Helme a the Creek called Oldmans Creek." See Woo Jersey Deeds, Lib,, B, 264: 16 Province of West Jersey and Thomas Budd of March 1684, deed from "Sam" Jenings of Greenhill ill Burlington in yo s. Province, Merchants," to "Peter Erickson of Roppaupey Creek in y• Province afore?' Planter." There are earlier references to Erickson in Philadelphia County, and in Chester County. A good many Swedish residents of these counties, and of New Castle County owned land in West New Jersey, as tax lists, court rrtords, returns of surveys, registers of ear-marks for livestock, and other contemporary sources show, though not all of them actually went there to live. Comparatively 1,0, of the ouly conveyances are now of record. 'There was a practical reason for the Swedes' interot in "the other ride of the river", William Penn, by granting to his fellow-Quakers, even before they came to America, enormous tracts of land in Pennsylvania, effectually restrained the older residents from taking up additional land on which to 000 their sons. West Jersey offered 00 least a partial solution the problem. e 66 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine ter's gown, "which never could be discovered," Pastor Peter Tranberg wrote that "Henrick Henrickson from Rapapy" had presented a new burying pall. In the summer of 1738 there was resurveyed for Hendrick 48 acres along Repaupo, or Newport, "alias Howman's" Creek, which had been conveyed in 1684 to Hance Peterson, his wife's father, had descended to Hance's son Peter, and had by him been devised to "my brother Henry Henrickson" in 1726. In 1741 Hendrick obtained a warrant for an additional 120 acres." Both tracts adjoined the home farm. On 6 February 1744 (the church records were kept by the Gregorian calendar) Hendrick, who had been one of the churchwardens, was elected to the church council. Four years later, on 1 April 1748, just before Palm Sunday, he was one of a committee of three sent to conduct the newly arrived pastor, Rev. Johan Sandin, from Philadelphia to the Raccoon Creek parish. Others on the committee were Lawrence Lock, Hendrick's son-in-law, and Hance Steelman, son-in-law of Catharina (Hendrickson) Dalbo, Hendrick's sister. In September of the following year Hendrick made his will, and two months later died. "This old place which I now live on," with the house and household furniture, Hendrick devised to his "well belovd wife Geena," to have and to enjoy for her lifetime. After her death it would belong to their son Jonas, who was also to have 100 acres of land "Lying on the other or farDest Sid of Timber Creek," as well as "too yok of oxen and too cows." Andrew, the eldest son, was given the place where he was then living, and 70 acres of land "on this side of Timber Creek and lying near hance urins Jurian's] land." To Henry, Jr., was devised property purchased from Lawrence Lock, with its house and orchard, and "another percle of land" adjoining it (about 86 acres), two yokes of oxen and two cows. Hendrick's "mash and medow ground" was to be divided equally among his three sons, but only Jonas and Henry were to share in the "Seder Swamp." . . The two eldest daughters, Brigitta, wife of Lawrence Lock, and Magdalena, wife of Peter Lock, had already received their marriage portions and so had only token bequests of five shillinss each. Sarah, recently married to John Denny, and Regina, still unmarried, were to be paid £40 each in "Corrent and Lawfull money of New Jersey," from the moveable estate. 87 West Jerez? Proprietors' Records, Surveys 2, M-2, 1735-1742, 247, as cited in Note 45 above; see also ibid., Surveys 3, 5-6, 88, 378, 379, for recital of the warrant dated 5 Aug. 1741 by alma of which, parcels of the 120 acres were resurveyed to Henry'. sons Jonas. Andrew and Henry l feadric bee. The Hendricksons of Crum Creek 67 The inventory of Hendrick's personal estate made on 23 November 1749 enumerates a far greater variety of possessions than did the inventory of his father Andrew's goods, taken on Crum Creek in 1722. Again, there are books, but this time the entry reads, "old Books and apair [sic] of Specticles." In addition to "Puter" the appraisers, Isaiah Davenportt and Charles Lock, found brass, tin, earthen, and wooden ware, together with a frying pan and gridiron. The "DeIf ware" must have been Regina's special pride, treasured equally with "Glass bottles and Glasses and a Looking Glass." A sun dial and a sword, "9 Gees and Candles," an apple mill and a grinding stone, twelve bushels of apples, "Syder and Barrells," and seven swarms of bees add to the picture. Ready for the winter are "Rye flower, Honey [and] Butter, Chees and beans, beef and pork, Dryd apples and salt, turnups Cabbage and potePerhaps to be sold, there is "more Syder," as well as "Mattheglum and Casks" and "Stilld Liquer and Casks," whereby a reason for the "Cooper tools" is discovered! A cross-cut saw and other tools, two carts, wheels, yokes, and chains, and "4 yoak of oxen" take added meaning from the inventory of boards, cedar logs, pine house logs, shingles, and "wood and bark Lying at the Landing," where "2 Cannoos and 2 paddles" also were found. The only other means of transportation mentioned, Hendrick's riding horse, is combined with his wearing apparel for a total valuation of £22 2s. 6d. His plate and cash, bills and bonds, and the book debts due him amounted to £121 16s. 9d. Except for the oxen, livestock apparently was of secondary importance in the plantation economy, although 10 cows, 15 young cattle, 13 swine, and "an old horse" were listed and appraised at £52 15s. A fair idea of the crops produced by Gloucester County land can be obtained from the record of "hay and tobaco" valued at £17 15s., "20 acors of Green Corn" at £10, "150 bushells of Ingin Corn" at £18, 72 bushels of rye and 26 bushels of buckwheat at £12 3s. The total worth of Hendrick's "Estate Goods and Chattles" was set by the appraisers at £435 5d. On 19 December 1749 Hendrick's will, dated 21 September 1749, was offered for probate by his executors, his sons Jonas and Henry. The probate was "sealed" on 5 June 1750." In the church census of 1754 Regina Hendrickson, Hendrick's widow, and her son Jonas, with his wife and two children, were the first family to be enrolled in the "Rapapo Kihl [Creek]" section of the parish. "Gloucester Wills, Lib., 6, 358, #422H, abstract in N. J. Artbnees, XX3C, 231, will of Hendrick 68 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine All were able to understand and to speak Swedish," and Regina and her son Jonas, to read it. Jonas' wife, Maria Keen, and their little boys read only English. The date of Regina Hendrickson's death has not been found. Children of 3. Hendrick Hendrickson and his wife Regina Peterson: i. BRIGITTA HENDRICKSON, b. ca. 1714; bur. 13 February 1772, "aged about 50 odd year"; " m. 19 November 1734, LAWRENCE LOCK, b. 1702; bur. 2 May 1785. Lived in Greenwich (later, Woolwich) Township, Gloucester County, and was a warden of the Raccoon Creek Church. Issue: 1. CHRISTINA LOCK, b. 18 November 1737; d. 12 March 1795; m. 28 May 1764, THOMAS DODD, b. 16 August 1739; living in 1786. 2. ESALAS LOCK, bur. 25 February 1774 as the result of a fall from the attic stairs in the Rev. Mr. Collin's house; m. 6 December 1769, JUDITH MATSON, who drowned while crossing the Delaware in "a violent hurricane" on her way home from Philadelphia, 1783. 3. RUTH LOCK, b. 30 September 1750; m. 25 April 1772, FELIX EISLER, b. 27 May 1746; both living in 1786. 4. JONAS LOCK, b. 8 March 1757; d. ca. February 1795; so. 4 March 1783. SARAH SPARKS, b. 3 May 1762; living in 1795. ANDREW HENDRICKSON, bapt. 2 January 1716; d. before 12 November 1760, when an inventory of his estate was made; " m. before 1754, ELIZABETH HELM, daughter of Okenus (Ake) and Catharine (Rambo) Helm of Greenwich Township; she survived Andrew but was deceased by 1786. Issue: I. JONAS HENDRICKSON, bur. 7 December 1765, died "in the Small pox 20. year & some month old." 2. DAVID HENDRICKSON, b. before 1754; m. before 1779, EDDY CLARK, b. 5 May 1759, daughter of Thomas and Christina Clark; both were living in 1786. 3. RACHEL HENDRICKSON, b. before 1754; bur. 2 January 1766, died of smallpox. 4. CATHARINA HENDRICKSON, b. after 1754; bur. 3 January 1766, died of smallpox. 5. OKENUS HENDRICKSON, b. after 40 Peter Reim, writing of ..Rapaapo," when he visited it 5 May 1749, reported that it was inhabited only by Swedes, with no Englishmen or people of any other nation. Because of this, he commented, ..they have preserved their native Swedish tongue there better than elsewhere, and mixed but few English words with it." Benson, Peter ICalffs's Travels Os North Asserko, op. cit., Note 3 above, 1, 290. Brigittak baptism is not recorded in Raccoon Creek records; it is probable she was baptized in Pennsylvania by Andreas Sande!, and that the entry was made in the large Wicano church book, now lmt, which held the formal baptismal, marriage, communicant, and burial records for that period. Her age at death, given by the Rev. Mr. Collin, if correcr, leaves much latitude as to the precise year. It should be nomd that be was not always correct in hia estimation of ages. 51 see Gloucester Wills, Liber 30, 301, 307, *1960H, #1959H, abstract in N. 5. Archives, XXXV11, 232, 233, for administration papers on estate of Jonas Lock of Woolwich Twp. On 16 Mar. 1795 Ids widow Sarah petitioned for guardians for the minor children, all under 14: Benjamin, Thomas, John, Jonas and Charles Lock; Benjamin Rambo, named their guardian, had been the widow's fellow bondsman. The inventory of the mtate was made 2 March 1795. 555, Giouces mr Wills. Liber 10, 406, #707H, abstract in N. 5. Archives, XXXII', 187, for will of Andrew Hendrickson of Greenwich Twp„ in which he named his brother-in-law John Denny, brother Hensy, and three children, Jonas, David and Okenus Hendrick.son. The Hendricksons of Crum Creek iii. iv. v. vi. 69 the 1754 church census was taken; named in his father's will, dated 4 July 1755. CHRISTINA HENDRICKSON, bapt. 10 November 1717; not named in her father's will, dated 21 September 1749. She was probably the "Christian Henrys" recorded as baptismal sponsor for a child of Peter and Catharina Dalbo, 4 March 1739. SUSANNAH HENDRICKSON, bapt. 22 February 1719; d. 25 April 1727. JONAS HENDRICKSON, b. 29 November 1721; d. between 19 February 1776, when his will was written, and 16 June 1781, when it was probated; " m. 1st, MARIA KEEN, b. 6 April 1727, daughter of Mins Keen and his 2nd wife, Elizabeth Laicon (Lycan, Likens); d. before 1765; m. 2nd, before 1765, MARY HELM, b. 20 December 1738, daughter of Israel and Mary (Peterson) Helm; living in 1786. Issue by 1st wife, Maria Keen: 1. HENRY HENDRICKSON, b. 13 October 1750; m. October 1779, MARY WHITE, b. 2 March 1757; both living 1786." 2. JOHN HENDRICKSON, b. 18 February 1752; named in his father's will, 1776. 3. ELIZABETH HENDRICKSON, b. 23 March 1754; living in 1786. Issue by 2nd wife, Mary Helm: 4. ISRAEL HENDRICKSON, b. 6 September 1765; living in 1786. 5. JONAS HENDRICKSON, b. 22 August 1769, named in his father's will, and living in 1786. 6. GABRIEL HENDRICKSON, b. 10 February 1772; living in 1786. MAGDALENA HENDRICKSON, b. 23 July 1723; m. by 1748, PETER LOCK; both deceased by 1786. Issue: 1. REGINA LOCK, b. ca. 1748; in. as his 2nd wife, JACOB JONES, b. ra. 1727, son of John and Helena Jones, above noted. 2. PETER LOCK, b. 17 September 1752; d. ca. February 1808; m. 27 September 1780, PRISCILLA HOMAN. 3, JESPER LOCK, b. 31 October 1757; d. intestate 1796." 4. MARY LOCK, b. 14 February 1760; m. 9 November 1780, ABRAHAM JONES, b. 27 July 1756, son of Jacob and Anne (Dodd) Jones; both living in 1786. vii. ISRAEL HENDRICKSON, b. 1 October 1725; d. 3 November 1727. viii. HENDRICK HENDRICKSON, b. 1 November 1727; d. 3 February 1772 in Woolwich (formerly Greenwich) Township; m. after the 1754 census and before 1756, SARAH ARCHER, b. 7 January 1736, daughter of ,, See Gloucester Wills, Liber 23, 11, #1324H, abstract in N. 5, Archives, XXXV, 188, for will of Jonas Hendrickson of Woolwich Tarp. During the period of the Revolution, when COWLS were not functioning continuously, the probate of wills was often delayed, sometimes for several years, until a considerable time had elapsed after the testator's death. "Henry Hendrickson apparently had married a first wife, name unknown, before 1777, as in the 1786-7 parish registers of Raccoon Creek Church, a son, Samuel, born 13 March 1777, is listed, while the marriage of Henry to Mary White is entered as October 1779. " See Gloucester Wills, File #270411, abstract in N. J. Archives, XL (Wills 1806-1809), 221, for will of Peter Lock of Woolwich Twp., in which are named his sons Josiah, Peter, William and Japer, daughters Mary, Priscilla and Regent, and father Peter Lock. It was written 22 Dec. 1807 and proved 26 Feb. 1808, the inventory having been made 9 Feb. 1808. i" Letters of administration on the estate of Jesper Lock of Woolwich Twp., were granted 4 Jan. 1796 to Christi. Lock. The inventory was not made until the following 3 Dec. 1796 (if the abstract is corr.t) by Felix Fisler and William Wriggins. See Gloucester Wills, Liber 36, 223, #203010, abstract in N. J. Archives, 7{XXVIII, 232. 70 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine John and Mary Archer; d. between 13 April 1795 and 16 April 1796, as the widow of Jonas Dalbo, above noted , . Issue: I. JACOB HENDRICKSON, b. 14 February 1756; deceased by 22 May 1805, when an inventory of his estate was made; " m. 2 December 1780, HANNAH GIBBS. 2. JOHN HENDRICKSON, b. 18 September 1757, named in his father's will, dated 1 February 1772. 3. HENRY HENDRICKSON, b. 13 February 1761; d. probably ca. 1790, intestate." 4. HENRIETTA HENDRICKSON, b. 6 February 1763; deceased by 1786; tn. 12 November 1781, CHARLES LOCK, b. 17 July 1754, son of Charles and Helena Lock, who m. 2nd, Maria, widow of Thomas Faucet (Fawcett), and was living in 1786. 5. CALEB HENDRICKSON, b. 5 March 1765; bur. 25 August 1796; letters of administration were granted 5 November 1796 to his widow, SUSANNAH, surname unknown." 6. PETER HENDRICKSON, b. 5 December 1771. ix. SARAH HENDRICKSON, b. 14 November 1730; deceased by 1786; m. by 1749, JOHN DENNY, b. 20 January 1726, son of Thomas and Maria Denny; bur. 19 September 1768, "42 year, 7 m. & 22 days old." Issue, as named in his will and in Raccoon Creek Church records: 1. PRISCILLA DENNY, b. April 1750; m. 13 January 1773, JOHN VAN DYKE. 2. THOMAS DENNY, b. before 1754; living in 1786. 3. MILES DENNY, b. after 1754; living in 1786. 4. SARAH DENNY, b. after 1754; living in 1768. 5. WILLIAM DENNY, b. 17 June 1760; living in 1786. 6. ISAAC DENNY, b. 22 July 1763; deceased by 1768. 7. JOHN DENNY, b. 7 July 1768; living in 1786. x. REGINA HENDRICKSON, b. 16 November 1733; probably deceased by 1765; m. 18 February 1755, JOHN REYNOLDS (Reinold, Reinolds, Runnals), b. 7 October 1731, son of Erik and Maria (Hoffman) Reinolds. He probably m. 2nd, 10 January 1765, Catharine Boys. No issue listed in Raccoon Creek Church records. 4. JoHN HENDRICKSON, eldest son of 2. Andrew Hendrickson by his second wife Catharina, was born as early as 1705 if he was of full age on 28 April 1726, when his widowed aunt, Magdalena Hendrickson of Amosland, and her son Andrew Hendrickson of Christiana Hundred, .For Hendrick Hendrickson', will, see Gloucester Wills, Liber 14, 533 and Libor 15, 417, #642H, abstract in N. J. Archives, XXXIV (Wills 1971-1780), 240. See Note 38 above, for the period of his wife Sarah's death, as the widovr of Jonas Dalbo. 1. See Gloucester Wills, Liber 40, 20, #2369H, abstract in N. J. Archives, XXXIX, 210, for administration of estate of Jacob Hendrickson of Woolwich Twp., whose administrator, Isaac Hendrickson, swore to the accuracy of the inventory of the estate on 22 May 1805. N. See Gloucester Wills, Liber 31, 478, #1712H, abstract in N. J. Archives XXXVI (Wills 17861790), 107, for administration on estate of Henry Hendrickson of Greenwich Tarp. On 14 June 1790 the inventory was made by Charles Lock and David Hendrickson. 80 See Gloucester Wills, Liber 36, 224, 42018H, abstract in N. 1. Archives, XXXVIII, 171, for administration on estate of Caleb Hendrickson of Gloucester Co. to Susannah Hendrickson 5 Nov. 1796; fellow bondsman Felix Fisler and Peter Hendrickson. 60 For the will of John Denny of Woolwich Top., see Gloucester Wills, Liber 13, 485, #95954, abstract in N. J. Archives, XXXIII, 114. The Hendricksons of Crum Creek 71 New Castle County, released to John and his younger brothers Peter and Gabriel all their rights in the land along Crum Creek." The first reference found to John in tax records is 5 January 1734/5, which may well be the time of his marriage to MAGDALENA, surname not known, who was born about March, 1718." Because of the loss of Wicaco Church records, no exact date for their marriage has been found. For some years the two John Hendricksons, cousins, distinguished by the addition of "Crum Crik" and "D. [arby] Creek" or "Amosland" to their respective names on the assessment rolls, occupied their grandfather's original lands in Ridley. The property of John of Crum Creek was consistently valued a little higher than that of his cousin at Amosland, perhaps because of the underlying quarriable stone. Also living in the family home of which, after his marriage, John was considered the head, were his mother and his unmarried brothers, Jacob, Peter, and Gabriel. In 1741, Peter, attracted to Gloucester County, bought land in Greenwich Township and after a time went there to live." The youngest brother, Gabriel, at a date for which no record is found, died, "Intestate and without Issue but of full age," whereupon his one-third share of the plantation descended to John, as elder brother, and became a part of his estate. At some time before 1740 John bought 26 acres of "Land, Moss & Seder swamp" in Gloucester County from Martin Bickham of Greenwich Township, who died before completing a formal transfer of the property. His will empowered his executors to do this, but before they had attended to giving John a suitable "deed of conveyance," he, too, was dead." Late in 1746 illness had come to the household, suddenly and without warning. First John, and then his young son Gabriel, died. Whatever the nature of the illness, the fact that John, with his many responsibilities, made no will suggests the swiftness and severity with which it struck. On 16 November 1746 letters of administration were granted to John's widow, "Maudlin Hendrixon," and to a younger George Culin than the one who helped to administer John's father's estate." More "Recited in Chester Co. Deed Book 0-2, Vol. 28, 53; see Note 43 above. Bs The time of her birth is inferred from the record of her burial as Magdalena Granions, in the transcript of records of Gloria Dei Church, Burials, 1710-1811, 11, GSP. " See test above for data relating to Peter Hendrickson, and Note 42, above. 88 Recited in Gloucester Deeds, office of the Secretary of State, Trenton, N. J., Liber it, 10 10 May 1752, Sarah Bickham and Samuel Shivers to Isaac Hendrickson. "Chester Co. Administratien Docket 2, 37, #1002: 1746, estate of John Hendrickson of Creek, Ridley T.P. Coolll 72 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine neighbors, John Culin and Daniel Culin, signed the administration bond, in the sum of £2,000. The inventory of John's estate made about a month after his death gives evidence of the industry with which he, and his brothers, too, had tilled the fields and cared for the accumulating livestock. His crops for that year included wheat, "Rie," oats, corn, and barley, and he had horses, mares, and colts, "Cows Young Cattle Yearlins and Calves," and forty sheep to supply the "woollin Cloth" and worsted yarn also listed by the appraisers. The value of John's "Purse and Aparel," £80, is quite high for the period. In addition, there are "Bonds and Bills and Book Debts" amounting to £144 9s. 9d. He had not stinted his family's comfort, however, or his own. To the simple furnishings of his boyhood days had been added "a pair of Chester drawers & a Dressing Box," two oval tables and a looking glass, table linen and a teapot, as well as "a pair of Iron dogs" and a "Ballows" for the big fireplace. The presence of twenty chairs, however, seems most noteworthy of all! To accommodate the family and the furniture, too, an addition had been made to the living quarters, perhaps not long before John's death, since the appraisers, Hans Torton and John Sketchley, called it "the New House." This was an outkitchen, built of logs, one story high, with a storage space overhead in which grain and "Wostead Yarn" were kept. Whether the new structure was attached to the old or was separate from it is not made clear. The record does state plainly, however, that the visitors found "a Dozen of Chair in y° New House & 8 chairs Elsewhere," the entire collection valued at £1 7s. The total appraisement came to £444 10s. 4d., a considerable increase over John's father's £114 3s. 6d. estate. Two days, 11 and 13 December 1746, were required for making the inventory. Almost immediately after John's death the land on Crum Creek, but not the house, was rented out, indicating that no member of the family then living at home was able to assume the care of the plantation. Jacob, now over fifty, lived until 1749, but his ability had always been limited. Isaac, John's one surviving child, was scarcely more than five or six years old when his father died. Children of 4. John Hendrickson and his wife Magdalena: 3.I. ISAAC HENDRICKSON, b. after 17 September 1738 and before 17 December 1741; deceased by 1805, of whom further. ii. GABRIEL HENDRICKSON, b. probably after Isaac's birth; d. 1746. The Hendricksons of Crum Creek 73 5. IsAAc HENDRICKSON, the only child of 4. John Hendrickson and his wife Magdalena to live to maturity, was born, as deduced from records of the Orphans' Court of Chester County, after 17 September 1738 and before 17 December 1741. Chester County tax lists for the years from 1741 through 1746 are missing, but in 1747 Magdalena Hendrickson, John's widow, was assessed for the Crum Creek property. As early, perhaps, as 1748, Magdalena married Charles Grantum (Grantham), one of the justices for Chester County, whose home, where she and young Isaac went to live, was in Amosland, not far from John Morton's. Born about 1702, son of John and Catharina Grantham of New Castle County and of Swedish descent on his mother's side, Charles had married, first, at Christ Church, Philadelphia, on 1 January 1727/8, Catharina Morton, by whom he had three children, Jacob, George, and Margaret. He was a man of considerable stature in the community, having been appointed a justice for Chester County in 1741 and continued in office for many years thereafter, and he was a responsible member of the Wicaco congregation." On 15 March 1750/1 Peter Hendrickson, across the river, gave Charles Grantum what was in effect a power of attorney to receive Peter's one-third share of the two-thirds of the rent for the plantation which remained after his mother Catharina's one-third part had been deducted." The following 17 September 1751, upon Grantum's petition to the Orphans' Court for a guardian for Isaac, who was "a minor and under the age of fourteen years," John Morton was appointed." Three months later Charles and Magdalena Grantum and George Culin presented to the court their first accounting of the administration of John Hendrickson's estate, which had been increased in value by the .£125 received as rental on the plantation for five years." Expenditures included the cost of "maintaining Cloathing & Schooling Isaac one of r Sons of r " Charles Grantor, as he regularly signed his name, although his children and others wrote it as "Grantham," was a grandson of John .a Elinor Grantham of New Castle Town. Charles was baptMed in 1715, at about the age of twelve, in tlse Swedish Church at Christina. His first wife, Catharine Morton, was a daughter of Andrew and Margaret Morton, and a granddaughter of Morton Mortonson, Sr. His mond marriage, to the widow of John Hendrickson, presumably took place before 11 Sept. 1750 when the now-existing ',Maw (Gloria Del) marriage record begins. A 1755 census of the Wiese° congregation lists Charles Gramma as a judge, as one of the wardens of the church, and as able to understand and to speak Swedish. "Recited in Chester Co. Deed Book 0-2, Vol. 28, 53, op. Oft., Note 43 above. Chester Co. Orphans' Court Book 5, 72, 17 Sept. 1751; Minors' Estates, File Boo H, 1734-1809. " Account rendered 17 Dec. 1751 by John Hendrickson's administrators. Chester Co. Orphans' Court File Boo H, 1733-1769, estate of John Hendrickson. 74 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Intestate 5 years at 5£ p annum." Funeral charges for Gabriel, the other son, also were entered among the payments, as well as the £24 spent for "maintaining and Cloathing Jacob Hendrickson Bro: of y° intestate 2 years and 3m0," and the £3 "paid for Expences at the Funeral of the said Jacob." " Six months later, on 10 May 1752, the heirs of Martin Bickham, late of Greenwich Township, deceased, executed a formal conveyance to young Isaac of the "Land, Moss & Seder Swamp" in Gloucester County which Isaac's father had agreed to buy, but for which no deed had as yet been given." Less than a year later, on 4 January 1753, Magdalena Grantum died, aged 34 years and 10 months, and was buried in the churchyard at Wicaco. Besides her son Isaac Hendrickson she left another son, William Grantum," born 19 November 1751, to whom Isaac was a faithful and affectionate brother, as there is evidence to prove. When an Orphans' Court was held on 16 December 1755, with Charles Grantum, Esq., sitting as one of the justices, "Isaac Hendrixson" (his signature) "the only Child of John Hendrickson late of Crum creek in the said county Yeone deceased" offered a petition for the appointment of John Morton as his guardian." This the court "admitted of." That Isaac himself presented the petition indicates that he had reached or passed the age of fourteen. The next day Charles Grantum, with George Culin, surviving administrator of John Hendrickson's estate, presented to the court a supplementary accounting which included numerous expenditures on the Crum Creek property. For "Repairing y` House and Glass for Windows &c," £3 14s. had been spent, and for painting the house, .£1. Repairs to the barn came to £3. The outkitchen, no longer new, was "removed," apparently to another location, and a chimney was built therein, at a total cost of £4. The purchase of 2,000 feet of boards for £3 is unexplained. By far the heaviest outlay of money, nearly £20, was for n See Note 70 above. 72 See Note 65 above. " William Grantham inherited the house to which his father had removed after his third marriage, a home of considerable elegance for its day, judging by the inventory of its furnishings. William wrote his will in 1772, just after his 21s0 birthday, making affectionate references to his brother Isaac Hendrickson and to his friend Sketchley Morton, and naming Sketchley's father, John Morton, executor. Afterwards, William married Sarah Monon, sister of Sketchley Morton, and died in 1774, less than two yars after making his will. On 31 Oct. 1774 Isaac Hendrickson and Sketchley Morton signed a release giving to 'William's widow Sarah one-third of what had been bequeathed them by his will, if she would agree to its being proved, and not revoked. The will was admitted to probate the same day. Chester Co. Will Book F-6, 51, 42001, 1774. Sarah (Morton) Grantham, widow of William, subsequently married Dr. William Curne. 74 Chester Co. Orphans' Court Records, Minors' Estates, 1734-109. The Hendricksons of Crum Creek 7$ "Doubling 60 Perch of Bank" and for an extensive drainage project. In addition, the "Ceader Swamp" in New Jersey was surveyed, and a road was built around it." By the time these accounts were filed, Charles Grantum, in whose home Isaac continued to live, had married for a third time. The birth of a son, Isaac Grantum, to Charles and his third wife, Lydia, on 19 August 1756, is recorded at Gloria Dei Church, as is the child's death on 7 January 1762. On 16 March 1763, Charles and Lydia Grantum and Peter Hendrickson's widow, Catharina, made over all their rights in the Crum Creek property to Isaac Hendrickson, who thus acquired full title, his uncle Gabriel's share having descended to Isaac's father John, and from him to Isaac." Tax records indicate, however, that Isaac did not return to the house on Crum Creek to live until about 1766. In 176$ " he was taxed for only his horse, while William Hawkins was assessed 16s. for "150 Acres Rented of Isaac Hendrickson." In 1766 Isaac was rated for 161 acres, and in 1768 for three horses and eighteen head of cattle, as well as the land. On 31 October 1769, at Sr. Michael's and Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Philadelphia, Isaac Hendrickson married the widow MARGARET NETHERMARK. Born between 1734 and 1737, she was a daughter of George and Margaret (Justis) Webb, and the widow of Luke Nethermark of Tinicum Island, who had died in September, 1768.Th In 1771, two years after Isaac's marriage, his cattle numbered fifteen, and he was taxed for two slaves, possibly the Negro "Tone" and his wife "Nance" registered by Isaac in 1780. By 1774, Isaac also had an additional servant, probably indentured, his herd of cattle had more than doubled in size, and he had a flock of eighteen sheep. " From supplementary account.mg, Chester Co. Orphans' Court File Box H, 1715-1769, estate of John Hendrickson. TB Recited in Chester Co. Deed Book 0-2, Vol. 28, 53, op. cit., Note 41 above. T., Tea Lists for Chester County prior to 1765 have not been published; the originals are in the custody of the Chester Co. Historical Somety at West Chester. For printed lists subsequent to 1763 (beginning in 1765) see Peritetylvenia Archives, sod Series, XI, XII. 78 A parish register of the Gloria Del congregation, compiled in 1784, gives Margaret Hendrickson', age as 47, and Isaac's as 50, by inference placing the years of their respective births at 1737 and 1734. Isaac's age is obviously incorrect, as he was a minor under 14 in 1751, while Margaret's burial record, made by Dr. Nicholas Collin, notes her age as 76 at her death in 1815, placing her year of birth at 17341 For the parish register of 1704, see trmscript of the Records of Gloria Dei, Old Swedes, Church, H, 764, GSP. For Luke Nethermark's will, see Chester Co. Will Book 5-5, 86. Hie marsh on Hay Island, Darby Twp., had belonged to his father Conrad Nethermark, who had merrier' Christina, daughter of Mathias Netsillias, Sr. She was a granddaughter of Justice Otto, Ernat Cock. See Delaware Co. Deed Book I, 105: 6 Mar. 1745/6, Arthur [Otto] Netsillias and Christme to Isaac Pearson, and ibid., M, 390, 27 May 1769, Margaret Nethermuk and John Morton 10 Jonathan Bonsai'. 76 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine In 1777 Isaac, being over eighteen and under fifty-three, was liable for military service under the provisions of the Militia Act passed 17 March of that year. Pursuant to the Act, Chester County by the end of April had been divided into eight battalion districts and field officers had been elected, but not all battalion companies had been formed, or divided into the required eight classes expected to turn out in rotation for duty when called upon," Returns for Ridley Township, part of the Third Battalion District of Chester County, are few, but it appears from these that by April 1777, Caleb Davis, formerly of Ridley, but now of Springfield, had been elected colonel of the battalion. Sketchley Morton, major, and Lewis Trimble and John Quandrill, first and second lieutenants, were all residents of Ridley. By 14 May 1777, Nicholas Diehl, also of Ridley, had been elected captain of the Fifth Company, and Isaac had drawn by lot a place in the fifth clan of this company." In mid-July, orders calling out the first two classes of Chester County militia had already been issued, but probably because of the large number of Quakers living in the southeastern portion of the county, the first clan had not yet been filled. Of the 300 who arrived at Chester, where a rendezvous camp had been established, 200 were substitutes hired by draftees reluctant to serve, and nearly 400 were still lacking to complete the number of men called up for active duty in that class alone." As the month drew to a close, rumors of an approaching invasion by the British, who had left New York, were rampant, When the British fleet was actually sighted off the Capes, the local committee appointed by the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania to attend to the driving off of cattle and other stock from grazing grounds along the Delaware to places of greater safety, recommended Isaac, his captain, Nicholas Diehl, and four others as suitable persons to assist in this precautionary measure. Since Isaac's own stock was imperiled by the impending invasion, he no doubt took his own precautions, and may have assisted the IV For the Militia Act passed 17 March 1777, Or Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania from 1682 to 1801, IX, 75-94, Chapter DCCL. Sr. Pennsylvania Arch's's', in Series, V, 124, for the letter of County Lieutenant Robert Smith to President Wharton, dated 28 Apr. 1777, reporting on the militia in Chester County. SO Muster rolls and general returns for the Third Battalion are lacking. Isaac's place in the Stis class of the Stit Company is inferred from several records: "Si,,, of the Accounts of Thomas Levis, A Sub-Lieutenan' of Chester County, 1777-1780," Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, VI, 174, 179, more familiarly known as "Fine Lists;" "Muster Rolls and Papers Relating to the Associators and Militia of the , County of Chester," Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIV (1888), 84-5, reminted in ibid., Ids Series, ✓. A comparison of Me names in the last tyro references, with the 1774 Chester Co. tm lists, indicates tPro the townships of Springfield, Nether Providence, Ridley, Lower Darby and possibly Haverford and Upper Darby comprised the Third Battalion District. 81 See Colonial Records, XI, 224; Pennsylvania Archives, 1st Series, V, 426. The Hendricksons of Crum Creek 77 others. Whether or not he evacuated his family into the back country is unknown. If he did, he may have been one of the group of men in the southern part of Chester County who, "apprehending danger from the Enemy," formed two companies embodied "to prevent any inroads of the enemy, and repaired to Head Quarters [at Chester] in order to be furnished with Ammunition & Rations," but were refused, probably because "of their not being willing to Joyn in with the other Militia, & to be under the direction of the Commander in Chief." " Isaac's own fifth class of militiamen was not called out in Chester County until after the occupation of Philadelphia on 25 September by the British, and the subsequent battle at Germantown. Orders dated 10 October 1777 from Lancaster, where the government had fled, called for the militia of this class in Chester County to "be employed in defending the inhabitants from the excursions of the Enemy, & that the Lieutenant [of the county] use his utmost endeavours to mount fifty of the Militia on Horseback, for the same purpose." Nicholas Diehl, Sketchley Morton, and Charles Grantham, Jr., son of Isaac's deceased stepbrother George Grantham, apparently volunteered for this duty, forming a company of Light Horse." It seems possible Isaac may have joined them, but no record of his service with them has been found. By the time the militia service was reorganized in 1780, however, he was subject to substitute fines in Captain Diehl's militia company, totaling £25 14s. 6d. (maximum fines paid by others in the battalion amounted to £54 12s.), and to exercise fines of £20 9s. 6d., as contrasted with maximum fines of £22 3s. 6d." Under the reorganized militia in 1780 and 1781, the Third Battalion became the new Sixth Battalion, where Isaac's name appears on muster rolls of the Fourth Company, still in the fifth class, under Lieutenant, then Captain John Quandrill. Muster rolls in the spring of 1785 show him in Captain William Price's company of the Fourth Battalion, and in October 1787, when Price's men belonged to the Third Battalion, Isaac was listed as having had "nonetendence" on two "Company Days" and one "Field Day." " By this time Isaac was probably almost fifty years old. Perhaps he had had his fill of militia training, and felt such duty could safely be left to younger men. 82 161d., 461, 474, 582. "Colonial Records, XI, 318, 187. The return of the Light Horse, dated 2 July 1781, Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Stria, XIV, 126-127, suggests its earlier organization. When this roll was made, however, doe militia had been reorganized, and the Third Battelion had become the Sixth Battalion. 88 See the Fine Lists mentioned bs Note SO above. 85 Pennsylvania Archives, 6th Series, V, 723, 726; ibid., III, 203, 168. 78 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine On 30 June 1788, Isaac and his wife Margaret sold the home on Crum Creek, with 181 3/4 acres of land and meadow ground, to John Crosby, "the Younger," for L1,068," and so terminated Hendrickson family ownership of the property. With the selling of the family home on Crum Creek, Isaac apparently disposed of the last of his real estate except for 19 acres of marsh on Hay Island, in Darby Township, which had belonged to his wife's first husband, Luke Nethermark, and for which Isaac was taxed " through 1796. On 21 December 1790, however, the high sheriff of Chester County, Charles Dilworth, appeared before the Court of Common Pleas at West Chester to acknowledge execution on that date of a deed to Caleb Davis, Isaac's former militia colonel, for "a Messuage or Tenement and Tract or parcel of Land and Meadowground thereunto belongmg situate lying and being in the Township of Ridley and County of Delaware containing in the whole One hundred and forty five acres be the same more or less late the Estate of Isaac Hendrickson Seized and taken in Execution at the suit of the said Caleb Davis Esquire." " In spite of the smaller acreage involved here, a careful study of Ridley Township assessment records leaves little room for doubt that this was the property which had already been conveyed to Crosby, although his name does not appear in the sheriff's deed. A month later, on 2 February 1791, John Crosby executed a deed to Caleb Davis " for the property he had purchased from Isaac Hendrickson on 30 June 1788. In the meantime, Isaac and Margaret apparently continued to live in their old home as tenants, until 1793, when Davis was first rated for the Chrtter Co. Deed Book 13-2, Vol. 28, 11, no cited in Note 41 above. On 24 January 1788, a Cr,, months before selling the Crum Creek home to John Crosby, Isaac had sold to his former militm colonel, Caleb Davis, Esq., for £850 two parcels of upland and meadow on the other side of the creek which Isaac had snherited from his father John and from his half-brother, William Grantham. The Ern "puce'," 24 acres of marsh meadow, John Hendrickson had purchased in 1744 from Jonas Colin. The world tract, eight acres of upland, were part of Isaac's bequest from young Grantham. Chester Co. Deed Book 0-2, Vol. 28, 264: 24 Jan. 1788, Isaac Hendrickson to Caleb Davis. Considerably earlier—in 1772— Isaac had sold to Lewis Trimble 14 acres of drained wards which had formerly belonged to the Amosland branch of the family, and had been conveyed in 1761 to Isaac by its then owner, John Knowles. With the marsh, Isaac sold a small piece of land, less than three acres, belonging to his Own plantation. Ibid., Deed Book T, Vol. 19, 124: 26 Dec. 1772, Isaac Hendrickson to Lewis Trimble. 87 All ref erenea to Isaac Hendrickson as Ddaware Co. taxpayer are from the assessment dockets at the Delaware Co. Court House, Media, Pa, Delaware County was erected from Chester County in 1789. f. Chester Co. Sheriff's Deed Book 1 (1773-1806), 61: 21 Dec. 1790, Charles Dilworth to Caleb Davis. Records of the Court of Common Pleas for Delaware Co., Nov. 1789 and Feb. 1790, refer to an action brought against Isaac Hendrickson by John Crosby, but no particulars es to its nature are given. A notation, "Settled says Pitff Costs paid," was made on 1 May 1790. See Appearance Docket, Nov. 1789-Jan. 1806, 2, 8, at the Media Court Home, 80 Delaware Co. Deed Boot A, 266: 2 Feb. 1791, John Crosby to Caleb Davis. All pertinent documents relating to subsequent transfers of the property are on Ale in the Hendrickson House Library, Wiltdnr00. The Hendricksons of Crum Creek 79 land and buildings," for in 1791, the first year for which Delaware County assessment lists are available, "Hendrickson & Oneale" were taxed for the property, which they evidently rented, and in 1792 they were enrolled as "Hindrixstin & Onale." At the October term of court in 1792, however, the case of William "O.Neal," plaintiff, against Isaac Hendrickson, defendant, was heard at Chester by Judge Ross, who ruled in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of £44 8s. 111/4d., which suggests that the joint farming venture had not been successful." William O'Neale, formerly a seaman, was "W° Oneale, Esquire, of the City of Washington and State of Maryland" in 1797 when he sold real estate in the borough of Chester which he had purchased ten years before." There is no evidence that he owned any land in Ridley Township. After 1792 there is only fragmentary information about Isaac and Margaret to be found. From 1793 on, the heading under which they were listed in tax records, "Inmates," implies their living in the home of others and not maintaining a household of their own. No mention at all is found of the slaves they had once had." On a deed made by Caleb Davis, 12 September 1794, Isaac Hendrick' son's signature as a witness is found, with that of John Crosby." During the April 1800 term of the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas a petition filed by Isaac Hendrickson, an insolvent debtor, was received." His name appears in the list of "Inmates" on Ridley tax rolls through the "Triennial Assessment of 1802 04," but not thereafter. The date of his death has not been found. The burial of "Margaret Henricson, widow of Isaac," on 12 February 1810, was recorded in the books at Gloria Dei Church by Dr. Nicholas Collin. There is no evidence that Isaac and Margaret had any children. Colonel Caleb Davis married in 1785 Lydia Boon, a young heiress whose guardian he had been appointed," and by 1796 they evidently had - "In addle:on to the land and buildings, Davis was also rated on 4 horses, 8 cattle, 1 bound servut, 1 riding chair, ud 16 ounces of plate. See Delaware Co. Assastnent Docket for Ridley Township, 1791. 91 Delaware Co. Court of Common Pleas, Appearance Docket, 1789-1806, op. tit.. Note Si above, Oct. Term 1792, 9. 92 Delaware Co. Deed Book D, 80: 4 Nov. 1797, William Oneale to Ephraim Pearson. 000, 1 Much 1780 the Pennsylvania Assembly passed "An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery," which required that all slaves and "servants till the age of thirty one years" be registered by their owners. In a transcript of the register of slava, made by Isaac G. Gilpin 11 9m 1794, in Pennsylvania Abolition Society Papers, HSP, hau Hendrickson of Ridley Two., farmer, is listed a having 8, all slava for lift: Tone, aged 40, Nance, aged 36, Frank, aged 12, Bat, nod 10, Tone, aged 7, Jos, aged 1, Pol, aged 3, and Dine, aged 6 months. Hod, of Families, 1790' Pennsylvania, 105. 94 Delaware Co. Deed Book B, 111: 12 Sept. 1794 , Caleb Davis to John Holly Worrell and John Lungren. 00 Delaware Co. Court of Common Pleas, Continuance Docket, April 1797-June 1806, 49' 9 . Ibid., Apporance Docket, 1789'1806, of. oil., No 55 above, Feb. Term 1790, 8. 80 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine rented the house on Crum Creek to tenants and moved elsewhere. Later, they lived in Kingsessing Township, Philadelphia County. On 1 October 1798, when the former Hendrickson property was examined and assessed for the "Direct Tax" imposed that year by the Federal Government, the tenant was Charles Hedonville." The detailed report required by this tax measure, which was based on the number of panes of glass one had in his windows, gives explicit information about the house: its dimensions, 30 by 20 feet; its material, stone; the number of stories, two; the number of windows, four, with 48 "lights." Its situation is described as being "on Crumcreek near Delaware," and in the column provided for "Remarks on the Property" one word is written—"Old." Under the heading "Outhouses Appurtenant" the one-story log kitchen, measuring 20 by 30 feet and having no taxable windows, is reported. Sometime after 1798, perhaps quite soon, the overall dimensions of the house were increased to 45 by 20 feet by the addition of a new section, harmonizing with the old in both material and construction, at the end opposite the great fireplace. On the second floor no doorway was cut through the former end-wall, but a corner stair was installed in the new section in order to give access to its upper room. Each of the two new rooms had a fireplace, of moderate size. Caleb Davis sold the property in 1806, and there were several other transfers of title before it came into the hands of the Ward family, of Ridley, in 1868. Fifty years later, in 1918, they sold the house, with 114 acres of land, for $270,000, a price due in large measure to "the quarries, quarry business, and constructions connected therewith, and the brickyard thereon." A few months later a considerable portion of the property, including the house, came into the possession of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, later the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation, who kept it until 1956. In the summer of 1958 the new owners, the Vertol Aircraft Corporation, offered the "Old Swedes House" on their property_ to the Holy Trinity, Old Swedes, Church Foundation, Inc., of Wilmington, Delaware, with the provision that it be removed as soon as possible. The Foundation had previously proposed to do this, and to restore the house on the grounds of the Holy Trinity, Old Swedes, Church, where it would be used as a combination museum-library and church office. Gifts from members and friends of the Foundation made it possible to disassemble the Hendrickson house and transport it to Wilmington in the autumn of 1958. 97 mi.vfilm copy, Chester Co. Historical Society, of the original in the National Archives, Washington, D. C., Direct Tax, Ridley Township, 1 October 1798, Howe *14. The Hendricksons of Crum Creek 81 At the outset, Mr. William Moeckel, A. I. A., of the architectural firm of Whiteside, Moeckel and Carbonnel, made complete drawings of the house, and in conjunction with Mr. W. Albert Haddock of the Haddock Construction Company, marked key stones and sections and photographed the structure in every detail. While this was in process, exploratory trenches were dug around the house and at random locations on the site to discover any artifacts which might have been lost or discarded by the original builders or early occupants. Only a few nails, buttons, and part of a hinge turned up in the screening, along with a handful of arrow heads." During the ownership of the Baldwin Locomotive Works a fire had damaged the roof and the beams which supported the second floor. The roof had been renewed, but the partly charred beams had simply been covered with tongue-and-grooved boards. Mr. Lionel J. Keyser, of the Haddock Construction Company, supervised the dissassembling operation with great interest and care. The charred beams could not be re-used, but Mr. Keyser salvaged enough to serve as a pattern for their duplication. One door-frame in the 1690 section and two window frames were identified as original, and retained as patterns. The mantel and frame of the great fireplace on the first floor of the 1690 section, and the lintel, also were identified as original, and these are now in their rightful place in the restored house. The nails and hardware recovered were suitable only for copying. Both the corner stair in the newer section and the original one adjacent to the fireplace in the opposite end of the house were beyond repair, though the height of the risers, the width and shape of the steps, and the markings along the walls showing the course of the stairs, permitted easy duplication. When plans for the restoration were prepared, the new uses for the house required provision for heat, air-conditioning, sanitary facilities, and a fire-proof storage vault. The cellar under the original part of the house was extended under the entire structure and partitioned to accommodate these functional needs. Because the house would be open to the public, either an exterior fire-escape or an interior, straight stairway was required by the city building code. The latter was chosen. It was built against the division wall between the two sections of the house, in the older part, and was extended, of course, to the cellar. The restoration of the house was begun in November 1959. Mr. Thomas H. Talley, of the Haddock Construction Company, who had worked with Mr. Haddock and Mr. Moeckel on the first studies of the 9, In the light of the inventory of the Andrew Hendrickaon household, it ia apparent he possessed no mess of durable gooda which he could afford to lose or discard. The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 82 Hendrickson house when detailed drawings, measurements, and photographs were made, and key stones and sections marked, was in charge of the restoration of the shell of the house—the heavy reconstruction. During the rebuilding of the stone walls Mr. Talley checked the placement of facing stones against key charts, blueprints, and marked photographs, often to the annoyance of the stonemasons, who could have built the walls in a third of the time had they been free to chose the stones at random! Mr. Talley found two retired carpenters who knew how to use an adz, and interested them in adzing out the heavy beams to support the second floor, after the pattern of the original beams salvaged by Mr. Keyser. When the heavy structural work was complete, Mr. Keyser returned to the project and either did or supervised all the remaining work, in conjunction with the architects and contractor. Interior details of the restoration were done under the supervision of Mr. Robert L. Raley, A. I. A., a Fellow of the Henry Francis duPont Winterthur Museum. Under his direction, where original wood and hardware were not useable, or were inadequate, proper reproductions were utilized or other materials of the period were secured. When the house came into the possession of the Holy Trinity, Old Swedes, Church Foundation, the wood paneling around the fireplaces and stairs had been removed, presumably by vandals or collectors. Markings on the walls, however, and on the floors and ceilings, clearly indicated that such woodwork had been there. By a series of unusual circumstances, some of the woodwork was located and examined. Subsequent development of the treatment of the end walls in each room was possible. The present flooring in the restored house was located in Massachusetts, where it had been salvaged from a place built at about the same time as the Hendrickson house. Wood for the present paneling is of similar age, though most of it is of local origin. The frames for the doors and windows are of heavy oak, mortised and pegged. Flooring and interior woodwork are of white pine. Except for the fireplace walls, walls and ceilings throughout are white plaster finished. The restored Hendrickson house, still within the early Swedish colony, now stands on the west side of the churchyard of Holy Trinity Church (Old Swedes), in Wilmington, approximately eighteen miles from where it was originally built. The church itself was built of stone in 1698 1699, in much the same manner as the house. The two structures, now standing near each other in the churchyard, adjacent to the landing place of the original Swedish colonists (Fort Christina Park), somehow telescope time and create a vital sense of the reality of early New Sweden in America." - 9, The authors wish to express their gratitude to Mr,. Philip V. Wagner, of Wilmington, for her invaluable help in the preparation of the manuscr;pt.