Additions and Corrections

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS Samuel Allen's Family Samuel Allen of Silver Spring, Maryland has called the Editor's attention to several errors appearing in the article "Samuel Allen's Family," which was published in the PGM, Vol. XXXII, No. 3 (1982). There are five errors of fact to be corrected, along with a discussion of conflicting evidence concerning the time of the Allen migration from England to Pennsylvania. These items are introduced below in the order in which they appeared in the original article. Page numbers refer to the PGM, Vol. XXXII, Na. 3 (1982). Mr. Allen has incorporated supporting documentation in his text. Page 219, paragraph 1: The Allen Record's statement that Samuel Allen and his family migrated from England to Penn's colony aboard the Bristol Factor in late 1681 conflicts with other evidence suggesting migration aboard the Society of Bristol in the spring of 1682. None of the evidence available at this time is conclusive. The author's purpose was to untangle the genealogical notes and fragments comprising the pamphlet A Record of the Allen Family from the First Settlement in Pennsylvania. Inasmuch as he was apparently not concerned with substantiating the Allen Record's opening statement on migration, the author seems to have accepted that statement at face value; the article contains no documentation to indicate otherwise. The pamphlet presents virtually the same information on the family's migration that appears in such early histories as W. H. H. Davis's History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania (1876) and the various editions of Jordan's Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, as well as in numerous other works and articles down to the present day. In none of these sources is the statement on migration documented, except for occasional citations to Davis and to the Allen Record. Yet it seems to have gone unnoticed that the Allen Record itself dates only to 1856, although between its title and its opening paragraph the fifth Samuel Allen (1782-1868), who began the Record, clearly states the date on which he "commenced" his efforts. He does not state his sources on the family's migration— and any expectation of documentation seems unreasonable: he was writing a genealogy for the family, not a history for scholars. 68 THE PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE May What is subject to question is the validity of using the Allen Record as a primary source for the Samuel Allen migration. If no other information existed, no conflicting evidence, the Record would probably be accepted as it is; but such information and evidence do exist, and however inconclusive and fragmentary they may be, they are sufficient to suggest that readers of the Allen Record should be cautioned about its limitations as a historical source. Three kinds of evidence suggest that the Allen Record's statement that Samuel Allen and his family migrated to Pennsylvania on the Bristol Factor in 1681 may be in error, or that it is at least not beyond reasonable doubt: listings in the English port books of the late seventeenth century, researched by Marion Balderston; records of land surveyed for Samuel Allen in Bucks County, in the Pennsylvania Archives; and the date on the certificate of removal issued to Samuel by Butcomb Monthly Meeting of Friends, in Somerset, England. In her well-documented article "William Penn's Twenty-Three Ships," Mrs. Balderston observes that according to English port records Samuel Allen shipped his trade goods to the new world aboard the Society of Bristol in the spring of 1682; she notes that while Davis (1876) places Samuel Allen aboard the Bristol Factor in 1681, it was not customary—often not feasible—for a migrant to sail on one vessel and to ship goods on another (Balderston, "William Penn's TwentyThree Ships," in Passengers and Ships Prior to 1684, ed. Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., Publications of the Welcome Society of Pennsylvania, no. 1 [Baltimore, 1970], p. 42, entry 1 and n. 47; p. 32, n. 6; p. 28) . In Penn's colony there is no record of Samuel Allen until 7th mo. (September, under the Julian calendar then in use) 1682, when the survey for his land in Bucks County was returned to the surveyorgeneral's office—an event also noted by Mrs. Balderston. September 1682 would have been within a month of the arrival of the Society of Bristol at Pennsylvania in August 1682; had the Aliens arrived on the Bristol Factor in December 1681, one must wonder what they were doing in a largely unsettled land for nine months. (See Pennsylvania Archives, 3d ser., 3:54; Balderston, "William Penn's Twenty-Three Ships," pp. 41-42.) Migration by Samuel Allen on the Society of Bristol is also suggested by the date 12 mo. (February) 24, 1681 on the certificate of removal issued to Samuel by Butcomb MM. That date was four months after 1985 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS 69 the Bristol Factor had sailed in October 1681. It cannot be the date on which the certificate was read and minuted at Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends, for it was not until 9th, 11 mo. January) 1682/ 83 that Philadelphia MM first met for business and requested registry of certificates of removal and times of arrival (a request not always complied with). That 12 mo. 24, 1681 is the date on which the certificate was issued by Butcomb MM has been confirmed by Albert Fowler of the Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College, who in answer to queries examined microfilm copies of the original certificates of removal received at Philadelphia MM. The certificate could have been sent to Samuel on a later ship after he had sailed, but such an occurrence, as Mr. Fowler points out, would have been contrary to Friends' discipline at the time—and Samuel Allen was a Friend in good standing. Given its date, Samuel Allen could not have brought the certificate "with him," as the PGM article states, if he had sailed aboard the Bristol Factor in 1681 (the author's statement is undocumented; the Allen Record does not mention the certificate of removal). (See Albert Cook Myers, Quaker Arrivals at Philadelphia, .16824750 [Philadelphia: Ferris and Leach, 1902] p. 3; Balderston, "William Penn's Twenty-Three Ships," pp. 31-32; Minutes of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, in Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, vol. 1 [1895-98] , pp. 252-53; Albert Fowler to Samuel Alen, Nov. 1, 1982, pers. comm.; Somersetshire Quarterly Meeting of the Society of Friends, 1668-1699, ed. Stephen C. Morland [n. p.: Somerset Record Society, 1978] ,references under Allen, Sam., of Chew) Page 219, line 18: Samuel Allen died on 20th, 9th month (November), 1702 (and not in 1710). Source: Middletown (Bucks County, Pennsylvania) Friends Meeting records. Page 219, line 19: Samuel Allen's will is dated 14th, 10th month, 1699 (i.e. 14 December, not 14 October). Sources: Pennsylvania Archives, 2d ser., 19:352, 440, 667, 698. Page 219, line 21: The names should be Priscilla Sisom and Thomas Sisom (not 70 THE PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE May Priscilla Smith and Thomas Smith). Sources: Pennsylvania Archives, 2d ser., 19:440; William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy 2:451, 6S2-3; Edwin S. Dunkerley, "Samuel Allen's Family," p. 220, entry no. 5. Page 219, line 22: The grandchild Samuel named here was Samuel Sisom (not Samuel Smith, as the published line implies). Sources: Pennsylvania Archives, 2d ser., 19:667, 698; Edwin S. Dunkerley, "Samuel Allen's Family," p. 220, entry no. 5. Page 224, entry no. 35, line 5: The year of Sarah Warner Allen's death was 1857 (not 1757). Source: internal evidence in entry—dates of Sarah's marriage and of Mary Warren's birth. Since the PGM has been the first to publish the privately printed Allen Record, readers and archivists might be interested in new evidence of the document's provenance. As Edwin S. Dunkerley's article indicates, the document was "commenced" in 1856 by the fifth Samuel Allen. A recently discovered letter to an unidentified relative from Edwin Stevens Allen (1860-1927), written probably in the fall of 1905, states that the Allen Record, "compiled by my grandfather, the 5th Samuel Allen," was "put in type by my brother, William F. Allen" (1846-ca. 1915) "about thirty years ago" (i.e., about 1875). A copy of this letter is in the possession of Samuel Allen of Silver Spring, Maryland. 1985 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS 71 Addendum to the Family of Penn: A Penn-Gaskell Hall Bride Identified Francis James Dallett, F. A. S. G., F.G.S. P. The previously unreported first marriage of Peter Penn-Gaskell Hall (1830-1905), of Philadelphia, progenitor of many of the descendants of William Penn the Founder now living in the United States, was recorded in PGM XXIX, 1 (1975), 51-52. I Hall, whose subsequent wives, the sisters Mixsell, appear in all standard Penn genealogies, had, in fact, an earlier spouse, Adelaide Gougenheim, whom he married 28 August 1852 at St. Stephen's P.E. Church, Philadelphia. There was no issue of this mysterious first union. The 1975 note acknowledged failure to identify Adelaide Gougenheim as a member of a family of this or any similar surname then found in Philadelphia. The reason is now found to be that the initial search for the bride's origins was too parochial. She was, it now appears, only a transient, a visitor in Philadelphia, where, two months prior to her wedding to the well born, young ex-Princetonian and future Philadelphia lawyer, and Civil War officer, she had appeared at the Walnut Street Theatre, an actress playing the role of Fanny in "a new and original farce, "Who Stole the Pocket Book?"' Adelaide Gougenheim was born in 1828, in England, to AngloJewish parents.' With her sister Josephine, or Joey, she made her theatrical debut in 1850 at the Olympic Theatre in London, but came immediately to New York where the two performed together in a popular play, "Perfection," at the reopened Broadway Theatre. They first appeared in Philadelphia, at both the Walnut and Arch Street playhouses, but in different plays, in August, 1851.4 The following year Adelaide returned alone to the former theatre where she was seen from 12-15 June. Did young Hall see her then and impetuously propose the marriage which quickly followed? The union, not announced in any newspaper, was certainly a secret one for no mention of it is made in biographical accounts of either groom or bride. It appears that the couple divorced soon afters for Adelaide Gougenheirn, whose likeness appears in several lithographic portraits,' went with her sister to act in California in 1855, and their careers took them to Australia in 1856. In 1858 the ladies, popularly known as "Miss Adelaide" and "Miss Joey" were co-manageresses of the Princess' Theatre, Melbourne,' but were back in New York in 1859 where 72 THE PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE May Adelaide found new theatrical triumphs.' Later in the same year she played a farewell engagement at Louisville, Kentucky, there married a Mr. Henry Frisbie, from London, and departed for that city on 9 November 1859.8 Her later life is obscure but she may have eventually joined her sister, then a Mrs. Constable, in Joey's retirement at Dunedin, New Zealand.' It is ironic that the bride of 1852, an "unknown" to proper Philadelphians, actually enjoyed international fame while her husband's reputation was purely a local one. NOTES Francis James Dallett, "A Penn-Gaskell Hall Marriage of 1852: Addendum to the Family of Penn," The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine.' 29 (1975): 51-52. 2 Arthur Herman Wilson, A History of Me Philadelphia Theatre 1835 to 1855 (Philadelphia, i935): 690, 443-444, 464+ Public Ledger, Philadelphia, issues of 12-16 June 1852. 3 The year is given by Robert L. Sherman, Actors and Authors (Chicago, 1951): 217 in a brief notice which otherwise confuses details of the actress' career. The most complete and accurate biography is given in T. Allston Brown, History of the American Stage (New York, 1870 147. 4 Wilson, op. cit. 5 Pennsylvania State Reports fail to mention any legal process; the divorce, or whatever form of separation was obtained, was evidently secured in another state, or abroad. 6 Wendy Wick Reaves, ed., American Portrait Prints (Charlottesville, Va., 1984): 220. A copy of the portrait is in the Theatre Collection of Harvard University. A second lithograph of the sisters together is reproduced in Joseph N, Ireland, Records of Me New York Stage 1750-1860 (New York, 1866-67), 2: 92, 691, Brown: 147. g Ireland: 93. 9 Brown: 147, and same work but New York 1903 edition: 135. 1 ° Brown (1870 ed.), op. cit., where. Dunedin is incorrectly located in Australia. 1