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SOME RECORDS

SUSSEX COUNTY
DELAWARE

COMPILED BY
C. H. B. TURNER
LEWES, DELAWARE

PHILADELPHIA
ALLEN, LANE & SCOTT
1909

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PREFACE.

Some of the records in this book have been published
before, but in a form inaccessible to most people.
Previous to the settlement of the dispute between Lord
Baltimore and Penn Sussex County was only 30 miles long
and 12 miles wide. That is the portion referred to in these
records. I am deeply, indebted to the Rev. Sadler Phillips, Chaplain
to the Bishop of London, and the Rev. and Mrs. P. T.
Mignot of Guernsey for many kindnesses shown me when
searching for records in Europe.
To Mr. William M. Marines' " Bombardment of Lewes,"
I owe most of my information about that important event.
C. H. B. T.
Lewes, Del., November 5, 1909.

SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.

"There is probably no State in the Union where one would
find less material for writing its history than in Delaware,"
says the American Historical Association in its report for
1906. Let one attempt to write the history of any portion of
Delaware and the statement of the American Historical
Association will be found only too true.
Where Lewes now stands the Indians had a village called
Sikoness, or Sikeoyness. We can imagine the astonishment
of the savages as on August 28th, 1609, Henry Hudson sailed
into the bay opposite the village.
From that time until 1631, when the expedition, called
Devries' expedition sailed into what is now called Delaware
Bay and planted the Colony on a point of land above Lewes,
which the colonists called Swaanendael, the Indians saw very
few, if any, white persons.
The VanRenssalaer Bowier papers give us some account
of the doings at Swaanendael until the colonists were mas
sacred by the Indians. It is as follows: —
"With the de Walvis, they, in 1631, took possession of the bay of
the South River in New Netherland, occupying the place of their
colony with twenty-eight persons engaged in, whaling and fanning,
and made suitable fortifications, so that in July of the same year their
cows calved and their lands were seeded and covered with a fine crop,
until finally by the error of their Commis all the people and the
animals were lamentably killed, whereby they suffered incalculable
damage, which damage the remonstrants attempted to repair in the
year 1632 with the former ship den Walvis and besought the Com
pany to lend a helping hand, who neither by word or deed would
render any assistance."
Samuel Godjn, Patroon of Swaandael, sold out to the
West India Company, July, 1634.
There had been considerable friction between Kilian* and
the West India Company, because Kilian wanted colonists
to till the land, and the West India Company were opposed
to having the land cleared and settled, as it caused a scarcity
of fur-bearing animals.
* Van Renssalaer.

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The VanRenssalaer Bowier papers say: —
"During the two years when the late Mr. Godijn and his people
were trading in Swanendael, the Company received from the South
River, through their servants, a no less quantity of skins than in
former or later years, but he obtained his furs in addition to these by
bartering with other tribes.
"This caused so much jealousy that the Company sent a Commis
there, trading close by the people of Godijn, deprived him in one
year of over SOO skins in Swanendael alone."
Again Kiliaen VanRenssalaer says: "We are trying to
populate the land and in time to spread the teaching of the
Holy Gospel by many people, while they (the West India
Company), on the contrary, employing only a few people,
look solely for the profits of the fur trade. ' '
The Swedes do not seem to have attempted to colonize
what is now Sussex County.
Secretary Van Tienhoven, writing from The Hague, Feb
ruary 22d, 1650, says: "The further progress of the Swedes
could be prevented and neutralized by planting a Colonic
at Swaanendael, otherwise called the Whorekil, on the West
side of the Bay."
And he also says: "Send a clergyman, or, in his place
provisionally, a Comforter of the Sick, who could also act as
Schoolmaster." While records are lacking that would tell us many things
to the credit of the Dutch, the above record sets forth in a
few words that they had a care for men's souls, as well as
for their minds and bodies.
The Hoorn Kil, the name given these parts by the Dutch
settlers, unfortunately spelled Horekil, Whorekill, and so
many other ways, suggests the love of David Pietersen de
Vries for his native place the municipality of Hoorn.
Vice-Director Alrichs, writing to Amsterdam, Holland,
from New Amstel, on the South River, August 13th, 1657,
says : "I have already stated that there is a fine and excellent
country called the Whorekil, abounding very much in wild
animals, birds, fish, &c., and the land is so good and fertile
that the like is nowhere to be found. It lies at the entrance
of the Bay, about two leagues up from Cape Henlopen."
Lord Baltimore's people were giving the Dutch on the
South River much uneasiness by their claims to all the
territory occupied by the Dutch, from New Amstel to the
Whore Kil.

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The Marylanders were threatening New Amstel and the
Whore- Kil; New Amstel, being the more important place,
the Dutch "did resolve to quit the Whore- Kill, thinking
it better to quitt that place then to run the hazard of weak
ening New Amstell. The English then came out of Mary
land, from a part now called Somersett County and drew
neere the Whorekill, tradeing with the Indians. Where
upon it was reported that the said English men began to
build and settle in that part of the country.,.
"A Commander and sixteen men were sent to the Whore
kill to take possession againe, but another 'resoluc6n' was
taken a short time after to call the said soldiers back, and
soe the Whorekill was left againe.
"There was likewise a boate dispatched to the Whorekill
and there plundered and tooke possession of all effects be
longing to the Citty of Amsterdam, as alsoe what belonged
to the Quaking Society of Plockhoy to a very naile, ac
cording to the letter written by one of that company to the
City of Amsterdam, in which letter complaint was made
that the Indians at the Whorekill had declared they never
sold the Dutch any land to inhabitt."
The Dutch placed buoys in the Bay, 1658. The same
year the Whore Kil was annexed to New Amstel.
In 1657 the Indians near Lewes, or the Whore Kil, had
captured some shipwrecked English.
Word was sent to Vice-Director Alrichs at New Amstel.
In a letter from Alrichs to Mr. Petrus Stuyvesant, Director-
General of New Netherland, dated Fort New Amstel, Oc
tober 29th, 1657, he says: "Since writing the foregoing
I have tried in several ways, as for instance dispatching
first Capt. Flaman, to go to the Horekil, to release the
English, who were shipwrecked there with two boats, but
he, Flaman, has come back, without having accomplished
anything on account of the loss of an anchor; I then have
sent Michiel * * * there, who, after an absence of 14
days ransomed the remaining Englishmen from the Indians
and brought them here together * * *, to the number
of 14."
One of the earliest settlers in the Whore Kil was Hal-
manius Frederick Wiltbank, to whom was granted 800
acres of land, July 28th, 1676. There were grants to others
at the same date: Henry Strieker, Timothy Love, (Re-
hoboth Creeke), Randall Reveille, John King, Robert Winder,

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Daniel Harte, John Roods (Roads), Daniel Brown, Alex
ander Molestine, Abraham Clemmy, and Otto Wolgast.
As we shall see later Wiltbank played a more important
part in the history of Lewes than did the others named
above. Order Appointing a day of General Fasting and Prayer:
"Honorable, Dear, Faithful
"Although the most merciful God, rich in grace and compassion,
hath, notwithstanding our unworthiness, watched over us hitherto
and daily giveg us abundant cause to proclaim His praise and to
bless His august name for the innumerable benefits and favors ex
hibited from time to time, in granting^peace and quiet both with
our neighbouring Christian nations and the Indians, the natives
of the country, as well as in bestowing a bountiful harvest, having
certainly blessed our basket of bread and stafi of hfe, wherein His
goodness and beneficence are clearly manifest.
"Yet, considering that the righteous God hath visited many and
divers inhabitants of this Province, not only this summer, with pain
ful and long, lingering sickness, but, moreover, also, that His kindled
anger and uplifted hand threaten with many and divers punishments,
especially with a devastating Indian war, which is no other than a
just punishment and visitation of our God for our enormous sins of
unbehef, dilatoriness in God's service, blaspheming His holy name,
desecrating the Sabbath, drunkenness, lasciviousness, whoredom,
hate, envy, hes, fraud, luxury, abuse of God's gifts, and many other
iniquities. And because we run counter to God in our sins, God,
in His threatenings will oppose us with punishments, unless we tum
to Him, (whom, in our iniquities we have abandoned) in sincere
humility and true contrition of heart that He may tum aside His
wrath from us, and assist and bless us with His favor, therefore, we
have considered it necessary, to that end, to proclaim Wednesday,
the ISth October of the current year, a day of Universal Fasting
and Prayer, and, ^accordingly, notify and' command all our ofiicers
and subjects that they prepare themselves on the aforesaid day to
appear, at the time aforesaid, with changed heart, at the usual place
in the usual place in the general meeting, not only to hear God's
word, but also, unanimously, with an humble and penitent heart,
solemnly to call on the Lord's name that it may please His Divine
Majesty to remove from' our road His just plagues, wherewith we
are already stricken, and to divert His rod, which flourishes over
us, and to pour down His wrath upon the Heathen who know not
His name; to take this budding Province into His fatherly pro
tection; to maintain it against the efforts of all evil-minded men
who seek its ruin; merciful to visit the inhabitants of this Province
with corporeal and spiritual blessings, that the Word of Truth may
be proclaimed and spread among many people, and that their rulers
may be as lights among this evil and perverse generation; that to
this end God may vouchsafe to send forth faithful laborers into His
harvest to proclaim unto Jacob his sins and unto Israel his trans
gressions; particularly that God may be pleased to endow our Magis
trates and regents of this land with understanding, wisdom, fore-

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sight and godliness, that they may resolve, design and valiantly
execute whatsoever may be of service to the happiness of the country
arid welfare of the inhabitants both in body and soul. In order
that it may the better be put into practice, we interdict and forbid,
during divine service on the day aforesaid, all exercises and games
of tennis, ball-playing, hunting, fishing, ploughing, sowing, and,
moreover, all other unlawful practices, such as dice, drunkenness,
on pain of the corporeal correction and punishment thereunto al
ready affixed; in like manner are all servants of the Divine Word,
within our govemment, hereby admonished to direct their preaching
¦ and prayers to this end.
"Thus ddne and concluded in our Council, in Fort Amsterdam,
in New Netherland, the 30th September, 1659.
"Signed P. Stuyvesant
"C. VAN RuYVEN, Secretary.
"Delivered the writing to Domine Welius on the 10th of this
October, 16S9."
At this date Lewes, or the Hoorn Kil, was part of New
Netherland, and the inhabitants were obliged to observe
this, the first Fast Day, of which there is any record.
October 16th, 1659, Director Alrichs was made very angry
by a statement of two of the Commissioners of the Director
General of New Netherland, that the Fort at the Horekil or
Sikonesse was "apparently built more for private designs
than for the good of the Country."
Alrichs said: "We demand hereby further explanation and
interpretation of these words, for it will not do to blurt out
every thing bad and to nlake honest people suspected by their
Masters and Principals without foundation and reason. * * *
We say we could not do else, but what we have done until now,
¦ nor that we know to have promised the recall of the garrison
from the Horekil, as your Honors say,' but only of a few
men, according to your Honor's advice, who were really
ordered up, but afterwards remained for some reason there."
At a court-martial held in New Amstel November 3d, 1659,
to try one Samuel, a Corporal, who " while very drunk did not
obey the order to go into arrest, because he had beaten his
own wife, whereupon the Lieutenant struck him with his
ratan, Samuel tore the same from his hand, the Lieutenant
then drew his sword and struck him with the flat side of it
and drove him, with the assistance of the Sergeant into the
guardhouse. The Lieutenant said that he abused him
meanv/hile very much."
The Sheriff Van Sweeringen demanded that Samuel be
shot.

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Samuel's wife came to Vice-Director Beekman, " saying
that her husband had been condemned last Wednesday or
the 5th inst. to be banished the Colony for 6 months, but that
as yet he was kept in chains and that now another resolution
had been taken to send him with three men to the Horekil,
about which she was very grieved."
The conditions of the Horekil must have been quite differ
ent from the Lewes of the present day, for banishment tq
Lewes would be considered a reward rather than a punish
ment. In 1660 the aforesaid Samuel was carried away from the
Horekil by Michiel Carman, who got in trouble for the act.
A ferry between Cape May and Lewes was established very
early in the history of the Horekil for we read, July, 1660,
that "the sail-boat or ferry at the Horekil has been cast
ashore and badly damaged; the garrison have sent me word,
(Beekman, at New Amstel) several times and complained
that they are victualled very sparingly."
Word was received by Beekman at New Amstel, 1662, " that
the Horekil was to be abandoned and the City's soldiery
here (Hoorn Kil) to be disbanded."
This did not happen, for the ship St. Jacob,* skipper Peter
Luckassen, which arrived at New Amstel July 28th, 1663, with
about sixty farm laborers and girls, had left "41 souls with
their baggage and farm utensils at the Horekil."
1663. May 12th. Herry Petefar, Englishman, and Jacob
Jansen, Dutch sailor, make a declaration at request of Peter
Alrick, commander of the South River, that without his and
the people's assistance no goods could have been saved from
the bark "King Charles," stranded on April 12th, last, near
Cape Hinlopen. Witness, Jurien Blanck and Michiel Taeleus.
The English having taken New Amsterdam, 1664, the
"ffrygotts, the Guinney, and the William and Nicholas,
and all the souldyers which are not in the Fort" were
ordered to proceed to the Delaware as speedily as possible
to capture the towns, &c. Thus ended the Dutch rule for
some years.
The English granted Mr. Peter Alrichs "liberty to Trade
or Trafficke either by himself, or his Deputy with the
Indyans or any others, in or about Hoare Kills in Delaware
Bay, for Skins, Peltry or what other Commodityes those
parts shall afford."
* Plockhoy came in this ship. See page 34.

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In 16f^ "there was no officer at ye Whore- Kill to keep
the Peace;"
William Douglass was sent to New Castle for trial. It
was charged against him that hehad "behaved himself ill
at ye Whore-Kill." The Court ordered "hee shall bee
Continued in Prison, untill farther Order, but that his Irons
bee taken off. However if hee can give security not to
returne to ye Whore- Kill &c hee may bee Discharg'd."
Very early in the history of Sussex County the inhabit
ants protested against tariff, and the Governor, Sir Francis
Lovelace, and his Council ordered: "Whereas, I Received
a Petition from ye Inhabitants at ye Whorekill in Delaware
Bay wherein is represented unto me ye great Inconvenience
of ye late Imposition of 10 P. Cent upon all furres & peltry
exported from thence. The weh hath no way redounded to
a publique good as was proposed, &c & I have thought fitt
to remitt & abolish ye late ord'' for custumes there October
22. 1670."
William Tom and Peter Alricks wrote Governor Lovelace,
March 9th, 167-^, of the "intention to build a blockhouse 40
foote square wth 4 att every for fflancks in the middle of the
Towne the Fort not being fitt to be repaired and if repaired
of noe defence lying at the extreme entrance of the town
and noe garrison therefore wee beg that wee may libty to
pull itt downe and make use of the tiles bricks and other
materials for the use of o"" new intended fortificacion w* if
wee have noe occasion for, as wee fear wee shall, will be con
venient for a Courthouse notwithstanding."
This fort was destroyed before 1773, as an Act of the
Assembly, for that year, for erecting a bridge over Lewes
Creek, states that the bridge is "to begin at or near the
place where the fort in the said town stood."
Trouble had been brewing between the people of Mary
land and the people of the Hore Kil for some time. It was
the trouble about Lord Baltimore's grant, as to the boundaries
North and East.
A letter from the Hore Kil, April 27th, 1672, signed by Will
Tom, Pieter Alricks, Waif Wharton, Ed. Cantwell, states:
"This morning appeared before us Harmen Cornelius ent
John hyshebon who informe that a certain prson by name
Mr. Jenkins who rane into the Horekill and thus surveyed
severall lands in the bay by p 'tended commission from the
Lord Baltimore threatening the Inhabitants that denyeth

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his power that they shall be sent for into Maryland there to
be punished whether he has commission or noe is uncertayne
these we thought fitt to acquaint yo' hon"" to wayte y''
hotf^- further order."
Richard Perrot, of Virginia, asks for a grant of land on
the Horekil.
" May it plese your Honour
"In May last my selfe with some other Gentlemen of Vergeney
came over to Delieware to see the plase and liking the plase wee
made choise of severall tractes of Land for our Selfes and nabores and
had made bold to have given your Honor A visitt had not one of our
Company falen ill so that wee implied Mr. Walter Wharton ffor to
paten our Land: now may it plese your Honor about four days be
fore I came to seete [settle], the Mareland men Have sarvaed it again
in the Lordes name I much fear it will disharten the Rest of the
gentlemen from cuming vp at the faile and severall more of our nabores
that would cume vp at the fale of the lefe very Honest-men and
good House Keepers they desired me to take them vp sume Land,
which I am doutfuU to doue unless your Honor will bee plesed to
give me permission for it.
"I dout not but to se the plase well seted in tow or three years at
the * * * and a trade from London, the plase is good and helthy
and wanteth nothing but peple I was in good Hopes I should have
had the hapines to have got vp before your Honore left deliware
but my hopes was in vaine I Hope your honor will bee plesed to
honor me with A line or two whoe is youre faithful and obedient
servant unknowne
"From THE Horekil "Richard Perrot.
"June 21. 1672."
This P. S. is added. to the above letter.
"If your Honore plese to grant us all the land to us Vergenianes
that lieth betwene the Horekil and the Mortherkill wee shall take
spedey care fore the seating of it, as may bee expected at so great a
distance when Layed out according to menes familise what good Land
there may bee found in the distance. I know not at present wee Have
A desire to be neare together as the plase will aforde I intend Ver
geney for sum occasione of bisnes and send up my sonn. " R. P.
"These ffor the Honored ffransis Loulis, Esqr. Governor and Cap
tain Generall of new Yorke pr with Care."
At a Council held at Fort James, New York, July 1st, 1672,
among other cases to be tried was that of Daniel Brown who
had been arrested at the Horekil and sent, prisoner, to New
York. The court ordered Daniel to enter into a Recognizance of
;£20 for his good behavior on his return to the Horekil, and
that Daniel was to ask pardon of the Magistrates at the
Horekil on his return.

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At the same court this order was made:
"The Request of ye Magistrates at the Whore-Kill being taken
into Considercon, wherein they desire reperacon of the Damages &
Losses they susteyned by the Privateers the last Winter, they may be
permitted to lay an Imposition upon strong liquo''s.
" It is allowed of & consented unto, and the Magistrates there have
hereby power to levy & receive upon each Anchor of strong liquor's
spent of disposed of amongst them the value of foure Guild''^ in
wamp™, & this to continue for one year only after this shall come to
the said Magistrates hands, untill the Conveniency or Inconveniency
thereof shall better appear."
One Jones with a number of companions from Maryland
attacked the Whorekil and plundered the inhabitants. Word
having been sent to the Governor at New York, Lovelace,
he wrote the following letter to Governor Philip Calvert of
Maryland, August 12th, 1672: —
"Sr. I thought it had been impossible now in these portending
boysterous times, wherein all true hearted Englishmen are buckling
on their Armo^ to vindicate their Hono'' & to assert ye imperial
Interests of his Sacred Majesties Rights and Dominions, that now
(without any just ground either given or prtended) such horrid
Outrages should be committed on his Mat'^^ Leige subjects, under
ye protection of his Royall Highness Authority as was exercized by
one Jones, who w*'' a party as dissolute as himself, took ye paines to
ride to ye Whore Kill, where in Derision and Contempt of the Dukes
Authority bound ye Magistrates, and Inhabitants, despitefuUy treated
them, rifled, and plundered them of their Goods; and when it was
demanded what Authority, hee acted, answered in noe other language
than a Cockt Pistol to his Breast, weh if it had spoke, had forever
silenced him.
"I doe not remember I have heard of a greater Outrage & Riott
committed on his Majesties Subjects in America, but once before in
Maryland. "Sr you cannot but imagine his Royall Highness, will not bee satis
fied w"' those violent proceeding, in weh ye Indignity rebounds on
him; Neither can you but believe. It is as easy an Undertaking for mee
to retaliate the same Affront on Jones his Head and Accomplices as
hee did to those indefensible Inhabitants.
"But I rather chuse to have first a more calme Redress from you,
to whom I now appeale, and from whom may in Justice expect that
Right in ye Castigation of Jones cum Socys, that yo'' Nature and Law
has provided for: Otherwise I must applye myselfe to such other
Remedyes as the Exigence of this Indignity shall perswade mee to.
Thus leaving it to your Consideracion I still remaine
"Yo'' very humble servant "Fr Lovelace.
"Fort James in New York
"Ye 12th day August 1672."
Captain John Carr writes the following letter from New
Castle to Gov. Lovelace: —

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"Sir: — According to your Honors orders we sent those papers to
the Horekil by Mr. Wharton where they found noe reception. I
need not give your Honor the reasons, for your Honor will find them
in the papers inclosed taken by Mr. Wharton, the number of men and
horse that came to the Horekil was about thirty, but they were
sixty halfe way, where meeting- Mr. Parrot goeing to Acamahe and
soe to Virginia and understanding by him there was noe other forces
from your Honor but the Inhabitants of the Horekil thirty horse
was sent back to Maryland, this Mr. Parrot is a gentleman seated
near Horekil by your Honor's patent, the Horekil boat is come heere
with fower of the inhabitants and desiers to take a. tract of land up
the river near your Honors land, they say before they came from
thence Harmanus and Sanders was retumed from St. Maries, who
brings news that in Maryland they are levieing a considerable force
to bring this place &c. to their obedience. "John Carr."
Answer to Carr's letter: — •
"Capt Carr: — The Letf you sent by Express over Land came
safe to my hands w^^" the enclosed Relacion and Papers concerning
the Whore Kill, & the Marylanders forcible possessing themselves of
the Place, as also of the Goods and Estates of some of the Inhabitants
of w'^'' wee had some Rumo''^ before, but did not give much Credit
to it, supposing what was done before to bee the rash Action of some
Private person, not thinking the Authority of Maryland would invade
his Royall Highness Territoryes w* he hath been possest of for near
8 yeares &c. &c. " Yo"" very Loving Friend Fr. Lovelace.
"Forte James in New York
"the 7th day of Octob'' 1672"
Captain Cantwell to Governor Lovelace about the affairs
at the Whorekil: "N. Castle ye 10 of December 1672
"Right Honorabi-^ S^^ : — -Yo^ Hono' writt Mr Aldrichs of my not
writing to yo'' hono'' I had writt to Capt. NichoUs att Large of what
I heard and saw in Maryland.
"I thought Capt. Nicolls would have informed yo'' hono'' of all I
heard so much that my Lorde thus intend for to keepe ye Whore kill.
"I saw Jones procure and seas all Indyan goods or skins att ye
Whorekill and one Smith ye Judge of ye Co't att ye Whorekill tould
me that my Lorde Baltemore gave him order for to drive a 20d naile
in ye touchhole of ye greate gun and seas ye guns and millstones att
ye Whorekill.
"His Commmission was so Large as yo'' hono'' canimagene, when
I came to St. Mary's Jones went to ye Governo and he -writt upon ye
backside of his Comission that he would maintain his Comission.
' ' I tould them that itt was folly for them to strive against yo'^
hono'''^ power and tould them if yo^ hono' gave but order for to
beatt a down all ye servants would come away from them, ye most
part of ye people thus fear that theire servants will run away from
them all ye people will be glade submitt themselves under yo' hono'^

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Government and they plainly say that they will not Resist yo''* honor's
power nor will have noting to doe with what my Lorde has done &c
&c "To Command "Ed Cantwell."
Order for the Administration of the Horekil Precint: —
"At a Council in New York April 14, 1673 It is Ordered, That a
Cominission be sent to ye Officers & Magistrates at Delaware to goe
to ye Whore- Kill, there to keep a Court in his Mat'^s name, & to make
inquiry of all Irregular Proceedings, & to settle the Goverm' and
Officers there as formerly under his Ma*'"^ Obedience, & the Pro
tection of his Royall Highness, for the w'^*' there shall likewise be
sent particular instructions."
The Dutch having retaken New Netherland there was
Council held ^ New York September 12th, 1673, at which
the Deputies from the South River appeared and presented
their credentials.
It was decided that "The court for New Amstel shall have
jurisdiction over the inhabitants of the east and west side of
Christina Kil as far as Boomtieshook" and "The court for
the inhabitants of Hoere Kil, to have provisional jurisdiction
over the people on the east and west side of Cape Hinlopen
and northward to Boomties Hook."
Pieter Alrigs was made Schout and Commander of the
South River of New Netherland.
Appointment of Magistrates for Horekil District: —
"28. 9bre. His Honor the Govemor, has selected, upon the
nomination by the inhabitants of the Horekil, the following persons
to be Magistrates there for the next year:
"Mr. Harmanus Wiltbank
"Sander Maelsteyn
"Doctor Jan Roots (Rhoades)
"Willem Claessen."
The Dutch having ceded New Netherland to the English,
Governor Andross issues an order November 2d, 1674, for
the reinstatement of all officers who were in the English
service before the occupation by the Dutch, " Excepting
Peter Alrick, the Bayliffe, he having proferrd himself to ye
Dutch at their first coming, of his own Motion and acted
very violently (as their cheife Officer) ever since."
Commissioners of the Colonic on the South River to the
Burgomasters of Amsterdam, 1663.
"Your Worships will also please give orders about maintaining
possession of Ciconicing or Whorekil, inasmuch as by the discharge
of the soldiers, it runs the risk of being occupied by the English,

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since it is very fertile and well prepared land, and lies on the sea
at the mouth of the river."
J. Alrichs writing from New Amstel, August 16th, 1659,
to Amsterdam, says:
"A new fortification and settlement were made at the Whore
or Sickoneysincks Kil, which have been daily visited.
"In respect to the 3 persons sent as Councillors, the first hath
asked for and obtained his discharge; the third, who was Commis
sary, is dead, and his place still vacant.
"The second should command at the Sickoneysincks Kil, in order
to establish possession and govemment firmly there."
Letter.
Helmer Wiltbank to Governor Andros; Lord Baltimore
about to renew his claim. Rebellion in Virginia.
"Right Honoble Governeur; — -Yours receaved the 18th of this
Instand month wear in wy understand your great Cear & diUgenth
of us wich my durender to your Honor menny tanks wear in wy doe
inform your Honor that wy ar in good Halt Lickwise thear is good
Hops of success & situatie of this plaets by menny persons both out
of Virginnia & Merryl^nd & heave also reseaved ohn halfe barrel of
powder which youe thet sent by your schaloop & given alsoo menny
tanks to your Honor for your good instruction and schal mack as
good jus af them as possibelly Lays in our pour & Schayl how that
your Honor thet deseir af occasion thet requeir a piloot for your
Honors Schaloop; thear was non keapabele her & your Honors
Schaloop meester thet not much question his gohin well.
Wy doe hereafulger raport from the Commun people in Merry-
landt that the Lord Baltomore thus ar immagine to Heave this pleats
again but wy doe wenset & wy thacht fit to give your Honor notis
af at.Lickewise her is dayly severala persons Cummin out of Virginia
which brings news that the rebellion thus Continue still against thear
gouverneur & gouvermant & Lick to be wors whioh is a great dis-
hartening to all payes & sober meyndeth people. Not else but your
Honors servant to Commaund & pray for your Honors good helt &
success in your gouvermant. "Helms Wiltbank.
" 167f this 26th of February at the Whorekil.
"Har is prsent news out of Accumacke that ther is twoo fregats is
Com in & that the heave brought the Contre to a pays again & mioor
thy my Lord Baltomore heave gott a grant from his Majesty fors is
land & that tha seam scud follow fourtnight after the fregats thet
seth outh.
"These for the right Honoble Gouverneur Ed. Androsz at New
York." At a Special Court held at Horekil, March 19th, 167|-,
Mr. Helm. Wiltbank, Mr. Edwd. Southrin, Capt. Paul Marsh,
Mr. Alex. Molestine, and Mr. John King, Justices, being

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present, John Stevens petitoined for a resurvey of some land he
had purchased from William Willoughby and Robert Dicks.
At a Court held May 14th, 1677, William Planer for con
firmation of title to land on Slater Creeks claimed by Randell
Re veil.
A letter from John Audrey, the Horekil, September 10th,
1677, to Governor Andros:
"My Lord: — I Am At present in A very waake Condishion And
hava not ben out of my hous this siks wakes having And still have a
favar Every Day In as much I cannot goo on hundred yardes from my
hous If it would save, my life.
"Tha holl pepell of tha plas knows it your owner knows tha thing
That I am broute Thether Is nothing Consernin me but It lies be
tween Petar Groondika And docter Smith And AUsoo what I did was
to the best of my knowledg not having and consenting with on of
them mor then the other soo humbelly Craven your owner to Conider
my Condishon I shall Ever Remain your owners most humble servant.
"John Audrey.
"My Lord: — The intent of Mister Smith was to have Com with me
in my boat And had it not ben for Mr. Halmanus Willbank for he
toulld ma ha was intended to Com to tha falls in his own boat which
was the occashun I Left him. be hind me. "John Audrey."
Helmer Wiltbank to Governor Andros.
"Whoorekill Sept. 18. 1677.
"Honorable Sir: Whereas by accidantiall of sum sickness of
body by feavor & ague and Lameness of my one Legg Cannot by no
possibility appear at tha High Court of assize please yor Honor to
pardon maa.
"Have but this onely to say for my sells that up the Relacions of
Peter Groenendike in the matters between tha sd Groanandika &
Henry Smit I apprehend & understood at that time with rast of tha
Jury buth Groenendike afterwards goth Abraham Clement with a
petition that wy migt Recalla our verdict & Groenendike spoocke
himself to mea sum time whit treatning that tha Jury hath given his
monny away & further sayeth that of so bey wy would petition to
tha Court I may have Rehearing this would bee the easiest way and
the least Chardge & so I tocht the Jury may hava him done wrang
not noying & of soo bie tha Court would give rehearing what is that
to the Jury being from thear oath & the -writtens out of thare aknowl-
edge which being to mee understanding to have Rehearing on a Re
examination as being not perfect to Distinguish the Circumstangas
of many English woords or spaaches by which Referr myselfs unto
yor Honor favor, futher acijuainting yor Honor of one Major John
West out of Accumacks in Virginia whom hath writ unto mee about
a Considerable quantity of Land for himselfs & sum partners of him
which Land being Just to the Northward of tha supposed Cabo
Hinlopen separating itself from itselfs from the sd Cape with one
Inlatt and a Craake Comly called by the Indians Assawarnon the

14 some records of SUSSEX COUNTY.
¦which I hava mentioned unto your Honor In my former Lettr that
thay of Merrylandt have made sum certaine survays by thiere
prtended Right, the which sd Land tha sd Major Wast affirmas by his
Lettr to settle Immediately In his R. H. right soe he the sd Major
West may obtaina good Incorredgement and baa protected by yor
Honor hee being a very able prson with a vast Estate to which End
I have answered his lines that what soever previladges & Incorredge
ment might or could be Expected from yor Honor should not bee
wanting therefor of yor Honor pleased to Express any particulars
in such a Concerne to setla the utmost bounds and Limitts of tha
govemment Rafar the same unto yor Honors wisedoma & discretion,
otherwise it is lukly to be settled by them of Merryland these winter
as far as I Can understand.
"One favor shall request of yor Honor that whereas it was your
Honors pleasure the last yeare to depute mee for one of the Magis
trates for these partes which now the time of Limitation thereof
being Expired therefore hereby begg yor Honor may be pleased to
discharge mee by Writ of Ease shall Humbly thank yor Honor for
the same Being but little leamet and weak of apprehension & under
standing of the Lawes; hava no more at prsant to acquaint yor
Honor onaly take leafe to Conclude & Ramaine with all due Lova &
Respect "Your Honrs humble Servant to Command
"Helms. Wiltbank."
Wiltbank and the other Magistrates to Governor Andros
November 13th, 1677. "A petition from Thomas Well-
burne, merchant, In behalfe of himself and partners and
William Anderson of Accomack County Virgima."
These petitioners had had their land surveyed by Cor
nelius Verhoofe; Verhoofe sent the certificates to Captain
Edward Cantwell, General Surveyor, to register and sign.
Cantwell erased the names of the lawful owners of the grants,
Welburn and others, and substituted names of his. Cant-
well's, friends, Henry Streeter and Abraham Clements.
Civil and Military Appointments for Horekil.
November, 1674.
Capt. pauli Mash, Lieut & prsident of the Court;
Mr. Helmanus Wiltbanck, Justice, Sheriffe & Collectr;
Mr. Alexander Molestede, Justice;
Mr. John Kipharen, Justice;
Mr. Otto Wolgast, Justice;
Mr. Daniell Browne under Sheriff & Constable.
1675, June 25.
Mr. John Avery, Lieut, & prsident of the Court;
[ [^ Mr. Edward Southrin, Justice.

civil records. 15
"At a Court held for the Whorekill The llth day of June 1678.
Mr. Helms. Wiltbanck: Concemed
' ' Com : Mr. Henry Smith, Mr. Alex. Molestine, Mr. Edward Southrin,
Mr. John Roades, Presant. Concerned.
"John Roads Pit, Helms Wiltbank Daft.
"By reason of the Death of Mr. John Backstead & Absence of
Capt. Paul Marsh thare was not magistrs for a Court, therefore by
Consent of both parties & the magistrs it is Referred to the next
Genii Assizes at New York for tryall.
"Vera Copia. "Test. CoRNELis Verhoofe Cl. Co. Whorekill. ".
More trouble with Avery. Letter to Governor Andros.
"Whoorekill ya 30th June 1679
"HoNNORBD Sr: — Yor Honnor hath beane pleased to Joyne mee
in Commission with others As a Magistrate for this County, which
I have ever sence bene -both willing and radye to sarve you and my
Countrey to the best of my Judgement and having that Trust reposed
in me I Looke upon myself oblidged to Inform your Honnor of sue
miscariges and misdemeanors as happen or fall out that cannot be
rectified here; And that is the Grose Abusses that hath bane com
mitted by Capt John Avary presedent of this Cort. both relating to
the Trust reposed in him and otherways.
"1st. That whan the rast of the Magistrates could not consent to
doe and determaine things as' he would have it; Contrary to our
Judgement ha have in greate Rage and feury went out of Court Curs
ing and swaring, Calling of tha rast of tha Court ffooles, Knaves and
Rouges; wishing that if ever, he satt amongst us againe, that the
devil might com and fetch him away, and also threeting and prantly
after did strikone of the Magistrates with his Kane, and had he not
bene prevented by the spectatours, raight a dona much damage that
way. ' ' 2 Haa Tooke upon hi'msalf to Marry the widdow Clamant to one
Bryant Rowles, without publiquacation notwithstanding sha was
out aska at least a Month to another man, namly Edward Cocke;
The which when the said Cocke hard that she marryed to another
man said that it would be his death And presently want home fell
sick and in forty eight hours dyed; he left it on his death that her
m.arrying was the cause of his dyeing.
"3d Hee took upon him to grant a Licence to Marry Daniel Browne
to Susan Garland widdow, without any publiquacation, which Mar-
rige was effected, not'mthstanding it is Generally knowne or at Least
the said Daniel confesses that he knows no other but that ha have a.
¦wife living in England.
"4thly One Judith the wife of Thomas Davids being subspected
to have stoole sume goods from severall parsions the goods being
found in har Custidy was held in examination by me and at ffirst she
did Confidently Affirm that she brought the sd. goods out of Mary
Land and that thay ware hur owne Lawfull goods, but' well knowing
that it would ba proved otherwise, did soona Confess that sha did
staala them and from whom, upon hur Confession mada hur * * *

16 some records of SUSSEX COUNTY.
and Commited hur to tha Custidy of the Constable till the next Court
then following; but soon after Capt. Avary sent a noota by hur Hus
band to tha Cunstable requiring him to give hur hur Libierty threetan-
ing both me that had Commited hur and tha Cunstable that did
detaina hur soe that the Cunstable being subprised ¦with fear did
discharge hur out of his Custidy.
" In short he the said Capt. Avary is an Incouriger and upholder of
Dronkingnas Theaft Cursing, swaring, and flighting to tha Affrighting,
Amazing, and Tarifianga of his Majties quiet and peacabla subjects:
Whoes grosa weelkedness and Unhuman conversation, if a timely
stop be not put to it, may justly be expaxtad to bring downe Gods
Heavey Judgment upon this place.
"Sthly. I goeing into the house of Helmanus Wiltbank on the
fifteenth day of this Instant June being the Lords day whare the
said Capt. Avery was drounk, whoe soone after brooke out in a greate
Rage and feurey (without any provocation) Calling me beagerly
Rouge and theefe with many inore reflexting speachess, saying that
he would prove me Rouge and Theefe and that I was not worth one
grot. I did till him that if he would not give me satisfaction for the
Abusse he had Cast upon me that I would sue him, To which hee
replyed, The he would faine see any Magistrate, that would dare to signe
a warrant or sumeance Against him. And that what ha had said he
would not be accountable to any Court, but onely to the Govemor
and that he is above any power here; soe that the other Commis-
oners have Refeused to to signa a sumeance Against him: he Curses
and swares at such A rate, that he ffrights all others from doeinge
any thing in order to bringing him to Justice, &c &c &c
"Your Honnors Obedeant and ffaithful Servant
Luke Wattson.".
" At a Court held for the Whorekill, July 12,1679.
" (Capt John Avery)
"Comrs: Mr. Francis Whitwell, Mr. Alex Molestine, Mr.
John Kipshaven, Mr. Luke Wattson, Mr. John Roades, Mr.
James Wells, Prsent.
"John Richardson petitioner.
"Whereas the petitioner hath made Appeale By the Evi
dence of John Bridgs there unto sworne and Mr. Francis
Whitwell Confirming the same that hee the said petitionr
was by his Tenant Thomas Crompton the first Setler In Build
ing Clearing and manuering the said Land according by a
Certificate Bearing Date July 18, 1676. The said tenant
Silently Departed by which one John Stevens or his order
having taken possession of the said house & Land which said
Clayme and possession taken by said John Stevens, Doth not
as yet Appeare to the Court to bee the said Stevens his Just
Rights &c, "CoRNELis Verhoofe Cl. Co. Whorekill."

civil RECORDS. 17
At a meeting of the Court July 2 Sth, 1679, the above de
cision was reversed and John Stevens was put in possession
of the land. In 1676, August 18, John Richardson and
Thomas Crumpton, of Dorchester County, Maryland, had en
tered into an agreement about a piece of land on the West
side of Delaware Bay called Duck or Duke Creek.
In 1678, Captain Nathaniel Walker, had had a grant of
six hundred and eighty acres at a place called Cedar Neck,
between "Rehobah Bay and the Indyan Inlett to the South
ward." Secretary Matthias Nicolls wrote to Captain Avery, 1679,
to see to it "that Capt. Walker may no longer bee delayed,
about his patent."
The decision of the Court in giving John Stevens posses
sion of lands in dispute does not seem to have satisfied
Stevens, for we find September 10th, 1679, that he had
written to Edmund Cantwell, at New Castle, asking whether
Cantwell have authorized one Thomas Phillips to grant war
rants for land.
Cantwell said that he had not and he did not give John
Richards or Richardson a warrant for more than three
hundred acres of land. Cantwell had only seen Richards
or Richardson once at the house of John Edwardson in
Chaptonke. Richards used both names Richards and Richardson.
John Stevens was living on Thomas Crompton's land
July 7th, 1677.
"Commission to the Justices at ye Whorekill Oct. 8, 1678:
John Avery, ffrancis Whitwell, Alexander Molestein, John
Kippshaven, Luke Wattson, John Roades, James Wells."
October 30th, the Court at Whorekill granted a piece of
land to Walter Dickeson. The land was on St. Jones' Creek.
John Stevens has more trouble, having ejected one John
Glover. Griffith Jones was attorney for Glover and on the twenty-
sixth day of January, 1678, had made a deed for the land
from John Richardson of Dorchester Co. to the said Glover.
Samuel Styles had formerly lived on the place.
The case was tried February 10th, llth, 12th, 16||-.
The pannell of ye Jury: — Mr. Edward Southrin, Samuell
Gray, Otto Wolgart, Helms Wiltbanck, Daniell Browne,
George Young, William Firtcher, John Hackister, Richard
Levick, Charles Johnson, Richard Peaty, Thomas Howard.

18 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
A copy of a land warrant dated July 18th, 1676, and signed
by Thomas PhiUips, Deputy Surveyor, read as follows:—
"Laid out for me John Richardson and James Shackleday & John
Richardson Senor a tract of land &c. , , ..
"The Deposicon of WiUiam Watson aged 34 yeares or there abouts
Sayth yt in ye yeare 1676 Sometime in ye month of August or there-
aboute he came in companey of Jno Richardson to Thomas Philhps his
house wth some others and ye sd Thomas PhilUps Jno Richardson &
others did goe to ye branches of Duck Creeke and there did see a
howse upon a branch side and ye Thomas PhilUps and Jno Richardson
did say yt hee ye sd Jno. Richardson did build ye same &c &c.
"Sworn in open Court December 10, 1679.
"Christopher Jackson aged 30 year. Edward Ryan aged 36 years
and Peter Bawcombe.
"The last one, Bawcombe heard Robert Dick and WilUam Wil
loughby say that they Never would come up to seate their land if they
could have given all ye land in thes parts for ye Plague and trouble of
ye muscitesh and would sell their land to yor Depont for a pr of
shoos apeece." Census For Cedar Creek, 1680.
Robt Hart, 3 in family;
upon Joseph Cowdree plantation, 3 in family;
Mr. Bowman, 2 or 3 in family;
George Collens, on Shackelys plantation;
Jno Curtis, 4 in family;
Jno Richardson, 6 in family;
Thomas Groves, 2 in family;
Thomas Heiffer, 2 in family;
Alexander Ray, 2 in family;
Thomas Williams and John DeShaw, 2 in family.
At a Court held at Horekil, June 7-18, 1680.
Walter Dickson (Dickinson) pit., Barnard Hodges deft.
"Samwell Stiles aged 44 deposed that John Richardson
came with severall other persons to the house, that John
Stevens seated him upon neare Lettie Creeke in the Whoore
kill precents; and demanded him to give the sd Richardson
possession of the howse and Land &c.. Verdict for the
Plaintiff." Luke Watson, John Roades, John Kipphaven, William
Clark, and Otto Wolgart, Magistrates, to Gov. Andros re
lative to a Prison and Court House, Surveys and Settling
of Land.
"HoNORBLE Governor: The commission wee have received And
in obedeance there unto have proceeded &c. whereas there have

CIVIL RECORDS. 19
heatherto bene a neglect in geting A prison here; for want of which
there have bene not long sence a prisoner for debt, whoe was A stranger
made his Escape; which may prove damage either to the County
or Sherife; for the preventing of the Uke for the f utter: we have
ordered A prisson stocks and wheeping post, forth with to be built,
which ¦will cost between three or four thousand pounds of tobacco;
here is also a greate want of a Court house, which will cost five thou
sand pounds of Tobacco; our request is that thee 'will be pleased to
Impower us to make a Tax; to Leavy the same on the Inhabitants;
There was sume Certain Land formerly laid out by Capt Cantwell
for a Towne; which was to be devided into Lots of 60 foot in breadth
and 200 foot in Leingth; and the Land and woods that lye back was
to be common; for food for cattle and firwood, it being in all about
130 Acres of Land; Sence which "time Armainas Wiltbank have got
the said land survayed; but we doe not understand that he have
any pattent for it; hee demands a bushell of winter wheat a yeare
of any person that shall build upon the said Towne lots; which is
soe high a rent that it gives noe Incouragement for any to build; we
should think one-half a of that rent would bae anouffe; but that we
leave to thy ordering and to whom the rent shall be paid; whether
to the duke of York or to Armianas Wiltbank; here is a greate marsh
that lyes at the north west side of the Towne, which if it should be
at any time here after taken up by any perticolar person it would
be a great Inconvenancy to those that doe or shall here after Uve
here; as also the Cape, whare there is good pin Trees for building;
the Land Lettes worth; both which wee desier may Lye in common
for the use of the Towne; It hath bene spoake here as if thee ded
intend as an Ease to the Court to Impower the survayor to grant
warrants to Lay out land to such persons as shall Come to take it
up; But wee being senceable of the 111 Consequence that ¦will attend
that, doe desier that thee would be pleased to forbear giving him
any such power; for our precents is now but small; And he for the
Lucker of geting the more money will lay out such Large tracts of
land for a perticolar person, that might sarve manyi famileys to live
Comfortably upon; theare have been Expearance of the like; As
when Capt. Cantwell had the same power he survayed Three Thou
sand Acres of princable land at prime hook for Henry Smith; And
others of the like nature might be mentioned; And wee have good
cause to resolve for the time to Come to grant less Tracts of Land
to perticolar persons then have been formerly granted; for this County
as it is now divided is not above halfe soe big or Large as St Jones;
nor will not hold haUe so many people; neither is the Land soe gen
erally good as that is; And this being the Anciantest place wee thinke
•with submission might a bane continowad at least Equil with the
others; which if thee please may be redressed in the next commis
sion or sooner, which may be by deviding by Murther Creeke and
soe downe wards; when Capt Avery was in commission he ded pe
tition the Court for three Thousand Acres of Land for three parsons
living in Acomack, which tha court ded grant to be taken up in any
part of these precents that was not allready survayed and taken up;
sence which Cornelous Verhoofe have at the request and procure
ment of the said Captain Avery and one of the three persons of Aco
mack survayed and Laid out the said three Thousand Acres of land

20 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
at prime Hook; most of it being the land that was taken up and
seated by Henry Smith; now, wheather or noe thee ¦will Allow the
said Henry Smith the three Thousand Acres of land by him taken
up and seated; wee doe not in the least dispute; But how ever wee
humbly conceave that no part of it ought to a bene survayed for any
person what soever without a speacell warrant obtayned from thy
Honr; It hath bene too much in use here for sume persons to sail
land before they make any plantation or Settlement thereon Es-
peacally by Capt Avery, who have sold severaU parcells of land; by
which he have gotten greate quantitys of Tobacco; wee would bee
wilUng to have thy positive order as to that Concerne; whether thee
allow of such things or not; Thee were pleased to send a Caske of
powder heather for the service of this place; which powder hath
bene all sold and Imbarseled away by Capt. John Avery to the Ind
ians and others, and if thare should be an occasion for powder here,
there is not any to be got here for money.
" Wee having as in duty bound laid these things before thee, doe
deseir that thee will be please to give such order and direxions therein
as in thy greate wisdome shall seeme most meete; the which wee
shall bee rady to observe and follow &c. "True Servants."
When the above letter was written the County of St. Jones,
now Kent, had been taken from the Whore kil, leaving the
Whore Kil thirty miles long and twelve to fourteen
miles wide.
The Courts were still held at the Whore Kill, now Lewes,
and the people for St. Jones County had to bring all their
legal matters to the above Court. It would be bad enough
now for the people of Kent Co. to have to attend the Court
at Lewes, but it was far worse in that day.
They petitioned the Governor, "Sr. Edmond Andros,
Knt Seigneur of Sausmarez, Lt. and Governor Generall
under his Royal Highness James Duke of York," as follows: —
"Wee whose names are hereunto subscribed living and ambitious
to abide under the sunshine of yor Honrs Govermt Inhabiteinge in
the upland part of the Whorekill County.
"In all humble manner shew unto yor Honor the great graiv ances.
Hazards and perills both by land and water that wee undergoe in goeing
to the Whorekill Court nott onely the distance being to some of us
SO some 60 miles want of Comodacons of man and beast there, butt the
unpassable dangerous waies by reason of perillous Creeks which many
tymes cannot bee past over by man or beast the hazardous large
Marshes and myreous and difficult branches &c.
' ' Yor Honor will be graciously to order authorize &c a Court to be
held in some convenient place in St Jones Creake &c that all persons
Inhabiteinge from the North side of Cedar Creeke to the South side of
Blackbird Creeke be ordered &c and deemed within the Jurisdiction
of the said Court &c &c.

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21

" And wee as in duty bound shall ever pray for Yor Honors health
and happiness That Age may Crowne your Snowy haires with Cesar's
Honors and ¦with Nestor's yeares.

Griff Jones
John GloVear
Robert Porter
Arthur Alstone
Henery Plomer
Robert Millen
WilUam Millen
John Dawson
Henry H. Stevens
John hilard
Richard Griffin
John R. Richeson
Robt. R Pernatry
marke
John Rechardson Jr
A. Alston
ffran. Whitwell
Petter Bawcom

John Walker
Walter M Powel
George Martens
Jafeth N Goesen
Isaac Balsch (?)
Thomas Bolsticke
Simon Frounsen
John Brigs
William Berry Jr
John Lloyd
John C Barrett
his marke
John Barton
Daniel Jones
¦Wm W 

Wm. 
Robt ffrances
Alexander Humphrey
John Brinklo
Gabriel Jonses
Christopher Jecsons
David Margin
Abram brate
Isack Webe
John Webster
Thomas Heffer
Allesxander Raey
Williani Spartes
Thomas Cliford
John Getes
Robert badewel
Richard Louicks
John Cortes
Thomas William
Thomas Grover
Thomas Hill
Jno. Haye

Eauan Dause
John Conely
Ed Prince
John Baswell B his marke Jno. Dishaa
Daniell Amestead Benoni Barnes
E. Pack L. Orema
Robert Johnson
The shipe goeing away wee had nott time to gitt ye rest of there names
butt wee think there may bee about 100 tithabel.
A notice dated June 21st, 1681, was sent from New York to
the Justices, &c., residing in the New Province of Pennsylva
nia, releasing them from their allegiance to the' Duke of York.
An order from New York, dated August 15th, 1681, di
rected the Magistrates at Deale, alias Horekil, Del., to search
for the records, retained by Cornells Verhoofe, the former
clerk. . Verhoofe had been dismissed for various misdemeanors
and he refused to turn over the records to William Clarke
who was appointed to succeed him. By an order dated New
York, November 21st, 1682, the "Magistrates and other
officers att New Castle St Jones Deale als' Whore kill att
Delaware" were notified to. "Submitt and Yeald all due
obedience and Conformity tp the Powers Granted to the
said William Penn."
This separates the three counties from New York and
annexes them to Pennsylvania.
Settled by the Dutch, captured by the Swedes, recaptured
by the Dutch, captured by the English, recaptured by the
Dutch, ceded to the English as a part of New Netherland,

22 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
separated from New York and annexed to Pennsylvania
all in the space of fifty years.
Perhaps the people of Delaware were getting very tired
with the many changes and had quite made up their minds
to run the State or Three Lower Counties, as an independent
body. At a "Councell of the Province of PensUvania, and Terri
tories Thereunto belonging" held at Philadelphia March
10th, 1682, John Vines who had been Sheriff before the
Hore Kil or Deal had changed hands is reappointed "Sherif
of the County of Sussex." The name of the County is changed
to its present title. The members of the Assembly from
Sussex County were William Firtcher, John Kipshaven,
Alexander Molestine, Robert Bracy, Senior Thomas Bracy,
John Hart, John Clowes, Luke Watson and Cornelius Ver
hoofe, &c. There were " 12 Deligates out of each County
with power to act as the Provinciall Councelours & General
Assembly, and it being proposed to the elected members
aforesaid if they were chosen to serve in both those capacities,
they answered they were; That is to say, three of each
Twelve for the Provinciall Councill, and the remaining Nine
of each Twelve to constitute the General Assembly." March
29th, 1683, William Clarke represented Sussex County in
the Council and Luke Watson in the Assembly. There was
an appeal from a decision of the Sussex County Court at
this Council; John Bellamy, plaintiff, and Luke Watson,
defendant. It was about land at Prime Hook bought by defendant
from Captain Henry Smith. It was ordered that " the plain
tiff pay to the defendant for his improvements, &c., adjudge
by three Commissioners appointed by this board, Jno.
Roads, Robt. Brasey and Alexander Draper of the said
County, or any two of them."
As Bellamy had not paid for any part of the improve
ments October 27th, 1683, the Council order "ye said Luke
Watson, do Peacebly Enjoy the sayd Plantation till ye said
John Bellamy hath payd or given sufficient Security to pay
the same."
The Council sent two letters to Kent and Sussex concern
ing the meeting of the General Assembly to be held at New
Castle, May 10th, 1684.
At a Council held at Sussex August 14th, 1684, Luke
Watson and John Bellamy agreed before "ye Govr & Councill

CIVIL RECORDS. 23
as followed" Luke to continue upon the three hundred
acres at Prime Hook, "whereon are his improvements,
together ¦with the 200 acres adjoining thereto * * *
John Bellamy to have 457 Acres as p. Pattent, being for
merly the lands of One Wm Canes, and seated by  •
Prentice." At a meeting of the Council in Philadelphia, September
28th, 1685, Philip Russell was granted a "Lycense" to keep
an Ordinary or Inn at Lewis.
This Inn was located at the South comer of Mulberry or
Knitting St. and Second St. The house is still standing and
is occupied by the widow of the late Charles Marshall. John
Hill was made Sheriff January 9th, 1685, and Henry Bow
man was made Ranger for the County of Sussex. Joshua
Barkstead was appointed "Atturney Genall for ye County
Sussex," April 9th, 1686.
In 1686 Luke Watson was notified by the Assembly "to
forbear to give his attendance until further Order." Luke
had threatened the life of his brother-in-law, Henry Smith,
and the Council thought best to exclude Luke until the mat
ter was looked into.
Henry Bowman came before the Council May 12th, 1686,
and declared that "Luke Watson's Brother-in-law (one
Smith) told him yt the Difference between him & Luke
Watson was ended."
John Roades kept an Ordinary in Sussex County, 1686.
The same year William Clark was elected to serve in Council
for the next three years; Samll Gray, John Vines, Hen Bow
man, Norton Claypoole, Albert Jacobs, Hen Stricher, for the
Assembly. August 5th, 1686, at the Council Room in Philadelphia
Justices Commission "be fortwith drawn to Commissionate
Wm Clarke, Jno. Roads, Tho. Langhorne, Tho. Price, Robt
Clifton, Samll Gray & George Young."
March 31st, 1687, Major William Dyer* presented his
credentials as member of the Council from Sussex County.
"The Councill Expressed their Genii Dissatisfaction and
unwillingness to permitt him, and Desired to Desist, Declare-
ing yt they Could not in Duty and Respect to ye King, nor
with Security to ye Province, take such into ye Councill
who had not discharged the Office of ye Kings Collr of his
* Son of Mary Dyer of Boston.

24 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Customs within this Governmt with faithfulness and a good
Report." John Redwood presented a petition to the Council, May
18th, 1687, asking "for Releef against an Execution Sur
reptitiously obtained against him at ye Sute of Richard
Hogbean at ye County Court of Philadelphia." Council
¦ordered as follows: Redwood was "to give Security to pay
ye Debt in Sussex County, where the Creditor lives, &c.
Therefore this board's Opimon is, that ye Creditor Richd.
Hoggbean's behaviour in this is Litigious and Vexatious."
March 31st, 1688, Luke Watson "Presented himselfe as a
member of Councill, Chosen ye last Election, for ye County of
Sussex, but no Returne being made Could not be admitted."
"The Complaint of ye Major part of ye free-holders
of Sussex County against ye Sheriff, for not returning a
Member they had Chosen to serve in Provll Council," was
read. John Hill presenting "ye Complaint" was Called in, and
answer given him that it "should have a Due Consideration,
and Justice Don to ye County."
"Orded That franc Cornwell, Sheriff of Sussex County,
be Orded to appear before ye Govr and Council ye same day
ye next Genii Assembly is to meet, to answer ye Complaint
above." The minutes of the Assembly for April 10th, 1688, say
"The Returne of ye members for Sussex County was Read
and allowed."
Adam Johnson appealed to the Council February 19th,
168f, for protection against Peter Ludgar. Peter has been
arrested, tried and imprisoned for theft and the Sheriff had
allowed him to be at liberty. "The Sheriff ffrancis Corne-
well to forthwith apprehend the prisoner and keep him in
the Common Gaol or Workhouse of the County."
Francis and William Smith were ordered to be imprisoned,
also, for a debt due Charles Pickering. They complained
"that there was no bed lye on." The Sheriff acquainted
the Board that he might bring in his beds to the prison, and
should have them again when discharged.
November 2d, 1689. The Council sent copies of the proc
lamation declaring William and Mary to be King and Queen
of England.
Thomas Clifton was returned as member of the Provincial
Council 1690, to serve three years. Eight months later

CIVIL RECORDS. 25
(he was elected in March), Thomas "was gon to England"
and they had to have another election.
Let us go back to 1689. The Court sitting at Lewes,
June 5th, of that year, has left us the following record: —
"The Court considering what few inhabitants there is in the town
of Lewes, and being willing to Incurage people to live in the said
Town and to seat and improve the back part of the said Town are
willing to grant Larger Lotts then hath been usually granted, and
for that the clearing the back parts of the said Town, will be cove
nant and benefic all to bring a vew to the front of the said Town,
they do order that whosoever shall take up any back Lotts, shall
not suffer any Tree or Trees to grow thereon to the hight of Twenty
feet, and whosoever plants any frute Trees, or other Trees thereon,
shall not plant them nearer than forty feet asunder, and keep their
Lotts Continually Clean of brush or other wood, and also to keep
the Streets afore their Lotts Clean of brush, and all the trees in the
Streets to be grubed up, the said back Lotts to be four acre Lotts,
with a square in the middle of the Town, for any publick use or uses
that the Court shall think fitting, the pond on the backide of Author
Starr's to be dreaned and remain for Common to Come down the
Valley, the where the Ship is building into the River Lewes, and
that he builds and Clears first shall have the first Lotts next to the
Town." The "Valley" is now Camomile Street, and where the
ship was building is called Shipcarpenter Street.
"A list of Several Receitels of Sundry Deeds Down from a
patent granted by Sir Edmond Andross At New York unto Andrew
Deprea for 400a of land Called Timber Neck Dated the 12th day of
August A. D. 1679 or a breef State of the Title Down from the
afores'd pattent To the Present owner of the said land posser of
the same.
"first Andrew Dupreas Patent of 400 acres of land granted by
Sir Edmond Andross In New York bearing Date the 12 day of Aug
ust Anno Domini 1679.
"2dly Andrew Deprea of the County of Sussox planter did con
vey by his Deed of Sale 400a of land unto John Deprea of the aforesd
Cooper Dated the 13th day of the 12th month CaUed February the
whole Tract 1682.
"31y County Sussox.
"James Askew did Convey by his Deed of Sale a 140a of land unto
John Coe of the Same place a part of Timber Neeck a part of 400a
of the within Tract Dated the 6 day of February 1698.
"Sussex County.
"John Coe Did by his Deed of Sale Convey a 140a of land unto
Joseph niell now part of the within 400a of land Dated the 4 day of
September 1699.
"Edward Nixson of the County afors'd Did Convey by his
Deed of Sale a 140a of land unto Sary CUfton widow of the Town of
lewis & County afors'd part of aforsd Tract of 400a of land Dated
the 20th day of July 1703.

26 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
" And at the Death of Sary CUfton widow of Lewis Town the
aforsd 140 acres of land Decended unto her Son Robert Clifton as
heir at law.
"And whereas Robert CUfton Son of the aforsd widow Deceast
did by his last wiU & Testament bearing Date the 10th day of May
1720 Did order his Executors to SeU the Said land of 140a above s'd
if Need bee who was John Foster & Ann his wife.
"The abovesd John Deprea did leave & bequeath his last ¦will and
Testament the afores'd Tract of 400a of land unto his Two Sons to
wit William & John Deprea dated 1 day of October 1706.
"William Deprea and his mother mary deprea widow & Re-
lockt of John Deprea deceast did Convey by there Deed of Sale 100a
of land part of the abovesd 400a Tract of land unto Richard hinmon
Esquire Dated th Sth day of May 1720.
"C. Richard Hinmon did Convey by his deed of Sale 100a of land
part of the abovesd 400a of land unto Peter marsh the grandfather
of y Said Peter marsh dated the 7th day of August 1722.
' ' John Foster of the aforsd County black Smith and Ann foster
his wife executors of the last will & Testament of Robert Clifton of
the Town of lewis & County afors'd did Covey by their deed of Sale
a 140a of land unto Peter marsh of Rehoboth & County afors'd part
of the aforsd 400a Tract of land dated the 14th day of October 1721.
"County of Sommerset.
"John Deprea of the Province of maryland planter did Convey
by his deed of Sale a 160a of land unto Richard hinmon of the County
of Sussex gentelman part of the Tract of 400a of land afors'd Dated
6th day of August 1735.
"And the afors'd Richard hinmon did by his last will & Testament
bequeath unto his Two grand Sons to wit Hinmon Rhoades & John
Rhoads the aboves'd 160a of land part of the aboves'd 400a of land
dated 13 day of January 1741 and Hinmon Rhoads dying without
Ishu the land feU to his younger brother John Rhoads And John
Rhoads & his wif EUenor Rhoads by their deed of sale Conveys the
aboves'd 160a of land or all the Residue of the afors'd Pattent of
400a of land unto Peter marsh the younger now In the Possition of
the same as by the Deed dated the 7th day of march 1769."
Elon (Ellen) Hazzard's Will, Book D, No. 4, page 387.
Date 9-7-1790, mentions her children Cord, David, James
and John Hazzard, and speaks of her son Hinman Rhoads,
and Grandson John Rhoads, and daughter Margaret Rhoads.
As Elon (Ellen) died the widow of David Hazzard, she
must have been the widow Rhoads when she married Haz
zard. September 23d, 1726.
Complaint Against a Magistrate, 1726.
"The Petition of Alexander MolUston, most humbly sheweth,
"Whereas your Petitioner begs leave to represent to your Honour
a difference that did arise, together with the Judicial Proceedings
thereon, (under the Administracon of Sr William Keith, our late

CIVIL RECORDS. 27
Govem'r) that happened between WilUam TiU, Esq., and your Peti
tioner; the Sum of the Difference, so far as I can impartially remem
ber, is briefly thus :
" First. Your petitioner having a Sute Depending in the County
Court for Sussex, Judgment passed against your Petitioner, Execu
tion immediately by my Antagonist was threatened. William Till,
Esq., o^wing your Petitioner a small Debt on Account, going out of
to^wn. Your Petitioner went to said Till being on horse-back and call
ing him aside, asked him for the Debt, he repUed that if I would
prove my Account he would pay it, and turned about & called to
Simon KoUuck Esq., standing some Distance off, and desired Mr.
KoUuck to answer so much on acct. to your Petitioner, which the
said Mr. KoUuck promised to do.
"WilUam Till further proceeded and asked your Petitioner what
Day of the Month it was, your Petitioner said, the Seventh, then
repUed Mr. Till You must come to me for Licence or I will demolish
your House. Your Petitioner made Answer that he would not go
to the said Till for Licence, but go to his master, then William Till
called yr. Petitioner Rogue and Rascal with other abuses and threat
ened to put- your Petitioner in the Stocks, Your Petitioner bid him
do if he dared, and further said he was neither Rogue nor Rascal
any more than William Till, but was as honest a man as himself and
so esteemed among my Neighbour. Then William Till called the Con
stable standing by, and commanded the Constable to put Your Peti
tioner in the Stocks; the Constable at the first not willing to answer
his command. Then William Till again called the Constable aud,
and said, damn you. Dog, do your office or I will commit you, then
the Constable followed your Petitioner as he was going home, and
put your Petitioner in the Stocks, who there remained during the
pleasure of the said William Till. Which Punishment together ¦with
the Infamy thereof, yr Petitioner (with humble Submission) doth
conceive would have been a sufficient Atonement for such an offence,
considering the cause thereof did arise from a Difference in their
own private Affair; altho' whatever words might fall or escape from
your Petitioners Lips, was caused by the rash Expressions and threat
ening Words of the said Williani Till, with out any Design or Affront
to the person of the said Till, or the Commission that he bears, or
any Disregard or Contempt in the least to ye Authority of our Sover
eign Lord the King. But yet the Punishment of your Petitioner
for the aforesaid Offence did not cease there; but in a short time
afterwards the said WilUam Till came into Town and bound over
your Petitioner by Recognizance to his good Behavior, without the
Concurrence of any other Justice of the Peace, and when I demanded
a copy of the said Recognizance, put it in his pocket, refusing either
a Sight or a copy of it, — and then Your Petitioner desired of the said
William Till a Licence, but he would not give it to your Petitioner.
"2d. And then contrary to an Act of Assembly of this Govern
ment, made against such as shall speak in Derogation of Courts,
write or speak slightingly of any Magistrate in the duty of his office,
which provides that such Offendors shall be fined Fifty Shillings;
On which said Act of Assembly, afterwards (To Wit) on the 3d Day
of November, in the Year of our Lord 1724, at a Court of Quarter
Sessions of our Lord the King, held at Lewis Town, before the Jus-

28 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
tices of our Lord the King, an Information was exhibited in the said
Term by Francis Allen especially appointed by the Justices aforesaid
for that purpose to prosecute for our Lord the King, as by a Copy,
of the said Information duly certified may appear, On which Infor
mation it was so far proceeded, that your Petitioner was forced to
plead thereto, and was destitute of Council, and could not get a Lawyer
or Council to speak in your Petitioner's Behalf, and also threatened
that if an Attorney should presume to appear in Behalf of your Pe
titioner he should be thrown over the Barr; whereon a verdict of 12
Men did pass against your Petitioner and by the Justices aforesaid
was fined in the sum of Twenty Pounds; and your Petitioner still
being bound afresh finding good security for his Good Behavior,
And tho' then your Petitioner for the aforesaid Time was not imme
diately committed to close prison, yet was desired by the sheriff not
to go any great distance out of the County, but first acquaint him
with it, and in this Circumstance yr Petitioner remained for the Space
of about Nine Months, and then the aforesaid fine was levied by
Execution on the House that yr Petitioner lived in; (As by a Tran
script of the Records of the proceedings thereof may also appear)
to the most grievious Hurt and Damage of yr. Petitioner;- Contrary to
the aforesaid Act of Assembly, Your Petitioner was forced to plead to
an Information illegally exhibited, and for an Offence which requires
no such Proceeding, being not an Offence against the Government,
but only a few Words in Passion, for which the Law makes another
Provision by binding the Party to his good Behavior. So that yr.
Petitioner was utterly deprived of his then calling and ever since
in that capacity disabled in getting of his and his Family's Bread.
And yr. Petitioner doth further beg your Honour's patience, to lay
before your Honours another Grievience of yr. Petitioners which is
thus: On the first Day of January, in the year 1724, in the absence
of yr. Petitioner, the aforesaid William Till (by a pretext of a purchase
which he said he made of three Bushels of. Salt from one Abraham
Depister, loged in your Petitioners Custody, and promised by ye
Petitioners Wife to be delivered to the said WilUam Till,) did obtain
a warrant from Samuel Rowland Esq., one of his Majesty's Justices
of the Peace for the County of Sussex aforesaid, By Virtue of said
Warrant yr Petitioners Wife was brought before the said Samuel
Rowland to answer the Premises, and Judgment was obtained against
yr. Petitioners Wife without any Proof, altho' your Petitioners Wife
offered to swear, and bring Evidence to prove, that she had not one
Bushel of Salt of the said Abraham Depister's in her Custody; Yet
notwithstanding, the Evidence was denyed and rejected and Execu
tion granted, by Virtue whereof the Constable, -with several raised
Men, in his Majestys Name, were ordered (with audible voice) to
break open the doors of Your Petitioners House; on the hearing of
this, your Petitioners family opened the Doors, and the Constable
with the raised Men aforesaid, opened the CeUar Door, after that he
was forewarned, and there did bear away three Bushels of Salt, with
four & Six Pence of Yr. Petitioners Goods for the said WilUam TiU
was extorted and taken away from yr. Petitioners Wife, When in
Truth and in Fact, no such Salt was lodged in yr. Petitioners Cus
tody on that Account, nor did yr. Petitioners wife make any such
Promise.

CIVIL RECORDS. 29
"And now since your Honours happy Arrival to this Goverment
yr. Petitioner made application to the Court (for a Recommendation
to yr. Honour in order to obtain a Licence from your Honour) which
hapned in the absence of William Till Esq., the Court would not
grant the aforesaid favor ¦without the Concurrence of William Till,
the said Justices producing this Reason, that they were certainly
informed by William Till that the sd William Till did affirm to the
Court aforesaid that he had received particular Instructions from
yr. Honour that if I did not make my Application to the sd William
Till and get him to sign my Recommendation that yr. Honour had
promised him that yr. Petitioner never should have any Licence;
Altho' his Majestys Justices did say they had nothing to alledge
against me.
"And tho' I have not enumerated all the Calamitys and Hard
ships that yr. Petitioner has sustained and laboured under in the
course of the above said Proceeding, yr. Petitioner fearing to be too
tedious, and that I have already trespassed on yr. Honours Patience,
shall leave it. And humbly desire yr. Honour would be graciously
pleased to take these things into yr. Honours Consideration & give
me some ReUef, as yr. Honour in yr. Wisdom shall judge meet. And
yr. Petitioner as in Duty bound Shall ever pray, &c.
"Alexander MoLSTON.'i
Civil and Military Appointments for Horekil.
November, 1674.
November, Capt. Paul! Mash, Lieut, and president of the
Court. Mr. Helmanus Wiltbank, Justice, Sheriffe & Collector.
Mr. Alexander Mosestede, Justice.
Mr. John Kipharen, Justice.
Mr. Otto Wolgast, Justice.
Mr. Daniel Browne, under-Sheriffe & Constable.
1675, June 25th,
Mr. John Avery, Lieut, and president of the Court.
Mr. Edward Southrin, Justice.
Mr. Alexander Molestede, Justice wish non abler.
Mr. John Kiphaven, Justice, well to take.
Mr. Otto Wolgast, Justice good ordinary, planter.
Mr. Daniel Browne, under-Sheriffe and Constable.
Cornells Verhoofe, Clerke Deputy Survr. & Collectr.
167f , January 4th, Mr. Daniel Browne being Discharged of
the Constables office and Simon paling Ellected. In the
sd office.
Dito: Jury of Inquest as followeth: — Hermanus Wiltbank,
foreman; Abraham Clement, petit; John CoUison ; William
Prentice, Simon Paling, Robert Murdick

30 some records of SUSSEX county.
List of the names of persons in Horekil: — Henry Smith,
John Avery, Edward Southrin, John King, Pauell Mash,
Sander Mollesten, Hermanes Wildbank, Thomas Phillips.
In 1670, January 12th, James Mills purchased a neck of
land from the English Commissioners by consent of the Gov
ernor at New York. It is described as " Lyeing to the South
ward of ye Towne at ye whorekill in Delaware Bay."
There was a Council held in Fort James, New York, May
17th, 1672, to consider the pretended claim of Lord Baltimore
to the Whorekill.
The first Court was established at the Hoour Kil in 1673.
"And whereas it is necessary for the maintenance of good
order, police, and so forth, that the inhabitants of the South
river be provided with some courts of justice, we have
therefore deemed it necessary to order and instruct the in
habitants of said river to nominate by plurality of votes,
for each court, eight persons as Magistrates whose jurisdic
tion shall provisionally extend as follows :
" One Court of Justice for New Amstel &c One Court of
Justice for the inhabitants of Upland &c.
"One Court of Justice for the inhabitants of the Whore
kil, to which shall provisionally resort, the inhabitants both
on the East and West sides of Cape Hinloopen, unto Boom-
ties Hook."
The Governor selected as Magistrates, November 28th,
1673, Mr. Harmanus Wiltbanck, Sander Maelsteyn, Doctor
John Roots, William Claesen. These same magistrates
were ordered to send " 2 millstones lying idle in the Whorekil
which heretofore belonged to the city's colonic on South
river" to New Amstel " as the garrison at New Amstel hath
need of them."
Letter from Halmanius Wiltbank to Governor Andros,
Lord Baltimore about to renew his claim for the Hore Kil,
and a rebellion in Virginia.
"Richt Honoble Gouverneur: — Yours receaved the 18th of this
Instand month wear in wy understand your great Cear & diligenth of
us wich wy durender to your Honor manny tanks wear in wy doe
inform your Honor that wy are in good Helt Lickewise thear is good
Hops of success & situatie of this plaets by menny persons both out
of Virginnia & Merryland & heaue alsso reseaved ohn halfe barrel
of powder which youe thet sent by your schaloop & given alsso menny
tanks to Your Honor ffor your good instruction and schal mack as
good jus af them as possibelly Lays in our pour & Schal how that
Your Honor thet deseir af occasion thet requeir a piloot for your

civil records. 31
Honors Schaloop; thear was non keapabele her & Your Honors
Schaloop meester thet not much question his gohin well
"Wy doe hereafulger raport from the Commun people in Merry
landt that the Lord Baltomore thus are iminagine to Heave this plaets
again but wy doe wenset & wy thacht fit to give your Honor notis
af at "Lickewise her is dayly severale persons Commin out Virginia
which brings news that the rebellion thus Continue still against theare
Gouverneur & gouverment & Lick to be wors which is a great dis-
hartening to all payes & sober meyndeth people
"Not else but your Honors servant to Commaund & pray for
your Honors good helt & success in your gouverment
"167f this 26th of February at the Whorekil "Helms Wiltbanck
"Her is prsent news out of Accumache that ther is twoo fregats
is Com in & that the heave brought the Contre to a pays again &
moor that my Lord Baltomore heave gott a grant from his Mastre
fors is land & that the seam scud follow fourtnight after the fregats
thet seth outh
"These for the right Honoble Gouverneur Ed. Androsz at New
York. "
It is to be hoped that the Governor was not a profane man.
In another letter dated Whoorekil, September 18th, 1677,
from Halmanus Wiltbank to "Major Edmond Andros,"
he speaks of being too unwell to appear at the meeting of
the High Court, he has fever and is lame in one leg. There
was a case before the jury about Peter Groenendick and Henry
Smit. The suit went against Groendick and he wanted
Judge Wiltbank to have a rehearing of the case.
Wiltbank speaks of not being "perfect to Distinguish the
Circumstanges of many English woords or speaches by which
Referr myself unto Yor Honors fauor."
John 'West of Accomack County, Virginia, had written
Wiltbank about getting a quantity of land for himself and
"sum partners," "which Land being Just to the Northward
of the supposed Cabo Hinlopen seperating itself from itself
from the sd Cape with one Inlett & a Creeke Comly called
by the Indians Assawarnon, &c."
November 13th, 1677, Helm. Wiltbank, Edward Southrin
and Alexander Molestine send a complaint and petition to
Sr. Edmund Andros, charging Captain. Ed. Cantwell, Sur
veyor, with erasing the names of Thomas Wellburne and his
partners and the name of William Anderson from certificates
for lands surveyed by Cornelius Verhoofe.
Thomas Wellburne was a merchant; and all the parties
petitioning were from Accomac County, Va Cantwell erased

32 SOME records of SUSSEX COUNTY.
the names of Wellburne and partners and wrote his own
name in place of erasure together with Henry Streeter and
Abraham Clements. In place of WilHam Anderson's name
he put the names of Samuel Styles and Robert Anderson.
Wellburne had named his tract Welburne's Wilderness, and
Anderson called his place Anderson's Delight.
Commission of Captain John Avery to be Justice at Hore
kil, Del.
"Sr Edmund Andross Kt. &c: By vertue of his Maties Lettr
Patients & the Commission and Authority unto mee, given by his
RoyaU Highness, I doe hereby in his Maties Name Constitute, appoint
and Authorize you John Avery, Francis Whitwell, Alexander Mole
stine, John Kiphaven, Luke Wattson, John Roades and James Wells,
to be Justices of the Peace at the Whore-Kill and Dependency in
Delaware Bay, and any foure of you to be a Cort of Judicature, and
In Case of Sicknesse absence or Otherwise of the first &c. the next in
Commission to preside Giveing & Granting unto you and every of you
full power to act in sd Employmt according to Law Regulacon and
former practice, of which all persons concerned are to Take Notice
& give you the due respect & Obedience belonging to yor Places in
Discharging yor Dutyes. This Commission to bee of force for the
Space of one yeare after the date hereof and takeing Yor Oathes and
Places for the Same or till farther Order. Given under my hand &
Seale of the Province in New Yorke, this Sth of Octobr in the 30th
yeare of his Maties name Annoq Domini 1678.
"Examined by mee " E. Andross.
"Matthias Nicolls Secry."
Henry Smith declares "That the time that Helmanus Wilt
bank was questioned for Treason was when the Whorekill was
under Maryland. The persons that accused him were Dr.
John Roades and William Prentice. The accusacon was
made to Mr. Francis Jenkins a Justice of peace in Maryland
who committed him to prison for the space of about a week
& as is reported hee was cleared by the sd. Jenkins by giving
him a Bribe.
"That afterwards the sd. Jenkins was questioned for tak
ing a bribe to cleare sd. Wiltbank and taken into Custody as
a prisonr by order of Dr. Roades on that acct., but in
few days was releas't; Whereupon Dr. Roades came to the
above Mr. Smith complaining of the Fact, but he having
newly had his Writt of Ease directed him to goe to my Lords
to St. Maryes which he did accordingly, but what the Issue
of it was there, hee knowes not.
" As to the discourse of Edwd Southrins conversacon with
the devill, Hee knowes nothing but what hee & divers others

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have heard from his own Mouth, talking often extrava
gantly in that nature.
" As to Cor: Verhoofes being guilty of keeping false Records ;
The same hee saith hath beene proved in Cort."
Captain Nathaniel Walker, formerly from Boston, lately
from Virginia, Eastern Shore, was granted land in Cedar
Neck on Rehoboth Bay, 1679.
"Horekil ye Uth, 3d mo called May 1679.
"Governor Andros: — Since thee ware pleased when I was at
Yorke to aske me if there was anything I knew that related to this
place for thee to settle or order doth Imbolden me to Lay one thing
before thee, which I observe to bee a greavance and that which does
prevent the better seating of this County, and that is thay that have
land here are not at any Certainty what they must doe for survaying
itt : The planters that come out of Maryland are and have been in an
expectacion that they should pay no more then is paid for survaying
there &c &c "Wm Clark."
William, we see, was a Quaker.
1679, May 19th, Governor Nicolls, at New York, appointed
John Vine to be Sheriff of the Horekill.
William Penn continued him in office.
Magistrates at ye Whorekil Oct. 8, 1678: John Avery,
ffrancis Whitwell, Alexander Molestein, John Kippshaven,
Luke Wattson, John Roades, James Wells.
"Court held at the Whorekil 10, 11, & 12th Dayes of Feb
ruary Ao. 167.^^5-.
"John Richards or Richardson, pit., John Stevens, Deft.
Trespass & Ejectant.
"Jury: Mr. Edward Southrin, Samuell Gray, Otto Wol
gast, Helms. Wiltbanck, George Young, Daniell Browne, Will
iam Firtcher, John Hackister, Richard Levick, Charles
Johnson, Richard Peaty, Thomas Howard, Cornelius Ver-
hoof, Clk."
John Richardson was the son of John Richardson, Senr.,
of Dorchester County, Maryland.
John Richardson and James Shackleday had taken up
land on Duck Creek.
Thomas Crompton was from Dorchester County, also.
1680. Census of the responsible housekeepers & their
families residing in Muther Creek, Cedar Creek, &c.
In Cedar Creek:
Robt Hart  3 in family
¦Upon Joseph Cowdree plantation  3 " " '
Mr. Bowman  2 or 3 "

34 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
George Collins, on Shackerly's plantation
Jno. Curtis  4 in family.
Jno. Richardson  6
Thomas Groves  2
Thomas Heiffer  2
Alexander Ray  2
Thomas Williams and John De Shaw  2
Contract for the Conveyance of Mennonists to the Dela
ware River. See pages 285-288: — ¦
"Burgomasters and Regents of the City of Amsterdam.
"Whereas we remain, at all times, disposed to advance this city's
Colonic in New Netherland, therefore have we, with the knowledge
and consent of the XXXVI. Councillors, resolved to enter into tha
following agreement to that end with Pieter Cornelisz Plockhoy,
of Zieriksee, viz. He, Pieter Cornelisz Plockhoy, undertakes to
present to us, as soon as possible, XXIIII. men, who, with him,
make a Society of XXV persons, shall bind themselves to depart
by the first sailing ship or ships to the aforesaid city's Colonic to
reside there and to work at the cultivation of the land, fishing, handi
craft, etc. and to be as diligent as possible not only to the end that
they should live properly by such labor, but that provision may
thereby be made for other coming persons and famiUes.
"Therefore the aforesaid Society of XXV. male persons, whether
the same be more or less, according as they may increase or diminish,
shall, for the whole, and, moreover, each member of said society for
himself individually, have the privilege of selecting, taking up and
appropriating as much land, the property of no other person, whether
in the Whorekil or in any other part of the district of this Colome
wherever it may lie, as they shall be willing and able to cultivate
and pasture.
"Which lands, both divided and undivided, the aforesaid Society
and Colonists respectfully shall occupy in full property, to do there
with as to them shall seem good.
"And the aforesaid Colonists, for the peace, union and welfare
of their Society, such rules and orders shall be empowered to e act
as they shall think proper, provided, nevertheless, that each person
who may consider himself wronged shall be at liberty to appeal to
the Magistrate there or here.
"The aforesaid Society, and each member thereof in particular,
shall, for their further encouragement, be granted freedom from
Tenths and all other imports, howsoever they be named, for the
term of XX years.
"And there shall be paid, likewise, to each of the aforesaid 2S
persons, by form of a loan, a sum of one hundred guilders to pro^vide
himself therefrom with necessaries according to pleasure, on con
dition that such sum is understood to include his passage money
only, and not those of his wife and children, who shall be conveyed
over at the expense of this city, conformably to the printed Con
ditions.

CIVIL RECORDS. 35
"Therefore the aforesaid XXV Colonists promise and bind them
selves, in solidum, the one for the other, to repay the aforesaid 2,500
guilders, in order to return hither, he shaU be at libei-ty to do so, on
condition of leaving to the Society the undivided land, cattle and
all other common property, and taking with him only his own par
ticular goods, so that the repayment may be effected by the re
maining Colonists.
"Therefore the passage money of such Colonist and family as
have gone away shaU be paid by the Society out of the common
stock in return for his contributed labor.
"And if any person will go over, or make the voyage at his own
expense and yet wish to save or even sell his share in the common
fund, he shaU be at liberty to do so, on condition that he previously
put one in his place or sell to such a one as the Society respectively
shall approve of, in order to help to have a strict eye over the com
mon labor and other things besides.
"The aforesaid Society and the individual members thereof re
maining further bound to observe, in all other respects, the afore
said printed articles. In Uke manner, also, the explanation of what
ever should herein be found to demand further interpretation re
mains reserved unto the Burgomasters of this State.
"In testimony whereof we, the Burgomasters and Regents afore
said, the seal of this city affixed to these presents the 9th of June
A° 1662 "Signed Wigbolt Slicher."
"Having a seal impressed in Green Wax.
At a meeting of the Council September 25th, 1688.
"Margaret ffisher, of ye County of Sussex, Complayning that shee
having appealed from ye Judgement of ye County Court of Sussex,
where shee had Indicted one John Barker of ye said County, for robing
her and her son Thomas ffisher of three head of Cattle, and that shee
was Come up according to her Security Given, to have it reheard in
ye Provll Court, but ye Court not sitting, nor ye said Barker appear
ing in Philadelphia, she very much feared y* Said Barker would, be
fore ye next Provll Court, make away with ye said Cattle
"Ordered that ye Secretary Send to ye Justices of Sussex County, in
behalfe of Widdow ffisher, yt they doe her what right ye Law will al
low to Secure the Cattle or the value, till it be reheard next Provll
Court, in Regard there were no Court at this time."
At a meeting of the Council Philadelphia Feb. 26, 168|-.
",The Goverr not satisfied with ye behaviour of ye high Sheriffe of
ye County of Sussex, proposed some other might be named by some
of ye members present, ffor as much as himselfe was wholly a
stranger there whereupon Wm. Rodeney was nominated by Wm.
Clark, and Recommended by Griff Jones & Wm. Darrall, as the
ffitest person they Could think off ffor ye present."
William Rodney had returned to Kent County, May 15th,
1693, and "had the oaths and Test, and oath of Clarke of
the County of Kent, administered to him."

36 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
List of persons, old and young, living at the Hore Kil, Del,,
May 8, 1671.
Helmanus Frederick Wiltbank, his wife, two sons and a
man servant;
Alexander Moelsteen, his wife, two sons, and a man servant ;
Otto Wolgast, his wife, one son, and a man servant;
Willem Klassen with two daughters and a child ;
Jan Kipshaven, his wife and daughter;
James Weedon, his wife, one daughter, one son and four
servants ;
John Rods, his wife and five children, three sons and two
daughters ;
Daniel Breen, his wife and his partner, John CoUeson;
Jan Michiels, Anthony Pieters, Abraham Pieters, Pieter
Smith, Pieter Gronedick, Anthony Sander, Herman Cor-
nelisson, Herman Droochestraeder ;
There are on Capt. Martyn Cregiers sloop " Bedfort " five
persons.
On small boat of Pieter Alrichs from New Castle two persons.
Edward Southrin was also accused with having conversed
with the Devil. Henry Smith stated that "Hee (Smith)
knowes nothing but what hee and divers others have heard
from his (Southrin's) owne mouth, talking often extrava
gantly in that nature."
Cornells Verhoofe was proven guilty keeping false Records.
William Clark, a Quaker, lived in the Whorekill. He wrote
a letter to Governor Andros dated: —
"Whorekill ye Uth 1° called May 1679
"Governor Andros: — Since thee ware pleased when I was at
York to Ask me if there was anything I knew that related to this
place for thee to settel or order doth Imbolden me to Lay one thing
before thee, which I observe to bee a greavance and that which does
prevent the better seating of this County, and that is thay that have
land here are not at any Certainty what thay must doe for the sur
vaying itt; The planters that come out of Maryland are and have
bene in an expectacion that thay should pay no more then is paid
for surveying there, which is one hundred pounds of Tobacco, for the
first hundred acres, and fifty pounds for the second hundred Acres,
twenty five pounds for every hundred Acres after to thousand Acres;
soe that the survaying of one thousand Acres comes to but 3S0
pounds. "But insteade thereof some have paid here Two Thousand pounds
of Tobacco for survaying one thousand Acres &c., &c."
The following letter was sent by Governor Andros to the
Magistrate of the Whorekill:

CIVIL RECORDS. 37
"In the matter between Helmanus Wiltbanck & Cornelus Johnson
Concerning the which the Court have certified their Report The same
is to be allowed by order of the Governour & to be confirmed to the
sd Halmanus Wiltbanck : In answer to the peticon of Cornelys Ver
hoofe to your Court, about his being Confirmed Clarke, about a
Regulation of Fees there, the which is Certifyde to be granted by sd
Court: Upon their Recommendation there of to the Governor, the
same is allowed by him, & that the fees of Extraordinary Courts bee
Ascertained, & all fees (as in other places) to be collected in the
nature & as by execution : In answer to a former Request from the sd
Cor. Verhoofe ; upon the Courts choice and Recommendation of him
to bee surveyor at the Whore kill, the Go ; orders him to bee con
firmed till further order ; Upon a peticon of John Kipphaven to his
honour the Go.; for a piece of wast land neare some other land which
hee hath purchased, "being his only passage into the wood. The
Governour hath granted the same & to bee Surveyed in order to a
patent, your Certificate whereof will be Requested; Upon an other
peticon to his honour from John Vine that he may officiate as Sheriffe
at the Whore kill & precints, The Go: returned the Following answer:
Upon Security & Courts Choice allowed & confirmed for the yeare as
the Court is; Upon a Letter or Addresse of Wm. Clarke from your
place to the Governour concerning the uncertainty of the Surveyors
Fees in sd parts. Its his honour's order that the price of surveys bee
at the Whore Kill &c as in Virginia & Mary Land, -money or value;
There is yet one thing I have in Charge to acquaint you from his
honour which is an unadvised Act of Mr. Guilaine Verplank one of
the magistrates of this city, in taking an oath here of William Tayler
the pretended Surveyor, concerning Severall Fees by him claymed
for Surveying the Whore kill, the which likewise sd to bee demanded
by Capt. Cantwell that employed him &c. &c.
"New York June 6, 1679."
Mr. Alexander Molestede, Justice, wish non abler.
, Mr. John Kiphaven, Justice, well to take.
Mr. Otto Wolgast, Justice, good ordinary planter.
Mr. Daniell Browne, under Sheriffe and Constable.
Cornells Verhoofe, Clerke Deputy Survr. & Collectr.
167-1, January 4th.
Mr. Daniell Browne bing Discharged of the Constables
office & Simon paling Ellected. In the sd office Dito: Jury
of Inquest as followeth: Hermanus Wiltbanck, foreman;
Abraham Clement, petit; John CoUissen, William Prentice,
Simon Paling, Robert Murdick.
A letter to the Magistrate at the Horekil from New York:
"By Informacon from Mr. Peter Groenendyke (the bearer hereof)
to the Councell, That a certaine piece of Land granted to Wm Plainer,
whereof he was in possession twelve months, was by misinformacon or
mistake afterward given & granted by patent to Randall Revell, -who
neither sought after nor ever had pretence to the same. Concerning

38 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
the weh no order being left his honor. It will be convenient to Let the
matter rest as it is untill his Return, and in meane time Wm Playner
not to bee dispossest, This I give you as the opinion of the Councell,
being "Gent, Yor humble servt
"M. N
" (Secretary Nicolls)."
One John HiUyard petitioned Sir Edmond Andros about
some land at the Whorekill, July 30th, 1678. He says:
The humble petition of John HiUyard Humbley sheweth that
wheare as youre pettr obtained a warrant of ye worshipfull Courte
of ye Whorekil for eight hundred acceres of Land in the presinks of
Dellayway Bay wheare upon youre peeticoner sould his Land & Cat-
tiU at a verey under rate by Reason of ye greate distance I Uved from
youre honners goverment & in October last I adventured with three
of my family in a verrey small boat through ye mane sea & come to
ye Whorekill.
"John not finding a surveyor and hearing that there was plenty
of land at Duck Creek, set out for that place arriving there Decem
ber 24."
He was not very fortunate there in obtaining land. A
friend of Hillyard's, George Merten, asked for a grant ad
joining the said Hillyard's land at the date above and was
as unsuccessful, as he found one Whitwell had a patent for
the same.
The old times, in colonial days, were not better than these
times, as is very evident to one looking over the records
of the Courts. The following petition of Edward Southrin
to Gov. Andros about John Avery shows that there were
some very lawless people living in Lewes in the seventeenth
century. Southrin says: —
Whereas it was your Honors good pleasire to put and Consigne
mee though a person unworthy of soe high a Calling to bee a magis
trate at the Whorekilles in which office and Calling I have Indeav-
oored by the help of God to so Discharge my Concience before God
and man to the best of my skill and Knowledge without favor or
Affection to any prson and soe Doeing I have Received many Abusess
both from Mr. John Avery and Mr. Henry Smith and for noe other
cause nor reason as I know off but for doeing my ofiice which I humbly
conseave to bee my duty to doe when Lawfull called there to by any
of his magesties subjects and not to be called Roague & beggerly
Roague with many such like abusess Speaches saieing Sarra you
pettyfuU Lousy Raskell lett mee know you Ever grant any attachmt
or warrants againe and you had better be hanged and if the Governor
Doth Lett such pettifull Raskels to bee in comission I will not sitt
for I hold it beneath mee to sitt with such a pettyfuU fellow as thou
art it is not onely mee but others of the Comission whom they will
not be Conformable to his unreasonable will for Mr. John Kipp-
hauen because hee would not Draw him a Bottell of Rom for an Indian,

CIVIL RECORDS. 39
hee had hired on the Sabbath Day in the like termes and for noe other
Cause that I know of Unreasonably abused by Mr. John Avery.
And as for Mr. Henry Smith his abuses to the Court and the book
of Lawes are not Inferior to the Rest for if wee doe act any thing
Contrary against Mr, Smith his will then wee are called Roagues and
a Confedeadrate with Roagues and with other threatening words
which as I Humbly Conseave not to be omitted therefore thought
it my Duty to inform yor Honor with it for if I Issue forth a Sum
mons or a warrent In his magisties name to warren in any prsons
who are Liveing in Mr. Smith his howse Either the warrant is not
Excecuted or if Excecuted not obeyed for hee Doth prtend They are
his Servants and not to answer noe warrant or Summons without
his Leave but I humbly Conseave though they where Mr. Smith's
his Servants which I know not such thing for to my knowledg they
were both freeman not long since yet they where as Lyable to his
Ma*'"==^ Lawes as Mr. Smith or any other prson if they bee good Sub
jects this being part of the Irregular proceedings I humble beseech
yor Honor to give mee the patient prsell hearing hereof for should
I take a penman to writt and yor Honors Eares to heare an Like yor
Honor I send alle the proceedings that I have done in my office and
place which I hope yor Honor -will pruse and find whether I have
deserved these abuses or no and wholy Rely upon yor Honors good
pleasure Either to Justifie mee or Condem mee as yor Honors wise
dom shall think fitt, Soe hoping yor Honor in yor good time will
rectifie Both these and all others misdemeanours by whosoever Com
mitted one thing I humbly begg it of yor Honor nott that I am worthy
to give advice, but onely begg it of yor Honor Both for the good of
the people and the good of the place that yor Honor will bee pleased
to Constitute sum wise Discreet sober minded Gentleman that may
lead the people into obedience for the safety of a King or Chief gover
nor Consistes in obedient people, for hee that knoweth not how to
obeye neither knowes how to Command for which cause I humbly
beseech yor Honor to make choyse of a Cheife Commander according
to yor Honors Discretion for this partes and that yor Honor will
bee pleased to discharge mee from this and all other offices of trust
which is the Humble Request of yor Honors servant to Command,
soe hoping &c. . "Edward Southrin.
"From the Whorekill,
"Sept. 18, 1678."
Avery seems to have been a turbulent fellow and a dis
turber of the peace, yet through some influence, we find
Governor Andros issuing a commission to Captain John Avery
to be Justice at the Whore Kill. As it is dated October
8th, 1678 (New York), and Southrin's petition is dated
September 18th, 1678, Andros may not have received South
rin's letter when he issued the commission for Avery to be
Justice. He was in New York when the Commission was issued
October 8th, and took the Oath as Magistrate October 12th,
1678, and was authorized to administer the Oath to the

40 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
other Justices, Francis Whitwell, Alexander Molestine, John
Kiphaven, Luke Wattson, John Roades and James Wells.
These gentlemen seem to have had plenty of work to do,
for Henry Smith makes a declaration: "That the time that
Helmanus Wiltbank was questioned for Treason was when
the Whorekill was under Maryland." The persons that
accused him were Dr. John Roades, and William Prentice.
The accusation was made to Mr. Francis Jenkins, a Justice
of Peace in Maryland, who "committed him to prison for
the space of about a week and as is reported hee was cleared
by the sd. Jenkins by giving him a Bribe." That after
wards "the sd. Mr. Jenkins was questioned for taking a
bribe to cleare the sd Wiltbank and taken into Custody as
a prisoner by order of Dr. Roades on that Acct.; but in a
few days was releas't; Whereupon Dr. Roades came to
the above Mr. Smith complaining of the Fact, but he having
newly had his writt of Ease directed him to goe to my Lords
to St. Maryes which he accordingly did, but what the Issue
of it was there, hee knowes not."
November 21st, 1690.
The members of Sussex County set forth yt. one ye members of
Councill ffor their County viz: Thomas Clifton was gon to England.
May 8th, 1693.
Nehemiah Field had oaths & Test, with the oath of Clarke of the
Countie of Sussex, administered unto him.
Nehemiah Field was returned as member of the Assembly May 10.
1697. March 6th, 1694.
" The Court gives Liberty for a Ditch to be Cutt through the most
Convenient place of the Town of Lewes into the Creek for the Con-
venency of Dreaning the Savanah on the back part, next, to the
Second Street Lotts, and order that the Vacant Ground that lies be
tween the Lott of Nehemiah Field, (Behind the Second Street and
fronting on Mulberry Street) and the four acre Lott of Captain
Thomas Pemberton, adjoining upon Richard Holloway, be Reserved
for a Market Place, and the vacant peace of Land next Adjoining on
the Southwest side of John Miers, his Lott, to the Block House pond,
and between the Block House Field and that be used as a Common
Burying Ground. ' '
The ditch was made to run down the Southwest side of Mulberry ¦
Street, and up what is now Third Street. The Market House would
have been between Mulberry and Camomile Streets, and Third, and
Church Streets.
Later on we see that the Court changed its mind, for we read,
" September 6, 1696, Whereas at a Court held the sixth and seventh

CIVIL RECORDS. 41
days of March 1694 a Certain peace of Land In the Town of Lewes,
In the Mulberry Street, Lyeing and being between the 4 acres of Cap
tain Thomas Pemberton, and the Lott of Nehemiah Field was ordered
to be reserved for a Market place the Court upon a second Vue
thereof Do find the same not to be convenient as was expected, and
so order the same to be free, to be granted out unto Town Lotts 60
foot in breadth and 200 foot in Length. ' '
May 20th, 1695.
Wm. Clark. Thomas Pemberton & Robert Clifton were returned as
inembers of the Assembly for Sussex County.
September 3d, 1698.
The Lt.-Gov. acquainted the Council yt he had received a Lre
from ye Justices of Sussex County, & desired ye Seci-ie to read it,
which hee did viz: may it please yor Honor, This to or sorrows, but
according to our dutes, is to inform. That on friday last, in the after
noon, a small snug-ship & a sloop came to -wtin our Cape, not not
wholly undesired, but little dreaded of being an enemy or french,
both which they proved & yesterday morning Landed about SO men,
well armed & came up ye town & plundered almost every house
yrin, Committing great spoil, breaking open doors & chests, and
taking away all money or plate to be found, as also, all manner of
goods & merdize worth any thing, together with ruggs, blanketting,
& all other bedd Covering, Leaving scarce any thing in ye place to
Cover or wear.
They brought two English prisoners on shore wt. ym bound, one
of ym known to be Jno Redwood, of Philadelphia, His Boy, with
whom they would suffer no Converse, but wee suppose ye sd sloop to
be said Redwood's taken coming out of Cinnepuxon Inlett; They
all went on board last night; killed several sheep and Hogs. They
continue still at anchor in ye birth, as neer in the bay opposite to
this town as they well can find water to ride in, & its doubted they
¦will be on shore again before night for more Cattle, if not to burn ye
houses; but we shall endeavor to scare ym. They Ly ready for all
mischief inwards or outwards by land or water, and Have pilots any
way. They are now in Chasse Inwards of a Briganteen with their sd sloop.
The briganteen outsails ym, & wee Hope in God, will escape.
They are begarly Rogues, and will pillage for a trifle, and do think
they tarry long enough untill ye man of warr att York may have
speedy notice.
They took about eleven of ye Chief of our town prisoners, & when
they had made them help on board their plunder, dismist all except
one man, Capt. Watson's Carpenter.
This place is verie open to danger, & verie naked for defence.
Mr Clark's House & Goods hath Sufficiently shared in ye villany.
Wee hope wee need not repeat ye Calamities aforesaid, nor ye
great terror yt must needs here attend all Sexes & Sizes; — By Sir yer
Humble Servants — Luke Watson, John HiU, Tho. Oldman, Jonat
Baily.

42 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
May nth, 1698.
Representatives returned for Sussex County Thomas Oldman,
Jonathan Bayley, Cornelius Wiltbank, & Luke Watson Jr.
June 27th, 1693.
Edward Burch set forth, That having Sallied from Barbadoes in
the barkenteen Ann, George Stiles, Mr. & onlle one man and a boy
more belonging to her, the petitioner and his servant being to have
their passage for their Labour; that the Mr, to the Southward of the
Cape Henlopen, was casually knockt over board and Lost, to the
hazard of the Shipp, goods & passengers, and that att the desire of
the people on board, the petitioner, with great hazard of his Ufe, went
ashoare, & for saving the Life of the people, & for preserving the
vesseU & cargoe, did agree with a person to pylot her to some safe
harbour, and to give him twentie pounds, and having had an easie
& speedie passage into the whorekiUs, the said pylot was willing to
take ten pounds sterling.
June ISth, 1695.
Order to the Justices of the Peace at Lewes that a watch by two
men, be kept a Cape Henlopen, to watch for the French enemies,
from S Oclock in the morning to Seven Oclock at night.
William Massey was made coUector of the Customs at Lewes
November 21, 1696.
Thomas- Pemberton, Roger Corbet & John Miers members of the
Assembly for Sussex Co. Oct. 26, 1696.
September 10th, 1696.
John StoakUe, Thomas Oldman, Joseph Booth, Henrie Malleston,
James Peterkin, & Jonathan Baylie were members of the Assembly,
for Sussex Co.
April 12th, 1700.
The pror. & Gov. acquainted ye Council yt hee had Late intelligence
yt Wm. Orr. Geo. Thompson peter Lewis Henry Stretcher & Diggerie
Tenny, inhabitants of ye town of Lewis in Sussex Countie, had gone on
board Capt. kidd, ye privateer, (who in July last Lay some days before
Cape Henlopen,) and had Corresponded wt him, & received from him
and his crew some muslins. Calicoes, monies & other goods weh. wer
East India, & prohibited goods, & yt they had brought ym on shore
hid, sold, & given away most of ym, wtout acquainting ye. govrait, or
ye king's Collr of ye port of Lewis wt. ye same, weh hee lookt upon to
be, if not piracie, at Lest Confederating wt ym, and accessories & pro
moters of illegal trade, & yrfor desiring ye Councill's advice yrin.
Itt was the opinion of the Gov. & Council, 'The —  • Law
man, Collector of port Lewis, should be attested as soleranlie as if he
took an oath to declare ye truth as farr as hee knows &c.
August 16th, 1703.
Samuel Rowland of Philidia, mariner, having yesterday arrived
with his sloop from Lewis, in Sussex, & brought advice. That there

CIVIL RECORDS. 43
was a certain ship lately arrived there weh they had some reason to
suspect was on no honest design; the Council meeting upon that
occasion, sent for the said Rowland and examined him, and upon
his solemn attestation he declares
Wn He, the said Rowland, and ye Collector of ye said Port, (viz
H. Brooke) having been a few miles out of ye town of Lewis, & re
turning thither on Wednesday last, ye llth instant, they perceived
a ship ride off ye sd Port, and enquiring in the town concerning her,
they were told she was either a ffrench Ship or Prize, and found some
of her men landed, two of whom particularly they met with, and ye
said Collector Inquiring of them whether they belonged to that vessel
they answered yes; ye Collectr then asked what papers they had to
show, upon weh they produced a Copy of a Commission weh they
said was their Capts; That presently after they mett with three
more of ye men, who had come ashore & staid wth them near three
hours, that ye two they first mett with prest ye other three to goe
on board with water they came ashore for, but they refused, and
that ye said two earnestly urged the others not to lett their fellow
Souldiers perish, calling them Barbarous Dogs for their Inhumanity,
& that it would be kinder to pistol them then to lett them die for
thirst Upon weh this Informant offered that in Case one of ye sd
two men (who were ye most genteel) would stay on shore as a pledge
for him he would carry them water on board, and accordingly one
staid, & he carried them four anchors of water, of weh they drank
up two he thinks before he left them; That they called ye Capt.
Burgess, & said ye ship was a french prize, loaden with wheat, cam.e
from Callary within ye Straights, Was taken ye Canaries by Capt.
Pullen, Companion to Capt. Dampier, on his intended expedition to
the South Seas; that ye men said they were ordered by Capt. Pullen
to come with the said ship into these parts to Sell her, & when sold
he -would meet them in this river; That they said they had but IS
men in all; That they had 12 great Guns, & Seemed to be about 120
Tuns; that according to their own accot they had Tenn Thousand
Bushels of wheat aboard.
That ye said Informant going on board with only two of the
5 men (viz) one sailor and another of ye two first, they saw the
Capt. who seemed much disturbed, his men were not come aboard.
But that he that was left a pledge wrote a letter to ye Capt. by ye
other person, upon weh the Capt was satisfied; that ye Capt after
some words, resolved himself to come on shoar, weh he accordingly
did; That meeting those of his men that were on the shoar, and menac
ing them they submitted & promised to goe on board, being sent to
gett some water & Provision they ran away, and that one of the
other two who came ashoar wth the Capt., said he would do the same
when he could.
That hereupon the Capt took occasion to threaten this Informant
as the cause of his men running away, that he attempted to draw upon
him but that he was disarmed by the Company, as as also the Capt's
Companion Charleton by name. Upon weh the Sherif Secured ye
Boat, and was consulting with ye CoUector to raise ye Posse of ye
County & took ye Capt into Custody That ye Informant further
adds, that inquiring earnestly of some of the men to know what they

44 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
were. One of them told him that their then Capt who was Lieutenant
to Capt Pullen, had been 3 days in irons some time before they parted
from the sd Pullen.
He further adds, that upon a lighted match, accidently touching
one of the men's legs, who Complained of ye pain, the Capt asked
him how he would have bore what their Boatswain did, to have
matches burn between his fingers, upon which the other swore the
Boatswain was a stout fellow, suffered bravely, without divulging
any thing.
That there was none of the prisoners on board of when the ship
was taken, of weh being asked ye Reason, they said she was taken
in the night near ye shore, & that the men gott off in their boats &
escaped, and that those who were on shoar said, that if they who were
on borrd could gett on shoar, at least 8 or 10 of them would desert
her. There was a commission issued to Capt Thomas Braines to
proceed to Lewes seize the ship and bring it to Philada.
August 24th, 1703.
Information being made to this board. That ye Collector of Lewis
w-as come upon to this town & made Complaint to Judge Clark, & the
Secry of Jonathan Bailey, the Sherif of the County of Sussex, that
he was remiss in Discharging his duty, & giving him the sd Collectr
necessary assistance in apprehending ye Commandr & Sailors of ye
ship that had lately come in and anchored before that port, being
the Prize taken by Capt PuUeyn, and ye said Judge Clark, the Supream
officer of ye said County, directing the said Complaint to ye Board,
& accusing him of great remissness & stubborness in his office in gen
eral. It was ordered, that ye said Jonathan Baily's Commission should
be superseded, & the place granted to Luke Watson, senr, who had
formerly petitioned for the same.
July 9th, 1709.
Richard Westly of Lewis, in Sussex, arriving here early this moming,
with an express sent from thence by him, in a Boat & 4 Oars, by the
Govr. now there, to give notice to the Govmt, here, that on ye 6th &
7th instant, a french Privateer had Endeavoured to Land at Lewis
aforesaid, but being prevented by the opposition made to him, stood
up the Bay where the said Westly, on coming up did pass him; Where
upon (as he further informs), he according to the Govr's Orders to
him, which was the principle Design of sending him by water, had
given notice to all ye outward bound Vessels, yt he could possibly
come to speak with, that they might avoid the danger, and the sd
Westly Desiring to be satisfied for his own & his Companions Trouble
herein. March 6th, 1704.
CorneUus Wiltbank, Brother in Law to Jno. WiUiams, who hanged
himself at Lewis, having waited on the Govr & acquainted him that
he desired & requested Letters of administration on the said Defendts
Estate, & the Govr acquainted him with the orders made Concerning
that Estate, the sixth of last month.

CIVIL RECORDS. 45
The said Cornel. Wiltbank appeared at this board and pleads that
his Brother in Law was not Compos Mentis at the time of inaking
himself away, and that it plainly appears to be so by the Inquest
then past upon him.
November 9th, 1709.
Richard Westly of Lewis, having produced to the Govr, a letter
from Capt. Cook, Commandr of the Garland, certifying that the
said Westly had served 21 days on board her Majesty the Queen's
Ship, as Pilot, while she was in our Bay, for which service this Govmnt
ought to consider him.
They allowed him 21 Dollars.
April 20th, 1704.
Commission of ye Peace, & for ye County of' Sussex was filled up
& directed to Willm Clark, John Hill, Tho. Pemberton, Luke Watson,
Tho. ffisher, Tho. ffenwick, James Walker, Phil Russel, Jno. Waltham,
& Willm Bagwell, Esqrs, and commission renewed to Luke Watson,
senr, for Sherif & Nehemiah ffield, for Clerk of ye said County, & a
Dedimus Potestatem, directed to Geo. Lowther, for qualifying ye said
Justices. October 21st, 1708.
The following members withdrew from the Assembly in Philada,
for form a separate body in the Three Lower Counties
Thos. ffisher Suss Philip Russell 1
Rich. Empson Newe Willm ffisher I ^
Corns Wiltbank Suss Nichos Grainger ]
James Booth Kent Ad Johnson J
November 23d, 1721.
The Govr acquainted the Board, That as they were all sensible he
had, with their Advice and Approbation, in pursuance (as He had
understood) of the late Proprietor's Inclinations when here, ever since
his Administration, observed some kind of an Equality or Proportion
in his appointment of the subordinate officers of Govnmt., between
those who profess themselves Members of the Church of England and
the People called Quakers. He had no reason to doubt but that the
Board was well satisfied the same method should be observed in the
Council. He had some time ago made mention to most of the mem
bers now present of Henry Brooke, Esq., Collector of his Majesty's
Customs at Port Lewis, within this Government, and of late a useful
magistrate in the County of Sussex, as a fit person to supply the place
of Jasper Yeates, Esq. a member of this Board, lately deceased;
To which the Governour was more particularly induced from this con
sideration, that it had bean usual, and is still expected by the In
habitants of the lower Counties, that there should be always at least
two members in the Council from those Counties: Wherefore, He now
proposes that with the consent of this board, the said Henry Brooke
should be admitted a member thereof.
All the Members present being sensible of Mr. Brooke's great Knowl
edge, AbiUty, and Worth, unanimously agree that He be admitted
accordingly as soon as the Governour thinks fit.

46 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
•July 25th, 1726.
Henry Brooke & Jonathan Baily Esqs of Sussex were appointed
Judges of the Supreme Court.
September 23d, 1726.
The Govr acquainted the Board, that one Alexander MolUston of
the County of Sussex had seven or eight days since brought him a
petition, complaining of some abuses he had received in that County —
the said Petition was read setting forth sundry abuses the Petitioner
had suffered from William Till, who as magistrate, & by his Infiuence
on the Court of the County, had admitted divers arbitrary acts, by
means of which the Petitioner was utterly disabled from following
his Employment & providing Bread for his Family.
After reading Petition, one of the Members likewise informed the
Board, that the same Justice William Till had some months agoe
broke open & Kept up a Letter wrote & sent by James Steel of Philada.
to Robert Shankland, Surveyor of the County of Sussex, inclosing
some copies of an Address from a late Assembly of the lower Counties
to the Governour Sir William Keith, in the Beginning of his Adminis
tration, which were thought proper to be distributed for the Pro
prietors Service, that the said William Till had most contumeliously
treated the said James Steel on that occasion, tho' he had acted
therein for the Proprietor's Service only, & as his officer, and had not
given either the said William Till, or any reasonable Person, any
just occasion to be offended with his Proceedings in that affair.
Another Member likewise, that in a late Assembly of the three
lower Counties, Mr Till had used most indecent & disregardful Ex
pressions of the Proprietary Family.
William was relieved of his office, A new Commission of Peace
being to be issued for the said County, the following Persons are
agreed on to be inserted in the same, vizt: Henry Brooke, Richard
Hinman, Philip Russel, John Roades, Woolsey Burton, Samuel Row
land, Jeremiah Claypoole, Jacob KoUock, John Jacobs, Samuel Davis,
Joseph Cord, Robert Shankland, George Walton & Enoch Cumings.
October 4th, 1726.
For Sussex County Rives Holt, & Peter Adams being retumed
for Sherifs, & Samuel Davis & Edmund Naws for Coroners, Rives
Holt is appointed Sherif & Samuel Davis Coroner.
: October 4th, 1727.
For Sussex County: Rives Holt & Peter Adams being retumed
for Sherifs, and Samuel Davies and John Russell for Coroners, Rives
Holt is appointed Sherif & Samuel Davies Coroner.
October 3d, 1728.
For Sussex County: Rives Holt & Robert Smith being retumed
for Sherifs, & John Jacobs & Samuel Davis for Coroners. Rives Holt
is appointed Sherif, John Jacobs Coroner.

CIVIL RECORDS. 47
October 4th, 1729.
For Sussex County. Rives Holt & John Jacobs returned for
Sherifs, & Joseph Pemberton & John Roades for Coroners, Rives
Holt is appointed Sherif & John Roades Coroner.
October 6th, 1730.
For Sussex County: James Fenwick & Simon KoUock being
retumed for Sherifs, & Robert Smith & CorneUus Wiltbank for
Coroners, Simon KoUock is appointed Sherif & Cornelius Wiltbank
Coroner. October 6th, 1731.
For the County of Sussex: Simon KoUock & James Fenwick being
retumed for Sherifs, & Cornelius Wiltbank & John Clowes for Coroners,
Simon KoUock is appointed Sherif & John Clowes Coroner.
October 4th, 1733.
For the County of Sussex: Simon KoUock & Robert Smith being
retumed for Sherifs, & Joshua Fisher & John Clowes for Coroners,
Simon KoUock is appointed Sherif, & Joshua Fisher Coroner.
October 5th, 1734.
For tha County of Sussex: Robert Smith & Cornelius Wiltbank
being returned for Sherifs, and Joshua Fisher and John Roades for
Coroners, Cornelius Wiltbank is appointed Sherif and Joshua Fisher
Coroner. October 3d, 1735.
For the County of Sussex, Cornelius Wiltbank & John Shankland
being returned for Sherifs, and Daniel Nunez & William Selthuge for
Coroners, John Shankland is appointed Sherif, and Daniel Nunez
Coroner. October 3d, 1740.
Commissions made out to CorneUus Wiltbank as Sherif of Sussex
County, & John Wynkoop as Coroner of said County.
October 5th, 1745.
Commissions to William Shankland Esq. Sherif, & Robert Gill,
Gentm. Coroner of the County of Sussex.
October 4th, 1746.
William Shankland Sheriff and John MolUston Coroner of Sussex
County. July 13th, 1747.
A letter by Express from New Castle :
"Gentlemen: — This Moment Thomas Quant & a son of Mr Nan-
dins informs me a Company of French or Spaniards, to the number
of One hundred or thereabouts, has Robb'd & Plunder'd the Houses

48 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
of James Hart & Edmund Liston, and carried off all the valuable part
of their Negroes & other Goods, and its supposed they have done so
all the way to Lewis Town. "David Wetherspoon."
September 14th, 1747.
The Capt. of a Pilot Boat, Despatched as an Express from Lewes
Town last Saturday, delivered to the President this morning the fol
lowing Letter directed to the President & Council;
"Sir & Gentleman; — On Tuesday last 2 Sloops went up the Bay
with a Pilot Boat tending in each of them ; on Wednesday evening
they returned & anchored with the said boats in Lewes Road, which
hath kept our Watch upon hard Duty Day and Night.
' ' One of the said Vessels we imagine to be gone over to Cape May,
the other took in our sight last Night a Ship outward Bound, and her
Pilot Boat another Ship this morning that was coming in, and is now
in Chace of a third ship, which we fear will fall into her hands in an
hour or two.
"These things we judged proper to immediately communicate, and
hope the Merchants & Traders at Philadelphia will pay this Express
£3, being tha sum agreed for to convey it.
"Sir & Gentlemen Your obedt, hble Sevts " Rs Holt
"Jacob Kollock
"Jacob Phillips."
This Assembly "could only lament their & the good People of
Lewes Town's unhappiness in being thus remedilessly exposed to any
Attempts the Enemy should please to make."
They paid the Express £3,
September 21st, 1747.
" Information being given that several Vessells belonging to this
and other Ports were lately taken by a French Privateer of the Capes
of Delaware, and that some of the Pilots & People who were on board
at the time of Capture were in Town, they were sent for, and Mr.
KeUy & Luke Shields, one of the Pilots who had the charge of the
Privateer, attending without, they were examined."
September 25th, 1747.
" William Kelly being sworn on the holy Evangelists of Almighty
God deposeth and saith, that he being a Passenger on board the
Sloop Elizabeth, Pyramus Green Commander, bound from Providence
to Philadelphia, on or about the 28 " day of August last he was taken
off the Coast of North CaroUna by a French Privateer Sloop called
the Marthel Vodroit, Capt. Lepay Commander, belonging to Cape
Francois, who had taken three English Prizes before as this Deponent
was informed; that after they had taken the said Sloop EUzabeth
they stood to the Northward, and on their cruise took six more Eng
lish Prizes, to wit, a Brigantine and two Ships off the Capes of Vir
ginia, and a Sloop about fifteen Leagues off the Capes of Delaware,
one Newbold Master, & two Ships in the Bay of Delaware, one of
them called the Bolton, Oswald Eves Commander, and th'e other

CIVIL RECORDS. 49
called the Delaware,  Lake Commander, this Deponent being at
the times of the taking of the said six Prizes, a Prisoner on board
the said French Privateer.
"That the said French Privateer was a Vessel of about Ninety or
one hundred tons, and carried fourteen Carriage Guns, sixteen Swivels.
and six Swivel Blunderbusses, and had when he left Cape Francois,
as this Deponent was informed, about one hundred and seventy men,
but at the time of this Deponent's being taken, had but one hundred
& thirty men belonging to her.
" That this Deponent took some of the Privateer's Crew to be Eng
lish, some Irish, and some Scotch, but the most part of them were
Frenchmen & Spaniards. '
That the first land they made off Delaware was Cape May; that
the Privateer hoisting English colours, one William Flower, a Pilot,
came off from the said Cape and came on board the Privateer, that
when the said William Flower came on board, the Commander of
the Privateer, by a Linguist, ordered him to take Charge of the said
Privateer & to carry the said Privateer where the Shipping lay ; that
the said WilUam Flower at first misunderstanding the said Com
mander's Orders, as this Deponent imagines, made answer that there
was water enough there, pointing towards the Sea, but upon being
told that that was not what the Commander meant, he the said Will
iam Flower asked if they meant that he should carry the Privateer
up the River, to which the said Commander answered. Yes, and then
the said WilUam Flower took Charge of the said Privateer and was
carrying her round towards Cape Henlopen, when Luke Shields,
another Pilot, came on board from Cape Henlopen, the said Privateer
being under English Colours, that the said Commander of the said
Privateer was very Inquisitive concerning Philada. and asked Will
iam Flower how Matters stood at Philadelphia, and what Shipping
was coming down. William Flower answered that he could not tell
as he had not been to Philadelphia for seven or eight days; that
upon Luke Shields coming on board, the Commander of the Privateer
asked him the like questions, and Luke Shields answered, that as
he had not been at Philadelphia for a great while, he could not tell,
but that his Man knew as he had been there lately.
" The Man being asked, answered that the Privateer Trembleur was
then coming down, and that he believed the Pandour was fitting out.
" That after Shields coming on board the care of the Privateer was
committed to him in conjunction with Flower, that this Deponent
acquainted Shields that Flower' had promised this Deponent to carry
the Privateer within less than a Mile of Cape Henlopen, to the end
this Deponent might swim on Shore in the Night, which this De
ponent had resolved to do in order to obtain his Liberty and inform
the People of the said Privateer, and this Deponent made it his re
quest to the said Shields that he would assist this Deponent in his
Design by bringing the said Privateer so near the shore thajt this
Deponent might swim on shore with safety, but the said Shields re
fused to do it, & said he would carry the said Privateer where she
might meet with the most Prizes; upon this Deponent asking him
why he would do so, he answered that the Privateer came for Prizes
and would not go away without them, and by this Means he should
sooner get his Liberty; That the said Pilot brought the said Privateer

50 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
to an anchor somewhere about the Brown, but it blowing hard she
afterwards came to an anchor within two leagues of the pitch of the
Cape; That the Day after the taking of the last Prizes, the EngUsh
Prisoners to the number of about seventy, were permitted to go on
shore in three Pilot Boats which the Enemy had taken."
"Bernard Martin of Philada, Mariner, late Commander of the
Ship Mary of London, Being within a mile of Cape Henlopen, and
a signal for a Pilot being out on Tuesday the fourteenth Day of July
1747) about seven o'Clock in the Morning, this Deponent was hailed
by a Privateer Sloop of about ten Guns, but as this Deponent had
verything ready for an Engagement, the Privateer made off with
out making an attack.
"That about Eight o'Clock the same morning this Deponent saw
a Pilot Boat coming towards him, which this Deponent well knew
as the Pilot who this Deponent saw upon Deck; that this Deponent
taking it to be an English Pilot permitted it to come along side of his
ship; that thereupon a number of French & Spaniards, to the amount
of 'Thirty Five or thereabouts, instantly boarded this Deponents Ship,
and this Deponent offering to make some Resistance, he, this Deponent,
was shott at by three of the Enemy, and one of the Balls grazed this
Deponent's Cheek, and another his arm & side, and immediately after
wards this Deponent was knocked down; and then they tacked the
Ship and stood out to Sea, but did not crowd Sail; and the next morn
ing they tack'd again and stood in for the Bay, and at about four
o'clock in the Afternoon on Wednesday they put this Deponent and
seven of his men into the Pilot Boat and discharged them, and then
stood off with the Ship with an Intention, after they had got provisions
and other Things necessary (as this Deponent heard some of them
say) to cruize between this Bay, the Capes of Virginia, and Cape
Fear. That this Deponent understood the People on board the
Pilot Boat who took this Deponent did belong to the Privateer Sloop
which this Deponent had seen in the morning of the Day he was
taken. That the Captain's name was  Barnard, a Frenchman, &
had a French Commission which he shewed to this Deponent; that
about half his Company were French and about half Spaniards. That
among the said Privateers there was one Englishman who this De
ponent was told was a Boston Man, he having owned the same to
one of this Deponent's Mariners as this Deponent was informed; that
he spoke very good English, and like an Englishman, and told this
Deponent he knew Philadelphia.
"That the Captain Barnard told this Deponent he did not doubt
but he should be up at Philadelphia in Six Months. That from the
scarcity of Provisions among the said Privateers this Deponent verily
believes they intend to make a Descent in order to procure more,
that what little Provisions they had they were very lavish of, washing
their feet in fresh Water and throwing their offal Victuals overboard;
that this Deponent understanding Spanish and French heard the
said Privateers talking among themselves, and understood from them
that they intended to make a Descent somewhere for provisions —
this Deponent being in his Hammock he supposes they imagined
he was asleep. "Bernard Martin.
"Sworn the 17th July, 1747 before
"Jos. Turner.'.:

CIVIL RECORDS. 51
April llth, 1748.
A Petition from the Pilots using the Bay & River of Delaware
was raad in these words, viz:
"To the Honourable Anthony Palmer, Esqr., Presid* of the Gov
ernment of the Counties of New-Castle Kent, and Sussex, on Dela
ware, & Province of Pennsylvania,"
"The humble Petition of the Pilots, Inhabitants of the County
of Sussex, on Delaware.
"Whereas, Your Petitioners, as well Pursuant to an Act of General
Assembly of this Government as Your Honour's late Proclamation,
are prohibited going on board any inward bound vesseU in the Bay &
River Delaware, which said Act & Proclamation your Petitioners are
fully convinced are justly Calculated for the safety of this Govern
ment, and therefore willing to pay all due obedience.
"And Whereas, The Pilots that dwell in the Government of New
Jersey (from a false Representation of Your Petitioners having
Lycence to Cruise for Vessells & go on board the same as Pilots) are
not restrained by any Law of that Govemment, but, as Your Peti
tioners are informed have leave to Cruize and go on board vessells
as Pilots, & daily do the same within the Bay & River aforesaid,
which in its Consequence may prove prejudicial to this Government
and likewise prevent Your Petitioners acquiring a Competent sup
port for their Familys, for Your Honour may be assured that no
inward bound VesseU will call at Lewes for a Pilot when any other
may be had Cruizing off.
" Your Petitioners therefore humbly entreat your Honours Interest
and Friendship with the Government of the Jersey for restraining
the Pilots of that Government in such manner and by such measures
as may be thought most expedient, not only for the safety of this
Government but that Your Petitioners may have an Equal Chance
for their Livelyhood in their proper Employments; And Your Pe
titioners shall ever pray.
"Wm. Field,
"Luke Field,
"Samuel Rowland,
"Samuel Rowland, Jun.,
"Wm. Rowland,
"Simon Edwards,
"John Baily,
"John Maull,
"John Adams.'!
June 2d, 1748.
The President & Four Members sign'd a Commission to Abraham
Wiltbank to Command an Intelligence Boat & wear a Flagg.
"By the Honable, the President and Council of the Province of
Pennsylvania. "To Abraham Wiltbank of Lewis Town, Pilot, Greeting:
"Whereas, by reason of the Bay and River Delaware being now
greatly infested with the Enemie's Privateers, we have judged it
necessary that some fit and proper Persons shall be forthwith em-

52 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
ployed and commissioned to observe and give us constant intelli
gence of the Motions and Designs of the said Privateers; and we have
thought you fitly qualified for that purpose & confiding in Your Loy
alty, Vigilance, & Integrity, Do hereby Grant Commission to Author
ize and appoint You the said Abraham Wiltbank to fit out and Com
mand an IntelUgence Boat for the purposes aforesaid, & therewith
immediately to proceed and continue to pass & repass down & up
the said River & Bay (During our Pleasure) in order to discover, ob
serve, and get force, & designs of the said Privateers or other his
Majesty's Enemies, & from time to time bring or transmit to Us
with the utmost Expedition fuU Accounts and Advice thereof. Hereby
giving & granting to you License & Authority during your acting
and continuing in the same service to hoist & wear in Your said Boa*
A Red Pendant with two white Cresses, and for so doing this shall
be your warrant.
"Given under our Hands in Council & the Lesser Seal of the Said
Province, at Philadelphia, the 3d of June, in the Twenty-first Year
of His Majesties Reign, Annogz Domini, 1748. "Anthony Palmer."
Another of the same Tenor was Signed to John Maule, authorizing
him to wear an English Jack.
May 31st, 1748.
Abraham Wiltbank, Commander of one of the Govemment Pilot
Boats, bringing advice that he had been for a day or two off the Capes
& met with no Enemies Vessells — the Embargo was taken off.
October 4th, 1755.
[ Jacob Kollock, Jun, Sheriff Paynter Stockley, Cor''. Sussex County.
October 5th. 1756.
John Rodney, Sheriff \ g^^^g^ q^
Wrixam Lewis, Cor''. j
' ' Resolved that Mr. Samuel Morris Junr wait on Mr. William
Rechards, Captain Falconer, and Captain Reed, and inform them
they are (with any other person they may fix on) appointed a Com
mittee to fix up proper signals in the River and Bay of Delaware, to
give the most speedy intelligence of any Enemy Ships that may
arrive at or within the Capes of Delaware The Committee appoint
James Maul with his Boat
"Whereas Captain WilUam Bradford and Thomas Pryor report
to this Board that Angus McBean made application yesterday to
Nehemiah Maul for his Pilot Boat to go on board the Man of War,
now in our Bay, with the assurance that he had the consent of this
Committee &c McBean guaranteed £130 in case Man of War de
tained him. March 31, 1776."
April IS, 1776.
"A Pilot allowed the Sloop Congress provided the Captain of her
wiU promise and engage to go down the Cape May Channel and land
his Pilot there.".

CIVIL RECORDS.

53

May 24, 1776.
"Lt George Ball, belonging to the Roebuck Man of War, taken in
a Pilot Boat at Cape Henlopen some time past. Paroled."
September 19, 1776.
" James Maul appointed Pilot to carry vessels through the chevaux
de frise, in room of Daniel Gordon, deceased."
October 15, 1776.
" Mr. Nesbit directed to pay James Thomson for 3SX gallons of
Rum, and 4 quarts of Molasses, for use of Col. Miles Battlion* while at
Lewes Town, to be charged to Congress. £18."

Chevaux de Frize Pilots.
Michael Da^wson  October 1
Joseph Gamble  October 1
Daniel Gordon  October 1
William Marshall  October 1
Nehemiah Maul  October 1
William Molleston  October 1
James Roberts  October 1
William Ross  October 1
John Schnieder  October 1
James Maul  February 20
Nathan Storey  February 20
Michael Dean  June 26
John Marshall -wras pilot on the fire ship "Hecla"
21st, 1777. *

1775 17751775
17751775 1775177517751775177617761777
July

*Rev. C. H. B. Turner, Lewes, Del.
It appears from the official records that Captain David Hall's Company and
Captain Charles Pope's Company of the Delaware Battalion (or Regiment) of Conti
nental troops, commanded by Colonel John Haslet, was in barracks at Lewes (or Lewis)
Town April 11, 1776; and that a part of Captain Latimer's Independent Company,
Delaware, was "On station at Lewes by order of the House of Assembly or Council
of Safety of this Govemment" April 29, 1776. No original records of those organi
zations are on file in this oflice, but, from correspondence with the Secretary of State
of Delaware, it appears that some records of those organizations are on file in his
office. From such an examination of the incomplete collection of Revolutionary records
on file in this office as it has been practicable to make, it has been impossible to ascer
tain whether any other organization was quartered or stationed at Lewes, or in Sussex
County, Delaware, during the Revolutionary war.
No record of any Colonel Miles' Battalion of Delaware troops in that war has been
found on file in this office. F. C. Ainsworth,
The Adjutant General.

54 "some records of Sussex county.

COURT RECORDS.

[This begins with 2d entry in Record Book, the first being well
faded out.] Deale County.
June ISth, 1681.
A patton of Land Acckowlidged in open [Court] by John Kiphaven
and Bartree his wife to WilUam Clark; and by wilUam Clark and Hon
nor his wife to nathanil walker.
A patton of Land Accknowlidged in open Court by Elizabeth Par-
ling and nathanil walker unto william Clark.
The Court fine nathanil walker ffifty pounds of Tobacco; for
smoking of Tobacco in the Court.
The Court Grant unto PhiUip Morrise foure hundred Acres of Land;
warrant Given out ISth Insnt for these Lands.
The Court Grant unto John Dickerson foure hundred Acres of
Land; warrant Given out the ISth, 2 mo, 1681.
The Court Grant unto Richard w[illiam] foure hundred Acres of
Land; Richard william warrt given [torn].
John Kiphaven have a Grant from the Court of the third Towne
Lott to the front from the Land of nathanil walker; he paying the
Rent which shall be ordered by the Governor yearly.
The Court order and Grant unto John Hagester ffoure hundred
Acres of Land; A warrant given out the 26th, 11 mo, 1681.
Halmanias wiltbanck peticoner Agt John vines shreife. The
peticoner seW; forth that the shreife have taken upon Execu- Henry
Harmon at the suit of the peticoner; And that the said shreife doe
Contrary to Law suffer his prissoner to goe at Larg; the shreife pleade
that he have no prison provided to keepe his prissoners in at present;
The Court doe there for order that the shreife shall confine these
prisoners to the house and yards whare the sd shreif do or shall
Live untill the said prisoner shall be Leagally discharged by the pit;
and that in the mean time the pit shall A[llow] the prisoner Two
shillings and six pe[nce] a week for his maintance; And the Like
order that the Court doe make for all other pe[rsons] that shall be
upon Execution for debt; u[ntill] there Can be a prison built and
provid[ed] for that purpose.
[Two entries omitted, mostly tom away, only a few words remaining.]
The Court Grant unto Yoakim Goyl[torn] by his Atturney Henry
Bowman; ffoure hundred Acres of Land; warrant Given out 26th
day S mo, 1681.
The Court Grant unto John ffinch by his Atturney Henry Bowman
six hundred Acres of Land; warrant Given out 26th day S mo, 1681.
The differences that are depending betwene Capt John Avery &
Peter Groundyk Concerning the Account of Capt Avery over Charging
the said Peter Groundyk, [etc., etc. Signatures torn].

COURT records. 55
I Mary Simons doe here in the presence of the Lord and you his
people declare and depose upon my Corperall oath that I am free
and Clear from being under the bonds of Mattrimony to any person
now Liveinge whatsoever. In wittnes & Testamoney wharof I have
hereunto sett my hand this seaventh day of the Moneth Called July
Anno; Dm; 1681; signed Mary Simons
Sworen befor me
Wm: Clark.
Thomas Howard And Mary Simons ware Joyned Together in
Marrig by me ¦william Clark one of tha Kings Justices of the peace
for deale County [July 17, 1681, after due publication and in presence
of several witnesses, not named].
[Ard Johnson van Kirk and Grace Bundock married by William
Clark one of the Kings Justices of the peace, July 28, 1681, after due
publication "and in presence of several wittneses."]
Sept. 13 & 14th.
Att A Court held at Deale for the Towne and County of Deale;
by the Kings Authori[ty] the 13th and 14th days of the Moneth Called
September Anno; Dm; 1681; Commoners present; Luke Wattson John
Roades John Kiphaven William Clark.
An Action of the Case Refered from the Last Court [etc. etc.] John
Hagester pit, Harmon Comeling deft.
Alexander Moulston John Hagester Cornelius verhoofe & John
vines Complantants Halmainas wiltbanck deft To be Tryd by bill
and Answer as A Cause of Equeity.
Action of Traspass. John Depree pit. Will footcher, deft, Corver-
hoofe sworen. Jureymen — Alex Draper Alex Moulston Cor Johnson
Mil Chambers will Troter Hen Stracher Robt Johnson Will Townsend
will prantices Rich wilhams John Oakey Robt Traile.
The Court order and Appoint Alex Draper fachl Gray & william
footcher to be Survayors of the High ways and bridges; and doe
hereby order Impower and Authorize them or any or either of them
to surname In the Inhabitents of this County to mend make and
repaire the High ways Roades and bridges with in this County; as
soone as may be.
The Court Grant unto Richard Stevens by his Atturney Edward
Southrin six hundred Acres of Land; warrant Given out the 14th, 7
mo, 1681.
The Court Grant unto Nortton Claypoole by his Atturney John
Hill five Hundred Acres of Land; warrant Given out 2Sth, 11 mo, 1681.
The Court Grant unto Thomas wellborn by his Atturney Henry
Bowman Eighte hundred Acres of Land; warrant Given out the 10th
day of the 3 month 1683.
The Court Grant unto Robert Twelley by his Atturney John vines
foure hundred Acres of Land.
The Court fine George young Cunstable for not giveing his Attend
ance in Court Two hundred pounds of Tobacco.
The Court fine John Roades one of the Justices of the peace for this
County for his absence from Court the 14th day of September 1681;
the sume of foure hundred pounds of good Marchantable Tobacco (in
Caske) ;

56 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
November Sth & 9th, 1681.
Att a Court Held at Deale for the Towne and County of Deale by
the Kings Authority the Sth & 9th days of the Moneth Called novem
ber Anno; Dm: 1681; Comisconers presents: Luke Wattson John
Roades William Clark.
An Action of Debts. Henry Bowman pit, Joseph Browne Deft. In
Sept. Court the deft being out of the Govermt And his Atturney Capt
John Avery being sick peticoned the Court for a Reference ; the Court
there for Grant the deft A reference untill the next Court ; in novmber
Court the pit declare &c., and brought in there verdict; that they
finde that the deft have paid and satisfied the lOOOtb Tob by Capt
Averys Ingaging for the paymt of it ; and there for finde for the deft
wt one shill damag and Cost of suit ; the Court passe Judgmt Accord
ing to the verdict of the Jurey Alias Execution. Jurey Men Alexander
Draper William ffootcher Daniell Browne John Smith WilUam Emitt
John King Simon Parling
An Action of Debt. Henry Bowman pit, Joseph Browne & Andrew
Depree defts. John Smith Will Emitt Ri[ch] Williams John King
Rich Gill Tho Davids Elij Cartie. In Sept Court the defts being out
of the County And there Atturney Capt John Avery being sick peti
coned the Court for A Referance the Court there for Grant the deft A
Ref erance untill the next Court ; now in novmber Court the pit declare
that the defts stands Indebted unto him in one Thousand pounds of
Tobacco wone of the defts at a horse Race the defts pleaded that they
wone and Craved A Jurey to Try the Cause; which being Granted
the bussines was debated on both sides and severall wittneses Ex-
camined After which the Jurey went out and brought in there verdict
that they finde for the deft; with Cost of suit; & six pence Damages;
the Court passe Judgmt According to the verdict of the Jurey; Alias
Executcion; Alexander Draper William ffootcher Daniell Browne
Simon Parling Henry Stracher Thomas Pinder Robert Bracey Jurey
Men. An Action of Trespass. Thomas Haward & Wight Haward pits.
Nathanil Walker deft. Jurey finds for the deft and gives him Twelve
pence Damages and the Court order Judgmt to be entered according
to verdict of the Jurey. norton Claypoole Alexander Draper Henry
Bowman James WeUes John Smith Halmainas Wiltbanck William
ffootcher Robert Bracey John HiU [SJamwell Gray Thomas Pinder
Daniell Browne Jurey Men.
An Action of the Case. Andrew Depree pit, Thomas Denison deft.
An Action of the Case. Capt John Avery pit, Ben Coudrey Deft.
Attachment. Alexander Draper pit, Robert MiUenor Deft.
An Action of the Case, ffrancis Gunby pit, Capt John Avery Deft.
An Action of the Case. Bryant Rowles pit, Harmon CorneUson
deft. An Action of the Case. Henry Bowman pit, John Newall Deft.
An Action of the Case. Henry Bowman pit, James Welles & John
Newall defts. Jo Croper Tho Pinder Robt Johnson WiU Rodeney
& Will Keene. The pit declare that the defts did Contract & Agree
wt him to Run A horse Race for three Thousand pounds of Tobacco;
and that he the said pit ded wine; the deft pleaded that the Contract
was not Confirmed the Cause being debated on both sides and severall
wittneses Excamined the Cause was Refered to a Jurey; weh went

COURT RECORDS. 57
out and brough in there verdict; that they finde for the pit with Cost
of suit and one shill Damages; and the def t's arest the Judgmt of the
Court & Craved an Appeale to have the Cause to be Tryd at the next
Gennarall Court of Assisses at new york befor the Honorable Governor
and Councell; the vallow being under Twenty pounds the Court Could
not agree wheather it was Appealeable or not; and soe refered the
same untill the next Court; there being sume thing dubous in the
Testament of the wittneses [The following names are on the margin — ]
Alexander Draper Samwell Gray Nathanil Walker Daniell Browne
John Smith Nathanil Bradford Plenry Stracher.
An Action of Debt. John Roades pit, Richard Adkinson deft; with
drawen by order of the pit.
An Action of Debt. John Roades pit, Richard GiU Deft, "with
drawen." An Action of Debt. WiUiam Clark pit, Robt Williams Deft —
"refered." An Action of Debt. William Clark pit, Thomas Davids Deft —
"with Drawen."
An Action of the Case. William Clark pit, Richard Gill Deft —
"with Drawen."
An Action of Debt. WilUam Lewis pit, ffrancis Gunby Deft —
"with Drawen." by order of James Welles the pits Atturney.
Peticon Henry Harmon Halm Wiltbanck. The peticoner setting
forth in his peticon that whareas Halm wiltbank recovered Judgment
of this Court Agt him for Twenty Thousand pounds of Tobacco; for
the not giveing him the sd Halm wiltbanck possession of the house
plantacon Land and premisses that Cornelie Johnson live upon Accord
ing to Contract; and that the sd Halm wiltbanck had no right to let
the Land to the peticoner; but that befor that time the sd Halm had
sold and delivered it to John Kurk there for the peticoner Craved a,
rehearing in the sd Cause ; the Court order that it be rehard tomorrow
and that Halm wiltbanck have nooties of it this night; the next dae
upon the request of the sd Halm wiltbanck the Cause is refered to by
Tryd the next Court.
The Court Grant unto John Davids by his Atturney Thomas Davids
Two hundred Acres of Land.
Tha Court Grant unto John Croper One Thousand Acres of Land;
warrants Given out the 6th 12 mo, 16S1.
A Deede of sale Accknowlidged in open. Court by Edward Southrin
Atturney to John Outim unto Henry Bowman of A plantacon house
and Land Lyeing and being near Ceeder Creeke.
This day Elizabeth Carter the Late wife of Otto WooUgast deceased
peticoned the Court to be Admited to Adminnister on the Estate of
hur deceased Husband; for that the Executrx Appointed in the Will
by the said Otto WooUgast have nedglected to Adminnister for the
space of six Moneths and upwards Afer the death of the said Otto
WooUgast all though they had sone after his death nooties there of
given unto them and a Copie of the said will ; for which Reasons the
Court doe grant Letters of Adminnistracon unto WilUam Carter and
Elizabeth his wife; They puting in suflicent securely to the Court to
give in a true Inventory of all the Estate goods and Chattels that, the
said Otto WooUgast was possessed of at the time of his Death or just
befor; and to be accoumptable for the same and pay and satisfie the

58 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
debts and Leigeses of the said Otto WooUgast According as the Law
directs in that Case. William Carter and EUzabeth his wife have this
day in open Court proved the Last will and Testament of Otto Wool-
gast deceased being in writinge; which is by the Court ordered to be
recorded; Justices Luke Wattson John Roades Wm; Clark signed
the dockett.
December [l]3th.
Att A Court Held for the Towne and County of Deale by the Kings
Authority the 13th day of the Moneth Called December Anno Dm
16S1. Commisconers present: Luke Wattson John Kiphaven;
William Clark.
Plea upon the Case. Capt John Avery pit, Peter Groundyk deft.
An Action of the Case upon An Attachment. Alex Draper pit,
Robert Milleher deft.
An Action of the Case. Henry Bowman pit, James welles and
John newall defts; Wittneses Jo Croper Tho. Pinder Robt John
son Will Rodeney & WiU Keene. In Novmb. Cot. Jurey Men: Alex
Draper Samll Gray Nat Walker Danil Brown Jo Smith Nathanil
Bradford Henry Stracker.
An Action of Debt. William Clark pit, Robt Williams Deft;
"refered" and finally "with drawen."
Peticon. Henry Harmon Agt, Halm wiltbanck deft; Wittneses
Ed Southrin Cor Johnson and his wife. The peticoner setting forth
in his peticon that whare as Halm wiltbank Recovered Judgment
of this Court Agt him for Twenty Thousand pounds of Tobacco for
the not giveing him the said Halm wiltbanck possession of the house
plantacon Land and premisses that Comelis Johnson Lives upon
According to Contract; And the peticoner setts forth that the sd
Halm Wiltbanck had no right at that time to Let the said Land to
the peticoner; But that befor that time the said Halm Wiltbanck
had sold and delivered the Land and premisses to one John Kurk;
therefor the peticoner Craved a Rehearing of the said Cause the
Court ordered that the Cause be Rehard the next day that the shreife
doe give nooties thereof to the said Halm Wiltbanck that night; the
next day upon the Request of the said Halm the Cause is Refered
to be Tryd or Rehard the next Court; In december Court it was
proved by the oath of Edward Southrin Cor Johnson and his wife;
That the said Halm Wiltbanck had sold and delivered possession of
the said Land and premisses by Tufe and Twig unto the sd John
Kurk; befor the sd Halm Wiltbanck Let to the peticonr the Judg
ment of the Court therefor is that the said Halm Wiltbanck had no
Right or power to Let the said Land to the peticoner; And there
fore doe order that the Judgment obtained formerly in this Court
Agt the peticoner at the suit of the said Halm Wiltbanck be void
and the peticoner satt at Libirty from his Imprisonment; and that
the said Halm Wiltbanck doe pay the peticoner his damiages sus-
tayned; with Cost of suit; Alias Executcion;
Alexander Moulston pit, Henry Harmon deft — An Action of the
Case with drawen by order of the pit.
Thomas Davids pit, Anthony Enlose deft — An Action of defamacon
with drawen by order of the pit.

COURT RECORDS. 59
_ An Action of the Case. Capt John Avery pit, ffrancis Gunby deft;
¦wittneses, Thomas Pinder John Barnett & Jane Holiway. [In re.
to purchase of a horse]. Jury men: Norton Claypoole Daniell Browne
ComeUs Verhoofe Capt Marsh Robert Bracey WilUam ffootcher
John Hill. [Jury men's names written on margin].
An Action of the Case. Capt Avery pit, fra Gunby deft. [In re.
to purchase of "A Clorth of silver peaty Coat" Eleaver or Twelve
years since].
An Action of the Case. Capt Jo Avery pit, Ben Coudrey deft.
An Action of the Case. Alex Moulston pit, Thomas Davids deft;
"¦with drawen" by order of the pit.
An Action of the Case. Alex Moulston pit. Rich Gill Deft; "with
drawen" by order of tha pit.
An Action of Debt. WiUiam Clark pit, Robert Johnson deft;
"Refered." An Action of the Casa. Richard GiU pit, Alex Moulston deft.
An Action of the Case. Richard Gill pit, Alex Moulston deft: non
suit. An Action of the Case. Robert WiUiams pit, Richard Gill deft;
"with drawen."
An Action of the Case. Jacob Shattham pit, Thomas Davids
deft; "refered."
An Action of the Case upon A Repleavey. Peter Groundyk pit.
Halm Wiltbanck deft. The pit. declare that he Left in the Custidy
of the deft fiftye three dutch Ells and a halfe of duffells or Trading
Clorth to sell for the pit [etc.].
Halm Wiltbank pit, Peter Groundyk deft; "refered."
An Action of the Case upon an Attachment. Peter Groundyk pit,
WiUiam Carter Adminst, "refered."
An Action of defamacon or Slander. Mathias Everson pit, John
oakey & his wife deft; Wittnes william prentice.
An Action of  . ffrancis Rumbolt pit, William Carter Ad-
minist to otto wooUgast Estate deft.
An Action of the Case, ffrancis Rumbolt pit, Harmon Comelison
deft; "refered."
An Action of Debt. John Kiphaven pit, Richard Patte deft;
"with drawen."
An Action of Debt. Thomas Atthow pit, Henry Stracher & Wil
liam Clark defts; "Refered."
An Action of Debt. Capt Marton Creagor pit, Anthony Hamen*
AUas Haverly deft ; "Refered."
Attachment. Harmon Comelison pit, the Estate of John Shackley
deceased in the Custidy of Alex Moulston deft ; The Court refer Judg
ment. A patton of foure Hundred Acres of Land Accknowlidged in
open Court by James Welles and William Emitt Authorized by
Mary his wife unto George Young and to his heires and Assignes
for ever.
The above patton of foure hundred Acres of Land was Accknowl
idged in open Court by Georg Young unto John Jenings and to his
heires and Assignes for ever.
* This name sometimes seems to be Hamen and at others like Hancen.

60 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
A patton of one Thousand Acres of Land Accknowlidged in open
Court by John depree to Henry Bowman; and to his heires and As
signes for ever.
A deede of Conveyance of the above said parcell of one Thousand
Acres of Land was this day in open Court signed sealed & delivered
from John depree to Henry Bowman; upon Condition that the said
Henry Bowman ded befor the Court Consent and Agree that he his
Executors Administrators or Assignes ; should never here after expect
or Compell the said John Depree his heires Executors Administrators
or Assignes to make the said Land Cleare or free any further then his
right or any Claiming under him; any thing Contained in the deede
of Conveyance to the Contrary notwithstanding.
Peticon. Joane Streate Agt William Clark.
A patton of three Hundred Acres of Land Accknowlidged and As
signed over in open Court; by William Clark and Honnor his wife
unto WilUam Durnall; and to his Heires and Assignes for ever.
The Court Grant unto Luke Wattson Juner upon A peticon put
into this Court for that purpose; the three Hundred Acres of Land
that was James Leyes; he paying for the patton; he the said James
Leyes never seating or Improving any part of the said Land; ab
senting himself out of the Country; if Clear from the Lawfull Claim
of any other.
The Court Grant unto WilUam DurnaU [DurvaU?] of the Citty of
New York, Merchant One Thousand Acres of Land; warrant Given
out ye 10th 12 rpo; 1681.
The Court Grant unto John Savidge Eighte hundred Acres of Land;
warrant Given out the 10th, 12 mo; 1681.
The Court Grant unto Abraham Potter three Hundred Acres of
Land; warrant Given out the 22th 11 mo; 16S1.
The Court Grant unto WilUam Butler Thurty Acres of Land Ad
joyning to his Land allrady taken up; wart Given out ye 6th, 4 mo;
1682. Henry Bowman peticoning the Court and setting forth that he
have Lost Two warrant that he had to take up six hundred Acres
of Land for John Finch and foure hundred Acres of Land for Yoakom
Goylack the Court doe order the Clark to give him the peticoner Two
new warrants upon Conditcon th&.t the other Two which are said to
be Lost be void and of no Effect; & to be given unto the Clark when
found if ever thay be.
This day John Kiphaven proved by his oath that the Estate of
otto wooUgast deceased standeth Justly Indebted unto him as fol
loweth; [etc.].
Luke Wattson John Kiphaven Wm; Clark Signed the Dockett.
Janwary 10th, 1681.
Att A Court Held for the Towne and County of Deale By the
Kings Authority the 10th day of the Moneth Called Janwary Anno;
Dm; 1681; Commiconers present Luke Wattson John Roades
John Kiphaven William Clark.
Plea upon the Case. Capt John Avery pit, Peter Groundyk deft;
the Court Cause an non suit to be entered Agt the pit with Cost of
suit Alias Execution.

COURT RECORDS. 61
An Action of tha Case. Capt John Avery pit, Beniamin Coudrey
deft; Robt Hart senr wittnes & Halm Wiltbanck.
An Action of Debt; [Tobacco] WiUiam Clark pit, Robt Johnson
deft; Execution given out 10th, 12 mo; 16S1.
[Debt ISX "Bushells" of Indian Corn.] Jacob Shaltham pit,
Thomas Davids deft.
An Action of the Case upon a Repleavey. Peter Groundyk pit.
Halm Wiltbanck deft; [In re. to same piece of "Clorth" mentioned
previously.] Halm Wiltbanck pit, Peter Groundyk deft. In december Court
the deft not being here and there not being A full Court of Justices
without the defts Atturney; the Cause was Refered unto this Court;
the pit declare that he sent seaven Beavers and A halfe by the deft
to be delivered unto Capt Mountveale at new york; which the deft
owne that he ded not deliver them; According to the pits order the
Court therefor passe Judgment Agt the deft for the seaven Beavers
and a halfe ¦with Cost of suit Alias Execution.
An Action of the Case upon an Attachment. Peter Groundyk
pit, William Carter Adminstrator to otto WooUgast Estate deft; with
drawen." An Action of the Case, ffrancis Rumbolt pit, William Carter Ad
ministrator to otto WooUgast Estate deft. In december Court the
pit not being here and there not being A full Court of Justices with
out the pits Atturney being John Kiphaven the Cause was Refered
untill this Court the pit declars that otto WooUgast was Indebted
unto him upon Account in the year 1674; In the sume of one hun
dred sixty six gilders. But the pit not proveing any Lawfull demand
in all that time of the said sume; and the deft pleades the statute
of Limentaticon the Court there for order an non suit to be
entered Agt the pit with Cost of suit Alias Execution.
An Action of the Case, ffrancis Rumbolt pit, Harmon Comelison
deft. * * * The pit declars that the deft stands indebted unto
him upon Account in the yeare 1674; In the sume of 128 gilders to
be paid in Beaver * * * [This case is similar to the preceding
one.] An Action of Debt. Thomas Atthow pit, Henry Stracher & William
Clark defts. In december Court there not being a full Court of Jus
tices without one of the defts the Cause was Refered untill this Court
The pit declare by his Atturney John Hill that the defts stands Justly
Indebted by thera obligacon under there hands and seales in forteene
Thousand pounds of Tobacco; Conditioned for the makeing a good
tittel of the Land & premisses that Henry Stracher one of the defts
now Live upon unto the pit or his Assignes the defts Craves a Referance
untill the next Court which the Court Grant them.
An Action of Debt. Capt Marton Creagor pit, Anthony Hamen
Alias Haverly deft- "Refered."
Attachment. Harmon CorneUson pit. The Estate of John Shackley
deceased in the Custidy of Alex Moulston deft. In december Court
the pit declare that the Estate of John Shackley deceased stands
Justly Indebted unto him in seaven hundred sixty five pounds of
Tobacco Two Beavers in Peltrey And fortye gilders all upon A Judgmt
obtained in this Court the 13th day of April 16S0; Agt the Estate
of the sd John Shackley deceased as by the records it doth Appear

62 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
* * * The Court doe still refere passing Judgment for the pit
untill the next Court.
An Action of the Case. Samwell Gray pit, Cornelias Creagor deft;
with drawen by order of the pit.
An Action of the Case. John Kiphaven pit, William Carter deft;
•with drawen by Consent and the deft to pay Cost of suit.
An Action of Debt. Richard Bundock pit, William Davids deft;
with drawen by order of the pit and deft.
An Action of Debt. Peter Groundyk pit. Halm Wiltbanck deft;
* * * the defts pleads payment and Craves A Referance untill
the next Court to prove the same which the Court Grant.
Upon the Complaint of Parritt the Indian Shackamacker AUeadg-
ing that Henry Bowman and others 'takes his Lands and gives him
no satisfacon for it; the Court doe therefor order that every person
that seate any Land shall pay unto the Indian proprietor for every
parcell of Land of six hundred Acres or under one Match Coote and if
a bove six hundred Acres Two Match Cootes; And that at the time
of the Indian Receiveing the Coote or Cootes to Convey the sd Land
to the person that he receive the sd Coote or Cootes of; And if any
person doe or shall refuse to pay the Indians for the Land as a forsaid;
Executcon to be given out for the same directed to the shreife to Exe
cute and pay to the Indian.
William Townsend peticon Agt Halm Wiltbanck. The peticoner
setts forth that he moved brought and sett up 450 Logs on the Towne
Lotts Intending to fence and plant there by the defts sence which the
deft have carried the Logs or part of them away & Converted them
to his own use; the peticoner therfor Craves order of this Court for
his Labour; it is agreed by the peticoner and the deft that he shall
have what he sold to William [donneall?] and no more.
The Court fines John Barnett fifty pounds of Tobacco for smocking
Tobacco in the Court.
The Court Grant unto William Clark five hundred Acres of Land;
warrant Given out the 6th, 12 mo, 1681.
The Court Grant unto Thomas Pemberton Eighte hundred Acres
of Land; warrant given out the 6th, 12 mo, 1681.
Tha Court Grant unto Phillip Morrise one hundred Acres of Land
more then what he had a grant for befor; warrant Given out 10th
11 mo, 1681; for the whole.
The Court Grant unto william page foure hundred Acres of Land;
warrant Given out the llth 11 mo, 1681.
Luke Wattson John Roades John Kiphaven Wm. Clark Signed
the Dockett.
Ffebruary 14th, 1681.
Att a Court Held att Deale for the Towne and County of Deale
by the Kings Authority the 14tli day of the Moneth Called ffebruary
Anno; Dm; 1681. Commisconers present: Luke Wattson, John
Roades, John Kiphaven, William Clark.
An Action of Debt. Thomas Atthow pit, Henry Stracher & WiU
iam Clark defts. In December Court there not being a full Court
of Justices without one of the defts; the Cause was refered untill
Janwry Court at which time the pit declared by his Atturney John
Hill That the defts Stands Justly Indebted unto the pit by there obU-

COURT RECORDS. 63
gacon under there hands & seales in forteene Thousand pounds of
good sound Merchantable Tobacco in Caske; Conditconed for the
Makeing good tittel of the Land & premisses that Henry Stracher
one of the defts now Live upon; unto the pit or his Assignes; the defts
Craves a referance unto this Court which the Court Granted them;
this Court the defts promiseing to Asure and Convey the said Land
befor the next Court the Cause is therefor by the Court refered untill
the next Court.
An Action of Debt. Capt Martton Creagor pit, Anthony' Hamen
alias Haverle deft. [By Consent of pit, refered from Dec. Court to
Jan., and from Jan. Court to March Court.]
An Action of Debt upon An Attachment. Harmon Comelison
pit, the Estate of John Shackley deceased in the Custice of Alex Moul
ston deft. * * * the Court ded Refere passing Judgmt untill
this Court whare the Administrator was three times called and he
or they not Appearing the Court passe Judgment for the pit Agt the
Effects of the said John Shackley deceased that is in the Custidy of
the said Alex Moulston being one Thousand one hundred and fortye
pounds of Tobacco AUas Executcon. •
An Action of Debt. Peter Groundyk#^t, Halm Wiltbanck deft.
An Action of Debt, ffrancis Gunby^^t, Richard Lawes deft;
["non-suit"]. An Action of ye Case. Halm Wiltbanck pit, Anthony Hamen deft;
["refered untill the next Court"].
An Action of the Case. Anthony Hamen pit, Cornelis Johnson
deft; the pit and deft being prevented from Coming by reason of
bad weather the Court order that the Cause be refered untill the next
Court. An Action of the Case. Nortton Claypoole pit, John Oakey Deft;
["refered untill the next Court"].
An Action of the Case. Richard Bundock pit, Cornelis Johnson
deft; ["with Drawen"].
An Action of Debt. Nortton Claypoole pit, John Johnson Senr
Deft; ["Judgmt for the pit * * * with Cost of suit Alias Exe
cution"]. Action of the Case. William Carter Adminstrator to the Estate
of Otto WooUgast deceased Pit, Robert Johnson Deft; [Judgmt for
the pit * * * with Cost of suit Alias Execution;"].
An Action of Trasspasse upon the Case. Luke Wattson Pit, Henry
Skidemor deft; wittnes Hen Smith & Hen Bowman. The pit de
clare that he was possessed of a Tract of Land on Slatter neck; and
that the deft ded Cutt his trees and timber and Committed A Trass-
pase on the Pits Land to the daimag of the Pit five and Twenty
pounds sterl money the deft by his Atturney Edward Southrin pleads
that the sd Lands is the defts, the Cause is put to the triail of A
Jurey which went out and after debate Brought in there verdict
that they find for the Pit with Twelve pence daimg and Cost of suit
the Court passe Judgmt for the Pit According to the verdict of the
Jurey Alias Execution. Jurey men — Halm Wiltbanck Samwell Gray
John Hill Edward Williams William Carter Alex Moulston William
Rodeney. An Action of Trasspasse upon the Case. Henry Bowman pit,
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Harmon Comelison. The pit declares that the deft have Committed
a Traspass upon his Land by Cutting his trees and Timber; the deft
pleades that the Land is his the Cause is put to a Jurey which went out
and brought in there verdict ; the pit being three times Called in Court
and not Appearing suffered an non suit; Jury men Halm wiltbank
Sam Gray John Hill will Carter Alexander Moulston John depree
William Rodeney.
An Action of Debt. Henry Smith Pit, daniell Browne deft; ["re
fered untill the next Court;"].
An Action of Debt. Henry Smith Pit, WiU Clark deft; ["refered
untill the next Court' '].
The Court fines William Rodeney fifty pounds of Tobacco for smock
ing Tobacco in the Court.
The Court Grant unto James Gray one Thousand Acres of Land
warrant given out the same day.
The Court Grant unto John Maccomb five hundred Acres of Land;
warrant Given out the same day.
The Court Grant unto Alex Moulston five hundred Acres of Land;
warrant Given out the same day.
John Roades have to this day pay due to him for foure woolfes
heads. The Court Grant unto Thomas Hassold foure hundred Acres of
of Land; warrant Given out ye 25 12 mo, 1681.
The Court Grant unto Robert Warrin three hundred Acres of Land
warrant Given out ISth Insint.
The Court Grant unto Thomas dunton six hundred Acres of Land
warrant Given out the ISth Insint.
The Court Grant unto John Hill Two Hundred Acres of Land to
be aded to his former grant of three hundred Acres; wart given out
the 24th 12 mo, 1681.
The Court Grant unto John Kiphaven five hundred Acres of Land
warrant Given out the same day.
The Court Grant unto William Rodeney five hundred Acres of
Land warrant Given out the same day.
* * * unto Nortton Claypoole — SOO acres — warrant 27th 12
mo, 1681.
* * * unto Robert Hudson — 500 acres — warrant 31th 11 mo,
1682.- * * * unto William Trippoth — 300 acres — warrant 31th 11 mo,
1682. * * * unto Samwell Gray — 500 acres — warrant 6th 11 mo, 1682.
* * * unto Richard Lawes — 200 acres — warrant 24th 12 mo,
1681 ; ["to be Aded to his former Grant of three hundred Acres;"].
A deede of Conveyance of ISO Acres of Land in Kickoutneck past
and Accknowlidge by Anthony Inlose unto John Kiphaven and to
his heires and assignes forever.
A deed of Conveyance of three hundred Acres of Land in Kickout
neck past and Accknowlidged by Alex Moulston & Robert Trayle
unto John Kiphaven and to his heires and Assignes for ever.
* * * unto Edward WiUiams — SOO Acres — warrant 24th 12
mo, 1681.
"A patton and Conveyance" of 196 Acres "this day Assigned by
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St Giles Lyeing in a neck Called Parritts neck Adjoyning unto the
Land of Daniell Browne near Pagan Creeke;"
Upon the peticon of Henry Skidemor for a new Trial in the Cause
that was this day trid betwene Luke Wattson and the petr the Court
doe grant order that if the peticoner please he may have a new trial
the next Court.
Ordered by the Court that the Certivecates that Cornelis verhoofe
this day presented to the Court to be signed Allowed by the Court
being now in the Custidy of the Clark; be Certified and signed save
onely that of Nathanil Walker that hath took in the house plantacon
and Land that Thomas and night Haward Live upon seated and have
a, patton for it and one of Stephen whetmans that doe take away the
previlidg of John Kiphaven goeing to the Marsh onely excepted.
Luke Wattson the presedent of this Court enters his desent as to
the order of a non Trial betwene himselfe and Henry Skidemore.
Luke Wattson John Roades John Kiphaven William Clark, Signed
the Dockett.
The persons under named ware fined by the Court for not working
in the High ways after Leagaly warned there unto as followeth ;
Tobacco. Tobacco
WiUiam Durvalls man  100 lb WiU Page  050 lb
John Roades  100 ComeUs Johnson  050
John Kiphaven  100 Richard Patte  OSO
WilUam Clark  100 DanieU Browne  050
Alex Moulston  100 Thomas denison  050
Nortton Claypoole  100 Thomas Streacher  050
Henry Bowman  100 Robert Johnson  OSO
John HiU  100 BarnweU Jackson  OSO
William ffootcher  200 ffrancis Gunby  050
WiU Emitt  OSO Thomas Hassold  050
Mathias Everson  050 Robert Mudock  OSO
Richard Shoulter  050 Thomas Haward  OSO

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March 14th, 15th, 1681.
Att A Court Held at Deale for the Towne and County of Deale
By the Kings Authority the 14th and iSth days of the Moneth Called
March Anno Dm: 16S1-82; Justices present; Luke Wattson John
Roades John Kiphaven William Clark.
An Action of Debt. Thomas Atthow pit, Henry Stracher and Wil
liam Clark defts. [Cause refered from December Court last past
untill Janwary Court; * * * when the defts Craved A referance
untill febuary Court. * * * in Feburey Court the defts promising
to Asure and Convey the sd Land befor or at the next Court; the
Cause was therefor by the Court Refered untill this Court; at which
time the said Land and premisses was Conveyed & Asured unto
nortton Claypoole the Assignes of the pit; whare for the pit Atturney
with drawes the Action; in open Court; by Consent of the defts.]
An Action of Debt. Capt Marton Creagor Pit, Anthony Hancen
AUas Haverly deft. [Refered from December Court untiU Janwary
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was by Consent of the Pit Atturney Cor Verhoofe Refered untill the
next Court.]
An Action of Debt. Peter Groundyk pit. Halm Wiltbanck deft.
The Cause having been refered from both the "Janwary" Court and
the "febuary" Court, is now-in the March Court "refered untill the
next Court."
An Action of the Case. Halm Wiltbanck Pit, Anthony Hamen
deft. * * * the deft being prevented by bad wheather from
Coming to [the February] Court; the Court refered the Cause untill
this Court [when it was tried by Jury — verdict — -the pit had no Cause
of Action — and Should pay Cost of suit]. Alias Execution. Jurey
men — [E]d Williams Jos Barsteede Danll Browne [H]en Stracher
will Rodeney Andrew depree [JJohn depree.
An Action of the Case. Anthony Hamen Pit, Comelis Johnson
deft. In febuary Court the Pit and deft being prevented from
Coming to the Court by reasion of bad wheather * * * [refered
untill this Court] * * * Court order an non suit to be entered
for the deft Agt the pit wt Cost of suit Alias Executon.
An Action of the Case, nortton Claypoole Pit, John oakey deft.
[Referred from Feb. Court to this Court; the Action now "with
drawen."] An Action of Debt. Henry Smith Pit, Daniell Browne deft. In
febuary Court the deft being out of the County his wife Craved A
Reference untill this Court and this Court the pit declared by his
Atturney Thomas Hassold that the deft stands Indebted unto him
in one Thousand seaven hundred and fiftye pounds of pork; the deft
promise to pay the sd sume by the next Court and Craved a referance
untill then which the Court Granted.
An Action of Debt. Henry Smith pit, WilUam Clark deft. [From
Feb. Court, and now withdrawn.]
An Action of the Case. Halm Wiltbanck Pit, ffrancis Gunby deft.
[Judgment for the Pit Agt the deft for the said sume of 8761b of To
bacco with Cost of suit; Alias Execution.]
An Action of the Case. WilUam Trotter Pit, Edward Southrin
deft; the pit declare that the deft ded stop and detayne his working
Tooles and a Cart wheale & other goods the Court doe order that
the deft doe forth with deliver unto the pit his said Tooles wheale
and other goods with Cost of suit Alias Execution.
An Action of the Case, ffrancis Gunby pit. Halm wiltbanck deft;
* * * the Court therefor passe Judgment for the pit Agt the deft
for the said sume of 940 lb of Tobacco with Cost of suit AUas Exe
cution. Henry Skidemore pit or peticoner Agt Luke Wattson; * * *
the Court order an non suit to be entered Agt the pit with Cost of
suit AUas Execution.
^ An Action of the Case. Capt John Avery pit, Richard Patte deft;
["with drawen in open Court"].
An Action of the Case. Halm wiltbanck Pit, Henry Bowman deft;
[non suit entered].
An Action of Debt. WiUiam Clark Pit, John Hagester deft; [Judg
ment for pit].
An Action of the Case. WiUiam DarvaU Pit, CorneUs Johnson
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An Action of the Case. Halm Wiltbanck Pit, W-iUiam Townsend
deft; [¦with drawn in open Court].
An Action of the Case upon an Attachment. William Clark Pit,
James Welles Estate in Custidy of Alex draper deft.
An Action of the Case upon An Attachment. William DarvaU Pit,
James Welles Estate in Custidy of Alex Draper deft; [' ' with drawen "].
An Action of Trasspase and Ejectment. Henry Bowman Pit,
Alex Draper deft; ["with drawen"].
An Action of the Case upon an Attachment. William Clark Pit,
Daniell Browne Estate in the sd Pits hands deft; * * * the
Cause is refered untill the next Court.
An Action of Debt. John Hagester Pit, WiUiam Emitt deft. Re
fered untill the next Court.
The Court Grant unto William Keninge three hundred Acres of
Land; wart Given out the llth 2 mo, 1682.
The Court Grant unto Jacob Shattain Three hundred Acres of
Land; Warrant Given out the 15th Insint.
* * * untoWilliamWargent, 300 Acres; Warrant 2 2 mo, 1682.
* * * unto WilUam Dunton, 400 Acres; Warrant 18 1 mo, 1682.
* * * unto DanieU Darby, 600 Acres; Warrant 11 2 mo, 1682.
renewed ye llth 7 br, 86.
* * * unto Thomas HaU, 600 Acres; Warrant llth 2 mo, 1682.
unto John vines, 400 Acres; Warrant 2th 2 mo, 1682.
unto Jeffrey Sumerford, 300 Acres; Warrant 2th 2 mo,
unto Richard Tendall, 400 Acres; Warrant 2th 2 mo,
unto Samwell Heights, 400 Acres; Warrant 2th 2 mo,
unto Robert foster, 900 Acres; Warrant 18th 1 mo, 1682.
unto Robert Burtton, 600 Acres; by Baptis newcomb;
Warrant Sth 2 mo, 1682.
* * * unto Abraham Potter, 300 Acres; Warrant 4th 2 mo,
1682. * * * unto Henry Moulston, SOO Acres; Warrant the same day.
* * * unto John Barrows, 400 Acres; Warrant same day ; Wart
given out ISth 1 mo, 16S2.
* * * unto Harcklos Sheepard, 300 Acres; Wart 16th day of
same mo.
* * * unto Richard Harvey, 300 Acres; Wart 2th 8 mo, 16S2.
* * * unto John Townsend, SOO Acres; Wart same day.
* * * unto Thomas Besent, SOO Acres; Wart same day.
The Court Grant unto Edward Southrin tha three hundred Acres
of Land that was Edward Cooks if free from the Lawfull Claime of
all other persons; warrant Given out the same day.
* * * unto John Roades, five hundred Acres; wart 18th
1 mo, 1682.
* * * unto MicheU Chambers, 300 Acres; wart 10th 2 mo,
unto Francis Gupby, 400 Acres; wart 4th 2 mo, 1682.
unto John Depree, 300 Acres; wart 9th 3 mo. 1682.
unto Jacob Depree, 300 Acres; wart 9th 3 mo, 1682.
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The Court Grant unto William Planer one Thousand Acres of Land
upon Slatter neck whare Henry Skidemore now Live on Condition
that he takes into his survey no Land that any other person have any
Lawfull Claim unto; Warrant given out the Sth Sth mo, 1683.
* * * unto Cornelis verhoofe, 1000 Acres; Warrant 2th 2 mo, 82.
* * * unto Henry Stracher, 800 Acres; Warrant 18 Insint.
A patton & Conveyance of Land being six hundred Acres Accknowl
idged in open Court by John depree unto John Saviadge and to his
heires and Assignes forever.
John oakey Peticoner. The peticoner sett forth that severall per
sons are Indebted unto him for sarveing of warrt when he was Con
stable and Craves that the fees that are due to him may be taken By
distrase; which the Court Grant; According to the Laws of the Gover
ment. Joshua Barsteade Peticoner Agt John vines Shreife. The peticoner
setting forth that he was unjustly Accused & Imprisoned for being
A Confeaderate with Trayters And A Concealer of Treasion for which
Crimes he was Cleared by the Court from being Guilty; not with
standing John vines Shreife doe threaten to distrayne for his prison
fees upon the debate of the matter the Court find that the warrant
that the peticoner was committed upon was not According to Law
the Court doe therefor order that the sd Shreif doe not take any fees
of the peticoner for his said Imprissonment.
Wm. ffootcher Peticoner Agt John Johnson Junr. The peticoner
sett forth that he disbursted five hundred pounds of Tobacco for the
deft to save him from Corporall ponishment the Last year; and that
he ran the Hasard of Looseing it if the said deft should a done other
ways then well; the Court doe therefor order that the deft doe pay
unto the pit six hundred pounds of Tobacco with Cost of suit Alias
Execution. A patton and Conveyance of Land Accknowlidged in open Court
by Halmainas Wiltbanck unto Nortton Claploope [sic]; the sd Land
Lyeing and Being Betwene the Land of william Clark and Luke
wattson at the Towne of Deale; And at the same time nortton Clay
poole doe promise and Ingage to Convey and a sure unto Anthony
Hamen Alias Haverly Twenty Acres of the afor said Land; which
was sold by Henry Stracher and is now in the possession of tha sd
Anthony Hamen alias haverly.
Robert Hignett Peticoner Agt william footcher. The peticoner
sett forth that he put his sun An Apprantices with william footcher
for Tenn yeares and that the deft was oblidgd and did give unto his said
Apprantices an Heffer; and that the said Apprentices being sence
dead the peticoner Craves an order for the said Heffer to be and
remayne to the next Heires at Law, and the deft refusing to give his
oath that he gave the Heffer to the sd servant the Court doe order that
the peticoner shall have his request and that the deft doe deliver the
said Heffer to the peticoner for the use of the next Heire at Law being
the sd sarvants youngest Brother with Cost of suit and the sd Heffer
and hur encrease to be to the onely proper use and behoofe of the sd
heire at Law for ever.
The Grand Jurey present Barnwell Jackson and wilUam Trotter
for falling A Tree in the Kings High ways for which the Court fine
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The Grand Jurey present John oakey for haveing a Strang Child
at his house which is not Certainly knowen whoes it is ; Henry Bowman
doe Ingage to save the County Harmless from being put to any Charge
for the maintaining of the said Child.
It is agreed and Concluded upon by the Court and Alexandr Moulston
as followeth ; that from the first day of this moneth the said Alexandr
Moulston shall have to his owne proper use all the Amacements that
doe from that day becom due to the Court for one whole yeare; and
that the said Allix Moulston doe Ingage to find and allow the Justices
of this Court for the time being and there freinds and strangers with
house roome and diett And one gallon of Rum and wine for every
Court during the said year.
April llth, 1682.
Att A Court Held at Deale for the Towne and County of Deale by
the Kings Authority the llth day of the Moneth CaUed April Anno;
Dom; 1682, Commiconers present Luke Wattson John Roades John
Kiphaven William Clark.
An Action of debt. Capt Marton Creagor pit, Anthony Hamen
Alias Haverla deft. [The Cause refered from month to month since
December and now until the June Court. Pits Attorney — Corn
verhoofe.] An Action of Debt. Peter Groundyk Pit, Halm Wiltbanck. [Refered
from the different Courts since January. Now "with drawen".]
An Action of Debt. Capt Henry Smith Pit, daniell Browne deft.
[Since "febuary Court." AUas Execution.]
An action of the Case. William Clark Pit, daniel Browns Estate
in the defts hands deft; [referred until June Court].
An Action of Debt. John Hagester Pit, William Emitt deft ; [' ' with
drawen"]. An Action of the Case. Halm wiltbanck pit, Henry Bowman deft;
* * * the deft not being well and the weather not being fitt to
Tra vile in; the Court grant the deft Referance untill the next Court.
An Action of the Case. William footcher Pit, Robert Hignett deft;
* * * -[jut the weatther not being fitt to Travile in; the Court
Grant the deft A referance untill the next Court.
Traspasse of the Case. Baptis newcomb Pit, John Daniell deft;
Wittneses Cor verhoofe Robt Bracey Junr Rich Shoulter. The pit
declares that the deft did on or about the 21th day of the Moneth
Called March Last past make a forceable Entrey into the pits house
and by force of Arms hath and still and still doth keepe the pit out of
his house and from making A Crop on the said Land; to his damiag
fortye pounds sterl money; The Pit proved by the oath of Cornelis
verhoofe that he surveyed the sd Land by vertue of A warrant from
this Court for the Pit on or about the  and the other Two wettneses
Robt Bracey Junr and Rich Shoulter swore that the Deft did by force
keepe the pit out of his said house ; the deft pleaded by his Atturney
Capt John Avery that his Master nathanil Bradford have A right to
the sd Land, and Craved a referance untill the next Court to prove
the same.
An Action of the Case upon an Attachment. Capt Tho. dellavall
pit, Capt Henry Smith deft. The Pit declara by his Agent William
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An Action of the Case. Peter Groundyk Pit, Corn verhoofe deft.
The Pit declares that the deft stands Justly Indebted unto him in one
Thousand nine hundred fiftye one gilders and fifteene stivers of
wampon upon Account produced in Court the deft Cra;ved A Referance
untill the next Court; the Court grant the deft A refernce untill the
next Court; with drawen.
An Action of the Case. Peter Groundyk pit. Corn verhoofe Deft.
The Pit declares that the deft stand Justly Indebted unto him in six
Cows with Calfe or Calves by there sides ; which the deft sold for the
Pit Att a vandue as vandue master and that the deft hath not paid the
Pit for the same or given him any Account to whome the same ware
sold; the deft plead that he have not his wittneses in a radynes to
Answer this Court, and there for Craves a referance untill the next
Court; which the Court Grant; with drawen.
An Action of the Case. William DarvaU Pit, Henry Bowman deft.
The Pit declares that the deft stand Justly Indebted unto him in
Twenty foure pounds Dutch waight of dear skins and in [money or
peltrey, in Indian Corn, Pork and Tobacco] * * * the Court
granted a referance untill the next Court; at the deft request by his
potcion [being ill].
An Action of debt. Cornelis verhoofe Pit, Peter Groundyk deft;
Wittnes John vines & Halmanis Wiltbanck. The Pit declars that
the deft stands Indebted unto him in three hundred nintye Two
pounds of Tobacco ; by soe much the deft received of the Pit of John
Roades and past his bill to bring or send the produce in Linen from
new York * * *.
An Action of debt. Capt nathanil Walker, Assine of Henry Able
Pit, Peter Groundyk deft. The Pit declare by his Atturney Cornelis
verhoofe that the deft stands Indebted unto him in * * * as
Assine of Henry Able by biU then produced in Court. * * * the
Court order an nonsuit to be entered Agt the Pit with Cost AUas
Execution. An Action of the Case. Halm Wiltbanck Pit, Henry Bowman
deft. With drawen by order of the Pit and the shreife it being a
mistake in a resting the deft upon Two wretts for one and the same
debt. An Action of the Case. Henry Stracher Pit, Peter Groundyk deft;
[referred until next Court].
An Action of the Case. John King Pit, WiU ffootcher deft. The
Pit declars that the deft stands Indebted unto him in foure Cows and
the encrease of them for seaven years; the deft deneys it; and the
Pit not proveing his declaracon or any part of it the Court order an
non suit to be entered Agt the Pit with Cost of suit AUas Execution.
An Action of the Case. Edward WiUiams Pit, Halm Wiltbanck
deft. * * * The Court ordered an non suit to be entered Agt
the Pit with Cost of suit AUas Execution.
Peticoner. WilUam ffootcher Agt John King. The peticoner sett
forth that the deft did promise and agree to Asure and Convey unto
the Pit the three hundred Acres of Land that the peticoner Live upon
ye deft haveing received satisfacon for the same; the deft not Ap
pearing the Court refer the Cause untiU the next Court; with drawen.
CorneUs verhoofe Agt Peter Groundyk by way of fire facous; ["re
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An Action of the Case. Halm Wiltbanck Pit, francis Gunby deft;
["referance untill the next Court; " "¦with drawen"].
An Action of the Case, ffrancis Gunby Pit, Halm Wiltbanck deft;
["Refered * * * untill ye next Court, with drawen"].
An Action of the Case. Halm Wiltbanck Pit, Peter Groundyk
deft. The pit declars that the deft stands Indebted unto him in
six hundred sixty six pounds of Tobacco; by taking and Converting
to his owne use soe much of the pit Tob; of and from the plantacon
that Cornelis Johnson now Live upon being about Two years Last
past; * * * ["Refered"].
The Court Grant unto Simon Parling five hundred Acres of Land;
Wart Given out 13th 2 mo, 1682.
* * * unto Thomas Hasell, 300 Acres; Warrant 17th Insint.
* * * unto Charles Spooner, 300 Acres; Warrant 12th Insint.
The Court Grant unto Capt John Avery the Island Lyeing in Re-
hover Bay Adjoyning unto the land that the sd Capt Avery now
Live upon & to be surveyed and Aded to his Land he live on; wart
given out the 16th Insint.
The Court Grant unto Joseph Lowe three hundred Acres of Land;
wart Given out the 7th 7 mo, 1682.
* * * unto ffrancis Henry, 500 Acres; Warrant 12th 3 mo,
unto Mathew Taylor, SOO Acres; Warrant 9th 3 mo,
unto Rich Kockshall, 300 Acres; Warrant 16 Insint.
unto Stephen Whetman, 600 Acres; Warrant "the same
* * * unto david Cor.sey, 300 Acres; Warrant "the same day."
Comelis verhoofe peticon the Court that he may have an order
of Court to Attache the Estate of Rich dawson for his Clarks and
surveyors fees which are due to him; which the Court Grant unto
the peticoner.
Nathanil Bradford peticons that he may have A warrant to sur
vey the Twelve hundred Acres of Land into one survey that he bought
of John Hagester which the Court Grant unto the peticoner; wart
given out 13th 4 mo, 16S2.
* * * unto Thomas Hassold, 200 Acres "to be Aded unto
his former grant; wart Given out 12th Insint.
* * * unto WilUam Emitt, 400 Acres; Warrant 12th Insint.
* * * unto WilUam Simons, 300 Acres; Warrant llth 3 mo,
1682. * * * unto John Clark, SOO Acres; Warrant 17th Insint, to
John Townsend.
* * * unto Henry Eubanck, 300 Acres; Warrant 17th In
sint, to Tho besent.
The Court Grant unto Peter Groundyk A CaUd Court to be held
to morrow the 12 Insint to Try & determin the 2 Causes that are de
pending Betwene the said Peter Groundyk pit and Cornelis verhoofe
deft that ware this day refered to the next Court.
The Court order the Clark to draw up An Account of the Amace
ments that are due to the Court; and to deliver it to the shreife and
the Court doe order the shreife forth with After it Com in to his hands
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parsons bills for the payment of the severall sumes the 10th day of
October next.
April 12th, 1682.
Att A Calld Court Held at Deale by the Kings Authority the 12th
day of the Moneth Called April Anno: Dm; 1682. Commiconers
present, Luke Wattson, John Roades, John Kiphaven, william Clark.
An Action of the Case. Peter Groundyk pit, Cornelis verhoofe
deft. The pit declars that the deft stands Indebted unto him in
one Thousand nine hundred fiftye one gilder and fifteene stivers of
wampon * * * the Court pass Judgmt for the pit * * * Alias
Execution; Execution given out same day Agt the body of the deft.
An Actioh of the Case. Peter Groundyk pit, Cornelis verhoofe
deft. The pit declars that the deft tooke upon him selfe to sell six
Cows of the pits for him as vandue Master which the deft have given
the pit no Account or satisfacon for the said Cattell; the deft pleads
that the Cattell that he sold at A vandue was none of the pits but
that they ware at that time Capt John Averys. The pit proved by
the oath of John vines shreife that five of the Cows that was sold
at the vandue by the deft; was the Cattell of the pits. * * *
[Judgment for the pit.]
May 10th, 1682.
Att A Calld Court Held at Deale by the Kings Authority the 10th
day of the Moneth Called May Anno; Dm; 16S2. Commiconers pres
ent Luke Wattson John Kiphaven William Clark.
An Action of the Case. Cornelis verhoofe pit, Peter Groundyk
deft. The pit declare that the deft stands Indebted unto him in
seaven hundred ninty three gilders and Twelve stivers by an Account
produced in Court. * * * [Judgment for the pit.]
An Action of the Case. Cornelis verhoofe pit, Peter Groundyke
deft. The pit declars that the deft stand Indebted unto him in
seaven hundred ninty one gild upon Account produced .in Court Agt
the deft; being mostly for Atturneys fees and work done a bout his
sloop; the deft haveing nedglexted to take A Copie of the said Ac
count from the Clark; Craves of the Court that he may have Two
or three hours time to vew the said Account befor he pleads to it;
which the Court Granted unto the deft; and the deft had the Ac
count delivered to him According to his request and after he had
vewed it returne into the Court and pleaded that the pit promise
that he would not take any Atturney fees of the deft for the manigmt
of his affairs and that for the worke he had done about the defts sloop
he had pd the pit for it; but did not prove his plea; the Court finding
that the pit have Charged to much in his sd Account for Atturneys
fees; the Court AUow him onely foure hundred Gilders for his At
turneys fees; and the rest of the said Account being fiftye one Gilders
the pit swaring to it; the Court passe Judgment for the pit. * * *
with Cost of suit Alias Executcion.
An Action of the Case. Cornelis verhoofe pit, Peter Groundyk
deft. The pit declare that the deft-stands Indebted to him * * *
[Tobacco, part of which being an Assigned biU of Henry Able to
nathanil walker * * * Judgment for pit * * * with cost
of suit; Alias Execution.

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An Action of the Case. Cornelis verhoofe Pit, Peter Groundyk
deft. The Pit declare that the deft Imployed him to sell at A vandue
severall Cows; and that the deft sued the Pit in this Court and re
covered Judgment of Court Agt the Pit for the Effects that the sd
Cows ware sold at; being fine Cows; and the deft tooke out Execu
tion upon the sd Judgment of Court and Charged the same on the
body of the pit; not withstanding the deft have received of John Hill
Eighte hundred Twenty one pounds of Tobacco at halfe a peney ^
lb. in part of payment of one of said fine Cows which was sold for
fortye seaven shillings; and one of the said fine Cows the deft bought
at the vandue himselfe at 33 shill both which the deft owne in Court;
the Court therefor passe Judgment for the Pit Agt the deft for the
said sumes of Eighte hundred Twenty one pounds of Tobacco at
halfe peney ^ lb. and one pound thurteene shill with cost of suit
Alias Execution.
The Court fine Peter Groundyke for smoking Tobacco in the Court
fiftye pounds of Tobacco.
The Court fine Comelis verhoofe for smoking Tobacco in Court
fiftye pounds of Tobacco.
The Court fine Mathias vandehyden for smoking Tobacco in the
Court fiftye pounds of Tobacco.
The Court order Cornelis verhoofe to receive of Peter Groundyk
the Amacemts due to the Court from the said Peter Groundyk in
the time that the said ComeUs verhoofe was Clark of this Court And
Upon non payment on demand Execution is to Issue out Agt the
said Peter Groundyk for the sd Amacements of Court; Alias Execu
tion; and the sd Corn verhoofe to be Accountable to the Court for
what he shall receive.
Comelis verhoofe produceing in Court An Account Agt Peter
Groundyk for Clarks fees being the sume of one Thousand three
hundred Twenty seaven gilders due to him for fees in the time that
he was Clark of this Court; and Craves an Execution Agt the said
Peter Groundyk for the said sume; (the Court Excamining the petic-
lors Charged in the said Account for Clark fees) doe order that if
the said Peter Groundyk doe not pay the said sume on demand that
then Execution shall be given out Agt the said Peter Groundyk for
the said sume of one Thousand Three hundred Twenty seaven gilders.
June 13th, Uth, 1682.
Att A Court Held at Deale for the Towne and County of Deale
By the Kings Authoritye the 13 th and 14th days of the Moneth
CaUed June, Anno; Dm; 1682. Commiconers present: Luke Wattson
John Kiphaven WilUam Clark.
An Action of Debt. Capt Marton Creagor Pit, Anthony Hamen
Alias Haverla deft; [Cornelis verhoofe the Pits Atturney. "The
Cause was refered" from the December Court, appearing each month,
and now is "Refered * * * untill the next Court"].
An Action of the Case. William Clark Pit, Daniell Browne Estate
in the Pit hands Deft; [Carried over from March Court, and now
"Judgment is Refered untill September Court"].
An Action of the Case. Halm Wiltbanck Pit, Henry Bowman Deft.
In April Court * * * the deft not Being well and the weather
not being fitt to Travile in; the Court Grant tha deft A Referance

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untill June Court; and in June Court the Pit ordered that the Action
be with drawen.
An Action of the Case. William footcher Pit, Robert Hignett Deft.
In Ap Court * * * the weather not being fitt to Travil in the
Court Grant the deft A Referance untill this Court. * * * goe
that the Court passe Judgmt for the Pit * * * with Cost of
suit Alias Execution.
An Action of Traspass of the Case. Baptis newcomb Pit, John
Daniell Deft. Wittneses Robt Bracey senr Robt Bracey Junr John
Johnson senr Rich Shoulter Mathias Everson. In April Court
the Pit declared that the deft did on or about the 21th day of Moneth
Called March Last past make a forceable entery into the Pit house
and by force of Arms hath and still doth keepe the Pit out of his
house ; and from makeing A Crop on the said Land to the Pit damiag
ffortye pounds sterling money; the Pit proved by the oath of Corn
verhoofe that he surveyed the said Land by vertue of A wart ob
tained from this Court for the Pit on or about the moneth of Decem
ber Last past; And the other Two wittneses Robt Bracey Junr and
Richard Shoulter sware that the deft did by force keepe the Pit out
of his sd house; the deft pleaded by his Atturney Capt John Avery
that his master nathanil Bradford have a right to the said Land;
And Craves A Reference untill the next Court to prove the same
which the Court Granted; In June Court the deft prove by the oath
of Richard Shoulter that nathanil Bradford did Clear part of the
said Land and did plant sume Corn on the said Clear Land; And did
hire sume men to build A house on the said Land; which men did
deceive him; Mathias Everson sware that he did worke foure days
on the said Land by order of nathanil Bradfor [sic] Towards the
geting A frame for A house; the Pit proved by the oath of Robert
Bracey senr that the Pit built the first house on the said Land; and
Robert Bracey Junr sware that there never was any Com Tended
on the said Land by the said nathanil Bradford or his order; but
that there was About one hundred Corn hills made on the said Land
the Cause was Left to A Jurey of Twelve men and debated on both
sids [sic] after which the Jurey went out and brought in there verdict
that they finde for the Pit Twelve pence daimage with cost of suit;
the Court passe Judgmt According to the verdict of the Jurey Alias
Execution; Jurey men nortton Claypoole Alexander Draper Sam
well Gray Halmaines wiltbanck Richard Lawes Henry Stracher Wil
liam Carter Anthony Hamen william Kening George Young Henry
Bowman John depree.
An Action of the Case. Henry Stracher Pit, Peter Groundyk
deft. [From April Court * * * ju June Court the Cause was
put to A Jurey — ^verdict for pit. with cost of suit.] Jurey men — N
Claypoole Alex Draper Hal Mainas Will Carter Will Kening Geo
Young Hen Bowman Jo Depree.
CorneUs verhoofe Agt Peter Groundyk by way of searifacous.
[From April Court, the deft, to shew cause for not paying "the Pit.
the Clarks feese that are due to him in a Cause formerly depending
in this Court; Betwene the deft and Capt John Avery;" * * *]
An Action of the Case. Halm Wiltbanck Pit, Peter Groundyk deft.
Wittnes Anthony Hamen Corn Johnson & Hen Stracher. [From
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Twelve pence damiag and Cost of suit."] Jurey men nortton Clay
poole Alexander Draper William Carter william Kening George Young
Henry Bowman John Depree.
An Action of the Case. WilUam DarvaU Pit, Henry Bowman deft.
[From April Court, when "the deft beinge prevented from Coming
to Court; by reasion of EUnes And the badnes of the weather to
Travile in; the Court Granted * * * A. reference untill this
Court" * * * Judgment for the pit Agt the deft with Cost of
suit Alias Execution.]
An Action of the Case. Richard Lawes Pit, Samll Showell deft;
the pit oath [Debt of Tobacco. Judgment for Pit, with Cost of
suit. Alias Execution].
An Action of the Case. Henry Stracher Pit, Peter Groundyk Deft;
the Pits oath. The _Plt declare that the deft received of the Pit by
the hands of Alexander Moulston five hundred pounds of Tobacco
* * * [verdict of Jury ' ' for Pit and gave him five hundred pounds
of Tobacco wt Cost of Suit"]. Jurey men nortton Claypoole Samwell
Gray George Young Alexander Draper William Carter William
ffootcher william Keninge.
An Action of the Case. John vines Pit, Peter Groundyk deft.
Refered at the Request of the deft untill the next Court.
William ffootcher Pit, John King deft. Wittneses Peter Groundyk
Com verhoofe will Taylor Capt Avery Capt [Cantreel?] John Crew
Robt Hignet Robt Bracey Senr Rich bundon. The Pit declare that
the deft did Agree to Convey unto the Pit the three hundred Acres
of Land that the Pit now Uve upon And that he had satisfied the
deft for the same; the Cause was Left to A Jurey and After being
pleaded to on both sides and the wittneses sworen and excamined ; the
Jurey went out and brought in there verdict; that they finde for the
Pit with Cost of suit; the Court passe Judgment According to the
verdict of tha Jurey Alias Execution. Execution given out the
2th Eleaventh Moneth 1682. Jurey men nortton Claypoole Alex
ander Draper Samwell Gray Halmainas Wiltbank Rich Lawes Henry
Stracher William Carter Anthony Hamen Will Kening Georg Young
Hen Bowman John Depree.
John King Pit, Will footcher deft wittnes Arin Biship Robert
Hignett. The Pit declare that Elias Hartie did give unto the Pit
Mother & hur heires A Cow and Calfe with there encrease for a stock
for the Pits Mother and hur heires; And that the deft have Long
sence possessed himselfe with foure Cows being of the encrease of
the said Cow and Calfe; the Cause was Left to A Jurey * * *
verdict that they finde for the deft with Cost of suit * * * .
Jurey men nortton Claypoole Alexander draper Samll Gray Halmainas
wiltbank Rich Lawes Hen Stracher Will Carter Anthony Hamen
will Kening Georg Young Henry Bawman [sic] John depree.
An Action of the Case. William footcher Pit, John King deft;
"with drawen."
An Action of the Case. Alexander Draper Pit, John Dickerson
deft; "with drawen."
An Action of the Case. John Crew Pit, John Johnson Junr deft;
¦'with drawen."
Whare As WiUiam Clark did buy of Capt John Osbome of Sum-
ersett County in the provience of Mary Land An negor man Called

76 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY:
or knowen by the name of black Will for and during his natrill Life;
Never the Less the said William Clark doe for the Incourigment of
the sd neagor servant hereby promise Covenant and Agree; that if
the said Black Will doe and shall well and Truely sarve the said Will
iam Clark his Executors Administrators or Assignes five years from the
Twentieth day of May Last past; that then the said Black Will shall
be Clear and free of and from Any further or Longer sarvicetive or
slavery; After he have sarved the said five years As A for said as
¦wittnes my hand this Thurteenth day of the Moneth Called June Anno ;
Dm; 1682;
Signed, Test. Luke Wattson
his mark Wm: Clark.
John K. Kiphaven
The Court Grant Samwell Jones three hundred Acres of Land;
wart Given out 19th Inst.
* * * unto John Booth, five hundred acres; wart 19th Insint.
* * * unto ffrancis Bateson five hundred acres; wart 14th 4
mo, 1682.
* * * unto Mathew osborne, 300 acres; wart 24th Insint.
* * * unto John Barnett, 300 acres; wart 9th 2 mo, 1683.
* * * unto ffrancis Williams, 400 acres; wart 31th 5 mo, 16S2.
* * * unto Robert Richards, 400 acres; wart 31th 5 mo, 1682.
* * * unto Thomas Grimdyk and francis Henry, SOO acres;
wart 12th 6 mo, 16S2.
Peter Groundyk peticon the Court that he may have the Cause
That was this day Tryd betwene Henry Stracher Ant this peticoner;
to be Tryd in Equiety the next Court by bill and Answer As is use
in the Court of Chancrey in England which the Court would A per
swaded him to A dissisted in it; and rest himselfe satisfied in what
was allready done; but through his perswading the Court Grant the
peticoner his request; provided that the proceeding be put in in
due time According to Law.
John Crew as Atturney to John Savidge did this day Accknowlidg
A deede of Conveyance And Patton of six hundred Acres of Land
unto John Depree in open Court; to have and to hold unto the said
John depree and to his heires and Assignes for ever.
Parrit the Indian Shackamacker doe Accknowlidg in open Court
that he have sold unto Henry Bowman the Indian right of the Thou
sand Acres of Land that the said Henry Bo"wman purchised of John
Depree Lyeing on the neck of Land Betwene Slater Branch and Ceeder
Creeke for which he Accknowlidge to have received full satisfacon
for the same.
Parrit the Indian Shackamacker doe Accknowlidg in open Court
that he have sold unto Henry Bowman the Indian right of the seaven
hundred Acres of Land that was Lately in differance Betwene the
said Henry Bowman and Alexander Draper Lyeing betwene the Land
of the said Alexander Draper; and the Land that the said Henry
Bowman Bought of John Depree; for which he Accknowlidg to have
received full satisfacon for the same.
Henry Stracher doe Except of A Cow at six hundred Twenty five
pounds of Tobacco; which sd Cow was not Long sence taken upon
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The Court Grant unto Thomas Silby six hundred Acres of Land;
wart given out 19th 4 mo, 1682; another wart Geiven oute ye 26th
12 mo, 1685 the first being lost.
The Court order Alexander Moulston to Receive of Peter Groundyk
Twenty one Shilling in three Causes that he was Cast in this Court;
being for the Jurey feese.
The Court order Alexander Moulston to receive of John King six
teene shilling for the Jurey feese in the Cause he was Cast in this Court.
The Court order Bapties Newcomb to pay unto Nortton Claypoole
forman of the Jurey Twelve Shillings for the Jurey feese in the Cause
that he was Pit in this Court.
The Court order William footcher to pay unto Nortton Claypoole
forman of the Jurey Eighte ShilUngs for the Jureys feese in the Cause
that he was Pit in this Court.
The Court Grant unto John Smith Two hundred Acres of Land;
warrant Given out the llth 6 mo, 1682.
The Court is Adjumed untill the second Tusday of September
next ensueing. Test Wm; Clark JJ Cl.
September 12th, 13th, 1682.
Att A Court Held at Deale for the To'wne And County of Deale
By the Kings Authority the 12th and 13th days of the Moneth CaUed
September Anno; Dm; 1682; Commisconers present: Luke Wattson
John Roades John Kiphaven William Clark.
An Action of debt. Capt Marton Creagor Pit, Anthony Hamen
Alias Haverla deft. [Refered from Court to Court beginning ¦with
December. Now, — "the Pit not Appearing by him selfe or by his
Atturney to prosecute his suit" the Court grant "An non suit Agt
the Pit ¦with cost. * * *]
An Action of the Case. William Clark Pit Daniell Bro'wne Estate
in the Pits hands deft. [From the March Court — "And at September
Court the Cause was refered untill Novmber Court to see if the deft
would Com and make defence in the said Cause."]
An Action of the Case. John vines Pit, Peter Groundyk deft.
[Refered from June Court * * * "Att Septemb Court the deft
produced An order from the Comander in Cheife and Councell to stop
the proceedings Agt the deft; which the Court submitted to."]
An Action of Debt. Nortton Claypoole Pit Henry Bo^wman deft.
Witnes Jo Hill; [* * * "the deft not being here the Court refere
the Cause untill the next Court."]
An Action of Traspase. WilUam Kening Pit Robert Bracey senr
deft, ¦wittnes Capt Avery Com verhoof Baptis newcomb Hen Stracher
John oakey, sepene. The Pit declare that the deft Caused part of
the Pits Land to be surveyed for his owne use and Cutt and marke
severall of the Pits trees; the Cause was put to a Jurey; the Pit prove
by the oath of Cornelis verhoofe that the deft had as he thought sur
veyed part of the Pits Land * * * the Jurey * * * finde
for the Pit ¦with one shiUing damag and Cost of suit * * *. Jurey
men Norton Claypoole Will footcher Alex Draper Geo Young Antho
Hamen Rich Patte Roger Gum John Depree Hen Stracher Rich
Lawes John Smith Bryt Rowles sworen.
An Action of Traspase. Georg Young Pit, ffrancis WilUams deft.
¦wittnes Rich Shoulter Stephen Whetman Anthony Parsley, Sepene

78 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
The Pit declare that the deft Cutt sold and distroyd his Tmber on
A parcell of Land of the Pit Lyeing Betwene Rehower bay and the
Indian River; the deft pleads that the Land is William Burton and
John Baggwell whoe sett him at work on the said Land; And Craved
A referance untill the next Court to prove the same; which the Court
Granted. An Action of the Case. John Kurk Pit Halm Wiltbanck deft.
With drawen by order of the Pits Atturney.
An Action of the Case. William Beaverly Pit. William Davids deft.
wittnes Rob Williams James Hews, sepened. The Pit declare that the
deft did in the night time sease upon his person and bind him with
Cords, and doe other harmes to his body in the pit hired house; the
deft did Confess that he did binde the pit; the Cause was put to A
Jurey which after being pleaded unto by the pit and the deft the
Jurey went out and brought in there verdit that they finde for the
pit and give him Twelve pence damiag and Cost of suit the Court
pass Judgmt Accordingly Alias Execution. Jurey men Nor Clay
poole Will footcher Alex draper Geo Young Ant Hamen Rich
patte John Smith Roger Gum John depree Hen Stracher Rich Lawes
Bry Rowles sworen.
An Action of the Case. Thomas Rogers Pit, John Barnett deft.
The Pit declare that the deft stands Indebted unto him one new pair
of men f ranch fall shoes which the deft owne; and therefor the Court
passe Judgment for the pit Agt the deft for one pair of shoes as A for
said with Cost of suit Alias Execution.
An Action of defamacon. Cornelis Johnson Pit BarnweU Jackson
deft; "with drawen."
Samwell Showell Pit, Richard Lawes deft; "with drawen."
An Action of Debt. John Beaman Pit, William Bourne deft.
The Pit declare by his Atturney Capt John Brigs that the deft stands
Justly Indebted unto him in Ten Thousand pounds of Tobacco Con
ditconed for the payment of five Thousand pounds of Tobacco on
demand; the deft pleads that he was A prisoner at the suit of the
Pit when he passed the bill and that he did signe it to get his Libirty;
not that he was so much Indebted unto the Pit; And that he did
give the Pit order to receive more Tobacco that is due to the deft in
Mary Land then the five Thousand pounds Com to; and Craves A
referance untill the next Court to prove the same; upon which the
Court Granted the deft a Referance untill the next Court.
An Action of debt. Nichols Greenbury Pit, William Bourne deft;
[similar to preceding case, with Capt John Brigs "Atturney"].
An Action of Traspase. John Bellamey Pit, Henry Smith Junr
deft; Wittnes Sepene, Henry Skidemore. The Pit declared that the
deft did Cart and Carrie a way a bout A Cart Load of Clap boord of
from the Pit Land Lying in prince Hook neck and did hinder and
obstroct his Carpender from proceeding in his work; the deft pleads
that the Land is h\s father and that what he did was by his fathers
order; the deft haveing had but a short time to prove his father
tittle to the sd Land sence he was A rested Craves A Referance untill
the next Court weh the Pit Consented unto.
An Action of Traspase. John Bellamey Pit, Luke wattson senr
deft; wittnes, sepene, Henry Skidemore. The Pit declare that the
deft did hinder obstroct and moUest his Carpender by for warning

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him from working on the Pits Land at prince liook neck and by
falling of Trees on the Carpenders work; the deft pleads that the
Land is his fathers Capt Henry Smiths* and that what he did was by
the said Capt Smiths order; and the Pit and deft Agree to refer the
triail untill the next Court.
An Action of debt. WilUam Allen Pit, John Gibson deft.
Thomas Moulston Peticoner Agt William Beaverly ; "with
drawen." William Bourne peticoner, Agt Nichols & Sarah Bartlett. ["Nichols
Bartlett hur husband."]
The Court fine John vines shreife fifty pounds of Tobacco for
smoking in the Court.
Comelis Johnson peticon that the four hundred Acres of Land
surveyed Lately for the said Comelis Johnson Called White oak
neck may be retumed in the Certivecate of survey in the name of
Richard Patte he haveing Given him A Consideracon for the same;
which the Court Grant and this order of Court shall be A sufficient
warrant for the surveyors soe doeing.
The Court Grant unto John Roades the peece of wast Land that
Joynes to the new forrise being about one hundred and Twenty Acres
& to be surveyed iuto the same. Wart given out 10th 7 mo, S2.
The Court Grant unto Josep Thorne three hundred Acres of Land;
wart. 21th Insint.
Halmainas Wiltbanck Acknowlidge in open Court A patton and
Conveyance of A Certaine parcell of Land Called by the name of
Wilt [Witt?] Bay; Lyeing on the north side of the greate Creeke; Con
tayning Eight hundred Acres of Land; unto John Kurk his heires
and Assignes for ever; and doe promise and Ingage to give the said
John Kurk or his Assignes Quit and peaceable possession of the said
Land and premisses by the Last day of October now next ensueinge
the date hereof.
Ann Newcomb the Late wife of John Hagester deceased did this
day proveth in Court the Last will and Testament of the said John
Hagester deceased; of which said will she the said Ann is made
sole Exceterce; and Letters of Administracon are by the Court
Granted unto Baptis Newcomb and Ann his wife.
The Court Grant unto Baptis Newcomb A peece of wast Land
Lyeing Adjoyning to the Land he now Live upon; Being about the
Quantety of ffortye or ffifty Acres of Land.
The Court Grant unto John Hagester sun of John Hagester de
ceased three hundred Acres of Land; warrant given out the 6th
11 mo, 1682.
The Court order and Appoint Edward Southrin, George young,
Henry Stracher & WilUam Emitt to Apprize the Estate debts
Goods and Chattels that John Hagester deceased was possessed with
Just befor his death; And to Give in An Inventory there of under
there hands unto the Clark of the Court; Betwene this and the next
Court; An Account of the sd Estate debts goods & Chattells Baptis
Newcomb and Ann his wife swore to give unto the Apprazer to the
best of there knowlidge.
* ¦When this case is called — at Court 9, 10, llth, 11 mo, p. 93 of the Record Book
— "the deft pleads that the Land is his father in La-w Henry Smith" etc. a non
suit was entered, etc.

80 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Edward Southrin Ingage to the Court to be Bound with Baptis
that he the said Bapties Newcomb and Ann his wife shall give in A
true Inventory of the Estate debts goods and Chattels that John
Hagester deceased was possessed with at the time or Just befor his
death: And to perform all such things as belong to Administrator
to doe and performe According to Law.
The Court Grant unto John Hill the wast Land that Lye Betwene
the Land that he purchiased of Simon Parting; And Thomas Haward
Land that he now Live on; Being on the north side of the greate
Creeke; to be surveyed into the Land that he bought of the said
Simon Parling which sd wast Land is Judged to be a bout sixty or
seaventy Acres; more or Lesse.
Edward Boodle Caused John oakey to be sumance by way of
searafacous * * * [debt of Tobacco].
The Court Grant unto Anthony Parsley three hundred Acres of
Land; warrant given out the 2th 8 mo, 1682; the 'other warrt
being lost another Granted the 19th 11 mo, 1686.
The Court Grant unto Thomas Grimdyk 2 SO acres of Land to be-
Added to his former Grant; wart 21th Insint.
The Court order Robert Bracey to pay unto William Clark for the
Jurey fees In the Cause that he was Cast in this Court at the suit of
William Kening three and Twenty ShilUngs; and to Alexander
Moulston thurteene shillings.
The Court order William Davids to pay unto WilUam Clark for the
Jureys feese In the Cause that he was Cast in this Court at the suit
of Willm Beverly foure and Twenty ShilUngs; and to Alexander
Moulston Twelve Shillings.
The Court Grant unto John Pye 300 Acres; wart 21th Insint.
The Court order that from this day forward all declaracons shall
be fild in the Clarks office Eighte days befor the Court According ta
the Law of this Goverment; notwithstanding Any former order of
Court made to the Contrary.
The Court Adjurne untill the second Tusday of next novmber
1682. Test Wm. Clark.
Wm. Clark Luke Wattson John Roades John Avrey Hal
mainas Wiltbanck & Alexander Moulston : — These are to desire
you to Meet me next Thursday soe Called at the Towne of New
Castle Being the second Novmber; where I Intend to hold a Generall
Court for the settling the Jurisdiction of these and your parts in
which you will oblidge Your Loveing friend
Signed Wm. Penn.
Upland, the 29th 8ber, 1682.
If there be any persons of note or others that desier to be present
they may Com freely with you are desired to Comunicate. W. P.
August 24th, 1682.
Know yee that James Duke of York Earle of Ulster &c. did by one
deed of flfifiment dated the 24th of August 1682; pass and Convey
unto William Penn Esquire Son and Heire of Sr WilUam Penn de
ceased Proprietary and Govemor of Pensilvania &c. And his Heires-

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-and Assignes forever from Twelve Miles southwards of New Castle
Upon Dellaware River to Cape Henlopen Together with the powers
and Jurisdictions there unto belonging; Resarveing unto him selfe
-one Moyety of the Rent thereof; where by the said WilUam Penn Es
quire Becometh Also Proprietary and Governor of the before Men-
ticoned Tract of Land. November 7th, 1682.
William Penn Esquire Proprietary & Governor of Pensil
vania New Castle St James Whoore Kills als New
Deale With Their Proper Libertys: —
I doe in the Kings name hereby Constiute [sic] & Authorize you
Luke Wattson WiUiam Clark John Roades John Avrey and Hal
mainas Wiltbanck or any three of you to be Justices of the peace
And Court of Judicature for the County of Whore KiUs Als New
Deal; to Act in the said Imployment and Trust for the preservation
of the peace and Justices of the provience; Hereby willing and Charg
ing all persons within the said Limitts to take notice hereof; And
Accordingly to yeild you all due and Just obedience in the discharge
of your said Trust, And this Comicon to be of force for the space of
•one whole year from the date hereof; or untiU further order; Given
under my hand and seal In New Castle this 7th day of Novmb 16S2;
Wm. Penn.
To My Loveing ffriends; Luke Wattson; Wm. Clark; John Roades;
John Avery; Malmainas [sic] Wiltbanck. November 14th, 1682.
Wee Luke Wattson William Clark John Roades John Avery &
Halmains Wiltbanck Being by William Penn proprietary and Governor
¦of Pensilvania & Territories there unto belonging Constiuted And
Authorized to be Justices of the peace And A Court of Judicature
for the County of Sessex to Act in the said Imployment And Trust
for the preservation of the peace and Justices of the County In Pur-
¦suauce of our said Comission According to Law; Doe hereby In the
presence of God declare And solemonly promise by the help of God
to be Just and true to him in Managing and performing our said
trust and faithfully discharge the same in obedience to our said
Comission; And Act therein According to the best of our understandings
¦wittnes our hands and seals this forteenth day of Novmber 1682;
Wittnesses present Luke Wattson (sealed)
Edward Southrin John Roades (sealed)
Wm; Clark Halm Wiltbanck (sealed)
John Hill
Henry Strecther
After the Justices had signed as above on the 14th day of the 9 mo;
1682; they Adjumed the Court untiU the 9th 11 mo; 1682.
December 2Sth, 1682.
Wm: Penn Proprietary & Governor op Pennsilvania & Ter-
ritorys Their unto Belonging.
By Virtue of the Authority derived unto me I doe hereby In the
Kings name Constitute Appoint & Authorize you William DarvaU
Luke Wattson Norton Claypoole John Roades Edward Southrin

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Robert Hart and John Kiphaven to be Justices of the Peace in the
Jurisdiction of the County of the Whore Kills which my will and
pleasure is shall from hence forth be Called by the name of Sussex
the Extent whereof shall be from the maine branch of Mispillon
Creek Called the three Runs northwards; And southwards to Ase-
womet Inlet; Reputed And Accounted Cape Henlopen which said
Cape Henlopen I will from hence forward have Called by the name
of Cape James; And you or any four of you to be a Court of Judi
cature; Giving you & Every of you full power to Act in the said
office According to Law and the "Trust Reposed in you; of which all
persons are to take notice and to give you the due Respect and obedi
ence Belonging to your places in the discharging of your duties this
Comission to be of force for the space of one year After the date hereof
or untill further order; Given under my hand and seal at Chester
the 2 Sth day of the 10 mo; 1682; Being the second year of my Govern
ment. Signed Wm. Penn.
January 9th, 1682.
Wee William DarvaU Luke Wattson Norton Claypoole John Roades
Edward Southrin Robert Hart & John Kiphaven; Being by William
Penn Esquire proprietary And Govemor of Pensilvania and Ter
ritories there unto belonging Constituted And Authorized to be
Justices of the peace And A Court of Judicature for the County of
Sessex to Act in the same Imployment and Trust for the preservation
of the peace and Justices of the County In persueance of our said
Comission According to Law; wee doe hereby in the presence of
God declare that wee freely Accknowlidg the said William Penn to be
our Rightf ull proprietary and Governor; And doe solemonly promise
by the help of God to be Just and true to him in Managing and per
forming our said trust and faithfully discharge the same in obediance
to our said Comission And Act there in According to the best of our
understandings; And if wee shall wittingly or wilUngly Act or doe
any thing Contrary to Law or fidellity to our proprietary & the trust
Reposed in us by him; wee doe hereby obUdg our selves to suffer
and undergoe the same fine or ponishment that the matter shall in
Law desarve as if wee had Activfly taken an oath; In wittnes whereof
wee have hereunto sett our hands and seals the ninth day of the
Eleaventh Moneth Anno; Dm; 1682. William Darvall (sealed)
Luke Wattson (sealed)
John Rhoades (sealed)
Edward Southrin (sealed)
Robert Hart (sealed)
John Kiphaven (sealed)

Signed by .

Sealed signed & delivered
in the presence of
Wm. Clark
John Hill. December 2Sth, 1682.
To My Loveing fpriends William Darvall Luke Wattson
Norton Claypoole John Roades Edward Southrin Robert
Hart & John Kiphaven Justices op the Peace for the

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County of Sessex These fpriends: — Sence it hath pleased God
to put the Govermt of the west side of Dellaware River and Bay into
my hands; I Cannot but in good Concience Endeavor to promote
Justices and Rightousness Among the Inhabitents thereof Knowing
that he who is the Judg of quick and dead ¦will Remember us for
god if wee forget not him; And that A Goverment Laid and Begun
bythe Line of Equity and true Judgment; will not faile of prosperity;
I therefor most Earnestly Recommend to you who are the Ministers
of Justice for the County you Live in; Vigilancy and ffidelity, that
you may neither neglect nor pervert Justice; And in order there
unto That you keepe your Courts ¦with Constancy and Gravity; and
that you have your Eare open to hear aU as well the poore as the
Rich; And In all Cases to Judge According to the Truth of the
Evidence; ¦without fear favour Affection or Reward; That God may
Bless you and the people Blesse you; which seldom faileth to be the
Reward of ¦wise Just and vertuous Magistrates; I doe Also think fitt
that An Exact Catalogue be Returned to me of the names of all the
people of your County; Masters Mistresses servants parents Chil
dren; Also the Number of Acres Each ffreeholder hath; And by
whom and when Granted; All in distinct Columons; with a Mark on
Non resident that have Claims; And if any disputes should Arise
About titles of Land; they must be determined According to the
Rules and orders that the Court of your County has Limited & pre
scribed for the seating and Improveing of Land; And soe I bid
you all hartily farewell Given at Chester the 2Sth 10 mo; 1682;
In the second year of my Government. Signed Wm. Penn.
By the Proprietary & Governor op Pensilvania & the
Territorys Thereunto Belonging: —
Haveing Duely Considered the present state of your County; to
the End that all obstructions to the due Improvement theirof may be
Removed; And Reasonable Encouragement Given to Invite planters
to settle Among.st you; I doe think fitt to order and Appoint as fol
lows; ffirst that you in open Court shall Receive all peticons from
time to time that may be made; by such persons as designe to take
up Land Among you; and that you Grant them a Warrant to the
surveyor to Ad measure the same; provided all ways that you Exceed
not three hundred Acres of Land to A Master of A family nor A hun
dred Acres to A single person; At one single penny ^ Acre; or valine
thereof in the produce of the Country which done that the surveyor
make his Returne Into Court; And that the Court make theire Re
turne unto my secritary's office;
Secondly and because no Land shall Lye wast to the prejudice
of new planters; All Lands formerly Granted and not taken up &
settled within the time Limitted by the Methods of your own Court;
that Granted them; shall be Accounted vacant Land and disposeable
upon the termes Aforsaid; the old Claymt or pretender to have the
preferance if not allrady seated owner of Above three hundred Acres;
Unless allrady seated by some other person;
Thurdly that all persons for the future that shall have Grants to
take up Land be also Limitted to seat it within one year After the date
of the Grant; Else the said Grants to be Voyde & of no Effect;

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forthly that you Endeavor to seat the Lands that shall here after
be taken up in the way of Townships; As three Thousand Acres
Amongst Tenn familys; if single persons one Thousand Acres Amongst
Tenn of them; Laid out in the nature of A Long square five or Tenn
of a side; And a way of Two hundred foot broad Left Betwene them;
for an High way in the Township; this I would have you CarfuU in;
for the future good and great Benefitt of your Country; Given under
my hand & seal at Chester the 2Sth of 10 mo, 1682.
Signed Wm. Penn.
To the Justices of the peace for the County of SesseX.
By William Penn Proprietary & Governor op Pensilvania
& Territoryes Thereunto Belonging: —
I doe hereby order and Appoint that befor Any Land be surveyed
for any other person; you doe Issue forth A warrant directed to the
surveyor or his Deputy; to lay out for the duke of yorke in your County
or precints Tenn Thousand Acres of Land for A Mannor; And Tenn
Thousand Acres of Land for A Mannor for my selfe And I would
have the duks Mannor Lye on the north side of Assn Awarmet Inlett
As near to Cape James as may be; And My Mannor to be betwene
the Bounds of Cedar Creek & Mispilion Creek or in the most Con
venient place Towards the north side of the County; Given under
my hand & seal att Chester the 26th of the 10 mo, 1682.
Signed Wm. Penn.
To the Justices of the peace of the County of Sussex.
Wm. Penn Proprietary & Governor of Pensilvania and
Territoryes Thereunto Belonging: —
I doe hereby Constitute and Authorise thee William Clark of the
Whoor Kills now Called the County of Sussex to be Clark of the Courts
of sessions to be holden for the said County; And Register of the said
County Also; to Act therein Justly and dilligently According to Law
to the best of thy understanding; This Comission to be of force for
the space of one year or untill further order; Given under my hand
and seal at Chester the 25 day of 10 mo, 1682; In the second year
of My Government. Signed Wm. Penn.
Wm. Penn Proprietary & Governor op Pensilvania New
Castle St. James Whore Kills Alias new Deal
with Their Proper Libertys: —
I doe hereby in the Kings name Constitute and Appoint thee John
vines to be High Shreiffe of the County of Whore Kill Alls new deal
Giveing thee full power & Authority to Act in the said office and
Imployment According to the duty of A Sherife; and to make one
or more deputy as there may be occation and to receive all the profitts
and Advantages which doe or ought to belong unto the said place
behaving thy selfe & being Regulated therein in all Respect According
to Law; And in so doing all persons whom it may Concerne are hereby
Required to bear thee due obedience as belong to a High Shreife in
the Execution of thy office; this Comission to be of force for one

COURT RECORDS. 85
whole year or untill further order; Given under my hand and seal
at New Castle or Dellaware this Eighte day of Novmber one Thousand
six hundred Eightye Two. Wm. Penn.
To John vines High Sherife of the County of Whore Kills Als New deal.
Wm. Penn Proprietary & Governor of Pensilvania New Castle
St James; New Deal Alus Whore Kills With
Their Proper Libertys: —
These are in the Kings name to Require and Empower thee to
sumon all the free holders ¦within the precincts of thy office to meet
on the Twentieth day of this Insint Moneth of Novmber and that
there they Elect Chuse out of themselves seaven persons of most
note for wisdome sobriety & Integrity to serve as their Deputys &
Representatives In General Assembly to be held at upland in the
provience of pensilvania the sixt day of December next; and then
and there to Consult ¦with me for the Comon Good of the Inhabitents
of that provience and the Adjiacent Counties of New Castle St. Jones
new deal Als Whore Kills under my Charge & Jurisdition of which
make due and Just Returne unto me; Given under my hand and
seal this Eighte day of Novmber one Thousand six hundred Eightye
Two. Wm. Penn.
To John vines High Shreife of the County of Whore Kills Als New deal.
Whore Kill Als deal, 21th 9 mo, 1682.
Proprietary & Governor William Penn Esquire &c: — In
obedience to thy warrant dated the Eighte day of this Insint to me
directed; I did sumon all the free holders within this County to meet
at this Towne on the Twentieth Insint to Elect and Chuse out of
themselves seaven persons of most note for wisdome. sobriety & In
tegrity to serve as their deputys & Representatives In Generall As
sembly to be held at upland In the provience of Pensilvania the sixt
day of December next; Att which time the free holders did then and
there meet; And ¦with A Generall vote they did Elect and Chose the
persons; whose names I here Returne unto thee According to thy
order; . and take Leave to subscribe my selfe thy faithfuU ffriend &
Humble sert Signed John vines, Sherife.
Edward Southrin, William Clark, Alexander draper, John Roades,
Luke Wattson, Nathaniel Walker, Corn verhoofe.
January 9th, 10th and llth, 1682.
Att A Court Held Att Lewis for the County of Sussex By the Kings
Authoritye And by Commission from William Penn Proprietary &
Governor of Pensilvania And Territoryes there unto belonging the
9th 10th & llth days of the Eleaventh Moneth 1682. Justices present:
WilUam Darvall, Luke Wattson, John Roades, Edward Southrin,
Robert Hart, John Kiphaven.
John Bellamey pit, Henry Smith Junr deft. Wittnes daniU Brown
Hen Stracher Henry Skidmor Will Craford Henry Skidmor Will
Clork John Roades. [This case was refered from "the last seaventh
Moneth Court," and at this present Court "was Left to A Jurey"]
Jurey men Norton Claypoole John Richards Robert Hart Junr
WilUam Borne Alexander draper Barnard Garritt Anthony Hancen

86 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Thomas Howard Michall Chambers Stephen Whetman Bryant
Rowles Cornelis Johnson.
John Avery Pit, Richard Harvey deft. The suit falls by the death
of the Pit whoe departed this Life the 16th day 9 mo, 1682.
William Clark Pit, Jacob Shattham deft. The pit declares that
the deft entertayned A servant that he bought of Capt John Osborne
of Sumersett County in the provience of Mary [sic] for about six weeks;
the deft Confess that the said servant was at his house about that
time and that he did work for the deft to the vallow of one hundred
pounds of Tobacco; the Court therefor passe Judgment for the pit
Agt the deft for the said sume of one hundred pounds of Tobacco
with Cost of suit Alias Execution.
Halm Wiltbanck Agt Com Johnson by way of searifacous. The
said Cornelis Johnson was sumaned to shew Cause if any he Could
wherefor he doe not Give the said Halmanias Wiltbanck possession
of the Land he Live upon According to An order of Court & ver
dict of A Jurey of Seaven men obtaind in this Court the Sth day of
the 1 mo, 1681. The said Cornelis Johnson sheweth Cause by his
plea delivered into the Court in writing that he had obtained in this
Court a verdict of a Jurey of Twelve men for the said Land and prim-
isses According to the Laws of England; and that the verdict of
seaven men was and is Contrary to the knowen Laws of England;
and that the said Halm Wiltbanck did Appeale from the verdict of
the Jurey of Twelve men a for mentcioned; and that After he had
Appealed he ought to have prosecuted his said Appeale; And to A
[sic] had no further triail for the said Land in this Court; and for
the Reasons and Cause A foresaid the deft doe refuse to deliver pos
session of the said Land and primisses; which I Humbly Conceive
may be Judged to be sufficent Cause by this Court. The Court doe
by Consent of both parties Refere the bussness untill the proprietary
Com here and have a hearing of the said Cause and Give his Judgmt
therein. An Action of the Case. John Kurk pit. Halm Wiltbanck deft.
The pit declare by his Atturney Edward Southrin that the deft on
or about the 17th day of April 1677; did by his deed In writing
signed by his own hand & seal oblidg him selfe to give the pit A good
Asurance of the Land that Cornelis Johnson Live upon; and also to
give the pit Quiett and peaceable possession of the same; the deft
pleads that he is unjustly keept out of the possession of the sd Land
and primisses and is not in A Cappasety to doe it but that as sone as
he Can he will doe it; The Court therefor by the Consent of the pits
Atturney and the deft Refere the Cause untill the proprietary Com
Heather to hear and detarmine the same [at Court in 12 mo again
referred until the proprietary come].
An Action of the Case. William Bottler pit, Henry Stracther deft.
With drawen by order of the pit; by Informacon of WilUam Emmitt
depty Shriefe.
An Action of Traspasse upon the Case. Michall Chambers pit,
Paul Marsh deft; wittnes WiU Townsend. The pit declare that sev
erall of his hoggs ware wounded and destroyed by dogs in the defts
Corn feild; but the pit not proveing his declaracon and the deft not
Confessing it; the Court order an non suit to be entered Agt the pit
with Cost of suit Alias Execution.

COURT RECORDS. 87
An Action of the Case. Baptis Newcomb Administrator to the goods
& Chattls of John Hagester deceased pit, DaniU Browne deft; ¦wittnes
' Will Emmitt. The pit declare that the deft stands Justly Indebted
unto the Estate of John Hagester deceased; in five hundred and sixty
three pounds of Tobacco; and prove the same to the satisfacon of
the Court; the Court therefor passe Judgmt for the pit Agt the deft
for the said sume of five hundred sixty three pounds of Tobacco;
¦with Cost of suit Alias Execution.
An Action of the Case. Halm Wiltbanck pit, Agt the Estate of
Samwell Jones in the hands of Henry Stracther deft. The pit de
claring Agt Another person then what is in the writt; the Court order
An non suit to be entered Agt the pit -with Cost of suit Alias Execu
tion. This day the Last will and Testament of Edwd Boodle deceased
was proved in open Court being in writing bearing date the 7th day
of December 1682; by the Testamony of William Emmitt and Ste
phen Whetman; to be the Last will and Testament of him the said
Edward Boodle; And Letters of Administracon are by the Court
Granted unto John Kiphaven and John depree; to Administer and
enter upon his Estate Lands Goods and Chattls of the deceased; they
giveing security to perform the said will and save the Court Harmless.
This day the Jurey that went upon the death of John the sun of
Comelis Johnson brought their verdict into Court and say that they
doe finde that he Came by his death by A dog or beast.
This day the Jurey that went upon the death of Thomas Grimdick
deceased brought in their verdict Into Court that they doe finde That
the said Thomas Grindick Cam to his death by A fall from his house.
Stephen Whetman peticon the Court and sett forth in his said
peticon that he is the princable Craditor of the said Thomas Grimdick
deceased; and prays that he may be Admitted to Letters of Ad
ministracon to Administer upon the Estate Lands Goods and Chattls
of the said Thomas Grimdyk * * * [which the Court granted].
Upon the peticon of CorneUs Plockhoy the Court Grant unto him
the Towne Lott that he live upon in Lewis; and the Lott next Ad
joyning to that; on Condition that he Build A dwelling house on
Eche of the said Lotts According to the demencons that the Governor
shall order; within one yeare after this Grant; or Else to pay five
pounds to the use of the publick for Eche Lott; and Lose his Lotts
also. The Court doe Chose order and Appint WilUam Carter to be Cun
stable for the year ensueing for the Towne of Lewis and to the South
side of the broad Creek northwards and to the midway from hence
to Rehower to the southward; and John Richards is Chose order
Appointed, John Richards to be Cunstable from the north side of
the brood Creek to the extent of the County northwards and William
footcher is Chose order and Apointed to be Constable for the year
ensueing his bound to Extend from midway betwene this Towne and
Rehower unto the uttmost of the Extent or bounds of this County
Southwards. The Court order Chose and Appoint John HiU Robert Hart Junr
and WilUam Bradford to be survyrs of the High ways and Bridges
for the year ensueing and that they doe warne in the Inhabitence of
this County to marke Clear and mend the High wayes within this

88 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
County; and make and Repair what bridges shall be needfull
within this County the said John Hills extents to be from the flat
Lands southwards and to the south side of the greene branch of prime
hook Creek northwards and the said Robert Hart Extent or bounds
to be from the south side of the Greene branch of Prime hook south
wards to the three Runs of MispiUon Creeke north wards; And the
said WilUam Bradford Extent or bounds to be from the flat lands north
wards unto the Extent of the Extent of the County south wards being
to Cape James formerly Called Cap hinlopen; and if any person shall
Refuse there Labour after being warned thereunto; that they doe
return unto the Court the names of all such persons soe Refusing to
the end that they may be fined According to Law for such their nedg-
lect. The Court Grant unto John Kiphaven upon his peticon the Towne
Lott Adjoyning to that he Live upon to the north ward; on Con
dition that he build A dwelling house on the said Lott within one
year Afer this Grant of such demencons as the Governor shall order
and direct; or Else to pay five pounds to the use of the publick; and
also lose the said Lott.
Upon the peticon of WilUam Darvall the Court Grant unto him
three Towne Lotts namely that which his house stands upon and;
one upon the north west side of that and the other on the south west
side; on Condition * * * [as preceding Grant].
Upou the peticon of Edmond Warner the Court Grant unto him
the Two Towne Lotts next Adjoyning unto William Darvall on Con
dition that he build * * * [as above].
Upon the peticon of Edmond Warner the Court Grant unto him
three hundred Acres of Land at one penny ^ Acre Rent to the pro
prietary yearly for ever; on Condition that he seate the said Land
within one yeare After this Grant; wart Given out the same day.
Upon the peticon of Edmond Warner the Court Grant unto him
the Land of the Cap Comonly Called Cap Inlopen Lyeing on the
north East side of the Creeke formerly Called the Whoore Kills; to
make Coney Warrin on and Liberty to build A house and seat A War
riner upon the said Land; upon Condiccon that the Timber and feede
of the said Land and Marshes thereunto belonging be and for ever
here after Lye in Common for tha use of the Inhabitents of the Towne
of Lewis and County of Sussex; as also free Liberty for any or all
of the Inhabitents of the said County to fish Get and take of thence
oyster & Cockel shells and gather plums Cranburyes and hockel-
bureys on the said Land as they shall think fitt; all ways provided
that no person whatso ever shall not hunt or Kill any Rabbotts or
harrs on the said Land without the Leave and Consent of him the
said Edmond Warner his Executors Adminstrators or Assignes.
Upon the peticon of WilUam Catter* the Court Grant unto him the
Towne Lott backward Adjoyning to the Land of Nathanil Walker;
and the Lott that he Live upon on Condiccon [ * * * etc., as pre
viously]. The Court upon the peticon of William Trotter Grant unto him
the Towne Lott backward Adjoyning to William Carter back Lott;
on Condition, etc.
[*This name was originally written Trailer, & the Tr is changed to C]

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The Court upon the peticon of John Bellamey Grant unto him the
Two Towne Lotts next Adjoyning unto Edmond Warners Lotts; the
one of them to be forward and the other backward; on Condiccon,
etc. Upon the peticon of John Hill the Court Grant unto him one Towne
Lott on the South East Side of the blind mans Lott; on Condition,
etc. Upon the peticon of William Beverly the Court Grant unto him
the Towne Lott that he is building the vesseU upon on Condition, etc.,
& not to dispose of it.
Upon the peticon of Halmanias Wiltbanck the Court Grant unto'
him the Two To^wne Lotts next Adjoyning to his owne Land on Con
dition, etc.
Upon the peticon of Henry Jones the Court Grant unto him the
Two To"wne Lotts next Adjoyning unto Halmainas Wiltbanck back
Lott; on Condition, etc.
Upon t"he peticon of Robert Williams the Court Grant unto him
one Towne Lott next Adjoyning unto Henry Jones Lotts on Con
dition, etc.
Henry Pedington peticoner, Agt the Estate of William Coudrey
in the hands of Will Clark. The peticoner sett forth in his peticon
that the said William Coudrey stands Justly Indebted unto him in
one Cow and Calfe and A yearling Heffer due to him upon bill being
for the Land that John Dickerson is now seated upon for the said
William Coudrey; and proved his bill; the Court therefor order that
the peticoner be paid the sd Cow Calfe and yearling Heffer out of the
said WiUiam Coudrey said Land ¦with Cost of suit Alias Execution.
John Richards pitconer [sic] Agt the Estate of William Coudrey in
the hands of William Clark.
Georg Cullin peticoner, Agt the Estate of Will Coudrey in the
hands of WiU Clark.
Robert Hart Junr peticoner, Agt the Estate of Will Condrey in
the hands of Will Clark. The peticoner sett forth in and by his
peticon yt the said William Coudrey stands Justly Indebted unto
him in Two hundred pounds of Tobacco; and one pair of mens shoes
and proved the same by his father Testamony; the Court there for
order that the peticoner be paid the said Two hundred pounds of
Tobacco and one pair of mens shos out of the said William Coudreys
Estate with Cost of suit AUas Execution.
Henry Stracther; peticoners & William Carter, Agt the Estate of
Will Coudrey in the hands of Will Clark. The peticoners sett forth
by their peticon that the said William Coudrey stands Justly In
debted unto him in one Thousand of six penny nails three hundred
of single Tenns and in three bottls of rum; and proved the same; the
Court therfor order that the peticoners be paid the vallow of the
Thousand of six penny nails three hundred of single Tenns and three
bottls of rum out of the said Williani Coudrey Estate with Cost of
suit Alias Execution.
Where as the proprietary have wrote to the Justices of this Court
therein Exprassing that he think fitt to have an Exact Account sent
him of the names of the Masters Mistries Children freemen women &
servants that are Resedent within this County Together ¦with the
number of Acres of Land Every peticlor person holds or Claimes with

90 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
in the said County; The Court doe their for order that every person
that Holds or Claimes any Land within this County; That they doe
befor the next Court in the Moneth Called ffebuary bring in all their
Claimes to the Clark of this Court; wheather it be by patton survey
Grant of Court or other wise and the names of the persons that Live
upon the said Land.
Upon the peticon of Charles Brighte the Court Grant unto him
three hundred Acres of Land ; on Condition that he pay one penny ^
Acre yearly as a rent for the sd Land and seat it within one year After
this Grant; wart given out same day.
Henry Bowman peticoner, Agt the Estate of William Coudrey in
the hands of William Clark. The peticoner sett forth by his peticon
that the said William Coudrey stands Justly Indebted unto him in
Thurty Two Shill for a Gun and one hundred and fiftye pounds of
pork for A shurt and proved the same; the Court therefor order that
the peticoner be paid, etc.
John Dickerson peticoner, Agt the Estate of William C-oudrey in
the hands of William Clark. [The Court there for order that the
peticoner be paid].
Simon Parling this day Cam and in open Court Accknowlidged
that he have sold unto John Hill & to his heires and Assignes for ever
A plantacon with three hundred Acres of Land Lyeing and being
secuated on the north west side of the broad Creek Adjoyning unto
the Land of Thonias Haward; and that he have reed full satisfacon
for the same.
Upon the peticon of Stephen Whetman the Court doe order .and
Appoint that Edward Southrin and George Young doe Apprize the
Lands Goods and Chattls of Thomas Grimdick deceased and that An
Inventory their of be brought into the next Court.
John Kiphaven peticoner Agt Baptis Newcomb Administrator of
the Estate of John Hagester deceased.
Upon the peticon of John Barker the Court Grant unto him three
hundred Acres of Land att one penny ^ Acre yealy [sic] rent to be
paid the proprietary; on Condition that he seat the said Land within
one year after this Grant; wart given out the same day.
The Court order and Appoint John Roades Norton Claypoole
WilUam footcher and John Depree to Apprize the Estate debts Goods
and Chattls of Capt John Avery deceased; and that an Inventory
there of be brought Into the next Court.
It is ordered by the Court that the shriefe doe forth with Collect
& pay unto William Darvall for the use of his sloop Carriing the
burgles up to Chester and back Againe one Thousand pounds of
Tobacco; and the Burgies doe Consent by reason that the sloop was
hired Cheaper then the said WiUiam Darvall Could Aford it that they
will pay as foUoweth out of their owne Estates; Edward Southrin
one hundred pounds of Tobacco WiUiam Clark Two hundred pounds
of Tobacco Luke Wattson Two hundred pounds of Tobacco Alexander
Draper one hundred pounds of Tobacco; Nathanil Walker one hun
dred pounds of Tobacco; Cornelis verhoofe Two hundred pounds of
Tobacco ; and John Vines one hundred pounds of Tobacco.
The Court Grant the Jurey An order for their fees In the Cause
that they Try this Court betwene John BeUamey Pit and Henry Smith
Junr deft.

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It was publickly declared in Court this day that there was A plan
tacon house and foure hundred Acres of Land of William Coudrey
secuate Lyeing and being on the south East side of Ceeder Creek within
this County ne[ar] Adjoyning unto the Land of Alexander draper
to be sold in open Court by order of Court and it was also sett up att
the Court house door to give notice unto all persons whatsoever of
the sale thereof to the End that the said plantacon Land and primisses
might be sold to the best and most Advantidge that may be for him
the said WiUiam Coudrey; it being for the bringing up the Child
of the said William Coudrey Begotten upon the body of Sarah Warrin ;
and also for the paying his debts that he owes in this Govermt and
severall persons haveing beed for the said plantacon Land and pre
misses Coming up to the sume of seaven Thousand pounds of Tobacco
which said sume was bed by John Hill; and After that William Dar
vall beed seaven thousand one hundred pounds of Tobacco; After
that William Clark did beed seaven Thousand Two hundred pounds
of Tobacco; and it being severall times Calld to see if any person
would Exceed that price and none would; soe the said William Clark
is to have the sd plantacon Land and primisses by order of Court
for the sd sume of 7200 lb of Tobacco; And to be Accountable for
the sd sume unto him that shall undertake to bring up the Child and
the Craditer; the Child is undertaken to be brought up by the said
William Clark untill it Attayne unto the Age of one and Twenty
years for nineteene hundred pounds of Tobacco.
The Court Adjumes untill the 13th day of the 12th moneth next
ensueing the date hereof.
February 13th, 15th, 1682.
Att A Court Held att Lewis for the County of Sussex by the Kings
Authority & by Commisson from William Penn proletary [sic] And Gov
ernor of Pensilvania and the Territoryes thereunto belonging the 13 th
& ISth days 12 mo, 1682; Justices present: William Darvall, Luke
Wattson, John Roades, Edward Southrin, Robert Hart, John Kiphaven.
Halm Wiltbanck Agt Comelis Johnson by way of searifacous.
Last Court The said Cornelis Johnson was sumoned to shew Cause
if any he Could wherefor he doe not give the said Halm Wiltbanck
possession of the Land and premisses he Live upon. According to An
order of Court and verdict of A Jurey of seaven men obtained in this
Court the Sth day of the 1th Moneth 1681 ; The said ComeUs Johnson
sheweth Cause by his plea delivered in to Court in writing; That he
had obtained in this Court befor that time A verdict of A Jurey of
Twelve men for the said Land and primisses According to the Laws
of England and that the verdict of seaven men was and is Contrary
to the Knowen Laws of England; And that the said Halm Wiltbanck
did appeale from the verdict of the Jurey of Twelve men a foremen
tioned; And that after he had Appealed he ought to have prosecuted
his said Appeale And so A had no further triail for the said Land in
this Court; And for the reasions and Causes A forsaid the deft doe re
fuse to deliver possession of the said Land and primisses ; which he
Humbly Conceive may be Judged to be sufficent Cause by this Court;
The Court doe by the Consent of both parties Referr the bussnes un
till the proprietary Com here and have A hearing of the said Cause
and Give his Judgment therin.

92 SOME RECORDS OP SUSSEX COUNTY.
An Action of the Case. Mathew Scarbrough Pit, Samll Jones
Estate In Luke Wattson hands deft; [the Court order an non suit].
An Action of debt. John Hill Pit, Saml Jones Estate in Luke
Wattsons hands deft; wittnes Thomas Davids. The Pit declared
that the deft stands justly Indebted unto him in three Cows and three
Calves by bills which the Pit proved; and the deft goeing out of the
County and took no Care to satisfie the Pit; the Pit Caused what
Effects the deft have in the said Luke Wattson hands to be Attached;
to the end that the Pit may be satisfied and paid the same with Cost
of suit;- the deft not Appearing the Court Refer the Cause untill the
next Court befor they passe Judgment; [At a Court 14th 6 mo, 16S3,
refer'd till the after noon; The Court granted Judgment with Execu
tion against the sd Estate with Cost of Suit he giveing Security to
ye Court to double the Vallu of this Action that if the Judgment be
reverst within a twelve mon. & a day he must answer it.]
An Action of the Case. John Hill Pit, John Smith Estate deft.
[Refered untill the next Court.]
Three Actions against "Saml Jones Estate in Henry Stracther
hands" being those of John Hill, John Roades and Henry Stracther].
An Action of Trasspasse. Sarah Avrey Pit, Administratrix to
Capt Jo Avery deceased. Rich Harvey deft. The Pit not Appearing
to present hur suit and the deft Craveing a non suit the Court order
an non suit to be entered Agt the Pit with Cost of suit Als Execution.
An Action of the Case. Charles Bright Pit, Comelis Johnson deft.
Wittnes Will Townsend baptis newcomb will Troter & Henry Har
mon. The Pit declare that the deft did Agree with him to make a Crop
on his Land and that the pit was to have one thurd part of the Crop ;
which the deft deney to let the pit have to his damiadg four Thousand
pounds of Tobacco and proved that he did proceed in the making
of the said Crop; the Court there for passe Judgment for the pit Agt
the deft for the one thurd part of the Crop that the pit Can prove
was made on the said Land the Last year with Cost of suit Als Exe
cution. Henry Harmon Testafied that he messured thurty three
barrells of Indin Com that was made on the said Land that year.
An Action of the Case. Sarah Avery Administratrix of the Estate
of Capt John Avery deceased, WiUiam Traford deft. [The Pit not
appearing a non suit was ordered by the Court.]
This day Richard Patte Accknowlidge in open Court the sale of
foure hundred Twenty one Acres of Land Lyeing on the South East
side of the broad Creeke unto Thomas Hall his heires and Assignes
for ever for which he Accknowlidg to have Received fuU satisfacon
for the said Land and premisses and Ingage to procure A patton for
the same.
The Court upon the peticon of John Roades order him to- be paid
Twenty ShiUings out of the Estate of Thomas Grindik deceased
Twenty Shillings being for his fee as Crowner.
Upon the peticon of Henry Bowman the Court Grant him an order
to take up soe much Land in the neck betwene Slater Branh [Branch ?]
and Ceeder Creeke As it shaU Appear he is short of by being Invoysed
in in three severall surveys.
This day Andrew Depree Accknowlidg in open Court A patton
and Conveyance of foure hundred Acres of Land unto John Depree
and to his heires and Assignes for ever.

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This day John Depree Accknowlidg in open Court the sale of three
hundred Acres of Land unto Andrew Depree, etc.
Upon the peticon of Georg Benson the Court Grant unto him three
hundred Acres of Land at one penny ^ Acre yearly on Condicon that
he seat the said Land with in one year After this Grant; wart given
out the 17th Insint.
Upon the peticon of Thomas Adkinson the Court Grant him three
hundred Acres of Land at one penny ^ Acre * * * -^-art given
out 17th Insint.
This day David Corsey Accknowlidged in open Court the sale of
three hundred Acres of Land that have bene surveyed for him Lyeing
Adjoyning to the Land of Thomas Pemberton and Jacob Shattham
in the neck Called Winders neck unto John Hill and to his heires and
Assignes for ever; and he doe Acknowlidg to have received full satis
facon for the said Land.
This day Richard Bundock Assigned over In open Court unto
Norton Claypoole and his Assignes one man servant by name Mathew
osbome for three years from the seaventh day of this Moneth; And
the said Mathew Consented unto the said Assignment and doe Ingag to
serve the said nortton Claypoole and his Assignes the said time of
three years on Condition that the said Nortton Claypoole doe save his
Land that the said Mathew Have a Grant from this Court for; or sell
the said Land to the satisfacon of the said Mathew; the said Mathew
is to Allow or sarve for the time that he shall be Imployed in seating
the said Land; All ways provided that it is the Custom of Vergina
for servants that are Judged in Court to sarve untill they Attayne unto
the Age of foure and Twenty years.
This day John oakey Accknowlidg in open Court the sale of three
hundred Acres of Land unto John Kiphaven and Alexander Moulston
and to their heires and Assignes for ever which said Land Lye betwene
the Land of Henry Smith and Samwell Gray and have received full
Satisfacon for the same.
This day Richard Bundock proved in Court the Last will and
Testament of Richard Shoulter deceased by which said will the said
Richard Bundock and Nathaniel Walker are made and appointed
Executors of the said will and the Court doe Grant Letter of Admin
istracon unto them Accordingly.
This day WilUam Trotter Accknowlidged in open Court the sale of
Nine hundred Acres of Land unto William Clark and to his Heires and
Assignes for ever; the said Land Lyeing on the South East side of
the Cold Spring Adjoyning unto the Land of the said William Clark
Henry Smith Samwell Gray and Michall Chambe[rs]. In the Dockett.
Test. Wm. Darvall.
Harklos Sheepard peticoner. The peticoner sett forth by his
peticon that Capt John Avery deceased did befor the peticoner was
Joyned in Marridge with Mary the wife of the peticoner and daughter
of the said Capt Avery that he would give unto your peticoner with
his daughter A Certaine parcell or tract of Land which was Late in
the occupacon of Thomas Davids together with the plantacon house
and premisses there unto belonging which said Land Lyes Betwene
the Land of John Depree and the Land that the widdow Avery now
Lives upon; and that the said John Avery did After the said Marridg

94 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
was solrnonized Give your peticoner possession of the said Land and
premisses; and that he did declare the same when he Lay upon his
death bead and proved the same by the Testamony of severall wittnes ;
the Court takeing the same Into their Consideracon and severall
members of the Court haveing themselves hard the said John Avery
say that his daughter Mary Should have the said Land; the Court
there for passe their Judgment that the Land doe properly belong unto
the peticoner and to his heires and assignes for ever.
This Day Bryant Rowle Accknowlidged In open Court A Convey
ance of Two hundred Acres of Land unto Barnwell Garritt and to
his heires and assignes for ever And Bartree the wife of the said Bryant
Consented unto the same in open Court.
Michall Chambers Accknowlidged in open Court this day the sale
of Two hundred & Twenty Acres of Land unto William Trotter and
to his Heires and Assignes for ever Lyeing and Adjoyning unto the
Land that the said WilUam Trotter Conveyed in Court this day unto
WilUam Clark.
Upon the peticon of Sarah Avery the Administrix of John Avery
deceased the Court is pleased to Remitt and for Give the fine of the
said John Avery that is as yet unpaid being nine hundred and fiftye
pounds of Tobacco.
WilUam Borne peticoner Agt John vines Sherife. The peticoner
sett forth that he sustayned foure pounds six shilUngs damiadg In
that the Shriefe did not take security from John Brigs to prosecute
the peticoner when he Caused him to be a rested at the suit of John
Beaman And Nichols Greenbury; and the peticoner proveing his said
damiadge the Court Grant unto the peticoner An order Agt the said
John vines Shriefe for the said sume of foure pounds six Shillings with
Cost of suit Als Execution.
Baptis Newcomb peticon that the Certivecate of survey of the Land
that was surveyed for John Hagester deceased and by him Given to
Ann his wife might be returned in the peticoners name ; the Court doe
there for order that the Certivecate of survey be returne by the sur
veyor in the peticoner name he being Married to the Late wife of the
sd John Hagester deceased.
Upon the peticon of Barnwell Garritt the Court Grant unto him
three hundred Acres of Land at one penny ^ Acre yearly on Condicon
that he seat, etc. ; Wart .Given out 1th Insint.
This day the Inventory of the Lands Goods and Chattls of Thomas
Grymdyk deceased was brought into Court which Amount unto the
sume of foure pounds five shillings and foure pence; And Seaven
Thousand pounds of Tobacco.
This day Henry Harmon Accknowlidged In open Court the sale of
six hundred Acres of Land house plantacon & premisses unto William
Clark and to his heires Executors Administrators and Assignes for
ever the said Land Lyeing on A neck of Land CaUed Kimble neck;
Betwene the Land that CorneUs Johnson now Live upon and the
Land that Cornelis Johnson sold unto the said WiUiam Clark that
John Streate is seated upon for the said Clark. Test. Wm. Darvall.
The Shriefe peticon and sett forth that he have suffered for there not
being A prisson in the County And Craves that the Court would be

COURT RECORDS. 95
pleased speedily to procure A prisson to secure those that shall be
Committed to his Custidy; the Court taking the same Into their Con
sideracon doe therefor order that Luke Wattson be ordered forth with
to build a Court Couse [sic] and prisson According to his Agreement
with the Court the 1th 10 mo, 1680. Signed by WilUam Darvall,
John Roades, John Kiphaven, Edward Southrin.
This day WilUam Lo^wing Accknowlidged In open Court the sale of
the one halfe part of three hundred Acres of Land and primisses Lyeing
Betwene the Land of John Roades and William Roades unto William
DarvaU and to his heires and Assignes for ever the other halfe part of
the Said Land being John Simons and his heires and Assignes for ever.
This day Cam John Smith and in open Court Accknowlidged the
Sale of three hundred Acres of Land unto John Hill and to his Heires
and Assignes for ever the said Land Lyeing on A neck Called Klmbls
neck Betwene the Land of William Clark Abraham Potter and John
Vines; and did also Accknowlidge to have received full satisfacon for
the said Land & premisses.
Comelis Johnson this day Accknowlidged the sale of one hundred
Acres of Land in open Court unto William Trotter and to his heires and
Assignes for ever. The said Land Lyeing upon the neck Called Kimbls
neck Adjoyning unto the Land of Richard Patte by the marsh side.
The Court order that John Smith doe give good securely to Appear
parsonably at the next Court to be holden for this County to Answer
then and there to such things as shall be objected Against him on the
behalfe of the King or proprietary in the sume of fortye pounds sterl
Money and in the meane time to remaine in safe Custidy; Att the re
quest of the said John Smith Henry Bowman and Stephen Whetman
doe hereby Ingage themselves Joyntly and Severally in the said sume
of fortye pounds sterl money to the proprietary for the said John
Smith Appearance at the next Court as a for said Als Execution.
Luke Wattson peticoner. The peticoner sett forth by his peticon
that whereas he was oblidged to build a Court house and prisson ; and
that sence that time the Govermt is Altered and that he is much Im
ployed in other publick bussnes soe that it would be much to his
damiadg if he should be Confined to doe the said work; the Court
taking the same into their Consideracon; doe hereby order that he
shaU be released and discharg from the said Agreement all ways pro
vided that this order shall in no ways Release or discharge the Said
Luke Wattson from the damiadg that the Shriefe hath or shall suffer
for want of a prisson to this day.
The Court Adjurne untill the second thurd day of the next second
Moneth 1683.
April 10th, 1683.
Att A Court Held at the Towne of Lewis for the County of Sussex
by the Kings Authority & by Commicon from William Penn propri-
tary and Govemor of Pensilvania & Territoryes there unto Belonging
the 10th day of the second Moneth 1683; Justices present Luke Watt
son, John Roades, Edward Southrin, Robert Hart, John Kiphaven.
An Action of the Case upon an Attachment. ComeUs Johnson
Pit, Charles Brighte Estate deft. The Pit not Appearing to prose
cute his suit the Court order an non suit to be entred Agt the Pit with
Cost of suit AUas Execution.

96 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
An Action of the Case. John Barker Pit, Will Bradford deft.
[As above.]
An Action of ye Case. William Darvall Pit, William Borne deft;
Wittnes Will Rodney & Marton Hoogland. Jureymen H. Bowman
S. Gray G. Young H. Shepard J. CuUison J. Smith T. Haward
W. Beverla J. Crew J. Simons M Chambers H. Strecher. The
Pit declared that the deft stands justly Indebted unto him in Thur-
teen Thousand Eightye Two pounds of Tobacco upon Acct and
proved the same by the Testamony of William Rodeney and Marton
Hoogland and the deft owne Confession; the Cause was Left to A
Jurey who brought in their verdict that they find for the Pit with
Cost of suit and one Shilling damiag the Court passe Judgment Accord
ing to the verdict of the Jurey Alias Execution.
An Action of the Case. William Borne Pit, William Darvall deft.
The Pit not proceeding According to Law the Court order An non
suit to be entred Agt the Pit with Cost of suit Alias Execution.
An Action of the Case, ffrancis Henry Pit, William Borne deft.
The Pit declare that the deft stands Justly Indebted unto him in
three hundred pounds of Tobacco for Carting of Timber to William
Darvalls house at Lewis and proved the same the Court therfor
passe Judgment for the pit Agt the deft * * * Execution given
out the 1th 3 mo, 1683.
This day John Johnson Senr Accknowlidge in open Court the sale
of Two hundred Acres of Land unto John Hill & to his heires and
Assignes for ever; the said Two hundred Acres of Land being part
of the Land that was John Kings which was his Mothers thurds.
John Danill Peticoner Agt Nathanil Bradford. The peticoner
sett forth that he was Transported out of Burbados Into Vergina
to sarve for three years and that he was Sold for the same time to
the deft; and that the deft have detained the peticoner foure years
& Ten or Eleaven Moneths in his ser^vices and proved the same by the
Testamony of Capt John Osborne one of the Justices of the peace of
Sumersett County in the provience of Maryland; the deft sun pre
tending that the peticoner is not yet free the Court doe therefor order
that the Cause be Refered untill the next Court and that the deft
sun doe in the meanetime Give his ffather notice there of to the end
that he may make his defence therein if any he Can at the next Court ;
and that the peticoner in the meanetime shall have Libiart [sic] to
procure further Testamony of what he declare; Refference. [At
Court 14th 6 mo, 1683 "because neither Pit nor Deft appear'd the
Action was dismist]."
The Court Grant unto Arther Star one Towne Lott Adjoyning to
Pagons Creeke for to sett up A Tan office.
John Vines Shriefe & WilUam Emmatt peticoners on the behalfe
of themselves and the Inquest that sarve on the body of Thomas
Grimdick deceased ; and desier an order for theire feese in that Cause
It being as Appeare by an Account produced in Court Three pounds
nine shiUs and foure pence; the Court Grant an order to the peticoner
for the said sume of £3 9s 4d Agt the Estate of the said Thomas
Grimdick deceased in the hands of Stephen Whetman his Adminis
trator with Cost of suit Alias Execution.
The Court Adjurne Untill further order. Test. Wm. Clark.

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May 27th, 28th, 1683.
Att A Court Held at Lewis in the County of Sussex by the Kings
Authority & by Comission from WiUiam Penn Proprietary & Governor
¦of the Provience of Pensilvania & Territories there unto Belonging;
the 27th & 28th days of the Second Moneth Anno; Dm; 1683 ; present.
Will Penn Proprietary, & Govemor; Capt William Markham Deputy
'Governor; Justices: WiUiam Darvall, Luke Wattson, John Roades,
Edward Southrin, Robert Hart, John Kiphaven. .^
An Action of Trasspase & Ejectment. John Bellamey pit, Luke
Wattson deft; Henry Stracther Henry Skidmore Danil Browne
Will Clark John Roades Skidemore & Clark again wittneses Tho
Groves; Edmond Cantwell & Will Traford. Jureymen: Halmanias
Wiltbanck Will Dere Stephen Whetman Rich Law Will Kening Jo
CuUison Bryant Rowles Samll Gray Robt Harley Junr Henry Bow
man Baptis Newcomb Harclos Sheepard. The pit declared by his
Atturney John HiU that the deft did Cutt fall and destroy severall of
his Timber trees on the pits Land Lyeing at Slarter Branch on Prime
hook neck; The deft plead that the Land is non of the pits but
that the said Land is Capt Henry Smiths the Cause was Left to A
Jurey and the above wittneses Excamined and the Cause pleaded to
on both sides; And the whole matter being sumed up by the pro
prietary the Jurey went out and after a Long debate they brought in
their verdict that they find for the deft; The pit by his Atturney
•Craves an Appeale to have the Cause trid befor the Governor &
Provincall Council at Phelidelphia which the Court Grant unto the
pit he puting in good & sufficent securety to prosecute his said Ap
peale. This day Henry Jones Norton Claypoole and Alexander Draper is
by the Inhabitents of this County Chosen and Appointed to be peace
makers to end and detarmine all differances that shall any ways
Hapen or Rise Betwene man and man if they Can; for one whole
year now next ensueing from the date hereof ; which said peace makers
Are ordered and Appointed by the Govemor & the rest of the Court
to sitt about such Matters the Last thur[d] day of the week in every
moneth. Henry Jones and Alexander Draper doe solmonly promise in the
presence of God in open Court; that they will to the best of their
KnowUdg and understanding discharge their office of peace Makers;
for one year.
The Laws of this Government was this day openly pubUshed in
Court being the 28th day of the thurd Moneth about the Midle of
the day.
This day John Kiphaven Alexander Moulston Halmanias Wiltbanck
¦CorneUs verhoofe Comelis Johnson francis Henry Comelis Plockhoy
Anthony Hamen [Hancen?] Alias Haverla haveing publiquely in open
Court solmonly promised and declared in the presence of God AUeai-
gance to the King of England his heires and successors; And fidelity.
to William Penn Proprietary and Governor of the provience of Pensil
vania & Territories thereunto belonging and to his heires & successers
After which the Governor declared all of them to be Naterallized and
as free men of this Government as any English men.
The Court is Adjurned untill the second thurd day of the 4th mo,
16S3. Test. Wm. Clark.

98 some records of sussex county.
Wm. Penn Proprietary & Governor of ye Province of Pen
silvania & ye Treitory's there unto belonging.
These are to will & require all persons wthin ye County of Sussex
that have no Patients for the Lands or are willing to have their
Patients [ren'd?] to send up their Certificates of Survey & Old Patents
by Wm. Clark Surveyor for ye Lower Counties, before ye 28th instant
into my Secretaries Office, and appoint some person or other to take
Patent out for them; given at Philodelphia ye 13th 4 mo, 1683.
By Wm. Penn Proprietary & Governor of ye Province op Pen
silvania & territories thereunto belonging, &
Councill. A Proclamation.
Whereas severall complaints have been made by the freemen &
indwellers of this Province against their own servants who doe im-
basell & dispose of the goods & monys of their Masters & Mistris:
contrary to Law & Justice to the great loss & detremt of their sd
Master & Mistris. These are therefore by the Kings Authority
strictly to forbid all manner of People wtsoever at any time to give
lend truck sell dispose pay or receive any manner of Cloathing goods
or mony to or from any Servant whatsoever without their Master or
Mistris Warrant for the same, & that if any person shall at any time
take receive or possess goods of any kind or monys wtsoever from any
Servant as aforesd or deliver or pay to any such servant any monys
or goods whatsoever wthout Order as aforesd such offenders shall be
lyable to pay to ye owner of such Servant double ye valine thereof
besides ye sd goods & monys as a foresd wherefore every Justice of ye
Peace are hereby strictly required and commanded & other ministers
of Justice to make strict inquiery after such persons so offending &
such severely to punish according to Law as they will answer ye
contrary at their Peril. By Order of ye Govemor & Councel.
MoORE, Secretary.
Given at Philodelphia ye 23th 3d mo 1683.
By Wm. Penn Proprietary & Governor op ye Province op Pen
silvania &c & Provincial Councill Thereof. A Pro
Clamation.
Por as much as there are severall unjust & unlawfuU proceedings
of severaU persons yt have psumed to take Horses Boats & Canoies
in this Province & 'Territories without leave from ye Owners to their
great prejudice often pretending ye Horses are Strays & broken out
. of ye Fence as allso ye Boats &c were borrowed or runn adrift. The
Governor & his Counc haveing taken this into their consideration
for ye preventing of those unjust actions for ye future doe by these
presents strictly charg & command all manner of persons who have
ye administration of Justice in this Province & Territories thereunto
belonging to punish all such offenders according to the Laws of this
Province made & provided for in that behalf of weh aU manner of
persons are to take notice of, & so yeild All true obedience at their
Peril. by Order of ye Govemor & Councel
N. Moore, Secretary.
Given at Philodelphia ye 9th 4th mo, 1683.

court records. 99
By Wm. Penn Proprietary & Governor op ye Province op Pen
silvania &c: & Provinciall Councell thereof.
A Proclamation.
The Law of God & Man requireing Sobriety & good Manners to
be propagated & maintained in all Nations & Cuntryes & haveing as
in duty bound a tender respect unto Gods Honor & ye good of ye
Souls of ye People & desirous that all in all stations may doe well
these are therefore to charg & strictly to command the Ministers of
Justice & Magistrates of ye Province & Territories to Oversee ye
manner of ye People & strictly to Punish & Suppress all disorders &
Debaucheries weh are or shall be committed espeacially in any Or
dinary or Publique Drinking house & that without respect of Persons
as you will answer the Neglect thereof at your Peril.
By Order of ye Governor & Coun.
N. MooRE, Secretary.
Given at Philodelphia the 9th of 4th mo, 1683.
By Wm. Penn Proprietary & Governor op ye Province op Pen
silvania &c & Provincial Councel thereof.
A Proclamation.
The Govemor Provincial Councel & General Assembly haveing
taken into their Serious consideration the present state & future
good of this Province &c have made & provided divers good & whole
some Laws to encourage Virtue Trade & Comerce & to Punish &
Suppress looseness & impiety weh distroys all Civil society it hath
pleased ye Govemor & Council to Quicken the execution thereof &
this day do therefore strictly require & command all Magistrates &
Ministers of Justice forthwith to observe & execute or cause to be
executed all the sd Laws in all Points without delay favour or affection
upon ye Penaltyes therein expressed & all concerned are hereby,
required to take notice thereof at their Peril.
By Order of ye Governor & Councel.
N. MooRE, Secretary.
Given at Philodelphia ye 9th 4th mo, 1683.
Aminadab Hanger his Cattell Mark: A Swallow Fork on both
Ears & a hole on ye right Ear.
Danll Helier his CatteU Mark: A Swallow Fork on boath Ears &
under bitten on ye Left.
Edward Sowthern's Brand Mark J
In ye Name of God Amen
I Edward Bootle of Deal County being Sicke & Weeke yett of
sound & perfect Memory * * *
Imprimus. I give & bequeath unto Mr. John Kipshaven Son John
the one half of my land & plantation if it please God that I dye with
out Wife or Issue that is to say to him & his Heires for Ever never to
be sould but to continue from Heir to heir for Ever.
Item. I give and bequeath uilto John Depree & his Son Jacob De
pree the other half of my Land & Plantation if it please God that I
dye without Issue or Wife that is to say to them or their heirs for
Ever, never to be sould but to continue from Heir to heir for Ever &

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if the said John Depree should dye now or before his Son Jacob comes
to age then it is my Will that Andrew Depree shall keep this Moiety
of Land in his Possession untill the sd Jacob Depree doth come of
Perfect Age & then to deliver the sd Jacob Depree possession of this
said Moiety of Land.
Item. I give to John Kipshaven all the goods that is in my house
if I dye this present.
Item. I give to John Whittman one old Sow Called Sib * * *
Item. I give unto Elisabeth Whittman Two Young Hens & a
Cock * * *
Item. I give unto Martha Kipshaven one young Sow weh came
of that Old Sow * * *
Item. I order 3tl0 lb of Tobacco' to be pd to Mr. Avery for Sur
veying the Land out of that 399 of Tobacco weh is due to me from
John Oaky * * *
Item. I give to Wm. Emmatt Junr one Grisled Sow bought of
John Hackester * * *
Item. I Order my great Barrow to be killed at my Funeral I
order to be paid to Mathias Everson for SO lb of Tobacco that I owe
him my White faced Barrow.
Item. I order Mr. John Kipshaven to pay 60 lb Tobacco to Mr.
Norton Claypoole.
Item. [Order John Kipshaven & Jacob Depree and their Heirs
for Ever to pay something towards maintaining the Widdows & Fath
erless Children of this County * * *
Item. Order that Mr. John Kipshaven & John Depree pay for the
Pattent of my Land each of them his part * * * ] j have sett my
hand & Seal the Seaventh day of December, 1682.
The Mark of
Edward A Boatle
the mark of *
[Witnesses; — Jeffery X Summerford
the mark of
Steven S W Whitman
Wm. Emmatt
Mary Claypoole Daughter to Norton & Rachell Claypoole borne
aboute the 1st Houre in the morning 10th day of the Sth Month 1682
in the presence of Edward So-wthoms wife the midwife, Katherine
Hews, & her daughter EUzabeth, Honor Clark, jonica Wiltbanck
Margarett Molleston, Sewsanna Grey, Sarah Stretcher, Sarah Bartlet.
William Penn Proprietary & Governor of ye Province of Pen
silvania & the Territories thereunto belonging.
Reposeing confidence in thy Ability & Integrity I doe hereby con-
stittite & appoint the Norton Claypoole of Lewis in ye County of Sussex
to be Clark of ye Courts of Sessions to be holden for the said County
to act theirin Justly & dilligently according to Law, to the best of
thy understanding ; this Commission to be of force for One Year or
untiU further Order given at Philodelphia ye 12th 3d mo in ye 35
Year of ye King, ye third Year of my Government & in ye Year of our
Lord 1683. Wm. Penn.

court records. 101
Wm. Penn Proprietary & Governor of ye Province of Pensil
vania & Territories thereunto belonging.
By Virtue of the Authority derived unto me I doe hereby in the
Kings name Constitute appoint and Authorise ye Alexander Moleston
to be a Justice of ye Peace in ye Jurisdiction of ye County of Sussex
giveing the full power to Act in ye sd Office according to Law & ye
trust reposed in ye of weh all persons are to take notice & to give thee
the due respect & Obedience belonging to thy place in the discharging
of thy Duty this Commission is to be of Forse for ye space of One Year
after the date hereof or till further Order given under my hand &
Seal at Le^wis in ye County of Sussex ye third day of ye third Month
16S3 being ye Second Year of my Govemment. •- Wm. Penn.
These to Alexander Moleston.
Wm. Penn Proprietary & Governor of ye Province of Pensil
vania & Territories thereunto belonging.
To MY Loveing Freind Wm. Clarke: — Greeting. — By Virtue
of ye Authority derived unto me I doe hereby in ye Kings
Name constitute appoint & Authorise the Wm. Clark to be a
Justice of ye Peace & President of ye Court of Justice in ye County of
Sussex formerly called ye Whorekill, who with any three other Jus
tices shall be a Court of Judicature in ye sd County giveing the full
Power to Act in ye sd Oflice according to Law & ye trust reposed in
thee, of weh all persons are to take Notice & to give the due respect
& obedience belonging to thy place in ye discharging of thy Duty
this Commission to be in force for ye Space of One Year after ye date
hereof or untill further Order.
Given under my hand & Seal at Lewis in ye sd County of Sussex
the First day of the third Month 1683. Being ye Second Year of my
Govemment. Wm. Penn.
The 12th of 4 Mon: 1683. The Justices present at a Court held
for the County of Sussex: John Roads, Edw. Southem, John Kip
haven, Alexander MoUison.
An Action of ye Case. Art Johnson Ver Kerk Pits, John Barker Deft.
The Pits ^declares that he purchased a Sorrell Gelding of Alexander
Oliver which sd Gelding Run at Jno Barkers Plantation, & yt the sd
Oliver did give power unto ye Plants to take ye sd Gelding as by a bill
of Sail from under the sd Olivers hand but when the Plant did goe to
ye house of ye sd Barkers to Fetch away the Gelding the Deft would
not suffer him bud did detain ye sd Gelding from ye Pit to his damidg.
The Pit produced a bill of Sail for ye Horse the Deft said that he pur
chased the Horse before the bill of Sail was made, so it was referd till
ye next Court. [At a Court 14th 6 mo, 1683 — "The Pit not appearing
the Court granted a nonsuit against the Pit with Cost of Suite."]
The Court Adjurn'd till ye 2d Tewsday 6 mo, 1683, Because they
had not a Coppy of ye Laws of ye Govern.
At A Court held at Lewis in the County of Sussex the 14th 6 mo,
16S3. Justices present : Luke Wattson, John Roads, Edward Southern,
Alex. Moleston, John Kipshaven, Herculus Sheppard, Thomas Hart.
An Action of Debt. Harman CorneUson Pit, Art Johnson Ver-
kerk Deft; with drawn by ye Pits Order.

102 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
An Action of Atachment. John Vines Pit, Peter Groningdike
Deft. The Pit declares for Ten Pounds One Shil Six Pence due from
ye sd Peter Groningdike for Sheriff Fees upon Accot. Withdrawn
by Order of ye Pit.
An Action of Atachmt. Cornelius Verhoofe Pit, Richard Dawsons
Estate Deft. The Pit declares for Eleaven Hundred & Twelve Pounds
of Tobaco for Clarks Surveighing One Thousand Acres of Land Re
fer'd wth consent of ye Plant. [The case again coming before the
Court] * * * Richard Dawson being deceased the Court grants
a Nonsuite against ye Plant.
An Action of Debt. Hermanus Wiltbanck Pit, John Barnett
Deft. The Pit declares for Eighteen Hundred Foot of Planck due
upon bill. Withdrawn by ye Plant Order.
An Action of Debt due to Hen Smith. Luke Wattson Pit, Georg
Martins Cattell Deft. The Plant Petitions for One Thousand Four
Hundred and Eighty Pounds of Tobaco due from Georg Martin to
Capt Henry Smith which was proved in Court the 11 Mo, 1677 with
alowable Interest from that time. Refer'd till next Court. * * *
The Deft not appearing or Cornelius Verhoof Atturney for Georg
Martin pleaded against the Accot or Debt & further saith Georg
Martin hath no Cattill in the hands of Baptist Newcomb, it was re
fer'd to the next Court.
An Action of the Case. Hermanus Wiltbanck Plant, Cornelius
Johnson Deft. The Plant declares that the Deft unjustly detains
from him a parcell of Land contrary to former Orders of Court & Gover
nors approbation which our said Proprietary allso did confirm the
same promisses as was done by ye Court & Governor before onely
was pleased to referr to the Peace makers whether their might be any
thing due to ye Deft for his Improvements or not but the Deft refused
to plead before the Peace makers or have any thing to doe with them,
the Plant not proving his Declaration the Court granted a Nonsuit
to the Deft against ye Plant with Cost of Suite. [Brought up again
117 mon, 1683, when, the Court advi.sed them to refer all differences
to Men to be ended & determined betwen this and the next Court.
The Plant nominated Luke Wattson & Cornelius Verhoof. The Deft
nominated Henery Stecher & John Hill. In case John Hill doth not
come hether before the 22nd Instant then the Deft to choose another.
Then in case of differences — they to choose an Umpire?!
An Action of Debt. Alexander Moleston Plant Richard GiU
Deft. [Refer'd tiU next Court.]
An Action of the Case. Alexander Draper Plant, Robert GiUum
Deft; [with drawn].
An Action of ye Case. Robert Gillum Plant, Charles Murffy Deft.
The Plant declares for a bill or Note of One Thousand pounds of
Tobaco payable by Edward Warner of Kent County_ unto the Plant
which biU the Plant left in the hands of ye Deft for the use of Alex
ander Draper allso the Plant declares for one Coasting Coat the Deft
took from the Plant & keeps it; with drawn by consent of both partyes.
An Action of the Case by Attachment. Richard Gill Plant, John
Savage his Estate in ye hands of Jno Crew Deft. [Refer'd till next
Court for Judgment.] [117 mo, 1683, again refer'd.]
Jefery Summerford Aged 43 years or there abouts & EUsabeth
Johnson Aged 20 years or there abouts being examined saith that

COURT RECORDS. 103
they heard EUsabeth Leveritt declare about Eight or Ten days be
fore her departure out of this World that she did WiU & Bequeath
all what Estate she had unto Richard Bundick only one Cow Calf
excepted which should be remaining for her son Richard Bracy at
present & when Her Son Richard comes at Age the said Cow Calf
with aU her Increase to be deliver'd unto him by the said Richard
Bundick. A Coppy of what was Sworn in open Court concerning the last
WiU & Testament of EUsabeth Leveritt Sworn by Jefrey Summer
ford & Elisabeth Johnson. Signed Jefery I S Sumerford
Signed Elizabeth M Johnson
Richard GiU aged 42 years or their abouts saith yt Elisabeth Lev
eritt about two or three days before she Dyed did Will & Bequeath
unto Richard Bundick a Mare or a Thousand pd of Tobaco in Robert
Bracy's hands for the which sd Mare the said Robert Bracy did pay
One Thousand lb of Tobaco out of the said EUsabeth Leveritts Estate
& further did declare that if the sd Robert Bracy did refuse to pay
the said 1000 lb of Tobaco it would trouble her that would come again.
Sworn in open Court by Signed Richard X Gill
The Clarks Comition being Read, The Court Ordered ye Clarks
Commition to be Recorded By Norton Claypoole [Clerricus ?].
Joseph Lee Petitioner for a Town Lott which was granted upon
the same Conditions of building as other's promis'd.
Thomas Edwards & Wm. Loyd Servants to John Moore in Pocoson
in Virginia near York River was apprehended by Stephen Whittman
& brought to Court where they confessed themselves Servants as
afores'd the Court therefore Ordered them to be kept by the Sherriff
till he can send to their Mr according to ye Laws of this Government.
Robert Bracy Petiti: this Court that the Bridg by Richard Bun-
dicks may be .speadily repaired -the Court ordered William Bradford
to gett the Bridg repaired wth speed.
John Johnson Senior was brought before the Court under suspition
of Murdering his Wife, & the Deposition of Jno Oakys & Jefery Sum
merford was read, & the Verdict of the Jury of Twelve Women that
endeavored to view the Corp's the Jurys Verdict is wee whose Names
are here subscribed have endeavored to view the body of Susan John
son and we could not discover one Sign of Murder. Jeffery Summer
ford denying that he saw the Roapes End strike her on the Burr of
ye Ear which was one affirmation in his Oath; & the Court therefore
accounted his Oath of No Vallew, & the Crowner & Jury clearing
John Johnson by their Verdict the Court therefore takes John John
son's word to appear next Court they intending to clear him if nothing
more comes against him.
The Court Order'd that the Appraisers of Capt Avery's Estate
should appraise it as it was when he Dyed as near as could be and if
any of the 4 appraisers be wanting they may chuse another in his
place & that Jno. Roads shall Swear them for the true appraising
thereof. The Court Order'd John Roads to deliver Samll Jones bill into
the Clarks Office.
The Court Adjurned .till the second Tewsday in the Nex Mon:

104 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
August 31st, 16S3.
Att A Special Court Called upon the Petition of Petter Adolph
the 31th 6 mon, 1683. Justices present: William Clark, Luke Wattson,
John Roads, Robert Hart, Alex. Moleston, Edward Southern.
An Action of the Case. Peter Adolph Pit, Hermans Wiltbanck
Deft. The Plant declares that the Deft wrong fully detains & keeps
from him Forty Pounds wt. of Silver Plate. The Defts Answer is
that he keeps the Plate by virtue of a Contract made between them,
& for the Consideration of weh Plate, the Deft is ingaged to mentain
the Plant dureing his Life, the Plant produced his contract & one
of ye Wettneses to Witt Will. Townsend declared that he saw the Plant
sign & Seal the Contract according to the best of his knowledg but
denyed to Swear possitively ; John Washington declar'd as an Evi
dence for the Plant the day before the Contract was signed (then he
was very sick and as he thincks not able to make' that marke as is
fixed for him to ye Contract. Petter Designy Doctor affirms to his
knowledg that ye Plant was not sensible to understand such a Con
tract about two days before it was dated. Robert Clifton affirms
the day before this Contract was signed the Plant was not sensible.
John Brown declared that he brought the Plant a Chest & sett it
down by him and after he saw the Chest & tooke notice of it, yett he
asked him again for it, and bid him aske what he would for it and
he should have it for said the Plant I shall Dye. Harmon CorneUson
declared the Plant was very .sick more Uke to dye then to live, ye
day that this Contract was dated.
The Jury's Names as Follows: — Alexander Draper, John CuUison,
Anthony Heverly, Baptist Newcomb, Will. Kenny, Will. Foutcher,
John Depree, Stephen Whitman, Robert Bracy, Robert Richards,
Fran. WilUams, Rich. Laws. The Deft for want of one of his Evi
dences to Witt Cornell. Verhoof desired a refference untill the next
Court. The Court is Adjourned till ye after Noon & Order'd ye Plant
to give Security to answer it next Court else come to Tryall. Her
manus Wiltbanck Deft haveing put in Security to answer the Action
next Court, the Court grants him a refference till the next Court.
withdrawn the Sth of the 7 mon. by the Plant Order.
Mr. Clark & Mr. Sanders Commitions being read the Court Order'd
them to be Recorded.
Baptist Newcomb hath this day agreed with the Court, to bring
and deliver at the Town Landing where the Shipp is building
Eighty Cyprus Logs twenty two foot Long each Log to contain
at least One foot in thickness at the great End besides the Bark
to be delivered between this & the twentieth day of the next Sth
mon. for which the Court hath Obleidged themselves to pay unto the
said Baptist or his Order the Neat Quantity of three Thousand
Pounds of Tobaco to be paid betwen this & the 2Sth day of the
next 10th mon. which said Timber is for building of a Prison &
Court house.
The Court Ordered the Clark to write three Warrants to be di
rected one to each Cunstable Will. Carter Will. Foucher & John
Richards for them to take an Accot of all the Tithables in their pre
cincts & give in the Accounts to the next Court that is all males above
16 & under 60.
The Court Adjurn'd till the 1 1th day of ye next Month.

COURT RECORDS. 105
September llth, 1683.
At a Court Held at Lewis in the County of Sussex the llth of the
7th Mon. 1683. Justices present: William Clark, Luke Wattson,
Robert Hart, Alexander Moleston, Herculus Shepard.
An Action of ye Case upon Atachment. Hermanus Willtbanck
Plant, The Estate of Wm. Beverly Deft. The Plant declares for
Seaventeen Pounds thirteen Shil Nine Pence due upon Accounts the
last Court the Deft Petiti. for a Refferance till this Court by reason
that his prinsipal Evidence Henery Strecher who hath all his Write-
ings & Accounts are gon up the River & other of his evidences are
not here which was granted till this Court, after much is put on both
sides and many Objections against the said Account the Court ad
vised them to refer it to men & accordingly the Plaintiff nominated
Norton Claypoole the Defts chose Wm. Emmit & they doe declare in
open Court that they doe refer all differences that are betwen them to
the sd William & Norton giving them full power (if they cannot agree
the said differences by or before the 20th day of this Instant) to chuse
an Umpire to end & determin the sd differences & they doe promiss
to Forfeit One Hundred Pounds if either of them refuseth to stand to
the Award or determination of the said persons Nominated & Chosen
or the Umpire which shall be chosen by the sd Norton & William.
An Action of ye Case. William Clark Plant, Edw. Southem Deft.
* * * ye Plant not being here the last Court it was Refer'd by con
sent of the Deft till this Court, the Deft being absent upon the Pub
Uck bussiness it was refer'd to the next Court.
An Action of ye Case upon Atachment. Cornelius Johnson Plant,
Charles Brights Estate Deft, in ye hands of Com. Johnson. The
Plant Petiti. last Court for one Cow & Seaven Barlls of Corn which
is in the hands of ye Plant towards the satisfying of the Plant Three
Thousand Five Hundred Pounds of Tobaco and by the Account unto
the Plant from Charles Bright John Hill in the behalf of Henery
Bowman proved that Charles Bright before his departure out of ,this
County Sould the Cow to Henery Bowman, as for the Seaven Barlls
of Com that was refer'd to this Court the Plant not proveing that he
had any such parcell of Com in his Hands they Order'd a Nonsuite
against the ye Plant.
An Action of ye Case. Hermanus Willtbanck Plant, Richard Gill
Deft. [From last Court. At this Court] * * * ¦^e the Jury doe
find for the Deft * * * ye Jurys Names Robert Bracy Antony
Heverly Roger Gum Bap. Newcomb John Barker Wm. Kenny WiU.
Foucher John Depree John Simons Robert Richards Fran. Williams
Stephen Whittman.
An Action of the Case. John Daniel Plant, WilUam Bradford
Deft. The Plant declares for satisfaction for near two Years Service
which he hath served the Deft more than his time of servitude allso
declares for freedome Mony as ye Law ^ vides. The Plant proved that
he had served about one Year Nine Months more then his time of
Servitude & they both refering it to the Court without a Jury the
Court Order that the Deft Should pay to the Plant or his Order by
and with the consent of the deft Three Thousand Pounds of Tobaco
for whole satisfaction ye Deft to pay Cost.
William Emitt Deputy Coroner Plant, John Johnson senior. The
Deft was oblidged last County Court to make his ^ sonal appearance

106 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
before the Court to answer all & every such person that might or
should appear against him on the Kings behalf to give evidence
against or ^ secute him further on suspition of Murdering his Wife
the last Court intending that if no body appeared further against
him this Court & no further evidence given to sett him at Liberty
^ clamation being made and no ^ son appearing further against him
he was cleared.
Abraham Pettors Pet. for a Town Lott being read was granted
upon the same condition as Other Lotts were granted.
Thomas Edwards kept in Custody for a Runn away petitioned for
his liberty the Court order him to be kept in Custody till next Court
unless his Mr. comes or sends for him.
Mr. Luke Wattson signd & Seald a Conveyance of One Hundred
Ninety Six Acres of Land called St. Giles to Samll Gray his Heirs
Executors Administrators or Assignes for ever in open Court the llth
of the 7th Month 1683.
Will Carter Peti. that whereas his Sp decessors Otto Woolgast had
but 300 Acres of Land Surveyed upon a grant or Warrant of 400
Acres that he may have the other hundred Acres Surveyed unto the
other thre Hundred Acres.
Robert Johnson Petitioned against the Estate of Thomas Grin
dick for Twelve days work at 30 lb ^ day coming to Three Hundred
& Sixty pounds of Tobaco.
William Bradford Petitioned that as the Court hath appointed him
one of the Oversers of the High Ways that they will please to lett him
know the bounds or Limitts of his precincts the Court Order'd he
should have a Warrt. to summons in the inhabitants to help to mend
the Ways and in the Warrant the Bounds of his Precincts shall be
specified. Whereas Will. Simmons had a Warrant from this Court for 300
Acres of Land which said Warrant Cornelius Verhoof doth declare
he did never survey any Land upon that Warrant, therefore the
Court granted that the said Simons may have his Warrant re
newed. Norton Claypoole acknowledged the Sale of One Thousand Acres
of Land to John Glass & John Swain lying & being on the other side
of ye Indian River whereof Wm. Kenning declared in open Court that
he by Norton Claypools Order & apoyntment deliver'd them pos
sesion by Turf & Twig.
The Jury Petitioned for there Fees according to their Summons in
Petter Adolphus Cause and Hermanus Cause against Cornelius
Johnson the Court therefore Order'd the Jury to have two shil a man
for so many of them as appeared the Two days for Petter Adolphus
& those that served but one for Petter Adolphus but 16d ^ man the
other 8d ^ man & they of the Jury that were Sworn & Summon'd to
serve in Hermanus his Cause to have 16d ^ man.
The Court Adjoum'd to the Second Tewsday of the 9th Month.
November 13th, Uth, 16S3.
At A Court Held at Lewis for the County of Sussex by the Kings
Authority & by Comition from WilUam Penn propriator of the Prov
ince of Pensillvania and the territorys thereunto belonging the 13th
& 14th days of the 9th month 1683. Justices present: WilUam

COURT RECORDS. 107
Clark, Luke Watson, John Roades, Edward Southorne, John
Kipshaven, AUexandr Molleston, Robt Hart, Herculus Shepard.
An Action of the Case. William Clark Pit, Edward Sowthorne
deft; twice Referrd. Tne pit declares for two thousand foure hun
dred & two pounds of tobacco & one pounds sixteen shillings in Mony
& three hundred pounds of porke dew upon acount; it hath bene
twice Referd by Reason of the pit & deft absence being Imployed on
publick buisness. The deft objected agst two articles in the pits
Acount viz Stephens & Booths Grant & Warrant for Land as not dew
to him to pay & allsoe agst one Article of 800 lb. tobaco of Will.
Emmit's, The deft preferr'd an Acount agst the pit, the deft allsoe
pretended 2000 lb. tobaco dew to him upon two parcells of Land sould
unto the pit which wass in Maryland. The pit proved his Acount by
his declaration & testimony of the truth of it and after pleading to on
both sides the Jury went oute but had not Edward Sowthorns Acount
with them; The jurye brought in theire verdict Wee of the jury doe
finde for the pit with Costs Henry Bowman foreman the Court pass
Judgment accordingly alias Execution Jurys Names viz Henry Bow
man, John Deprey, Samwell Leonard, Halm Wiltbanck, Will.
Beverly, Will Kenning, Peter Designy, Jno Barker, Robt Twilly,
Robt Bracy, Jno King, Jno Symons, the Court ordered to be Entered
or Recorded as followeth Edward Sowthorne did say & Affirme that
the judgment of this Court is erronius agst him in this Action, The
Court ordered him by fine to pay five pounds sterl. for the derogation
of sentence of Court, The Court allsoe fines him ten shillings for saying
or swearing * * * [The defendant was ordered to be taken from
Court by the Sheriff and returned three times. Called WiUiam Clark,
the president, "A Lyar," and did so much swearing that the Court
imposed three fines of ten shillings each for the offense].
A prisoner by Mittimus. Abram Westrom Pit, Symon A Dutch
man deft. The Mittimus declared that the prisoner or deft hath
pretended himselfe to be A sorcerer or Conjuror. The Pit not Apearing
to prosecute the prisoner or deft The Court ordered A nonsuite agst the
Pit -with Costs & that the prisoner be released oute of prison.
Cristian the Indian by way of Complaint brought two biUs one
whereof was against CorneUs Verhoofe & John Vines of which their
apears to be remaining dew one third part of twelve botles of Indian
Drinck foure duble handfuUs of powder & three staves of Lead.
The Court therefore orders that CorneUs Verhoofe & John Vines pay
the Pit what is dew within A Month. The other biU is against the
servant of CorneUs Verhoofe Called John Pye for two Matchcoates
which the Court ordered he should forthwith pay unto the Pit other
wise for Not payment Execution to be granted within A Month.
John Street petitioned for one hundred & fifty Acors of Land where
he may find it Cleare in this County which th Court Granted; "Warrant
given oute ISth 9th Month 1683.
The Court fines WilUam Beverly & John Barker jurymen for not
Attending the Court Twenty ShilUngs pr man.
The Court fined CorneUs Johnson for Abusing the Court & teUing
Luke Watson one of the justices he cared not A  for him twenty
Shillings. WilUam Carter petitioned the Court for three hundred Acors m this
County, which the Court Granted.

108 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
The Court fined William Emmitt Twenty Shillings for saying that
the Court gives the Land to Comelis Johnson th [ ] is a diference between
Halm Wiltbanck & Cornelis Johns[on] and afterward he being very
peremptory giving ill Langua[ge] to the Court they fined him five
pounds more.
Proclamation being made there is now to be Exposed to sale five
hundred Acors of Land scituation of which by Cirtificate of Survey
may Apeare & two hundred Acors m[ore] in the forke of the Cypruss
Swamp belonging to the broad Kill which seaven hundred Acors of
Land did belong to Thomas Grindike deceased for which Land severall
persons bid mor[ ] But Mr. Griffen Jones of Phylodellphya Merchant
being t[he] last & hyest bidder bought the sd seaven hundred Acors of
La[nd] at two thousand three hundred pounds of tobaco to be pd
between this & the next first month to Stephen Whittman Admins
trator of the sd Estate the Cirtificate of Survey was delivered to Grifen
Jones above mentioned every one yt is A Creditor in the said Estate
are required to bring there Acounts in to the Next Court & soe every
one to have an equ[al] proportion of the Estate Acording to his Acount.
William Emmit petitioned the Court that his fine or fines might be
remitted Acknowledging himselfe to be sorry for his fault therefore
the Court upon his Submition ye Court hath remitted his fine of five
pounds. Henry Stretcher Peter Designy Daniell HiUyard and John Ross
petitioned the Court that they might have satisfaction for their time
& labour spent one day & night fetching the old boate & Apurtenances
with the old tooles with A Woman & two Chilldren which they found
at Cape James to this towne the Court ordered them ten shilUngs pr
man to be pd oute of the boate & what belongs to her after the boate
is sould.
Arthur Starr petitioned the Court that he might have A front Lott
in the towne Instead of A back lott Which the Court formerly Granted
him; This Court Grants him A lott instead of his back lott Adjoyning
upon William Trottors in the second strete if Clear or elce the next
lott upon Condition that he build a dwelling house by the next second
Month or elce forfeit five pounds Ster.
Forasmuch as these overseers of the hyeways that hath served last
yeare hath not done the worke According to their order the Court
thinks fitt to continue the said overseers till the next 7th Month 1684
John Hill having Entered himselfe into the Imployment of the sosyety
Samwell Gray is Chosen & Apoynted to serve in his place.
Warning being given by the Sherriff to the people to bring in their
Acounts to the next Court of what they have Expended to serve the
publick; the Court is Adjourned to the second twesday of the Next
Month.December llth, 1683.
At A Court Held at Lewis for the County of Sussex * * * the
llth day of the 10th Month 1683. Comitioners present: WilUam
Clarke, Luke Wattson, John Roades, AUexander Molleston, Herculus
Shepard. Robert Johnson petitioned agst the Estate of Thomas Grindike
deceased, T-wice Referrd. The petitioner petitioned last 7th Month
Court against the Estate of Thomas Grindike for 12 days worke at SOlb

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tobaco per day coms to 360tb tobaco, for want of Witnesses the
Cause was Referrd to this Court. The petitioner proved his worke or
labour performed & did Acknowledge he had receid in part of satis
faction one Gallon Rum at [and?] lOOfb tobaco. The Court judged
twenty pounds of tobaco pr day to be Enough for his worke — there
fore they ordered the petitioner one hundred and forty pounds of
tobaco, if the Estate hold oute to satisfye all debts if not he should
have his proportion.
Edward Sowthorne Acknowledged the sale of foure hundred Acors
of Land which he now lives upon unto Griffen Jones of Phylodelphya
Merchant, ¦with the Apurtenances thereunto belongin acording to
Articles of Agreament made & Concluded upon.
John Depree petitioned the Court that he might be allowed for two
Wolves heads & Ninety five pounds of porke he lent the Burgesses
which they ordered should be allowed him.
Thomas Hancock petitioned the Court for three hundred Acors of
Land that is Clear in this County. The Court Granted on Condition
that he should pay one penny an Acor yearely from the time of the
Survey & that he shall seat build & Improve it within A yeare after
the Survey.
John Bro'wne petitioned the Court for A towne Lott Convenient
to build A Sloope or Shallop. The Court Granted that he might have
A to^wne Lott that is Cleare that Lott where the vesseU is on the stocke
A building Excepted the petitioner to forfeit five pounds if he doth
not build A dwelling house within one yeare.
[The Court fines William Beverly twenty Shillings for Abusing the
Court etc.]
The Court fines John Vines Henry Stretcher Andrew Depree & Barns
Garrat fifty pounds tobaco pr man for Smoakin tobaco in the Court
house [and later AUexander Molleston same amount for same offence].
The Court fines AUexander Molleston fifty pounds tobaco for smoakin
in the Court house, [ditto Luke Watson].
Robert Johnson petitioned the Court that he might be allowed
lOd. pr day for his 12 days worke that he did for Thomas Grindike
for finding himselfe dyet during that time. The Court would not
allow it, but order'd it to be Cast oute.
Robert Hignett Senior petitioned the Court for five hundred pounds
of Tobaco dew to him for being Cryer of the Court for one yeare as
heagread with the Court and yt he might have it pd oute of the fines
or Amercements.
The Court Adjourned to the second Twesday of the 12th Month
following.
February 12th, 13th, 1683.
At A Court Held by the Kings Authority * * * the Uth &
13th days of the 12th Month 1683. Comitioners present: William
Clarke, Robert Hart, AUexander Molleston, Luke Wattson, John
Kipshaw, John Roades, Edward Sowthorne & Herculus Shepard.
An Action of ye Case. Halm Wiltbanck pit. Estate of George
Andrews being A Cow & A Calfe deft; once referd. The last lOth
Month Court The Pit declared for two pounds foureteen shillings dew
to him from Georg Andrews upon Acount; It was Referd to this
Court. The Pit being dead the Action falls.

110 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
An Action of the Case. Robt Johnson Pit, William Butlor deft.
The Pit declares declares for two hundred Acors of Land that he bought
of the deft, & Craves Judgment of the Court that the deft May be
Compelled to give him Legall posetion thereof & to ma[ke] him good
title thereunto with Costs; the Deft pleaded that the Pit was obliged
to make A Chimny A Clap board loft and partition Richard Laws
& Joane Street declared * * * that the deft promised this Mom
ing to make A Conveya[nce] of the said Land unto the Pit they
allsoe declared that the Pit did allsoe promise to pay unto the deft
foure hundred pounds of tobaco, Richard Laws Engaged the Pit
should pay unto the deft foure hundred pounds of tobaco in A Month
Will. Emitt engaged that the Pit should finish the house as the
deft pleased & declar[ed] he was obliged to doe, that is to say A
Chimny A Clap board lof[t] & partition, upon which Engagements
the deft therefore did Acknowledge in open Court all his Rite &
title to the tw[o] hundred Acors of Land, lyeing & being upon the
great Kill unto Robert Johnson the Pit which is adjoining to the land
of Otto Wulgast.
Randalph Shard Chirurgeon & Physitian agst the Estate of Cor
neUs Verhooft, for five pounds Ster. dew to him for his paines care
& Medicins used to Cornelis Verhoofe in the time of his sickness,
the petitioner proved by two Wittnesses that Comelis did in his
life time consent [to] allow him soe much, therefore the Court
ordered him A judgment for the said Sib Ster agst the sd Estate
of Come[lis] Verhoofe, with Costs; Execution given out 27 day
12 mo, 16S[?].
William Carter petitioned the Court for A towne Lott ffronting
the Creek the first that hapeneth to be cleare the Court grants him
that Lot next to John Roades fronting ye Creek upon Condition that
he builds A dwelling house upon the sd Lott within one yeare after
this day or else forfeit five pounds Ster.
WilUam Clarke petitioned the Court for two towne Lotts upon the
North side of the Cross street fronting the Kreeke the Court Grants
him those two lotts on Condition that he builds two dwelling houses
one upon each Lott * * *
Symon Pawlin being Chosen Cunstable did promise in the presence
of God faithfully & truly to ofitiate the place or office of a Cunstable
for one yeare or till another was Chosen.
John King being Chosen Cunstable did promise the same as Sj^mon
Pawlin did.
Andrew Depree petitioned agst John Oaky for the Meat of A sow
of the petitioners that John Johnson junior Killed, which meat was
carryed to John Oakys John Johnson senior testimony with Jeffery
Summerfords was taken but not sufitient prove that John Oaky had
the meate therefore the Court advised Andrew Depree to send Hue
& Crye after the sd John Johnson to bring him back againe which he
promised to doe.
The Court ordered the Sherriff to take Mary Oaky into his Custody
till she pays five shilUngs for swearing in the face of the Court * * *
The Court fines AUexander Molleston five shiUings for swearing
Hs =}= *
John Roades petitioned the Court for A towne Lott fronting the
Creek next Adjoyning to those two Lots that was Granted this Court

COURT RECORDS. Ill
to WiUiam Clarke which was Granted by the Court if Cleare on ye
same conditions.
The Court Grants the jury an order for theire ffees in five Actions
viz Luke Watson agst Walter Pomfry Estate Wm Beverly Jno Barker,
Peter Designy agst the Estate of George Andrews Norton Claypoole
Pit Babtist Newcome deft.
Luke Watson petitioned the Court for A towne Lott fronting the
Creeke on the south side of that strete yt goes up to the place where
the Court house is to be build the lot formerly granted to Wil. Dar
vaU but now Cleare, which if Cleare the Court grants on the same con
ditions as to others.
John Vines Sherriff petitioned the Court for A front Lott in the
towne which they Granted Next to WiUiam Carters, on the same Con
ditions. John Grantam petitioned the Court for a front Lott in the towne
if Cleare or otherwise A back lott next unto the ffront, which the Court
Granted on the same Conditions.
Roger Gum petitioned the Court for A front Lott they Granted
him A back lott on the same Conditions.
Major Spencers letter to Mr. William Clarke desiring him with the
rest of the Court to rectifye A Mistake in his Levyes he being
Charged for his owne head & is above 60 yeares of Age & one of his
Men gon from him before the list was taken the Court allowed his
head to be abated but not his man.
John Walker petitioned the Court for 30, or forty Acors of Cleare
land betwene Babtist Newcome & the Widow Hall, which the Court
Granted if Cleare Warrant given oute the 15th 12th mo, 1683.
The Indian Assawmack Harmattamale Acknoledged in open
Court the sale of one thousand Acors of Land to Mr AUexander Mol
leston which land is on the south side of the Indian Rivor.
Willam [sic] Carter Petitioned the Court that he might [have]
some Consideration or satisfaction for his time paines & troub[le]
that he spent aboute taking the Levys; but the Court refused alleadg-
ing it was the Kings buisness.
William Wargent Petitioned that he might have his La[nd] Sur
veyed that Otto Wulgast tooke up on Mill Creeke in Cantwells Neck;
which the Court Granted; the land being foure hundred Acors.
Robert Johnson petitioned the Court for one hundred & fifty Acors
of Cleare land in any prt of this County; which the Court Granted;
Warrant given oute 15th 12 mo, 16S3.
The Court Adjourned this 13th day of the 12 month 1683 untUl
the second twesday of the next month.
William Bakers Eare marke for his Creetures the left Eare Crapt
the Right Eare under bitten the first day of the 1st month 1683.
Robert the son of Norton & Rachell Claypoole borne the 26th day
of the 1 1th Month 1683 aboute the 1 1th houre at night in the presence
of EUzabeth the wife of Symon Pawlin the midwife Susanna the wife
of Dennis ffisher & Elizabeth Tompson oure maid servant.
The 10th day of the first Month the freemen of this County being
Assembled together did Chuse for their Dellogates or representatives
for the Provintiall Counsell & Generall Assembly: Luke Watson for the
Provinciall Councell ; John Roades, Henry Bo^wman, Herculus Shepard,
Samwell Gray, WiUiam Emitt, Henry Stretcher for the Assembly.

112 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
William Prentice Bill of Sale for three hundred Acors op
Land to Luke Watson.
Know all men by these presents that I William Prentice of the
County of Sumersett planter hath sould unto Mr Luke Watson of
Lewis one tract of Land containing three hundred Acors formerly
surveyed by Mr ffrancis Jenkins, Lying of the North side of Slawtor
Creek near Primehooke, to have & to hold the Aforesaid trackt of
Land, to him the said Luke & his Heires for ever, from me & my
heires, or any other person Claiming in thorough [sic] or by me, having
recevd full satisfaction for the same as wittness my hand & seale this
30th July 16S3.
Testes Hen Smith Will: Prentice
Thomas Pettly his O marke [seale]
February llth, 1684.
At A Court Held by the Kings Authority & by Comi. from WilUam
Penn Propriator & Governor * * * at Lewis for the County of
Sussex the llth day of the first Month 1684. The Governors New
Comition being read for William Clarke to be President & Luke Wat
son, Jno Roads John Kipshaven Robert Hart AUexander Draper &
Robert Bracey to be Justices of the Peace for this County & any
foure of them to keep Court Judicature in this County. This Declara
tion following was read: —
Wee William Clarke Luke Watson John Roades Herculus Shepard
John Kipshaven Robert Hart AUexander Draper and Robert Bracy
being by William Penn Esq Proprietary & Governor of Pensillvania,
& territorys thereunto belonging Constituted & Authorised to be
Justices of the Peace & A Court of Judicature for County of Sussex
to Act in the same Imployment and trust for the preservation of
the peace & Justice of the County In pursuance of oure said Comition
acording to Law; Wee doe hereby in the presence of God declare
that wee freely Acknoledge the said William Penn to be oure right-
full Proprietary & Governor; & doe solemnly promise by the Held
of God to be just & true to him in managing & performing oure sd
trust & faithfully discharging the same in obedience to oure said
Comition & act therein according to the best of oure understandings;
& if wee shall Wittingly or WilUngly act or doe any thing contrary
to Law [?] fidelUty to oure Proprietary & the trust reposed in us by
him : Wee doe hereby oblige oureselves to suffer & undergoe the same
fine or punishment that the matter shall in Law deserve as if wee had
actuaUy taken an oath; which they Consented to withoute any ob
jection. ¦ Allexander Draper [seal]
Robert Bracy
his R B marke [seal]
Hercules Shepheard [seal]
The new Comition for ffrancis Cornwall & Robt Clifton to be,
Justices dated the 9th 2 mo, 1686, being read ye Sth 4 mo, 86 hey
signed and sealed it before the Court. [F ?] Cornwall [seal]
the Marke of R Robert Clifton [seal]
There being present this Court: William Clark president Luke
Watson John Roades John Kipshaven Robert Hart AUexander Draper
and Robert Bracy Justices.

COURT RECORDS. 113
Thomas Winns Comition dated 13th 2 mo, 1687 was read in open
Court the 3 3 mo, 1687 for him to be one of ye Justices Whereupon
he declared his wiUingness to signe the above Declaration.
Tho: Wynne.
An Action of ye Case. Mathew Scarborow Pit, Robt Clifton Marying
the RelUx & Administratrix of Capt John Avory deft. The Pit de
clares that Capt John Avory detained from him A Mare with her
Encrease & the deft having the Estate of Capt John Avorys in his
hands * * *.
An Action of the Case upon Attachment. Jonakin Wiltbanck
Administratrix of the Estate of Halm Wiltbanck Pit, George Andrews
Estate being A Cow & A Calfe deft. The Pit declares that George
Andrews is Indebted to the Estate of Halm Wiltbanck * * *
The Jury's names are Herculus Shepard, William Carter, William
ffutcher, Richard Harvey, Stephen Whittman, Thomas Howard,
Richard Willis, Jacob Warren, Henry Scidmore, Richard Law, Mer-*
rice Edwards, Andrew Deprey.
An Action of the Case. Abell Porter Pit, Henry Bowman deft.
The Pit declares that his servant Henry Williams A Cooper being
run away & taken up in these parts the deft did Engage & promise
to be security for his forth Coming upen demand, & the deft new re
fusing to procure or produce the said servant, the Pit Craves Judg
ment of this Court agst the deft for the sum of thirty five pounds
ster. Mony ef old England with Costs; The deft doth owne in open
Court that he did promise to be security fer the servants forth coming
according to declaration but Craves A Refferance till next Court
which the Court Granted. At Court held 4 mo, 10, 1684 — The Jury's
Names — WilUam Emmitt, Babptist Newcome, Will. Carter, "Thom.
Hodgkins, Will ffoutcher, Bryant Rowles, John Browne, John King,
Roger Gum, Jno. CuUison, Henry Harman, & Richard Patty.
¦The Court ordered the Jury their ffees in two Causes viz Jonakin
Wiltbanck agst Georg Andrews his Estate & Henry Stretcher agst
Walter Pomfrys Estate.
The Court fines John Barker Juryman for not Attending the Court
.ten shillings; John Barker pleaded that his horse being loose was
going away & he went to bring him back therefore desired his fine
might be remitted, upon which the Court remitted his fine.
Thomas Edwards Petitioned the Court fer his liberty on which
there was an Acount delivered to the Court from his Mr Jno Mere
Amounting to ten thousand & Eighty pounds of tobaco & fouretene
pounds Nineteen shillings Ster. mony agst him which he could not
answer therefore consented to be sould for three yeares by the Court
for satisfaction to his Mr John Mere. Thomas Edwards servant to
John More in Virginia [is] by his owne consent sould by the Court
to William Carter, for three yeares service from this day fer foure
thousand six hundred pounds ef tobaco for the use of ye sd John More
to be pd the next fall, Thomas Edwards te have his freedome mony
according to Custome when he is oute of his time. WiUiam Carter
confessed Judgment for the sd sum or m[eny] quantity of foure thou
sand six hundred pounds of tob[ace] to be pd next faU to John Mere
of Yorke County in Virginia or to his Heires Executors Administra
tors er Assignes.

114 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
'William Carter petitioned agst the Estate of Corne[lis] Verhoofe
for three hundred fifty foure Gilders ten stive[rs] dew upon Acount,
The Acount being writt in dutch i[t] is suposed by Abram Clement
for Otto Vulgast, Will[iam] Emmett Translated the Acount into
English & did Attest it to be A true Copie of the said Acount, the
Court believing the Acount to be true passed Judgment for the pe
titioner agst the Estate of the sd Cornelis Verhoofe fer the sum of
354 Gilders 10 stivers with Costs ef suite.
Nathaniell Smith petitioned for A towne Lett by [ * * * ]
John Roades The Court Granted him A back Lett nex[t] to William
Clarks Lott, the same Condition as to other[s].
William Rest petitioned fer three hundred Acors of Cleare Land
in this County, which the Court Granted order fer.
Ann Newcome petitioned that Whereas her form[er] Husband John
Haggistor did sell unto Norton Clay[poole] A Certaine parcell of Land
& plantation unto wh[ich] bargaine or sale she did never Condisend
'nor any way yeild her rite & title of the Aforesaid Land to any person
or persons therefore she Craved the Courts order for her thirds in
the said Land see far as the La[nd] shall admitt in sutch case & to
order the same to be set Apart that she may peaceably posses &
Enjoy the same, which petition the Court thrue away.
Richard Law petitioned that Whereas he was Charg[ed] in his
Levys for James Heath, the sd James Heath being A freeman onely
working with the petitione[r] upon certane Conditions the Court
¦ordered the sd James Heath te pay his owne Levys.
Joshua Barksteads Comition for the Corroners place of this County
being Read he desired it might be record[ed]: —
"William Penn Proprietary and Governor op the Prov
ince OF Pensillvania & the territorys thereunto be
longing; To Joshua Barksted Greeting: — Reposing Confi
dence in thy Sobriety & Integrity I doe Authorise & Apoynt thee
Joshua Barksted to be Corroner of the County of Sussex to Inspect
the bodies ofi those that come untimely te their deaths & Impanell
Juries upon the same, & doe what te the ofice of A Corroner belongs
& to receive the fees due for the same as by Law directed: hereby
requiring all persons to give thee ye Respect due te thy office. Given
at Phyladellphya ye 23d 9 ber 1683.
[seale] "William Penn."
Indenture of sale of one hundred thirty two Acors of Land Sould
by Samwell Gray te Randolph Shard being read in open Court before
the said Samwell & Randolph it was desired by the sd Randolph
it might be Recorded; which is as followeth: —
"This Indenture made the first day of 10 ber in ye year of oure
Lord one thousand six hundred & Eighty three betwixt SamweU
Gray of Lewis in the County of Sussex Planter of the one part &
Randolp [sic] Shard Chirurgeon of the other part wittnesseth that
the said Samwell Gray fer & in consideration of the great care trouble
& service of the sd Randolph Shard te him the sd Samwell Gray &
for & in consideration of the said Randolph Shard his Charge of physick
& for divers other good considerations him the sd Samwell Gray
Moving hath bargained Sould AUenated & confirmed one hundred
thirty two Acors of Land lying in long love Creek in the County of

COURT RECORDS. 115
Sussex & knowne by the Name of Grays Inn from him & his Pleires
for ever to the sd Randolph Shard * * *.
"Samwell G Gray [seale]
his marke
"Sealed & delivered in the presence of John Carter, John White,
Gerrardus Wessels, Samwell White Samwell Gray acknoledged this
to be his act & deed."
A Protest made by Benjamin Blagg Mr of the Ship Soc[iety]
AGST the detainment OF A PaRCELL OF OYLE & WhALE BOn[e] J
Sussex County belonging to the Province of Pennsillvania
Whereas the Ship Society belonging to the ffree society of traders
of Pennsillvania is Expressly ordered & sent to [the] Roade within
Cape James on purpose to take in & loade [A] parcell of eyle & Whale
bone belonging to & upon acceun[t of] the ffree society aforesaid,
Benjamin Blagge being Mr of [the] said ship for this present voyage,
have this day deman[ded] of John Hill the said eyle & Whalebone
which should ha[ve] bene delivered te him by vertue ef an order er
Comition fr[em] the society aforesaid, for his receiving the same, the
ship ly[ing] ready in the road aforesaid, for the convenient loading the
sam[e] the Answer that is given me by the said John Hill is that part
of the said eyle is converted by one Henry Bowman t[o] his owne use
& the rest thereof is Attaiched by the said John Hill by law as allsoe
the Whalebone for the secietys use and Cannot have an Issue thereof
in Court untill the llth or l[2th] day of the next Month Called June
ffor which causes I Benjamin Blagg Mr of the Ship aforesaid doe here
prote[st] against the detainment thereof & shall God willing prece[ed]
on oure Intended voyage with oure said Ship Society According to
order. This protest is made at the towne ef Lewis in the County
aforesaid this 3 day ef ye 3 Month call[ed] May 16S4 by me Benjamin
Blagge in Wittness whereof I have hereunto ^tt my hand the Day &
yeare before writte[n] with the seale of the County aforesaid;
signed in the presence ef us : Benjamin Blagge.
Rachell R C Claypoole rthe County seal
, , L for Sussex
her marke
Norton Claypoole Clerc:
Vera Copia Test. Norton Claypoole.
June 10th, 1684.
Att A Court Held * * * at Lewis for the County of Sussex
the tenth day ef the fourth Month 1684. Comitioners present: John
Roades, John Kipshaven, Herculus Shepard, Allexander Draper,
Robert Bracy, Robert Hart.
An Action of the Case. Luke Wattson Pit, The Estate of George
Lacham in the hands of John Barker deft. The Pit being absent upon
publick service at the Provinciall Councell the Court Referd the Cause
to the next Court; with drawne by the Pits order the 6[th] Mo: in
Court. [In a suit for title to "house & Towne Lott" — mention is made that
"Thomas Hodgins marryed the reUix & Administratri[x] of the Estate
of Halm Wiltbanck" * * *]; ["Thomas Hodgkings whe marryed
Jane the Widow and Administratrix of the Estate of Halm Wiltbanck].

116 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
February 12th, 13th, 1683.
["Symon Pawlin being Chosen Cunstable" took his oath.]
John King being Chosen Cunstable did premise ye same.
The Indian Assawmak Harmatt a male Acknedged in open Court
the sale of one thousand Acors of Land to Mr Allexander Molleston
which Land is en the South side of the Indian River.
March, 16S3-4.
[A suit in which " Robt. Clifton Marying the Rellix & Administratrix
of Capt. Joh Avory" is deft.] [Her name is given as Sarah].
Joshua Barksteads Comition being read twas ordered to be recorded
for him te be Corroner in this County.
August 12th, 16S4.
[A suit in which mention is made that "John Daniell * * *
Assighned over the said bill to Katherine Vines who now is the wife
of the Pit," * * * Arthur Starr.]
August 13th, 1684.
Chosen fer Peace Makers WiUiam Clark Jne. Roads & Jno. Hill.
September 2d, 1684.
Att the Orphans Court Held at Lewis in the County ef Sussex by
the Kings Authority & in the Proprietary & Governeus [sic] Nane
[sic] the 2 day of the 7th Month 1684. Comitioners present: Luke
Wattson, John Roades, John Kipshaven, & Herculus Sheppard &
Allexander Draper. The Inventories of the Estates belonging to the
Orphans & other writings thereunto Appertaining being in the Reg
isters Office & the Register of this County viz the President being gon
to Phyladellphya & not left oute the writings aforesaid, this Court
Could not proceed to dee any business therein, therefore this Court
is Adjourned te the first tuesday in the next first Month.
[The above is followed by three items of the killing of wolves
"entered by order ef Court."]
November llth, 1684.
John Barker is Chosen Surveyor of the hye ways in the roome of
WilUam Bradford.
December 9th, 10th, 1684.
Samwell Gray presents fer not working upon the hye ways These
persons following viz Will. Emmott John Brown Richard GiU John
Williams John Wocon Robert Jnoson Harmon Cornells the deUn-
quents are ordered te worke betwene this & the next Court what
they are behind in their Werk otherwise to be fined 20 ff. a day for
what they are behind.
Robert Hart Surveyor of the hye ways presents for not workin
upen the ways Luke Watson senior Henry Bowman Henry Smith
Barnwell Jackson David Coursey Wm ffancy Wm Spencer junior
BarthoUmew Aplegate.
Appraisers to be Chosen William Emmot John Symons & Samwell
Gray Chosen to be Appraysors for one yeare [and took oath' of office].

COURT RECORDS. 117
November llth, 1684.
John Barker is Chosen Surveyor of the bye ways in the roome of
William Bradford.
Thomas Bocent promised to performe the office of under Sherriff
for one yeare * * * [and took oath].
Babptist Newcome agread with the Court to build ye Court house
& prison as is expressed elce where for 10 thousand pounds of tobaco.
February 10th, 1684.
Arthur Starr & Henry Vbanck being Attested declared they both
heard Robt. Johnson say that he had carryed away part of the Stocks
& flung it downe the banck & Arthur Starr further declared that he
head [sic] the sd Jnoson say that if he had his Ax there he would
cut downe the Whippin post these words was spoken as they Affirme
by the sd Johnson the latter end of Octobr or In Novembr last.
March 10th, 1685.
Andrew Deprey being Chosen Cunstable he was Attested to per-
erme the office of a Cunstable this yeare next ensuing for the pre
cinct he Uveth In According to Law & the best of his knoUedge.
May 12th, 1685.
Henry Stretcher verbally petitioned the Court that he might take
In the pond and sum upland for A pasture for the use ef his ordinary
on which the Court Grants that he may fence in the sd pond & upland
for seaven yeares to cemmense the next orphans Court to be held
the next Sth Month & Henry Stretcher promiseth to let any ef the
Inhabitants put in their Calves for 2/s ye summer that of the towne
& any Inhabitant of this County to put in the horse or horsys at any
time for 4d A Night Henry Stretcher allsoe promiseth that when the
7 yeares is expired to deliver peaceable and quiet possession unless
he shall Agrea for Longer time the Court allsoe Grants that if the sd
pond and upland be to be let oute when this seaven yeares is expired
that Henry Stretcher shall have the refusing of it, he is te pay yearely
to the orphans Court held in every Sth Month one Eare ef Indian
Come for A yearely rent to the Court for the sd Land.
[The Court granted Arthur Starr "2 towne lotts more backward
where he lives fer A tanyard" * * * "for seaven yeares to begin
the next Sth Month at the orphans Court he paying fer a yearly
rent one eare of Indian Come to the orphans Court to be held
every Sth month." * * *
March Sth, 9th, 10th, 1687.
SoUemon Jones and John Williams are Chosen ffence Vewers.
Jerrimia Scott petitioned to be excused ef ye Cunstables place he
being Chosen by the Court his petition was not allowed and he was
Attested to serve the office of A Cun.stable for the yeare insuing or
for soe leng as he should live in the towne for ye towne precinct.
Arthur Starr, petitioned te be released of the Cunstables office and
the Court Chose Jerimiah Scott before inserted te serve in his Roome.
John Crew petitioned to be Excused of the Cunstables office & The
Court Chose WilUam Bradford Recited to serve.
Bryant Roles petitioned to be excused of ye Cunstables place and
the Court Chose and Appointed Antony Haverly to serve in his place

118 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
for this yeare next ensuing the office ef A Cunstable fer that
precinct. The Judgment of the Jury of Inquest upon the body of James
Colle late servant to Thomas Branscom being found dead was Read
in Court and ordered to be Recorded in the Booke of Records * * *.
May 3d, 1687.
Thomas Wynns Comition te be one of ye Justices in the Roome of
Thomas Langhorne was Read viz: * * *
[Order ef "Councill" "that no undrest Deer skins be put on board
any shipp Boate or VesseU with intent to transport ye same oute ef
this province before they have bene publickly exposed te sale * * *,
Grand Jury's presentments as followeth: —
Wee of the Grand Jury doe present Nathaniell Sikes for selling of
lght [sic] bread according to Information of Albertus Jacobs and
Phillip Russell. Richard Law fforeman.
Wee of the Grand Jury present Babptist Newcom for Net Mending
or Repairing the long 'bridge accordin to Information of Joshuah
Barkstead. Richard Law fforeman.
The Grand Jury presented the Court for Not Causing a Court house
and prisson to be made. Richard Law fforeman.
The Court orders Babptist Newcom to Sums in ye Inhabitants
that have allready refused their Worke to mend the Long Bridg.
John Vines Corroner Returned to this Court the Verdict ef the
Jury of Inquest upon the death of Elizabeth the wife of James Sikes
Yiz * * * [she "dyed suddenly on or aboute the 14th of ffeb;
Ane: 16S6" paper dated "this llth day ef March Ano 1686"].
June, 16S7.
William Kanni'ng petitioned that Whereas he gave security A
twelve month since fer his good behaviour Requests that his security
may.be released and their bends delivered. The Court being informed
that ye Sherriff commanded him to aid and assist to put Tho. Jones
in the stocks and the petitioner Refused saying if it was to put ye Sher
riff in ye stocks he would help; Whereupon they would not grant
his petition telling him he had as much reason to be bound to his
good behaviour as fformerly therefore they would not grant it.
|-* * * "The Court therefore order the said James Hardin to
be Committed to the Sherriffs Custody untill he give security for his
good behaviour" this was for the above offence].
"Ruith Bundick Thomas Jones Mother petitioned" * * *
July 21st, 1687.
The Comition from James Williams Deputy Collector Appointed
by Patrick Mein Esqr to Norton Claypoole being read as ffelleweth
* * * [as Genl Deputy Collector].
[Norton Claypoole Attested to discharge ef above Dutv 16th S
mo., 1687.]
Norton Claypooles Comission for Deputy of ye Rolls * * *
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Henry Bo'wmans Comission fer ye Navall office * * * Given
at Phyladellphia the Eighth day of the sixth Month 1687.
Wm Markham Secretary.
September 6th, 1687.
Justice Roades was see sick that he was not able to sitt upen the
bench to doe any buisness & there not being Justices enough to hold
A Court ¦withoute him the Court ordered Notice thereof to be given
and the Court to be Adjourned to ye first twesday in ye Next Month
which was accordingly done by proclamation.
October 4th, Sth, 6th, 1687.
The last will & testament of John Reades was delivered to ye Court
sealed up & desired by them to be publiquely opened and Read
which was accordingly done as allsoe Read but the Widdow Comfort
Roades desired it might net be proved till Next Court * * *
untill she had A Letter of Administration * * * [this was
granted]. Johnathan Baily was summoned to this Court * * * [for] vio
lently by force of Arms Wickedly Maliciously & feloniously, oute of A
sordid base Covetous desire, aboute the beglnningof the last yeare 1686
* * * Contemning & despising, thy Neighbours, fence Not onely the
Kings Hye way, to thy owne use, which said Hye way hath bene Made
Worne & Accustomed for Many years. Neither had thy Neighbours, any
other roade or hye way to ye Commons Commonly called Marshes either
to ffetch Hay Looke after their Catle, or other ocations; but allsoe the
onely Known Antient place of A burying ground for the towne of
Le-wis &ct, Notwithstanding thou hast bene twice presented for the
same. Thou hast continued the use thereof to thy private advantage
and benefitt and hath boldly and presumptuously in defiance of all
thy Neighbours, their Right and property placed the frame of A
Windmill thereon, and aUsoe hast Not onely confidently c& Im
pudently, denyed and Refused thy Neighbours the use ef ye sd ground
to bury their dead forbiding them or any ef them to come upon the
said ground but didst Cruelly in A tyrannicall and Wicked Manner
threaten & [sic] the presence & hearing of severall of the Kings Leig
people, that thou wouldst cutt the legs off, from those persons that
would come there to Make A grave which hath bene to the great
dishonor of God, contempt ef Authority & te the violating the
good laws of oure Sovereign Lord the King & this present Govern
ment, and to the great Terror of the Kings Leige people the Abuse of
all thy Neighbours. & the IU Example of all others offending in the
like Case; * * *
Johnathan Baily being called to tryaU & the petty Jury called for
and aboute to be called over Mr. Wm. Clarke president being absent
when the Grand Jury brought in ye sd Inditement but now being
upon the bench told the Court there would be noe Need ef A Jury for
this buisness for to his Knowledge there was A petition delivered to
the CounceU aboute it, and the Councell had ordered Something in it,
& how it should come ffrom the CounceU te be tryed in this Court he
did not know, Norton Claypoole Answered that presidt Clarke told
him & ffrancis Cornwall yt the petition which presidt Loyd deUvered
to ye Councell aboute the burying Ground &ct was sUghted by the

120 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
CounceU for as much as it was net directed to them, for Indeed ye
petition was directed onely to presidt Loyd when he was here hoping
and believing that he would order wee should have the use of oure
Antient burying ground as formerly and he told us when wee deliv
ered ye petition that if he stayed long enough viz 3 or 4 days longer
he would call A Court and have it dene before he went if not ye law
was open to us & told us hew te proceed Presidt Clarke told the Court
if they thought fitt to gee en with it he would goe off the bench ye
Jury being called over before the inditement was Read presidt Clark
sent for Justice Wynn off the bench and there being but three Justices
left proceedings was stopt whilest Justice Wynne came againe then
came Johnathan Baily with Justice Wynn & promised before the
Court that he would consent that one Acor of Land te be laid oute
in the same place where ye burying ground hath bene used, which
gave some sattisfaction te ye Court and Country; and as for the Hye
way The Court ordered that the same should be as wyde before ye
said Johnathans Land as before other peoples howses in the towne
Whereupon further proceedings was stopped Justice Wynn signed
the said order in the dockett booke.
The Grand Jury brought in further presentments as viz, * * *.
We dee Request the Court forthwith to order A Court house & A
prison to be provided according to Law that the Inhabitants may
not be sufferers the 4th 8 me: 87. ^ John Bellamy fforeman.
The Court upon the Examination ef ye presentments ordered that
Babptist Newcome should be sumoned to the next Court to Answer
the suite of ye Court & declaration te be drawne. [I believe this has
reference to the building of the Court house.] f(f ; r^-^ <?¦ «^* |«^ «a»<.
[Norton Claypoole and others "petitioned agst ye Estate of Jno
Pearce deceased."]
Wm. Emmott Requested that he might have leave to sell A tract
of Land by outcrye in open Court by Inch of Candle which the Court
Granted * * *.
Norton Claypoole Deputy Regisrer ior Probat of Wills and granting
letters of Administration &ct shewed to the Court the Inventory of ye
Estate ef Henry Gitto delivered to him from Henry Smith Admin
istrator of ye sd Estate * * *
The first day of the 9th Month 167S [sic].
The last Sth Month Court being Adjourned to this day & Now
there not being Justices enough in health to hold A Court Procclama-
tion was made and Notice given publiquly that there net being A
suffitent Number of Justices to hold a Court the buisness thereof is
defered to the first twesday in the next Month.
December, 1687.
Henry Bowman as Atturney & in the behalfe of Thomas PhilUps
of Newyerke Merct petitioned the Court for an order agast ffrancis
Cornwall Hye Sherriff fer the contents of an Execution served on the
body of Henry Stretcher for fifty od pounds &ct for that he the sd
ffrancis Cornwall Hye Sherriff hath suffered the said Henry Stretcher
to have his liberty ever since he was taken in Execution withoute any

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sattisfaction of debt or Costs &ct. ffrancis Cornwall Hye Sherriff
rendred the prissoner in Court and said that he had bene his prissoner
ever since and he had nee better prisson to keep him in The Court
having formerly made an order upon the like ecation the 4th Month
1681 upon A petition ef Halm Wiltbanck deceased upon the Uke case
viz that the Sherriff shall confine the said prissoner to the house and
yards where the said Sherriff doe or shall Uve untiU the said prissoner
shall be legally discharged by the Pit and that in the meane time the
Pit shall allow the prissoner two shilUngs and six pence A week for his
Maintenance and the like order the Court doe make for all other per
sons that shall be upon Execution for debt untill there can be a prisson
built and provided for that purpose. This Court therefore order that
said recited order be renewed & Confirmed and if the Sherriff or any
Sherriff hereafter untill the prisson be built and finished shall suffer
any prissoner (that is under Execution for debt) to goe further then
his fenced land Where his dwelUng house is then he shall er may be
liable to be sued for an Escape. President Clarke signed this order
on the petition.
John Vines Verbally petitioned the Court fer ffees dew to him as
Crowner from the Estate ef James Sykes deceased amounting to 2-13-6
* * * ye Heir viz Nathll Sykes * * *
Phillip Russell petitioned agst the Estate of John Pearce deceased
The last will and testament of John Roades dated the 17th day of
7ber last past was proved * * *
Knights Howard Sonn & Heir to Thomas Howard deceased * * *,
The Nuncative er Verball Will of James Sykes late of this County
deceased being his last will and testament was proved by the Attesta
tions of Allexander Draper and Thomas Price one of ye Justices.
It is Agread by this Court that whosoever subscribes any legs to be
gotten for the use ef the prison and Court house shall bring ye said
logs to the place in the towne where it is to be built in forty days after
the date hereof or elce forfeit double the Vallue of the said logs there
is to be as followeth: 54 logs at 4/8 ps 15 foote leng 1 foote over 8
Inch thick, 16 ditto at 6/8 23 foote 1 over & S Inch thick squard
2 sides ; every person that undertakes to get any is to take 3 short to
one long. I doe undertake to get 20 legs, Wm Clarke;
and I doe undertake for 04 logs, Tho: Wynne;
I doe undertake 20 logs, Henry Stretcher;
wee doe undertake six short & two leng, ffrancis Cornwall,
Morrice Edwards;
ffor my selfe & Justice Gray 3 long and 15 short, Henry MoUe-
stone and Samwell Gray;
I Babptist Newcomb doe Ingage my selfe to find Rafftors and
Clabords for A prison and Cover the sd prison the Court
finding Nails, Bapt: Newcomb.
Whereas severall persons have complained to this Court they know
not where to Cutt their firewood the Court therefore orders that the
towne Land shall be forthwith laid oute.
Margarett and Thomas ffisher Administrators of ye Estate of John
ffisher dec'd * * *.

122 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
February 7th, Sth, 9th, 10th. 16S7.
The Justices New Commission was Read, viz * * * [signed]
Tho: Uoyd president.
Then was Read this following obligation for the New Justices to
signe Instead ef an oath viz * * *.
The Inditement Agst Phillip Russell for suffering persons to play
at Cards in his house, was Read to which he pleaded guilty Confessing
the same saying it was the first time and much agst his will but the
persons was soe Resolute he could not perswade them against it and
he the said Phillip promised never to suffer the Uke againe the Court
fined him S/S.
The Inditement Agst Henry Strecher for playing at Cards was Read,
Charles Pickering being allowed his Atturney said he must submitt
te the Court the Court fined him S/S.
March 1st, 1688.
[Case in which "Charles Pickering Executor of ye last Will &
testamt of PhiUip ThLehamaine" is deft.]
May, 168S.
Phillip Russell was the last Court Indicted fer selUng beer at More
then the laws of this Govemment allow; Referd.
The last Will and Testament of Major Wm. Spencer was proved
by the Attestations ef the Wittnesses viz: Art Jnoson Vankirk Robt
Twilly, and William Emmatt.
[Thomas Ashton, who seems te be living at "Lewis," is alluded to
as "late of New Yorke Soapeboyler. "]
Susanna Bedwell & Thomas Bedwell Administrators ef the Estate
of Robt Bedwell deceased * * *
May 2d, 1688.
Norton Claypoole in open Court DeUvered three Matchcoats to
Christian the Indian Sacamacko for the Indian Right and title ef one
thousand Acors ef Land scittuate in Kent County on this side Dover
Rivor aboute three miles from the place that Dover towne is Intended
to be built and he the said Christian the Indian did then Acknowledge
to have sold given and Granted the Indian Right title and Interest
of the sd land being one thousand Acors according to the survey and
pattent thereof from him his Heirs &c promising to defend the said
Norton Claypoole frem the lawfull claim of any other Indian Claiming
any Right title or Interest of or te any part of the said land in Wittness
Where of he the said Christian have hereunto set his hand and seale
the day and yeare first above Written.
the marke X of Christian ye Indian [seale]
Sealed and delivered In the presence of us:
Wm. Clark,
Tho. Wynne,
Henry Moleston.
Presidt William Clark Acknowledged the sale ef the land mentioned
in a Conveyance dated 26th day of the first month 168S to Johnathan
Baily according to the Contents of the said Conveyance save onely the
burying Ground and King's hye way to be Excepted as Atturney to
John Vines the which Conveyance the sd presidt delivered in open Court.

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June Sth, 6th, 7th, Sth, 1688.
Henry Stretcher was the last first Mo. Court Indicted by the Grand
Jury fer selUng of Beer at Mere then the law directs & allows Luke
Watson John Bellamy and Thomas Bessant was Attested & Tho.
ffisher one ef ye Jury Instead of All Draper the Petty Jury went oute
upen this Cause & the other below both together and brought in their
verdict Wee of ye Jury find these Indictments not to be according to
law testis Jacob Warring fferm.
PhiUip RusseU was the last first Mo Court Indicted fer selhng of
beer at More then the law directs or allows ; tried with the Cause above
both together and the above Verdict Relates to this.
John Browne Shipcarpenter Acknowledges sale of two towne lets
with ye houses and fences thereon * * *,
Charles Sanders and Wm Rodeney ye evidences to the last Will and
Testament of Major William Dyre deceased proved the same to be
his Act and deed and allsoe tested yt the sd Major Wm Dyre Ac
knowledged the same te be his last "Will and Testament.
Upon the Request of Comfort Roades Widdow Administratrix of
the Estate ef John Roades that ye lands and provissiens may be
omitted in ye Inventory The Judgmt [sic] Court is that Whereas
there is Estate suffitient to sattisfye all debts & demands besides
they order that the lands and provissiens fer the use of the family
shall be left oute and omitted in the Inventory.
Upon ye 16th Day of the Sixth Month 1688, Rachel Claypoole
Widdow Haveing Desired Luke Watson Senr. and Thomas Oldman
To bee Appraisers ef ye Goods and Chattells Now in her posses
sion, being ye Goods & Chattells of her Late Husband Norton
Claypoole (Deceased) The Common Appraisers not being at hand
Justice Thomas Wynne being present attested ye abovesaid Parties
Te Dee Justice To ye best of their knowledge according to Law in ye
Premisses. Testes Tho Wynne
Rachel Claypoole (Widdow) being Attested to Bring in a True
acot of ye Estate Goods and Chattells of Norton Claypoole her hus
band Deceased did Give in an Inventorie of ye same Bearing Date as
abovesaid To ye best of her knowledge As will appear by ye Said
Inventorie. Reserving to her Selfe One Bed and furniture Togather with
waireing appareil and ye Plantacon She lives en.
Test Tho. Wynne
Nehemiah ffield
June 6, 1694. [Court of Common Pleas.]
Robert Bracee Senr acknowledged unto his Son Robert Two hun
dred acres ef land being Part ef The Tract of Land hee new lives upon,
according To Conveyance herewith Also Desired The Court would
Take notice That if hee Should happen To Die without Will, That
hee Bequeaths unto his Said Son Robert his Heirs & Assigns The
other four hundred acres which hee Calls and Reckons To bee his
home Plantatcon and Two hundred acres more which belongs To ye
Said Tract which is in all 800 Acres, hee also Gives -and bequeaths

124 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
unto his Said Son his Heirs and Assigns if the law Can Recover it
hee having made ye Said 200 Acres over in Cot. to ye Children Mary
and Elisabeth. his
Robt. R B Bracee
mark
In an Aeon of Defamacon. Luke Watson Senr Pit, Henry Bow
man deft. The Suit ffeU by ye Deft Death.
In an aeon of ye Case. Monge Crafferd & 'Wra Orr in Cemp
Merchtts Pit, Thomas Tillton Deft; withdrawn By ye Pit.
Albertus Jacobs Cerenr made Returne of ye Jurie of Inquest
Verdict upon ye Death of Edward Benbrick found dead ye 29th day
of May 1694 which was Thatt hee the Said Benbrick was accidentally
Drowned By Riding Over ye Broad Kill Henry Strecther fforeman.
True Returne Albertus Jacobs, Coroner.
The Last Will and Testamt of Cesar Godwin Deceesed was Putt
into Court by ye Widow and was There Read and Proved.
September 4th, 1694.
Nehemiah ffield Published his Deputacon for Dpty of ye Rolls
Clarke of the Provincial and Probate ef Wills and was Sworne in
Open Court. The Oath administred by Capt Thomas Pemberton.
The Court appoint Woodman Stokely Overseer of ye Highwayes
for ye County Bounds on ye South Side the Indian River, and Morris
Edwards fer Rehoboth hundred Henry Moleston for Cedar Creek
Hundred And William Piles for ye Towne Hundred all ye Inhabitants
belonging to Rehoboth Hundred between Bundicks Bridge and Pot
hooks Creek are ordered by ye Court To assiste Woodman [sic] Morris
Edwards Ordered by ye Court That The Widow ffisher Richard Law
and Timothy Dowgan be hereafter Deemed 4 Inhabitants of the
Towne Hundred and their Plantacons within the Precincts of the
Same. The Court Orders Thatt warrants shall be Issued out unto all ye
Constables of Each Respective hundred in this County To Bringe
in at December Court Next an Exact list of all the Titheables within
the Same, as also by Taking from ye said Titheables own mouths what
Quantity ef Lands they Hold.
September Sth, 1694.
Whereas There hath been some Differences and Disputes about
ye Bounds ef the Town of Lewis It is ordered by the Court To pre
vent farther such like That ye Sheriff and the Surveyor with Sutable
assistance Dee forthwith Run out ye Side line That Runs along by ye
Land of Abraham and Isaac Wiltbanck And ye Land of John Williams,
as also ye other Side line That Runs along by ye Land of William
Dyre. [•* * * Richd Paynter lunier in the Right ef his Wife Jane
Executrix of William Swetnam Decesd , * * *] [The name is
spelled also Swetman.]
December 4th, Sth, 1694.
Barnes Garrett and Anthony Haverley being sent fer To Charles
Spooner upon his Death Bed, hee ye Said Spooner Did Desire them
To take notice of and To Take Care That his Wife Should have Enjoy

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and possess all his Estate Goods and Chatties both Real and per
sonall to her own proper use and Disposall as She sees meet * * *_
Susanna Gray Produced in Court ye Last Will and Testament of
Samuel Gray her late Husband Deceesed and Proved the Same by
Saml Preston and Michael Chambers 2 Evidences to ye Same Will.
Robt Bracee appeared in Court and there produced an Indenture
wherein hee had Bound his Daughter Elisabeth Bracee unto Richard
Paynter Junr untill She Arrive to ye age of Seventeen Years being
new according to ye tenure of the Indenture Six Years of Age which
Indenture Bears Date ye 30th Day of November 1694 * * *.
The Clark Produed [sic] in Court a List ef Laws which the Secretary
had Sent Down which were Openly Read Over * * *
The Said Grand Jury also Gave John Hill Six Pounds ffor ye Grand
Juries Years Accomodacon And the Court house. And unto Capt.
Watson Capt. Pemberton and Roger Corbett Six Pounds a peice for
their this Years Service in Assembly.
March 6th, 7th, 1694.
The Court Gives liberty for a Dictche to bee Cutt through the most
Convenient Place Of the Towne of Lewis into the Creek for thee Con
veniency of Drayning of the Sevanna On ye back part Next the Second
Street Lotts ; And Orders That ye. Wacant Ground That Ues between
the Lott of Nehemiah ffield And the four Acre Lett ef Capt Pemberton
Adjoyning upon Richard Holloway bee Reserved fer a Markett Place,
And the Vacant Peice of Land Next Adjoyning on the South West
Side ef John Miers his Lett te ye Block house Pond And between
the Block house feeld and that, Te bee used as a Common burying
place. After all which the Court Caused a Letter to bee written to the
Justices in Mary Land Relating te Seme Difference between the Two
Governments. And Ordered the Clerk to Recorde the said Letter
a true Copy whereof is on the ether side * * *.
June 4th, 1695.
Robert Bracee Appeared in Court and Desired that hee might bee
allowed and Ordered Letters ef Administracon upen the Estate ef
his ffather Robert Bracee Sener: Deceesed upon a Will made in Open
Court 6th day ef June 1694 Roger Corbett Appeared for ye Widow
of ye said Deceesed And produced a former Will made in ye Year
1688 under ye hand and Seal ef ye Deceesed, And Pleaded that the
Late WiU was Nuncupative and the other a written will and So
not of equal force & vaUditey * * * Ordered To bee Continued
to the Next Court * * *
At a Meating ef the Justices On the iSth Day of July Ano Domini
169S. Justices present: WilUam Clark, Capt Luke Watson, Capt.
Thomas Pemberton, John Stokely, Thomas Oldman, Joseph Booth;
An Order and Warrant from the Governor and Councill was Pro
duced and Read Relateing to a Suspicion of A Designe ef Our enemies
the ffrench To Attache thes Or Some other Our Neighbouring Plan
tacons, wherein for safe Guard It is ordered That Two men Shall be
Hired to Watche upon the Cape every day from five in the morning
untiU Seven att Night UntiU ye first day ef October next Ensueing,
In Obediance whereinto The Justices Considering of Persons fitting

126 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
for ye said watche Trust Did Agree and Aprove of Anthony Parssly
and John Putteet therein And Accordingly Did agree with them att.
September 3d, 4th. 1695.
Cornelius Wiltbanck By Peticon Acquaints The Court hee hath
a Designe To Build a Water Mill In this County On that Branch Or
Creek On the Bread KiU CaUed Mill Creek if ye Court Will Grant
him the Same and Land which is Customary Adjoyning to the Same
The Court Grant him the Said Streame Provided he Builde the Said
Mill thereon within fifteen months from hence forward and do Attend
and Minde the Same, And Doe Grinde the Graine well And in due
Course as itt Comes to Mill without Respect to Persons att ye Eighth
part Tell ffor wheat and Sixth ffor Indian Corne.
December 3d, 1695.
The Court being Opened the Grand Jury were Called ever * * *
who haveing Received their Charge went out of Court And After
some time Came in With a Paper Containing as followeth : The Grand
Jury Request ef the Worshippful! Court That the Road from Town to
the Indian River May bee Cleared and the Bridges Repaired And
that they would bee Pleased to Appoint An Overseer for that Part
of the County John Miers fforeman which the Court Granted And
Appointed Robert Barton Overseer in the same.
January 7th, Sth, 9th, 169S.
The Last Will and Testament of Skidmore Was PubUshed and
Read and Richard Williams peticioned The Court for thee precedency
of Administracon either on the Said Will Or otherwise as the Said
Will may bee Approved The Court Aprove not of the Will And
Appoint ye Petitioner To Administer upon the said Estate ef ye de
ceesed as intestate And keep the deceesed Childe, hee assuming to
Give Security To pay ye Debts As for ye assetts And the plantacon
to be Recorded for ye said Boy whom hee promises to keep & men-
tain gratis for nothing * * *.
William Clark Peticoned ye Court Thatt Letters of Administracon
might bee Granted him upon ye Estate of Stephen Sargent deceed
in Thatt ye said Sargent att ye time of his Death Stood Indebted
unto his Majtie and the Petitionr in ye Sum of £10: And upwards for
ye Custom of Tobaccoe * * * Butt ye Court thought fitt To
Continue the said Peticon unto ye next Court. [The petition was
granted at the Court Mar. 4, 1695.]
March 4th, 1695.
* * * Return of ye Jury of Inquest upon the body of
William Emmatt * * *_
Jonathan Bayly Peticoned ye Court ffor Part of ye Branch for
merly Called Bundicks Branch To Build A Water miU on, which the
Court Granted So far as Itt lay in their Power, But with these Con-
dicons * * * [as in petition of Cornelius Wiltbanck on a pre
vious page].
Whereas Daniel Hilliard Deceesed Did Dye Intestate * * *
The Court Grante the said WiUiam Clarke ye priority of Adminis
tracon, And Order the Registr To grant him Letters thereof accor
dingly * * *.

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November 6th, 1702.
Came Mary Goit Spinstr and the Will of Peter Goit late of this
County Merchtt Deceesed Bearing Date the Tenth Day of July 169S
being read * * *.
WiUiam ffatcher Appeared in Court and Produced An Accott Agst
James Walker Adminr of Henry AUen Deceesed ffor ffunerall Charges
^feC 'P T- -F
Thomas May Guardian Appointed of Richard WiUiams— By the
Last WiU and Testamt ef Richard WiUiams His ffather Deceased,
Appeared in Court And Produced the Said Will which was Read
February 2d, 1702.
Jonathan Starges and Honor his Wife late Widow of Jne. Kips-
Jiaven Senr. Deceased * * *.
Deborah Butler By Peticon Prayed the Court that Shee might bee
allowed Satisfacon for the Trouble and Buriall of James Laytree Dec'd
* * *
.May 4th, 1703.
Thomas Grove Appeared in Court And Produced An Accott of
-A Parcell of Debts that James Mathews Gave him on his Death bed
the Sixth Day of ffebruary last * * *.
May Sth, 1703.
[Mention made that Martha Johnson, wife ef Adam, was daughter
of John Kipshaven, Senr.]
[Mention that Comfort Burges, wife of Ralph Burges, was dau. of
Wm. Piles, dec'd.]
May 6th, 1703.
* * * Came Adam Johnson And Martha His Wife And Ex-
hibitt their Bill Agst John HiU Samuel Preston and Jacob KoUuck
Execrs of the Last Will and Testament ef John Kipshaven Deceased,
which Bill foUows in these words * * * Your Orator and Oratrix
Adam Johnson of the County of Sussex Yeoman And Martha his Wife
That Whereas John Kipshaven late of the Said County Yeoman yor
Oratrix Marthas ffather, in his Ufetime was possessed ef and intituled
to, As well a very Considerable Real Estate in Lands and Houses, As
¦of and in Divers Goods and Chattells householdstuff Plate Ready
money Outstanding Debts Negroes Cattle and other Stock Amounting
to the Value of One Thousand Pounds or upwards and being so Pos
sessed And Interested Did Constitute and make his Last Will and
Testament in Writing bearing Date the 14th Day of Janr: 1700, And
-in And by the Said Last WiU amongst ether things therein contained
Did Give and Devise unto Yer Oratrx Martha The Moyety and halfe
Part of his Lands in the County of Sussex During her life. And Did
¦further Give and bequeath unto Yor Oratrix Martha the subb Moyety
and halfe Part of His ^sonall Estate Excepting A very few incon
siderable Legacies * * * John Kipshaven Soon after Departed
this life * * * (the Said Testatr little or no Debts to Pay)
* * * [the Executors have refused to divide the Real Estate and
.give possession to Adam and Martha Johnson or te Deliver the Moyety

128 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
of the Personal in Specie, and by Appraisement have undervalued
the said estate perhaps one half. They] pretend that the Testatr
Was much Indebted at his Death, And that A Third of his Estate be
longed to Honour Kipshaven, The Widow of the said John Kips
haven, tho it is notoriously known. The Said Henr Eloped from her
Husband And run him much in Debt wherever She could Obtaine
Creditt, And Refused to live with him long before his Death * * *
They have Suffered by Connivance the Said Widow to Sue them At
Law for her thirds * * * [jn the defence the Executors say]
That the Said Kipshaven after hee had by his Will Given to his Grand
children John and Albert Jacobs (Sons of Albertus Jacobs by His
Daughtr the Said Pit Martha) The One Moyety and halfe Part of aU
his Estate both reall and ^sonall Lands Goods and Chattells what
soever within The Province ef Pennsilvania & Counties Annexed hee
the Said Testatr Gave unto his Daughtr the Said Pit Martha the other
Moyety & halfe Part of his Lands in the County of Sussex dureing
her Ufe, But with reserve of what the Testatr by his Said WiU Dis
posed And Ordered to bee Paid And Delivered out of both Moyeties
* * * And the Said Defts, further Say That the Pits have had
near, if not all their Moyety or halfe Part of the Testatrs ^sonall
Estate * * * [the widow recovered her thirds] by Judgmt of
Sussex County Court After A Vigorous Defence made by these Defts
or of Some of them Against her in that behalfe * * *.
May 7th. 1703.
[Accounts produced showing the Pits had rec'd ;£1S 6s 4Xd over
their share, which was ;£100 15s IXd. This Adam Johnson] Assumed
in Open Court te Refunde and Pay Back to the sd Exectrs * * *
they with Draw their Said Chancery Suit * * *.
May 2d, 1704.
* * * And the Said Grand Jury Came into Court with A Paper
in Writeing in these Words following — May ye 3rd, 1704: The
Grand Jury Complains that the County Wants A Prison house And
that Moneys hath been Given by Two Severall Grand Juries to the
Value of ffourtey Pounds for that use Wee Desire to know why the
worke is not done or An Accott of the Said Money's. In Answer
whereof The Court told them, Robert Cade fforeman. That the ffirst
Twenty Pounds was Disposed to A very necessary use in Buildeing
of Bridges in the Queens Road, which were so much wanted that
People Could not Pass to and free, without great Danger, — And the
Last Twenty Pounds was forgotten to bee Assessed in ye PubUck
Charge, when the Last Rate was made, and Leavie Settled^\vizt in
ffebr. Court 1 702 — But Should bee Remembred at the SettUng of the
Next Leavies. " — >
* * * By order of the Court The Queens Road frem. the Town
te Rehobah in Lett and the Plantacons on the Right and Left hand
of itt. Extending As far As Orrs MiU (included) bee Added to ye Town
hundred. November Sth, 1704.
Came into Court By WilUam ffarmer The Last Will and Testamt
of the Widow Jane Potter And Was Read * * * [Executor
named Richd Dobson who] absolutely Renounceth his Right of Ex-

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ecutorship * * * [and Administracon bee Granted unto WiUiam
ffarmer As Guardian of the Minor, Abraham Potter onely Son of the
said Dec'd. * * *].
August 1st, 1704.
[Mention made that Jane, ¦wife of Samuel Knowles, was formerly
¦wife of Thomas Besent, dec'd.]
John HuUng Merchtt By His Peticon Sett forth. That Whereas
hee hath A house And Lott in the Town of Lewis, next Adjoyning to
the Common Lotts of The Said Town, which Lotts now lies Desolate
and ¦without fence. Therefore hee being willing te promote the benefitt
of the Said Town Prays liberty from the Court To fence in ye Said
Lotts with his Own, which ¦will be a Conveniency to ye Town and
Security of the Grave Yarde. And upon such Grant hee will forth
with fence in the Same, And Pay Such Acknowledgmt -As may
Secure the Rights of the Said Lotts As they were from ye first Con
cession * * *_ The Court Grants unto the Said John Huling His
Heirs and Assigns * * *. And as to ye fencing in the burying
Ground hee hath liberty to Doe it, Provided hee render up the Same
when ever the Court Shall See fitt to Comande it frem him * * *.
John Johnson ffree Nigroe Aged Eighty Years And Poor, and Past
His labour * * * prayes the Court To Take him into the Publick
Charity of the County — [Richard Laws agreed with the Court to
Maintaine the Said John Johnson his life time — At ye Rate of Seaven
Pounds fifteen Shillings ^r year to bee Paid out ef the Publick].
May 9th, 1706.
Sarah Watson late Widow & Execx of Capt Luke Watson Deced
and former Widow And Adminx of Richard Paynter Senr Taylor
Deced (Intestate) being Sumoned te this Court at the Complaint of
her Son Richard Paynter * * * [mention made ef ' his Eldest
brother John].
WiUiam Mason and Margaret his Wife Appeared in Court And
Produced An Accott ef ffunerall Charges ef Her late Husband James
Clark Deed. * * *
January 7th, 1706.
Whereas the Grand Jury have found and brought into Court That
it is absolutely Necessary for bridges to be made Over the Two Runs
of Cedar Creek And Whereas the Law Impowers the Justices in Court
sitting to hire Workmen To make build and Compleat the same^
Mathew Parker appeared in Court and underteeke the Sd Work and
That he would forthwith Goe about the same. And build Compleate
& finish the Sd bridges, SubstantiaUy & WeU and Sufficiently Sup
ported in the middle the Dementiens of Which Sd Two bridges is to
be Governed by the Direction of ye Law in That Case. Whereupon,
it was bargained and Agreed by the Justices in Open Court, And the
Sd Mathew Parker That he ye sd Mathew Should have in Consideracon
of Building Compleating and finishing The Sd Two bridges in manner
Aforesd The Sum ef ffourteen Pounds to be Raised and Paid him eut
of this Years Leavy List.
[In a Suit— "Henry Stretcher, Aged Sixty Seven Years or there
abouts being Deposed" said that a certain 20 acres ef land in question

130 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
was sold te "Peter Winster of the same Place & County Hattmaker,.
Who there Lived Some Time and Dyed, And Lyeth buried, att the
Antient burying Place of the same Le^wis" * * *].
[Another witness testifies to successive owners of the abo^ve prop
erty: "As frem Johannis Winster, Son and Heir of Peter Winster
Hatter Deced To Morris Edwards And from ye Sd Morris to Doctr
Thomas Wynne, And frem ye Sd Thomas Wynne, After the Death
of him & Elizabeth his Wife To ye Sd Pit." * * *].
Rice Wolfe Peticoned the Court That Whereas he hath Inter
married with Mary the Daughter of ffrancis Comwell (Intestate)
Deced That he may be Ordered his Proportionable Part of the Sd
Estate, both Reall and ^ sonal According as the Law Directs * * *-
[Referred to Orphans Court].
February 4th, 1706.
The Court Nominated and Appointed fence Viewers (Vizt) * * *.
Luke Shields by his Peticon in Open Court Read Setts forth That
he have Served in the Station ot a Drumer Sundry Courts Past in
beating of the Drum, to Call People to Give Their Attendance at
Sd Courts And is in hopes. That the Court and Grand Jury, will
Allow his Sd Service therein, both Past and to Come Some Com-
pensacen or Reward — Whereupon the Sd Peticon Was Given
out to ye Grand Jury, Whe Retumed it back into Court (rejected).
However, it was Considered, By the Court That he Continue as^
Drumer therein And That at the Settlemt of the Next Years Leavy
Lists, They Will Indeavoure, Hee Shall Have Some Sattisfaction
For his Pains.
Whereas It was Considered by the Court That Rideing of Horse
Races in the Town of Le^wis, Dureing the time of the Courts Sitting-
was Very Prejudicall and A Great Hindrance to the Dispatche of busi
ness Depending on the Same by Peoples Neglect of Attendance in
Court; Wherefore it was Considered and Ordered By The Sd Court
That Ne ^sons Presume to Ride a Race or Races, Or Strain A horse
or Horses, within the Town of Lewis, Dureing the Courts Sitting, under
the Imediate forfeiture of fUve Shillings, To be Paid by the Rider or
Riders, Each of Them for Every Such Offence.
John Futcher And Robert CUfton, Was Sent fer, into Court' by The
Order of the Justices, To Thomas Smith Constable, them & Each of
Them, To Answer for their Contempts, In Rideing of a Race in the
Town of Lewis Dureing the Courts Sitting, Notwithstanding a
Rule or Order of Court Made te the Contrary under the Penalty of
ffive Shillings ^r man fer Each Such Race, To be Paid by the Riders
Thereof — Whereupon the Sd Constable Returns into Court and Re
ports That Hee mett with Oposicen in the Discharge of his Office-
therein. By Mr. Luke Watson & Justice Jonathan Baily who Com
anded ye Constable to Produce to him the Warrant that hee had for
the Apprehension ef the Sd Offendrs ffurther urging that the Court
had no Power to Make Laws, And That as he was a Justice of the-
Peace, as well as they, he Expected the Examinacon of the Sd Matter,
And Commanded the Constable to bring the Sd Riders, before him,
Which ye Constable Did so, — And The Sd Justice Baily Cleared ye-
Sd Offendrs from the Sd Constable, Whereupon the Court Checked
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of his Office, And Comanded him to Goe and fetch the Sd Robert, and
John into Court, And To Comand Assistance in the Same — And
Thereupon the Sd Justice Baily and Luke Watson Came into Court
Togather with the Constable and the Two Offendrs, And The Said
Mr. Baily Confessed he had Cleared them So That they would not.
Nor Should not Pay their fines. And That he ye sd Baily Knew as much
Law as any of the Court Wherefore the Court Considering the Great
Contempt of their Authority Comanded The Clk fforthwith to Write
A Mittimus to the Sher. Te Take the Sd Robert Clifton and John
ffutcher into his Close Custody And, Se Keep Them untill they had
Payed their Sd outmost ffines and, all Incidentall Charges and ffees,
by means of the Sd Contempt. John ffutcher Also Some time After
n Open Court being Attested, Declared, That the Aforesd Mr. Watson
and One Bonwell, the Owner of the Horse that Run, And that the
Deponant Rid, — That the Sd Watson, And Bonwell Promised faith
fully to Indemnifie him for his fine. And all Damages 'Whatsoever
That Should Arise thereby And That the Sd Mr. Watson Gave him
Two Bitts, for Rideing the Sd horse and Race.
[Luke Watson gives land te his brothers John Watson and Samuel.]
[Esther Parry Widow gives land te her son John Smith and to her
Son in Law Darby Collins.]
[William ffisher gives land to son John Fisher.]
March 4th, 1706.
John West & Thomas West, Joint Execrs of the Last Will and Tes
tamt of their ffather George West Deced Came into Court And Makeing
themselves Debtr by Inventary and Appraismt in the Sum of Ninety
ffour Pounds ffourteen Shillings & two pence. Produced therewth
an Accott of ffunerall Charges Debts and Legacies paid And other
La'wfuU Disbursmts Amounting in & to ye Sum of Sixty ffour Pounds
Nineteen Shillings & ene Peny, And prays of ye Court An Allowance
of ye same * * *
John Hagister Execr of the Last Will and Testamt of his Mother
Anne Williams Deced Came into Court * * *.
Thomas Bowman Came into Court And by his Peticon in the be
halfe of himselfe & brothers Sett fforth That Whereas WUUam Clark
in his Life time had Obtained Lettrs of Administracon upen the Sd
Peticoner's ffather Henry Bowman Senr Deed And new the Sd William
Clark is also Dead * * *.
The Widow Dunavan, and the Widow Rachael Webster, both of
MusmUlian Creek in this County * * * [petitioned and had their
Levies remitted, owing to their Great Poverty and Charge ef Children.]
The Like was Granted to the Widow Mary Depray upon her ^ senall
Applicacon, Submission, and Supplycacon in open Court, And ye
Sheriff Ordered te Cease to Demand or Receive her Levy for the
Year Aforesd.
Richard Hinman, in the Right of Mary his Wife Administ of the
Estate of Hercules Shepheard Deced Came into Court * * *.
Frances Prittyman fformerly the Widow of Anthony Inglow's
Deced And Execx ef his Last WiU & Testamt Came into Court * * *.
Rice Wolfe Appeared in Court And by his Petition Sett fforth That
[faded out] he hath Lately Intermarried with Mary the Daughtr ef
ffrancis Cor [faded] Deed (Who Dyed Intestate) * * *.

132 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
"March ye 27th, 1710.
"Mary Senior Widowe came te mee & Desired me to record the
Age of her Daughter Frances Harding who was borne On the 23th
Day of Aprill in the Yeare of eur Lord 1704 soe thatt on the said 23th
April next ensueing this Date she will be six Yeares ef Age.
"Testr. Roger Corbett, Clerk.
* * * Ye Grand Jury were called over & all appeared and
Gave in their Presentments Vizt: Wee of the Grand Jury thinks fitt
thatt the Roade upon the bank of Lewis Creeke Layd eut by the six
men bee made Good by the Towne Hundred, Anderson Parker fore
man. The Court thinks fitt Thatt if the ysons agt whose Land the
breach ef the Roade on the banke aforesaid will nett mend itt itt
must Lye till further Order.
September 6th, 1709.
Mary Westcott Widow & Adstratrix of Francis CornewaU Gent
deed apeared and according to a former Order of Court in Sept. 1708
forthwith Devided betweene ye two Heires, Francis and Mary, by
a Jury of twelve men & Captn Pemperton Surveyor * * *^
[Abigail West prays the Court fer seme Cattle left te Tabitha West
daughter of John West & Eliz. his Wife.]
Stephen Kanning exhibits his Acct agt Eliz. Barker Widowe deed
for attendance 10 days in her sicknesse & 3 dayes after death till
she was buried £1 16s Od. * * *.
[Saml Dickinson & The. Mariner sumoned to bring Inventory of
estate ef Mathew Spicer deed, of this county.]
September [7th?], 1709.
Petition of Abigail West being this day read and discoursed upon
the Petition setting forth &c. Justice Walker exhibits an Order of
Court under ye Clarks hand, in Sept. 1708 Orphans Court for five
pound fer ye funerall Charges of Tabitha West daughter of John West
deed te bee paid out of the Estate of the said Tabitha. AbigaU West
by Edward Parker prayes ye Courts Opinion whether or nott the two
Children mentioned in ye petition were nott next heires att Law to
ye sd Tabitha — the Court refuses theire Opinion, & p'utts Abigail
West to prove itt. Continued to ye next adjourned Orphans Court.
September 22d, 1709.
Att an adjourned Orphans Court te ye 22th Instant * * *
John Haverly sonn of Anthony Haverly late of this County deed,
appeared in this Court, being of the Age of nineteen yeares, three
weekes before Christmas next * * *
WiUiam Ha^'er]y aged 17 yeares Aprill ye 7th. 1709 next appeared
* * *
Andreas or Andrewe Haverly sonn of sd Anthony Haverly next
appeared aged fifteen yeares in July last, and Chose Tho. Parker his
Master wth him to live & dwell in the Nature of an Apprentice untill
hee shall arrive att the full Age of One & twenty yeares ye sd Thomas
Parker to learne him the Mistery & Arte ef a Blacksmith & write
& reade English te find him Meat drink &c and att the next Orphans
Court to bee held in Mrch next ensueing to pay & Deliver to ye Jus-

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tices of sd Court for time being the sume of One pound ten ShiUings
to bee disposed of att the Courts Pleasure for the use of sd Orphan &
to give him att expiration according to Law.
Next appeared Daniel Haverly sonn of sd Anthony aged 12 yeares
last July, & Hester Beckett daughter of Alexander Beckett aged 4
yeares in October next ensueing the Lad chose his brother Anthony
for Guardian, ye Girle ye Court assigned him Guardian to * * *.
Next appeared James Haverly sonn of the aforesd Anthony aged
10 Yeares last July, to serve tiU 21 & Katherine Beckett aged 5 yeares
May last the Girle to serve till 16, ye boy to bee learnt to write & reade
ye Girle to reade, beth bound te Mathew Parker by ye Courts Order
PROBATE RECORDS;
Christopher Taylor Register General op Kent and Sussex
ON Delaware. William Clark, Deputy. 1683-1695.
Will ef James Lattan; Robert Hart Administrator.
Abraham Wiltbank (son of Abram Wiltbank and Anne his wife)
was borne about Twelve of the Clock at night ffriday the Tent day
of ffebruary in the year of Our Lord God One Thousand Six Hundred
Ninety and Nine. Their Daughter Abbigail was Borne the first day
of May 1706. Jacob Wiltbank (son of Abraham and Anne Wilt
bank was Borne aboiit Twelve of the Clock att night of Monday the
Sixth Day ef July in the year of our Lord God One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Two Registered ye llth of September 1702.
Nehemiah Ffield, Deputy Register.
Mary the Daughter of Rachell and Norton Claypoole ef the Town
of Lewis was borne the 10th day of the Se month 1682 about the
first hour in the moming in the presence of Mary the wife of Edward
Southrine which said Mary was the midwife as allsoe in ye presence
of Katherine Vines alias Hewes and her Daughter EUzabeth Hews.
Honor Clarke, fonira Wiltbank, Margaret MoUestine, — na Gray,
Sarah Stretcher and Sarah Bartlett.
Richard Shoulter's WiU January 28' 16S2 Sussex Ce. To Capt.
Nathaniel Walker half the money due from said Walker unto me for
my land at Rehour. Richard Bundock the other half. Presence
of: — John his X B mark Barker. William Emmatt.
Abbigail Eyres Daughter of John Eyres and Abbigail his wife was
Berne the Seventeenth Day of June One Thousand Six Hundred
Ninety and Seven (8 years old next June) John Eyres sen of the
same parents was borne on the Seventeenth Day of December One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Two (Two years old last December).
Registered by Desire of their mother the first Day of Jan. 1704 Per
me Nehemiah Ffield Deputy Register.
Richard Gill Testifie in open Court that EUzabeth Leveritt deceased
about Two or Three Days befor her Deead did Will and Bequeith unto
Richard Bundock a Mare er a Thousand pounds of Tobacco in Robert
Bracey his hands fer the which said Mare the said Robert Bracey did
pay one Thousand pounds of Tobacco out of the said Elizabeth Leveritt
her Estate and further did declare that if the said Robert Bracey did

134 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
refuse to pay the said Thousand pounds of Tobacco it would trouble
her that she would Com againe. Attested in open Court.
Richard R Gill
[tern] 11 me. 1683. his mark
Banns.
Between Daniel Jones single man and Elizabeth Roades single
woman. Lewis, Del. Oct 1, 1683.
Between Abraham Westron widower and Mary Smith widow.
Lewis, Del. Oct., 1683.
Susan Fisher daughter in Law to Robert Bedwell of Dover River
in Kent County departed this Life the 2Sth Day of the Eighte moneth
1683. Will of Cornells Verhoofe Sick at the house of Richard Bundock
in Sussex County Bequeithed to Barbara the fere daughter of Eliza
beth Parling she accepted with the rest of the children of Simon Par
ling the Backward point next te Pagons Creeke belonging to a deve-
dent ef Land called the Ship Carpenters Yard. Unto Simon ParUng
so much. To Richard Bundock & his wife and etc. To John John-
sen junr etc. Te Thomas GolUdge alias Jones etc. Te John Betts
a land in Murderkil Hundred where John Betts now lives. Hal
manius Wiltbank & Peter Groundick Executors. Administrators
to be careful to Transport half of Estate to HoUand te my Brother-
in-Law John Lileveort (Vomb?) & my sister 'Eve Verhoofe. Dec.
23, 1683. Witnesses: — Randle Shard, 'William Emmatt.
Elizabeth Mosely Daughter of William and Hannah Mosely will
be Eight years in the middle of next ffebruary That is to say she was
Born in the middle of the month of ffebruary 1698. Recorded by
her mothers request now the [Wife ef James Richardson]. Aug, 21,
1706. N. Ffield Clk Reg.
Elizabeth Miers Daughter of John Miers and Mary His Wife was
borne on the 20th day of November 1703.
Whereas John ffoster widower and AUice Manlee widow have
Obtained license to bee Joyned together in ye holy Estate of Matri
mony which said License bears Even Date with Those presents These
are therefore to Certify that ye said Parties did on ye Tenth Day of
July 1698 Solemnly in ye presents of Almighty God and before us
ye underwritten witnesses att ye house ef Mr. Williani Clark in ye
town ef Lewis in County afore.said. John Ffoster
Allice a Ffoster
her mark
Witnesses: — ¦William Clark, Jonathan Baily, John Clark, Susanna
her O mark ffreeman, Mary her un mark Miers, Mary Wolfinden,
Nehemiah ffield, John Miers, Henry Strecther, Robert Corbett, WiU
iam Adams, James Claypoole, William Clampitt, Peter Lewis, Wrix-.
ham White, John X Carey, Edward + Carey, Henry X Allen.
John Elme of this County Batchelor and Margaret Kelly of ye said
County Spinster were married at the house of Mr. James Peterkin
at the town ef Lewis did solemnly Take each the other as Husband
and Wife the Sth Day of September 1697.
Witnesses: — John Hill, Justice; Roger Corbett, James Peterkin,
Richard Paynter, Nazareth her N mark Halleway, Margaret Simson,

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Ann her X mark Seaton, EUzabeth her E mark Peterkin, Nehemiah
ffield, John his H mark Haynes, EUzabeth her E mark Haynes,
Jane her D mark Peterkin, John his X mark Elme, Margaret her N
mark Elme.
Letter Administracon EUoner Richards County of Sussex Robert
Richards deceased Day Thurteenth of January 1684.
Will ef John Depree te sons of John Depree and Jacob Depree
land bought of Capt. John Avery and to their brethern, sisters and
etc. January 5, 1684. John Depree.
WilUam Emmatt. William ffootcher.
Robert Trayle of Lewis County to Alexander Moulisten etc. amounts
due from John Manlee, Norton Claypoole, John CuUison, David
Corsey, and for Henrick Meuliston etc. land at the fork of the great
Kill Beginning at the lower end ef the town. his
Robert M Trayle
mark
John K Kiphaven, Mathias Vanderhagen, Alburtis Jacobs.
John CuUison and Barbrey his wife letter of Administracon upon
the estate ef Mathias Everson.
Letter of Administracon Mary Southrin upon the estate of Edward
her husband.
Letter Administracon Thomas Hodgekings upon the estate of
Jacob Shattham.
Letter Administracon Thomas Hodgekings upon the estate of
Harmen Comelison.
Whereas George Truitt of the County of Somersett in the Province
of Mary Land Being near Related unto PauU Marsh Late of the
County ef Sussex.
John Tuxbury single man and EUenor Richards widow married
Sth March, 1685 at the house of John Reades take each other as
husband and wife. Wm. Clark, John Roades, Harclos Shepard,
Henry Strachter, John Simons, William Kennig, Moris Edwards,
John Stuicbury, EUenor Stuckbury, francis X Williams, John -1-
Jones, Thomas X Jones, EUzabeth E Reades, widow, Jehana -|- Si
mons. Coppie of a Mertaig of Thomas Hodgkins Shallup known as the
Sea Horse new riding in the Creeke of Lewis to John Wrighte. The
Sloop was bought by Thomas Hodgkins & John Rodgers from John
Wright and Daniel Jones 9th Day of February 1684. Thomas Hodg
kins, John Vines, Henry Stracther, Alexander M Moulisten.
Georg Young single man and Mary Southrin widow married on
the 24th of June 1685 at the Towne of Lewis. Georg Young
Mary MS Young.
Wm. Clark, Luke Wattson, John Vines, John Hill, Wm. Emmatt,
Joshua Barksteed, Will Arendeal, Morris Edwards, Salmon Jones,
Thomas Besent, Arther Star, Honor Clark, Catherine Star, Rachell
Claypoole, Elizabeth Pemberton, EUzabeth Hill.
Thomas Hodgkins bill ef sale of a heffer to Cornells Wiltbank
18th June, 1685. Thomas Hodgkings. John Brown, Henry Stracther,
William Emmatt.

136 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Griffith Jones bill of Sale of a heffer to Rebackah Wiltbank 16th
May 16S5. Griffith Jones. John Vines, Thomas Besant.
Thos. Hodgking bill of sale of a cow to Rebaekah Wiltbank
18th June, 168S. Thomas Hodgkings. John Brown, Henry Stract
her, 'William Emmatt.
Robert Bracey sener widdower and Ann Douglis widdow were
married 30th July, 1685 at the house ef William Clark in Lewis.
Witnesses: — Wm. Clark, James Huling, Henry Stracther, William
Rodeney, Charles Haynes, John Stuckbury, Richard Harvey, ffrancis
Williams, Horner Clark, Elenor Stuckbury, Burkee B. Kiphaven,
Sarah A. WilUams, Margaret her R mark Pendree,
Luke Wattsons bond to Nicholas Rideout late of Sharftbury in
the County of Darcett England, 3d March, 1685. Wm. Clark, Jo
seph his T mark Thorne.
Alburtis Jacobs single man married to Martha Kiphaven Sth October
1685 in the house of John Kiphaven in Lewis. Beorcha Kiphaven,
John Kiphaven, Wm Clark, John Roades, Henry Stracther, Moris
Edwards, Nehmiah field, Henry Moulston, William Rodeney,
will Emmatt, John vines, Norttron Claypoole, Arther Stare, William
Carter, John Browne.
John Walker single man ef Kent County married Mary Paynter
single woman of Sussex County 18th October, 168S at the house of
John Kiphaven of Lewis. Richard Paynter, Sarah Paynter, Wm.
Clark, John Roades, Henry Stracther, will Rodeney, Nehemiah ffield,
John Browne, Arther Star, Morris Edwards, WiUiam Carter, William
Emmatt, Henry Moulston, Alburtis Jacobs, Robert Holgate,
Johanias Winsteed single man married Margaret Penree single
woman 18th Oct. 16SS at the house ef John Kiphaven of Lewis
Jane Winsteed, Wm. Clark, John Roades, Henry Stracther, Alburtis
Jacobs, Wm. Carter, Morris Edwards, William Rodeney, John Browne,
John Vines, Norton Claypoole, Robert Holgate, William Emmatt,
John Walker, Arther Star, Nehemiah ffield.
Robert Godsell late of the Kingdom of Ireland and then of Sussex
County did make his will 23d ef November in favor of the following:
Charles Spooner, Edward T Barrey, John White, Apalina Taylor.
Sarah Godsell's letter of Administracon on the estate of Robt. God-
sell her deceased husband, 23d of November, 1685.
In the will of Robt. Hart of Cedar Creeke his ¦wife Margaret was
willed his house etc. to Robert her son etc. His daughter Margaret
etc. October 4, 16S5. Jonathan ffox, Ann Jennings, Symon Charles.
Margaret Hart's letter of Administracon on Robert Hart's estate
3d of December, 1685.
In the will of John ffishermade 6th ef February, 1685, the property,
land, etc. te his wife Margaret and children Thomas, John, James,
Rachell, Sarah, and Alis Fisher. Wm. Emmatt, Richard R.C
Coore, Ann S DougduU.
Margaret's and Thomas' letter of Administracon on the estate
of John Fisher, 30th AprU, 1686.
Marriage between John Coe Batchelor and Elizabeth Roads Spin
ster at the house of Mrs. Comfort Scott at Rehoboth, Delaware, June
30, 1697. Wrixham White, Peter Lewis, Richard R. Hinman, John
HiU, Justice; Thos. Oldman, Thes. Besent, Samuel Dickisson, Henry
H. Allen, John I Carey, Joseph O. Magnab, Comfort C Scott, Grace

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X Lewis, James Walker, James Simson, Margaret Simson, Sarah
CUfon, Elizabeth Hill, EUz Stokeley.
Marriage between Charles Spooner single man and Susanna Bur-
ough single woman, December 4, 1686. Wm. Clark, Wm. Dyer,
John Hill, Baptis Newcomb, Morris Edwards, Charles I Bright Robert
I Murdock, Ann A. Newcomb, EUzabeth HUl, Jane O Potter, Esseble
V Torbut, Lidy X Patte, Wm. Haward, Wm. P. Hignett (?), John I
Webster. Major Dyer's letter ef Administracon 'on the estate of Capt. Nathan
iel Walker formerly of New England and late of Northampton County,
Virginia who died three months after July 20, 16SS.
Mary the daughter of Luke and Margaret Watson was born the
2Sth day of the 12th month 1685 at Prime Hooke in the County ef
Sussex. John the son of John Bradshaw of Kent County borne the 22d
Day of December, 1686.
"William the son of Robt. and Rebecka Millner born the 12th day
of April, 1676.
Mercy the Daughter of Robt. and Rebecka Millner borne the ISth
12th month, 1678.
Alexander the son of Alexander and Rebecka Draper borne the
22 day of ye 9th month, 1680, Sussex Co.
Rebecka the daughter of Allexander and Rebecka Draper ef Sussex
County borne the 4th day of the second month 16S3.
Henry the sonn of AUexandeis and Rebecka Draper borne the
9th day ef the first Month called March 1685-6 of Sussex Co.
Elizabeth the daughter of Norton & Rachell Claypoole was borne
at Lewis in ye Sussex County the 16th Day of the 3d month called
May 1687 aboute ye seaventh houre in the evening in the presence
of Thomas Wynne and Elizabeth his wife, ye midwife & Jane Maud
her daughter Hannah Baily; Sarah Strechther Jane Hodgkins Sarah
Painter and Helen Sikes. ,
Marriage between Henry Smith and Sarah Godsell, February
S, 1686. Henry Gette, Dorathy C Getto, Henry Bowman, Luke
Watson, Junr; Thomas Tilton, Samuel Watson, Bryant Roles,
John his IW marke Watson, Sarah her O marke Watson, Edward
his EM marke Morgan, Elizabeth her EP marke Parsley, Richard
Renords. Banns of George Rigs & Ann Thomas Batchellor and Spinister
April 17, 1687.
Mary Webb widow of Isack Webb of Kent County March 15, 1687.
A deed of Gift Henry Getto to Peter GodseU, March 5, 1687. Ed
ward Berry, EUinor Midleton, Henry Bowman. In the hands of
Robert Tumer and John Fuller for the education Of Peter Godsell.
If he dies before he is of age the money gees to his mother Sarah
Smith. In the ¦will of Henry Getto his wife Dorothy Getto etc. so
long as she lives with his son Henry Smith to my grandchild Peter
GodseU etc. March 6, 1687. Bryant B R Reales, Edward e Berry,
Henry Bowman.
Marriage between George Riggs and Ann Thomas now of the town
of Lewis but lately of Phyladelphya June 19, 16S7. Thomas Wynn,
John Roades, ffrancis Cornwall, Phillip RusseU, Arthur Starr, Morrice
Edwards, Norton Claypoole, Honor Clark, Adam Johnson, George

138 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Davis, Albertus Jacobs, Philip Th Lehnmaine, Jacob Warrin, EUz
abeth Wynn, Mary Cornwall, Jane Maude, Sarah Clifton.
Thomas Grove single man late of Philadelphia married Sarah
Smith widow of Sussex County January 7, 1692 at the house of Sarah
Smith att Prime Hook. Luke Watson, Wm. Clark, John Hill, Hon
nor Clark, Elizabeth Hill, Mary Bowman, Mary Wattson, Tho. Price,
Henry Bowman, Peter X Godsell, Thomas Morgan, Alexr Grant,
Luke Wattson, Junr; Will Rodeney, Yeems Syonsen, James Thomas.
Allexander Draper's letter of Administracon upon the estate of
Jno. Pearce. 31st October, 1687.
Joane Hart in her will made 20th Janurary made her son and grand
daughter her heirs, John Richards and Sarah Richards. Allexander
Draper, William Emmatt.
John the sonn ef John and Rachell Hilliyard of Kent County borne
the ISth day ef October, 1686.
Henry the son of Henry and Jane Permaine ef Kent County borne
the seaventeenth day ef the Ninth Month, 1686.
Marriage of Isack Bowd late of Philadelphia single man to Jane
Mawde of Lewis single woman er spinster. September 15, 1687, in
the house of Norton Claypoole. Robt. Clifton, Justice of the Peace;
Norton Claypoole, Clerk & Register; John Wynne, Adam Johnson,
Henry MoUestine, John Millington, Step. Sargent, Sam. Pope, Ne
hemiah ffield, Johannis Winster, Joseph Alef, Mathew M. osbome,
Sarah Screcther M., Sarah N Russell, Mary MOC Mollesten, Margaret
MoUestine, Rachell Claypoole.
John Reades will his daughter EUzabeth etc. daughter Patience
land next to John Symons that he now lives on Given to Grace
White etc. ajoining land of her brother Wrixham White. My son
John the residence. Unto my dear and tender mother etc. Unto
Nehemiah ffield etc. Unto Sarah Strechter wife of Henry Strechter.
Unto John How etc. Unto my brother Richard TuU. Dear wife
Comfort her thirds. Sept. 17, 1687. John Millington, Nehemiah
ffield. Verbal will of James Saykes Sth of December 1687. Affidavit of
Allexander Draper ef same, a daughter and son in this country and
two children in England. Allexander Draper, •Thomas Price.
A true Inventory of ye Eftate of John pearce deceafed
* * =^ The Advantage at Robert Cliftons * * *. Norton
Claypooles note * * *; John Sunners bill * * *; Thomas
Pembertons bill * * *. Apraysed by us ye 26th day of ye 9th
month 1687 Wm Emmatt
John Price
Wm Emmatt one ef ye praifers of ye Eftate of John Pearce At-
tefted the 6th Xber 1687. Norton Claypoole. deputy Regifter.
Letter of Adminiflration to Nathaniell Sikes of the Eftate of James Sikes
late of ye County of Suffe-x.
Suffex County In the territories ef penfiUvania the llth day of
the 12th month Called ffebruary 1687. * * * Know yee that
Nathaniell Sikes Heir Apparent of James Sikes deceafed late of the

COURT RECORDS. 139
faid County of Suffex having brought unto me Norton Claypoole
Deputy Regifter of the faid County the laft will and teftament of
the faid James Sikes proved by the Teftimony of Allexander Draper
and Thomas price and he the faid Nathaniell Sikes defiring that he
might have letters of Adminiftratien fer the Execution of the faid
Will according to the Contents thereof and the laws of this Govern
ment etc. •* * * Mentions James Claypoole Late Regifter Gen
erall of the faid province & Countys of Suffex and Kent etc. * * *_
Norton Claypoole, deputy Regifter of ye County of Suffex.
Nuncative Will of John Badger viz Wee Robert Tomlinfon and
James Hughs Dee Affirme and depofe that John Badger Deceafed
did feme time before his Departure * * * difpofe ef all his
Eftate goods and Chattells * * * to Antony Inleyee to the
.truth whereof we have figned this fixth day ef March Ano 168 7-8
Robert his X marke Tomlinson
James Hughs.
The Wittneffes * * * Attefted * * * that the faid John
Badger was Compos Mentis and that he faid foe feverall times * * *
Attefted the 6th day of the firft month 1687-8.
Teftis Norton Claypoole Clerr.
Robert Tomlinson Attefted * * * that the faid John Badger
told of A house and land he had in Antego. [No mention of County].
Mickell Sadler & John How Their obligation to Stephen 'Whetman.
Knew all men by thefe prefents that wee John How and Mickell
Sadler both of the County of Suffex * * * ^re held and firmly
bound unto Stephen Whetman of ye aforefaid County of Suffex
* -¦* * in Witneff Whereof Wee have hereunto fett oure hands
and feals the tenth day of ye firft Month Called March Anno Dom;
1686; The Condittion of the above obligation is fuch that if the above
bounden John How and Mickell Sadler their Heirs Executors Ad-
miniftraters or Affigns er either of them doe and fhall well and truly
pay or caufe to be paid * * * at or before the lOtli day of the
next twelfth Month Called ffebruary withoute fraud or further delay
at the towne of Lewis * * * that then the above obligation to
be voyde and of no effect or elce to be and Remaine in full power
force and vertue. John How [feal]
Michaell Sadler [feale]
sealed and delivered In the prefence of us
Wm Clark
Will Rodeney.
Nehemiah the Sen of Nehemiah and Rachel ffield Relicte of Norton
Claypoole Deceesed was borne en the Twentieth Day of December
in the year One Theufand Six hundred Eighty and Nine, And his
younger Brother William ffield Borne on the Twenty fifth of Decem
ber In the year One Thoufand Six hundred Ninety and three.
Copie of Ann Rigs letter of Adminiftration.
Suffex County. In the Territories of pennfiUvania the 27th day
of the firft Month 16S8 * * * Knew yee that Ann Rigs the
widdow and Rellix of George Rigs * * * deceafed having brought

140 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
unto me Norton Claypoole Deputy Regifter of the fd County the laft
will and Teftament ef him the fd George Rigs * * * ghe having
proved the fame before me According to Law, and fhe the faid Ann
Rigs defiring that fhe might have letters of Adminiftration for the
Execution of the faid Will according to the contents thereof * * *
I doe therefore * * * Grant Letters of Adminiftration unto
her * * * for the Ends and purpofes aforefaid; * * *
Norton Claypoole Deputy Regifter.
Whereas Rowland Perrey of This County Widower and Esther
Coore of the said County widow Have Publifhed and openly Declared
their Banes and Intentions of Marriage * * * Thefe may Cer
tifie That ye Said Parties did on ye fourteenth Day of July in ye Year
of Our Lord Ged 1698 Att the Dwelling houfe of Jaco'b KoUack in ye
Town ef Lewis * * * Take Each The other as Hufband and
Wife in manner and form following, * * *
Rowland R Parrey
Esthere Parrey.
Testes: — Jonathan Baily Juftice, John Smith, James ffifher. Rich-,
ard Dobfen, James Seattonn, George Thomfon, Nathll Starr, William
Adams, Ralph Norcott, Anne her H mark Seattonn, Elizabeth her
X mark Moleston, Kathrine X Davies, Richard R W Williams, Roger
Corbett, William Clampitt, William Dyre, Sher; Nehemiah ffield.
The laft 'Will & Teftament of George Rigs.
In the name of God Amen this fixth day of the fixth Month Anno
qui Domini 1687, I George Riggs of Suffex County * * *^ 2dly.
Next I doe give and bequeath unto Ann Riggs my beloved wife all
my Worldly Eftate * * *. 3dly. I doe Apoynt & Conftitute
WilUam Clark and Thomas Wynne * * * to Affift Ann Riggs
my beloved wife the best that they may * * *_
George Riggs [feal]
signed fealed ahd delivered in the prefence of us
Barrents Gerris
Daniell Ishell
Thomas Besent
Endeffed en the back fide. Thomas Beffant one of the evidences
to the within written will being legally Attefted declared the fame
to be the Act and deed of George Riggs deceafed 7th day of the firft
month 16S7-8. Barents Gerris one other of the evidences * * *
appeared before me the 26th day ef the firft month 16S8 * * *
Teftis Norton Claypoole Dep: Register
Certificate of Marriage ffor Thomas Oldman & Elizabeth his wife,
Thefe are 'to Certify etc. After due publication according to the
laws etc. Thomas Oldman Batchellor ef the towne ef Lewis * * *
Carpenter tooke Elizabeth sikes the Daughter of James Sikes deceafed
fpinfter * * * to be his lawfull wife at the houfe of him the
faid Thomas Oldman In the towne of Lewis Aforefaid * * * this
twentyeth day of the firft Month called March 1687-S.
Thomas Oldman [feal]
Elizabeth Oldman [feal]

GKEEN HILL LIGHTHOUSE.

COURT RECORDS. 141
Albertus Jacobs, Henry MoUefton, Norton Claypoole, PhiUip Ruff ell,
Mofes Obeab, Nehemiah ffield, Morrice Edwards, ferrimia Scott,
the mark M of WiUiam Orion, John Miers, John Redwood, Richard
Daygtet, Samuel Pope, John Millington, the marke 6 of Sarah painter,
Catherine Starr, RacheU Claypoole, Sarah Dyer, Mary Dyer, The
mark M of Margaret MoUefton, the marke -I- ef Martha Jacobs, the
marke -1- of Rebecka WiUaims, Sarah her -f- marke Stretcher.
An Inventory of the Eftate ef James sikes lately Deceafed.
The laft Will and Teftament of Major "Wm. Spencer.
I William Spencer Senr ef Cedar Creke in Suffex County etc.
Imp: I give unto my beloved wife ffrancis Spencer the plantation
whereon I now life etc. during her widowhood allfe all the Eftate in
Accomack that her ffather bequeathed to her; land bequeathed to
Daughter Margarett Spencer; land bequeathed to fenn William
(Spencer; te wife land on seuth fide of MifpiUian Creek; property
sould to WiUiam Dyer * * * ^^w "beloved fen WiUiam Spencer
to be my Executor and to Adminiftrate * * * this my Eftate
* * * in wittnefs whereof I have hereunto fett my hand and feal
this twenty ninth day of the Ninth Month 1687 * * *.
the marke of
Wm Spencer fenr [feal]
Signed fealed and delivered In the prefence of us :
The mark of Art A Johnson Vankerk;
the marke ef Robert R. Twilley
Wm Emmatt.
The Evidences to the above Written Will appeared in open Court
& * * * declared that the fame is the Act and deed of William
Spencer Senr deceafed * * * the second day of the third
month 1688 Wittnefs their hands Wm Emmatt.
the marke of Art. A Johnson Vankirk; the marke of Robert R
Twilly. The laft 'Will & Teftament of Major 'William Dyre.
I WiUiam Dyre of ye County ef Suffex * * * Efqr * * *
Item. I Will and Bequeath unto my EUdeft son William Dyre
now at Bofton in New England all my plantation er land scittuate
Lying & being in the Broad Kill In Suffex Ccfunty Aforesaid Called
Rumbley place, * * *
Item. I give and bequeath unto my fecond fen Edmund Dyre
one plantation Lying and being upen Love Creek, In the County
Aforesaid * * * formerly Called fundialls (but now Beaverwick)
* * * other lands held formerly in partnership with Stephen
Whettman bounded by lands of ferrimia Scott, & Thomas Branscomb
* * * John Roades & WUliam Roades * * *.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my youngeft fonn James Dyre,
* * * Land lying and being upon Mifpillen Creek, In the County
aforefd — other lands Lying in the forke of the Broad Kill — -same
county — bounded upen the Beaver dam & upen prime Hooke Creek — -
other land in Newcaftle County
Item. I give & bequeath unto my EUdeft Daughter Sarah Dyre
land lying betweene the Cold fpring and the Cyprufs Bridge in the
County ef Suffex * * *_

142 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Item. I give & bequeath unto my youngest Daughter Mary Dyre
land Knowne by the name of the White horfe, lately bought of Charls
pickering * * * land lying in Angola Neck * * * feme-
time the land of Richard Shoulfter * * *.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my Deare and well beloved wife
Mary Dyre * * * Land Lying and being in Sedar Neck Suffex
County * * * other land fcittuate & being Adjoyning to the
towne of Lewis * * * with two towne lots * * * houfhold
goods etc. * * * debt due by bond from Hendrick Van den
Borgh of Newcaftle * * * one debt * * * fn nioney or
Come due frem Juftice Anderfon of the fd towne of Newcaftle * * *
debt due by bond in wheat or porke due from Samuel Curtis ef AUa-
ways Creek in Weft Jarfey * * * one other debt due by accompt
and bill of Capt Wm Markham * * * debt due from Wm Afsberry,
due by Mortgage * * * now in the hands ef Capt Stephanus
Van Ceurtland of New Yorke * * * also land in Narraganfet
Country, in New England * * * aU Right & title ef Inherrit-
ance to the Eftate of my Late ffather William Dyre, deed, upon
Roade Ifland * * * plantation and allfoe one Ifland Called
Dyres Ifland * * * also ye ballance of Mr Thomas LLoyds.
bond * * * Land lying at Reading in New England, and two
Iflands Called the Clabboard Iflands in Gafcoe Bay in New England
Item. * * * 'Wiie 'Mary Dyre and eldeft fonn William Dyre
* * * sele executrix and executor * * * gr Edmund An-
drofs mentioned * * * Date of will twentieth day ef ffebruary
1687-8 * * * I Request my ffriends Mr. John HiU and Mr.
Samuel Gray te be affifting te my wife & children In the management
of their affairs in thefe parts ; * * * Sr Edmund Androfs Govemr
Genii of New England to assist them in New England, or there
unto belonging * * * '^m Dyre [feal]
Signed fealed & delivered In the prefence of us to two: —
Charles Sanders
Will Rodeney
The Evidences * * * attefted In open Court Held fer the
County of Suffex the Sth day of the 4th Month CaUed June 1688 * *
Teftis Norton Claypoole Clerk and Deputy Regifter.
fohn Richards Letter of Administration on ye Estate of Thomas Moules-
ton Deceast.
Suffex County * * * ye 3d day of ye Sth moth Annoq:
Dom: 168S * * * Know yee that John Richards late of Mary
land * * * haveing marryed ye ReUct of Thomas Molefen late
of this County * * * Granted by Court to take out letters of
Administration on said Estate.
Fp Cornwall, Depty Regyr of ye County Suffex.
ffrancis Cornwall son of  & Mary Cornwall was Borne on the four
teenth day of the first moth Annoq Dom: 1687-8 * * * Att
Spring :houfe neare Lewis * * *
John MolUston sen of Abraham and Lidia MolUston was Borne
on The Second Day of October Ano Domi 1694.

COURT RECORDS. 143
Coppey of Thomas May & Margarett Spencer there Certificate of
Marriage.
These may Certify etc. that upon ye 28th day of ye Sth moth in
ye yeare of our Lord 1688, there was a marryage Solemnized betweene
Thomas May of Suffex County etc. Batcheler, & Margrett Spencer
of ye Same County Singlewoman * * * Thomas May
Mar: her MM mark May
Wm. Spencer, ffrancis Spencer, Thomas Price, Luke Wattfon,
Jonathan Balife, John Price, Alexr. Draper, Wm. Emmet, James
Spencer, Mary Bowman, SamU. PoUard, Robert his R marke Twil-
leys, John Dickifon.
Certificate of Marriage Between fames Carpenter and Affy ance Piles.
County Suffex: This may Certify That I James Carpenter Widower
And Affyance Piles Spinfter Both of This County * * * accord
ing to Law made Publicacon ef Their Bains of Matrimony and Inten
tion c * * Take each other as Husband and Wife * * * ^.tt
ye houfe of William Piles * * * xhe Eigth Day of Decembr
1698. James his F mark Carpenter
Affyance her E mark Carpenter
Wittneffes: WilUam Piles, WilUam X Piles, Junr; John Hill, Juf
tice, John Miers, John Waatfon, Isaac Wattfon, Mark N Mitchell,
Elizabeth E Kirwithy, Sufanah S Crowell, Isaac IW Piles, Comfort
C Piles, Elisabeth X ffifher.
These Are to Certifie That Thomas Joyce of This County Batchelor
and Sarah Sugars Spinftr Haveing Publifhed (as They alleage) Their
Banes of Matrimony * * * Did on ye 29th Day of July Ano
Demi 1697 * * * Xake each other as Hufband and Wife etc.
Thomas his T mark Joyce
Witnesses: — Daniel Ithell, Thomas Grove, Cornelias Wiltbanck,
Isaac Wattson, Henry T Tucker, Thomas Ad Morgan, William Smith,
James Claypoole, Isaac his X mark Moore, Nehemiah ffield, Jane
Wiltbanck, Sarah S Greve, Mary M ItheU, Elifabeth M Tucker,
EUsabeth C Wiltbanck, Elifabeth X Moleston.
These may Certifie That Alexander Molefton Junr of This County
Batchelor and Elizabeth Trout of ye Said County Spinftr Haveing
According to Law Publifhed their Intentions of Marriage Did on ye
Day and Date ef Thefe presents in ye houfe of Alexander Moleston
Senr in ye Town of Lewis * * * Take each ye other As Huf
band and Wife * * * ye Thirtieth Day of June Ano Domi 1697.
Alexander Moleston Junr
Elisabeth her X mark Moleston.
Witnefses: — Wm Clark, John Miers, James Walker, James Peter
kin, PhiUp Rufsell, Alex Moleston, Jno E Molefton, Tho. Pemberton,
Jno K Kipshaven, WilUam M. Molefton, Johnathan Baily, Wm
Dyre, James Seattoun, Cornelius Wiltbanck, Nehemiah ffield, Edward
Stretcher, Elizabeth Taylor, Sarah X Sugars.

144 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Com: Sussex December the 6th 1689.
Lett this Certifie whom It may Concerne That Nehemiah ffield
Batcheler and Rachel Claypoole widdow Did * * * Take Each
other as Hufband and Wife etc * * * Nehemiah Ffield
Rachel Field
Henry Strecther, Thomas Oldman, Arthur Starr, Jacob his IK mark
CoUock, Philip Rufsell, Will Rodeney, Katherine Starr, EUfabeth
Pemberton, Elizabeth Oldman, Mary Dyre, Sarah her S mark Strect
her, Sarah her S mark Rufsell, Mary her X mark CoUock.
'True Copy: Nehemiah Ffield Dept Regiftr.
Peter Rayman and Mary Richardfon Their Certificate of Marriage.
* * * Thefe May Certifie That Peter Rayman Batchelor and
Mary Richardfon Widow both of this County of Sufsex * * *
Haveing Duely and according te law Publifhed their Said Banes
Did in the Said Peter Raymans own houfe * * * Take Each
other as Hufband and Wife * * * en the Twenty fifth Day
of November in the year of Our Lord One Thoufand Six hundred
Ninety and four. Peter Rayman
Mary her ffi mark Rayman
Tho: Pemberton, Loury Strecther, John Croutch, Richard Paynter,
Richard his RH mark Harvey, Roger Corbett, Richard Parr, Peter
Lewis, Nehemiah ffield, John Brearday [?], WilUam Clampit, Samll
Adams, John his I mark Deprey, Edward X his mark WiUiams.
True Copy, Nehemiah Ffield Depty Regisr.
Copie fane Simons Letter of Adminiftr on hur Hufbands Eftate.
Whereas Jone Simons the Late wife ef John Simons of the County
of Suffex * * * planter Lately deceafed Appeared before me
WilUam Clark deputy Regifter * * * defiering te take eut Let
ters of Adminiftion upon the Eftate of the faid John Simons
* * * And by Comiffion from John Blackwell Esqr Govemr
of the aforefaid Provience and Territories I hereby Grant Letters of
Adminiftron unto the faid Jone Simons widdow of all the Eftate
etc * * * Given * * * at Lewis in the faid County of
Suffex the ninth day of the feaventh Month Called September in
the year of our Lord According to the EngUfh Account one Thoufand
fix hundred Eighty nine etc.
Whereas Morris Edwards of the County of Suffex etc. appeared
before me William Clark deputy Regifter etc. * * * defiering
to be admitted to take out Letters ef Adminiftron as one ef the
Princable Craditers of the Eftate of John Millington Late of this County
deceafed * * * I doe therefore * * * Grant Letters of
Adminiftron unto him the faid Morris Edwards ef all the Estate
etc * * * Given * * * at Lewis * * * the fixt day
of the Eight Moneth in the year of our Lord According te the Englifh
account one Theufand fix hundred Eighty nine etc.
Letters of Adminiftr on 'William Spencers Eftate.
The third day of the Tenth Moneth in the year ef eur Lord Ac
cording te the Englifh account ene Thoufand fix hundred Eighty nine

COURT RECORDS. 145
William Spencer of the County ef Suffex etc. * * * Brought the
Laft will and Teftament of william Spencer fenr Late of the a fore faid
County of Suffex deceafed; And haveing made proofe ef the fame by
the Teftamony of WiUiam Emmatt And Johnfen ver Kirk and Robert
Twiley wittnefes fubf cribed to the faid will, * * * j doe there
fore * * * Permitt him the faid WilUam Spencer to Admin-
ifter upen all the Estate etc. * * * Given * * * at Lewis
* * ^ *. Wm Clark, deputy Regifter.
Sufsex: — Banns of Matrimony Between William Smith Late of
Philadelphia but now of this County Widowr and Jane Smith ef this
County Widow, If any psons Can Show any Lawfull Cause Why
These Two may not be joyned Together in the Holy State of Matri
mony Lett Them under 'Write Thes Prsents, er Ever hereafter hold
their Peace . William ye mark of W Smith
Jane ye mark of X Smith
Lewis Town ye 17th July 1705.
Signed by me one ef Her Majties Justices fer this County, Philip
Rufsell. Endorced en the back of the Sd Banns as followeth, ne (vizt) : —
Septr ye 2d 1705. The within Intended Marriage was Confumated
in ye prsence of us : Tho. ye mrk of T Edwards, Cornelius ye mrk of
H Hide, William Drigers, Bryan ye mrk ef H London, Joseph Bravan,
Peter Squyre, Mary ye mrk of S Smith, Peter Ixwonboult, Rebeckah
ye mrk ef R Piles, Francis ye mrk of W Cornwell, The. ffinwick. Jus
tice; WF, John Winch, Mary ye mrk of 3 Abchurch.
Wm. ye mrk ef M Smith
Jane ye mrk of X Smith
Will Emmatts Letters of Adminiftracon on fohn 'Vines Eftate.
The forth day of the Tenth Moneth Called december in the year
of our Lord According to the Englifh Account ene Thoufand fix hun
dred Eighty nine etc. * * * Then Came before me William Em
matt and brought the Laft will and Teftament ef John Vines Late of
the County of Suffex deceafed and * * * niade proofe of the
fame by the Teftamony of Georg dod and the name of Ben Kearl
* * * wittnefes to the faid will * * * j dee therefore * * *
grant Letter of Adminiftracon of the Eftate etc. * * * at Lewis.
Wm: Clark deputy Regifter.
Copie of Mary ffootcher Letters of Adminiftion on her Hufband Eftate.
Whereas Mary ffootcher widdowr the Late wife of William ffootcher
of the County of Suffex etc. * * * deceafed, did the day of the
date here of Appeare before me William Clark deputy Regifter * * *
defiering to take out Letters ef Adminiftion of the Eftate of the faid
William ffootcher, * * * j doe therefore * * * Grant Let
ters of Adminiftracon of the Eftate * * * to the faid Mary
ffootcher * * * Given * * * at Lewis * * * the three
and Twentieth day of the Eleaventh Moneth in the year ef eur Lord
etc. one Thoufand fix hundred Eighty nine * * *_

146 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
; Copie of Tho Mays Letters of Adminiftion on will Spencers Eftate.
Whereas Thomas May & Margaret his wife fister to William Spencer
Late of the County of Suffex etc. * * * deceafed did the day of
the date hereof appeare Before me William Clark deputy Regifter etc.
* * * defiering (as next of Kind) to take out Letters of Admin
iftracon of the Eftate of the faid william Spencer * * * j doe
therefore * * * grant Letters of Adminiftion unto them * * *
Given * * * at Lewis * * * the firft day of the thurd
Moneth Called May in the year of eur Lord * * * one Theufand
fix hundred and ninty.
WilUam footcher fen ef William and Mary footcher was borne the
Tenth day ef the Twelvth CaUed ffebuary ene Thoufand fix hundred
feaventy four, five.
Sarah footcher daughter of William and Mary footcher was borne
the thurteenth day of the fecond Moneth Called April one Thoufand
fix hundred feaventy f eaven.
Elizabeth footcher daughter of william and Mary footcher was
borne the Eight day of the Twelvth Moneth Called febuary ene
Theufand fix hundred Eighty one, Two.
Richard footcher fon of william and Mary footcher was borne the
firft day of the forth Moneth CaUed June one Theufand fix hundred
Eighty four.
John footcher fon of wilUam and Mary footcher was borne the firft
day of the fecond Moneth Called April one Thoufand fix hundred
Eighty feaven.
Henry footcher fon of william and Mary footcher was borne the
Thurty firft day of the Eight Moneth Called October ene Thoufand fix
hundred eighty nine.
Aminadab Hanser the fon ef Aminadab and Rofe Hanser was
born the Twenty thurd day of the Eleaventh Moneth Called Jana-
wary one Theufand fix hundred Eighty eight, nine.
Copie of Sarah Smiths Letters of Administracon on Hen Sm.iths Est.
Whereas Sarah Smith of the County ef Suffex etc. * * * wid
dow the day of the date here of appeared Before me william Clark
deputy Regifter etc. * * * defiering te take out Letters of Ad
miniftracon of the Eftate of Henry Smith * * * ¦ deceafed Huf
band * * * I doe therefore * * * Grant Letters ef Ad
miniftracon unto the Said Sarah Smith etc. * * * Given * * *
at Lewis the fifteenth day ef the feaventh Moneth Called September
in the year of our Lord etc. one Thoufand fix hundred and ninty.
Samuell Prefton Letter of Adminiftr on Georg Davids Eftate.
Whereas SamueU' Prefton of the County of Suffex etc. * * *
Appeared before me William Clark deputy Regifter etc. * * *
defiering as Princable Craditer to take out Letters of Adminiftracon
of the Eftate of Georg Davids * * * deceafed * * * i doe
therefore etc. * * * Grant Letters of Adminiftracon unto the
faid Samuell Prefton of all the Eftate * * * Given * * *
at Lewis the Twentieth day of the feaventh Moneth Called September
in the year of our Lord etc. one Thoufand fix hundred and ninty.

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Copie Letters of Adminiftracon on fohn Bellamy Eftate.
The Court of the County of Suffex etc. * * * haveing ordered
me William Clark deputy Regifter etc. * * * to Grant Letters
of Adminiftracon unto Luke Wattfon Senr, Thomas Price Senr, and
Luke wattfon Junr of the Eftate etc. * * * That John Bellamy
* * * dyed peffeffed of * * * I doe therefore * * *
Grant Letters of Adminiftracon unto them * * * Gi'vjen * * *
at Lewis * * * the Tenth day ef the Tenth Month Called de
cember in the year of our Lord etc. * * * one Thoufand fix
hundred and nintye. Wm: Clark deputy Regifter.
Copie of Rebecka Draper &c and Henry Molifton Letter of Adminif
tracon on Alex. Drapers Estate.
The three and Twentieth day of the firft Moneth Called March
Anne: Dm 1691 * * * Then Came Rebecka Draper and Henry
Moulfton Before me william Clark deputy Regifter etc. * * *
And brought the Last will and Teftament ef Alexander Draper Late
of the aforesaid County of Suffex deceased, and before me made proof
of the same; * * * j due therefore * * * Grant Letters
of Adminiftracon unto the faid Rebecka Draper and Henry Moulfen
of all the Eftate * * * jn -^vittness where ef * * * at Lewis
the day and year ffirft above written. Test. Wm: Clark dept Regfter.
Copie of Letters of Adminiftracon on ffrancis Cornwell Estate.
Whereas Mary Cornwell of the County ef Suffex etc. * * *
widdow * * * Appeared before me William Clark deputy
Regifter etc. * * * defiering to take out Letters of Adminiftracon
of the Eftate that her deceased Hufband ffrancis Cornwell * * *
dyed peffeffed of * * * I doe Therefore * * * Grant
Letters of Adminiftracon unto the faid Mary Cornwell ef all the
Eftate * * * Given under my hand and feal at my office the
Twelvth day of the ninth Moneth Called november in the year of
our Lord etc. one Theufand fix hundred nintye ene.
Wm: Clark
deputy Regifter ef Suffex & Kent.
Copie of Letters of Adminiftr on Ifaac Bowde Eftate.
Whereas Jane Scott of Lewes in the County of Sussex etc. * * *
did * * * Appeare before me William Clark deputy Regifter
* * * defiering to take eut Letter ef Adminiftracon upon the
Eftate of her former Hufband Ifaac Bowde * * * deceafed
* * * I doe therefore * * * Grant Letters of Adminiftracon
unto the faid Jane Scott of all the Eftate etc. * * * Given
* * * at Lewes * * * The fixt day of the feaventh Moneth
in the year of our Lord * * * one Thoufand fix hundred nintye
and Two, * * *. Wm: Clark, dept Reges.
Copie of fopeth Booth Marriage.
Suffex County etc. * * * The Twenty Eight day of November
1690; Thefe may Certifie whom it may Concerne etc. * * *

148 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Jefeph Booth did * * * take ffrancis Spencer to be his Lawfull
.,vife * * * Joseph Booth [fealed]
FFRANCIS Booth [fealed]
John Hill, Juftice; Henry Bowman, Henry Molefton, Thomas
Tilton, WiUiam Emmatt, Art A Johnfen Ver Kirk, The mark of
Robert R Twelley, The mark of John + Draper, The mark of Wm X
Collins, Mary Bowman, Margrett her M mark Molefton, Mathew his
M mark ofbome, Grace her G mark Johnfen ver Kirk, Chatrine her
X mark Draper.
] Thomas Branfcomb will, fune joth, l6pj.
* * * I Thomas Branfcomb * * * haveing a voyage to
take in hand to Barbados it being my Care to fett my Buffnes in order
in Cafe of Mortality, make this my Last will & Testament * * *
Item. — I give and bequeath unto Sarah Branfcomb my well be
loved daughter * * * plantacon which I bought of Stephen
whetman * * *
Item. — I give and bequeath unto william ffootcher my fon in Law
an Ifland * * * purchefed of John Johnfon negor by my pra-
defeffer wilUam footcher deceafed * * *
Item. — I give and bequeath unto my Two fons in Law Richard
footcher and John footcher ech of them a gun etc. * * *.
And as fer all the reft ef my worldly Eftate etc. * * * I doe
give and bequeath unto Mary Branscomb my well beloved wife
* * *. Thomas Branscomb [fealed]
figned fealed and deUvered in the prefents of us
Charles his X mark Johnson
Robert his X marke walker
Thomas Besent.
The 9th day of the Tenth Month 1693 then Thomas Befent and
Charles Johnfen Cam before me and Attefted the above writing to
be the Laft will and Teftament of Thomas Branfcomb deceased.
Wm: Clark.
Ad ary Branfcomb Letter of Aminiftracon.
The ninth day of the Tenth Moneth CaUed December in the year
of our Lord etc. * * * one Thoufand fix hundred nintye three,
* * * Came Mary Branfcomb of the County of Suffex etc. * * *
and brought the Last will and Testament ef Thomas Branfcomb etc.
* * * and before me made proofe ef the fame by the Teftimony
of Thomas Befent and Charles Johnfon * * * j dee therefore
etc. * * * Grant Letters of Adminiftracon unto the faid Mary
Branfcomb of all the Eftate * * * jn wittness whereof I have
hereunto fett my hand and feal at Lewes etc.
Wm: Clark, dept Regifter.
Com Sufsex, fs., en Dellaware. Whereas Banns of Matrimony
etc. * * * By and Between Georg Ely late of Hopewell in the
County of Burlington Batchelr And Jane Pettitt late of the same
place Spinstr. Thefe are Therefore To Certifie That The Said Mar
iage Was Solemnly Confummated According te Law at the Houfe of

COURT RECORDS. 149
Mr. Jonathan Baily uncle of The Said Jane At The Town of Lewis
in the County of Sufsex etc. * * * on The One and Twentieth Day
of Augst Ano Demo 1705 In the psence ef mee PhiUp Rufsell one
of Her Majties Juf tices of the Peace * * *.
Parties: George Ely
Jean Ely
Witnefses: Philip Rufsell, Jonathan Baily, Hannah Baily, Mary
Baily, Elias Baily, Thomas Harford, Edward Strecther, Preferved
Coggeshall, William Coe, Jeremiah Claypoole, Martha Huling, Mary
Rowland, Sarah Gray, Sarah Branscombe, Nehemiah ffield.
Registred The 23d Day of August 1705 per mee
Nehemiah Ffield
Dpty Regr of the County of Sufsex Aforefd.
Edward Morgan 'Will.
* * * The llth day of March in the year of our Lord one
Thoufand fix hundred ninty & three the Laft will and Teftament
of Edward Morgonie * * *; fecendly. — I dee give and bequeath
to my Childe in Maryland * * *; "rhirdly. — I doe give and be
queath to Mary Wattfon * * * ; forthly I do give etc to Thomas
Price Junr etc. ; * * *_ fiftly I doe give etc * * * to
WilUam Staplton etc. ; * * * fixtly I doe give etc. * * *
Messrs Bowman etc. * * * ; feaventhly I dee give etc. * * *
Wattfon * * * ; Eightly I doe hereby Constitute and Appoint
my ffriende Luke Wattfon Junr te be whole and fole executor of all
my Estate * * * ; Ninthly that after all my debts and Leagifis
are paid etc. * * * that then the over plufe or remainer of my
faid Estate I doe give etc. * * * unto my faid Executor Luke
Wattfon Junr; Tenthly I doe hereby Revoke difanole and make
void all former wills etc. * * *.
the mark of X Edward Morgon [fealed]
Signed fealed & delivered in the prefence of us :
Teftis Charles Haynes
SusANAH her S mark Davids
Copie of the probitt of Edward Morgon will.
The five and Twentieth day of the -Eight Moneth Called October
* * * ene Theufand fix hundred nintye three * * * Ex
ecutor & Teftis appeared before me William Clark deputy Regifter
* * * Given * * * at Lewis.
Copie WiUiam Swetmans will.
* * * fixteenth day of feptember Anno: Dm: 1693 * * *.
Item. — I give etc. * * * to wife Jean Sweatman all & fingular
my Eftate perfonall & ReaU * * * wife sole Executrix
William Sweatman [fealed]
Witnesses : —
Edward Gould
Henry Strecther
'., James Peterkin

150 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Copie the probitt of William Swetmans will.
The three and Twentieth day of the Eight Moneth Called October
* * * one Thoufand fix hundred nintye three; Executrix &
witnesses appeared before me * * * at Lewis.
Wm. Clark, dept Regifter.
Copie of Rich Patte will.
The Laft will and Teftament ef Richard Patte son of John Patte
the Land * * * when Mr Clark is fatiffied * * * daughter
Lidey ene heffer * * * rest of Cattle Equilly between my three
gurls when daughter Ann Cometh to Age And my wife to Injoye
if fhe deth not marry May l7th 1693. Names mentioned: Miney
debter, William Woolfe, Timothy dongen, John oakey, Alburt Jacobs.
Proved by the Teftamony of John & EUoner Tuxbury llth 9 me: 1693.
The llth day of the ninth Moneth 1693 * * * Came John
Patte of the County of Suffex etc * * * and brought will of
Richard Patte * * * prooved by Teftimony of John Tuxbury
and EUoner his wife * * *. Letters of Administration granted
unto said John Patte. Wm : Clark, deputy Regifter.
Copie of Jane Hodgkins will.
* * * I Jane Hodskins of Lewis * * * to daughter
Rebeckah Williams * * * Cloathes etc.; sen CorneUus Wilt
banck six fhillings * * * Refidue to fons Abraham and Ifaac
Wiltbanck. * * * John HiU * * * sole exector * * *
Husband Hermanis Wiltbanck deceafed * * * Date Twenty
third day of december 1693.
figned fealed & delivered in the prefence of
John his X marke Pye,
Nathll Starr,
Nehemiah field.
Thomas and Mercy Willfon their Certificate of Marriage.
Suffex County etc * * * the Tenth day of febery 1694-S.
Thefe may Certifie etc * * * That * * * Thomas Willfon
Did * * * Take Mercy Milliner to bee his Lawfull wife ect. * * *.
» Thomas Willson [Seal]
Mercy Willson [Seal]
Jefeph Booth, William ffisher, Jefeph Hickman, Jenkin Smith,
hendrick o Saverus or Varerus, Thomas Price, James his X mark
Carpenter, Thomas I ffleming, John V Jones, John Bowman, John
Milliner, Rebeckah x Draper, ffrancis x Hickman.
Copie of Nights Hawards will.
* * * I Knights Haward of Suffex County etc. * * *
bequeath unto Luke Wattfon Junr * * * plantacon Lying
and being in the great Kill * * * Bargaine with William Davids
* * * debt due from WilUam Dyer * * * also from John
Mahon * * *. Item. — I give unto Elizabest Wattfon fister of

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the faid Luke Wattfon Junr * * *. Luke Wattfon appointed
Executor * * *, Item. — ^make over * * * Lands * * *
sold to John Hill * * *. Item. — make over unto Capt. Thomas
Pemberton all * * * Land that I fold unto him * * *_
Dated j * * * this fecond day of Jana wary Anno: Dm: 1693.
the marke of Knights X Haward.
sealed figned and delivered in the prefence ef :
Nath Starr
William Emmatt
John his IP marke pey
The probitt of nights Hawards will.
The Eighteenth day of the Eleaventh Moneth Called Janawary etc.
* * * one Thoufand fix hundred nintye three etc. * * * then
Came Luke wattfon Junr * * * and brought said will * * *_
prooved by the Testamony of WiUiam Emmatt John Pey and Nathan
iel Starr * * *. Letters of Administracon granted to said Ex
ecutor. Wm. Clark dept regifter.
Copie of Baptis Newcombs will.
* * * 13th Sept 1693 * * * j Baptis Newcomb of Suffex
County etc. * * * friends John Hill and WiUiam Piles with my
wife to be my Lawfull executors * * * unto my wife all my
moveable Eftate * * * unto my three fons ; William and Baptis
and David this tract of Land whereon I live Called by the name ef
Whit oak neck * * * te John Hagifter a Certain point ef Land
* * * Adjoyning * * * Line of WiUiam Piles * * * also
land to son Daniel. Baptis Newcomb [fealed]
figned fealed & delivered in the prefence of us:
Barnes Garret
Mark his X mark Mitchell.
Copie of the probitt of Baptis Newcomb will.
The Twenty fecond day of the Eleaventh Moneth Called Janawary
* * * one Thoufand fix hundred nintye three * * * Then
Came Ann Newcomb one of the executrix * * * of her deceafed
Hufband * * * John Hill and WiUiam Piles * * * re
voked there executerfhip Leaving it wholly to the faid Ann New
comb * * * Letters granted to the said Ann * * * Given
* * * at Lewes. * * * 'Wu: Clark, dept. Regifter.
Copie of Elizabeth Roades widdow will.
* * * Twenty fix day ef febuary Anno: Dm 1694-3 I EUza
beth Roades widdow etc. * * * Item firft. — I give etc. * * *
unto daughter Matha TuU * * * my Grandfon John TuU
* * * unto daughter Mary Morgen * * * unto Rachel wife
of Charles fofit my beloved grandaughter * * * unto Sarah
Branfcomb daughter of Thoma^ & EUzabeth Branfcomb both de
ceafed * * * Elizabeth Roades & Pation Roads my gran
daughters * * * to my grandfon John Wells * * * unto

152 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
my three grand Children Elizabeth Roades John Roades & patiens
Roades * * *_ ffriends Robert Clifton and Jefeph AlUf appointed
truftees. Elizabeth her E mark Roades [fealed]
figned fealed & delivered in the prefents of us;
Tho Midgley,
Sarah Clifton,
Tho Besent.
Copie of the probitt of Elizabeth Roades Will.
The ninth day of the third Moneth CaUed May Anno: Dm 1694;
then Robert Clifton brought the Last will etc. of Elizabeth Roades
* * * Letters granted to the said Robert CUfton and Jefeph AUif
of aU the Eftate * * *, Given * * * at Lewes.
Wm: Clark, d Regifter.
Copie of fof eph Booths Letters of Adminiftr on William Coudrey Eftate.
Whereas Joseph Booth et the County of Suffex, etc. * * *
Brother in Law of Williani Caudmes, Late of the William Coudrey
* * * appeared & desired to take eut Letters ef Administracon
of the Eftate etc. * * * Letters were granted unto the said
Jefeph Booth * * * Eleaventh day of the fift Moneth CaUed
July * * * one Theufand fix hundred nintye ffour.
Wm: Clark, dept Regifter.
Copie of Robert Hart Letters of Adminiftracon of his father Eftate.
Whereas Robert Hart of the County of Suffex fun and heire of
Robert Hart * * * deceafed * * * appeare * * * de
fiering to take out Letters ef Adminiftracon upen the Eftate * * *
his mother Jone Hart Contenting there unto * * * Letters ware
Granted unto the said Robert Hart * * *. Given * * * at
Lewis the Tenth day of the forth Moneth etc * * * one Thou-.
fand fix hundred Eightye five * * *. [The remainder of the
letter is torn off.]
Samuel Gray His Laft Will and Testament.
I Samuel Gray ef Sufsex County etc. * * *. 21y. — I will and Be-
queth This Tract ef Land on which I now live * * * To my Wife
and four Sons, viz, Ifaac and Jonathan, David and Thomas * * *
after wifes death to be equally divided between the four sens. 3dly. — I
will etc. * * * unto my two Sens, Samuel and John Gray that Tract
of Land CaUed Grayes End * * * EquaUy divided * * *
Children mentioned * * * Samuel, John, Elizabeth Rebeckah
Ifaac and Sarah, Jonathan and David and Thomas * * * The
Remaining part of my Eftate my Wife have Dureing her naturall life
and aftr her Death te bee Equally Divided between my nine Children
Gerles Te have a duble part * * * Wife Sufannah Gray * * *
Sole exxcetrix * * * friends Samuel Prefton and Luke Watfon
Junr, To bee my everfeers * * * 23d of Octobr 1692.
Sined Sealed & deled in the Prsents of us: Sam Gray [feal]
Sam: Preston
Mary Lloyd
Michaell Chambers
John his X mark Chambers
Eles Hbrington.

COURT RECORDS. 153
Inventory of the Eftate of Samuel Gray Deceased,
As It was Shown unto us the Sworne Appraifers * * * the
Twenty Sixth Day of December 1694, By Sufanna Gray widow
* * * Proved allowed and Regiftred * * * on the Sth day
of March 1694 * * *. Nehemiah Ffield, Depty Regifter.
Appraised by us:
Tho: Pemberton
Thomas Ffisher
Lewis, The Sth Day of March 1694.
Copy of the Probate of Samuel Grey Deceesed His will.
William Markham Esqr Leuit. Governor ef the Province of Penn
silvania etc. * * * His Excel! Benjamine ffietcher Capt. Genl:
and Govemor in cheife of Their Majesties province of New York
etc. * * * [Names mentioned in the above Probate]. Given
* * * this Eleventh Day of December Ano q Domini: 1694.
Signed Pr Order Nehemiah Ffield.
fane Bembrick Letters of Adminiftr on her Hufband Eftate.
Whereas Jane Bembrick of the County ef Suffex etc. * * *
defiering te take out Letters etc. * * * Late Hufband Edward
Bembrick * * * Given * * * at Lewis * * * The
Seaventeenth day of the fift Moneth Called July * * * one
Theufand fix hundred Nintye four * * *,
Wm. Clark, depty Regifter.
Will of Roger ffretwell Deceesed.
Dorothea ffretwell widow and Relicte ef Ralph ffretwell and
Mother and Administratrix ef Roger ffretwell of Barbadoes Merchtt.
* * * John Edmondfon of Talbot County * * * Merchtt
Attourney * * * chosen Administrator of said eftate by the
mother of deceesed * ¦* * Inventorie of all and Singular The
Goods Chattells and Creditts of the Said Deceesed, and exhibiting
the Same into ye Secretaries office at Lewis * * * at or before
The Twenty Eigh Day ef June next Enfueing which will bee in ye
year 1695 Rendering a fun& True Accompt * * * on The Twenty
Eigth Day of December next Enfueing The above Date * * *
Appointed on the Twenty Eigth Day of Decembr * * * Ano
q Domini 1694.
Signed & Sealed Pr Order Nehemiah Ffield.
Letter of Attourney sent te Barbados Island notifying that all
just debts etc. be paid to John Edmonfon etc Dated 18th Day ef the
Second Month Called ApriU 1689. Dorothea Ffretwell.
Witnefses :
Anthon Lynch
Samuell Hockaday

154 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
(Written en back ef said Letter) .
Know all men etc. * * * That I the within Named John
Edmondfon etc * * * appoint * * * Samuel Prefton and
Thomas ffifher * * * to collect a debt from Henry Bowman for
said Dorothea ffretwell * * *_
December 28, 1694.
Witnefses :
James Edmondson
Richard his R marke Dawson
Attested before us the 3th me, 1694. Tho. Pemberton
Thomas Oldman
* * * Te Sarah Paynter Widow and Relicte of Richard Paynter
late of the Towne ef Lewis etc. * * * Died Inteftate * * *
•wife given power of administration * * * fourth Day ot March
* * * Ane q Dom. 1694.
Signed & Sealed Pr Order Nehemiah Ffield.
To aU To whom These Prsents etc. That on The ffifth Day of
December 1694 The Nuncupative Laft Will etc. * * * of
Charles Spooner Deceesed was in Open Court Proved Approved etc.
* * * Letters of Adminiftration granted to -widow Sufanna
Spooner * * * the ninth Day of March # * * Ano q Dom
1694. Signed etc. Nehemiah Ffield.
Witnefsed by Barnes Garrett and Anthony Haverley that all
property etc. was left to widow. Annto Kerle?
Barrant Yerris.
Nehemiah Ffield Clerk.
This may Certifie etc. * * * That Peter Rayman of The
County of Suffex etc. widr and Dina Pawling * * * Spinstr
* * * were married en the 14th Day ef Aprill 1697 At the houfe
of Mr. John Gibb in The Town of Lewis * * *
Peter Rayman
Dina her X mark Rayman
Witnesses: — Tho: Oldman Juftice, Simon his S mark Pawling,
letebt [?] pocleut [?], Henry his X mark Strecther, James Peterkin,
William Adams, William Clampitt, James Seattoon, Thomas Peterkin,
John Croutch, James Walker, James Simpson, Thomas Maccandlis,
Nehemiah ffield, Marie Gibb, Margarett M Simson, Jane her X mark
Peterkin. * * * This May Certifie That Major Edmund HoweU of Cape
May In West Jersey -widower And Katharine Barwick late of Mary
Land widow Did on The Twenty ninth Day of June Ano Demi. 1696
At the Towne ef Lewis etc * * * Mutually Take Each other
as Hufband and wife etc. * * *.
Edmund Howell
Katharine her K mark Howell
Consummated & Signed In The prsence of us: — Robert Clifton,
Justice; SamueU CroweU, Henry Strecther, Thomas Chfton, Mongo

COURT RECORDS. 155
Clifford, William Dyre, John Croutche, John Paynter, Richard Craf
ferd, WiUiam Orr, Nehemiah ffield, John Baron, Sufanna her SC
mark Crowell, Marie Gibb, Mary Wolfenden.
* * * To Mary H Richards Widow etc * * * of John
Richards of Suffex County etc. * * * Died Inteftate * * *
Letters of Administration granted te widow * * * Given
* * * at Lewis Op the Ninth Day of March * * * Anoq
Domi 1694. Signed etc. Nehemiah Ffield.
* ¦* * att An Orphans Court Held * * * att Lewis for
the County of Suffex etc. * * * On the ffifth Day ef March
1694 The Nuncupative Laft wiU etc. * * * of Thomas Moalfen
Deceesed * * * -y^as Proved etc. * * * Letters etc.
* * * Granted unto Mary Richards widow ef John Richards
ffather in law to the sd Thomas Moalfen both Deceesed * * *
Given * * * this Ninth day ef March * * * Anoq Domi.
1694. Signed etc. Nehemiah Ffield.
* * * Bryant Rowles and Thomas Coverdale Both ef This
County Being Present -with Thomas Moalfen a little before his Death
* * * Plantr * * * witnesses ef the above will * * *
Land given William Davies * * * situated upon the Bread
Kill * * * Land * * * unto Williani Richards Son ef John
Richards * * * Cow unto Sarah Clarke * * * Barnes Gar
rett & Anthony Haverly Junr beneficiaries * * * debts due
from John Putteet & John HiU. Briant his B R mark Rowles
Thomas his Tc Coverdale
Nehemiah Ffield Clerk.
* * * To Jane Jones Widow etc. * * * of John Jones
of Suffex County etc. * * * piantr Deceesed * * * Died
Intestate * * * wife made Administratrix * * * Letters
granted * * * at Lewis on the ffourth Day of May * * *
Anoq Dom. 1695. Signed etc. Nehemiah Ffield.
* * * Knew yee That Before Luke Wattfon Senr and Joseph
Booth Esqrs. * * * Juftices ef the Peace for the County of
Suffex etc. * * * The Laft Will etc. * * * of Thomas
Price Deceesed * * * -^^as proved etc. * * * on the Twenty
ffifth Day of March 169S * * * Letters granted unto his son
Thomas Price Sole Executor. * * * This Twenty Sixth Day of
Aprill * * * Annoq Demi. 1695.
Signed etc. Nehemiah Ffield.
Thomas Price Senior his Laft Will and Teftament.
* * * Uth Day 1694-5 March. The Laft wiU etc. of Thomas
Price Senior of Slater neck In the County of Suffex Planter * * *
Item. — to son Thomas Price my Plantation in Slater neck.
Item. — My well beloved wife Liveing with my sen Thomas Price
* * * he to take care of his mothers Chattells etc.

156 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Item. — * * * unto William Price my Granfon one Cow etc.
* :H H:
Item. — * * * unto Catheren Price my Grandaughter one
Heffer etc. * * *
Item. — * * * unto Ian Price my Gran Daughter ene black Cow
etc. * * *
Item. — * * * unto Rachell Price my Grandaughter one
* * * heffer etc. * * *
Item. — * * * unto wife Catheren Price all my Cattell * * *
houfehold goods that Remains after my Debts and legyfes be Paid
* * * after her Defef te be equally divided between Gran Children.
Item. — * * * Appoint my Son Thomas Price to be my Sole
executor. Thomas his T marke Price [Seal]
Thomas Phelmon
The R marke of Jeremiha barthelmy
William Ffisher
Will sworn to by the two witnefses the 2Sth of March 1695 before
Luke Wattfon Senr and Joseph Booth, Juftices of the Peace.
Joseph Booth
Luke Wattson
An Inventory of the Eftate of William Cowthry of SuffexCounty
etc. * * * Deceesed * * * Shown unto us The Appraifers
subnamed upon the Sth Day of September and 7th Day ef December
1694, By Joseph Booth who att a Court Held att Le-wis * * * On
the Sixth Day of June 1694 was appointed Adminiftrator ef the Same.
Appraifed by
Tho: Pemberton
Thomas Ffisher
Sworn to by the above named appraisers before Nehemiah ffield
Depty Regifter.

3T. PETER'S CHURCH.

ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS. 157

ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS.

A small village near Deal in England, called Sutton, had an
ancient church dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul. The
church -was partly destroyed by an earthquake, April 6th,
1680. It is possible that the to^wn of New Deal may have had
some people ¦who ¦were from Sutton, and as the destruction
of Sutton parish church occurred about the time Sir Edmond
Andross set apart the four acres, ¦which -were fenced in by St.
Peter's Congregation before 1689, people from Sutton may
have chosen the name St. Peter's to perpetuate the name of
the church of their early affiliation. The Church burying
ground -was called the Public Burying Ground. An attempt
¦was made to establish a Common Burying Ground.
This is the first record about the Church of England in
Sussex County.
The land, the four acres fenced in at the above date is
"what is ho"w St. Peter's churchyard, the church having been
at the eastern corner at first. The present building is about
in the centre of the yard and is the third building.
From 1689 to 170| ¦we have no records of -what the church
people of Le^wes ¦were doing. [Kent Co.] Sup. Delaware
We whose names are hereunto subscribed being Deeply sensible
of the want of a Minister of God's Holy word and sacriments among
us and the -Duty incumbent on us to pay or cause to be payed to
such Missionery as the Hon. So. for propagating the Gospell in foreign
parts, shall be pleased to send to us Yearly and every year the severall
• sums annexed to our Respective Names, all which with the greatest
sincerity of Heart we do humbly and freely offer te the service of
Almighty God, and for the promotion of the Christian Religion in
these parts.' As Wittness our hands this 20 day ef Feb. A. D. 1725.
'John Parradee, John Bishop, John Greentree,
.; Henery Molleston, Wm Parvis, Mark Berden,
John Tilton, Samuel Brady, WilUam Morgan,
John Clayton, robert Howard, Hugh Durborow,
"Steven Parradee, William Hix, John Wells,
John Register, Samuel Nichols, Richard HiU,
Thos. WeUs, Jr., Thes. Dixon, John Newel,

158

SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.

Evan Jones,
Alexander Ponder,
Thos. Green,
George Hargrove,
Thos. Tarrant,
John Taylor,
Henry Shaw,
John Endsor,
Isaac ffreland,
Obadiah "Voshall,
PhiUp Brady,
Thes. Slawtor,
Martin Turner,
Robert Wood,
John Tucker,

John ffisher,
George Green,
William Newel,
Ceasar Rodney,
Charles Hilliard,
George Newel,
Samuel Berry,
Danl. Rodney,
Thes. Parke,
Timothy Oharon,
Edward Jennings,
ffrans. Alexander,
Thos. WeUs,
John Pleasonton,
George Medcalf,

William Walton,
Samuel Hirons,
Nichs. Lookerman,
Michael Leber,
John Reynals,
Ezekiel Tomson,
Adam Latham,
John Evans,
Thomas Evans,
William Rodeney,
Richard Levick,
James Tryal,
Thos. Courtney,
Joseph Nickerson,
George Rebison,
ef Kent County on

Certified Communicants In St. John's Parish
Delaware. This Indenture, made this Nineteenth day of November in the
Year ef Our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty, between
George R. Fisher, John Ponder and Nehemiah D. Welch, surviving
Trustees of St. Matthew's Church, Cedar Creek Hundred in the County
of Sussex, of the one part, and John Ingram of the same Hundred and
County aforesaid, of the other part, Witnesseth, That the said George
R. Fisher, John Ponder and Nehemiah D. Welch, surviving Trustees
as aforesaid, fer and in consideration of the Yearly Rents and Cove
nants hereinafter mentioned and reserved, en the part and behalf of
the said John Ingram, his Executors, Administrators and Assigns,
to be paid, kept and performed, have demised, set, and to farm let,
and by these presents do demise, set, and to farm let, unto the said
John Ingram his Executors, Administrators and Assigns, all that
Messuage and Lot of Ground, situate, lying and being in the Hundred
and County aforesaid, and commonly known as the Yard and Grounds
of St. Matthew's Church, Cedar Creek, being the same piece and parcel
of Land conveyed by David Thornton and Wife to the Trustees of
said Church, by Deed made the Twenty Eight day of October in the
Year A. D. Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Eight, 1788, and recorded
in the Office ef the Recorder ef Deeds in and for Sussex County, in
Libro B. No. 2, Folio 390, as by reference thereunto will fully and
plainly appear, and containing Two Acres and Five and One Half
Perches, be the same mere or less, to have and to hold the said Lot
or parcel of Ground, and all and singular the premises hereby demised,
with the appurtenances, to the said John Ingram, his Executors, Ad
ministrators and assigns, fer and during the full end and term ef Thirty
Three Years frem and beginning at the First day of May in the Year
of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty Eight, 1858,
yielding and paying for the same unto the said George R. Fisher,
John Ponder and Nehemiah D. Welch, Trustees as aforesaid, their
Successers, Survivers, and Surviver, his Heirs and Assigns, the Yearly
Rent or Sum of Two Dollars Lawful money each and every Year,
the first ef which to be paid on the first day of January next ensu
ing the date hereof, and on the First day of January each and every
year hereafter during the Term aforesaid.

ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS. 159
Provided, that the said John Ingram, shall not, either himself or his
Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, they or either of them, erect or
build, or cause or permit to be erected or built, on the ground or prem
ises herein demised, er en any part of the same, any House, Tenement,
Bam, Stable, Shep, Crib, Granary, Fold, Pen or Enclosure, or Shed
for Cattle or other animals. Excepting, nevertheless. That the said
John Ingram, may retain and use the Building at present standing
on the aforesaid Lot, namely the Old Church, purchased by George
S. Davis in the Year A. D. Eighteen Hundred and Fifty Eight of
the said Trustees, and may repair and conserve the same to and for
his own use, for the full Term of Years before mentioned. And also
provided, that he, the said John Ingram, his Executors and Adminis
trators and Assigns, they or either of them, shall not plow, till, dig,
scrape or remove any earth, or break the soil, ef such part or portion
of said lot as has been occupied for a burial ground, but the same
shall remain undisturbed and unbroken.
And the said John Ingram, for himself, his Heirs, Executors, Ad
ministrators and Assigns, doth covenant, premise, and agree to and
with the said George R. Fisher, John Ponder, Nehemiah D. Welch,
Trustees as aforesaid, their Successers, Survivors and Surviver, his
Heirs and Assigns, that he the said John Ingram, his Executors, Ad
ministrators, and Assigns, shall pay or cause te be paid to the said
Trustees, their Successors, Survivors, and Survivor, his Heirs and
Assigns, that he the said John Ingram, his Executors, Administrators,
and Assigns, shall pay or cause to be paid te the said Trustees, their
Successors, Survivors, and Surviver, his Heirs and Assigns, the said
Yearly Rent of Two Dollars lawful money, hereby reserved, on the
several days and times hereinbefore mentioned, for the payment
thereof, according to the true intent and meaning of these presents.
And the said George R. Fisher, John Ponder, and Nehemiah D.
Welch, Trustees as aforesaid, for themselves, their Successors, Sur
vivers and Survivor, his Heirs and Assigns, do covenant, promise,
grant and agree te the said John Ingram, his Executors, Adminis
trators and Assigns, paying the rents and performing the Covenants
aforesaid, that he the said John Ingram, his Executors, Administrators
and Assigns, shall and la^wfuUy may, peaceably and quietly, under
the hmitations and provisions herebefore mentioned, have, held,
use, occupy, possess, and enjey the said demised premises, during
the term aforesaid, from the day and date aforesaid, without the
lawful let, suit, trouble, eviction, molestation or interruption, of the
said Trustees, their Successors, Survivers or Survivor, ^^his Heirs er
Assigns, or any other person by or under them.
In witness whereof the said Parties have hereunto set their Hands
and Seals this Nineteenth day of November in the Year ef Our Lord
One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty.
George R. Fisher. [seal].
Jno. Ponder. [seal].
Nehemiah D. Welch. [seal].
his
Robt. C. Hall. John Ingram. [seal].
A. H. Terry. mark

Signed, Sealed, and
Delivered in the
presence of us

160 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
State of Delaware, Sussex County S5. Be it remembered that on
this Nineteenth day of November A. D. 1860, personally came before
me, Nehemiah D. Welch, a Notary Public of the State of Delaware,
George R. Fisher, John Pender and John Ingram, and acknowledged
the above Indenture to be their act and deed, (they being parties to
the same and known to me personally to be such), and I, Nehemiah
D. Welch do hereby acknowledge said Indenture to be my act and
deed. Given under my hand and Official Seal the day and Year aforesaid.
Nehemiah D. Welch, N. P.
State of Delaware, | j,
Sussex County, )
In Testimony that this lease was lodged in the Recorder's Office
in and for said County en the twentieth day of December A. D. eighteen
hundred and sixty and stands recorded in Book No. 67, Folios
313 and 14, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said
office at Georgetown in the County aforesaid, the day and year afore-
®^^ ¦ William Davis, Recorder.
Beginning at a corner marked white oak by the east side of Dra
per's old mill pend, and running from thence N. 62 E. 31 perches to
a stake in the field S. E. ef said Church. Thence N. 28 West, lOK
perches to a stake on the N. E. side of said Church. Then S. 62 West
31 perches to a stake on the Hill near the said Pond. Thence South
28 East lOX Perches, home to the first Beginning Comer, White
oak. Surveyed and divided off for two acres and five and a half
Square perches ef land, on the 10th day ef April 1770, by Caleb Cir-
within. Together with a Church house thereon, etc.
David Thornton and Elishe Thornton his Wife te Nehemiah Davis,
Thomas Evans, Isaac Beauchamp, George Watson, Jacob Townsend,
Bethnel Watson, and Mark Davis, 'Vestry.
Deed dated, 17SS.
Docket No. 2, 1785. Page 390.

Inscriptions on Stones in Churchyard of St. Matthe'w's
Chapel, Cedar Creek Hundred.
In memory of Reynear Williams, ¦who departed this life
April 2nd, 1773, aged 26 years and 7 months.
"How loved, how valued once avails him not
To whom related or by whom begot."
In memory of Abagail, ¦wife of Sylvester Webb, who de
parted this life 17th December, 1785, aged 25 years.
In memory of Nelly Draper, -who departed this life April
17th, 1790, aged 14 years.
[_ All other tombstones are removed or destroyed.

ecclesiastical records. 161
Extracts from Journals of Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel.
Sir Edmond Andros had ordered four acres of land to be
set apart, in the centre of Le^wes, for some public use.
Previous to June, 1681, the Congregation of St. Peter's had
fenced in this land and petitioned Governor Andross for it.
In 1689 a portion of this land ¦was taken to build a Court
House on. This Court House -was used for services, pro
vided the ¦weather ¦was not too cold, until the first church
¦was built after the arrival of the Rev. William Becket.
17th NovR., 1704. — The Lord Bishop of London moved
the Society in the Behalf of Mr. Cra^wford formerly appointed
by ye Society a Missy, to Dover Hunder'd in Pensylvania:
' Agreed that his case be refer'd to the Committee, and if
they be Satisfyed he is an Object of the Society's Charity
that he be forth^wth sent over to the sd Place ¦with the Usual
Allo^wance. ISth Decr., 1704. — The Report of the Comtee. abt. sending
back Mr. Cra^wford to the Place to ¦which he ¦was appointed &
upon his first Establishmt ¦was read & Agrd to by Socy.
Ordd that the 2nd half years allo^wance be advanc'd to the
sd Mr. Cra^wford.
2nd March, 1705. — Agreed to give Mr. Cra-wford a large
Com'on Prayer Book & a Book of Homilies, pursuant to a
Motion from the Com'ittee.
16th March, 1705. — The Case of Mr. Cra-wford being repre
sented to the Society from the Com'ittee, and it appearing
that it has not been his fault that he has been so long de
tain'd from his Mission, Agreed that a 5th part of his second
years Salary be advanced to the said Mr. Cra^wford, the better
to enable him to pform his said Mission.
Copies of Letters from Mr. Thomas Cra^wford.
Mr. Crawford to the Secretary.
Honor'd Sir,
Net only your Station in the Society, but your Civility & ObUga
tions conferr'd upen me, lays a tye on me to give you an Account of
my circumstances frem time to time as occasion offers.
Sir, after a long Fatigue at Sea I arrived here on the 24th. Instant,
& waited on the Govemor, whe give me a very kind reception, &
the Reverend Mr. Evans sustain'd me (as also my two Brothers along
with me) with all CiviUty, fer whom I preached on Sunday the 26 day,
whose Congregation is numerous & still increasing. As for Kent
County to which I ge I can give no account ef it (not having yet got

162 some records of Sussex county.
there). But when I have certain knowledge of the place as oppor
tunity offers I ¦will write my circumstances & conditipn of the Congre
gation there. I know I shall not want Difficulties in the place, but not
what I fear, but what I meet with, you shall have in the next. The
ship is now fallen down the River, & the Captain is now going so that
I have no time to add to this; or yet to pay my Respects to more of
the Right Honble & Reverend Society, whose Comands shall still
be a Law te me. I thought to have written to the Reverend Mr.
Stubbs, to whom I am much obliged, and to Mr. Keith, te whom
I hope you will have me excused, & give my service, kindly pardon
ing Presumption, and let me be honoured -with a Line from your
hand, with your councel and advice which shall be carefully observed
by him who gives his humble service unto you, prays for your feUcity,
and rests Honoured Sir
Your most humble Servant Tho. Crawford.
Philadelphia, August 27, 170S.
The directions are
To John Chamberlayne, Esqre. &c.
Mr. Crawford to ye Secretary.
Sr. — After my coming unto this Province as soon as I had waited
on ye Govr. I hasted to Dover Hundred ye Cure appointed me; Weh
is a very sickly place, yea possibly one of the most sickly places in
these parts ef America; weh also I found so, for I had not been there
but one Sunday, till I was most severely seized by a very high feaver,
after that an Ague & as ye consequence of these with a Drepsie, &
short windiness, of which I am not yet freed, & this is not only a
seasoning te ye country, But fever & Ague does every year seize ye
Inhabitants of the place. When I was first taken ¦with ye fever I
was crediby informed that there was not a Family in all the Shire,
but that either ye whole or a part was sick: I leave it te ye Revd.
Mr. Talbot to give an account how ill I was taken. Wherefore seeing
the place is se sickly, & will not agree •wth a constitution so weak as
mine, I humbly desire the Right Honble Society may remove me to
another place. If thought convenient to ye East side of Karaton
River te Shrewsbury, or te Hepeswell so there be nothing pro'ded
for, ner promised to a Minister there, yet the place is more healthy,
& they want, & by the blessing of Ged I may do as great good there
as in ye place I am ordered fer, if I be not removed, in ye hot & sickly
months ef Summer I must remove & preach in a place mere healthy,
or then I shall soon be made incapable of doing service to God or his
Church. This I hope you will take care te be laid before ye Society;
weh with my humble Respects to your self is all from
Sr,
your most humble Servt, Tho. Crawford.
Burlington, Nov. 7, 1705.
The directions are
To Mr. John Chamberlayne, &c.

ecclesiastical records. 163
Mr. Crawford to the Secretary.
HoND. Sir. — Yours I received dated June 4th, 1707, ef Mr. Talbot:
wherein you desire frequent Letters, this I readily comply with, but
I live in the country where no ships come, and under a hundred miles
scarce can have a letter deliver'd or put on Bord of any VesseU and
then some misgive, and many opportunities slip when I know not
or cannot wait on them. Next you blame me (or seem to do so)
because my Vestry wrote home some of their own circumstances,
it was their o^wn motion to do so, and te deny the people a request
that is harmless you lose their favour, and again I did readyly comply
¦with them because I thought their condition and circumstances
might be as well received at their own hands as by my pen. Next
you desire particular accounts from me, according to a Scheme laid
do^wn by the Society and to all the heads thereof, this I never saw,
I never received any from any hand ; I only conceive that those par
ticulars foUo^wing may be required, which I shall answer.
As to the number of Inhabitants in the county I knew not, I never
saw their Court Role.
As to the number of my hearers I sometimes have more sometimes
have less according to the weather, I preach in the Church and two
or three places more, the County being above fifty miles long, and
these that are my hearers one day, not many are the next, and some
times I have 30, 40, SO, 70, 100, ISO, and upwards may be 200. A
great many whereof (I think) have some good Tincture ef ReUgion,
at least of well meaning; But how many of them are [in omnibus')
for the Church of England as by Law established there, I know not;
some of them I know are of a dissenting temper in Government (which
I de not admire there being at my entry not ene man in the County
that understood the Prayer Book, ne not so far as to answer the
Psalms er ether parts of the service till I taught them privately)
but all are satisfyed wth the Doctrine ef the Church, so that they have
no Grudge en that Account, only when some itinerant Presbyterian
Preachers come amongst us some make breaches to go hear them,
for all their sermons with us have been on Work days but many will
not, se that I have none but a heathenish people called Quakers
(several thereof are come over) that absent frem the Worship of God
as opportunity offers, other opinions make no debate to hear me, but
how many Quakers there is I knew net, but if we had the Governmt
established we should have power.
As for the number of Communicants I have ordinarily above
twenty or thirty odd, but never forty in one day.
For the number baptised by me in ether places I know not, but in
my own Charge I have young and old baptised 220 or 230, married
22 couple these three years of my residence here, our Justices do
many frequently here because the Law allows.
As fer my order in preaching I preach sometimes twice a week I
have occasionally thrice, but I never fail four times in three weeks,
one Sunday in the upper end of the^County, another in the Church,
the third in the lower end, and then a week days Sermon in some
corner and then the following Sunday in the Church &c. I catechise
the Children before the sermon all the Summer, cold weather I don't;
this is as full a true and just account as I can now give ef the place
(this accepted) that many well meaning people want Prayer Books

164 some records of Sussex county.
very much, there being nene in the County but what I give them,
nor can we have fer money, and indeed many have not money to
buy ¦with, but of this I'le mind the Trea'r.
As to the order of the Society, to give an account ef those of my
hearers that have contributed te build churches, in a word, I know
not any has given one farthing to any but to our own.
As fer their names that subscribe te me, and their sums, I have
not the catalogue, I have seen it, but the Church Warden has it, only
I tell you that you have all in that address for a minister to Dover
Hundred sent to my Ld. of London, which (if I remember) I deliver'd
to the Society, and several of the best of these are dead, in whose
place I have this year not before get some small Subscriptions; but
our Subscriptions in America are larger than our Benefice : but what
ever the Subscriptions be, this I can say upon the word of a Minister
that these three years that I have been in this place, I have not had
twenty pounds Pensylvania money p. ann; which is but a small
Benefice, considering it is payd me not in Silver, but as people are
able in cern, &c. T'is true there is more than £50 Pensylvania
money subscribed, — ^but I can net have it, some are backward, many
pretend they are not able the years are so badd, and to use the Law
for it I never will, fer that will frustrate my Mission and the de
signs of the Gospel ef Jesus Christ, render my person odious to them,
and so my Ministry and Preaching ineffectual, and I be look't
upen as an hireling only; severe methods are net te be taken here,
to gain converts by, se whatever is subscribed is to no advantage to
me while it is net payd, but what I receive you shall have a yearly
account. As for the Society fer reformacon of manners I have done and still
do encourage it, and indeed at my request it was erected, and first
by my Vestry whereof one Capt. Rodeny, Justice of Peace, was my
principal assistant, the methods are most partly taken out of the
Book ef the Society for reformacon ef manners "wth some few varia
tions, however we punished all that offended, but now our Work is
easie; Our Meetings were ence monthly, but new are quarterly, &
then have little or no business, possibly net ene found guilty in that
time in all the County.
As for the Negroes I have been at pains, for I sometimes at the
Church Porch teach 'em the Principles ef religion, the' many are very
dull; and when I am not employed I catechize the children.
As fer the Society's Instructions I shall be glad to receive them,
none shall be mere observant than I, and for writing often the' I do,
I understand my Letters do miscarry; so I hope if my Letters be not
se frequent as other Missionaries' I shall be excused because I have
not so good opportunities, and withall I have been sick Spring & Fall,
not able to go abroad, but yet I understood that some of my Letters
misgive, as also Letters from the Society (I fear) te me for I have
not had a Letter these two years, but by Mr. Talbot. Nay my At
torneys Letters many of them never came to my hand, as I am in
formed by his last.
I have nothing new to suggest, but that I have nothing to intice
me to this place, but the Sobriety of the People, this is all my Com
fort others I have none, fer many of the comforts ef life are very
farr withdrawn from me.

ecclesiastical records. 165
Sir, I trouble your Patience no more, only I begg your prayers
on the Church here, & on me in particular that I may be serviceable
therein, and I pray God to bless you and all those good and noble
Spirits that are imployed in that Glorious Work of the Propagation
of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, God himself strengthen you & incourage
& bear you up in all difficulties; excuse the length of this frem
" Honor'd Sir
Your assured fr'd and humb' Serv't in
the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Tho. Crawford.
1st February, 1706. — A letter from Mr. Cra^wford to the
Secretary dated Burlington, 7, November, read.
28th March, 1706. — Also t^wo others [letters] from Mr.
Cra^wford to Mr. Shibo & the Secretary from Burlington,
7 & 8 Novembr last ; — Agreed to move the Society, that the
said Mr. Cra^wford may be acquainted, that in case he con
tinues to ¦want his health in Dover hundred he shall be
allo"w'd to remove to Hope^well or According to the Prayer of
his said Letter. Agreed to.
14th February, 1707. — Also that having read a Paper
from the Inhabitants of Sussex on Dela^ware River desiring
a Minister may be sent 'em, and a Letter from Mr. Cra^wford
the Minister appointed to Dover Hundred, near the above sd
place, advising that the said Inhabitants are building a
Church & ¦want a Minister, they had Agreed to lay the Matter
before the Society. Agreed that the Committee take care of
this matter.
Also that having read t^wo other Letters from the said Mr.
Crawford (one to Mr. Stubs, t'other to the Secretary) dated
April & June 1706, containing an Accot. of the said Mr.
Cra^wford's Good Success in his Ministry, the poverty of the
People & -want of Com'on Prayer Books; they had Agreed
to move ye Society that some numbers of Com'on Prayer
Books be sent to the said Gentleman to be distributed amongst
his People. Agreed to, & the No. to be ascertain'd by the
Com'ittee. 15th April 1709. — Also that they had read a Letter froiri
the Lord Bishop of London to the Secretary dated 20th.
Jan'ry last, containing a copy of a Letter from Mr. Cra-wford
desiring a Pulpit Cloth, Surplice &c. and also an Original
Letter from the said Mr. Cra-wford -to the Secretary dated
Kent County in Dover hundred Pensylvania 31st Augt. last
containing the State of his Church there, the -want of Common
Prayer Books &c. v^rhich Letters they Agreed should be laid

166 SOME records of SUSSEX county.
before the Society: then the said Letters ¦were read; — ^Re-
solved that for the incouragement of the said Mr. Cra^wford
ten pounds more (to commence from Lady day ¦was t^welve
months) be added to his allo^wance so long as he stays in his
present cure, and that it be referr'd to the Committee to send
him such a number of Common Prayer Books as they think
necessary, as also a pulpit Cloth and Surplice, the Charge of
the ¦whole not to exceed £10.
21st October, 1709. — A Petition from Mrs. Cra-wford ¦wife
of Mr. Thomas Cra^wford the Society's Missionary in Pen
sylvania ¦was read, praying that some part of the allo^wance
to the said Mr. Cra^wford may be paid to her the ¦wife of the
sd Cra-wford for her Subsistance till she can go over to her
Husband: Order'd that the said Petition be refer'd to the
Committee and that Mr. Lind, Mr. Cra-wford's Attorny have
notice to attend at the same time.
18th November, 1709. — The Secretary reported from the
Committee that they had considered the petition of Mrs.
Cra^wford to them refer'd, and that the said Mrs. Cra^wford
had fully made appear to them that she ¦was the la^wfull ¦wife
of Mr. Thomas Cra^wford the Society's Missionary at Dover
Hundred in Pensylvania, and that she had not reced more
than ten pounds from her Husband since he left England,
¦which -was about five years ago: That Mr. Lind, Attorny to
the said Mr. Cra^wford, had also attended them, and being
askt ¦why he ¦wou'd allo^w nothing to Mrs. Cra'wford to sub
sist and carry her over to her Husband, made ans^wer, that
he had no Orders from the Husband, nor any of his Effects in
his hands, ¦whereupon the Committee had Agreed to report
the -whole ffact as it appear'd to them, for the further Direc
tions of the Society in the Matter: Then the Society having
taken the above report into their consideration, and the Revd.
Mr. Cook attending -was call'd in, and gave the Society a
farther Accot. of the Circumstances of the said Mrs. Cra^wford:
Ordered that a stop be put to the AUo^wance from. the Society
to the said Mr. Cra^wford, till he give satisfaction to the
Society about the Premises; and that the Secr'y do en
deavour to inform himself from Mr. Evans and other^wise of
Mr. Cra^wford's caracter &c.
30th December, 1709. — Also that they had read a Letter
from Mr. Thomas Cra^wford late Missionary at Dover Hun
dred, dated London 26th Decembr. 1709, importing his
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pear before the Society, and had thereupon Agreed to lay
the said Letter before this Bord, and had also directed Mr.
Middleton to attend on behalf of the Wife of the said Mr.
Crawford: This matter being considered and the Society
acquainted that Mr. Lind attended without on behalf of
Mr. Cra^wford, and Mr. Middleton on behalf of the wife of the
said Mr. Cra-wford, they were called in and acquainted that
their business is refer'd to the Committee.
Kent County, Dover Hundred in Pensylvania,
31st Augt. 1708.
Sr. — I wou'd begg both your Letters & advice often if it be not
too much trouble and nene shall be more observant. Mr. Black is
sick of the Ague, but his arrival has removed the charge of that place
from my shoulders which I undertook willingly for the good of the
Church. Lord Bishop of London to ye Secretary.
Fulham, 20 Jany. 1709.
Sir. — This is a copy ef Mr. Cra-wford's Letter which I begg ol you
to lay before the Society, which seems to claim some charitable con
sideration from them. Fer my new Guest, as you call him, is se old
an acquaintance, that I can't expect his departure so soon, as your
good ¦wishes wou'd have it. I am Sir, Your most humble Servt.
H. London.
Mr. Crawford to the Bishop of London.
My Lord — After my dutyfuU and most humble respects to yous
Lo'p I presume to tell your Lo'p, that my health still continuer
very uncertain, I am constantly sick Spring and Fall, and if it was not
for my charge and office sake I wou'd by your Liberty leave the
place, but my people, (tho' peer) have a particular respect fer me
as I have for them; and I thank God, they are as moral & Civil as
any people I know in America, which I think is increas'd by a Society
for a Reformation of Manners I have got erected here, so that now
I believe one may live ¦with us half a year and net hear one swear
prophanely, er be catched drunk in the whole county: all I have to
complain of is, that the people are not able to do much fer me; I get
but very little from them, and I have to preach sometimes twice
and sometimes thrice in a week, the county is so large, and I think
the congregation as numerous as any in America (Philadelphia ex
cepted). Our Church is near finished, it is all Glazed and almost
fuU of pews; only we want a Pulpit Cloth and Surphce and are not
able to buy them. I pray God to bless your Lo'p, and long preserve
you for an happy Instrument in his hand for good to his Church and
our Encourager in Forreign parts. I rest
My Lord Your Lo'ps Son and Most humble Servant
Thomas Crawford.
Kent County on Delaware in Pensylvania, 30th Augt. 1708.

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Mr. Crawford to the Secretary. London, 26th Decr. 1709.
Honor'd Sir. — After my humble service unto &c. by this know
that I am once mere return'd to London, I wou'd have waited en you
but cannot be seen by any tiH I get cloaths, for I am all out of Order,
wth my long absence and fatigue of my Voyage: wherefore I desire
that my money that is due to me may be paid to my Attorny that
I may get seme mony te death me ¦with, I have allowed nene a
Liberty to receive it but him, and since my return I have net recalled
his power. I hope the Society will consider my condicon, that here
I both want deaths and money that what is due to me may be readily
paid; that I may again appear before you and give you an account
of my service abroad as also of the place and places adjacent thereto,
and till then I fer your satisfacon have sent the true copy of certifi
cate from the Justices, that has the County Seal to it ; I have more
from the Wardens; as also from the Society for Reformation of
Manners, with the County Seal te them that I cou'd not new coppy
but the Originals shall be presented when you have paid my money
to put me in any Order of appearing before you; this I hope you
will communicate to the Committee and you will very much serve.
Honord Sir Your most humble Servt.
Thomas Crawford.
Mr. Crawford to the Secretary. 7th Jan'y. 1709.
Sir. — I presume yet to trouble you once more, te signify I am in
strait for money, I cannot but admire that my money shou'd be
denyed, seeing I am in want, and it justly due: as fer Certificates of
my diligence abroad and success in my office, I think I have been
short of none that ever was sent by the Society (as what my Certifi
cates will shew) one copy I. have, sent to you, and two other Originals
I have order'd te be sent to my Lord of London; I have not only
done as they certify but more in baptising several Negroes 'and Men
& Women, seme 60 years and downwards of all ages, I have opposed
Schism, — preached publickly in Quakers meetings, disputed pub
lickly, concerning which every one in the county can tell how well I
acquit myself, silencing their Vagrant preachers; I supplyed Sussex
in it, and at home frequently preaching thrice a week as opportunity
and occasion offer'd, visiting the sick, burying the dead and all gratis,
nay I have not only bought and bestowed Books on many, but also
I have bestowed on the Church a Fine Pulpit Cloath and Cushion ¦with
a deep Silver Fringe, and nene dare say but all my walk was suit
able te my profession, and I think the glory of God and Good of
Souls was my only design; the' I labour'd under abundance ofj^straits
and troubles in that place: and now at my return I surely must say
I meet with very hard measure for all my Labour; it is se great that
I am forced out of Town for want of bread I being already indebted
te Mr. Lind above ;i£S0 he will advance me no more: I know no
reason why it shou'd be denyed er my Bills pretested as he has done,
since it is justly due by the Society; I am sure it will not redound
much te your honor abroad: I can defy the World to tax me with
an ill thing in my Ufe time, but what has lately befallen me ignor-

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antly, by the Hellish Contrivance of Elizabeth Watson and her base
Mates and Associates she entertained: Mr. Middleton has had his
O'wn hand in it; he has been kno^wn to be no good man from his
youth, nay for his uncleanness was turn'd out of the School of Edin
burgh and not thought worthy to be Usher there, having appear'd
in the Church in Pennance, among the ffomicators and unclean;
whatever credit he has now ¦wth you: worse than this I can say, and
know this is matter of fact: and this Gentleman sent me word in a
Letter which I have to produce, that EUzabeth Watson was net to
be heard of; and by the mouth of Mr. Black she was dead, but wou'd
not ¦write the worst least he shou'd discourage me: as many in
Dover hundred know and heard him say so and another Letter by
another hand, as the Justices in the place know that she was dead,
it was signed with her Brother's Name and hand; I taxed him upon
it, he denyed it, but said he once believed she was dead; but his
¦wife and he beUeved it was done by a fellow that was in the house
¦with her whom all say she admitted to her embraces; But what I
have to say of her uncleanness, that on oath I can get proved, and
other villany to obtain her lust, & gratify her unclean desires as also
a certificate of her former husbands death whom she trapann'd and
sent to Sea, and then removed under the name of a Maid to a strange
place, and things worse than these that I shall net mention : they
lye not before you, nor are you Judges in such cases & therefore shall
not trouble you ¦with them: only I desire you not to pay my money
to her but to Mr. Lind to whom I am indebted having received above
£50 of him more than he has received; I have no way else to pay him,
and it is a pitty he shou'd suffer on my account that has encourag'd
so many missionaries; with all the last money I sent Elizabeth Watson,
she laid it out to pay the Boarding of a Gentleman's Children, to whom
she had been valet de chambre many a night till all the world took
notice of her base carriage ¦with him, and then when she had lost her
fame she came after me: with all she dees net want for money, she
told me nine days ago she had a. great deal at Interest in Scotland.
Sr. not troubUng you farther since I cannot wait on the Society fer
want of money pray pay my money to Mr Lind and none else and in
so doing you will obUge. Sir, Your humb' Servant
Thomas Crawford.
I design yet after this to see you all, till then let my misfortune
be pityed and not enveyed against.
Mr. Wm. Black.
The Rev. William Black was the first Missionary in charge
of Lewes and Sussex County. The following records are
most interesting.
19th July, 1706. — The Secretary also reported from ye
Committee that one Mr. Wm. Black a Layman recomended
by the Lord Bishop of London had attended them and like
wise offered his service for the Mission, and that he had

170 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
produced a Letter from the Lord Bishop of Carlile to the
Lord Bishop of London, together with a certificate under
the hand and Seal of the late Bishop of Edinburgh, & another
under the hands of the Lords of the College of Glasgow and
ye comon Seal of the said College & all giving a very good
character of the said Mr. Black, but the comittee had not
yet come to any Resolution about ye said Person because
he has not procured Testimonials according to Form.
16th August, 1706. — The Secretary acquainting the Bord
that Mr. Black attended at the door. — Ordered that the
Secretary do wait on the Lord A-Bishop & inform him that
the Society does desire his Grace to direct what he thinks
fit, in the case of the said Mr. Black.
20th September, 1706. — Also that upon this occasion
they had Agreed to move the Society that an application
be made to the Lord Bishop of London that Mr. Wm. Black
(who was some time ago recommended by the Lord Bishop
of Carlile to the Society) may succeed Mr. Bridge as Assistant
to the abovementioned Mr. Myles. The Secretary also
reported that he had waited on the Lord Archbishop of
Canterbury according to Order, & acquainted him with the
case of Mr. Black, to whom his Grace had been pleased to
give two Guineas for his p'sent support, & approved of his
being sent to Boston. Agreed that the Secretary do wait
on the Lord Bishop of London with the desire of the Society
that Mr. Black may succeed Mr. Bridge.
18th October, 1706. — ^The Secretary reported that he had
waited on ye Lord Bishop of London with the Request of
the Society at the last General Meeting that his Lordp would
appoint Mr. Black to succeed Mr. Bridge at Boston, but
that his Lordship was pleased to answer that Sr. Charles
Hobby & some other N. England Gentlemen objected agt.
the said Mr. Black as being too young; and that his Lord
ship did upon that occasion Recomend to ye Society the
sending that Gentleman to Naraganset where a Minister
is wanted. Ordered that the case of Mr. Black be Recom-
itted to ye Standing Committee.
15th November, 1706. — Also that the Committee had
taken into their considerason ye case of Mr. Black, that the
said Mr. Black had p. duced to them a Testimonial under
the hand & seal of John Sharp of Hoddom one of the Justices
of Peace in the Shire of Dumfries in Scotland & a Represent
ative in Parliament there rectifying the said Mr. Black's

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conformity to all ye Qualificasons of the Society's Mis-
sionarys. That the Comittee had appointed the said Mr.
Black to read prayers & preach, weh he pformed to the
satisfaction of the Comittee. The said Report is Approved
of & ye said Mr. Black was appointed to Naraganset with a
Salary of ;£50 p. ann. for 3 years, comencing from Michas
day last with the usual allowance of £10, & £5 for Books.
18th April, 1707. — Also that having considered of a Letter
from ye Lord Bp. of London dated 29. March, together
with an Address from the Inhitants of Sussex on Delaware
River to his said Lop. bearing date 6. March, 1705/6 desiring
a Minister for the said country the people of weh promise
to do what they are able towards the maintenance of him;
they had agreed to move the Society that Mr. Black who
was appointed to Naraganset at the General Meeting of the
Society IS. Nov. last, may be sent to Sussex as above, it
being the desire of the Lord Bishop of London because
Naraganset is already supply'd by Mr. Bridge; his Lop.
having also in the said Letter, desir'd that Mr. Black may
have some more advanc'd money upon the Acct. of his long
stay here, they had agreed to move ye Society for their
Directions in that matter. Ordered that Mr. Black be ap
pointed to Sussex as above, and that the Treasurer do ad
vance him his second half years allowance, on condition
that he take the first opportunity of a Passage.
19th September, 1707. — Also that upon reading several
Letters from Mr. Black & Mr. Jenkyns dated from Spit
head on bord ye Ruby, 30. Aug. wherein they prayed the
Advice & Assistance of the Comittee by reason of the
said ship being appointed to Portugal, & complaining that
they were reduced to great distress for want of money. The
Comittee Agreed as their opinion that ye Secretary should
write to the said Gentlemen & acquaint them that they
should endeavour to pcure themselves a Passage in some
other Ship bound to Virginia or Maryland forthwith, but
if no such Opportunity offered that then they should return
to London with their Effects. That the said Mr. Black &
Mr. Jenkyns returned to London & attended the Comittee
giving them Acct of their circumstances & Whereupon the
Comittee Agreed to Report that ye Case of the said Mr.
Black & Mr. Jenkyns is very compassionable, & Agreed to
move the Society for their direction therein. This Report
having been considered, and a Letter frorn Mr. Cordiner.

172 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
to the Secretary dated from Spithead 15. Sept. 1707, read.
Agreed that the Treasurer be empowered to advance ye sum
of Fifteen pounds to each- of the abovemensoned Gentle
men out of their growing Salaries, to defray their respective
Passages in the first Ships that are ready.
16th January, 1708. — A letter was read from Mr. Black
to the Secretary dated 3. January, 1707, from Plymouth
signifying his great Wants by being so long Wind-bound
at the said Port & others, &c. Order'd that the Secretary
do write to the said Mr. Black, and acquaint him that he
may draw upon the Treasurer for Ten pounds to be ad
vanced on the Credit of his growing Salary.
llth February, 1709. — ^Also that they had read two letters
from Mr. Black dated 19. June & 19 July last, giving an
Accot of his & Mr. Jenkyns Voyage, arrival &c. Ordered
that the Secretary do write to the said Mr. Black, & desire
him to give an Accot of the Behavior of Mr. Nicols, Ross, &
Jenkyns, in relation to the leaving their respective Churches.
30th December, 1709. — Also two Letters from Mr. -Black
to the Lord Bishop of London, & to the Secretary dated —
Annapolis 7th June, 1709 importing that he and his people
had been plunder'd & driven away by the ffrench; that he
has received nothing from them, nor dos expect it now,
and therefore prays he may be Lycensed for Maryland, &
his Salary from the Society continued ; Whereupon they had
Agreed to report as their opinion that the said Mr. Black
shou'd be appointed to Appoquiminink vacant by the death
of Mr. Jenkins: Agreed to.
15th December, 1710. — Also that they had read two Let
ters from Mr. Black to the Lord Bishop of London and the
Secry. dated Accomake on the Eastern Shore of Virginia
8th & 9th March 1709 importing his removal from Sussex
County, and the occasion thereof as mention'd in his former:
that being invited by the Vestry of, Accomake, he was to
be Inducted the 14th of ye said month, and desires his Lo'p
to confirm the same: That at Lewes Town in Sussex County
there is no security for a Minister, it lying open to any
Enemy and the people so divided they will not allow him
any maintenance: that he offer'd to leave his Library, upon
their giving Bond to be accountable to the Society for the
same; but none of them willing so to do, he took it with
him, and is ready to deliver it to the Society's Order: The
.Comee thereupon Agreed to lay these Letters before the

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Society: Then the said Letters were read: Agreed that
notice be given to Mr. Black that the Society is contented
their Books should lye in his hands till further Ordr.
20th April, 1711. — ^Also another [letter] from Mr. Black
dated— Accomake in Virginia 30th Septr. 1710 owning the
Receipt of the Secretary's wherein he is ordered to remove
to Appoquiminick, but prays to be excused being In
stituted & Inducted into the parish where he is, and in which
he Tvill continue while he lives in America: That hei has the
Society's Library and prays it may be given his Parish; but
if that can't be obtained will deliver it to ye Society's Order
on the receipt of his Bond he gave for the same: and lastly
desires what moneys are due to him from the Society may
be paid to his Order.
Also another from the Vestry of Appoquiminick dated
15th Septr. 1710 importing Mr. Black's being settled at
Accomake and his Resolution of continuing there; there
fore pray to be supplyed with another Missionary: The
Comee Agreed to lay this Letter before the Society and to
move them that if Mr. Clubb appears to be qualifyed he may
be removed to Appoquiminick and Mr. Humphrys to suc
ceed him in Oxford in Pensylvania and that the Library
in Mr. Black's hands be sent either to Appoquiminy or
Oxford, if either of those places want the same: Agreed to,
and that Mr. Humphrys have an allowance of fifty pounds
p. ann: commencing from Ladyday last, and five pounds
worth of small Tracts for the use of his people; and as to
Mr. Black's demand, and the disposal of the Library above-
mention 'd it is hereby refer'd to the Comee to consider and
report their opinion thereof.
10th October, 1712. — Another from Mr. Black at Ac-
camick ye 7 July 1711. — says he has wrote several Letters
but has had no answer — ^that ye Society is still in his debt
a years Salary for serving at Sussex — and his bill protested
tho' his removal was approv'd. — Thinks the reason may be
because of his delay in Transporting himself from hence
to Sussex which he says was impossible, or in not obeying
the Orders of ye Society in removing to Appoquimick, which
Letter did not reach him till a year after his being where
he is, and where he contracted debts, and promis'd to stay. — ¦
That his circumstances are hard^prays the paymt of his
mony & desires to be anointed ye Society's Missionary
and that he may have some Common Prayer Books — Offers
to serve ye Society in what they shall command him

174 some records of sussex county.
Copies of Letters from Mr. Wm. Black.
Messrs Black & Jenkins to the Secretary.
Hond. Sir. — We presume frem the Countenance and faveur where
with you and the rest of the honourable Society have entertained and
employed us in this Mission, it might be your Expectation to hear
from us before now; we therefore humbly crave your pardon for not
writing to you sooner and at once de as humbly beg leave by you to
acquaint the honble Committee with our ill success, having made no
further progress in our Voyage than Torbay, where the whole Fleet
now lye at Anchor in expectation ef a fair and favourable wind ; In the
mean time nothing will be more grievous to us, than the pitifuU
treatment we get aboard, being in no respect better accommodated
than the most ordinary Commen Sailers, so much beneath and unbe
coming the dignity ef our profession, that we are loth, or indeed almost
ashamed to trouble you with mentioning the Particulars of it, know
ing not how it can be remedied; the whole provision which we made
for eur selves being now exhausted, and have not wherewith te get a
new supply, without making further Intrusion upen the Societies
bounty, however we only pray we may be considered as their Honours
shall think fitt, kno'wing it is our duty (hew necessitous and pressing
soever our present circumstances be) to rest fully satisfyed with the
will of God, and to continue unanimously in all due respects to your
self and all the Honble Society Dear Sr
Your faithful! Missionaries & most obedt humble Servants,
Thomas Jenkins
William Black
Torbay, From on Board the Ruby.
Augst ye 13th, 1707.
We humbly beg your answer here or elsewhere as you can get
Information ef the Fleet.
Directions are
Te Jno. Chamberlayne, Esqr.
Mr. Black to ye Secretary. Spithead Aboard ye Ruby,
30th August 1707.
Hond. Sr. — Having lately wrote to you conjunctly with Mr. Jen
kins from Torbay, fearing then what is now to our grief come to pass;
We were in great hopes that by this time we should have been pro
ceeding with the rest of the Fleet, in our Voyage, but that very day
we designed to have sailed, there came an Order that the Chester and
Ruby shou'd return for Spithead. Wee have lived aboard these 14
weeks, and have endured such hardships as come little short of Cap
tivity itself; the Uttle money we had reserved for carrying us after
our arrival at Virginia, to our respective places, we cou'd not possibly
avoid the spending of; and being now destitute of every thing for to
provide for our voyage, we are necessitate to request for assistance
frem the Honble Society, which otherways, considering their former
bounty to my self in particular, I cou'd not without Chefhing desire.
The sad treatment we have all of us met with has almost ruin'd our

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healths already, and if we be not supplyed and shou'd continue aboard
may lay the foundation of sickness, which may make all our under
takings prove abortive; The uncertainty of the Admiralty in their
Orders, has determined us (least we shou'd be disappointed a second
time) to go aboard a Merchantman, but our money is at so lew an
Ebb, that we cannot come ashoare; hoping Sr. that your Answer will
be suitable to my necessity. I am with all humility and duty
Yours and the Honble Societies Missionary & most humble Servant.
Directions are '^^^ ^lack.
To Jno Chamberlayne, Esqr, &c.
Messrs Black & Jenkins to the Secretary.
Portsmouth, 2Sth Octr. 1707.
Sr. — The many misfortunes and discouragements we have met
¦with, which seem still to be continued with the melancholy News ef
our Dear Brother Mr. Cr Cordiner and his family being carried into
ffrance, and our present Disappointment here at Portsmouth, is the
reason of our troubling you at this time. By the advice we had from
the Gentlemen of the Admiralty office we came here. But the Oxford
is not come yet to Spithead, and it being the opinion of many here that
the Virginia fleet ¦will not touch at Portsmouth, We humbly crave
your and the Honble Society's advice what it is best for us to do in
our present Circumstances. The Captain of the Bristol promis'd to
take us both aboard his ship to the Downs where the Oxford lies, but
he has to our great grief left us behind; Our being disappointed by
him can't be imputed to any Negligence in us, for we waited upon
him every day, and went once aboard his ship, we spake te him the
night he sailed hence, at which time he told us he was not to sail for
three days the' he went off that very night; We add no more but that
we are heartily sorry, and condole our disappointments from time to
time and that we are very sensible ef your own kindness, hoping that
all the Dispensations ef Gods Providence will teach us submission to
him and Obedience and thankfulness to our Honorable Benefactors
We are in all humility and Sincerity
Your and their faithfuU Missionaries & humble Servants.
Wm Black
„ ., , Tho. Tenkins
Superscribed To Jno. Chamberlayne, Esqr., &c.
Mr. Black to the Secretary. Plymouth, 3rd Jany. 1707.
Sr. — The Reason why I have net troubled you with an acct. of my
Circumstances, since I was last at London is, because the last Letter
that Mr. Jenkins and I wrote, (the' we knew net the Spring of the bad
resentmt of some of the Society,) had such an effect as to produce an
ill understanding bet'wixt some particular Members and us, as if we had
prodigally lavish'd away the money we had from the Honble Society.
We are sure that we have done justly and candidly by representing
things as they really were, fer none of the money we have put te bad
uses, , as the accets of our disbursmts' we have by us, if we may be
believed can testify. Our whole dependance being upen the Honble

176 some records of sussex county.
Society, and having no other way to unfold our Condition, but by
representing the matter of Fact, we hope that the Honble Society
will not take it ill that urgent necessity has again enforced us par
ticularly myself again to address them. For Mr. Jenkins being Chap
lain of the Oxford in which I am a Passenger has upon that accot had
I suppose some money advanced him at Portsmouth which I cou'd
not have. I confess that none of the Missionaries have been so
troublesome as we, but if it be consider'd that eur case is extraordinary
having waited fer Transpertacen since the beginning ef April, the
Providence of Ged being also extraordinary wth respect te our Voyage
for it is better to be here as we are, than to have been carried into
France in the Ruby. We have used all means that human Industry
cou'd Invent fer saving money and attaining our end, but who can
fight against the winds or resist his Will? I hope, all this consider'd,
our humble desire fer supply having no other Outgate, will appear
by this time beth reasonable and excusable, which that it may appear
evidently I crave pardon to give a brief but true accot. of some of the
Difficulties we have enceunter'd since we left London. When we
came to Portsmouth it was reported by all, that this Fleet then com
ing from the Downs was net te touch there, which laid us under a
necessity of going aboard the Ips'wich which was to meet the Fleet
We thence went aboard the Oxford for which we had an Order, but
she having run aground, went into the Dock, which cest us infinite
Fateigue and trouble, then we went on Board the Guernsey where we
were tormented by the ill treatment we reced and to sum up all our
unhappyness, Capt. Huntington Commander set us a shoar; The
Fleet being ready to sail, we went on Beard a Merchant Man, then
fearing We shou'd have lest our Passage We went aboard the Flagg
Sr. John Norris Admiral who indeed of all that we met with pay'd us
most respect and civility, what money this trouble from Ship te Ship
cost us — can scarcely be believed by any but -us who payd it. We
have been universally hated because ef our close adherence to the
Honble Society their Orders te us in reproving the open and avow'd
debaucheries ef wicked and unreasonable men, being now reduced to
our old Circumstances of Poverty, our engagement -with the Honble
Society puting us out of the way ef all employment for our Sustenance.
I humbly desire. Dear Sr, that you wou'd represent our Condition
especiaUy mine, upon the aforesd accot. that they the Honble Society
may send us some assistance, fer without it I am Uke to proceed no
farther if the Fleet continue any time; Our treatment on Board is the
same wth that of Common Sailors, which we wou'd never complain
off if it were not Observ'd by others, who look upen us as ye veryest
Wretches in the World being, as the world for the most part is, ready
to measure a Man's happyness according to his Circumstances. Now
if any of us shou'd miscarry, in this Mission; which God forbid, hav-
ingtdone aU and suffer'd all that Humane Nature can support, we
cannot be chargeable of mismanagement. Wishing all happyness
imaginable to your and your Family & an Imortal reward to each
member of the Honble Society. I continue as ever
Your & their _^very humbe Servt Wm. Black.
P. S. — Dear Sir: — I hope you ¦will honour me ¦with an Answer,
for ourj^Necessities cry aloud for it, being never in such Circumstances
as at present, not being able se much as to pay for a Boat from Shoar

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aboard. I am afraid that my Exigency will make me Contract debt
weh I ever avoided as the last & werst ef Shifts. I must tell you that
both Mr. Jenkins and my Books reced from ye Honble Society are
mightily damnifyed by being tossed from Ship to Ship. We are to
be found on Board the Oxford riding in Plymouth Sound.
Mr. Black to the Secretary. KicKATAN IN Virginia
19th June, 1708.
Honor'd Sir. — -By the blessing of God we are new arrived here
after a long and tedious Passage; there has bin such a Mortality on
Bord our Ship the Oxford that we have buryed 30 men, & near 100
are dangerously sick. Mr. Jenkins was sick almost six Weeks, but
is now recover'd and as well as ever, as for myself, I have not had
one hour of sickness since I left England, and seem to be cut out by
Providence for any Country. We are new using all means fer geting
as soon as possible to Pensilvania, where by the assistance of Divine
Grace, I shall endeavour to be as usefuU as I can that I may at the
same time both discharge my Conscience & answer the expectations
•of so pious and Honble Society as our Worthy Patrons are. My most
humble Service te yourself wishing you leng life & prosperity. As
for the Honble Society may they long florish & successfully go on
in so good a Work, & when they are all to be translated te a better
life, may they be succeeded by men ef their own piety & care for our
holy Religion. I am &c. Wm. Black.
Mr. Black to the Secretary.
New Castle on Delaware
River 19th July 1708
Hond. Sir. — I wrote to you from Kickatan in Virginia about two
weeks agoe since which time I am come so far in my Journey as this
place. I have nothing to offer in this than what I said in my last
Letter, but that I am hasting down Delaware to Sussex County, only
I wou'd rather be guilty of Tautology in writing the same thing than
of want of Deference and respect to so Venerable a Corporation as
the Honble Society is. Mr. Jenkyns has now left me and is gene to
his c~harge. I am inform'd his Congregation will be very small,\the
place being so wonderfully divided into Quakers, Independants and
Presbyterians; But I hope that the place I am going to will prove
less disturbed with Sectaries of any denomination; the contagion
of Enthusiasm not having spread itself so far down the Country.
I shall in every point, God enabling me, be observant of the Instruc
tions I have already received or shall receive from the Honorable
Society. I pray God to bless all my Benefactors and yr self & Family
in particular. I am in all Sincerity
Honor'd Sr. Your most Obedt humble Servt
Wm. Black.
Mr. Black to the Secretary. Annapolis, June 7th, 1709.
Honor'd Sir. — I rece'd a Letter from you wth an account of
some of the Transactions, of the Society, to which long age I wrote
an answer, since which time (May 7th) the ffrench have been among

178 some records of sussex -county.
us, and have Pillaged the Town, and ruin'd the people; and I with
great difficulty escaped: I was fain for my security to fly about 30
Miles upon Sunday the Sth May. The County in all places where
'tis inhabited lies open to the Sea so that there is ne safety there.
The Captain of the privateer is one Monsr Le Croix, the number of
the Men is 120, with 4 Guns, and we are threatened by another Ship
ef the same force with a Man of War frem old ffrance. The people
have not contributed one farthing for my maintenance since I came;
I've reced nothing from them, & those who subscribed are mostly
ruin'd, so that now I cannot expect they shou'd give me any thing,
since they were unwilling te subscribe when they were of Ability.
I drew upon my Attorny my Salary for this year, before this encident
happen'd, and indeed the £50 allowed me amounts to about £30
here, since ev'rything we buy is sold at the rate of 4 er 500 p. cent.
I have been here now ene year and am forced with the permission
of my Lord of London to settle myself in our neighbouring Province of
Maryland. I had my recourse to his Excellency the Governor of
the Province who received me as he dos all clergymen, with great
civility and has promised to provide for me, till such time as my
Lord of London sends me a Lycence, at which time I am te be Legally
establish'd, and since I cannot help my leaving Sussex, I hope that
the Honble Society will not wthdraw their Bounty but continue it,
as I shall to serve Ged & the Church according to my ability, where
God in his providence shall cast my Lott. Mr. Crawford & Jenkins
live on the same River but are far removed frem Danger, but we
lying at the very Capes become a prey to every Enemy that comes
that way. The Quakers whe are very numerous will neither resist
themselves nor contribute to the maintenance of those that willingly
wou'd. Wishing te yourself and all my very good Benefactors health
and happyness here Sc hereafter I am
Your & their faithfuU Missionary & humbe Servt.
Wm. Black.
Mr. Black to Ld. Bp. of London.
Annapolis, 7. June. 1709.
My Lord. — Having this Opportunity I thought it my duty to
acquaint your Lo'p what has happen'd at Lewis Town in Sussex
County, being that part of your Lop's Diocese in America to which
I was sent. May 7th there arrived a ffrench Privateer of 4 Guns and
about 120 Men on Monsr Le Croix being Captain, who pillaged the
Town, and has laid wast all the parts adjacent; many ef the people
are fled back into the country, one Man only was kill'd, and it is
thought that the dammage they have done to the place amounts
to about £3000 the place is threatened to be burn't, for they inform'd
the people that there was a Man of War from old ffrance and another
Ship ef equal force with themselves te be there very soon. I liv'd
about one mile from the Town, and was chased from that place out
of the County, and the people being mostly quakers, will neither
fortify themselves agst their Enemies, nor contribute to the main
tenance ef such as wou'd, so that the whole County which is my charge
is like to be ruin'd. The people also, as I have inform'd your Lo'p
in a Letter of an older date than this, will contribute nothing to my

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subsistence, and the £50 I have from the Society amounts to above
£30 here for nothing can be bought at the cheapest hand under 4 or
500 p. cent, and the Church not being estabUsh't by Law in this
Province of Pensylvania; no man can live here upon the precarious
Contribution of a divided people upon this consideration I had my
recourse to his Excellency the Governour of our neighbouring Province
of Maryland who rather than that I shou'd return for Britain, has
entertained me in Maryland upon condition that your Lo'p by sending
me a Lycense to stay here shou'd approve of my removal; so that
I beg that your Lo'p ¦will send it me to Anapolis that I may serve
God here, since your Lo'p was pleased to send me into these parts.
This County of Sussex lyes so open to the Sea that there can be no
safety in it; this is the Srd time the people have been robbed, twice
the last Warrs and onct this ; I hope that your Lo'p will prevail wth
ye Society to continue my Salary since my removal is caused by meer
& unavoidable necessity, wishing your Lo'p long life & health for
the good of the Churches here & at heme I am
May it please your Lo'p
Yor Lo'ps most dutyfuU Sen & humb Servant.
Wm. Black.
Mr. Black to ye Ld. Bishop of London.
My Lord. — I wrote to your Lo'p from Annapolis of the date of
16th or 20th of June 1709, and acquainted your Lo'p that I was neces
sitate to remove from Sussex County in Pensylvania te Maryland,
where I was entertained by the Govr and permitted by him te Of
ficiate in the Parish of Piscataway; But upen my return to Sussex
to transport my Books to that place. The French whe were the cause
of my removal, and who had pillaged and laid wast the Town, were
succeeded by another Privateer and prevented my return to Piscat
away, I being to go up the River where they then rode : A little after
I was invited by the Vestry of Accomake Parish on the Eastern Shore
in the Colony of Virginia to officiate there, where I now am. I was
directed by that Vestry to wait upon the President and your Lo'ps
Commissary Mr. Blair which I did and was civilly accepted of by
them. This parish for about fifteen years having been destitute
of a Minister, that I might be the mere encouraged to stay with them,
addressed the President that I might be inducted into the said Parish,
which he granted, so that I am te be Inducted into this Church the
14th of this instant. I told your Lo'p in my last that there is no
security for any Minister to live at Le^wis Town it lying open to any
Enemy; and the people are so divided that they will not allow of any
maintenance to a Minister, but willingly entertain Itinerant En
thusiasts and Straglers. The' I lived there a whole year, I never
reced one farthing from any of them, and shou'd have been in very
pityfuU circumstances, if I had not had the Society's Salary allew'd
me, which being £50 p. Ann: is tee little by one half for a Minister
who lives there: ffor while the Minister depends upen the precarious
contribucon of a very poor people for the greatest part of his Salary,
he is forced either to connive at many of their irregular actions, or
te lose the next years subscription of every one he displeaseth by re
proving their Vices. I carryed the Society's Books along with me,
I offer'd 'em to be preserved for' the Society's use, if they to whom

180 SOME records op SUSSEX COUNTY.
I shou'd commit the custody of them wou'd have given me their
Bond to restore them to such as the Society shou'd give order here
after to receive them: But none ef the Chief men there wou'd releive
my Bond whereby I am obliged to restore them in such condicon
as I received them, reasonable use and other accidents excepted.
The Books if the Society shou'd think fit wou'd answer the same
design here as there, they being given us for our further encourage
ment. I humbly begg that your Lo'p would be pleased to confirme
me in the Cure of the Parish where I new live, fer having fforfeited
my aUowance from the Society by being forced to remove thence.
If your Lo'p shou'd think fit to order me back again to Sussex, I
shall have nothing to depend upon, se that my Circumstances ¦will
be so pressing that contrary to my Inclinations I shall be necessitate
to return fer Great Britain; that your Lo'p may long continue in
life and health te the welfare of the Churches at home and abroad
is the prayer of
[ May it please your Lo'p
Your Lo'ps most dutyfuU son & humb servant.
Wm. Black.
Accomake, on the Eastern Shore of the Colony of Virginia
8. March. 1710. Air. Black to the Secretary.
\ Accomake, on the Eastern Shore jn Virginia,
30th Septr. 1710.
Honor'd Sir. — I reced yours of the date of Janry 6, 1709, wherein
I am ordered by the Society te remove forthwith to Appoquiminick;
but I am now living in Virginia on the Eastem Shore about 200 miles
from that place, the parish is very large, the people kind and I my
self settled among them: I was here Instituted & Inducted into the
parish' as in a former Letter I have inform'd you. I have not re-
cei^ved one farthing either from the Society (if they have not answered
my BiU of £50 sterling) er the people ef Sussex; for the truth whereof
I appeal to the whole County where I lived a whole year; so that
the Society is only owing me something more than one years salary.
As for my removing, my Circumstances are such that I cannot, and
the place and people where I am I like very well, and resolve if nothing
prevent me te continue with them while I live in America. If my
Bill shou'd be protested, 'tis what I fear'd and therefore was neces
sitate, the' in great straits, not to make use of the money, which if
God spare me, I will faithfully repay. 1 have served God and the
Society in Sussex from the 26th of July 1708, to Augt 1709, since
which time I've lived in Accomake in the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
I hope Sr. if my money be not paid to my Attorney Mr. Law. Smith
of Clifford's Inn that you will pay it according to my Order, for I am
so afraid of Bills, that I shall be very Cautious in making use of that
way; As for the Society's Books I carryed them with me; I earnestly
desire Hend Sir that the Society would be pleased to appropriate
them to the parish where I live, for I have very few Books of my own,
and the Society will I hope attain their end in se doing. If they
shou'd think fit to dispose otherwise ef them, I am very ready to

JECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS. 181
comply, as it is both reasonable and my duty, with their Orders,
only I desire that my Bond may be sent to me whereby I obliged
myself to restore them in as good case (ordinary use excepted) as I
received them in; this was the reason. I carryed them to Accomake.
I offer'd them to the Gentlemen ef Sussex if they wou'd have given
me their Bond to keep me harmless from that of the Society, if the
Books shou'd have been lost or abused. I have had such an exper
ience of the people of Pensylvania that I can never expect any better
treatment than I have received, so that I desire that the Society
wou'd let me serve God where I am, since God in his providence sent
me to this place when I was in as great need ef their Temporali, as
they of my Spiritual assistance. May God long preserve the Honble
Society and prosper their Designs and reward yourself for your kind
ness & civility te me when I was a Stranger. I am,
Honor'd Sir,
Your very humb and Obliged Servant. Wm. Black.
A Journal of Mr. Ross's Labours in the Gospel Dureing
His Short Stay in the County of Sussex Upon Dela
ware. (August 1717).
The zeal and affection of the People in Lewis Town for the
church has appeared so great of late, that they have pitch'd
upon a sober person an Inhabitant among them, to read
prayers to them every Lord's day, which he does with so
great applause that the congregation he supplyes as a Reader
doth visibly increase every Sabbath. Mr. Brook collector
there a good & zealous church man supplye^ him with sermon
books wherein the said Reader reads, much to the Satis
faction of the People. This method I could not but approve
of, & recommend in their present circumstances.
The Hon. Colonel William Keith, with the Rev Mr. Ross
and several other gentlemen, set sail from New Castle, Satur
day, August 3d, 1717, for Lewes. They arrived Monday,
August 5th. Tuesday, August 6th, Mr. Ross records: "I
attended the Governor to the Court House of the said County
where I read divine service. The Justice of the County with
many others being present.
"Wednesday, August 7th, Service being read in the said
Court House, I preached on these words, 'Thou shalt not
bear false witness against thy neighbour. '
"The house was full of People and many hearkened at
the doors and windows.
"They had not an opportunity of hearing a Minister of
the Church a good while before, and therefore the diligent
attention they gave to my discourse was the less surprising.

182 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
"I was obliged to dismiss the Congregation before I could
proceed to administer Baptism to those many that came
there to receive it, lest, by taking up too much of the, Gov
ernor's time, I should prove a hindrance to him and the
Justices in the dispatch of business.
"The number of Children and Infants baptized this day
was thirty.
"Friday, August 9th, I preached again, the words I in
sisted upon were, "and Behold one came and said unto
Him Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may
inherit Eternal Life;' the Governor and a greater audi
tory than I had formerly was present. I baptized one and
twenty." Abstracts from Deeds Showing Location of
William Becket Property.
Deed from Samuel Davis of Somerset County in the province
of Maryland, Gent. — to William Becket of the town of Lewes,
in the County of Sussex upon Delaware, Gent. —
Dated sixth day of July in the eighth year of the reign of
our Sovereign Lord George by the grace of God King of
Great Britain A. D., 1722. Consideration — 68 £.
Description. — One certain lott of Land Containing in
breadth Sixty foot, & in length two hundred feet situate,
lying and being in the second street of the Town of Lewes
afs'd binding on the North West side with the lott that was
formerly Philip Russell's but now in the Possession of William
Godwin, and on the South East side with the Comon lotts
and grave yard of the s'd Town. Together with the house
that now is thereon and all and singular the appurtenances,
privileges, proffits, Comoditys, ways. Easements, heredita
ments, freedoms, Imunities whatsoever thereunto belonging
or in anywise appertaining and all Deeds, writings &
Evidences touching or Concerning the same or any part
thereof. Deed Philip Russell to Wm. Godwin, dated Aug. 8, 1723.—
All that lott or parcel of land lying and being in the
Town of Lewes being sixty foot in breadth & two hun
dred feet in length and bounded on the South East with
the lott of Wm. Becket and on the South West with a new
street lately laid out and on the North West with knitting
Street or Mulberry Street and on ye North East with the
second Street.

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ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS. 183
29 Sept., 1721.
Members of the Church at Lewes Town, Pensilvania.
The Rev. Mr. Beckett happily came amongst us on the first instant
and after he had paid his respects to our worthy Govr Sir Wm. Keith
imade known to us the favorable disposition of the Hen. Society to this
poor Congregation as they are set forth in a letter of the 31st ef May
where'withal you have been pleased to favour us. We beseech you
Sr to say for us to these Hon. persons that we shall always preserve
in our minds a most gratefuU sence of what they have had the good
ness to do for us. And what we have hitherto seen of Mr. Beckett
gives us the strongest hopes that in the Tenor of his Life & Doctrine
he ¦will both adorn his Profession & fulfiU that good & great end to
which he hath the Honor to be appointed se shall it be our lasting
care as well as pay him that respect which is due te his character
as to make such suitable provision for his better & more comfortable
support as Himself could justly expect were he fully seen in the Cir
cumstances of this People & we doubt not in a few months longer
te make this good to his satisfaction & that of his Constituents. Do
us the favour Sr te lay these things before the Hon. Board & we shall
ever own ourselves te be
Sr Yor Most Humble & obliged Servants Hen. Burke,
Lewes on Michaelmas Day, 1721. Wm. Till.
A. D. 1722. "The Reverend Mr. Beckett, Minister at
Lewes-Town, &c., in Pensilvania; That he has three Places
to offfciate at, where he has Considerable numbers of Hearers ;
at two ofwhich Places, the People have built Churches,
before they had a Prospect of a Minister; & appointed sober
Laymen to read the Prayers of the Church, to keep the peo
ple steady to their Principles; that Subscriptions are raising
for building another Church; that he has baptized 55 Per
sons, nine whereof were adult; & there is a manifest change
in the Lives & Manners of, & a very great Reformation
among many of the People, since his Coming there; for which
he has received the Thanks of the Magistrates & Gentlemen
of the Church of England in that County."
1724. "From the Reverend Mr. Beckett, Minister at
Le^wes i n Pensilvania, That the number of Persons bap
tized last year in his Parish are 82, eleven or twelve of which
are Adults; that the Church of Lewes is almost finished; &
tho' they have now three Churches in that County, yet none
of them will contain the Hearers which Constantly attend
at Divine Service; that in his Journey thro' Kent County
he baptized in one day 6 adults, & 15 children, & had a
numerous Congregation, where they have a large church,
but no Minister."

184 some records of sussex county.
Queries to be Answered by the Persons Who Were
Commissaries to My Predecessor (The Late Bishop
OF London).
What Parishes are there, which have yet no Churches,
nor Ministers?
Here being no publick Acts for a legal Establishment of
the Church here ; the Distinction of Parishes is yet unknown
in this Government; but here are several large Tracts of
Land inhabited, where there is neither Church nor Minister,
and several Churches built in other Tracts, who are in great
want of Missionarys; particularly those att Kent, Apoquin-
iminck, Bristol, Parkiomen, & White-Marsh.
We are My Lord
Yr Lo'p most obedient, most Dutifull Sons & Servants
Robt. Weyman. Geo. Ross.
Wm. Beckett. Ins. Humphreys.
(Answers to Queries abt 172|-.)
Queries to be Answered by Every Minister-, 1724.
How long is it since you went over? &c.
Three years in June last.
Have you had any other church? &c'.
None, my Lord.
Have you been duly Licens'd by the Bishop of London? &c.
Yes. How long- have you been inducted? &c.
No Induction here.
Are you ordinarily resident in the Parish ?
I have not been absent from any own care Two Sundays
for the space of Ten Months pass'd.
Of what extent is your Parish?
I have the care of three churches in this County. One
of them being 25 miles, the other 2 from the church in Lewes
where I live. Number of Familys about Four Hundred.
1725. "From the Reverend Mr. Beckett, Minister at
Lewes in Pensilvania, That tho' they have already three
Churches, at which he officiates alternately, which are
constantly filled with pretty regular Congregations; yet the
People living in the Middle of the Country have raised a
Subscription to build another Chappel in tlie Center of it;
that the number of the baptized every year since his being

ecclesiastical records. 185
there, has been never less than eighty ; & on Easter & Whit
sunday he had twenty-seven communicants."
1726. — Churches in Pensilvania, how supplyed with
Ministers ? H^.-^
Lewes town & two more churches in Sussex County by
Mr. Becket.
Are there any Infidels, bond or free?
Yes. A great many Negroe Slaves; Some whereof I have
baptized since coming here. We have but few Indians &
these seem obstinate to the means of conversion.
How oft is divine Service performed?
Thrice a week, viz Sundays, Wednesdays, & Fridays.
On the Sabbath my Churches are full, & on Litany Days
Several of the more Sober & devout duely attend on the
Worship of God.
How oft is the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper administer 'd?
Thrice a year viz: Easter, Whitsun, & Christmas. The
number of communicants is about 20.
At what times do you Catechise?
Every Sunday in the Summer Season where I usually
preach a catechetical Lecture in the Afternoon.
Are all things duly dispos'd & provided in the Church?
No, my Lord, Our Churches being. none of them yet finished.
Of what value is your living in Sterling money?
Besides the Bounty of.the Honable Society, I have but
very little to depend on for subsistance. The People here
have indeed subscribed towards my Support, but by reason
of Poverty few are able to pay. '
Have you a House and glebe?
No House nor glebe is provided for a Minister here.
Is due care taken to preserve your House in good repair?
Att my o^wTi.
Have you more cures than one?
I have 3 Churches in this county as before mentioned.
Att one of which I officiate every Sunday alternately.
Have you in your Parish any Publick School?
None, my Lord.
Have you a Parochial Library?
I have the Library sent thither by the Honable Society
For the due preservation of which I take a particular care
myself. I am My Lord,
Yr Lordship's most obedt & most dutifull Son & Servt.
Wm. Becket.

186 SOME records of SUSSEX COUNTY.
Extract from Letter of Mr. Becket Writing in Fa
vour OF Peters.
May it please your Lordship. — The Congregation at Phila
delphia, are desirous that the Reverend Mr. Peters, might
be plac'd there, as Minister of that Church. And I beg with
all Deference & Regard to remain. My Lord,
Yr most Dutiful & obedient Son & Servant
Wm. Becket,
Missionary at Lewes.
Ussher's Letter Against Peters.
"I, Arthur Ussher missionary at Dover in the province of Pensil
vania de solemnly declare, that I heard the Revnd Mr. Peters preach
in Christs Church in Philadelphia on Whit Sunday in the present year
1737. The words of the text were these: He shall baptize you ¦with
the Holy Ghost. In his discourse he seem'd to extoU & establish
natural religion, so' far as to destroy the necessity of Divine inspira
tion; and farther said that reason & Revelation alone, were sufficient
to enable a man to work eut his salvation. The whole discourse
seem'd to be calculated te establish natural religion. And I do farther
declare, that the Revnd Mr. Peters, in the Revnd Mr. Cummings
house on the sd Whit Sunday evening, just before he went into Church,
& preached the sd subject he preached upen that evening, that he
had given it, its due weight, & treated it in a different manner from
our Modem Divine.
"Sept: 18th, 1737. "Arthur Ussher."
"Philadelphia, Sept. 4th, 1743.
"My Lord. — I am now all most seven years in the service of the
venerable Society, and to the best of my knowledge and skill, have
made use ef all the possible means I could devise, to promote the
glory of God, and the Salvation ef the Souls committed to my charge ,
before the 26th of June last. I have baptized SIO grown persons
and childeren, and since 45 childeren & 3 adults; The Mission of Lewes
is now become vacant by the death ef the late missionary Mr. Becket ,
the burthen of his charge lying upon me for these two years past (he
being unable to officiate but a very short space of the above two
years. After the strictest enquiry I coud make, I find a thousand
and twenty men in the county of Kent, four hundred & eighty four
of which number professing themselves of the Church of England,
fifty six of the Quakers, three hundred and ninety seven Presby
terians, sixty two Papists, and above twenty who profess themselves
te be of no religion, & seem to glory in it.
"I am, my Lord, with the greatest respect my Lord,
"Your most dutiful & obliged Son & Servant,
"Arthur Ussher."

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Letter to Mr. Cummings. March 13, 1727-8.
Revd. and Dear Bro. — I had the favour of your letter of Nov. 11,
fer which I thank you, & till that time did not hear the' I did suspect
what success our solicitations with respect te the licences, has met
with. I ¦will write to the Bishop & Society upon that head, by the
1st opportunity & shall be glad te hear what you will do in the case.
Mr. Ross has not said one word about it in any ef his letters to me,
he only wanted one licence for himself and did not care what became
of all the rest. Now he has sped himself he may perhaps have taken
care for the rest. Mr. CampbeU was here in the beginning of the
year, he brought with him a paper of recommendation to whom it
might concern cautiously worded & signed by Laymen signifying
that since he was only yet accussed but not convicted he might be
employed in the service of the church, I consented that some of the
gentlemen here should sign it but would not de it myself the' he
.pressed me much, I told him the clergy would do nothing but in
conjunction & it would be a jest fer me to sign it. Please te give my
humble service te honest Mr. Peter Evans & all friends. Messers.
Brooke & Pemberton are well and give their service to you we have
ne news here having been shut up with ice fer many weeks. My
service to Mr. Fenton's family.
I am Dr. Bror. yours most affectionately, W. B.
I take this opportunity to acquaint you the affairs of the churches
which are under my care go on as usual, that is, I thank God for
it, they are in the main in a prosperous condition. But there is
a matter or two of some moment te the welfare ef the Church as I
conceive which I more especially crave leave and intend to lay be
fore you at this time. Since Major Gordon's arrival here as Gov
emor he has premisculously granted licences te us and the Presby
terian ministers, a thing which was never done before (save only in
the last year of Sir Wm. Keith's goverment when Doctor Welton
nonjuror was minister at Phila.) He was not fit to grant them &
indeed his fortune appeared Desperate, se yt he was willing to raise
money by any means.) so yt a small perquisite is hereby in a great
measure granted away frem the Missionaries but what is more con
siderable is that it is depriving us of what is our Right. At our last
Convention held at New Castle, the Missionaries did humbly repre-
selit this matter to the Governor desiring his Favour in the Case,
which he hath denyed us. Perhaps a Letter in our faveur frem the
Henrable Society te this Gentleman might bring him to reason & do
the Missionaries a considerable kindness. There is another affair
which I conceive of some moment which might lend much to pro
mote the designs of the Henrable Society fer propagating the Gos
pel in America which I must beg leave te lay before you & it is briefly
this: Here is a large, good Tract of Land lying between Maryland &
Pennsylvania called the 3 Lower Counties on Delaware about 100
miles long & in some places 20 or 30 wide. This land as yet has no
Proprietor but his Majesty the' both Lord Baltimore and Penn's
Heirs are new contending for it in England, not because either of
them has a Title to it but because it is convenient fer both and each
has a mind to it. It is generally believed by many of the best people

188 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
here who know the weakness and insufficiency ef both their claims that
this Land when the dispute on both sides is fully heard will remain
to the King. If his Majesty when it is so determined will bestow it
on the Society, a good Sum of Money might easily be raised off ef it
towards the Support ef a Bishop or Suffragan the maintenance of
missionaries er to such uses as the Society should think fit. I am
told by seme of the Representatives of the people here who meet in
Assembly for the making of our Laws, that here are about 200,000
Acres of Land cleared & improved, some ef the Settlers have Titles
from James, Duke of York, some from Penn the Quaker, some from
Lord Baltimore, all it is believed good for nothing in Law. It would
be of little value to the Crown to keep it but ef great service te the
Church to bestow it on the Society. It would be a popular act & make
a noise in England. And the people here would be glad to have the
Church their Landlord, I mean the majority who are members ef the
Church of England. Dissenters of all sorts here being not so numer
ous as the Church people. I am satisfied if this point could be car
ryed it would be of the greatest service to the Church here, I will
write to my Lord Bp ef London on the same subject. But I will
trouble you with ne more at present only desire you to lay this before
the Henrable Society in obedience to whose Orders I will very soon
send to you such an account of the Church History & ef my Parishes
as you require. I remain Sr your most obedt Servt
W. B.
March 13, 1727-S Te Dr. Humphrey.
To the Bishop of London.
My Lord. — The' I have not the happiness of being known to
your Lord'p, yet as I have been a Missionary to the Society for propa
gating the Gospel & in Pennsylvania near 7 years and have made
some observation upen the state of affairs here, so I have something
to offer to your Lordp's consideration which I conceive would (if it
could be effected) conduce much to the Interest of ReUgion here.
And this I humbly pray may be accepted as my Apology for giving
your Lrp this present Trouble. Here is a good Tract of Land being
on the West side of Delaware Bay & between the Two Provinces of
Maryland & Pennsylvania commonly called the 3 Lower Counties
(or Counties of New Castle, Kent & Sussex on Delaware about 100
miles in length & in some places 20 miles wide which as yet has proba
bly no Proprietor but his Majesty the' Lord Baltimore & the Heirs
of Penn the Quaker are both now contending fer it at Law in Eng
land, net se much because either has a good title to it as because each
desires & it will be a good convenient addition to either of their
Provinces could they recover or procure a Grant of it. But it is
generally believed by many persons of the best credit & capacities
here, whe are most acqted with the case that the Land does yet
belong to the Crown yt the claims of both the one & the other are
weak and insufficient & yt, when is fully canvassed before the proper
judicature in England it will be determined in favour of his Majesties
claim who when at any time a Commission is passed to a Governor
of Pennsylvania & of the 3 Lower Counties on Delaware has always
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the 3 Lower Counties on Delaware." Now should the case be so
determined, if a Grant for this Land could be procured to the Society
from his Majesty as a good Sum of Money might be raised from it
not only at first but Annually so it might be a mean to enable them
to carry on more effectually the good work for which they were in
corporated I am informed by one of the most intelligent of our As
semblymen here as the Representatives of the people in Legislature
are called) that here are about 200,000 Acres of Land cleared & settled,
here some settlers having titles from James late Duke of York, some
from Lord Baltimore & others from Penn & his Heirs all supposed to
be void in Law, because the Title of these Grants of Land is its self
precarious. The inhabitants at present are very anxious about their
Titles but would be glad te be settled in their possessions on a good
Foundation and to have the Church their Landlord. I mean the
majority at least whe are members ef the Church of England. Could
such a grant be procured here money might be raised toward sup
porting a Suffragan (much needed in America) to maintain Mission
aries or to such Uses as the Society should judge most expedient.
There is another affair whioh I also beg leave to lay before your
Lordsp. Since Major Gordon's arrival here our present Govemor,
he hath Granted Marriage Licenses premisculously te us & to the
Presbyterian Ministers, a thing never dene before in this Goverment
except only in the last year of Sr William Keith his predecessor when
his Fortune in a manner grew desperate and he was willing by any
means te raise Money. Or as he alleged because Dr. Welton was
then Minister at Philada. to whom it was by no means proper they
should be granted. The Missionaries here did at our last Convention
in September humbly lay this Greivance before our Governor but he
has refused to redress us in this point the' it is the only one wherein
it is in his power to favour us. If your Lordship will be pleased to
write to him about this it may perhaps be a mean to bring him to
our Interest as he professes himself a Member of the Church & ¦will
be a great faveur dene to the Missionaries. My Lord, I humbly beg
your pardon for this trouble and your prayers for me & those under
my care and remain
May it please your Ldp.
Your most dutiful & Obedt Son & Servant
W. B., Missionary at Lewes.
Pennsylvania. March IS, 1727-S.
To Bro. Jno. on the death of Bro. James.
Dear Brother. — I reed that Sorrowful Letter of yours on the
Sth day of July which was dated on March 16th at Ollerton. The
sad news of the Death of my dear Brother James was a severe stroke
to me, he was nearest to me in age & consequently the longest
Acqtance of all my brethren. He had been my constant play fellow
and bedfellow from my childhood till I grew up. We have spent
a great many pleasant days and hours together but now that satis
faction is over and we must see each ethers face no more. And we
were not only brethren but Friends. I have often experienced his
Friendship to me & I thank God I had always a hearty & brotherly
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m.ind ef our being together the thoughts ef which melt me into tears
so yt I can scarce see to write.
But what will perhaps greatly surprise you is this On Friday the
second day of February last about four o'clock in the morning (as
near as I can imagine) being in bed I dreamed that all the Teeth of
my upper-jaw became loose upen which with my finger & thumb I
took ym out & put them in my Pocket, immediately after which I
thought I also felt all the Teeth in my under jaw loose & ready to
drop out as the others upon which I also took ym out of my mouth
& put ym in my pocket as I had done before with those ef my upper
jaw Upen which in my dream I made this reflexion to myself. What
a great misfortune is this? That I who am now but 30 years ef Age
should leese all my teeth and be obUged to wear the face of an eld
man in the prime ef my time. I then started and awoke out of my
sleep in a great consternation & it immediately came into my memory
that my Father has often told me that a little before his mother
died (our Grandmother) he dreamed yt all his Teeth came eut of his
head, so yt I concluded with myself that my Mother er at least some
near Relation was dead which I believed I should hear ef in a little
time. With the grief and trouble ef this apprehension I arose out of
my bed the' it was before break of day in the morning not being
able te compose myself any mere & walked about the House very
sorrowfully so great an impression the dream had made in my mind
I put the time down in my Pocket Book & have ever since expected
that the first Letter I should have from home would bring me Sorrow
ful News. Insomuch that when I reed your last it lay on the Table
near an Hour before I had the Courage to open & look into it.
You tell me in your Letter that our Bro dy'd on Friday the twelfth
of February about 9 a' clock in the morning But this must needs be
a mistake fer the twelfth of February last did net happen on a Friday
but on a Monday so that I believe tis only a mistake in your letter
and yt he dy'd yt day and minute when I dreamed yt my teeth came
out fer when it is 9 a clock in the morning with you it is 4 a clock
with us here There being about S hours difference of meridian between
you & us. That is, it is 9 a clock here 5 hours after it is 9 with you,
and so of the other Hours and the second of Feb was on a Friday
which the 12th was not.
I have been full & particular en this point because I leek upon it
to be extraordinary & surprising that I who was 4000 miles distance
or near the matter at that very Instant should have notice that
some great Calamity was fallen upon my Family, as I certainly con
cluded from the Dream I desire you will be exact when you write
again & let me know whether I am any ways mistaken.
Could I have been present at his Burial & have mingled my Tears
with yours it might have given seme Relief to my Sorrow by giving
vent to it. And I might have paid my last Respects te the memory
of my Broer by preaching his Funeral Sermon if my grief would
have suffered it, but I beleive I should net have been able to do it, &
I se sensibly feel the weight ef my misfortune at this Distance that
I perhaps could not have boru it better er it may be not so well had
I been present. Had I been there with you my tears could not have
prolong'd his Life as new these which I shed fer him here are rain &
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split upon the ground & cannot be gathered up again as the Scripture
speaks. It is our duty to submit to Providence in all its dispenser-
tions tho' they may be bitter to us yet since they are according to the
Will of God we must submit. When our Heavenly Father corrects
us we may & must feel the smart, but we ought not to murmur &
repine And this harsh Providence ought te be a sufficient warning
to us the surviving brethren to consider our latter end and to live
virtuous & good Uves for if the strongest & likeliest to have lived to
Old Age is cut off & taken out of the World in the Flower of his Time
What Assurance have we of the continuance of our Life? Particu-
lary I ought to apply this advice to myself who am his eldest Bror
& according to Nature ought to have gone before him to the grave,
especiaUy considering what different sorts of air I have breathed weh
naturally contributes te shorten human Life.
But God has been merciful to me & preserved me in good Health
to this day. And I still hope to see you all before it be leng I am
exceedingly glad to hear of the safe recovery ef my good mother and
of the rest of you from your dangerous sickness & I pray for the
continuance of your health I hope Bror John has well recovered of
his Ague. You will give my duty to my dear Mother & love te Bros &
Sister & my kind Respects to all Old Friends & neighbours, let me
hear from you again as soon as may be & believe me ever to be
Your most affect. Bror Wm. Becket.
Lewes, Aug. 1, 1728. To Dr. Humphreys,
Revd Sir. — I wrote to you the last Autumn acquainting you with
the State of my Parish & giving you an Historical Account of it in
Obedience to the Commands of the Henrable Society. I am uneasy
till I hear whether you received that & my Letter in time. If it mis-
carry'd pray let me know as soon as may be that I may send you a
second Copy and so at least it may get a place in the second edition.
The State of my Parish is much as usual the Persons baptized in it
fer seme years past having been more than 80 and less than an hun
dred per Annum. But here it must be remembered that I have net
been able to compute the certain number either of Adults or Infants
which I have occasionally baptis 'd in my travells beth in this & the
Neighbouring Provinces of Maryland particularly in Kent County
upon Delaware, where I have several Times baptis'd near 20 persons
in a day and where there is both a very great want & desire of a Mis
sionary. The Number of Communicants in this County are increased con
siderably this year the Account in my book stands as follows.
1729.
At St. Peter's in Lewes at Christmas  19
At St. George's on Easter Sunday  20
At St. Matthew's en Whit 'Sunday  1857
Since the receipts of the Sermons sent over to me by the Hon.
Society (I mean these of Bp. Beveridge and the distribution ef my
Lord Bp. of London's Letters to the Masters & Mistresses of families)
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seven negroes & have been apply'd to by some others who are not yet
sufficiently instructed.
In my last I wrote to you to request of the Hm. Society that they
will be pleased to give me leave to come over te England the next
Summer with a continuance of my Salary that I may have an Oppor
tunity of settling some Affairs of importance to me which cannot well
be dene in my Absence, and of seeing my Native Country once more
& such of my Friends and Relations as the late Contagious Sickness
in Cheshire hath yet left alive. Your favours in this Point ¦will lay a
great Obligation upon, Sir your very hum. Servt W. Becket.
Lewes, May 29, 1729. To A. Hamilton Esq.
Sr.— Several of my friends who have been at N Castle as members
of Assembly the 2 or 3 last Sessions have been so kind as to tell me
after what manner you thought fit to treat my Character behind my
back, And as I am conscious te myself, & you know very well yt
I never did you any injury or offered you any affront so I was sur
prized yt you should do anything so mean and so little becoming a
Gentleman er a man in your Station.
If it be just Sir to speak ill of a man yt never wrong'd you nor any
friend of yours & to attempt to hurt a man's Interest that never
offer'd nor design'd any Injury to you, then you acted as became you.
For my part I never was taught till now, that hard names & oppro
brious language yt swearing and reviling at an Absent person befitted
a Gentleman, I am sure that in the Country where you & I were bred
these are called the language & manners of Porters & are thought to
be very vulgar and indecent.
Is it fit that the Speaker of an Assembly, the Recorder of a City,
a Magistrate & a professed Orator of no small Reputation should thus
descend to the language of men of the meanest Rank & lowest breed
ing. Fer the sake of Justice treat me Sir ¦with more Candor & good
Nature and as we say, do as you would be done by, I had almost
desired you to treat me as a Xn but since you seem to renounce yt
name pray treat me fairly & I desire no more. Reputation is a Jewel
yt no man cares to be robbed of, and I doubt not but you know men
whe had rather have a fair Attack made upon their Lives than an
unfair one upon their Reputations And I should be glad to see yt you
would be unwilling to take yt from another which you would not
part with yourself.
If it be because of my Religion or Character yi; you thus use me I
am sure it is a way unsuitable to the King's or Wm. Penn's Govern
ment who would have no one ill used en these Accounts. And if you
have imbraced principles different from mine I am of opinion yt they
are not worth maintaining if they carry you beyond the bounds of
Truth & Decency.
I have herein dealt plainly and severely with you & I knew you
cannot justly blame me for it I submit the whole to yor own Judge
ment & Refiection & remain
Sr. Your abused Frd & hum Servt
Wm. Becket.
Lewes, Nov. 26, 1729.
Mr. Hamilton.

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To Hen Brooke Esqr.
The hum Petition & Address of Wm Becket in behalf op him
self & SOME other Inhabitants of the Town of Lewes. 1731.
Sheweth:
That Providence hath placed your Petitioners in a sort of Retire
ment in a great measure separated from the noise & bustle as well as
from the News & Politicks of this World.
That not^withstanding yor Sd Petitioners are pretty well content
and do not greatly envy those whe act in higher & more publick
stations of Life when they consider among other things that the
Audience in a Theatre have commonly greater pleasure than the
Actors. That as yor Sd Petitioners desire ne more yn to be lookers
on & to observe hew the "Vim & the Busy part of mankind act their
respective Parts so it is highly necessary that we should be furnished
¦with the publick News both for our Instruction & entertainment.
That it hath been observed that several Persons in the fetres ef
London & Westmr & other places in his Majs Dominions have looked
upen ymselves as great Wits & PoUticans only frem that Store of
Learning & useful Erudition which they have collected from the
Publick Papers.
That as yor Sd. Petitioners do not know when it may please the
King to call upon some of them to act in great places ef trust & profit
which would be loath to refuse out of the great Zeal we have for his
Maj's service & the welfare of his Subjects s» we would not willingly
be unfurnished with any sort of Learning & Knowledge yt might
serve for so good a purpose.
That in Order here unto some of yor Sd Petitioners have for several
years last past been at considerable charges to gratifie ymselves &
have constantly taken in Mr. Bradford's Mercury at the expense ef
Ten Shill p Annum.
That besides the great Increase of necessary & useful Science which
must have accru'd to ourselves upon this Account Great advantage
must have arose from hence to the Publick Trade & Riches of this
Colony in as much as we contributed our Share to employ many
hands in the paper & printing Manufactures as by consulting learned
Authors upon this Subject may mere fully & at large appear.
That not'withstanding yor Sd. Petitioners cannot look upon their
reading & studies as compleat for want of a certain paper printed
Weekly by one Mr. Franklin of Phila. If therefore you w'd be pleased
to give orders yt the said papers may be sent down to us We doubt
not but you will soon be a Witness of eur great improvements in
many parts ef Useful Learning.
And yor Sd Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever pray &c.
The Rev. Mr. Bechet writes, September 25th, 1729, that
one year ago he had taken charge of a fourth church, by
name St. John Baptist.
The Rev. Hugh Neill to the Secretary of the S. P. G.:—
"Dover, September 1, 1751. — I have since Mr. Ussher's
departure, visited the County of Sussex several times, and

194 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
find the two congregations in the country to be regular and
numerous, but that in Lewestown appears to be small, I
believe by reason of the Town going very much to decay. "
1731. "From Pensylvania the Society have received
the following Accounts: The Reverend Mr. Beckett, Mis
sionary at Lewes, writes. That his Parish is much in the
same State as when he wrote last. There are now in that
Country 4 Congregations at 4 Churches, 3 of which Con
gregations are very numerous. He writes, that he lately
officiated at St. George's Chappel, which tho' it hath been
very considerably enlarged since his coming there, was not
now able to contain above one half of the Hearers. He
baptized that Day 5 White Children, & 3 Negroes. He re
marks farther, that in about 6 Weeks time he had baptized
in that Chappel, 10 White grown Persons, & 11 Negroes,
besides a Considerable Number at the other Churches in
this County. He adds farther, that he hopes it will appear
from these Instances, that he hath been very diligent in
his Mission, by promoting the Design of the Bishop of Lon
don's Letters, with regard to the Instruction of the Negroes
in his Parish."
1732. "From Pensylvania, the Society have received
the following Accounts: The Reverend Mr. Beckett, Minister
at Lewis Town, acquaints the Society, That during the 11
Years which he hath been a Missionary, he hath constantly
resided in his Mission, during which time, two new Churches
had been built in that County, & two more which had been
begun before his Arrival had been finished, so as to admit
of the decent Performance of Publick Worship to Almighty
God; that at each of these Places at times he hath con
stantly performed Divine Service upon all Sundays & Holi
days, reading Prayers, Preaching, Catechizing the Children,
Administring the Sacraments, & he can with Comfort say
with Good Success, that during his Mission, above a thousand
Persons, old & young. White & black, have been instructed
in the Christian Faith & baptized, & many Persons are con
stant Communicants."
My Lord: — This is the first opportunity for London since I was
honoured by your letter of September last. I never doubted but
that my Commission was intended to be of the same extent with
the Civil Govemment here, but then that it may be legally so,
and is absolutely necessary that after the words Infra Provin
ciam Pensylvania should be added, Et Comitatus Novi Castri,
Cantij & Sussesia Super Delaware, provided this be proper Law-

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Latin for the Counties of Newcastle, Kent and Sussex upon Dela
ware. Our Lieutenants Governors Commission always mention
these three Counties expressly after the province of Pensylvania,
and by the Kings approbation they are appointed over the former
Durante Beneplaicito, but over the latter without limitation. The
right to these Counties is controverted not only between the Penn-
family and Baltimore Ld. proprietor of Maryland, but the Crown
(if I'm rightly informed) claims them as not granted te either of
them, by their respective charters. Besides these counties have at
present a different legislation, an assembly of their own, together
with their own Judges & Courts of Justice. I'm sorry to give your
Lordship so much trouble, but the design of the Commission can't
be answered without the above addition, and some of the Clergy
there at my last calling them together signified to me by their letters,
that they did not think themselves obliged te meet me, seeing my
Commission extended only to the Province of Pensylvania.
As to Mr. Hackets affair, our Govemor did prosecute him, and
though as I'm told there was no law in these Counties te found the
action on, yet he being frightened submitted to the Court, and was
fined 60 Lib. Ster. I can't, however, think the payment will be in
sisted on. I return your Lordship's most hearty thanks for the
reasonable present ef your excellent Pastoral letters. I distributed
them according to directions, and hope they will have a good effect
to preserve many frem being infected by the profane principles of
some here in pubhc oifices. I beg your Lordship's Benediction, and
only add that I ever am ¦with profound respect.
Your Lordship's Most Obedient servant,
Archd. Cumming.
Philadelphia, March 29th, 1732.
To the Honourable Society for propagating the Gospel in foreignn Parts.
The Humble Petition op William Becket Their Missionary
at Lewes in Pennsylvania Sheweth,
That your humble Petition hath been Missionary to the Hon
Society for the Space ef Eleven years and hath resided constantly
in the place of his Mission Ten Years & a half in Lewes, in Sussex
County, during which time (blessed be God), 2 new Churches have
been built in this County & 2 that were raised before the arrival of
yor Petitioner have been carried on so as to admit of the decent wor
ship ef A God in which places your Sd Petitioner hath given constant
attendance alternately on Sundays & Hohdays in preaching praying
catichising administering the Holy Sacraments & other duties of his
Function ¦with good Success insomuch that above 1000 people Old
and young white & black have been instructed & baptized in the Sd
County by yor Sd Petitioner and many persons are Communicants
of the Ch. of England. & that here are more people professing them
selves members of the Sd Church than in any other County in the
Govemment considered in proportion with Dissenters of all sorts
that is to say, the Members of the Ch of England here are a great
majority. That there was a Presbyterian Minister & a Quaker speaker in
this County at the time of your Sd Petitioner's Arrival but they have

196 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
1
both now left the place without sending any one to succeed them
so that now there is not any Preacher of any persuasion in this County
except your Sd Petitioner.
That when your Petitioner had resided here for the space of 7
years or there abouts, being earnestly desirous to see his native Coun
try ence more and te settle seme Affairs of his own there he did re
quest the Hen Society for leave to that purpose which leave was
kindly granted by the Sd Society.
But so it was that your Sd Petitioner could not as yet make use
of the Indulgence granted him by the Sd Hon Society because yt
no clergyman was to be procured te officiate in his absence & that
upon many Accounts it would have been indiscreet & unsafe for yor
Sd Petitioner to leave se great a Cure without any Pastor especially
at such a juncture.
Upon this weighty Consideration your Sd Petitioner hath been
content te set aside his own particular Inclination & Business at
Present that he might the better serve the Ch of God & promote the
good designs ef the Hen Society.
That the labours & fatigues of yer Sd Petitioner have been very
great in his Mission se yt seme years besides performing the Offices
of his Function he hath travelled at a moderate Computation 1632
miles to promote the good designs of the Sd Society & in other years
when his Task has been the easiest no less than 1156 miles, so yt he
was always obliged te keep 2 horses which are very chargeable to
be maintained in a Town your Sd Petitioner having net any Glebe
or Farm to Maintain them upen.
That the Parishoners of yor Sd Petitioner have been exceedingly
kind te him during the whole time, by subscribing liberally towards
his Support & maintenance (considering their poor circumstances)
& by many other kind & good Offices, which has been a great en
couragement te your Petitioner in the midst of his Labour. That be
sides what is already mencioned they have at this Time done an
extraordinary Act of Kindness to your Petitioner A good Farm being
offered to sale of about 400 Acres of Land with a good House on it
a good Orchard of near 1000 fruit Trees, a good Bam Frame ¦with a
Kitchen & out Houses abt 7 miles from Lewes'. They have advised
him to buy it & promised to assist him unanimously to pay for it,
that he may be enable to secure a more certain support fer his Family.
And also yt no invitations from any neighbouring vacant Parishes
in "Virginia or Maryland (Many ef which have been offered to him)
may move him te leave them. Accordingly he hath joined them
in a bargain with the Owner of the Sd Land &c the price to be paid
for it is 270 pounds of this Currency. 160 pounds are to be pd
down now, & 110 a year hence. Your venerable Board will see by
a Copy of the Subscription which he has caused to be exemplified
& sent ever te you regularly attested how far the poor people of this
parish were able to help your Petitioner in this Affair. A Testimony of
their zeal for Religion & their Esteem for your Petitioner.
But as Lewes is a chargeable place being a small Sea Port on the
Mouth of the great River Delaware where all European goods are
generally sold at near 200 pr cent advance in Short & for as much
as your Petitioner hath a numerous Family to maintain viz a Wife
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Ship wrecked & distressed people as well as in Civility to entertain
Gentlemen & Strangers of the Communion of the Ch of England
especially, who occasionally resorted to the place, and as a Clergy
man must be given to hospitality as well as apt te teach Sr your
Petitioner hath net been a'ble to save any Money except only what
may buy a Stock of Cattle & such Implements for Husbandry as are
necessary upen a Farm & without weh it cannot turn to a profitable
Account. Upon the whole your humble Petitioner desires the Hon
Society to concur ¦with his Parishoners in this Charitable Act that
they ¦will be pleased to bestow on your Petitioner something (what
ever they in their ¦wisdom & goodness shall think proper) towards
paying for the Farm on which he is now settled. Or if no't yt they will
be so good as to advance a years Salary for him on the 25th of March
next (when the Purchase Money is to be paid) and
Your Petitioner as in Duty bound shall ever pray &c.
Apl. 15, 1732. Letter to Dr. Humphreys.
Reverend Sir. — I send you here ¦with a Petition to the Hon Society
which -I must beg the favour of you to lay before the venerable board
as also a copy of a subscription which my Parishoners have been so
kind as to present me with, the better to enable me to buy a good
Farm among them for my better settlement & support & that ef my
Family And I also shall send you a Map of Sussex County (my Parish)
if I can get one truly and well drawn that so the Hon Society may the
better judge ef the inconvenience of my present situation with re
spect to the Several Churches here. When it is considered that the
people here are generally poor, it ¦will I doubt not appear to the Hon
Society to be a very liberal Benefaction & yt I have net behaved
myself ill among a people who are so desirous yt I should settle among
them for Ufe. If they could have raised money to have paid for the
whole purchase ymselves, they did intend to have settled it as a Glebe
for the use of the Societies Missionary fer the time being. But money
being exceedingly scarce here & they not able to advance the whole
Sum, they have made me a present ef what they could contribute.
However if I die without issue (as God only knows what shall come
to pass) I purpose in my last Will to bequeath it to the Hon Society.
The Purchase Money according to the Bargain made is to be paid
as follows: 160 lbs. of this Country Currency is to be paid down now
at my Entry on the Sd Farm (it being about 100 lbs Sterl) and UO
lbs Currency on the 2Sth day of March next being about 70 lbs Sterl.
You will be so good Sr as to lay these matters before the Hon
Society and to let me know their pleasure herein ¦with convenient
speed that so I may know how to prepare myself for the latter paym't
above mentioned.
The State of my Parish is much as usual so yt I do not need to trouble
you with a particular Account of it at this time. InfideUty has spread
much of late in some parts of this Govemment But (God be thanked)
my Parish is pretty free from it. My Lord Bp. of London's letters &c
have been of great use & service to Christianity in America, indeed
every thing he ¦writes is read here with great Esteem. We hear here
yt some other of My Lds the Bishops & several other eminent Divines
have employed their Pens in the Christian Cause, but being in this

198 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Corner ef the World I know net how to get any of them otherwise
they would be of great use. My Parishoners are in great want of
Ch Catechisms Prayer Books & Psalms of the New 'Version. That so
they might bring up their Children more religiously. I remain
Revd Sir Your Most Obedt & Most Hum Servt,
Lewes, April 20th, 1732. Wm. Becket.
To the Hon Patrick Gordan Esqr Govr of Pennsylvania &c.
May it Please Yor Honour. — You have done me a great favour
which you knew not of but which gratitude obliges me to acknowledge.
The last year you were se kind as te recommend me in the handsomest
manner to the late Governor of Maryland in order to procure me
one of their best Parishes there. How I happen'd to be disappointed
in that Affair I have already acquainted yer Honr. However your
letter in my faveur has at last had an effect more to my satisfaction
& perhaps as much to my interest as if I had then succeeded — in the
manner following.
My Parishoners observing that if they did not provide a Glebe or
a Farm for me I should before long be obliged te accept of some vacant
Parish in Maryland or 'Virginia where such a convenience might be
had the better to support my growing family & kno^wing yt living
constantly in a, small Town was very chargeable to me, & being
unwilling to part with me, they have unanimously joined ¦with me in
the purchase of a good Country House & Plantation to be settled
on me & my Heirs. The plantation we have bought & to which I
am now moved did belong to Mr. Davis (one of the Magistrates ef this
County) the quantity of land is about 400 Acres, abt 8 miles from
Lewes. The Sum to be paid fer it is £270. Of which my Parishoners
have raised by contribution £150. Here is a good House Garden &
Out Houses, & about a thousand fruit trees of several sorts, so yt
I look upon myself now te be settled for life.
The situation of my new purchase is pleasant, & I hope will prove
beautiful to my family, the Air is good & open in full view before my
door lies Rehoboth Bay & the mouth ef the Indian River well stored
with excellent fish, cockles & Oysters Of which whenever you come
down to Sussex I hope you will honor me so far as to take a taste.
And as I am much obliged to your Honr for several favours & kind
Offices which you always did for me in the most cheerful & handsome
manner so I did believe it would not be disagreeable to you to hear
of the effect of your last years Letter in my favour & of my settlement
under your Government. I remain Sr with the greatest gratitude
& Esteem Yor Honours most ObUged & Most Obedt Hum Servt
Sussex, May 9, 1732. Wm. Becket.
P. S. — My wife tells me there is a mocking bird sitting en 4 Eggs
in a nest on a Joyce in our Bam. If your Lady or any of your daughters
will accept of a couple of the the young ones when they are feathered
& fit to be carry'd, I ¦wiU send them up the River by a careful Hand.
But then I must desire you to order a Cage to be sent down by Mr.
Stretcher or Mr. Willbank for there is ne such thing as getting a hand
some one here.
N. B. — Wm. Warrington pd 2s 6 the last year more than his due.

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Letter to Revd, Mr, Cummings,
Dear & Revd Sir. — Your Letters in my favour the last year to
the Govr & Commissary of Maryland the' they had not the Effect
you intended have had a good one since here. The people of my
Parish (finding yt if they did not provide fer me I should ere long
be obUged to move to some vacant Parish where my family might
¦with more ease & less charge be supported have unanimously joined
¦with me to purchase a good Plantation to be settled on me & my
Heirs for ever, that so I may not be under any temptation to accept
of any Maryland or 'Virginia Parish that may hereafter be offer'd
to me.
We have purchased abt 400 Acres of good Land (abt 8 miles dis
tant from Lewes) lying convenient enough for visiting the several
Churches of this County, The purchase money is 270 lbs Currency.
no lbs is to be paid do-wn 60 lb to the Land Office & 100 lb a year
hence. My Parishoners have given me by Contribution £150 pounds
towards the purchase money (as you will see by a copy of their
Subscription which I have inclos'd Upon this Plantation is a very
good House & garden -with good outhouses sufficient & upwards of
a 1000 fruit trees of all sorts Rehoboth Bay, the Mouth of the Indian
River and the Main Ocean lie in full view before my deer. Here is
plenty of fish of all sorts besides SheU Fish viz. Cockles Oysters &
Crab Fish Abt 100 Acres of the land are cleared & improved the
rest is all wood land, you may easily guess the late O-wner is much
in debt otherwise we should not have got such a bargain I mov'd my
Family hither on the 30th day ef March last and en the 2Sth ef April
all the Magistrates except a Quaker & a Presbyterian Justice (it
being my Birth day) came to see me & wish me joy of my settlement
among them fer Life so yt you find that the Ch & State agree here
very well. The leading men among them have pressed me to accept
of the next Commission of the Peace but I have refused it & will not
accept of it if you think it improper for indeed the proper business of
my Function is more than enough fer me. Pray let me know your
Opinion when you write.
I leave it to your discretion whether it will be proper for you to let
the Bp of London. know of the generous present that my poor Par
ishoners have made me But pray let my good old Friend Mr Ross
& Mr Hackett be acqted with the affair If you can excuse me from
coming up the River to meet the Clergy (as usual) this FaU I shall
take it as a great favour for I have a great sum to pay & none to
Spend. If you have any papers te send home for the service of the
Church let Mr Ross counterfeit my hand to them as he knows very
well how I do and I shall be content. I remain Sr with the sincerest
regard. Yor Most obUged & Most affect Bror & Most Hum Servt
Wm. Becket.
Petty Peover, May 10, 1732.
P. S. My Hum Service & my Spouses to Mrs. Cummings, to
Mr. Moore & his Lady to Mr & Mrs Evans, Mrs Newmain & to that
High Flyer Mr. Ammaud &c.

200 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Wednesday, July 28, 1736.
To My Friend Dr. Chew. A Syllogism. 1736.
1 . Whatsoever is asserted in the New Testament is undoubtedly true.
2. But the several Articles of the Athanasian Creed are derived from
the N Testament.
3. Therefore every Article of the Athanasian Creed is undoubtedly
true. Sr. — I proniised you this Syllogism some years ago But did not
think of it again till this Time Be so good as to pardon my forget
fulness You knew Sir that most men are vain enough to imagine yt
an Argumt that convinces themselves ought in Reason to convince
others Whether this way of reasoning (as I call it) will have the same
Effect upon you' that it has upon me. I know net However let your
own Reason judge for you, as it ought to do in all matters & beUeve
me te be what I really am
Sir yor most Obedt Hum Servt Wm. Becket.
Lewes, July 28th, 1736.
May it Please Your Honour. — I heard but the other day the
day the agreable news of your Recovery from your late dangerous
Indisposition And the' I live in so distant a Part ef your Governmt
yet give me leave to say that both Duty gratitude and Affection
prompt me to congratulate with you upon your Recovery and to
wish you a long continuance of your Health and yt we may long be
happy under mild & just Administration. I have no notions of a
good Governm but what suits with yours. My Tutors took care to
instruct me that Honour & Honesty were the same Things That
Truth & Candor are inseperable Companions of a Brave and a great
mind That Falsehood & Lyeing proceed from Cowardice and mean
ness of Spirit. And that the refined Arts of Policy & DissembUng
are built upon a rotten Foundation. They generally break out in
Slander and Calumny And the Authors of them are attended with
Scorn & contempt. If Truth and Justice and Generosity are Vir
tues, If a due & impartial Administration & Execution ef Laws
(without the utmost Rigor & Severity) render a Governmt easy &
secure, then we have no Reason to be dissatisfy'd with yours. These
Sir without flattery are my Sentimts ef your Administration & if it
had pleased Ged to have called you out of the World I shd have
thought it my Duty as far as my Narrow Sphere extends, to have
done the same Justice to your Memory which I now do to your char
acter I beg leave with gratitude to remain
Sr yor Honrs most Obedt Most Hum Servt
Wm. Becket.
Sussex, August 4, 1736. Govr. Gordon.
N. B. He dy'd the day Following.
Dy'd Aug. 5,- 1736.
To The Memory of The Honourable Patrick Gordon Esqr late
Govr of Pennsylvania & of the 3 Lower Counties on Del.
Plain Generous Honest Merciful & Brave
Each Good Man's Patron; Dread of every Knave
Wise without Craft; Corageous ¦without Beast

ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS. 201
With thee these Useful Virtues we have lost
Thy worth the British Hero Marlbro' knew
Under whose Care thy rising Genius grew
The' thou art gone thy Honour still remains
By valient Deeds in many long Campagnes
Our private thoughts thy Publick Virtues own
If envy rail; yet still let this be kno^wn
Thou brok'st no Promise sought no private End
Adieu! Thou Best of Governours & Friends.
Written Augt 14, 1736.
Verses to the Memory of Henry Brooke Esq. who departed this
Life on Friday Feb 6 and was hurried in the Church at Philadelphia
on Saturday Feb 7th 1735-6 — Printed in the Mercury.
Dignum laude virum musa vetat more.
Permit lamented Shade an humble Muse
In lowely Strains, thy worthy Name to Use
Thy Merit claim a Nobler Pen than mine
In lays polite & lofty like to thine
A Task so glorious Pepe himself might try
And paint thy virtues fair before our Eye
In me my Grief supplies the want of Art
And gratitude sincere as was thy Heart
What useful Lessons did thy Virtues teach
Their Circle compassed all in human Reach
Thy Soul was uncorrupt, thy Genius strong
Thy Learning various in each different tongue
In thee the Greek & Roman Knowledge shone
Each Foreign modern language was thy own
No Science left unsearched, no Art could flie
Or scape the View of the discerning Eye
Each bright Idea printed on the Brain
Thy Memory Strong unerring did retain
From that clear fountain he whoever drew
Found all explained enforc'd improved anew
Each well chose thought in beuteous order lay
And clear Expression drove the Clouds away
Well chosen words se plain so sweet so strong
With Pleasure still we trac'd the Theme along
So when thick Fogs obscure the fall of Day
And men lament the absent Solar Ray
The pitying Sun breaks thro' with glorious light
And Hills and Plains restores .to Mortal Light
Thy feet the paths of pure Religion trod
Thy Soul a living Sacrifice to God
No Affectation No abhorr'd Grimace
With which the Hypocrite obscures his face
Did 'eer thy Virtue or thy Honour stain
Twas all sincere & upright just & plain
¦f Good Humour Manly Wit a generous mind
A Judgment strong a Fancy unconfin'd

202 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
A Friend to Virtue and a Fee to Vice I
In all the conduct regularly nice i
Happy the future Age that once shall see i
In all respects a Parallell to thee I
Thy great Contempt of Riches did we find
Give greater leisure to enrich thy mind
Knowledge & Virtue; these were all thy store
And to thy Talents still thou added'st more
O! couldst theu leave those Treasures to thy Friend
Than Geld mere precious should the Gift descend
Yet still thy Bright Example shall remain
Our minds the great Impression long retain
From us thy Pattern never shall depart
T^will raise the Mind, and rectifie the Heart.
Written Mar 23d 1735-6
Henry Brooks Esqr was the Queen's Collector at Lewes in 1703 —
Vide Watsons Annals p. 25S.
Letter to Dr. Humphreys.
Revd Sir. — 1. It is a good while since I wrote to you concerning
the State of my Parish my last I think was a Letter of thanks to the
Hon. Society fer their kind & generous Present of 20th The Reason
why I have not wrote oftner is because the Circumstances ef my
Parish are much in the main as they us'd to be Except what I am
going to relate to you If the Society had not been so good as to send
me ReUef so seasonably I knew not whether I should have been in
the Church er the County Goal on Sundays But I do net blame my
People for they are poor And the' willing not able to do as they would.
However now the danger is ever I thank Ged and take Courage.
2d. The last time I went to the distant part of my Parish about
a Month ago, I preached at the Ch of St. John the Baptist on Satur
day 12 miles distant from my House And on Sunday the day fol-
lo^wing at St. Matthews Ch 25 Miles distant At the former Ch I bap
tis'd 11 Children and at the other Ch 10 and administered the Euch
arist to 13 people. I visit these Churches about once a month and
cannot do it oftner, they are at se great a distance.
It is necessary also that I not only tell you the Success of my
Labours but also the discouragements that we meet ¦with who are
your Missionaries and I think this pretty commen to us all. The
Infidells or Deists (for they do not differ much here) under the Pro
tection ef a Quaker Influence have taught even the Common People,
te call in Question not only the Reasonableness of Faith but the
Truth of Fact in the O & N Testament So yt a great deal of our Con
versation ¦with them must necessarily tum upon proper Arguments
to convince them of the Fallacy. You -will easily guess by what I
have ¦wrote that our Task at this Time is as hard as the Infidells can
make it.
P. S. Our Governour dy'd the Sth of this month. We have had
very great Assistance frem the Pastoral Lters of our Bishop among the
the Few Learned & Well bred and discreet people that we have among
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which are suited to the Capacitys ef the meanest of the People (such
as my Parishoners generally are) I would earnestly beg some Copies
to be distributed among ym. I desire to remain always
Revd Sir Your most Obedt & most Hum Sert
Wm. Becket.
Aug 25 1736.
Great Good & Just could I but rate
My Grief and thy too rigid Fate
I'de weep the World to such a Strain
As it should deluge once again
But since thy loud tongu'd bleed demands supplies
Mere from Brareus' hands than Argus' Eyes
I'le sing the Obsequies ¦with Trumpets sounds
And write thy Epitaph with bleed & Wounds.
Written by the Marquss of Montross on the Sands of Leith with
the Point of his Sword 1648. Transcribed from Mr. Bickley August
25 1736. Memorandum.
The Revd Mr. William Black Rector of the Church in Accomack
County in Virginia came the first Missionary to Lewes in Sussex
Co. in Pennsylvania July 26 1708 and left the Mission in the Month
of May 1709.
WilUam Becket Missionary left London June 11 and arrived at
Lewes Sepr 1st 1721 Bom at O^^^r Peover in Cheshire April 25 1697
The Son of John & Mary Becket.
Written Sepr 25 1736.
Sir. — I rec'd your very kind and handsome Lre some time ago,
In answer of mine to the Govr who I heard was upon the Recovery
I am sorry for the loss ef your Family & yt of the Province. But
he is gone and to speak in the Military language has march 'd off with
Honour. Or to express it in a graver Stile He is gone to the Spirits of just men
made perfect I have sent you all the marriage Bonds I have by me
(except one taken at the Marriage of Mr. Fenwick Stretcher which
I have mislaid & cannot now find but will send it to you as soon as
I light on it.) And I have sent you also 6 Blanck Bonds & Licences,
the Bonds I have sent you filled up are in Number 17.
I have sent you my Account some Time ago, and I think that there
are but 2 articles te be added to it viz £5 paid te Mr. Shaw March 12
1734/S and paid also to him on your Acct. May 8 1736 £2 IOs. Od.
which I have Receipts for, when you have added these to my Credit
you ¦will readily find how the Acct Stands.
I am sorry I had not the Opportunity of Granting the Blanck ones
I send you back but the Govrs death prevented me.
The new Licences from our worthy President dent please me.
They are not in the usual Stile ner directed te a Clergyman nor ac
cording to the Common Law and are lodg'd in the hands of Laymen.
And we aU know that it is but matter of Courtesy to make use ef them.
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204 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Because as the Scripture Sais, His Time is short. I beg the favour
of you to make my Service acceptable te the Propr to your good Lady
And all the Govrs Family and believe me to be
Sr. Yor most obliged & most hum Sert
Dec 14 1736. Wm. Becket.
Mr. Secretary Charles.
Written on Thursday Apr 21, 1737 In a dangerous fit of Sickness.
I have taken several repeated bad colds the Winter past which
occasioned a great constant Hearsness so that I could scarcely be
heard to read Prayers or preach, I took a journey to New Castle a'bout
New Years day which increas'd my Malady The Cold being very
severe. Mar. 19. I was wet to the Skin in a cold Rain after having felt
a Pleuritic Pain in my right Side a Week whenever I cough'd.
Monday Mar 21. I was seiz'd ¦with violent Vomiting & bleeding
at the mouth the Shock having burst an Artery or a Vein Dr Fisher
applied & administred several Remedies as Stypticks EmolUents &c
But on Tuesday Apl 19 Was oblig'd to take frem me at least 24 oz of
Blood. I am new under a Rule of Fasting, but in a weak Condition.
Misere mei domine & uxoris & liberorum & Jesum Christum Med
icum Animae & Corporis maximum. Amen.
Written on St Georges Day Apl 23 being Saturday in the latter
end of the 40 year of my age.
Me adhuc egrete & aere perfrigido
Non adhuc recit ver vix signum verie.
Written on my Birth Day Apl 25 1737 being exactly 40 years of
age I was bem at Over Peover in Cheshire on Sunday at noon St
Marks day Anno 1697.
Written on Saturday Apl 29, 1738
I was 41 Years of Age 4 days ago, I recovered of my above men
coned Malady in May last. Laus Deo soli. The Spring is forward
The trees loaded with Leaves and Blossoms & the Earth cloathed
¦with Grass this 29 Apl 1738 Nora. Penna.
Written en my Birthday Apl 25 1741 Aged 44 years Bona salute
Laus Deo. Address of the Clergy to Governor Thomas.
May it Please yor Honr. — We the Clergy ef the Ch of England
licens'd for the Province of Pennsylvania beg leave to take- this Op
portunity of congratulating you upon your being appointed Governor
of the Province ef Pennsylvania & of the 3 Lower Counties on Dela
ware, and upen your safe arrival among us. We have ne reason to
doubt frem your known Character of Justice & Integrity but yt you
will encourage & protect us in the due discharge of our Sacred Function
as your Worthy Predecessors have dene to whose memory we owe
all just gratitude and we doubt not of being happy under your wise
and mild Administration as we have been under theirs We declare
ourselves to be sincerely attatched to the British Constitution both
in Church & State and to the present Happy Establishmt We have no
private designs in view. No particular Faction to carry on. No party
to promote in contradiction to the Laws, and the British Government
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ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS. 205
embrace every part of our Happy Constitation. Our Duty is un
doubtedly to pray for the King as Supreme, and for Governors as
them yt are sent by him for the Punishment of Evil doers & the praise
of them that do well. To promote the Xn Rel by serving Ged with
discretion as well as zeal. To promote the Happiness of our Governor
by teaching the people under our Care the duty they owe to those
whom God has placed in Authority over them and te instruct them
to Uve quiet & peaceable Lives in all GodUness & Honesty.
This Sr with the Devine Blessing and Assistance shall be the Con
stant care & Indeavor of
Yor Honours Most Obedt & Most Hum Servts
Lewes-Town, July 30, 1737.
Letter to Dr. Humphreys.
Revd Sir. — It is very fit that I give you an Acct of the State of
my Parish not having troubled you with a letter fer seme consider
able Time past. The Reason whereof is yt in general our religious
Affairs are in a good measure in a Prosperous Condition Besides that
in the beginning of the year I was visited ¦with a dangerous Pleurisie
which confined me to my house fer 8 weeks and it was generally be
lieved would have carry'd me off. But God was fnerciful to me &
has restored me to my former State of Health, so yt I have been able
for 2 months past to attend the duties of my Mission as usual. I con
tracted this disease by tee adventerously exposing myself to the
severities ef a very Cold Winter Season in distant parts of the County
where the Hon Society has placed me. We having 4 Churches &
large Congregations yt zealously attend the Worship of God, I thought
it would be a shame fer the Priest to stay at Home notwithstanding
the Rigor of the Season when the people show'd so much zeal & read
iness to attend the Service of God.
To give you one Short Instance of the Success of my Labours thro'
the Blessing of God, In the last Month (July) I baptis'd in the several
Churches of this County 41 children which is no extraordinary number
for the Time in a Summer Season. On the last Sunday but one I
baptiz'd 12 children of the above Number On Whitsunday last
at one of my Churches I had 21 Communicants. During the time of
my Sickness for 3 Sundays I was utterly unable to do any thing the
rest of the Sabbaths I was able to read Prayers & a Sermon of some
Devine on that day when my Parishoners came to my House to visit
me, During weh time I baptiz'd several Infants & 3 Adults.
"There is no Missionary nor Clergyman ef the Ch of England within
60 miles distant from Lewes so yt in my troubles, I have been called
on in my journeys to baptize whole Families several Times. We
labour under only 2 discouragements here. The first is (only) from
our own People who the' they freely attend Divine Worship yet are
hardly induced to subscribe towards our Maintenance And (the second
is) when they have subscrib'd they are hardly brought to pay us
¦without a Law Suit which is a Remedy yt we apprehend might prob
ably obstruct the good intents of our Mission & therefore is seldom
made use of.
The second is Our Governmt is under the Influence of the Quakers,
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206 SOME RECORDS OP SUSSEX COUNTY.
formerly) to grant Marriage Licences se he has contrary te former
usage lodg'd them in the Hands of Laymen of his own kidney or
under his Immediate Influence To whom we are obliged to apply
with much Ceremony and ne small charge to our Parishoners to ob
tain a Marriage Licence I need to say no more on this Head than to
desire to compare their avow'd Principles & Practices on this Point
We find no Cause for this Evil but Patience. Te prevent being
further tedious I have no more to add but that I beg leave to remain
Reverend Sr
Your most Obliged & most Obed Servt
Wm. Becket.
Lewes, Aug 2d, 1737.
Letter to the Deputy Governor of New York.
May it Please Your Honr. — I have had several Letters frem Mr.
Harrison Missionary at Staten Island proposing an exchang of Mis
sion between himself and me and yt we should join eur Interests
together te obtain leave of the Hon Society te grant & confirm the
exchange As I have not the Honr te be of your Acqtance so 1 must
beg leave before I ask a Favour to introduce myself to you by saying
That I am Mr Brookes (your Kinsman's) Countryman That I was his
most intimate Companion & Friend That he used humourously to
call me his Confessor that he lodg'd & dieted in my House for some
years, & yt he testified his Respect fer me in his Last Will by leaving
me his sele Heir & chief Extor.
When I have sd this I know yt I need te say no more to recommend
me to seme share of your Favour Mr. Abraham De Payster (the Tall)
can assure you of the Truth of most of these Particulars.
And new Sr the faveur which I would beg of you is That you would
be pleased to Assist me with your Interest & Influence to promote
the exchange of my Mission from Lewes to Staten Island I have no
reason te desire it but that I live en a Country Plantation where I
and my Family cannot have eur Health as we have found by 5 years
woeful experience In order to promote this Design I will wait upon
you at N York as soon as the Spring opens if you are pleased to
approve of it Be so good Sr as to Direct your Secretary to write
me your Sentiments on the Subject for I shall not stir in it without
your Consent & be pleased to acqt Mr. Commissary Vesey with the
affair if you think proper Be pleased te give my Hum Service to
your Lady & Miss Penelope the' unknown (for they are both of my
own Native Country Cheshire) and give me leave to say that I shall
always remain Sr Yor most Obedt & most Hum Servt W. B.
I will bring the Res of you & your Lady formerly wrote to Mr
Brooke. Mar is, 1737-8 Lettr To the Rev. Mr. Harrison.
Dear Bror Harrison. — I was sick almost te Death when you
wrote te me about the Exchange ef our Parishes and cou'd net give
you a satisfactory Ansr till new that I am get Hearty & strong again
and new you may expect te see me at York very soon when the Spring

ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS. 207
Opens if the Govr to whom I have wrote this day approves of the
affair and my design is to act intirely in concert with you I met
accidentally in Octr last at New Castle ¦with the late Dean Berkley's
Bror (the Dean is now Bp of Cloyne in Ireland) to whom I communi
cated the Affair He approves ef the Exchange and has promised to
faciUtate it by writing to my Lord his Brother so yt we shaU hardly
meet ¦with any difficulty in the fase For the remainder I beg leave
to recommend you to the perusal of what I have this day wrote to
your Govemor. And as you will probably see me very soon so I
need to say no more at prest but yt I am no ChangeUng But
Sr Yor old Friend & Bror & Hum Servt W. B.
Mar. is, 1737-8.
Be pleased to write to me specially.
Letter to Dr. Humphreys.
Reverend Sr. — My last Letter to you contained in part an Acct
of my Indisposition the last year which brought me very near the
Grave This will bring you an account of my Recovery & yt I have
been able thro' the Divine Blessing to perform the Duties of my
Function the whole year past at the Several Churches of this County
alternately as usual I have net laboured in Vain & thank God The 4
Churches of ys County have generally in good weather full Congrega
tions I seldom baptize in one Sunday less than Three often six and
sometimes more. I have at one Church 30 at another about 20 and
at another 12 Communicants the last time I administred the Euchar
ist at the several Churches (For one of eur Structures is a poor
small Chappel lately built & inconvenient for that purpose.) The
people are generally peer, willing but few of them able to contribute
any thing to my support. But the Country-born as the People here
call themselves are generally Professors ef the Ch of England and are
little incUned te either Bigottry er Enthusiasm. Quakerism decays
strangely even in this Province the Nursery ef it only for want of
Opposition The Missionaries here are generally ef Opinion That let
it alone & it will die of itsself We study te be great & to mind our
own Business. After having given you this brief Acct of the state ef
my Parish I must desire leave to lay before you and by your Means
lay before the Hen Society a particular Case and beg leave y-t it may
be considered by way of Petition. The Revd Mr Harrison Missionary
at Staten Island has often by letter desired me te solUcit from the Hon
Society an Exchange of Missions between him & myself. The Reasons
he gives me for it is some Uneasiness between himself & his Parishon
ers besides yt as this is a very private Corner of the World he desires to
end his Days in Retirement being now about the Age of Sixty. The
Reasons I have to beg leave to Accept of the Exchange are that I
found by Eleven Years Experience that as Lewes was too changeable
a place to support my Numerous Family se since I mov'd back into
the Woods myself nor Family have never had eur Health so well as
usual. The' the Land be good yet it is situate among Swamps &
Marshes Lewes Town which is a healthy place with the Hon Societies
Salary ¦will very well support a Single Person as He is But it is hard to
subsist a Family. European goods being generally sold there at 300
^ Cent. The Church People of Staten Island as well as the Leiuten-

208 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
ant Govr of N York are as I am well informed willing that the Ex
change should be made if the Hon Society thinks fit. More especially
because they want a man of Learning to assist in the Education of
their Sons {Absit arrogantia verbo) the Parents being some of them
rich and not only able but willing to be at the Expence of as good an
Education as may be had fer their Children. If the Hen Society
judges that this Affair will be of any Service to Learning & Rel as
well as to my Health & Interest I know they will grant the Prayer of
my Petition. If net I must acquiesce. I desire always to remain
Revd Sir Yor Most Obliged & Most Obedt Hum Servt
Wm Becket.
Lewes, March 29, 1738
1738.- — "The Reverend Mr. Becket, Minister at Lewis,
writes April 22, 1738 That he was recovered from a very
dangerous Illness; & through the Divine Blessing enabled
to perform the Duties of his Function, & had not laboured
in vain, the four churches in that County having generally
full Congregations; and on Sundays he seldom baptizeth
less than three, sometimes four, sometimes six; & hath at
one Church thirty, at another twenty, & at a third twelve
Communicants; that the Country-born People, as they call
themselves, are generally Members of the Church of Eng
land; & Quakerism decays strangely, even in that Province
designed to be the Nursery of it. He adds they have no
Bibles but of the smaller Prints, & desires the Society
to bestow on him one of the larger Print, & on his Con
gregation some Common Prayer-Books & Catechisms.
The Society hath sent Mr Becket a Quarto Bible for him
self fifty of Lewis's Exposition of the Church Catechism, to
be distributed among his poor Parishioners."
PuBLius Lentulus the Proconsul from Jerusalem to the
Senate of Rome.-^Translated from Jean Huartes. — Feb.
22d, 1724-S.
There has appeared in our days a man who is yet alive and furnished
¦with the greatest Virtue called Jesus Christ whom the People name
the Prophet of Truth and his disciples say that he is the Son of God.
He raises the dead and heals the sick. His person is of a middle
stature and strait & very agreable to sight. His visage is so venerable
that those who look upon it are equally disposed to love & fear him.
His Hairs are of the Colour of a Ripe Filbert and fall plain as far as
his Ears and from thence te his Shoulders they are of the Colour of
Wax but much brighter. From the middle of his forehead along the
Top of his Head, his Hair is parted after the Fashion of the Nazarenes.
His Forehead is smooth and most serene. His Face is -without wrinkle
or Spot of a Moderate Colour. For his Mouth and Nose there is no

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fault to be found ¦with 'em. His beard is thick and like his Hair Its
not overlong and grows fercke'd or parted in the Midst. His look is
exceedingly sweet and Grave. His eyes piercing & very lively. When
he reproves, he gives Terror, & pleases when he admonishes. He
makes himself belov'd. He is gay with gravity. Never has he been
seen te laugh 'but often te weep. His hands and arms are extremely
handsome. He pleases much in conversation But uses it rarely. And
when he appears ¦with great Modesty. In a word in his whole air and
behaviour he is the loveliest man that can be imagin'd.
Transcribed frem Mr. Brooke's Translation, May 16, 1739.
To Mr. Whitefield.
Revd Sr. — I rec'd your Racquet & the Money & I thank you for
your printed Pamphlets with the same degree of Sincerity which in
duced me to thank you for your Sermon. I am sorry Mr Grant pays
his Debts with so ill a grace, to pay a debt and yet to use reviling
language at the same time little [ ] of a Xn Spirit As
to his accusing me before your Tribunal of Drunkenness I not only
deny the Charge in General but his in a most particular manner. He
is an open Lyar and I do assure you that I never drank a Bottle of
Wine ner a Bowl of Punch (yt wicked Liquor as you term it) in com
pany with him nor ¦with any such paltry fellows in my Life, And us
to himself I do certifie te you that he never was a common Drunkard
to my Knowl' only he has a mind to creep up your Revd sleeve. But
in these slanderous cases I always judge yt the Receiver is as bad as
the Thief I heard a scahdalous Storey of you in Lewes a fortnight
before you arrived here publickly asserted yt you had kept a Girl in
Man's Cloathes during your Travels to sleep with you & had now
Shipt her off for England when you were blown. This Story was
supprest'd as much as lay in us, by me & the rest ef the Company out
of Xn Charity a Doctrine weh I find you leave out ef all your Sermons
I have new done with being serious with you. But now to enter into
the Rediculous part of your Doctrine & Conduct Your fathering Adams
Sin upen us, your damning infants of a Span long, your accusing the
Justice & Mercy of God by absolute Predestination, Your Inward
feeUngs, weh are no evidence to any one (besides your self) your
Faith without good works, your want of Xn Charity & damning like
a Pirate (in the Xn Ch), all but yourself & your crazy followers. Your
preaching against Xn Morality, your leaving my Church to go &
preach in an open Balcony and te act the Mountebank when there
was ne occasion for it even after you had thrown about you Hell
& Damnation Fire & Brimstone enough to have burnt a Wooden
Frame As these and many more things were ridiculous, so I pardon
you As te your empty censures, kicking about the Revd Dust of
Dr. Tillotson above 40 years after his decease & your open abuses
of our Revd Bishop yt now is. These things look Uke the highest
Impudence. I conclude that Enthusiasm is a Sert of Wild fire yt
leads men into Ponds & Ditches and for all yt the muddy fellows
think they are in a good Read It will make men censorious & busy
bodies and always disturbers of the pubUck peace & tranquillity.
But this takes only with the Mob not by any means with men ef a
good understanding However when your beard is grown & your

210 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
judgm't settled I still hope you will burn yor own works rather than
Tilletsens & this I assure you will highly oblige.
Sr Yor Hum Servt Wm Becket.
June 9, 1740.
P. S. — I cannot think you intended me an act of civility by yor
Papers & Letters since you boasted to Capt HoweU & your Crew con
cerning what you wrote to me &c. I rather take it to be the effect
of your Spiritual Pride & Self.cenceitedness.
Leiter to Mr. Franklin in defence of Dr. Tillotson.
Sr.- — As you have the Reputation of a man of candor, and do not
make your Press the Engine ef any particular Party you are desired
to print these few lines in yor Gazette Which are a brief Refutation
of what Mr. Whitefield has published agt A. B. TiUotson in his 3 letters.
The A. B. sais yt all yt the Gospel requires as necessary to these
purposes (i. e. to mans justification & Salvation) is yt we perform
the Conditions of the Gospel yt se we may be capable of Being made
Partakers of the Blessings of it. And yet Mr Whitefield in a few
Lines after in the same Lre sais. Here is not a Word menconed about
the AU-sufficient perfect & everlasting Righteousness & death of
Jesus Christ as being the sole Cause & Condition of our being accepted
by the Father Tis true indeed the A. B has not sd it in these very
words but what He sais above is testamunt & comprehends it.
Is not Faith in Jesus Christ one ef the conditions which the Gospel
requires of us, in order to Salvation? The A B speaks in General &
this Revd Gentleman only mencons ene particular which is compre
hended in his Grace's General assertion.
Is not believing in J C. one of the conditions of the Gospel? And
does net he that affirms the whole affirm every particular part? So
yt instead of refuting the A. B. he hath only refuted & exposed
himself. Faith is not all that the Gospel requires of us it is only one
particular Condition of our Salvation.
This is the main Error that runs thro his Letters As to Dr Edwards,
I have nothing to say ef him He is dead, let him rest.
I am always concern'd at abusive language especially from a clergy
man. But am still of Opinion yt the Reputation ef Him whom he calls
the GoUah of the Philistines But should have rather called the Great
Champion of the Protestant Religion stands yet firm & unshaken, .
I am Sr Yor hum Servt.
Augt 26. 1740 B.
Frem the Mercury of Augt 14, 1740
The Congratulations humbly addressed to the Revd Mr Whitefield
on his 68 preachments in 40 days, with the great & visible Effects of
Meat & Money yt ensue'd therefrom.
Great Miracle of Modesty & Sense
Recount thy Prayers & recking up thy pence
Secure while these you tell & those you show
To meet yor great Reward, at least below
But waring lesser points for sohd things
We find from whence thy Cash & Credit springs

ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS. 211
I How Pitious nonsense works on Knaves thy Tools,
When duely touched by corresponding Fools,
Scepticks no more contest thy pious Arts
¦ Of crazing Noodles & of Cobbling Hearts,
¦ When such amazing Prodigies arize
And Sin & Felly make us good & Wise
We see the Holy Proselytes expose
Their meekness Truth & Charity in prese
While in their Matchless Poetry is shown
Genius & Sense net much unlike thy own.
Letter to Governor Thomas.
May it Please Yor Honr. — I ought to ask yor Pardon fer not wait
ing on you when I was in Philada The Reason was I heard you were
very busy preparing to fit out the Troops. Your Assembly was
sitting & other Matters & as for me I had but 4 days stay in Town.
Pray Sr let these things and your good Nature plead my Excuse.
There is another matter too in the case, I cou'd not sell my Bills of
Exche & therefore cou'd not settle with your Secretaries Office for the
Licences I had granted as I intended But this I think was rather a
Misfortune than a Fault. But give me leave Sr to say that it was not
Disrespect or Undutif ulness that was the cause. I was well acquainted
some years ago ¦with your Character before you were my Govr frem
my Old Friend Mr. Brooke and I have lived to see what he said of you
made good in your conduct since you were my Govemor. A man
must be very dull not te observe how much you were Supreme to an
Obstinate Assembly by your Arguments And now by your Courage
& Constancy maugre all opposition you fitted out your Quota of Troops
for the Kings Service. And at the Same Time give me leave to say
that I am glad that eur Men of the 3 Lower Counties at least did their
Part. Somebody has told me that our Great Men from Lewes as
they call them, have given me a very bad Character to you. Men
that rather insult than govern this County & that have turned all
things upside down. Mr. Brooke is dead Mr. Till is moved and now
the poor Parson is to be demoUshed. But net to meddle with Poli
ticks weh is not my Province I am going to acqt you with the State
of Rel here. The' my Churches are as full as ever yet Mr. Whitefield
has dropt some of his Enthusiastic Venom at Lewes . I have not been
there this fortnight the Weather iS so bad. But they have set up a
Sodety in my absence I ask'd the Man that told me this what was the
meaning of a Society. He told me they were te meet to sing Psalms
& Hymns &c twice a week. There is no harm in the Affair, if there
be no counter plot. But I cannot forbear suspecting that Whitefield
& Tools have laid these Schemes all over America, to draw People te a
dislike of our Church Doctrine Discipline & Govemment But Sr what
ever Enthusiasts do or endeavor to do, let us stand fast to the Consti
tution convey'd down to us from our Forefathers both in Church &
State. Let us net tear it to pieces but endeavor each Man in his
Station to Support it. This is the sincere wish & shall always be the
Endeavour of Sr Yor most Obedt & Most dutiful Hum Servt
Jan 2, 1741 Wm Becket

212 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
As to News I beg leave te refer you to a Letter I have wrote to
Mr. TiU.
Revd Sir. — I was very sorry to hear from Mr. Commissary Cum
mings when I was at Phila in Oct last that the Letters & Parochial
Acct of the Missionaries here were not come to your Hands. I never
since I had your Orders neglected to write But tis probable My Letter
came by seme Vessel that fell into the Hands ef an Enemy of which
we have toQ many Instances here or Miscarry'd some other way. I
find in my Note Book this Memm. Notitia Paroch'alis &c. Missa ad
Philad Apl 30. 1740, Pro Anne precterito. It is scarce practicable
that I should send to you se often as I ought being placed about ISO
Miles from Philada our nearest Point yt trades te London but I shall
not fail to do it as often as I can Mr. Commissary C. has my last Half
Years Notitia &c to send to you.
The State ef my Parish is somewhat changed from what it was.
The' my Churches are as full on Sunday's as ever Mr. Whitefield
having rambled over North America the last years, has with his
Enthusiastic Notions very much disturb'd the minds of abundance
of weak but perhaps well minded People by endeavoring to root out
the respect which they had Entertained of the Church Service &c.
He has Encouraged his Tools to set up Religious Societies as he calls
them wherever he can. There is one at Lewes composed ef some ch.
People some Presbyterians & seme Quakers, who meet twice a week.
And many people are perpetually wrangling & disputing about Relig
ion, I found his Industry this way had the same effect in many places
where I preached the last Fall, for I travelled in Oct & Novr Last
above SOO Miles & it was very visible in most places that where good
seed had been Sown he had scattered Tares, se that what between
Infidelity and Lukewarmness & Enthusiasm you may easily guess at
the fluctuating State of Religion in many parts of our Colonies. I
got but one copy of our Bishop's last exceUent Pastoral Letter, but
could heartily wish that I had seme te distribute The Missionaries
however are resolved to attend on their respective Churches carefully,
and te wait the Event of these things with Xn patience We at first
entertained him as a Bror. But when We perceived his design & looked
upen him with an Air of Indifferency, he foreseek both our Church &
the Liturgy & has been a Field Preacher here as in England ever since.
I beg leave to remain Revd Sr yer most Obedt Hum Servt,
Wm Becket
Lewes, March 4, 1740-1.
It ought here to be remembered that our Govr & the Magistrates
do not encourage Mr. W's unaccountable proceedings.
1740. — "The Reverend Mr. Becket, Missionary at Lewes
in Sussex County, writes by a Letter dated June 11, 1740,
That his People are constant Attendants on Divine Wor
ship, insomuch that on Sundays more of them generally
come to the Churches than they can contain: & that the
Inhabitants of the upper Part of the County had petitioned
the Society for a second Missionary, upon a most true alle-

ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS. 213
gation, that the four churches, each at a considerable dis
tance from the other, in the County, are too much for him
to attend; tho' he doth his best, & officiates once on a Sun
day in every three weeks in three of them, & once in the
middle of every week in the Church near the Center of the
County.. But by the great Fatigues resulting hence, he hath
often contracted severe Illnesses, & begins now to grow in
years; however, thro' the Blessing of God, he will go on
chearfuUy to do what he is able in the Performance of his
Duty in this great Cure, until the Society shall be pleased to
appoint a second Missionary to it. It is not without very
great Regret, that the Society hath found themselves obliged
not to comply with this very reasonable Request for the
present, thro' the very low Estate of their Cash. Mr.
Becket hath baptized from the 30th of April 1739, to the
30th of April 1740, one hundred and eighteen Infants, &
seven Adults, and the Number of his Communicants are
generally about fifty."
Letter to the Secretary of the Society.
. Revd. Sr. — Accding to your instructions I now send you my
Notitia But my Mission being 150 miles from any Sea Pert trading
to England it is impracticable for me to take a Sea Capts Receipt
however I keep Copies of all the transactions you recommended.
I can with great Pleasure now inform you that we have lately
finished the inside of our Church at Lewes with a good plain Wainscot
the Roof is arched & we intend te paint it. This considering the
Peoples poverty & the great scarcity of money is no small piece of
work in this place. In the month of May last when I went to visit
2 of the most distant Churches in this County I baptized 57 children
in two days time and in a comer of Maryland near me where I went
to visit the people at their request in one day I baptized 9 children.
Thus Sr the good Designs of the Society by the Blessing of God
prosper in our Hands. But not without opposition This puts me
in mind of the Parable But when the Blade was sprung up & brought
forth fruit yn appeared the Tares also. So the Servt ef the House
holder came & said to him Sr didst theu not sow good seed in the
Field from whence then hath it Tares — To apply this— 'Mr. White-
field hath done more mischief in America by reviling the Clergy &
misrepresenting Xanity than all the Dissenters put together.
Te tell you another Affair ef Moment which the' it ought by no
means to be made publick so I think it ought not to be kept secret
from you. The fine Church at Philada had 'undoubtedly been finished
long ago had it not been for the pride & peevishness ef our late Com
missary whose groundless & needless jealousie of an English Clergy
man threw the City into Parties put a stop to that great Work, & had
almost made parties between the Clergy, But I hope all this died with
him I know where he laid the blame but it was not right in him to do
so. There is one favour I would beg of the Society if I may obtain

214 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
it That they wou'd be so good as to bestow upen me or add te their
Library here. Dr. Prideaux's Connection with the Map's? A Gent in
this County has the Book, but the Map's are not in it nor to be had at
Philada. You know how necessary they are te the clear under
standing of that excellent History & hew necessary for a Clergyman.
My churches generally all the Summer Season have more people
attending devine Service than they will held so that I am often
obliged te preach under the green trees. This notwithstanding all
my difficulties in se extensive a Mission is no small pleasure, & en
couragement te
Sr your faithful & Most Hum Servt Wm Becket.
Lewes. Octr 16, 1741.
P. S. — I am poor and so are my people se yt they are able to con
tribute very little te my support. The 20th part of the Ch. people
dont Uve in Lewes, which are in this County, I must ride generally
40 or SO miles every week sometimes ever 60 or else I cannot do the
duties of this County. A Horse lasts me a year or 2 and a suit of
deaths half a year. Bills ef Exchd are lewer'd & the price of goods
much raised since the War. Can the Society afford to make me any
addition for visiting distant Churches, Or must I be content to wear
homespun Cloth as they call it here? Be it as it will I shall en
deavour to be content I have net forgot the last Sermon I heard at
St. Pauls by Dr. Maugey on these Words, No man having put his
hand to the Plough & looking back is fit for the Km of God. I have
faithfully distributed all the Books and small tracts sent by the
Society here is indeed great want of more if they could be afforded.
1741. — "The Reverend Mr Becket, Missionary at Lewes,
by a Letter dated October 16, 1741, writes, that the good
Designs of the Society prosper there, but not without Oppo
sition ; however, all the Summer Season he hath more Persons
attending Divine Service, than his Churches will hold ; & he is
often obliged to preach under the green Trees ; & in the month
of May, when he visited the most distant parts of his Mission,
he baptized 5 7 children in two days ; & stepping into a corner
of Maryland to visit some People at their earnest Request, he
baptized nine Children there. Mr Becket adds, that the
Church of Lewes hath been lately wainscoted on the Inside in a
plain decent Manner, & the Roof is arched, & will be painted"
Letter to the Secretary of the Society.
Revd Sr. — On the other Half of this Sheet you will find my Notitia
&c. By adding 52 persons & Children I baptized this half year to
86 baptized the last half year it appears yt I have baptized 138 in the
last ITwelve months. My churches are full every Sunday even at
this Time ef the year but in Summer they will not hold the people so
yt I am often forced to preach in the Church Yard under a Shady Tree.
But as to the people of the Town of Lewes in Particular who are a
small mixture of all persuasions (Churchmen Quakers Presbyterians
Whitefieldians i. e. Enthusiasts & Freethinkers) I must not conceal

ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS. 215
from you that they are for the most part a sad set of Mortalls I cannot
give you a better idea of them yn to imagine yourself at Deal or Dover.
They have lately beat the King's Cell, when in the Xn of his office
almost blind and because at his request I read an Aot ef Parliament
appointed to be read in Churches the' they cannot for shame beat me
yet they have not spared to ridicule me behind my back And have
laid a Plot to starve me For the' yesterday at the Church of Lewes,
I had a full congregation yet when my Subscription was handed about
for,the Current Year Most of the People went out without signing a
penny. Only Ten persons among them staid & subscribed Ten pounds
Five Shillings currency among them equal to about £6 Ss. Od. Sterling
But what is in the bottom of all this I am told by my Friends & I
greatly suspected it is because when I was summoned before the
Commissioners in Chancery above a Year ago in the Cause depending
between Ld Baltimore & Mr. Penn I was obliged to declare upon Oath
some Truths which it seem make against the Pennsylvanians, se that
their creatures & Dependants have made a Party & laid this Scheme.
I have kept my temper and I hope shall keep it not murmuring nor
offering te return Evil for Evil. But shall study to be quiet & mind
my own Business. When you write again be pleased te let me know
what the Hen Society sais about my petition for some allowance for
serving Distant Churches as menconed in my last. I remain Revd Sr
Yor Most Obedt & Hum Servt Wm Becket.
Mar 29, 1742. Letter to the Secretary of the Society.
Revd Sr. — I acqted you in my last of March 29 with the State of
my Parish (a whole County) and it is much in the same state as yet
viz. My Churches are full on Sundays & Holidays & in the Summer
my Churches (4 in number) will not hold the Congregations, so yt I am
often obliged to preach under the green Trees for the want of Room
& the sake ef fresh Air & Shade
Pray Sr excuse me to the Treasuries for drawing quarterly this year.
My Necessities urged me I carried my only Son to the Grammar School
in Philada (a hopeful youth of IS) in May whe dyed alass on the 4th
of July of a Bloody flux, and I had ne way to pay the necessary Charges
but by trespassing on the Hon Societies goodness. — This is a sad Sub
ject & my tears will net suffer me to write any more upon it. Be so
good as to lay before the Hon Society my Petition te have something
allowed fer visiting distant Churches. There is no Clergyman yt lives
within SO or 60 miles of me and I sometimes every year am several
days frem Home on this very Acct. and have many times travelled
from 60 to 100 miles as Reason & Necessity have required I have the
pleasure to acqt. you new yt Enthusiasm abates as fast as it once in
creased here Mr. Whitefleld's followers have recanted some ef them
(the most considerable, in Print. And the truth is your Missionaries
have conquered & convinced them net so much by opposition as by
Patience and by Studying to be quiet and to mind their own Business.
You will find my last year's Notitia on the other half Sheet. So wish
ing yt all of us may be found worthy in Some measure of the Sacred
trust reposed in us at the great Day I remain Revd Sr Yer most Obedt
Hum Servt ' Wm B.
Lewes in Penns., Sept 26, 1742.

216 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
1742. — "The Reverend Mr Becket, the Society's Missionary
at Lewes, writes, that his Churches, (four in number) are full
on Sundays, & in the Summer-season he is often obliged, for
want of air & room, to preach under the green Trees; & now
Enthusiasm abates as as fast as it did once increase there.
The Truth is, as Mr. Becket well observes, that the Societys
Missionaries have conquered it not so much by Opposition as
by Patience, & a strict observance of the Apostolical Precept
of sttidying to be quiet & to do iheir own business.
Subscription List to Buy William Becket a Farm.
We whose Names are here unto subscribed do promise to pay or
cause te be paid to Wm Becket Missionary at Lewes or Order
the several Sums annexed to our respective Names in Money
or Country produce within the space of . twelve months from the
date hereof in Order te enable him to buy the Plantation of Mr.
Samuel Davis in Angola Neck for his better settlement & support
among us.
Witness our hands this 2 Sth day of March 1732. Note of the said
WiUiam Becket shall hereafter leave this County & accept ef another
Parish he doth oblige himself hereby to repay to the Ch Wardens the
sums which the people respectively advance towards supporting the
next Minister ef the Ch of England which shall be his Successor in
the Sd County. Lewes & Rehoboth Hundred.
Henry Brooke  £5 Os. Od.
Anderson Parker  3 0 0
Simon Kollock  S 0 0
Ryves Holt  3 0 0
Jacob KoUech  5 0 0
John Jacobs  3 0 0
Richard Henman  5 0 0
Jonathan Baily  5 0 0
John Clowes  3 0 0
John Welbore (Parish Clerk)  1 0 0
Joseph Pemberton  3 0 0
CorneUus Wiltbank  2 0 0
Thomas Bluett (Attorney)  2 0 0
WiUiam Field  3 0 0
Henry Fisher  3 0 0
Jacob Willbank  2 0 0
Abraham Hoed  1 0 0
John Aston  0 15 0
Comfort Jenkyns  1 0 0
Jane Hirons  1 0 0
Maria KoUock  2 0 0
John Hubrey  10 0
Robt Smith (a Presbyterian)  3 0 0
Jacob PhUlips  4 0 0

ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS.

217

Indian River Hundred.
John Prettyman  £2
Woodman Stoakly  2
William Warrington  1
Geo Parker  1
Wm Burton  >  1
Peter Robinson  1
Wm Williamson  0
Elias Hauzer  0
Wm Burton, Junr  0
Geo Venam  0
John HiU  0
John Smith  0
Robt Smith  0
Wm Woodstock  0
Richd Paremore  0
Saml Carey  0
Wm Waples  2
Saml Hauzer  0
Richd Poultney (a Quaker) 
Wm Prettyman 
Ben Stockly  ". 
Ann Burton (¦widow) 
John Parsons 
Thomas Leatherbury 
Job Barker 
Alexr Herring 
Thomas Marriner 
William Marriner  0
James Fox  0
Hen Brereton  1
Francis Wolfe  0
Cord Hazard  0
Thomas Warrington  1
Oliver Stoakley  1
Isaac Atkins  0
WiUiam Atkins  0
Joshua Stoakly  0
Charles Dogharty  0
Wm Hudson  0
Jno. WiUiams  0
Wm Butler  0
John WaUs  0
John Price  0
Saml Hudson  0
Thomas Fester  0
Edwd Rickards  0
Cloud Fowler  -.  0
Booth Jones  1
Daniel Nalwod  0
Jos Hazard  1
John Atkins  1
John Russel Senr  1

Os.00 0
10 0
10 12151010 55-
101018 0
1010 10 s
0 s
000 0
10-10- 0
10la 0 0
101210
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10 5
10 6 6.
10 1010 0
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218 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Wm Maccalley  £0 IOs. Od.
WiUiam Prettyman  0 10 0
WiUiam Day Junr  0 10 0
John Russel Junior  0 10 0
John Day  0 10 0
Wm Robinson  1 0 0
Thos Marriner Junr  0 10 0
Richd Burton  0 10 0
Thomas BagweU  1 0 0
William Wolfe  0 16 0
Robt Burton  OSO
Thomas Lyrah   0 10 0
Rise Wolfe  0 10 0
Cedar Creek Hundred,
WilUam TiU  £5 Os. Od.
John May  2 0 0
Abraham Wyncoop  2 10 0
Saml Watson  10 0
Thomas Davis Junior  1 10 0
Luke Watson  1 10 0
Nehemiah Davis  0 10 0
Saml Holburt  7 10 0
Joseph Hickman  0 10 0
Griffith Jones  0 10 0
Thomas Price  10 0
Isaac Watson  1 0 0
Caleb Cirwithen  0 10 0
Wm Carpenter    0 10 0
John Jones  0 10 0
Elizabeth Watson Wid  0 12 0
Mary Watson Wid  1 0 0
Daniel Bonier  0 10 0
Thomas Davis Senr  1 0 0
Henry Draper  1 0 0
Alexr Draper  5 0 0
John Hunter  1 0 0
Costen Townsend 
Joshua Hickman  0 15 0
Paris Chipman  1 0 0
Abraham Parseley  1 0 0
Thomas Goldsmith  0 10 0
Richard Jacobs  0 10 0
Ann May wid  1 0 0
William Darnley  1 0 0
Sarah Watson Widow  0 15 0
Christopher PhilUps  : . 0 15 0
Thomas Groves  0 15 0
Robert Caldwell  1 0 0
1743. — "The Reverend Dr. Jenney, the Commissary of
this Province in the room of the late worthy Mr. Commis
sary Cummings, acquaints the Society by his Letter dated

ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS. 219
Nov. 4, 1743, of the Death of Mr Beckett, the Society's
Missionary in Lewes-Town in Sussex. This Gentleman had
been fixed there by the Society in the year 1721; & from
that year to the time of his Death, in the last Summer, he
had laboured with great Diligence, & such Success in the
Pastoral Office throughout that County, that according to
the last letters received from him, the four churches in it
under his care were so thronged, that in the Summer Season
he was frequently obliged to preach under the green Trees
for the Conveniency of Room & fresh air ; he is much lamented
by his congregations, & hath left behind him the character
of a pious, faithful, & orthodox Pastor. The said congre
gations having petitioned the Society for the Reverend Mr
Usher, the Society's Missionary at Dover in Kent County,
who took care of & officiated to them during Mr. Becket's
Sickness, as much as was consistent with his proper Care of
the Church of Dover, to succeed Mr. Beckett in the Church of
Lewes; & Mr Usher himself requesting it likewise, they have
removed Mr Usher to the Church of Lewes, & appointed the
Reverend Mr. Morris, lately employed by them in New Eng
land, at his own request, to succeed Mr Usher at Westchester."
Copy. Last Wil and Testament op William Becket.
In the name of God and ef the Ever Blessed Trinity, I William
Becket missionary of the Society for the propagation of the Gospel
in foreign parts being sound in judgment and memory but weak in
body do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner
and form following: I resign up my soul to Ggd whe gave it humbly
hoping for pardon and forgivness thro Jesus Christ the Savior of me
and of all that beUeve in him, and my body I commit to the earth
to be decently interred by my executors according te the rites and
usages of the Church ef England, and desire it may be buried between
my two wives in the Church Yard of St Peters, Lewis, in hopes of a
joyful resurrection at the last day.
As to my worldly estate I dispose as follows; I will that my just
debts be paid and discharged, and sence I have already given to my
son-in-law William Futcher and his wife goods and chatties by build
ing him a house giving him a negro and sundry other goods to ye
value of £100 for which he and his wife are very ungratefuU, I give
each of them and english shilling and no more of my estate.
As te my house all my buildings my pattent and warrant lands
amounting to about five hundred and fifty acres I give te be equally
divided between my two daughters Elizabeth and Susannah to them
and their heirs forever.
My negroes Jenny and Oxford I give to my said two daughters,
but order that she that hath Oxford pay to the other a reasonable
price of exchange and I leave my two said daughters executrixes of
this my last will and testament.

220 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
I leave my priests habits to any of my reverend brethren that
shall preach my funeral, I leave to my good old friends Ryves Holt
Esq. a gold ring now en my ring finger, and to Capt. Cord Hazzard
my best riding saddle that I may have at the time of my death.
I give my two daughters aforesaid, free leave to keep or dispose
of my house land &c as they may see convenient but then I will that
no deed of sale for the lands, till they have advised with the two
Gentlemen above and the hand of one or beth of them is to the deed
be valid, and I desire them to be supervisors' of this my last will and
to advise my children for the best, I declare this to be my last will
and testament having no other.
Signed sealed published and declared to be the last will and of the
testator in the presence of us. Wm. Becket [seal.]
Tests I. P. Plaskett
Ann Plaskett
Cornelius Burton
The words Acres, Funeral, and, be valid, were interlined before the
sealing and delivering hereof.
I William Becket missionary of the society for the propagation of
the Gospel in Foreign parts do by this codicil to my last will and
testament give and bequeath to my son-in-law William Futcher my
best suit of clothes.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 7th
day of August Anno Dom. 1743.
Signed and sealed in presence of. [seal.]
1768.— "The Revd Dr Smith, Provost of the College of
Philadelphia * * * incloses letters from the Mission
of Trenton, backed by recommendation of the New Jersey
clergy, in favor of Mr Thomson, who soUicits to be removed
thither, as does Mr Andrews of Lewes, from Sussex on Dela
war, on account of the unhealthfulness of the place, & would
gladly accept of York County, & take care of Cumberland
too till another missionary can be got. In this the Society
have so far Concurred, that they have given Mr Andrews
leave to remove to the Mission of York & Cumberland, pro
vided he will take the whole duty upon him, as Mr Thomson
did before, & promise to Continue in it without a prospect of
having the Mission divided."
1769. — "By several letters from the Revd Dr Smith, Pro
vost of the College in Philadelphia, the Society are made
acquainted that due care has been taken by him of the Mis
sion at Oxford. That Mr Thomson is settled at Trenton, &
Mr Andrews at Cumberland. That Mr Lyon came to see
the Gloster & Waterford Mission but not finding it answer
the expectations given, & there being a greater necessity
that the Lewes Mission vacated by Mr Andrews, should not

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be left destitute, he with the advice of the Philadelphia
Clergy, removed thither, & having since earnestly sollicited
to be placed there, the Society have consented to it, being
in hopes of pro'viding soon for the Gloster mission."
1771. — "Several letters have been received in the course
of the year from the Rev. Mr Lyon, Missionary at Lewes,
by which it appears that in one year he ha'd baptized 267
white infants, 2 adult slaves, and 11 infant slaves; married
39; buried 18. That, he had been urged to go back often
to the extremes of the County, where he has had large Con
gregations of grown persons, who never before attended-
public worship. That, his mission is growing & promises
fair; & his health somewhat better; but at his first coming,
he & his family suffered much by sickness, which proved
fatal to his wife, & one other in the family."
1772. — "The Reverend Mr Lyon, Missionary at Lewes,
writes that he officiates in three churches, & at other times,
preaches in the remote parts, as far as to the borders of
Maryland." 1774. — "Upon the joint recommendation of Dr Peters,
Dr Smith, and Mr Duche, the Society have appointed Mr
Tingley to the Mission of Lewes, vacated by Mr Lyon's ac
ceptance of a parish in Virginia, And they have the satis
faction to hear that he is a diligent Missionary, & highly
acceptable to his People."
"The Rev. Mr Lyon, late Missionary at Lewes, acquaints
the Society that between Easter & November he baptized
129 white & 6 black infants, 1 black & 16 white adults; &
recommends the forest part of the mission to the attention
of his successor, the Rev. Mr Tingley, by whom the Society
are informed that St George's at Indian River, though not
mentioned in former Abstracts, is a part of his mission, that
he frequently officiates in an old ruinous church in the forest
to a considerable number of poor people, who have no other
opportunity of public worship ; & he does this often on Sun
days, upon his return from St George's, with great fatigue
to himself, that he may not take them off from their labour
in the busy part of the year. During the Summer season
he frequently reads prayers, preaches, & baptizes, on Mon
days, in a private house, in Cedar-Creek Forest dn account of
it's distance from the Church. The three Churches of his
mission are in general well filled, & the people very attentive.
In each of them he administers the sacrament four times

222 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
a year; his Communicants are about 110; he hath baptized
202 white & 43 black children & infants, 6 white & 13 black
adults; marriages 36, burials 14. On every Friday after
noon he catechises the children at Lewes & hears them repeat
portions of the Psalms, which he gives them to learn every
week. After the Sunday's evening service he catechizes the
negroes in the church; & explains the Catechism to them
in the most familiar manner."
1775. — ^"By a letter of last June the Society have the
first notice from Mr Tingley of his receiving his appointment
to the Mission of Lewes. The delay, he says, was occasioned
by the mis carriage of a letter from Philadelphia. He assures
the Society of his constant attention to the duties of his
office, & encloses the testimony of the church-wardens,
which does honour to Mr Tingley, & induces the Society to
believe that he may & will be very useful in those parts."
List of Subscribers to the building of St. Peters Church in the Town
of Lewes which was raised en the 6th of October, 1722:
Hon. Sir Wm. Keith, Bart, late govemor  £5 Os. Od.
Henry Brooke Esq  S 0 0
Capt. Jonathan Bailey  5 0 0
Mr. Richard Hinman  S 0 0
Mr. Simon KoUock  5 0 0
Wm. Becket, Missionary  5 0. 0
Mr. Preserved Coggeshall  4 0 0
Mr. Ryves Helt  4 0 0
Mr. Jacob KoUock  3 0 0
Mr. Anderson Parker  3 0 0
Mr. Abram Wiltbank Senr  :.... 3 1 2
Mr. WiUiam Rodeney  3 0 0-
Mr. Samuel Rowland  3 0 0
Mr. William White  2 10 0
Mr. WilUam Asheton  ' . . 1 3 8
Mr. Thos. Lawrence  1 0 7>^
Mr. Robert Asheton  1 10 -0
Doct. Thomas Graeme  1 3 7X
Mr. Isaac Miranda  1 3 1%
Mr. Thomas Sober  1 3 7^
Mr. Peter Graeme  1 3 \y^
Mr. Richard WilUng  1 3 7
Capt. Saml. Spofforth  11 11
Capt. Gruchee  11 8^
Andrew Hamilton Esq  1 18 0
Berkley Codd, Esq  2 6 9
Col. St. Leger Codd  1 3 1%
ComeUus Wiltbank  3 0 0
Richard Paynter  2 0 0
Capt. Thomas James  1 3 S.J^

ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS.

223

Mr. Ebenezer Empson  £
Mr. Benjamin Godfrey 
Mr. Woodman Stoakley 
Mr. Samuel Lo^wman 
Col. John French 
Capt. John Price  ¦.¦••' 
Joseph Cord 
Albertus Jacobs 
Nicholas Maclander 
Jeremiah Claypoole 
Capt. Joseph Royall 
William God^wyn 
Mrs. Martha Johnson 
John Russell. ., 
Thomas Stoakley 
Robert CornwaU 

£1

Os.

Od.

10

0

0

0

3

6

10
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
10
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0
0
0
0
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£96
6s.
S^d.
and since the arrival ef the Honourable Parrick Gordon, Esq, when
he came to visit this part of his Government he gave five pounds
towards finishing the gallery. Mr. Joseph Pemberton also has under
taken as a benefaction to this Church to cause the front ef the Gallery
to be wainscotted with black Walnut at his own proper cost and charge
which work is now (1728) going on.
Account of the Building and state of the Churches in Sussex taken
from a letter written by Wm. Becket Missionary at Lewes to the Ven
erable Society of England dated Oct. llth. 1728. "The dimensions
of the Church at Lewes is as follows, viz. .40 feet in length 24 broad,
the height of the wall between the plate and sill is 15 feet. The Frame
is of Wood the Roof is covered with Cypress Shingles and the wall
with beards ef the same wood. The inside ef the Church is not yet
finished, only the fleer is laid, and the walls wainscotted with Cypress
plank as high as the tops of the pews. The Pulpit, reading desk.
Communion Table and Rail are handsomely built of black Walnut —
and the pews are all made of pine plank.
The situation of this church is very pleasant standing on a rising
ground in the middle of the town and having a view of Cape Henlopen
grown over -with cedar and fine trees which lies beyond the River of
Lewes to the Eastward, sheltering the town in a great measure frem
the violence of the winds that blow off the great Atlantic Ocean. To
the Northward and N. West we have a view of the great bay of Dela
ware. The greatest advantage ef this situation is, that the N. West
winds blow ¦with full scope down Del. Bay and directly up Lewes
river on the town which makes it perhaps one of the healthiest spots
on the Globe — -but I must not forget that I am writing an ecclesias
tical not a natural history, pardon therefore this digression and we
proceed 
The number of people frequenting this church I reckon at a mean
computation about 150.
The first settlers of this County, were for the far greatest part,
originaUy English, some few however there are ef Dutch families,
but of late years great numbers ef Irish (who usuaUy call themselves
224 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Scotch Irish) have transported themselves and their families from the
North of Ireland into the Province of Pennsylvania and have dis
tributed themselves into the several Counties where Lands were to
be taken up, many families are settled in the County of Sussex. They
are Presbyterians by profession. They have a minister here of the
same Nation whom they maintain by' contribution and have two-
meeting houses in this County, one at the Cool Spring, 8 miles distant
from Lewes, another in the town of Lewes, which being much decayed
they have laid the foundation of another the last year close by the old
one, the building is of brick, they are now carrying it on with dilligence
so that the roof is likely to be raised, as I am told before the end of
this present year. The numbers of people and their respective pro
fession in my parish will be the best seen by inserting the copy of a
Letter from Mr. Holt, High Sheriff of this County.
"Sir: — The Taxable inhabitants in Sussex are (at a mean compu
tation) one year with another about 420, of which 350 are heads of
families viz.
Churchmen  21S
Presbyterians  120'
Quakers  IS
350
and allowing S persons to each family the number of souls will be 1750.
The above is as near the truth as I can possibly come, without a strict
Poll was to be taken, I am
"Sr yr very humble Servt.
"July, 1728. "Ryves Holt"
So that according to this computation, the number of souls is as
follows :
Church people  107S
Presbyterians  600
Quakers  75
Whole number  1750
The Quakers have one meeting house in this County 7 iniles dis
tant from Lewes, but at present they have no teacher there, however
they hold silent meetings, unless seme travelling preacher or "friend"'
(as they call them) happen to come this way.
The inhabitants here live scattering generally at J^ a mile or a
miles distance from one another except in Lewes where 58 families
are settled together. The business or employment of the Country
Planters is almost the same with that of an English farmer, they
commonly raise wheat. Rye, Indian com and tobacco and have store
of Horses, Cows and hogs. The produce they raise is commonly sent
to Philada 150 miles from here to purchase such European or West
Indian commodities as they may want for their family use — or also
to N. York or Besten. The people here have generally the reputa
tion of being more industrious than they of seme of the neighbouring
counties; this last year there was a great scarcity of com in Mary-

ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS. 225
land and in this goveinment except in this County which supplied
them with large quantities in their necessity. This may be looked
on as a mark of their care and diligence and an omen ef their future
Riches & success.
The distance of the Churches from each other is thus computed,
from St. Peters at Lewes to St. Georges, South 9 miles, frem St.
Peters te St. John Baptists West 14 miles and from the said church
to St. Matthews near N. West, 25 miles, again from St. Georges to
St. John Baptists, 9 miles, from thence in a circuit Read te St.
Mathews 12 miles.
But then we are a" very great distance from any other churches
that are supplyed with clergymen — -for example my nearest neigh
bours ef the clergy are the Revd. Mr. Fletcher of Somerset County in
Maryland 60 miles distant, the Revd. Mr. Adams of the same County
and Province 70 miles distant and the nearest Missionary te this place,
is the Rev. Mr. Ress at N. Castle 115 miles distant.
The roads in my parish are very commodious for travelling, being
level and sandy so that people usually come to church Winter .and
Summer, some 7 or 8 miles and others 12 or 14 miles which is no
strange thing, but very common among the inhabitants of America.
As yet there have been no donations te the Church or Missionary
here besides the annual contributions towards his support, which
depend entirely upen the pleasure of the contributors; only one
which I ought in gratitude to mention in this place which was a
Legacy of ten pounds left me in the Last will of Berkley Codd, Esq.
One of the Judges of the Supreme Court for this County, whe died
in the year 1724 and some ether Legacies and gifts which have
demonstrated, not so much the Riches, as the good will of the Donors.
And that t'he circumstances of" the people and their degree of zeal
te promote the Christian Religion may be the better judged I have
inserted a copy of the last Subscription towards the support of the
Societies Missionary at Lewes."
Note. — This was omitted by Mr. Beckett in his copy of this letter.
— D. R. K.
And now in answer to the remaining part ef the queries, the truth
is there is no house nor land provided fer the minister nor any Library
but that which the Hon. Secy, was plefised to allow, when they
sent over the present Missionary, and there is no public school in all
the County, the general custom being, fer what they call a neigh
bourhood (which lies some times 4 or 5 miles distant, one part frem
another) to hire a person fer a certain sum and term to teach theii:
children to read and write English, fer whose accommodation they
meet together at a place agreed upon, cut down a number of trees
and build a leg house in a few hours, (as illustrious as that in which
Pope Sixtus Quintus was born) whither they send their children
every day during the term fer it ought to be observed by way of
commendation of the American Planters nowadays, that whatever
pains er charge it may cost, they seldom emit te have their children
instructed in Reading & writing the English Tongue.
The number of negros (Freemen & Slaves) in this county are 241
according to the exactest calculations that I can get having procured
a particular list of them from a person in each hundred who could

226 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
most commodiously take an account of them, several of them both
bond & free I have baptized since my coming here, but far the greatest
part of them do yet remain unbaptized, and (it is to be feared) un
instructed, however it is to be hoped those good sermons and dis
courses which have been sent over by the charity of the Honourable
Society and that excellent letter which was lately transmitted to the
Masters and Mistresses of families in America in order to persuade
them to instruct and have their negros baptized (by the Ld. Bishop
of London will in a short time produce a very good effect. St. John
Baptists church was raised on Wednesday the 27th of March 172S.
The frame is of white Oak, the dimensions are as fellows viz. 30
feet leng 20 bread & 12 feet between the plate and sill. It stands
about the Center of the county in the forest of Sussex and is inscribed
to St. John the Baptist.
The covering of the wall is to be of Cypress board and the roof of
shingles of the same wood which is most used here fer the like pur
poses as the rain will not cause it to Rot. The work is to be carry'd
on by the voluntary contribution of the inhabitants as it has already
been raised on that foundation —
Thus I have written to you every thing material that with any
certainty I know or could leam concerning the state ef religion here
in answer to your queries. These matters here are in their infancy at
present, but seem to grow and gather strength, and that they may
still do se to maturity and long flourish te the honor of God and
the increase of true Piety and Virtue is the ardent wish and Prayer
of Sir Your very humble servt. William Becket
¦ Missionary at Lewes.
Oct. llth, 1728.
Reverend Sir: — In obedience to the commands of the Honour
able Society I here send you a Historical account of my parish,
which shall be as brief as will consist with what is requisite te make
it full and clear, properties essentially necessary to a good history,
and herein I shall exactly fellow the method laid down in your letter
to me in June last en this subject.
1. My Parish comprehends the whole county of Sussex, in the
Territories of Penna (as it is commonly styled) or Counties of N.
Castle Kent and Sussex on Delaware bounded on the East by Del.
Bay, Somerset Coy, Md. on the South and west and Kent on Dela
ware on the North — in length about 30 and in breadth about 12 or
14 miles. Latitude about 39 degrees North.
In this County are 4 churches erected nene as yet finished, but 3
of them so far carried on, as to admit of the decent performance of
Divine Worship, every Sunday alternately, I shall give you a par
ticular but brief account of each in the , order in which they were
raised. 1st. St. Matthews in Cedar Creek Hundred.
2d. St. Georges in Indian River do
3rd. St. Peters in Lewes & R. do
4th. St John Baptists in Broadkill do
The 2 first ef these churches were erected before my coming
here — the 2 last since my arrival here as the Societies Missionary.

ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS. 227
Of the former I shall give as good an account as I can procure,
from the inhabitants of the County. Of the latter upon my own
knowledge. St. Mathews Church Cedar Creek was raised in the year 1707
being the first building that was erected for the service of God and
Religion in this Country according to the Rites and Usages of the
Church of England. It is a Timber building, the wall covered with
boards of Cypress, and the roof with cypress shingles, the floor has
been laid, a pulpit, desk. Communion Table and some pews, were
built about 4 years age but the inside ef the church is not yet
finished. The dimensions are as follows. Thirty feet long 20 wide 12 between
joysts viz. between plate & sill The reason why the building was
left unfinished was, because of the difficulty they had in getting a
missionary, who had contributed towards the building ef it. But
why they have not gone on with the building since their church was
supplyed, is not so clear. The work was begun and has been carried
on by contribution, but as the subscription has for as much as I can
leam been lost, so I cannot get any account of the Contributors
names or of the sums they gave.
The congregation here is numerous being generally on Sundays
when the weather is good to travel about 200 persons the church not
being large enough to contain many more than one haff ef the num
ber, though a small gallery has been raised across ene end of the church.
I am in hopes however te persuade them shortly to enlarge it. The
first Missionary here was the Rev. William Black, now of Accomack
County in Virginia, who staid near two years, after his departure the
people had no minister settled among them for about 12 years, untill
the year 1721 when the present Missionary arrived here. But they
were sometimes visited by the Rev. Mr. Ross who came above 100
miles to preach to them & baptize their children and by the Rev.
Mr. Adams who came nearly 90 miles during this leng vacancy, whose
Christian zeal and charity deserve to be mentioned ¦with gratitude on
this occasion.
St. George's Chapel in Indian River hundred, 9 miles distant
frem Lewes was raised in December 1719, The frame of Oak — the
length of it was 25 feet the breadth 20 and the height 12 feet. The
waUs and roof were covered ¦with red oak boards and' thus remained
till the year 1725 when a new addition ef 15 feet was made to it; the
older part of this building has a pulpit, gallery and fleer, the new part
is net yet fleor'd, but we have agree'd with a workman this year to
cover the whole roof with cypress shingles and to lay the floor ef the
new part, the congregation frequenting this chapel consist usuaUy ef
about 200 people.
This Building was rais'd as all the churches in this Govemment
are by voluntary contribution. The sum contributed towards carry
ing on the work at first was £34 ISd. 8s. and the repairing and enlarging
it since, has cost about as much more. The Contributors were about
66 in number to raise the first sum. The people here are constant
attenders on the public service and annually contribute something
of their small substance towards the carrying en the building of their
yet unfinished chappel & the maintenance of their minister.
Oct. 11, 1728.

228 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Petition of Arthur Usher.
To THE Venerable and Hony the Society for the Propogation
op the Gospel in Foreign Parts : ,
The Petition of Arthur Usher Humbly Sheweth That Your Pe
titioner being advised by Physicians to live in a warm Climate for the
Recovery of his health, doth therefore offer himself as a Missionary
and having already laid the Testimonials of his Good Life & Conver
sation before the Lord Bishop of London, is likewise ready to lay the
same before the Said Society who he hopes will take him into their
Consideration if there be a Vacancy.
And ye Petr (as in duty bound) Will Pray etc Arthur Usher.
Mr. 'Ushers Testimonials.
Henricus Providentia Divina Clonensis Episcopus Dilecto Nobis
in Christo Reverende Arthurio Usher Cf. Jacob Hanning, Reg's.
Hen ^ Clonensis
Scriptum a Virgo Eptuno in [ L. s. ] Gyston en Virilaren Friend
Ordinaria " tent & Died blonen 21°
die May A° D° 1736.
Visitase Die Clonentent Edv Lloyd
Vertio Die Septm ano Deme 1736° Reglius
Jacob Hanning, Rlgly.
Omnibus adquos, &c.
In Cujus rei Testimenum Singulorum Manus ^t Publicum Collegii
Sigillum apposunimus Decimo Sexto Die May anno Domini Millessimo
Septengentessimo trigesime Sexto.
John Elwood
Robt Shaw
Heny Clark
H. Grapten
Carl Stewart
Saml Hughes
Richd Baldwin PrEeptr. Ca. Cartwright
[ L. s. ] S. P. G. Journal December 17, 1725.
Beckett, dated 7-6-1725 would like te remove to Chester as the
Rev. Mr. Humphries has gone to Annapolis.
Sept 16, 1742 has 4 churches & no clergyman ¦within SO miles of
him Letter te Dr. (Rev) Jenney, Lewes April, 1744, from Reive
Holt Trustee to the Rev. Mr. Becket's children. His estate settled
& not enough to support children as Mr. Becket had not drawn salary
since Xmas 1742 One ef his daughters, about 19 yrs, has been a
cripple fer several years S. P. G. makes a small grant & pays back
dues Rev. Mr. Usher, Sussex in Pa. Sept. 25, 1745 also in Kent
Rev. Mr. Usher Missionary to Churches in Sussex March 25, 174S.

ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS. 229
The Dissenters having no settled Teacher in them, & they behave
decently & regularly when at church, and as soon as he is well settled
at Lewes, he will enquire into, & send an account of all his churches.
A letter from Mr Usher dated L. 6-2-1 745 acquainting that he has
lately visited the four churches under his care, & can truly say that
Religion flourishes in Sussex Co. & he has Baptized from the 25 ef
March preceeding 66.
Letter dated 12-26-1745 Sussex Ce in Pa. The flourishing condi
tion ef the Church in Sussex, Dissenters attend & like service better
than before, so that he expects a daily increase. The distance ef
the 4 churches in Sussex Co., & his attendance once a month at Dover
during the vacancy there seem too hard for him, but he doth not
grudge his pains, being determined to spend the remainder of his
days in diligently performing the Duties of his station, & in enlarging
the Kingdom of Christ in this world. He had lately Baptized 76
children, some of them born ef Dissenting parents, who having no
teacher in their own denomination applied to him to Baptize their
children. Lewes March 26, 1746 Since Dec. 26 has Baptized 42 Infants & 2
Adults after proper instruction. Number of Communicants 68 whose
lives & conversations are agreeable to their profession After the
death ef Mr Morris he had attended the Churches in Kent Co. once
every S weeks without so much as the allowance of traveling charges
from the People of Kent County Hopes the Society will make allow
ance. They did.
Lewes Sussex Co. in Pa. June 26, 1746 Stating that all the Summer
season he hath more hearers than the church will held & therefore
he Preaches sometimes under the shade of the large trees & Catechises
on Sundays in the afternoon, after the 2d Lesson, generally about 20
chUdren. Since 25 March has Baptized 58 White Children & 2 Blacks
& 1 Adult person bred in Quakerism.
Rev Mr Arthur Usher Lewes June 26, 1747. The Members of the
Church are assiduous & punctual in attending divine service all Parts
of the year Since March 25 has Baptized 35 Infants & 3 Adults &
his Congregations increase so fast that they have determined to make
additions to two of his Country Chappels On Easter Day he had 18
Communicants at Lewes. Catechizes IS or 19 Children at Ten of
the Clock on Sunday Mornings before sermon. Had begun a Course
of Lectures on the Ch. Catechism which he preaches en Sunday Even
ings from March till September.
Rev Mr Arthur Usher Lewes in Pa. 3-25-1749 Acquainting that
in February last the Rev. Mr. Bluet Missionary at Dover in Kent
Co. had departed this Life not much lamented by his congregation.
They had applied to him to serve their church as often as he could,
which he had promised to do ence in 5 weeks; & thq, by Mr. Bluet's
indiscretion the church was reduced to a very low ebb, yet by God's
Blessing he hoped to gather the scattered fleck together again, &
upon his preaching there after Mr Bluet's death he had between 2 &
300 Hearers who unanimously desired he might be restored to them
again & which he would willingly accept if the Society should think
proper He had Baptized, since last report, 26 White Children S
Adult Negroes who could repeat the Creed, the Lord's Prayer & ten
Commandments & 6 Negro Children Communicants at Xmas 18.

230 some records of sussex county.
Copy of a Letter in Fulham Palace.
Rev. Sir: — This letter accompanies Mr. Hector Alison's,
and Mr. John Erkine's, who are now in orders, according to
the Rites and usage of the Church of Scotland, but do intend
to conform and receive Episcopal Ordination, as soon as it
shall please God to vouchsafe them an opportunity of waiting
upon His Lordship the Bishop of London for the time being,
or on some other of our Reverend Fathers in God, who are
placed in the pastoral offices of the Church of England, or
by Law established; and the aforementioned gentlemen
having addressed themselves to us the subscribing wardens
of St. Peters at Lewes, to give them a testimonial of their
moral Characters and behaviour, we crave leave to say that
we have been fortunately acquainted with Mr. Alison for
near 3 years last Past, and do certainly know that his whole
deportment among us hath been grave, regular and exem
plary. And as to Mr. Erskine, we have heard as good report,
and have also seen laudable Credentials of him with respect
to his learning. Piety, Pasts, and conduct, from under the
hands of Mr. Isaac Alison of Chester County, and Mr. Robert
Cross of Philadelphia, the latter of whom as he lives in the
same city with your Reverence, can (if applied to) give a
more particular character of the said Mr. Erskine, Sir, we
well know that to make suitable recommendations for most
of the offices in life is no easy task, but the difficulty is much
increased when it relates to so important a one as that of
faithfully administering in the Church, and serving at the
Christians Altar. However, we are all encouraged to so
licit your favourable countenance towards the gentlemen
first above named, not only from the Principles of Benevo
lence, but from a well-grounded hope, that if their desires
are accomplished, they will walk worthy of that vocation
whereunto they shall be called.
We conclude with sincere wishes for the peace & Prosperity
of our Mother Church, and that those branches thereof,
which by the favor of divine, providence have been trans
planted into this infant Colony, may flourish, increase, and
grow up to such perfection, as to become the seminaries of
real piety, virtue, and true Godliness ; so devoutly pray
Rev. Sir, Your most obedient humble servant,
R. Holt
Lewes, June 20th, 1749 Jacob Kollick
Mr. Commissary of Pennsylvania.

ecclesiastical records. 231
Rev Mr Usher, Lewes in Pa., June 26, 1749 Since March 25
had Baptized 9 White & 3 Black Children & 2 Adult Whites after
proper instruction, & received 4 new Communicants. It was near
12 years from the time of his admission into the Service of the Society
& during that time he had not only discharged the Duties of his Func
tion within his own Mission, but also occasionally supplied several
neighbouring vacancies.
Had just received a letter from Ireland with an Account of the
Death of an elder Brother which obliges him to ask leave of the Society
to be absent six months from his Mission in Order to settle some
affairs relating to his Deceased Brother's Estate.
Leave granted, Mr Usher taking care that the Church be duly
supplied during his absence.
Rev. Mr Usher Lewes Pa. Dec. 26, 1749. Since last report had
Baptized 36 Infants, two ef which are Negroes, 2 White Adults & 4
Negroe Adults, after proper Instruction. That he had administered
the H. C. four times in the year in the several Churches in Sussex Co.
& he finds an increase of Communicants every time.
That the Masters & Mistresses are mere inclined than ever to have
their Negroes instructed in the Principles of the Ch. of England &
Baptized. He acquaints that the Congregation at Chester had a great loss in
the death of their worthy Missionary Mr Backhouse. That he has
drawn a bill for £15 Sterling & humbly reminds the Society fer leave
to return to his Native Country for Six Months.
Rev. Mr. Usher Lewes June 25, 1750. Acquainting that he can
with great Truth assure the Society that his churches are so thronged
in Summer that for conveniencey of Room he Preaches sometimes
under a shady green Tree.
Since 25 of last March has Baptized 54 white Infants, 3 Negro
Children & 2 White Adults, after previous examination. Within
the year has received 10 new Communicants ef regular lives.
Letter from the Rev. Mr Usher Missionary at Lewes in Sussex
Co., Pa. Dated Lismore in Ireland, October 11, 1751, acquainting
that when he left America he did not imagine that he should meet
with so much Difiiculty & Delay in the Settlement of his Deceased
Brothers Affairs; but he thanked Ged, they would be brought te a
conclusion in Novr Term, & he hoped he would embark for his
Mission the first opportunity following. He desires leave to live in
that part of the Mission which shall appear most convenient for the
better care of the Whole, & not be confined to Lewes, as they have
provided him neither House, nor Glebe, & yet expect he Should Devote
his Time to them to the Prejudice of the ether Congregations.
Leave was given to settle in such Part of the Mission as may answer
best for his taking Care of the Whole.
A letter from the Rev. Mr. Usher, Missionary at Lewes Sussex Co.
in Pa. Dated Philada. May 11, 1752 acquainting that upon the Re
ceipt of the Secretary's letter, he embraced the first opportunity of
embarking from Ireland for Pa. & was just then happily arrived, &
proposed to set out that evening fer his Mission where by his Dili
gence in his Pastoral Office he would do his best endeavours te show
his gratitude to the Society for all their Favours & Indulgences to
ward him.

232 ¦ SOME records of SUSSEX county.
Letter from the Rev. Mr Usher, Lewes October 18 17S2 asking
leave to resign his Mission fer want of health, he purposing to return
to his Native Country Ireland where he hopes in some measure at
least to recover his health. The Congregation ef Sussex Co. re
quested him to apply to the Society in their behalf, that ne Mission
ary whe had been bred a Dissenter might be sent to them, because
such are seldom or ever Stedfast in Principles but comply too far
with the Dissenters, which gives offence & renders them contempti
ble in the Eyes of the Church People.
The Rev Mr. Craig Itinerant Miss, in Pa in Letter dated Phila
delphia Nov. 16, 1752, desires to be settled in first Vacant Mission.
Agreed te recommend Mr Craig to succeed Mr. Usher in ye Mission
of Sussex Co. Salary same as Mr. Ushers & te commence from last
Lady Day. He did not go to Lewes.
Letter frem the Rev Mr Locke lately an Itirierant Missionary to
Pa. Dated Nov. 6, 1752 acquainted that finding the People in the
Itinerant Mission much attached to Mr Craig, he had consented to
go, & administer to the Church of Lewes, & te Settle there, if the
Society should approve thereof, & he was then at Lewes & had offi
ciated several times & Baptized several Children & would be more
particular, as te the Church ef Lewes in his next, if the Society should
think proper to fix him there. Agreed to fr the Society.
Agreed that a new Missionary be appointed for Sussex Co. pro
vided it shall appear that Mr. Lecke is dead.
Petition from St Peter's at Lewes, St George's Chapel in Indian
River Hundred, & St Matthews in Cedar Creek Hd. all in the County
of Sussex on Delaware, dated August 15, 17SS setting forth that the
Mission to the said County hath either been vacant, or most Dis
honourably & unwarrantably neglected, by the frequent non-
attendance, & constant non-residence of Mr. Usher during the whole
time of his Mission (of which the Church Wardens have given a
particular account in the preceeding letter) now the Rev. Mr. Matthias
Harris having of late preached several Sermons among them & per
formed the other Duties of His Holy Function with general approba
tion, it hath been moved by the Members of the above mentioned
Church & Chappels to make such subscriptions towards his support
as amount to upwards of £60 Sterling & on this consideration alone
he is willing to ofiiciate among them for the space of one year, or
untill the Society's pleasure be known. The said Mr. Harris is a
Native of Maryland, about 37 years of age, has a wife' & 2 Children,
was Ordained Deacon by the Bishop of London en March IS, 1753
& Priest en the 25 th of the same month by the Bishop of Chester.
Since his coming back to America he has served in the Cure of the
Parish of All Hallows in the County of Worcester in the Province
aforesaid for the space ef 1 7 months, & has brought a certificate from
the Parishioners of his Morals, Conduct, & Exemplary Behaviour
among them, &c &c.
A letter frem the Rev. Mr. Harris dated Lewes in Sussex Co.,
Nev. IS, 1755 refers to above & requests appointment.
Agreed out of regard to Mr. Cleveland Petitioner to be sent Mis
sionary te the Church at Norwich, & in Compassion te his Numerous
Family consisting of a Wife & 9 Children to recommend Mr. Cleve
land to the Sodety to be appointed Missionary to the Churches of

ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS. 233
Sussex Co. in Pennsylvania in the room of Mr. Locke deceased, if
the Lord Bishop of London shall think him Worthy to admit him to
Holy Orders.
A letter frem the Rev. Mr. Cleveland Missionary to Lewes in Pa.
dated Norwich Jan. 10, 17S6 acquainting that after a long & tedious
Voyage he is safely arrived in New England & should have imme
diately proceeded to his Mission were it net for the following reasons
Viz. In his Passage from Halifax to New England, a violent storm
cast them on the sands called Nantucket Shoals, but by the goodness
of God, they all escaped unhurt except Mr. Cleveland.
The Vessel being but poorly manned he was obliged to assist the
Sailors, 8c was struck by the Violence of the Sea against the side of the
Ship, & was bruised in his head & other parts of his Body; that he
was taken up for dead; of which he was not fully recovered when he
¦wrote. He proposed to embrace the first opportunity of a Passage to
Lewes. (ii j;
Letter from Mr Cleveland Missionary at Lewes &c &c Nov. 3, 1756
in which he -writes of the Obstinacy of his Congregations still con
tinues. They have of late locked up St. Matthew's against him, the
only church he was permitted to preach in. They declare that no
man but Mr. Harris should preach in it, though the Society shall
discourage them ever so much. Mr Cleveland is in a most distressed
condition, many miles off his family, & nothing to support him or them
but the Society's allowance, & used with much indignity In this
situation he craves the Society's assistance, that they would extri
cate him out of it by appointing him to succeed Mr. Brooke in Mission
at New Castle. Agreed to &c.
Letter dated Oct. 11, 1756 Mr. Cleveland Missionary at Lewes &c.
Mr. Harris leads the opposition, refuses to use all the Church Service,
declares it is Romish &c. Mr. Cleveland administered H. C. to about
20 persons Baptized 29 Infants & 2 Adults. His Widow Mrs. Susannah
Cleveland writes the Society Aug. 21, 1758 telling of the death of her
Husband & asking aid fer herself & children.
The Rev. Aaron Cleveland, son of Aaron and Abigail (Waters)
Cleveland, was bom in Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 19th, 1715,
and died at Benjamin FrankUn's house, Philadelphia, August llth,
1757. He was an ancestor of the late President Cleveland, and also of
Bishop Coxe of the Diocese of Westem New York.
In 1750 he was a Dissenting Minister in charge of a .congregation
in HaUfax, Nova Scotia. In 1755 he was a Priest ef the Church of
England. In 17S2 Lewes and St. George's Chapel, Indian River, wish te have
a clergyman whe could give his whole time to these two churches.
St. Matthew's people objected and wrote August 1st, 1752:
"The Churchwardens and Vestrymen of St. Matthew's Chapel"
that St. Matthews had "by much the largest congregation, who have
been always zealous to embrace every opportunity of joining in the
Divine Service, the Greatest number of Communicants, and many
children Baptized, beside have subscribed the most freely te then-
Minister, and (God be thanked) always have kept up a good harmony,
one with another."

234 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
The Secretary of the Convocation which met at Philadelphia May
2d, 1760, wrote to the S. P. G. :
"The Mission at Lewes is still vacant on account of the refractory
conduct of the People, and ene Mr. Harris, who intruded himself into
it without the Society's Leave, and te the exclusion of the Missionary
they had appointed some years age.
"Mr. Harris did not offer to take his seat in Convention, but pre
sented to their Committee a Submission on his own part and that of
two of his churches, to be transmitted to the Society, praying to be
reinstated in their faveur.
"But as the Church of Lewes, which is the principal one, and the
seat of the Mission, had net joined in this Submission, and as those
whe did join in it seemed still desirous of retaining Mr. Harris among
them, the Committee did net chuse to have anything to do in trans
mitting their Papers, but ordered them to be returned to themselves
to be transmitted in such manner as they should think proper."
The Hon. R5rves Holt, Chief Justice, writes from Lewes June 26th,
1762, te the S. P. G. for a pastor:
"And new. Sir, permit me to subscribe myself on behalf of the
Congregations of St. Peter's Church, St. George's and St. Matthewe's
Chappels in Sussex aforesaid."
In 1765 the Rev. Mr. Inglis ef Dover (afterward Lord Bishop of
Nova Scotia) writes: "Sussex County is to be twice as large, on
account ef the decision of the Lord Chancellor in favour of Penn, and
two Maryland churches will be added.
"Separate St. Matthew's from Lewes, and attach it to St. Paul's
Kent County."
He said St. Matthew's and St. Paul's could -be worked together, as
they were se near each other.
The Rev. Mr. Magaw, of Dover, writes, November 14th, 1767:
"Cedar Creek (St. Matthew's) is at present connected with the Lewes
Town Mission.'.'
In a letter dated July 31, 1763, the parishoners of Sussex Co.,
St Peter's, St George's, & St. Matthews, agree to raise se much
money & a glebe for such Missionary as the Society shall see fit to
send them.
1765 Resolved that the Rev. Mr Quincy of Geddingten Nerthamp-
shire be appointed Missionary te Lewes in Sussex Co. Pa., with a
Salary of £40 per annum &c. Mr. Quincy did not come te Lewes.
A letter from the inhabitants in Sussex Ce. dated Lewes Ce. on Del.
Nov. 11, 1766 requesting that Mr. John Andrews whe is perfectly well
recommended by Dr. Smith, Mr. Peters & many worthy Clergymen,
may be appointed the Society's Missionary te the Churches of St
Peters, St. Georges & St.. Matthews in that County. Agreed, if the
Lord Bishop of London shall find him worthy of Holy Orders. Or
dered that Mr. John Andrews be appointed to the Mission of Lewes in
Sussex Co. on Del. with salary of £40 per annum to commence from
Xmas last.
Letter from the Rev. Mr. John Andrews, Miss, at Lewes &c &c
Cedar Creek dated Lewes 18 Nov. 1767. He met with a kind recep
tion on his arrival June 1. His Mission includes St. Peters Lewes,
St Georges at Indian River & St. Matthews at Cedar Creek, te each
of which he gives an equal share of his labours Since his arrival he

E.EV. JOHN" ANDREWS, D.D.
From a portrait by Sully.
St. Peter's, Lewes, 1767-1770.

ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS. 235
has baptized 53 White, 7 Negroe & 2 Mulatto Children & has 67 Com
municants. The three churches have jointly engaged to pay annually
the sum of £75 Currency towards the support of a Miss. & to allow an
equivalent for a Glebe till one shall be purchased, which will be as
soon as a convenient place for that purpose shall be found, for which
they have agreed to give £300. Currency. Mr. Andrews, with great
modesty hopes that the Society ¦will take into their consideration that
his salary is reduced & his Duty expensive & Laborious & bestow on
him a gratuity which he had some hope given him. Agreed te.
Letter frem Mr. John Andrews Miss, at Lewes dated Philada Aug.
4, 1768 informing the Society that he lives in great harmony with his
people, who are regular in their behaviour, but rather deficient in a
proper sense of Religion, which cannot seem strange as they have been
so long without the performance of Public Worship They are very
illiterate o-wing te their great poverty Several attempts have been
made in vain to estabUsh a Grammar School at Lewes, because they
could not fumish salary sufficient for a man duly qualified. At Xmas
administer H. C. St Peter's Lewes to 16 at Easter at St. George's 34.
Whitsun Day, St. Matthew's 21. Since last Nev. has Baptized 75
White & 2 Black Children & 1 Adult. The S. P. G. agreed te make
an allowance for a Schoolmaster at Lewes.
Mr. Andrews at Lewes keeps his health se ill that he prays to be
removed to his native hills of Pa. Sussex on Delaware is as it were
the Fens of Essex &.it is to be feared there will be no stable Mission
there till a person can be procured who was born in the place & is
naturalized to it, tho they well deserve notice as a numerous body ef
Churchpeople. Letter from Mr. Andrews Lewes April 12, 1769. He continues to
officiate at St. Matthew's whereat a neat & commodious church is at
present building of 40 feet by 36, & high enough to admit of galleries
& two tiers of windows. The Chapel at Indian River being found too
small a new one is much talked of. The Church at Lewes has been
considerably repaired, & it is to the bounty of the ladies that they are
indebted for an elegant pulpit cloth cushion, a Desk cloth &c of crimson
silk Damask. Among the benefactors were seme of the Presbyterian
denomination. On Xmas Day he administered the Lord's Supper
at Lewes to 16 persons only, the weather being very cold. On Easter
at St. Georges to 52. Since Aug. he has Baptized 70 white & 2 Negroe
children, 1 White & 4 Negroe Adults. He mentions the unhealthiness
of the situation & his constitution is greatly injured by repeated attacks
of Agues & fevers.
Mr. Andrews desires to leave a Minister in his place in Lewes pro
poses Mr. Lyon.
The Rev. John Andrews, D. D. was the sen ef Moses and Letitia
Andrews, and was bom in Cecil County, Maryland, 1746. He gradu
ated from the College of Philadelphia 1765. In 1767 he was ordained
Deacon by the Bishop of St. David's, and Priest by the Bishop of
London. In 1772 he married Mary Callender. He was Rector of
York, Pa., at that time. In 1810 he became Provost of the University
of Pennsylvania, in 1813 he resigned on account' of ill health. He
died at the age of 67 and was buried in Christ Church graveyard. He
is described as being "tall and dignified and courteous, henest in opin
ions, of good judgement, benevolent, cheerful, and a fine conversa-

236 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
tionahst. He was an eloquent preacher, and a good theologian, and
won the respect of his students."
Letter from Lewes July 24, 1769 is leaving Lewes for York & Cum
berland. Speaks highly of the kindness of the people of Lewes &
regrets leaving. On Whitsun Day had 24 Communicants. Since
April 12, has Baptized 27 children. He arrived at York Dec. 16, 1769.
Agreed that Mr. John Lyon be appointed the Society Miss, at
Lewes in Sussex Co. -with the former Salary aUowed te that Mission
& that it may commence at Lady Day 1769.
Letter from the Rev Mr. Lyon, Miss, at Lewes dated Sussex Co
Oct 24, 1770 acquainting the Society that in the course of the last
year he had baptized 267 White infants — 2 adult slaves, & 11 infant
slaves. At Easter had 63 communicants — married 39 couples & buried
18. The people have bought a glebe, & are endeavouring to erect a
house upon it, which will render his life more comfortable, provided
he recovers his health.
Two letters from the Rev Mr Lyons Miss at Lewes one dated Janu
ary 23, 1770, the other April 1,1771 In the former he excuses himself
fer having incurred the displeasure of the Society so early, whom he
means ever to respect. He hopes they -will judge favourably of his
removal & he will use more caution for the time to come. His duty
has been very hard, as he has been urged te ge back often to the ex
tremes ef the County, where he has had large Congregations of grown
persons who never before attended public worship. He has visited
them nierely out of pity & regard, for generally speaking, he can
expect no reward from them. He has been greatly indisposed, & since
last July under the Doctor's care. His family, all sick, more or less.
He came there 6 in a family, of whom his wife and one more are dead.
He writes April 1, 1771 that the state of his Mission is gro-wing, &
promises fair, & his health is better. Since the 2Sth of Oct. 1770 he
has Baptized 39 infants, married 24 couples, & buried 14 persons.
Urged by necessity he has drawn a quarter's salary.
Rev Mr Lyon Lewes Miss. Letter dated New York Dec. 14, 1771
acquainting the Society that finding himself in a lew & poor state of
health last April, he had retired fer a number of weeks to a Northern
climate, where he has recovered equal to his ¦wishes, & when he "wrote
this letter was upon his return heme. He requests seme Bibles, Prayer
Books & pious Tracts.
Letter from the Rev Mr. Lyons Miss at Lewes dated April 28, 1772,
in which he writes the same about the protested bills as Dr. Peters,
adding that the charges on the bill will be suspended, till he hears
from the Secretary. He encloses a copy of the Notary's Protest.
Since Easter last he has baptized 2 White Adults & 181 infants, 1
Black adult & 8 Black infants, married 52 couples & buried 13 corpses.
Rev. Mr Lyon Lewes Oct. 25, 1772 acknowledges receipt ef Secre
tary's letter of the 25 ef March last, & the books. Wishes there had
been some of Burkett 's tracts, his help & guide to Xtian families,
for those pieces have been ef great use to the people who have been
prejudiced against the Church. He gratefully mentions the So
ciety's favor in answering his renewed bill for £70. but wishes to have
some directions with regard to the damages of £14 19s- 3d. with
interest, which he is liable to pay. The state of the Mission much the
same. He has officiated in three churches on Sundays, & at other

ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS. 237
times preached in remote parts, as far as the borders of Maryland,
to the number of 86 sermons since he came to the Mission.
Rev Mr Lyon Lewes April 12, 1773 states that his services have
been as usual, having Baptized since last Easter 239 White, 27 Black
infants & 4 Black adults. He intends in future, en every third Sunday
in the aftemoon, to give a Lecture in some part of the Forest among
the poor people, which he humbly trusts the Society wiU promote
by granting some annual encouragement.
Rev. Mr Lyon Lewes Nov. 22, 1773 acquainting the Society that
the many fatigues of his Mission, together -with his indisposition of
body have determined him to accept of a parish in Virginia. The
Rev. Mr. Tingley who -wiU be recommended by Dr. Smith is ready
to supply his place. The parish has purchased a piece of land for
£190 Pa Currency, for a glebe, towards which he has contributed
£10. He has been ¦with the people entirely for 3 months after Easter,
since which he has been with them occassionally. He has now but
one petition to leave in favour of the Forest part of the Mission, whose
lands are under water a great part of the year, they are therefore very
poor He hopes that his successor will have special directions to visit
them, at least one half of of the time at present allotted to St Georges,
which is every third Sunday. He concludes with thanks to the Society
for their last letter of the 4th of March & for the many favours re
ceived from them.
The Rev. John Lyon was bom in New England, and was son of
Mathew Lyon of Warrington, Lancashire, England. He matriculated
1743. Bishop Meade speaks of the Rev John Lyon who came to St.
Georges Accomac County Virginia, from Rhode Island. That is a
mistake. Lyon went to Accomac from Lewes.
The Sodety agreed not to appoint the Rev Mr. Tingley until they
should be better informed about him.
Letter from the Rev. Mr Tingley Miss at Lewes Nov. 10, 1774 that
tho. no answer had been given to Dr Peters & the other clergyman's
recommendation of him to succeed to the Mission of Lewes, he has
oiEdated there from Oct. 14 1773, duly attending the several churches,
which are one more in number than mentioned in the last Abstract,
Viz. St Georges at Indian River. Besides the duties of his Mission*
he has frequently offidated in an old ruinous church in the Forest,
to a poor people, who are 8 miles distant from St Georges. In the
Winter he has gone to them on Saturdays on his way to Cedar Creek,
and in the Summer after evening service on Sundays. His churches
are generally weU fiUed & the people pay great attention. He has
administered the sacrament 4 times in each church. Communicants
110. He has baptized 6 white adults, & 202 Children. 13 Black
Adults & 43 children. Marriages 36. Burials 14. He catechises
the children in town of Friday afternoons in the church, & hears them
repeat portions of the Psahns. The Negroes he catechises on Sundays
after the evening service. He hopes to prove himself a diligent Mis
sionary if the Society should be pleased to appoint him. The whole
Library delivered to him by the Church Wardens consists of the
foUowing books Burkett on the New Testament, Burnet on 39
Articles, Barrows Works, 2 vols. foUe, Book of HomiUes, Archbishop
Tillotsons Sermon's 1 Vol. folio. Stanhopes Epistles & Gospels 3d &

238 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
4th Volumes. The Society directed the Rev. Mr. Tingley te use every
means to recover the missing books.
Mr Tingley Miss at Lewes in a letter dated June 12, 1775 states
that it was not until last Good Friday that he had the agreeable news
of his appointment te that Mission, owing to the Miscarriage ef a letter
frem Dr. Smith. He encloses a letter from the Church Wardens of
Lewes expressing their thanks fer his appointment & acquainting
the Society that he has frem the 23d of Nov. 1773 duly attended the
duties of his Mission to general acceptance, besides occasionally
preaching in the Forest. 25 Prayer Books te be sent to the Rev
Mr Tingley whenever they can be conveyed with safety.
Rev. Sydenham Thorne of St. Paul's Kent County.
Rev. Mr Thorne dated New Yerk Sth Oct. 1778 which place he
has obtained permission from those in power to visit, proposing to
return to his Residence 200 miles off in the course of a week er two.
About the beginning of Nev. 1774 he went to his Mission, where he
was gladly received by the people, whe did everything for him that
his heart could wish fer, both as to makeing his own situation easy,
& also in repairing the churches. He continued to exercise the
several Duties of his CalUng for nearly three years, & never omitted
praying for his most Gracious Sovereign, though frequently threatened
with loss of life, if he did not desist. The Legislature of the State,
as it is now called, then enacted a Treason Law by which praying for
the King became a capital offence. In consequence of this he forbore
preaching in the Churches ; but as occasion required has preached at
Funerals. He has lately prevailed upon a Religious Good Man to
read Prayers in the churches, which he hopes may be a means of
keeping the congregations together during the present times of con
fusion. He has been very happy in residing among a people dis
tinguished for their Loyalty & Affection te the British Constitution;
and he cannot recollect a single member belonging te either of his
congregations who hath taken an active part against the Government.
They still retain the highest affection fer it, & are every day more &
more sensible ef the inestimable benefits resulting from it. Before
these unhappy disputes, his congregations were large & continued
'growing during the whole time of his preaching. The number that
commonly attended was between 7 & SOO at each church. The num
ber of communicants about 100. Baptisms yearly between 4 & 500.
Burials about 40. Marriages between SO & 60.
His zeal for the British Constitution & the peculiar obligations he
was under, as a clergyman of the Church of England, urged him to
oppose the measures of Congress, Committees &ca as far as he
consistly could. This soon rendered him obnoxious to the Resent
ment of that Party, who, at 4 different periods, summoned him
before their Committee, & more particularly, for not attending
church on a fast day appointed by Congress. He was, however,
always fortunate enough to extricate himself from them, without
receiving much more Injury, than a Uttle personal abuse. He has
drawn for £40 in favour of Capt. Henry Coupar. Allowed by the
Society. Frem the Rev. Mr. Tingley Miss at Lewes in Sussex Co., at Cedar
Creek, & at St Georges at Indian River, dated New York Sth March

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1782, apologizing for his long silence of six years, owing entirely to
his situation, se remote & unconnected with New York, & the diffi
culties of the time which prevented his writing with any freedom.
The fury of the persecution in his Mission is much abated. He has
the satisfaction, however, of informing the Society, that during all
their late, or present confusions, the members of the Church in his
Mission have generally been loyal, two or three famiUes excepted, who
tho' Churchmen by profession are Presbyterians by trade. These
joined with the hot-brained zealots among the Presbyterians, who
have, almost without exception, been fiery advocates for Inde
pendence. Amidst the greatest fury, however, of the political storm,
the church has been kept open; & in spite ef threats of ill treatment
he has persevered in the faithful discharge ef his duty. After the
Declaration of Independency, indeed, from a regard for the safety of
his hearers, his family, or himself, he could not be so explicit, as he
wished, in praying for the King. Unfortunately for him, his clerical
Brethren ef Philadelphia, far too generally, he thinks, made such
compUance as are utterly repugnant te the principles, which must
necessarily be interwoven in the very heart, soul, & mind ef a Church
man; & so having none of great & established characters to consult
with, he was left wholly to be directed by his own prudence. He
verily beUeves it was by the merciful direction of Heaven itself, that,
in this trying emergence, when he came to the petition, "O Lord
save the King" it occurred to him at the moment to say, "O Lord,
save these, whom Thou hast made it eur especial duty te pray for,"
& this form he has continued to use ever since, making also a similar
alteration in the Litany. He & his people can safely appeal to the
Great Searcher of hearts for the integrity of their meaning ; & thank
ful as they are fer even so much indulgence, they trust they shall be
forgiven for an apparent, but unavoidable, instance of duplicity.
Some such management was absolutely necessary; as, had he been
prevented altogether frem preaching, his Fleck must needs have
been' scattered. In so critical a situation, he was determined by all
possible prudential means, to avoid the evil of having his church
shut up, as foreseeing, that, if this were once dene, he should never
be able to have them opened again, but under the most humiliating
& dishonourable circumstances. The same predential considera
tions determine him still te abide by the same form, tho' somewhat
different from what he new finds is used by other loyal Missionaries,
whose judgement he has the greatest respect fer; inasmuch as the
making any alterations new might lead to unfavorable suspicions;
& he knows there are those whe regard him with a jealous eye. Mr.
Tingley's difficulties & Sufferings, he says, have been many & great;
but, as the Society have already had many of a similar nature, .he
willingly spares them a circumstantial detail. Some comfortable
refreshments for himself & his more distressed family were sent to
them from their relations in New York; but these the Committees
ordered to be seized; & armed multitudes were full ready, with many
aggravating circumstances, te put their orders in execution; though
his weak & dying wife begged a small part only of the things as medi
cine. It is a great consolation to him, that both she & his Mother,
three years ago, were removed te that blessed place where the wicked
cease frem troubling & the weary are at rest. Ever since that time.

240 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
he has been daily employed in travelling & preaching about the
County which bounds his Mission; & sometimes by special invitation
into the adjoining Province of Maryland; always & to the utmost of
his power, strengthening & confirming the Brethren. In this duty,
he has travelled at least 3000 miles a year. Notwithstanding his
frequent preaching, such is the well-known backwardness of people
in general in these countries to contribute, even according to their
abilities, toward the decent support of Ministers; such have been the
necessities of the times; such the rapid depreciation of their paper
currency; he has been se pinched in his circumstances, that he may
truly say, he has often scarcely had bread te eat, or raiment to put en.
The opportunity he new enjoys of drawing on the Society, he is
truly thankful for, as the expectation of it has been the chief support ef
his spirits, in the many years that he has had hardly any resources,
but the little sums he could borrow from his friends. Two years,
ago, he had intended & endeavoured to obtain leave to visit Ne"W"
Yerk, but could not. Nay, so jealous were they ef him, that he was.
not even permitted te see two prisoners, on his return, who had been
confined there; & from whom he hoped te have learned seme tidings
of his relations there. At length, however. Providence very un
expectedly raised him up a friend, Mr. John Dickinson, heretofore
celebrated as the Pennsylvania Farmer, & lately chosen Governour
ef the new State of Delaware; who has procured him a permit to go
& return from New York, unmolested. The weather has lately been
more inclement that had been known for many years; & the roads
also are particularly bad; so that he was eleven days on his joumey
from Lewes te New Yerk, in which he had, when he wrote, been 16
days ; but proposed to return in a few days to his family, his Mission,
& his duty. He thanked God that he can new think of with less.
pain, as from a conviction dther of the injustice, or the ill policy of
it, that violent spirit, which, a few years ago, was so intolerant &
intolerable, is new much abated. 'The inhabitants of Sussex Co.
are remarkably subject to Ague & Fever, always in the Fall of the
year; & Mr Tingley & his family have been & still are exceedingly
afflicted with it. In the hope, therefore, that the good Providence
of God, in compassion of both countries, may again restore their
former happy connection, he takes the liberty now to entreat of the
Society, to be appointed to any Mission near New York,'.his native &
healthful climate. Being obliged, notwithstanding the better temper
of the times, to set out on this joumey, with some caution. Mr.
Tingley had it not in his power to censuit & take abstracts of the
different Registers of his Mission so exactly as the Society, requires.
He is prepared, therefore, now to say only, that he has baptized several
thousands since he wrote last; & among them many Blacks, frem 60
years old to 2 inonths. This account may seem extraordinary to
those who are net particularly well acquainted with the nature of
the country, in which he resides, & who do net knew that there is
net new another clergyman in a district of an hundred miles in length;
so that he has seldom performed public service without having at the
same time 30, 40, or SO Baptisms. People ride many miles, to enjoy
the opportunity ence more to worship God agreeable to the order of
their own Church; & bring, with eager delight, their gift & heritage
that cometh of the Lord, te Him, in the laver ef Regeneration. He

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has, moreover, for these three years past, had to encounter with the
enthusiastic notions of swarms of ignorant Methodists & Anabaptists,
whose absurdities seem te him to have a direct tendency to overturn
all order & decency in the Church, as the wretched principles of these
who call themselves Whigs (a softer name for Rebels !) have to over
turn the State. For the reasons above assigned, Mr. Tingley says,
he has not drawn on the Society since May 24, 1776, so that new May
24, 1782 the Society owed him six years salary. For this viz. £240
he now draws in favour of Mess. Edward & William Laight; as it may
be a long time before he has another opportunity of drawing.
Rev. Mr Tingley Lewes June IS, 1783 expressing great satis
faction & gratitude, on hearing, as he but lately has, that the Society
bave accepted & paid his bills He has again drawn for his salary to
the 24 May 1783, which he should net have attempted without their
express permission which he has been favoured -with through Dr.
Inglis. Since he last wrote to the Society he has been employed, as
he has been for several years, in almost constantly traveling & preach
ing in different parts of the Country. He has baptized at least
between 8 & 900 has married 40 couples & buried 40 corpses; but
by no means all in his own Mission The number of Communicants
has greatly increased.
July 17 84 the Rev Mr Tingley had accepted a parish in Mary
land In a letter dated May 11, 1784 Somerset Co. Maryland he
informs the Society that he left the Mission in Sussex Ce en Dela
ware, the middle of December 1783.
Mr Sydenham Thome writes from Philadelphia 16th of September
1782 that it is now almost two years since he resumed the public
¦exercise of his profession. A church is to be erected in St Johns
Town in Sussex Co. about 12 miles from where Mr. Therne lives. It
is to be ef brick, SO feet by 35 & the work is now in such a state that
he thinks the building will be finished in the course of next Summer.
Has regularly officiated at Dover since Mr. Magaw left, although 21
¦miles away. Wishes to remove te New Castle.
In 1808 Parson (?) Weems was here. I do not think he
was a clergyman, notwithstanding his story about the Bishop
of London having ordained him. If he had been ordained,
he could have shown his credentials, his Letters of Orders
from the Bishop of London. He certainly was very clever.
The following was copied from Rev. Horace E. Hayden's
¦* ' Virginia Genealogies : "
Fanny* Ewell, (Jesse% Charles\ Charles',) b. Prince William
county, Va., Aug. 28th, 1775; d. Aug. 28, 1843,' ae. 68; m.
cir. 1790-S. Rev. Mason Locke Weems, b. St. James Par.,
Ann Arundel county, Md., 1759; d. Beaufort, S. C, May 23,
1825, ae. 66, son of David and Margaret Harrison Weems.
Mason Locke Weems was educated in Edinburg, Dr.
Allen says, "in the church;" was ordained Deacon pro. in
Eng. by the Lord Bishop of London.

242 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Returning to Md. he became Rector of All Hallow's Par.,
Md., 1784; had a Female seminary there; was Rector of
Westminster Par., 1791; went to Va., 1793; he wrote and
published "The Philanthropist," Dumfries, Va., 1799, 9th
ed., Phila., 1809; "The Life of George Washington," 1800,
reached cir. 50 editions; "The True Patriot," 1802; "The
Life of Genl. Frances Marion," 4th ed., 1816; "The Drunk
ard's Looking Glass," 1816; "The Life of Benj. Franklin,"
1817; "The Life of Wm. Penn," 1829; "The Old Bachelor,"
etc. All of these works passed through more than one
edition. His "Life of George Washington" was for many years
a household work. It is the sole authority for the famous
stories of "the hatchet and the cherry tree," and of the seed
sown and growing in the name of Washington. These in
cidents which Weems records of the youth of Washington
have in them nothing that is marvellous or even uncommon.
They are ordinary events incident to the life of many a well
raised boy. And yet, because Weems has been discredited
by some writers, and was a man with noticeable peculiarities,
and these incidents have no other recorder than Weems,
they have been ridiculed and denied by even historical
writers. Whatever may have been the character of Weems
his pretty and natural anecdotes of the boyhood of Wash
ington are much more easily ridiculed than, disproved. It
was the intention of the Rev. Philip Slaughter, D.D., Histor
iographer of the Diocese of Va., to write an historical sketch
of the Rev. Mr. Weems, but his death prevented the com
pletion of so desirable an undertaking.*
Bishop Meade knew Mr. Weems personally.^ He devotes
two pages to him in "Old Churches," &c. (II. , 234-5.) But
he paints him in with such opposite colours that it is not easy
to form an impartial estimate of his character. In order
that some future writer may do Weems justice, a paper is
reproduced here, from the Southern Churchman, (1888),
* The Weeijis family of Md. claim descent from David Weems, son of James.
youngest son of the Earl of Wemys. James having been killed fighting for Charles
Edward at Preston Pans, his son David was brought to Md. by Dr. Locke. He m.
Margaret Harrison and had S sons, Capt. George, the youngest, b. May 23, 1784; d.
Mar. 6, 1853; had — i. Thomas, ii. Margaret, iii. Mason Locke, iv. Gustavus. v.
George, vi. Theodore.
Rev. M. L. Weems was of this line. Rev. Jno. Weems was ord. Deacon by Bp-
White, June 24, 1787; d. 1821. Joannes Weems, Mary Landis, grad. M.D., Univ.
Edinburg, 1792. Thesis "De Amenorhoea. " Mason Locke is a common name in the
family. Wm. Black Weems of Md., b. cir. 1730-S; m. Amelia Chapman, b. July 4,
1735; dau. of Nathaniel and Constance (Pearson) Chapman. (R. S., 4, 30, 81; S,
7, 81.) David Locke Weems had Rachel, m. Jesse EweU, No. 43, p. 340. Capt.
¦William Weems, m. Nancy Ewell, No. 45, p. 340.

ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS. 243
written by Mr. A. P. Gray, giving Dr. Jesse Ewell's recol
lection of his kinsman:
"Nestling close under the shadow of the Bull Run Moun
tains, in the extreme upper part of Prince William county,
is 'Dumblane,' the quaint old fashioned home of Dr. Jesse
Ewell, who, regardless of his eighty-six years, still attends his
suffering neighbors night or day, sunshine or storm, rejoicing
in the possession of all his faculties. His estimable wife, a
most devout and staunch Church woman, is two years his senior,
and for more than sixty years they have travelled earth's pil
grimage together, and now side by side are going down the
hill, nearing the great river and in view of the Eternal City.
" Many a charming hour have I spent by their hospitable
fireside listening to personal reminiscenses of Bishop Clag-
gett. Dr. Walter Addison, Bishop Moore, the early days of
Washington City, the war of 1812-15, and the noted men
of seventy years ago. But the theme on which the Doctor
most loves to dwell, and one which he always finds in me an
attentive listner, is 'Parson Weems,' for the Doctor, being
a nephew of the Parson's wife, lived for twenty years in his
family, and knowing him well, loved and esteemed him for
his piety, his benevolence, his earnest devotion to his work,
'his intelligence and his gentleness. Believing that others
will be interested in one who has often entertained us in
our childhood hours, I give what I could collect. The family
seat of the Weemses, who came early to this country from
Scotland (when the name was spelled Wemyss) , was ' Bil-
lingsley,' Prince George's county, -Md. The birthplace and
early home of Mason Locke Weems was at Herring Bay,
Anne Arundel county, on the Chesapeake. His mother's
family name was Locke. He had two brothers, both older
than he, David Locke and William Locke Weems, each of
whom commanded trading vessels plying between the Old
World and the New. Mason must have travelled with
them occasionally, perhaps often, for he used to tell of his
being on the Mediterranean in a turtle shell. He always
had a great fondness for water and a roving disposition,
both of which may be attributed to his early training.
"Says the Doctor: 'Even in his old age he never missed
an opportunity -for a plunge, and I verily believe he would
soil his hands for the pleasure of washing them! Once in his
later years when travelling from Leesburg back to Dumfries,
just after a snow and a big thaw in early spring, finding a

244 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
stream he wished to ford very much swollen, he deliberately
disrobed and waded through to measure the depth and see
if his wagon could cross without wetting his precious books.
"He first chose medicine as his profession and with this
purpose went to Edinburgh to prosecute his studies, but
while there determined to become a physician of souls, a
minister of the gospel, and went to London to study theology,
where he was ordained by the Bishop of London. Of course
the Doctor could give no proof of his ordination, except Mr.
Weems' own word, and also that Mr. Weems had a black
silk gown, which he (Weems) said he had worn at his ordi
nation and for which he had no further use. He left Eng
land at the breaking out pf the Revolution, and returned
to this country in his brother's ship in 1776.
"He married Frances, daughter of Col. Jesse Ewell, of
'Bel Air,' Prince William county, Va., who must have been
many years his junior, for the family records show she was
born in 1775, and died on her birthday, August 28th, 1843,
aged sixty-eight. The 'Parson' died in 1825, at Beaufort,
S. C, and was buried there.
"It was, of course, to the later part of Mr. Weems' life
that the Doctor bears record. He describes him as of me
dium height, well-built figure, clad always neatly but simply
in black, cut after the manner of the times, wifh a little
horn of ink tied to the lapel of his coat and a quill pen in his
hat. His eyes were dark (not black), his features regular and
pleasant, his face clean shaven, his head, very bald on top,
was surrounded with pure white hairs, giving him a most
venerable and pleasant expression, true index of his character.
" Besides the lives of Washington, Franklin and Marion, he
wrote or edited a number of other books and pamphlets, viz.,
'Allan's Alarm to the Unconverted,' 'Dodd's Reflections on
Death,' 'Davies' Sermons,' 'The Life of Conaro, a converted
Italian,' 'The Drunkard's Looking Glass,' 'The Gambler's
Looking Glass,' 'The Adulterer's Looking Glass,' etc.
"The life of Franklin was edited from Franklin's auto
biography, and the manuscript of Marion's Life was given
him by Major Horry (Marion's chief officer), to do with as
he pleased. These he touched up in his own inimitable
style to make more interesting and to teach a moral; for
in every work he strove not only to interest, but to instruct
in true virtue. Mathew Cary, of Philadelphia, was his
publisher, and so successful was Weems in selling his own

ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS. 245
books that Cary gave him $50 per month to sell other books
published by him. He had a two-horse Jersey wagon, cov
ered, but without springs, except that the seat was swung
on leather; into his wagon he had fitted a bookcase, so ar
ranged it could be taken out, placed on the ground and opened
to display the books without disturbing them.
"His home was at Dumfries, but he travelled continually
from Philadelphia to Georgia and back again, attending
the various courts along the route, selling his books to the
crowds there collected, frequently giving them away to
those who could not or would not buy, always having a word
of exhortation for each; preaching every Sunday, or other
day that opportunity offered, in church, court house or
private residence, wherever he could get an audience, and
generally having good ones. His long solitary rides gave
him plenty of time for thought and meditation, and he seems
to have used it well; for besides his numerous publications
and frequent preaching, he memorized the most part of the
Prayer-book services. Collects and Psalms and a large part
of the Bible ; so that at times he could go through the whole
Morning or Evening Services, including Lessons and Psalter,
without opening a book. He was always on the alert to
pick up information, and prepared to note it down, and
with his long experience as a traveller, his constant asso
ciation with all classes of people, more especially the prom
inent men of his day, we may well conceive the fund he had
to draw from, how entertaining he could be as a guest, and
how welcomed he was wherever he went. Indeed, with
what eagerness his books, his news, his company and his
preaching must have been received, considering the scarcity
of all these things in those days, and we can readily believe
the Doctor's accounts of his immense popularity.
."Though he supported his own family comfortably, he
gave freely and generously to the needy, and as at that
time the country was full of French refugees (Huguenots),
he found many an opportunity to act the good Samaritan,
nor was he ever known to fail. One of those to whom he
had been kind in adversity and sickness, being an artist,
insisted on painting his portrait in return for his kindness.
This portrait was kept for a long time in his parlor, but
seems to have disappeared in the miltation of affairs. An
other one, to show his gratitude, presented him with a
violin, which, though plain, was a wonderfully fine one.

246 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
"The Parson was very fond of music, and a good violinist,
but the Doctor repudiates with indignation the old story
of his playing for a dancing party behind a curtain, etc.,
as altogether foreign to the nature and character of the
man. He never carried his violin with him on his travels,
but kept it carefully at home. Indeed it was difficult to
get him to play anywhere but at home. He supposes the
origin of the story to be in the fact that one evening while
at a friend's house a party of young people returned from
a wedding, and one of the young people having a violin
persuaded the Parson to play a few Scottish airs, but there
was no dancing.
"The Doctor has vivid recollections of the gentle ad
monitions he used to receive from the Parson, but says he
never heard him utter a hasty reproof. It was his daily
habit when at home to gather his family together morning
and evening for family prayers, when they would sing a
song or hymn, the Parson would recite a portion of Scripture
and then offer prayer to the Heavenly Father.
"The name of Weems was early associated in my mind
with the two books (Washington and Marion) which most
fascinated me in my boyhood days and stirred my impres
sionable mind with admiration for noble and virtuous con
duct, as well as pride in our countrymen, and I confess to
being much disappointed with the brief and disparaging
account given of the author by the venerable Bishop Meade.
"Now when, by the light of one who knew him well, I
consider this historian of our infant republic, writing up
its noblest men so as to stir the hearts of the rising genera
tion to noble and virtuous conduct, this pioneer in American
literature disseminating good seed broadcast over fallow
ground, this missionary of the Church supporting himself
at a time when many of the clergy were either deserting
their posts or squabbling over their tithes, preaching and
writing against drinking and gambling when many of the
brethren were doing the same, speaking the word in season
and out of season from Philadelphia to Georgia, burying
the dead, baptizing the children, and ministering to the
needy, laboring even unto the end, my opinion of the man
is not only restored, but raised, and I can better appreciate
his books. I . hope this may be the case with others too,
and that the name of a good man may be redeemed.
"Arthur P. Gray."

THE KEV. JAMES "WILTBANK!,
Hector of St. Peter's Church, Lewes, Eel., 1795.

VESTRY RECORDS. 247

ST. PETER'S VESTRY BOOK RECORDS.

At a meeting of the Trustees, incorporated persuant to
law, for St. Peter's Episcopal Church at Lewes, in the County
of Sussex; on Wednesday, the thirtieth day of June, in the
year of Our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety:
Members present, Messrs. John Wiltbank, Esq., Reece
Wolfe, John Russell, Phillip Kollock, Hap Hazzards and
George Parker. Absent, Anderson Parker. When, on motion
of Mr. Hap Hazzard, seconded by Mr. Reece Wolfe, John
Russell was proposed to be appointed Chairman of the
Trustees afrd; And thereupon the said John Russell was
chosen and appointed Chairman, by the unanimous voice
of the Trustees afrd. then and there present.
Ordered that the Chairman give notice by letter to Burton
Waples, Esqr., and the other Trustees of St. George's Epis
copal Church in Indian River hundred; requesting that the
said Burton Waples with as many of the other Trustees as
may by a majority thereof be appointed, attend a meeting
of the Trustees of this Church, at Lewes, on Saturday, the
twenty-fourth day of July next, and that they shall bring
with them the deed said to be in possession of Peter Rob
inson, Esqr., and all other papers and accounts respecting
the Glebe lands, that order may be taken for securing the
title thereof; and that the accounts for rent in arrear may
be settled and adjusted and such other orders taken therein,
as may be thought right and most advantagious to the
Churches afrd.
At which day a majority of the Trustees of St. Peter's
Church met to wit: Messrs. John Wiltbank, John Russell,
Anderson Parker and Philip Kollock, who together with
Burton Waples, Esqr., proceeded to endeavor to settle and
adjust the accounts of the rent of the Glebe, but for want
of some of the vouchers for monies paid, could not finish and
complete the same. Wherefore posponed the business until
Monday, the twenty-sixth instant, when a majority of the
Trustees met and on a motion appointed Messrs. Reece
Woolf, PhiHp KoHock, Hap Hazzard, and George Parker, a
committee, who, together with a Committee from St. George's

248 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Chappel, are to settle with Burton Waples formerly ap
pointed a Trustee for the Congregation of St. George's, and
with Anderson Parker and John Wiltbank, also formerly
appointed Trustees for the congregation of St. Peter's
Church, at Lewes, for the purpose of renting out the Glebe and
receiving and accounting for the profits thereof, and also
ascertain each churches Coto of the Ballances due arid like
wise to consult and agree on such measures as may be by
them though best for securing the title of the Glebe lands
and plantation, for the use of the afrd. two churches.
At a meeting of the majority of the Trustees of St. Peter's
Church at Lewes at the house of Mr. William Brereton, on
Thursday, the ninth day of June, 1791, John Wiltbank, John
Russell, Anderson Parker, Reece Woolf, Hap Hazzard and
Phillips Kollock, absent George Parker, the Committee
heretofore appointed for to settle and adjust the accounts of
the rents and profits of the Glebe lands to the Churches of
St. Peter's, at Lewes, and St. Georges, at Indian River,
reported that they had settled the accounts, with the Trus
tees of St. George's, by which settlement it appears each
church's coto of the rents of the Glebe, after deducting ac
counts for repairs, &c., was Sixty-four pounds two Shillings
and Seven Pence half Penny, as may more particularly
appear by an account stated and filed; and thereupon the
afrd. Trustees proceeded to appoint a Treasurer for St. Peter's
Church when John Russell was proposed and unanimously
appointed. Afterwards Reece Wolfe, Hap Hazzard, Phillips
Kollock, three of the four Trustees, (George Parker being
the other who was absent) appointed -to settle the accounts
of the rents and profits of the Glebe belonging to St. Peter 's
Church with John Wiltbank, Esqr., and Anderson Parker,
gentlemen, late Trustees for that purpose, who reported a
balance due the church from the late Trustees afrd. of Four
pounds Eight Shilling and one-half penny as may appear by
an account stated and filed. Afterward it was considered and
ordered by the Trustees that the execution of the deed from
John Evans to Benjamin Burton and others dated the first
day of December, 1769, for the Glebe lands be proved in
Court by one of the subscribing witnesses thereto and that
afterwards the said deed be recorded. And it was further
considered and ordered by the Trustees that William Harrison
with a sufficient number of advertisements giving notice of
the sale of the Glebe at Public Vendue on the Wednesday

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of August Court next at Lewes. And it was further or
dered that the Trustees of this Church meet on Saturday, the
twenty-fifth of this instant, in order to settle and adjust any
accounts which may be rendered against this church; and
also with the administratrix or heir of John Road, deed., for
and on account of the purchase money of a lott of land ; by
the said John Road sold and conveyed by a General
Warrant, &c., to Daniel Nunez, Jun., deed., and by him
devised to this Church; which lott of land was under a
mortgage to loan office of Sussex County, and by virtue
thereof sold; and it was ordered that John Russell, chairman
of the Trustees aforesaid, give notice in writing to the ad
ministratrix of the said John Roads to appear on the day
afrd. before the said Trustees, and also to Thomas Mcham
to render his account for repair on the Church, and to ac
count for the rent of the Church lott and afterwards the
Trustees adjourned to the day afrd.
At a meeting of a majority of the Trustees, to wit: John
Wiltbank, John Russell, Reece Woolf, Phillips Kollock, and
George Parker, at the house of Mr. William Brereton, in
Lewes, on Saturday, the twenty-fifth day of June, 1791, Mr.
Hinman Roads, son and sole heir of John Roads afrd. deed.,
in pursuance of the notice given to his mother (and on her
•behalf as well as his own) appeared before the Trustees afrd.
and after some conversation had on the subject of the lott
of land, by his father sold to Daniel Nunez, and by him
devised to the use of this Church, he requested that the
Trustees would give four weeks or thereabouts, to inform
himself and consider the matter; to which requisition the
Trustees agreed.
Mr. Thomas Mcham also appeared and rendered his
account for repairs done on the Church, amounting to Seven
Pounds, Ten Shillings and Seven pence, which amount was
examined by the Trustees, but not fully settled and adjusted,
after which said amount was filed amongst other papers
belonging to the Church with inside of the lease for the Church
lott. It was also considered and ordered by a majority of
the Trustees afrd., that the four pounds. Eight Shillings and
one-half penny, in the hands of John Wiltbank, Esqr., due
for rent of the Glebe, be by him paid to Mr. Daniel Rodney
in part of his amount, for materials by him furnished, for the
repair of the Church. And afterward the Trustees adjourned
•without day.

250 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
August 3d, 1791, a number of the Trustees of St. Peter's
and St. George's Churches met and agreed to adjourn the
sale of the Glebe untill Saturday, the twenty-seventh instant.
At which day pursuant to the afrd. adjournment, John Wilt
bank, Esqr., John Russell, and Reece Wolf, the Committee
heretofore appointed in behalf of St. Peter's Church, at
Lewes, and Peter Robinson, Esqr., Robert Burton, and
Woodman Stockley, the Committee for St. George's met on
the Glebe and exposed all the right of the Churches afrd. in
the same to public sale by way of vendue, when the same
was purchased by the afrd. Peter Robinson at the sum of
two hundred pounds under the incumberance of the lease
of Mrs. Davises thirds — one half of the purchase money to
be paid on the first day of January next ending the sale at
which time the possession of the lands are to be given, and
the remaining two-thirds parts thereof to be paid in one
year with interest, from the afrd. first day of January; and
that a deed be made to the afrd. Peter Robinson in fee, by
the surviving grantees in the deed dated the first day of
December, 1769, from John Evans. Mr. Robinson paid to
Thomas Wilson, the Vendue Master, Seven Shilling and Six
pence which is to be allowed him out of the purchase money.
At a meeting of a majority of the Trustees of St. Peter's
Church, at Lewes, the fifteenth day of October, 1791, Road
Shankland, Esqr., applyed to have his bond reed, by the
said Trustees for the payment of ;£22 12s. Od. for so much
paid for and on account of Peter Robinson, Esqr., in part
pay for the Glebe; also at the same time Mr. Daniel Rodney
proffered to pay £21 8s. Id. and give his bond for the payment
of Fifty Pounds in full discharge of the said Peter Robinson,
for and on account of this Churche 's Cotoa of the money
arising from the sale of the Glebe, which was considered and
agreed to by John Wiltbank, John Russell, Reece Wolf,
Phillips Kollock and George Parker, Trustees then present,
and on the nineteenth instant the bonds were taken and
the above sum of money reed, by J. Russell.
Do give and devise to the Wardens of St. Peter's Church in Letves-
to^wn and their successors forever, &c., adjoining lot of heirs of Wm.
Piles and adjoining land of Rev. Matthe-w Willson "¦which lots \
purchased from John Rhoads shall expend and apply rents issues
and profits hereafter annually arising out of said lots to^wards keeping
the said church of St. Peter's and the burying ground thereunto
belonging, in good repair.
Daniel Nunez.

VESTRY RECORDS. 251
At a meeting of a majority of the Commissioners or Trus
tees of St. Peter's Church at Lewes the seventeenth day of
April, 1794, it was agreed that Samuel Paynter, George
Parker, and Daniel Rodney, Esquire, be appointed managers
to provide materials and employ workmen to put a new ruff
on the Church and that they should draw orders on John
Russell, Treasurer, for monies as so much thereof as may
be in his hands for that purpose.
And at the same time, Mr. Elijah Cannon, junior, and
Mr. Cornelius Wiltbank, Junior, was bjj the Congregation
then present, chosen Trustees in the room of Anderson Parker,
Gentleman, and John Wiltbank, Esqr., deceased.
And it was further agreed at the same time by the Trus
tees that Thomas Mcham's garden be taken on rent for one
year, at the sum of Thirty-five Shillings.
At a meeting of the Trustees and Vestry of St. Peter's
Church, at Lewes, on the eighth day of November, 1794,
present Reece Wolf, Phillips Kollock, Cornelius Wiltbank,
Elijah Cannon and George Parker. The Trustees afrd. went
into the appointment of a Trustee in the room and stead
of Philip Kollock, who was about to move to George Town,
and Daniel Rodney, Esq., was unanimously appointed and
chosen. And Hap Hazzard, Esqr., was also nominated and ap
pointed by the Vestry present to represent the Church of
St. Peter's afrd. as a lay Deputy in the State Convention to
be held at Dover the sixteenth day of December next.
"An account of the Revd. William Skilley the balance
due as stated being ;£21 17s. 3d. for ministerial services for
the year 1792 being laid before the board by Daniel Rodney,
it was agreed that a sum of money should be raised by sub
scription to the amt. 10 or ;£15 which together with the sum
due and not collected on the old subscriptions would be suf
ficient to discharge the above balance.. Elijah Cannon was
appointed to collect the subscriptions, and ordered to pay
the overplus (If any) into the hands of the Treasurer of the
Board. At a meeting of the Trustees and a Number of the Con
gregation of the Church of St. Peter's, at Lewes, April llth,
1795, it was agreed that the pews in the said Church should
be raised one-third of the price they were formerly at. Also
that the Congregation should receive the Rev. James Wilt
bank as their minister and pay the sum of Sixty Pounds

252

SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.

annually to commence at Easter past in consideration of
his preaching in the said Church one sermon every third
Sunday A. M. and one sermon once in every third Sunday
P. M. during the summer season after he has preached at
St. Georges in the fore-noon.
Also that Mr. Reece Wolf be and is hereby appointed to
collect the pew taxes and subscriptions for paying the par
son's salary to him and to settle with the committee here
tofore appointed to repair the Church, to wit, Samuel Payn
ter, George Parker, and Daniel Rodney, Esqr., who are to
approve of the delinquents (If any) and that he be allowed
seven and a half per cent, on the sum collected.
1795, April the eleventh, being the Saturday after Easter,
John Russell and Samuel Paynter, Senr., were chosen War
dens and John Woolf, Jacob Hazzard, John Maull, Senr.,
William Brereton, William Burton, Richard Howard, Wil
liam Woolf, Burton Johnson, William Polk, William Cord,
Joshua Burton, Cornelius Paynter, Walter Hudson, and
Simon Marriner were chosen Vestrymen.
It was agreed at the same time that the price of the pews
in St. Peter's Church should be raised one-third after which
they would stand at the following rates, vizt:
No. l-$32- 6
3-12
4-12 5- 6
6- 6
7- 6

9- 8
10- 8

Gallery

No. 11-$12. No. 20-$2

" 12- 6.

' 21- 4

" 13- 12.

' 22- 1

Parsons Pew S.

' 2,3- 4

Clarks Do. 3.

' 24- 4

No. 14- 12.

' 25- 4

" 15- 6.

' 26- 4

" 16- 6.

' 27- 4

" 17- 6.

' 28- 4

J ¦¦ 18- 6.

' 29- 4

" 19- 2.

"The whole number of pews at the foregoing rates will
amt. to 160 DoU's or £60."
Thomas Martin was appointed at the same meeting to
officiate as sexton, ring the bell, open and sweep the Church,
&ca., for which services he is to be paid Ten Dollars pr an
num. January 22d, 1796. A meeting of several of the Trustees
and Vestrymen of St. Peter's Church was held in Lewes,
when George Parker and Daniel Rodney, were appointed
to settle with the Rev. William Skilly and pay him the bal.
due for ministerial services.

VESTRY RECORDS. 253
Also Messrs. Cornelius Wiltbank, and William Burton
were appointed to settle ¦with the Committee which were
appointed the seventeenth day of April, 1794, to put a new
roof and other repairs bn the Church, the work having been
completed some time and a bal. still remaining due and
unpd. to George Parker one of the Managers.
Lewes, March 28, 1796, being Easter Monday: At a meet
ing of a majority of the Trustees, Vestry and other members
of the congregation, Samuel Paynter, Senr., was unan
imously elected a Trustee to supply the vacancy occasioned
by the death of Hap Hazzard, Esqr., the former Trustees
being reappointed are as follows, vizt.:
John Russell, Chairman; Samuel Paynter, Senr., Elijah
Cannon, Senr., Daniel Rodney, Reece Woolf, Cornelius
Wiltbank, Junr., George Parker.
Wardens and Vestry the same as last year, except Samuel
Paynter, Junr., who was elected in the place and stead of
Joshua Burton, deed, as a Vestryman.
Also, It was Resolved Unanimously to receive the Revd
James Wiltbank as minister to Officiate in said Church every
third Sunday and that he should be paid for his services
Fifty Pounds Per Annum out of the monies raised by the
pew tax.
Also, Reece Woolf appointed Collector and to be allowed
7,^pr cent.
Also, Frederick Row, Clark and to be allowed Twelve
Dollars pr Anm from the time he began to officiate until
next Easter.
Also, Thomas Martin, Sexton, &ca., To be allowed Ten
Dollars for the ensuing year and' 11/3 for services done
heretofore. Also, That Cornelius Wiltbank be appointed Tax Delegate to
represent this Church in the State Convention the ensuing year.
Also, That Reece Woolf, Daniel Rodney, and George
Parker be appointed to let or rent the pews agreeably to the
rates of Easter, 1795, and repair and cap the brick wall on
the North West side of the Church Yard, And that Daniel
Rodney may advance a sum sufficient for that purpose out
of the money in his hands.
Agreeable to the order of January .22d, 1796, Mr. Daniel
Rodney produced a receipt dated Oct., 1796, by which
it appears he paid the Revd. WilHam Skilly Twenty DoUars
being the bal. of his acct in fuU.

254 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Thursday, March 23rd, 1797, a majority of the Trustees,
to wit, Samuel Paynter, Reece Wolfe, George Parker, and
Cornelius Wiltbank, met, agreed to purchase one-fourth of a
lott of Daniel Rodney and Revd James Wiltbank, adjoining
the Church yard and to pay them for the same the sum of
Twenty Eight Pounds out of the first monies that should be
collected belonging to the Corporation in consequence of
which appropriation, the said Daniel Rodney and James
Wiltbank executed a deed to the Trustees.
April the seventeenth, 1797, being Easter Monday, at a
meeting of the Wardens and Vestry it was agreed the Wardens
and Vestry elected last Easter should be continued for the
ensuing year except Simon Marriner, in whose place John
Parker was elected' as a Vestryman.
Easter Monday, April I7th, 1797, at a meeting of the
Trustees, present, Saml Paynter, Elijah Cannon, Daniel
Rodney, Cornelius Wiltbank, and George Parker, it was
agreed to rent the old Court House to James Elliott, for one
year at ;£25 to be paid quarterly, which the said Elliott
agreed to, and Daniel Rodney was directed to draw a lease,
to be executed when Elliott moved into the house, the rent
to commence the 1 5th Apl.
October 16th, 1797, Daniel Rodney, George Parker and
Cornelius Wiltbank, Junr., executed a bond for 73 Dollars
and 23 cents, Amt due David M. Mcllvaine for work done
on the old Court House, and delivered the same to George
Parker for safe keeping until the other Trustees to wit.,
Saml. Paynter, Senr., and Elijah Cannon should execute
or sign the said bond.
Easter Monday, AprU 9th, 1798, at a meeting of the Trus
tees, present, Saml. Paynter, Senr., Elijah Cannon, Daniel
Rodney, Cornelius Wiltbank, George Parker, and sundry
others, the Wardens and Vestry of St. Peter's Church, the
following persons were chosen as Trustees to said Church
the present year, vizt.: Saml. Paynter, Senr., Elijah Cannon,
Daniel Rodney, Cornelius Wiltbank, George Parker, William
Burton, and Cornelius Paynter, of whom the said Daniel
Rodney was elected Chairman, in the place of John Rus
sell, who resigned in consequence of his removal to George
town. Daniel Rodney exhibited an account for repairs, &ca., of
the Court House for the use of St. Peters Church, to the
amount of Twenty-seven Pounds 9/10, where-upon the Trus-

VESTRY RECORDS. 255
tees agreed to discharge the said account by discount on his
bond the balance thereof being Twenty-five Pounds 12/6
upon which the Trustees directed Mr. George Parker to de
liver the said bond to the said Daniel Rodney. All the debts
settled by mortgaging the old Court House and Church
Lotts. Balances as settled this day for repairs of the Court
House as follows:
To John Parker  £3 18s. 9d,
" Saml. Paynter, Senr  14 5 4
" Mills Mcllvaine a note (suppose)  27 15 0
" WilHam Arnold, pd by C. WUtbank (sup
pose)  .*  23 12 6
" Robert Brereton pd  6 0 0
" Levi Oliver  6 0 0
" Hester McHams bond from James Wilt
bank and Daniel Rodney, prinl  28 0 0
" George Parker  12 9 8
" Daniel Rodney  1 17 A}i
" Caleb Rodney pd £10 by DB  8 12 6
" Richard Howards bill paid in part by rent
of Church lott  3 13 10
" John Rodney £6 9s. lOd. Peter Robin
son £4  10 9 10
Money due on Subscription papers. . £H3 Os. lid.
Walter Hutson — paid by   7 10 0
Wardens and Vestry elected for ensuing year, Vizt., Samuel
Pajmter and Cornelius Wiltbank, Wardens ; and John Wolf,
John Maull, Jacob Hazzard, Richard Howard, William Polk,
Burton Johnson, Saml. Paynter, John Parker, Danl. Woolf,
William Cord, and Levin Ennis, Vestrymen.
Whereas it appears to the Trustees, on settlement of the
managers amts. to repair the old Court House that after
applying all the money belonging to the Corporation towards
discharging the bills there will be a deficiency of one hun
dred pounds and upwards as by the bills and bonds on the
other side entered may be seen. Therefore the said Trustees
do agree that if any of the members of the Congregation wiU
advance the money or otherwise discharge the said demands
they shall be repaid such sums together with legal interest
thereon for the payment of which the said Trustees will mort
gage or pledge the old Court House and appurtenances

256 I SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
thereto. Adjourned and agreed to meet again at Lewes,
on Wednesday the ninth of May, next.
January 1st, 1799. Three of the Trustees met. Vizt.,
Daniel Rodney, Samuel Paynter, and George Parker; there
not being a Quorum adjourned till Saturday next.
Saturday, January 5th, 1799. Trustees met, present, the
Rev. James Wiltbank; Trustees: Daniel Rodney, Samuel
Paynter, Senr., Cornelius Wiltbank, George Parker, Cornelius
Paynter, and William Burton, being all the Trustees except
Elijah Cannon.
At said meeting the Trustees took into consideration the
resolution of Easter Monday last relative to the debts due
sundry individuals for the repairs of the Old Court House
and other demands against the Corporation. Several of the
members proposed to advance money for the discharge of
said debts on condition the Trustees would mortgage the
Old Court House and appurtenances together with the Church
lot unto them as security and would apply the rents arising
therefrom (till the whole principal and interest was paid)
to discharge the same, which proposition was unanimously
agreed to by the Trustees and other members of the Congre
gation present.
Whereupon Samuel Paynter, senr., paid in cash £5 14s. 8d.
which with the sum of £14 5s. 4d. due him before made up
the sum of ;£20 and George Parker also paid in cash ;£7 3s. 4d,
which with the sum of £12 16s. 8d., due him before made
the sum of £20. Daniel Rodney, James Wiltbank, and Cor-
jielius Wiltbank each agreed to advance the sum of £20,
Cornelius Paynter and Samuel Paynter, Junr, £20, John Cole
and Daniel Woolf, £20, John Parker, WilHam Burton, £10
between them and Woodman Stockley since agreed to advance
£10. And Daniel Rodney was requested by the Trustees to draw
a mortgage deed by Saturday next to be executed and de
livered to the persons above mentioned.
Saturday, January 12th, 1799. AU the Trustees met and
Daniel Rodney presented the deed agreeable to their request
last meeting and the same was executed by Daniel Rodney,
Samuel Paynter, Cornelius Wiltbank, George Parker, WilHam
Burton, and Cornelius Paynter, according to the above
agreement. Elijah Cannon agreed to pay Peter Robinson's
debt of £4 amount of his subscription to repair Court House
which was for £6.

VESTRY RECORDS. 257
Cornelius and James Wiltbank produced receipts to the
amount of £40 from William Arnell, Walter Hudson and
Robert Brereton is in full for their shares as mentioned in the
mortgage deed, £40.
Daniel Rodney also presented his amount for payment
made to Frederick Row, as Clerk, for two years, one year
at 10 and one at 12 dollars, £8 Ss. Od. ; Do to Hester McHam
on her Bond £15 9s. 3d., and a balance due him at settle
ment of his amount for repairing Old Court House last Easter,
£1 17s. 4d., amounting in all to £25 lis. 7d.
Cr: being balance in his hands for rent of Lott £2 4s. 8d.,
which leaves £3 6s. lid. due him over the sum of £20 he
agreed to advance.
Daniel Woolf paid his share being £10 to Caleb Rodney
per receipt shown the Trustees.
John Cole paid his share by taking up Bond from Jno.
Woolf assigned by H. McHam balance £10.
There remains due from the persons to whom the mortgage
was made the following sums:
C. P. pd. Jno. Rodney and Geo. Parker, Mar, 1800.
Pd viz — ^from Samuel and Cornelius Paynter £20 Os. Od.
Pd— from Woodn Stockley (pd MiUs Mcllvaine) 10 0 0
Pd — from Wm. Burton (appd to pay D. Rod- 15 0 0
ney) from John Parker  1 1 3
pdfromElijahCannononSubscriptionpdD.R. 2 0 0

£38 Is. 3d
Also the following debts remain:
Unpd. To Mills Mcllvaine— £22 IOs. Od. paid.
pd To John Rodney £6 9s. lOd. pd by C. Paynter.
To Caleb Rodney, pd. £3 15s. Od. bal due $2.35.
To Daniel Rodney as above £3 6s. lid. £36 19s. 3d.
Trustees agreed to meet again February 16.
Agreeably to appointment the Trustees met February 16th,
1799, and agreed to meet again Easter Monday next.
Easter Monday, being the 25th March, 1799, the Trustees
of St. Peter's Church, together with the Wardens and several
of the Vestry, met at the old Court House in Lewes when the
Trustees, Wardens, and Vestrymen that were appointed
last Easter (no objection being made) were continued for
the ensuing year.
March the 8th, 1800. The Trustees met this day agree
ably to notice and agreed to rent the old Court House (and

258 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Church lot at the expiration of Richard Howard's lease) to
Simon Marriner for one year, he paying the thirty pounds
rent, to bind himself not to suffer any person to play at
cards or dice in said house during said term and to cause the
chimneys to be clean swept at least once a month when fires
are kept in them.
Also appointed Daniel Rodney and George Parker to settle
with James Elliott — the former tenant.
Agreeably to appointment the committee met Monday the
tenth of March, after crediting him with the following sums
vizt.: For paint, oil and Jug £2 17s. 3d. For pails in back
yard, door &ca. as valued by Isaac Turner and Jno. Rodney
pr their bill £4 18s. 3d. and Trustees Bond assigned to him by
John Cole balance due thereon, £10 14s. 3d.
Also a deduction for the last years' rent the term for which
he took it not having yet expired, £2 19s. 4d.
There was the sum of £19 4s. lOd. due the Trustees towards
the last year's rent, which the said James Elliott has acknowl
edged under his hand.
By ten dollars January 23d, 1801 and twenty-four dollars
August 10th, is thirty-four dollars.
James Elliott also paid George Parker 8/8 dollars. May,
1800. Easter Monday being the fourteenth of April, Anno Dom
ini, 1800, several Trustees, Vestrymen and other members
of the Congregation met and proceeded to business when the
following officers were appointed, vizt.: Samuel Paynter, Sr,
Cornelius Wiltbank, Wardens ; Jacob Hazzard, John Woolf,
John Maul, Richard Howard, William Polk, Burton John
son, Samuel Paynter, Junr., John Parker, Daniel Woolf,
William Cord, Levin Ennis, and Elijah Cannon, Vestry for
1800. Also at same time William Woolf, Esqr.. was appointed lay
delegate to represent this Congregation in the State Conven
tion to be held in Dover the first Tuesday in May next, and
that Eight Dollars be appropriated to pay in to the Treasurer
of sd. Convention together with his expenses.
The Wardens and Vestry adjourned and agreed to meet
again on Saturday the third of May next.
Saturday, third of May, 1800. The Wardens and Vestry
met and continued the Rev. James Wiltbank as the pastor
of this Church for the ensuing year.

VESTRY RECORDS. 259
Easter Monday, AprU 6th, 1801. The Wardens, Vestry,
and Trustees met at the old Court House in Lewes.
The Wardens and Vestrymen appointed last Easter were
continued and appointed for the following year.
At same time Samuel Paynter, Junr., was appointed lay
delegate to represent the Church or Congregation in the State
Convention to be held in New Castle, Tuesday, the fifth
of May next, and case he should not be able to attend Cor
nelius Wiltbank should attend in his stead. And Daniel
Rodney, Chairman of the Trustees was requested to advance
to said delegate four dollars as the contribution of the said
Church to the general Convention also his expenses in at
tending at New Castle.
Trustees for the year 1801: Daniel Rodney, Chairman;
Samuel Paynter, senr., George Parker, Cornelius Wiltbank,
William Burton, Elijah Cannon, Junr., Cornelius Paynter,
were all present except Samuel Paynter, Senr., when it was
agreed that Daniel Rodney and George Parker should be
Authorized to repair the Church wall and gate.
Also to rent the old Court House to Simon Marriner for
the ensuing year for the sum of £2 7 IOs.
April 6th, 1801. Simon Marriner paid £18 15s. and
March the seventeenth 1802, he paid £10 18s. to Daniel
Woolf for his share of the mortgage which is in full for his
first year's rent and 13s. towards this year's rent which was
due March the — , 1802.
Easter Monday, AprU 19th, 1802. At a meeting of the
Wardens, Vestry, and other members of the Congregation,
present the Rev. James Wiltbank It was agreed to re
ceive him as pastor to officiate in said Church one Sunday
in four weeks in the forenoon and one Sunday in four weeks
in the afternoon.
It was also agreed to appoint John McCracken Sexton of
the said Church, to give him Ten Dollars pr Ann. for ringing
the bell, cleaning the Church, &ca., and two dollars extra
if there should be preaching on other days besides Sundays.
At same time Samuel Paynter, senr., was appointed a dele
gate to represent this Church in the State Convention to
meet at Lewes the first Tuesday in May next.
Also Daniel Rodney, Chairman of the Trustees, is di
rected to advance four dollars to be paid to the State Con
vention towards defraying the expenses of the General Con
vention.

260 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
The Wardens appointed for the ensuing year are : Samuel
Paynter, Senr., and Cornelius Wiltbank. Vestry: Jacob
Hazzard, John Woolf, John Maull, William Woolf, Richard
Howard, Burton Johnson, Samuel Paynter, Junr., Elijah
Cannon, John Parker, Daniel Woolf, William Cord, Stephen
Warrington. Trustees for the present year 1802: Daniel
Rodney, Chairman; Samuel Paynter, Senr., Cornelius Wilt
bank, George Parker, Elijah Cannon, Cornelius Paynter,
and William Burton.
Simon Marriner Dr. To a year's rent due March Sth or
10th, 1802 (agreed at)  £27 IOs. Od.
Do By 13s. left or unpaid of the
last year rent  £0 13s. Od.
By his account allowed for repairs
at Easter 1803  3 14 1
By cash at same time  20 12 11 25 0 0
Balance due Trustees March 1802  2 10 0
To one years rent due March 1803  27 10
£30 0 0
By discounted with Parson Wiltbank towards
his share of Mortgage  14 15 0
Balance due Trustees  £15 5 0
Due from James Elliott for principal and interest on his
settlement April 10th, 1803, £6; which was assigned to
the Rev. James Wiltbank towards his share of Mortgage.
Easter Monday, April llth, 1803. The Trustees, a num
ber of the Vestry, and others of the Congregation met this
day and agreed to continue the Trustees, Wardens, and
Vestry that were appointed last year, except William Woolf,
Esqr., in whose place Thomas Warrington was appointed
on account of Mr. Woolf 's declining to serve.
Also Daniel Rodney was authorized to pay unto Sarah
Stockley the amount of Woodman Stockley's share or part
of the mortgage deed executed by the Trustees to the sev
eral persons therein mentioned in 1799, the principal being
£10. Also the said Daniel Rodney was authorized to pay unto
John McCracken $6.33, amount being balance due him for
the last year and out of the money he has received or may
receive for rent. Also to continue the said John McCracken

VESTRY RECORDS. 261
as bell ringer or sexton to open and clean the church, &ca.,
for the ensuing year.
It was further resolved that Daniel Rodney, Chairman
of the Trustees, should pay unto William Burton his share
of the mortgage given him and others by the Trustees in
the year 1799, the principal of which is £5 and Interest
according. It was also agreed ¦with Simon Marriner to rent him the
Old Court House for the ensuing year at £25 IOs. pr annum,
commencing the eighth or tenth of March, 1803. The lot
below the Church yard on Third Street, except a pound
round the stable, is to remain in possession of the Trus
tees, and it is understood that in consequence of the rent
being lowered since last year, they are at liberty to rent the
aforesaid lower lotts to any other person.
And it was further agreed that Simon Marriner should
have a credit towards the rent now due from him for any
sum he should pay unto Parson Wiltbank towards his share
of the Mortgage due from the Trustees and that Daniel
Rodney is hereby authorized to pay the balance of said share
of mortgages out of any money in his hands not otherways
appropriated this day.
Statement of the sums due on Mortgage from the Trus
tees dated January 12th, 1799:
To Saml. Paynter Senr. £20— In. 4 yrs£44s.0d.£24 4s. Od.
George Parker
Danl. Rodney "
Cornels. Wiltbank
Saml. Paynter Junr. £10 -
Cornels. Paynter 10 is £20 & In.
John Parker £5 and 4 yrs In at 6% is

Paid to Revd. Jas. Wiltbank £24 4s. Od. by a note as
signed him by Simon Marriner, and a note by D. Rodney on
James Elliott and cash. John Cole and Daniel Wolfe are
paid. Woodihan Stockley and William Burton were paid their
shares this day; Mr. Stockley was paid £12 8s. Od. and Wil
liam Burton £6 4s. Od.
Easter Monday, AprU 2d, 1804. The Trustees, Wardens,
and Vestry met agreeably to notice previously given when

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£127 4s. Od.

262 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
John Wolfe was unanimously elected a Trustee to supply
the place of Elijah Cannon, deed.
The Trustees for the ensuing year will then be: Daniel
Rodney, Chairman; Samuel Paynter, Senr., George Parker,
Cornelius Wiltbank, John Wolfe, Cornelius Paynter, and
William Burton. Wardens elected or continued: Samuel
Paynter, Senr., and Cornelius Wiltbank. Vestry for the
ensuing year continued and elected: Jacob Hazzard, John
Wolfe, John Maull, Thomas Warrington, Richard Howard,
Burton Johnson, John Parker, Daniel Wolfe, William Payn
ter, and Stephen Warrington.
On the same day the following appropriation of money
was made, vizt., which the chairman was authorized to pay:
To pay John McCracken for ringing bell, &c^, $10 and he
was continued at same rate for ensuing year.
Also to pay the following persons in part of their Interest
due on Mortgage, vizt: Danl. Rodney, $6; George Parker,
$6; Saml Paynter, Jun., $3; Saml. Paynter, Senr., $6; Cor
nelius Wiltbank, $6; Cornels. Paynter, $3.
At same time Samuel Paynter, Senr., was appointed
lay delegate to represent this Church in the Convention
to be held in George Town in May next. Danl Rodney
was directed to pay unto the aforesaid Samuel Paynter
$4, as the contribution of this Church to the General Con
vention. It was also agreed to continue the Revd. James Wilt
bank as pastor of said Church the ensuing year to officiate
as minister and preach every third Sunday and to be paid
out of the pew tax that may be collected not to exceed
one hundred Dollars.
Simon Marriner paid the sum of  £13 IOs. Od.
do To bal. due for rent Mar.
10th -1803  £15 5s. Od.
do To a year's rent due Mar.
10th 1804  25 10 0 40 15 0

Bal. due from Simon Marriner  £27 5 0
The afrd. Simon Marriner was continued as tenant in the
Old Court House for the ensuing year at £25 IOs. per annum
and to till the Church Lott in Corn and some potatoes for
which he is to give one half the produce as rent.

VESTRY RECORDS. 263
Due the following persons oil the mortgage each
(exclusive of 6 Dolls, paid this day £24 Ss Od vize
George Parker, Samuel Paynter, Senr., Danl
Rodney, Cornels. Wiltbank, Cornelius and Sam
uel Pa)mter, amt  £121 ISs. Od.
To John Parker 6£ and S yrs. In. at 6%  7 IOs. Od.

£128 15s. Od.
Simon Marriner by cash paid Daniel Wolfe to
wards Cedar Rails to fence the Church Lott this
22nd September, 1804  £ 7 IOs. Od.
Do By cash paid Saml Paynter, Senr  7 IOs. Od.

£15 Os. Od.

Easter Monday, AprU the fifteenth, A. D. 1805. At a
meeting of the Wardens, Vestry, and other members of the
congregation of St. Peter's Church, at Lewes, Samuel Paynter,
Senr, and Cornelius Wiltbank were appointed Wardens for
the ensuing year, and Jacob Hazzard, John Wolfe, John
Maull, Samuel Paynter, Junr., David Johnson, John Parker,
Thomas Warrington, Richard Howard, James Elliott, Daniel
Wolfe, William Paynter and Sylvester Webb were chosen
Vestrymen for the ensuing year. Also the following per
sons were elected Trustees for the ensuing year, vizt: Daniel
Rodney, Chairman; Samuel Paynter, Senr, Cornelius Wilt
bank, John Wolfe, Cornelius Paynter, George Parker, and
William Burton.
The Wardens, Vestry and other members present agreed
to receive the Revd. James Wiltbank as pastor to the said
Church and pay him (3ne Hundred and fifty Dollars for the
ensuing year for officiating and preaching in said Church
every other Sunday.
Mr. Daniel Wolfe was appointed Collector of the pew tax
for which service he is to be allowed 5% on the sum col
lected. John McCracken was appointed sexton and to ring the
bell for which he is to be allowed 12 dollars per annum.
A subscription paper was drawn authorizing Messrs. George
Parker and James Elliott to receive voluntary Contributions
to be applied towards the payment of the Parson's salary.
All the accounts relative to fencing the Church Lott and
the Potatoes received for rent were settled and paid off at
this meeting, and C. Paynter paid 13/1)4 for wood.

264 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Simon Marriner agreed to Rent the House for the ensuing
year, rent to commence March 10th, 180S, at the same rate
he had it last year, vizt. £25. IOs. exclusive of the Lott. At
settlement there appears to be £13 15s. Od. due from the
said Simon Marriner for arrears of rent the last year.
The Trustees having paid all the small bills and accounts
against the Church out of the money received for the rent
last year, the balance in their hands was £21 Os. Od. which,
with £S lis. Od. pd. Aug I7th, when it can be collected, will
make £26 lis. Od. was appropriated to the payment of the
interest on the mortgage due to the following persons:
To Saml Paynter, Senr  £4 19s. Od.
To Cornels Wiltbank £4 19s. Od. Geo. Parker
£4 19s. Od  9 18 0
To Danl Rodney £4 19s. Od. Cornels & Saml
Paynter £4 19s. Od  9 18 0
and to John Parker  16 0
£26 lis. Od.
After which there will be due on Mortgage to
the above mentioned Mortgagees the follow
ing sums :
To John Parker Principal with In. from Jan. 12th £ 6 Os. Od.
To Saml Paynter Senr & Danl Rodney each £20 40 0 0
To Cornels Wiltbank & Geo. Parker each £20. 40 0 0
and to Cornels & Saml Paynter Junr each £10. 20 0 0
due Jany 12th, 1805  £106 Os. Od.
Samuel Paynter, Senr., George Parker and Daniel Rod
ney were appointed a Committee to Sell the old brick and
put up a Cedar fence on the northwest Side of the Church
Yard, and to rent the pews for the ensuing year.
At a meeting of the Trustees, Wardens, &ca., August 17th,
1805, Simon Marriner paid £5 lis. towards last year's rent;
Do paid $8.50 being the amount of one-third of 19>^ bushels
of wheat raised on the Church Lott.
At same time Daniel Rodney was paid the sum of $8.50
towards repaying him an amount which he had paid to
John Jeffreys for Carpenter's work on the Court House.
Also at said meeting the Trustees present, vizt, Daniel
Rodney, Samuel Paynter, Senr, George Parker, Cornelius
Wiltbank, and William Burton, authorized Simon Marriner

VESTRY RECORDS. 265
to procure shingles and have a new roof put on the house
which he agreed to do provided the expense did not exceed
one year's rent.
See previous page for the manner the above sum of £5 lis.
was appropriated, vizt, £4 19s. to Daniel Rodney and 12s.
to George Parker which was left unpaid of their interest last
Easter on account of the sum of £S lis. not then collected.
November the 2nd, 1805. The Trustees, Wardens and
some of the Vestry met and appointed Sylvester Webb to
collect the pew tax and Subscriptions.
February the 22nd, 1806, at a meeting tUis day, present
Daniel Rodney, Samuel Paynter, senr, John Wolfe, Cor
nelius Paynter, and William Burton and several of the Vestry
and other members of the Congregation, Simon Marriner
presented Isaac Turner's account which he had paid amount
ing to $35.04 of which $6.75 appeared to have been settled
in 1803, balance wiU be  $28.29
he also agreed to pay Jos. Coutter $1 and for shingles
to Mr. Long amounting to $61  $62 . 00
James Holland's bill for work  6.25
Thomas Warrington's do. for do. after deducting $2
for his subscription  12.10
for boarding the Carpenters  4 . 00
$112.64
do. to his subscription  $4 . 00
To one year's rent due March 10th  68 . 00
To balance due for rent March, 1805  36.67

$108.67 $112.64 108.67

There wUl be a bal of $3.97 cents due Simon Mar
riner March 10th, 1806  $3.97
Also the amounts for repairing the Church wall, the kitchen,
ceUar, and putting a new roof on the Old Court House were
brought in amounting to $162.28, exclusive of Mr. Carlisle's
bin for Oak board, $112.64, of which Simon Marriner as
sumed to pay, for which he is credited above, and $49.64

266 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
paid out of subscription money except Caleb Rodney's ac
count of $13.86. T. Carlisle's bill for board was not brought
in with the others and is yet unpaid. Thomas Carlisle's IdUI
amounting to £4 IOs. 9d. paid by Sylvester Webb.
Easter Monday, April 7th, 1806. This day a meeting
was held at the house of Simon Marriner; present George
Parker, Daniel Rodney, William Wolfe, James Elliott,
Daniel Wolfe, and Sylvester Webb, when it was agreed on
account of the small number present to adjourn the meet
ing till this day three weeks.
On the twenty- eighth day of April, 1806, agreeably to
adjournment, several of the Trustees, Vestry, and members
of the Congregation met and appointed Samuel Paynter,
Junr, and Sylvester Webb lay delegates to represent this
Church in the State Convention to be held at Milford the
first Tuesday in May.
Also the Wardens, Vestrymen and bell ringer appointed
last year were continued for the ensuing year.
At a meeting held the twenty-sixth day of July, it was
agreed to recommend raising the pew tax for the last year
so as to make up fifty dollars more than the tax amounted
to before, which was $100; the aforesaid fifty dollars to be
paid to the Rev. James Wiltbank in addition to the sum
collected for the pews at the old rate.
It was also resolved to receive the Revd. James Wiltbank
as pastor of this Church for this year, 1806, and to pay him
the same salary and in the same manner as he was paid
before Easter, 1805, vizt: out of the pew tax that could
be collected and voluntary subscriptions.
1807. At a meeting of the Wardens, Vestry, Trustees
and other members of St. Peter's Church, at Lewes, this
thirtieth day of March, being Easter Monday, the Wardens,
vizt. Samuel Paynter, Senr. and Cornelius Wiltbank, ap
pointed last year, were continued for the ensuing year.
The Trustees are Daniel Rodney, Samuel Paynter, Senr.,
Cornelius Wiltbank, George Parker, John Wolfe, Cornelius
Paynter, and William Burton.
"The Vestry for the last year were John Wolfe, Jacob Haz
zard, Thomas Warrington, Daniel Wolfe, Samuel Paynter,
Junr., David Johnson, John Parker, Richard Howard, James
Elliott, Sylvester Webb, and John Maull, Senr. ; who were
continued for the ensuing year and Charles M. Cullen was
also appointed a Vestryman for the ensuing year.

VESTRY RECORDS. 267
At same time Simon Marriner paid £30 for his rent due
the tenth of this month in the following manner: — A Bill for
Latches, plank, &ca  $2 . 93
A bill over paid by him last year  3.97
$6.90
And cash  73 . 00
80.00

Also Samuel Paynter, Senr., and Daniel Rodney were
appointed lay delegates to represent this Church in the
State Convention to be held the first Saturday in June, and
Daniel Rodney was directed to pay four dollars as the Con
tribution of this Church to the General Convention.
It was agreed by a majority of the members present that
the Trustees should sell that part of the Church lott which
lays between the public ditch and Fourth street and that the
same should be advertised to be sold on Saturday week next.
Also Daniel Rodney was authorized to pay John McCrack
en for his services in ringing the bell, &ca., $12 for the last
year; and the above mentioned lott was sold, at the time
appointed, unto Caleb Rodney who gave a note for one-half
the purchase money payable in three months for the sum of
£25 and the residue being £25 more payable next Easter.
The first of the above notes were paid and applied by the
Trustees towards getting timber and materials for building
the new church.
1808, August 29th, the other note from Caleb Rodney was
discharged by his account for nails and other articles fur
nished for the new Church.
Easter Monday, April the 18th, 1808. At a meeting of a
number of the Vestry and other members of St. Peter's
Church, at Lewes, the Wardens and Vestry appointed last
year were continued for the ensuing year.
At same time Simon Marriner paid cash  $40 . 00
Also his bUl for repairs  9.81
Jno West, Isaac Turner & Jos Coutters do  9.87
$59.68
To his rent due last month  80.00
due St. Peter's Church from Simon Marriner towards
last year's rent  $20 . 32

268 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
The above was settled by bill for porch and cash April
3d, 1809.
August 29th, 1808, the Wardens, Vestry, Trustees and
other members of the Congregation of St. Peter's, at Lewes,
having agreed to build a new church of the same size of the
old one and to set it about thirty or forty feet to the south
and west of the old Church, which was so much decayed that
the carpenters and others considered it would not bear
repairing, the new Church was raised in June, and was so
far ready and prepared for the congregation to meet in and
hear a sermon delivered by the Revd James Wiltbank,
yesterday. September the fifteenth, 1808, the new Church. was this
day completely finished and the workmen discharged; being
about three months in building from the time it was raised.
Easter Monday, AprU 3d, 1809. This day the Wardens,
Vestrymen and other members of the congregation of St.
Peter's, at Lewes, met at Simon Marriner's and re-elected
Samuel Paynter, Senr., and Cornelius Wiltbank, Wardens. '
Vestrymen elected this year are: John Wolfe, William Wolfe,
place of Jacob Hazzard, deed., Samuel Paynter, Junr., David
Johnson, John Parker, Senr., Thomas Warrinton, Daniel
Wolfe, Richard Howard, John Maull, Senr., Sylvester Webb,
Charles M. Cullen and James Elliott — 12. Also Charles M.
Cullen and John Parker, Senr., were appointed to represent
this Church in the Convention to be held at Milford this year.
Daniel Rodney, Chairman of the Trustees, was also re
quested to pay the delegates $4 for the annual contribution
to the Convention, and to pay John McCracken the sexton
$12 for his services in ringing the bell, &ca., for the year past.
At same time a full settlement was made between the
Vestry and the Revd. James Wiltbank in which it was agreed
by the Vestry to release any claim they had against him for
arrears of subscriptions and by the Parson to release any
claim which he had for arrears of salary, &ca.
Simon Marriner settled his rent due the tenth of last
month in the following manner:
By a note of James and Thomas Prettyman due in
July, which was assigned to Thomas Warrington  $25 . 00
Another note on do due in March next  25 . 00
And cash paid to Daniel Rodney  30.00
$80.00

ST. PETER'S, 1808
(Second Building)

vestry records. 269
St. Peters Church at Lewes. Dr.
1808.
Octr. 6. To amt Brot. over  £122 4s. 4d.
18th. To candles to light Church for
Parson Weems  1 lOX
To paid Isaac Turner the bal.
of his bin  4 15 6
To do John Parker (Farmer) . .
To do John Orr the bal. of his
biU  7 11 10
To pd John McCracken for
ringing bell &ca  4 10 0
1809. " ^
April 3rd. To pd John Little Junr  15
6th. TopdThos. Warrington26.71.. 10 5 4
June 2d. pd. Charles M. Cullen Esq for
the Annual Contribution of
this Church to the Conven
tion  1 10 0
John M. West for Cedar  4 8 11
1810.
Jan. 18. Gave Isaac Turner an order on
Wm Steel Senr for his sub
scription amtg. to $6.00. . . .
Mr. Wiltbank pd. Mr. Carlisle
for 2808 feet of Laths £4.
14s. 4d 
AprU 23d. To Cash paid Chas. M. CuUen
the bal. of his bill for Boards
for Church  1 6 3

£156 19s. Id.
27. Paid Wm Harris the bal of his
Bill for work on the Church. 3 15 1
July 13. Paid Sylvester Webb for the
Annual Contribution of this
Church to the State Con
vention  110 0
Paid Richd Enos for cleaning
Pulpit &c  ' 8 5
Sept. 19. Cash paid Thos. Rodney for
Oil & Paint for the outside
< of the Church $40.00  ISO 0

£177 12s. 6d.

270 SOME records of SUSSEX COUNTY.
1811.
May 20. Cash paid Caleb Rodney for
WeU Sweep &c  lis. 3d.
" Isaac Turner for
putg. it up  3 9
June 1. Cash paid John Milby for 1500
Bricks & Lime  7 17 6
11. To a hhd of Lime $6, porterage
&c 3s. 9d  2 8 9
Aug. 20. Paid Wm. Wolfe Esq. $14 the
balance of his act. for Tim
ber & hauling for Church
yard after deducting $10
which he subscribed  5 5 0
Sept. To pd. Scipio and George for
Sawing Timber for capg  11 2

£194 19s. lid.
1812.
May 29. To Is. 6d. pd Postmaster  1 6
Sept. 7. To Cash paid Mrs BeU admr
of the Rev. Hamilton Bell
towards his salary 49.50  18 3 9

£213 3s. 2d.

Easter Monday, April the 23rd, 1810. At a meeting of the
Wardens and several others of the Congregation of St. Peter's
this day, it was agreed to appoint Thomas Rodney and James
Long as Vestrymen in the stead of James Elliott and Richard
Howard and to continue the other Vestrymen and Wardens
that were appointed last year for the ensuing year. Also
Charles M. Cullen and Sylvester Webb were appointed as
lay delegates to represent this Church in the Convention
which is to meet in Milford the first Saturday in June next.
At same time Samuel Paynter, Senr., Daniel Rodney,
George Parker, Cornelius Wiltbank, and John Parker, Senr.,
agreed that the mortgage given to them and others by the
trustees in 1799 for the Church lotts and buildings should be
discharged and that satisfaction should be entered thereon
and on the margin of the Record.
Simon Marriner also paid his rent for the last year in the
following manner: —

VESTRY RECORDS. 271
Cash paid to Daniel Rodney C of Trustees  $64.00
and bills for repairs &ca allowed  16.00

$80.00

This year, 1810, we have had no stated preaching the Revd.
James Wiltbank having removed to Holmesburgh in Pen
sylvania. Easter, April 15th, 1811. At a meeting this day the
Wardens and the Vestry for the last year were continued
and appointed for the ensuing year.
Hamilton Bell was ordained Deacon on Sunday, Septem
ber, 1747, in the Chapel of Fulham Palace. He was Jaorn
in Dumfries, Scotland.
The Wardens and Vestry agreed to receive the Revd.
Hamilton Bell as their Pastor to officiate in this Church every
other Sunday, or once in two weeks during the year from the
third Sunday before Easter and to pay him for said service
one hundred and fifty dollars which sum they propose to raise
by pew tax and subscription.
Simon Marriner paid in cash  $65.30
do by a bill for steple & repairs  4.70

$70.00

leaving a bal of $10 due. . . .for last year.
March 1812 By cash $10 by Mrs Marriner in fuU for
1810  10.00

$80.00

The Revd. Hamilton Bell died the twenty-sixth of Novem
ber, 1811, at his house in Dagsbury Hundred and was buried
the twenty-eighth at Broad Creek Church.
So read the entries in the minutes of St. Peter's Vestry.
The Rev. Hamilton Bell was called to "officiate in Lewes,
every other Sunday, or once in two weeks during the year
from the third Sunday before Easter." This was Easter
Monday, AprU 15, 1811.
The Rev. Hamilton Bell left two children, Elizabeth
Hamilton Bell, and Mary Eleanor BeU. Mary Eleanor was
under fourteen years of age at the time of her father's death.
John Polk, merchant, of Little Creek, became their guardian.

272 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
The Rev. William Wickes was here in 1816. He was
ordained Deacon by Bishop Seabury. Deposed, 1825.
The Rev. John Forman became Rector of St. Peter's parish
August, 1817. November 27th, 1820, he resigned.
At a meeting of the Vestry, Easter Monday, April 4th,
1836, the Rev. C. E. Pleasants acted as chairman. He had
resigned before March 27th, 1837.
At a meeting of the Vestry, Monday, March 31st, 1834, the
Rev. Nathan Kingsberry was present as Rector.
At a meeting of the Vestry, Easter Monday, 1835, a com
munication from the Rev. Nathan Kingsberry stated that
he had given up his charge in Sussex County on account of
ill health, and had removed to New York.
At a meeting of delegates from five churches (Georgetown,
Laurel, Dagsboro, St. Peter's, and St. George's) it was agreed
to receive the Rev. Daniel Higbee as their Pastor.
December 10th, 1821, Daniel Higbee gave a receipt for
t20^-^-jj towards his services as Rector of St. Peter's Church.
St. Peter's was to pay $180j'yg- a year, and the other churches
$120JA^ At a meeting of the Vestry April 20th, 1829, there is no
mention of the Rev. Daniel Higbee.
Simon Marriner died July 2nd, 1811.
Simon Marriner Dr. to a year's rent from March 10th,
1811, to March 10th, 1812  $80.00
By biU for repairs  $ 6.00
By cash  50.00 56.00

Bal due Trustees . . $24.00
Sarah Marriner, the widow of Simon, agreed to rent the
Old Court House the ensuing year at £30 per annum, the
rent to commence the tenth of this inst. March,- 1812.
September 7th, 1812, paid Mrs. BeU $49.50 cents, which,
with $50.50 paid to the Revd. H. Bell in his life time, amounts
to $100, leaving a balance of $50 yet due him.
September 28th, Mr. Webb left $30 which he had collected,
Octr. 7th Mr. Webb left $10 which he had coUected for Mrs.
Bell, and $10.50 pd her by Daniel Rodney, at Georgetown,
or to Mr. Cooper for her use, is in full of her husband's salary.
Easter Monday, March the 30th, 1812. At a meeting of
a number of the congregation this day the Wardens, Vestry
and Trustees heretofore appointed and elected were continued

VESTRY RECORDS. 273
for the ensuing year as follows: Wardens: Samuel Paynter,
Senr., Cornelius WUtbank. Vestry: John Wolfe, Samuel
Paynter, Junr., James Long, John Parker, Senr., David
Johnson, John Maull, Senr., Sylvester Webb, Daniel Wolfe,
Thos. Wartington, Thomas Rodney, Charles M. CuUen, and
Wm. Wolfe. Trustees: Daniel Rodney, Chairman; Samuel
Paynter, Senr., Cornelius Wiltbank, George Parker, John
Wolfe, Cornelius Paynter, William Burton.
At same time it was resolved that Daniel Rodney should
prove the account against Simon Marriner, deed., for balance
of Rent due March 10th, 1811  $10.00
for a years rent due do 1812  80.00
for balance of his subscription to New Church  5.00
for his pew tax for 1811  3.50
$98.50
By repairs in the lifetime of S. Marriner  3.00
$95.50
By do made by the widow  $3.00
By cash paid do.  60.00
By discounts for pew tax and subscription. . . 8.50
By cash received for balance  24.0095.50
Reed for Rent in May, 1813  $70.46
in repairs as settled  9. 54

$80.00
Easter Monday, 1813, in consequence of the war between
the United States and Great Britain, and the Town being
filled with Militia no meeting of the Wardens and Vestry
took place.
1814, April llth. George Parker was appointed a Church
Warden vice Cornelius Wiltbank deceased. Reed for rent
in cash $71.93, repairs $8.07.
1815. At a Stated Annual Meeting, Easter Monday,
March the 27th, A. D. 1815, at the house of Mrs. Marriner,
in Lewes, of the Wardens, Vestry, Trustees, and part of the
Congregation, for the purpose of appointing and continuing
the Trustees and other Officers, George Parker, Senr., was
continued and appointed one of the Church Wardens; Cor-

274 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
neliu's Paynter appointed Church Warden in the place of
Samuel Paynter, Senr, deed. Vestry continued: — ^John
Maull, Senr., John Parker, Senr, William Wolfe, Daniel
Wolfe, Thomas Rodney, James Long, David Johnson, and
Thos. Warrington; Wm. Futcher, appointed; also William
Paynter, Wm. Burton, John Milby, Anderson Hudson, ap
pointed; David Paynter and John Parker, Junr. Trustees
continued and appointed, vizt: Daniel Rodney, Chairman;
George Parker, Senr, Cornelius Paynter, William Burton,
William Wolfe, Samuel Paynter, and Thomas Rodney.
It was also resolved that the Trustees should lay out a
part of the money received for rent in repairing the Court
House putting up a partition, painting the roof of it, and
the Northeast side of the Church, pointing the cap of the
Church WaU, &ca.
Received this year in cash  $61.42
in repairs  18.58

$80.00

Easter Monday, 1816. The Wardens, Vestry, and Trus
tees appointed last year were continued for the ensuing
year.
Sarah Marriner to one years rent  $80.00
By her acct as settled for repairs  $12.21
By cash paid D Ry.— C. of T  67.79

$80.00

At a meeting of several of the Vestry, Wardens and Trus
tees the twenty-seventh of May, 1816, Thomas Rodney,
and John Parker, Junr., were appointed the delegates to
represent this Church in the State Convention, to be held
at Milford, on Saturday the first of June next. Four dol
lars were sent by them as the contribution of this Church
and $3.22 paid to them on their return for their extra ex
penses, by Chairman of Trustees.
Easter Monday, April the 7th, 1817, at a meeting of the
Wardens, Vestry, and Trustees, the officers appointed in
1815 and continued last year were continued for the ensuing
year. Also it was agreed that the Chairman of the Trustees,
should contribute and pay Thirty dolls, to the Missionary

VESTRY RECORDS. 275
Society of the State of Delaware and four dollars to the
Convention. Thomas Rodney and Daniel Wolfe, were appointed to
represent this Church, as lay delegates in the State Con
vention, to be held in Milford, the first Saturday in June
next. Sarah Marriner paid $80 for a year's rent due tenth of
last month; her amount for repairs to be taken out of this
year's rent.
Mrs. Sarah Marriner died on Sunday the thirteenth of
AprU; 1817.
The Wheat on the lott was cut and not taken off till
August. "16th February 1818 Received of Daniel Rodney, the sum of
fifty dollars, on account of my services as Rector of the Parish of St.
Peters at Le^wes. "John Forman."
The Revd John Forman was received by the parishes of
St. Peter's and St. George's as their Rector in August or Sep
tember last, at which Churches he was to preach once in
three weeks, at one in the forenoon and the other in the
afternoon, for the annual compensation of two hundred
dollars or one hundred for each Church, as it was under
stood, and perhaps one-third of fifty dollars, may be ex-
.pected from the above mentioned Churches.
Easter Monday, March 23d, 1818. A meeting of the War
dens and Vestry of St. Peter's took place at the house of
Thomas Warrington, at which it was resolved or agreed that
all the officers appointed in 1815 and since continued, (except
John Parker, Jun., and David Paynter who have moved out
of the Parish), should be continued for the ensuing year;
also that George Parker and Thomas Rodney should be a
committee to rent the pews; also that Thomas Warrington
who moved into the Old Court House in December last
should have the house at the same rate Mrs. Marriner had,
vizt.. Eighty dolls, per annum. The rent was to com
mence at November Court, about the twentieth of Novem
ber. The Trustees agreed to take the stable and carriage house
¦of Reece Marriner, the admc, at the appraisement, $12, which,
deducted from $35 left $23 due for last year's rent.
Charles M. Cullen and Daniel Wolfe appointed to attend
the Convention to be held at Dover in June next. Delivd M.

276 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
CuUen $4 as the annual contribution from this Church, also
$4.75 for his expenses.
The Revd John Forman, Rector; Easter Monday, April
the 12th, 1819. At a regular Stated Meeting of the War
dens, Vestry, Trustees and Congregation of St. Peter's, at
Lewes, held at the house of Thomas Warrington, or the
old Court House this day, the following officers were con
tinued and appointed, vizt: Wardens: George Parker and
Cornelius Paynter. Trustees : Daniel Rodney, Chairman,
George Parker, Cornelius Paynter, William Burton, Samuel
Paynter, Junr., Thomas Rodney, and Charles M. Cullen,
appd. Vestry: John Maull, Senr, Daniel Wolfe, John Parker,
Senr, James Long, William Futcher, Thomas Warrington,
John Milby, Anderson Hudson, William Paynter, David
Johnson, John Wiltbank, Burton Stockley, Kendle Batson,
Reece Woolfe. Also Charles M. Cullen, Daniel Wolfe, and
John Wiltbank were appointed to represent this Church as
lay delegates in the State Convention to be held in Dover
on the first Saturday in June next.
February 20, 1776.
The bonds put into Mr. George Parker's, Jr., hands this
day, AprU 21st, 1836:
Thomas Coleman  $227.48
Henry Myers  ,  83 .00
John M. West  115.00
Christopher Lekats  90 . 00
John Sweney  112 . SO
Gideon Burton  200.00
The following gentlemen were continued Wardens, viz. :
George Parker, Sr., and Daniel Rodney.
The following persons were elected vestrymen for the
ensuing year, viz.: William Fletcher, George Parker, Jr.,
George Hickman, Gov. Samuel Paynter, Robert Burton,
Thomas Coleman, Kendal Batson, William Marshall, Sr.,
William Paynter, Albert Burton, John Marshall, John H.
Burton, John Rodney, Jr., David J. Marshall, and Henry P.
Rodney. The following persons were appointed to represent this
church in the State Convention to be held in this church in
June next, viz.: George Parker, Jr., Henry F. Rodney.
Easter Monday, March 27th, 1837. — At a meeting of the

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Wardens and Vestry, & others, this day the s"^ officers
app'^ last year were Continued for the ensuing year.
At the same time Saml. Paynter, Sen'', and Henry F.
Rodney were app** lay Delegates to Represent St. Peter's
Church in the State Convention to meet at Milford.
The Committee app"^ in April last with the same power
then given were Conf^ except John H. Burton in whose place
John Marshall was Chosen for the ensuing year. At the same
time Governor Paynter, John Marshall, and John Rodney, Jr.,
were app"^ to meet other delegates of the different Congre
gations, to Consider the propriety of procuring a Pastor to
Officiate in the Churches lately under the charge of the Rev.
Mr. Pleasants.
January 10th, 1838. — At a meeting of the Wardens and
Vestry, it was Resolved that three Delegates be appointed to
meet the Delegates from the other parishes at George Town
on Tuesday next, to take measures for procuring the services
of a Clergyman.
Col. Samuel Paynter, George Parker, Jr., and Henry F.
Rodney were appointed.
Resolved that the Treasurer of this parish be authorized
to pay its quota of the expense of the present Visit of the
Rev. Mr. McKim.
The Delegates above app'^ met others from Indian River,
Dagsboro and George Town, and agreed to receive the Rev.
Mr. McKim as their Minister, and make up a reasonable, or
adequate compensation for him.
Easter Monday, AprU 16th, 1838. — There being but a
small meeting the officers app*^ for last year will be con
tinued this year, viz. : Daniel Rodney and George Parker,
Wardens. Vestry: — George Parker, Jr., George Hickman,
Thomas Coleman, Albert Burton, John H. Burton, John Rod
ney, Junr., Robert Burton, Samuel Paynter, William Mar
shall, Sr., William Paynter, John Marshall, David J. Mar
shall — 12. Trustees: — Danl. Rodney, Saml. Paynter, Thomas
Coleman, George Parker, Senr., George Hickman, Cornelius
Paynter, Rev. Mr. McKim, Pastor.
March the 9th, 1839. — Several advertisements were put
up in public places for the Election of a Trustee in the place
of William Burton, Esq., dec'^. Elect" to take place Thursday,
March 21st.
March 21st. — Trustees present as below, also Vestry W".
& John Marshall, Albt. Burton, John H. Burton, Thomas

278 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Norman, S. John Rody, &c., at which time it was resolved
that an action of Trespass be brought ag*. Ferdinand Schey,
for encroaching on the Church yard or Burying Ground of
St. Peter's, Lewes.
George Parker,
Danl. Rodney,
Samuel Paynter,
Robert Burton.
Easter Monday, April 1st, 1839. — Officers continued in
office Samuel Paynter and Robert Burton were appointed
Lay Delegates to represent Saint Peter's church in the State
Convention to be held at Seaford in May next.
September 26th, 1839. — At a meeting of the Wardens,
Vestry, &c., of Saint Peter's Church, held pursuant to a
Public Notice, it was. resolved unanimously to call the Rev.
Mr. Whitesides, who has lately paid a visit here frdm Philada.
as Rector of Saint Peter's Church, and guarantee the sum
of two hundred dollars, certain — and any further sum that
can be raised beside the said $200^^^^ as our part of his salary
for one year.
2d. Resolved that this meeting, request that each of the
parishes, viz.: Dagsboro, George Town & Saint George's
Chapel should act upon the proposition as soon as possibly
convenient, and say what certain sum each Congregation
would give for the support of the said Rev. Mr. Whitesides
and forward the same to the Wardens of Saint Peter's Church
at! this place, to be by them forwarded to the Rev. Mr.
Whitesides. Provided that those Parishes should agree to
call the said Clergyman, and in case a union can not be made
with the said Parishes (as has been heretofore) then it is
recommended that this Parish try to effect a union with
Milford. Easter Monday, AprU 20th, 1840. — The same Wardens,
Vestry, and Trustees continued in office.
Samuel Paynter and Robert Burton were appointed to
represent this church in the Convention to be held in Milford
— and John Rodney and John H. Burton also appointed in
case either or both of the other delegates could not attend.
At the same time John Rodney was appointed the Treasurer
of Saint Peter's church in the place of George Parker, Jr.,
who was not in attendance at the meeting this day.
Wednesday, October 28th, 1840.' — At a meeting then held
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a Minister, it was then agreed after due deliberation, to call
the Rev. John Reynolds, now living in Milford, Kent County,
Delaware, pro-vided a full majority of the Vestry & Ward
ens should sign a call of invitation to the said Rev. John
Reynolds for said purpose. A letter of Invitation was then
agreed to be made out and a copy recorded below, viz.:
"Le^wes, Sussex County, Del.
"Nov. 2, 1840
"Rev°. John Reynolds
! "Dear Sir: — We the undersigned -wardens, and a majority of the
Vestry men of Saint Peter's church in Le-wes Sussex County Del^"-
are desirous of having regularly preformed in said Saint Peter's cliurch
— The di-vine services of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Do here
by respectfully offer to your consideration the foUo-wing proposition.
Namely, that you take into your charge tlie said Saint Peter's
Church and perform Episcopal services in the same every other
Sunday for one year.
"For -which ¦we do agree to pay you the sum of One Hundred and
Seventy Five Dollars, certain per annum, and do Further promise
to increase that sum to two Hundred Dollars provided that it can be
raised by subscription. "Dani- Rodney
"George Parker Wardens
"John Marshall
"Albert Burton
"William Paynter
"George Parker Jr.
"John Rodney
"John H. Burton
"William Marshall
"Robert Burton
"David J. Marshall" Vestry Men
N. B. — This above call of invitation was accordingly ac
cepted by the said Rev'^ John Reynolds.
Feb. 23d, 1841.— Capt. W". Brock Dr.. for Burying his
chUd in the yard this day $1.50.
March 27th, 1841. — Capt. Wm. Brock gave bond to Saint
Peter's Church for Ninety two & |^ DoUars, for property
on Market St.
Easter Monday, AprU 12th, 1841.— At a meeting held this
day in Saint Peter's church Albert Burton was called to the
Chair and John Rodney appointed Secty.
Owing to the unfavorable state of the weather there were
but few persons present, no business transacted and no
election.

280 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Resolved to adjourn until Saturday afternoon next at
2 Oclock. Saturday afternoon, two Oclock, April 17th, 1841. — The
members of the church met pursuant to adjournment
Daniel Rodney was called to the Chair and John Rodney
appointed Secretary.
Present at this meeting, Vizt. Daniel Rodney, John H.
Burton, Joshua S. Burton, William Skellinger, David J.
Marshall, Albert Burton, Robert Burton, George Hickman,
Thomas Norman, Richard Paynter, Peter Warrington, John
Rodney. The following persons were appointed as lay delegates to
represent this church in the State Convention to be held at
George Town in May next, Vizt. Col. Samuel Paynter and
Robert Burton, and George Parker Jr. was also appointed
in case either of the other delegates could not attend.
On Motion Resolved that this meeting go into the election
of a Vestry by Ballot, whereupon the following persons
were elected Viz. George Parker Jr., John H. Burton, David
J. Marshall, Albert Burton, John Marshall, Robert Burton,
William Skellinger, John Rodney, Wm. Paynter, Nicholas
R. Rodney and George Hickman.
Samuel Paynter and William Marshall were also chosen.
The Wardens, Daniel Rodney & George Parker Sen''.
Easter Monday, March 28th, 1842. — At a meeting held this
day in Saint Peter's Church Rev. John Reynolds took the
chair, and John H. Burton was appointed Secretary.
The Wardens and Vestry were continued with the addition
of Dr. William Harris as Vestryman.
Col. Samuel Paynter and John Rodney were elected Dele
gates to attend the Diocesan Convention to be held at Wil
mington in next May — and Robert Burton and John Marshall
were elected as substitutes.
AprU 7th, 1842.— At a meeting of the Trustees of St. Peter's
church held this day. Present Daniel Rodney, Samuel
Paynter, George Hickman, and Robert Burton. It was
unanimously that the Treasurer of the Trustees of this church
shall not pay out any monies without a written order signed
by a majority of the Trustees.
Easter.Monday, AprU 17th, 1843. — At a meeting of the Con
gregation of Saint Peter's church held in said Church this
day, Daniel Rodney Esq. was called to the Chair, and Dr.
WiUiam Harris appointed Secretary.

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On motion it was resolved that the meeting go into an
election for a Warden to supply the place of Mr. George
Parker Sen'^ deed., by ballot.
George Parker Jr. was duly elected in his place. Daniel
Rodney was re-elected for the other Warden.
It was resolved to reduce the number of Vestrymen from
12 to 8.
The following persons were elected: Samuel Paynter,
William Marshall, sen'', John H. Paynter, John Marshall,
John H. Burton, William Paynter, Albert Burton, John
Rodney. Col. Samuel Paynter and Robert Burton were appointed
delegates to the Diocesan Convention to be held in Smyrna
in May next and George Parker and John Rodney were
elected as substitutes.
Saint Peter's church, Wednesday, January 3d, 1844. — At
a meeting of the Vestry pursuant to a notice being given.
Col. Samuel Paynter, Daniel Rodney, William Marshall, sen"'.
John H. Burton, Albert Burton & John Rodney, also, the Sex
ton of the said church, Thomas Norman. The object of the
meeting being stated, vizt. for the consideration of the calling
of a regular minister, and fixing on some sum of money
(certain) for his support &c $lSOf^Q was promised (certain)
for the services of the Rev. Walter E. Franklin, the present
Missionary of the Parish, or for the services of the Rev. John
Linn McKim, who is shortly expected to come into the
County of Sussex and take charge of some Parishes in the
same ; for the selection of either we do hereby leave to the
Direction of the Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Alfred Lee, D. D., or to
the Bishop and the said Clergyman, as it may best seem for
the good of the Church in our said County, trusting that
it will be so arranged that peace and good will may again
dwell amongst us.
The meeting then adjourned to Wednesday the 24th after
arranging to have a new fence on the Northwest side of the
Church yard.
Easter Monday, AprU 8th, 1844. — At a meeting of the con
gregation held in the church this day Daniel Rodney was
caUed to the Chair and John Rodney chosen Secretary.
John Rodney was elected a Trustee in the place of George
Parker sen'' dec"^ and John H. Burton was elected Trustee in
the place of Thomas Coleman. Col. Samuel Paynter was
elected Warden in the place of George Parker Jr. deed.

282 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
The Wardens are considered as Vestrymen.
Col. Samuel Paynter and Robert Burton were appointed
Lay Delegates to represent this parish in the Diocesan Con
vention to be held in this town of Lewes in May next.
John Marshall and John H. Burton were appointed as
substitutes. Easter Monday, 1845.
"Respected Friends
"This being the day observed by the Church for a hundred years
past to make appointments and fill up vacancies &c. I think it is
proper to inform you, that I am from age, and personal infirmities,
unable to attend our meetings a Chairman, of the Trustees, and
Wardens. I do therefore resign the aforesaid offices, the first of which
I have held since 1795 ¦when Mr. John Russel removed from Lewes.
The Books, Papers, &c I have delivered over to Mr. John Rodney,
to lay before you. There will be several vacancies of Trustees, which
you kno'W will require ten days notice to the Congregation
' ' I am yours most affectionately "Dan^ Rodney
"To THE Warden, 'Vestry and Congregation op St. Peter's.'!
By resolution the above was not accepted.
Easter Monday, March 23d, 1845. — ^The following were con
tinued in office : Wardens Daniel Rodney and Col. Samuel
Paynter. Vestry: Daniel Rodney, William Marshall sen'.
John Marshall, Albert Burton, Col. Samuel Paynter, John P.
Paynter, John H. Burton, John Rodney.
William P. Orr was elected in the place of William Paynter
dec"^ who departed this life March 19, .1845.
May, 1845. — A meeting was held in Saint Peter's Church
according to notice. A request of the Rector the Rev. John
A. Childs who has been duly received.
Delegates to the Convention to be held in Wilmington
the last Wednesday of this month, vizt Col. Samuel Paynter
and Robert Burton. Substitutes John Rodney and John
H. Burton.
April llth, 1846. — At a meeting of the Congregation of St.
Peter's Church Lewes, held according to notice given as the
Law directs, the Hon. Dan' Rodney was called to the Chair,
and John H. Burton was appointed Secretary. On motion it
was Resolved to fill the vacancies in the Board of Trustees
occasioned by the non acceptance of John Rodney, and the
death of the Hon. Samuel Paynter. Whereupon they pro
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William Marshall and William P. Orr were found to have
an unanimous vote and declared to be elected.
The Hon. Daniel Rodney having left the chair it was oh
motion Resolved that the resignation of the Hon. Daniel
Rodney be not accepted, and that he be continued in office.
Easter Monday, April 13th, 1846. — Delegates for the Con
vention to be held at Milford in May, Robert Burton and
John Rodney.
John H. Burton and William P. Orr as substitutes.
On motion. Resolved that liberty be given to inter in the
Burial Ground of Saint Peter's Church, the remains of the
late Nathan Kingsberry, without charge, on account of his
former connection with this church as Rector.
"Easter Monday, April, 1847. — Congregational meeting,
the Rev. John A. Childs, Rector, in the chair. Alfred P.
Robinson was appointed Secretary. Warders: Robert Bur
ton, William P. Orr. Vestry: William Marshall, John Mar
shall, Alfred P. Robinson, Joshua S. Burton, John Rodney.
"Robert Burton and W". P. Orr were appointed Delegates
to represent this church in Convention to be held in George
town May next.
"The following was offered and adopted:
"'Whereas it hath pleased Divine Providence to remove
from our inidst the Hon. Daniel Rodney, for many years and
at his death Warden and Chairman of the Trustees, be it
Resolved "'That while expressing due resignation, to the Divine
Disposal of events, they are deeply sensible of the loss they.
have lately sustained.
" 'Resolved That a copy of this preamble and resolution be
presented to the family, of the deceased. '
"Alfred P. Robinson Secty."
At a special meeting May 10, 1847, the following preamble
and resolution was read and offered:
"Whereas by an act passed Feb. 25, 1843 the words Rec
tors, Wardens and Vestrymen are said to be taken and applied
to the word 'Trustees' in the former act of incorporation,
and all the lawful powers in them vested, be it Resolved,
That the powers of the said Trustees are hereby vested in
the Wardens and Vestry of this church."
On motion it was Resolved
"The the Wardens and Vestry of this Church, be and
are hereby elected Trustees of the same."

/04 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
November 6th, 1847. — Called Meeting. Whereas by a
change of the powers heretofore vested in the Trustees, into
Rector, Wardens, and Vestry, the office of Treasurer is now
vacant. William P. Orr was appointed Treasurer.
I At the meeting Easter Monday, AprU 24th, 1848, a letter
from the Rev. Aaron Freeman recommending the Rev.
John Colhoun, was read.
"At a meeting of the Wardens and Vestry Nov. 3, 1848,
steps were taken towards raising money for a new church.
The present building is the result of that resolution. The
Vestry & Congregation of St. Peter's Church met Saturday,
May IS, 1852, in accordance to previous public notice.
Whereupon John Marshall was called to the Chair and W".
M. L. Richards appointed Secretary.
"The object of the meeting being to take the sense of the
Congregation in regard to the sale of the old church building
which was about to be effected under a resolution of the
Vestry at a previous meeting, was fully stated. A letter
was then read from Mary King to the Vestry offering to pur
chase the buUding for $300.00; to be paid in sums of $100.00
annual payments by means of public fairs for that purpose;
or $400.00 if an additional year be aUowed for the payment.
"This proposition having been considered of no importance
toward the attainment of the object designed, no action was
accordingly taken upon it.
"Afterwards a motion was made by W"*. M. Hickman that
the meeting approve of the course of the Vestry and Com
mittee touching the matter of the church building, which
was negatived.
"Additionally to the above motion,' it was resolved that
the church building be retained and be repaired by enlarg
ing and modernizing its construction in the manner deemed
most advisable to the committee formerly appointed by the
Vestry and that the congregation will approve the course of
the committee in the matter. "Wm. M. L. Richards, Secty.

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MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS.

A LOST SETTLEMENT OF THE DELAWARE.
Plockhoy's Colony, Which the British Wiped Out. Researches
OP THE Pennsylvania Historical Society Throw Light on
Plockhoy's Attempt — The Site of the Settlement Was Near
Lewes, Del.
(By Dr. George G. Groff.)
In making a report to the British Ministers in 1664, Sir Robert
Carr, Govemor of New York, wrote that he had "destroyed the quak
ing colony of Plockhoy to a nail." We kno^w that the Dutch and
English were then at war; that Carr visited the Dela"ware river to de
stroy the Dutch forts, and that it was on this river that he found
and destroyed the colony of Plockhoy. But who was this Plockhoy?
Who were the colonists? Where was the colony planted? For 200
years there was absolutely no answer to those queries. Now, through
the researches of members of the Pennsylvania Historical Society,
and especially of the Honorable Samuel W. Pennypacker, the archives
in Holland have been made to yield their hidden secrets, and we
know the purpose and end of Plockhoy's colony, and of the man
himself. In the various Government documents of the New Netherlands
possession of the Delaware or South river is claimed from "primitive
times," "ancient times," for "many years," the earliest date for the
establishment of any Dutch trading station being given as 1598 by
adventurers of the Dutch Greenland Company, who, it is claimed,
built forts both on the North (Hudson) and on the South (Delaware)
rivers. From this date, until finally driven out by the English, the
Dutch seem to have maintained stations on the river, and since there
often were married men, ¦with their families, in the stations, they may
be considered permanent settlements.
In 1609 Henry Hudson visited the Delaware and in 1610 Lord
Delaware. Cornelius Mey made his settlement in 1624; DeVries
founded his first colony in 1630 and the second in 163 1 . New Albion,
by Lord Clowden, was founded (if any settlements were ever made)
in 1634. In 1635, and again in 1640, 1641 and 1642 the Connecticut
people made determined efforts to found settlements on this river.
In 1638 the Swedes made their first settlements. Then there is a
mysterious Minesink settlement, which is claimed to have been made
"shortly after 1609." Peter Cornelius Plockhoy.
In 1662 Peter Cornelius Plockhoy, a Mennonite, of Zierik Zee,
Holland, after unsuccessful applications to Cromwell, Lord Protector
of England, 1658, and to the English ParUament in 1659, obtained
from the States General of the United Netherlands and the Magis-

286 some records of sussex county.
trates of Amsterdam permission and aid to establish a colony, or
community, in New Netherlands. On June 6, 1662, he entered into
an agreement with the Burgomasters of Amsterdam to take twenty-
five Mennonites to the South river. One hundred guilders were ad
vanced to each colonist, and the colony was to be free from taxes
for twenty years.
The settlement was made on the Hoorn Kill, near the town of
Lewes, Del., on the same site on which had been planted the first
unfortunate colony of DeVries, 1630, which was totally destroyed
by the Indians. The place was called Swanendael, or "Valley of
the Swans," by the first colony. In Plockhoy's prospectus the place
is referred to as "Swanendael, where Osset had his throne." Osset
being the Govemor of DeVries colony when it was destroyed by the
Indians. The prospectus says:
"New Netherlands 's the flower, the noblest of all lands.
The birds obscure the sky, so numerous in their flight;
The animals roam wild and flatten down the ground.
The fish swarm in the waters and exclude the light.
The oysters there, than which no better can be found,
Are piled up heap upon heap, until islands they attain.
And vegetation clothes the forest, mead and plain."
"No Lordship or Servile Slavery."
It was on the bank of the Delaware that the Declaration of Inde
pendence was promulgated. It was here that the first treaty was
made with the Indians which was never broken. It was here that
the first united protest against African slavery was made, while the
English and Dutch were actively engaged in the slave trade. And
here, only three years after a Massachusetts court decreed that the
Quakers, Daniel and Provided Southwick, should be sold into slavery
in the Barbadoes, Peter Cornelius Plockhoy established his colony in
which ' ' no lordship or servile slavery " should ever burden the people.
It endured but two short years, and was then destroyed by Carr, as
above stated. Plockhoy's colony was a community settlement, , and
his ideas, published in two letters to Cromwell, an address to the
English Parliament and in the prospectus for his colony, show him
to have been a man far in advance of his age, the forerunner of Robert
Owen, Charles Fourier and Robert Bellers. Two fundamental ideas
were at the basis of his community, namely, equality and association.
He advocated unity in the Church. "In the Church differences of
opinion can be permitted, but brotherhood and unity possess them
all." He urged complete separation of Church and State, and that
"the common life must again rest upon righteousness, upon love and
upon brotherly union." Plan of the Community.
The title page to Plockhoy's prospectus, taken from the Hon.
Samuel W. Pennypacker's history of Germantown, reads:
"Short and clear plan, serving as a mutual contract to lighten the
labor and anxiety and trouble of all kinds of handicrafts men by the
establishment of a community or colony on the South river, in New
Netherlands, comprising agriculturists, seafaring men, all kinds of
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the protection of their High Mightinesses, the Lords-State-General
of the United Netherlands, and particularly under the favorable
auspices of the Honorable Magistrates of the City of Amsterdam, de
pending upon the privileges of their Honors, as hereinafter set forth,
granted for the purpose. Brought together by Peter Cornelius
Plockhoy, of Zierik Zee, for himself and other lovers of New Nether
land. Amsterdam, 1662." This prospectus provided that members
might dwell in their own homes and improve them as they saw fit:
each one was to labor six hours each day in some useful occupation;
profits were to be divided to each person over 20 years of age ; officers
were to be elected by ballot each year, but no officer could succeed
liimself. The only officers provided for were a director and two
bookkeepers. The funds of the community were to be kept in a strong
box, ¦with three different locks, each officer having a key to a. single
lock, so that the funds could be handled only when all three were
present, a plan now pursued by the Friends with church funds. Only
those goods were common which were produced by the six hours of
required labor. Children were all required to attend the common
school half of each day, and to work at some trade the other half of
the day; in this school no human formulas of religion, but only the
Holy Scriptures, natural sciences and similar instruction enabling
them to rightly use their reason, were to be taught. No foundation
of sect or partisanship was to be laid in their hearts. (It would al
most seem that Girard drew his rules for his college from Plockhoy.)
Those who could not conscientiously bear arms in self-defence were
to pay a contribution, in case the same were needed for the defence
of the community. In matters of religion there was to be full free
dom of conscience. No member of the community should be servant
or servant maid, yet strangers could be employed at a wage. No
lord or slave was to be tolerated in the community. Members were
free to withdraw at any time and receive their share of the profits.
Members were permitted to marry in the community or out of it, as
they saw fit. The Tragic Ending.
The colony was planted at Swanendael. Two years later it was
totally destroyed. There is absolutely no record of what became of
the colonists, except the founder and his wife. Of them Judge Penny-
packer says : "In the near 1694 there came an old blind man and his
wife to Germantown. His miserable condition awakened the tender
sympathies of the Mennonites there. They gave him the citizenship
free of charge. They set apart for him at the end street of the village,
ty Peter Klever's corner, a lot twelve rods long and one rod wide,
whereon to build a little house and to make a garden, which should
be his, so long as he and his wife should live. In front of it they
planted a tree. Jan Daeden and William Rittenhouse were appointed
to take up a 'free will offering,' and to have the little house built.
This is all we know, but it is surely a satisfaction to see this ray of
sunshine thrown upon the brow of the hapless old man as he neared
his grave. After thirty years of untraced wanderings upon these
¦wild shores, friends had come across the sea to give a home at last ta
one whose whole life had been devoted to the welfare of others. It
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288 some records op sussex county.
awarded his career cannot be foretold. His efforts resulted in what
the world called failure, and for 200 years he has slept in the greatest
obscurity. Yet when we compare him with his contemporaries, with
the courtiers. Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir William Berkeley, with
Cotton Mather, inciting the magistrates to hang old women for imagi
nary crimes, and see him wrestling with Cromwell, not for his own
gain, but for the help of the downtrodden and the poor, teaching the-
separation of the Church and the state, protesting against the injuring
the minds of children by dogma, and with so clear a sense of justice
that even the vicious, when driven from the community, were to re
ceive their share of the possessions, we cannot help but recognize
his merit and intelligence, and feel for him that sympathy that makes.
us all akin. When we find him, first of all the colonizers of America,
so long ago as 1662, announcing the broad principle that 'no lordship-
or servile slavery shall burden our company,' he seems to grow into-
heroic proportions. Whatever else may happen, certain it is that
the events of the life of one whose work marks the very beginning of
the literature and history of the ten millions of people who now live
in the States along the Zuid river must always be of keen interest tet
them and to their descendants."
Lewisburg, Pa.
THE BOMBARDMENT OF LEWES BY THE BRITISH
April 6 and 7, 1813.
March 13th, 1813, the Bay was blockaded by three frigates-
of seventy-four guns each and smaller vessels. The frigates.
Poitiers, Belvidere, had been sent from Norfolk.
One of the papers speaking of arrival of the fleet says: —
"Our inhabitants are in a great state of alarm. On Saturday a.
British seventy-four came into the Delaware, and is now about ten.
miles within the Capes. On Monday a frigate anchored alongside.
Last night, at twelve o'clock, two of the Cape May Pilot-boats were
driven in Maurice River and captured by the enemy."
The militia was assembled on the coast.
In a letter to a friend in Baltimore dated March 20th,.
General Green says: —
"We have a British fleet at the Capes of the Delaware. They have
burned several vessels and taken others. We have had an engage
ment with them from the shore. Our ammunition gave out, or we-
would have prevented from burning the Charleston packet. They
had four large boats full of men, and came within two hundred yards
of the shore. I am now on my way to Lewisto-wn, where there are
one thousand men under arms. We have men sufficient to prevent
them from landing, but we are in want of ammunition, which we
shall be supplied with in a few days."
Shortly after the arrival of the British fleet, its commander.
Commodore J. Beresford, sent the following letter "to the
first magistrate of Lewistown."

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"Sir: — As soon as you receive this, I must request you will send
twenty live bullocks, with a proportionate quantity of vegetables and
hay, to the Poitiers, for the use of his Brittanic Majesty's Squadron,
now at this anchorage, which shall be immediately paid for at the
Philadelphia prices.
"If you refuse to comply with this request, I shall be under the
¦necessity of destroying your town."
If the first magistrate of Lewes had sent the supplies, it
would have cost him his life. It, the letter, was sent to Gov
ernor Haslet at Dover. He immediately left Dover and
came to Lewes. In a letter to the British Commodore dated
March 23d in a reply to the letter sent to the first magistrate.
Governor Haslet says: —
"As Governor of the State of Delaware, and as commander of its
military force, I improve the earliest time afforded me, since my
arrival at this place, of acknowledging the receipt of your letter to
the chief magistrate of Lewes.
"The respect which generous and magnanimous nations, even when
they are enemies, take pride in cherishing towards each other, enjoins
it upon me as a duty I owe the State over which I have the honor at
this time to preside, to the government of which this State is a mem
ber, and to the civilized world, to enquire of you whether upon further
and more mature reflection, you continue resolved to attempt the
¦destruction of this town."
Beresford replied the same day as foUows: —
"In reply to your letter received today, by a flag of truce, in an
swer to mine of the 16th inst., I have to observe, that the demand|I
have made upon Lewistown is, in my opinion, neither ungenerous nor
wanting in that magnimity which one nation ought to observe with
another with which it is at war. It is in my power to destroy your
town, and the request I have made upon it, as the price of its security,
is neither distressing nor unusual. I must therefore persist, and
whatever sufferings may fall upon the inhabitants of Lewes must be
attributed to yourselves by not complying with a request so easily
acquiesced in."
Not until April 7th did Beresford make the attack. One
•of the newspapers of that day says: — •
"Commodore Beresford would seem to have suddenly altered his
mind with respect to burning down Lewistown, to make a fire to
roast the Delaware oxen by. It would be too offensive to suppose a
British officer would threaten without meaning to make good his
word. But certain it is that the Commodore has fallen into a dilemma,
which 'his friends' at the coffee house have not explained. Delaware
beef is highly seasoned, and if served up with forced meat balls, might
not prove aS palatable to this nautical hero as the beef of old Eng
land."

290 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
At last the attack was ftiade. Colonel Davis' despatch to
the Governor says: —
"This evening the Belvidere and two small vessels came close into
Lewes and commenced an attack by firing several thirty-two pound
shot into the town, which have been picked up; after which a fiag was
sent, to which the following reply was returned : —
" ' Sir : — I reply to the renewal of your demand, with the addition for
"a supply of water," I have to inform you, that neither can be com
plied with. This, too, you must be sensible of; therefore I must
insist the attack on the inhabitants of this town is both wanton and
cruel. I have the honor to be your most obedient servant
" 'S. B. Davis
" 'Colonel Commandant.'"
One Captain R. Byron seemed deputed by Beresford to
continue the correspondence for supplies. He says:
" No dishonor can be attached in complying with the demand of
Sir John Beresford to Lewes in consideration of his superior force.
I must, therefore, consider your refusal to supply the squadron with
water, and the cattle that the neighborhood affords, most cruel, upon
your part, to its inhabitants. I grieve for the distress of the women
and children are reduced to by your conduct, and earnestly desire
they may be instantly removed."
Colonel Davis answered that he had already taken care
of the ladies.
The attack was made immediately, "and continued till
near ten o'clock. The fire from our battery silenced one of
their most dangerous gunboats, against which I directed
the fire from an eighteen-pounder, for which I request you
(the Governor) will immediately send me a supply of shot
and powder, as it is uncertain how long the bombardment
will continue. They have not succeeded with their bombs
in reaching the town, and the damages from their thirty-
two-pounders and canister cannot be ascertained until
daylight." A letter sent from Dover, April 7th, to the Baltimore
Federal Gazette, says:
"When the bombardment began, two eighteen-pounders were
serviceable, but without ball ; two nine-pounders, ball too large;
there were but fifteen casks of powder.
"One of the eighteen-pounders mounted on the 6th played on a
sloop and silenced its guns.
"Our men behaved well; the women and children left the garrison;
the Belvidere came within two miles of the town, too close for her
shot to fall in it; the smaller vessels sent balls flying over the town.
"On the fifth of April there were 286 men, 418 muskets complete;
8000 cartridges; 25 bags of grape-shot; 15 kegs of powder; 2270

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flints; 41 twelve-pound balls; 88 nine-pound ball; 167 six-pound ball;
216 four-pound ball; 434 kegs of lead; 2 eighteen-pounders, one
mounted; 2 nine-pounders, badly mounted; 4 six-pounders, badly
mounted; 3 four-pounders, mounted."
The Baltimore Patriot, April 7th, read:
"This moming a very steady smoke was seen in the direction of
Lewistown, supposed to be occasioned by throwing rockets into that
place. "The enemy fired eight hundred cannon balls on shore, which were
picked up by the brave people of Lewes, and 'returned to the enemy
with interest.'
"A spectator describes the scene as follows: 'He was just above
the town and have a clear view. The British ships were ranged in line
of battle ; the fire ceased about two o'clock, when he visited the
earth-works. The weather was threatening, wind easterly. Captain
Byron drew off his squadron at four o'clock, a few miles, where he re
mained until sailing for the Capes.'
"About five-hundred shots were fired. A collection was made of
one hundred and fifty of small sizes and a few bombs. Houses were
injured, chimneys cut almost in two, the comer-posts, plates, and
studs cut off in several houses. The foremast of a schooner was cut
away, and another received a shot in her hull.
"Of two particular rockets thrown, one fell on a lot, another in a
marsh. "A fire was directed at the breastwork, where more than thirty
men were stationed. Shot struck the battery and broke the pine logs.
Two shots entered by the guns.
"A further account mentions that one bombshell fell in the town,
likewise the shots of the Belvidere, and fell some distance beyond.
The loss by destruction of property was estimated to be $2000x%Tr.
"On the tenth of April a letter reached Philadelphia from Dover,
dated the Sth inst., written at quarter past 8 o'clock, saying: 'Lewes
is yet safe, Mr. White left there at eleven o'clock yesterday, and
says the enemy cannot, in his opinion, destroy the place unless they
land, which he thinks they would probably do in the course of the day.
The barges, to the number of five, were full of men. The house of
Peter Hall (a tavern on the bank) was demolished, and several others
damaged; the bombs and rockets fell short of the town.' "
The same paper concludes:
"The British withdrew from Lewistown on the eighth, after bom
barding and cannonading it incessantly for twenty-two hours, without
doing any material injury to the place, most of their shot and shell
falling short of their object."
Another paper says:
"The militia fired but few shots, as they had only one eighteen-
and one nineteen-pounder and but few shots for them, and of which
they endeavored to make the best possible use, and have reason to
suppose they gave one of the sloops the contents of the eighteen-
pounder, as she was obliged to haul out of the line soon after it was seen
to strike her.

292 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
"We are assured the inhabitants of Le-wis and Pilot-towns, the
volunteers and militia under the command of Colonel Samuel Davis,
behaved in a cool and determined manner. The pilots who were sta
tioned in the fort deserve the highest praise, and the whole was so
judiciously stationed by the commanding officers that had the British
landed they would have been able to give a good account of them
selves. "Powder from Dupont's Mills in Wilmington was rapidly sent
forward to Lewes, and ball was hurried there, too.
"The general govemment had furnished Delaware one hundred and
fifty stands of arms, part of its war quota; these were distributed
among the volunteers at Lewes. The British made an attempt to
land on the Sth; a number of small vessels with armed men approached
the shore, the militia and volunteers hastening to the beach to re
ceive them.
"The British were called back by a signal from their squadron.
Col. Davis resorted to a ruse. He marched the militia and volunteers
along the water front up to where, unseen by the enemy, they could
enter a back street of the town, countermarch to the water front and
along it, go and return; thus deceiving the British into believing
that an advancing army was flooding Lewes with troops."
The old inhabitants say that many of the marchers carried
cornstalks to represent guns.
"On the Sth, the fleet was at its anchorage at the capes, foiled
and dispirited, without bullocks, vegetables, hay, or so much as a
cup of cold water.
"April 28 the Belvidere put to sea, sailing for the Chesapeake ¦with
it few prisoners."
William Marshall, pilot, and lieutenant-commander during
the bombardment, left a diary in which is recorded the fol
lowing persons who were in the battery:
John Gauns, Second Lieutenant, Commander; Job Cor
nell, Sr., Job Cornell, Jr., John Rowland, Richard Poynter,
Samuel Rowland, Arthur Pointer, Charles Baker, William
Edwards, Thomas Norman, John Saunders, Moses Nichols,
Jacob Art, P. Davis, Samuel Thompson, Simon Edwards,
George Orton, Joseph Ort, Jerry Shillenger, John Clampitt,
Samuel West, William Jeffries, J. W. Batson, William John
son, J. W. Norwood, Thomas Virden, William Masters, James
Nicholson, B. Atkins, David Hall, Nathaniel Neuman, John
Davis, Simon Edwards, Jr., John Norman, William Lewis,
Cook Clampitt, Gilbert McCracken, WUliam West, WiUiam
Art, Privates.
There were 500 men encamped at Block House Pond.
One ball from the British ships made a hole in the door
of Caleb Rodney's store.

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Gilbert McCracken, whose name appears in the list of
soldiers, had also served in the Revolutionary army. Being
taken prisoner by the British, he was carried to New York
and imprisoned in the "Jersey," prison ship. At that time
he was only twelve years of age.
The people were in a great state of excitement when the
firing commenced and many wished to flee, some did so.
Thomas Rowland said to his wife: "Put your trust in God;
bury the tool-chest in the garden, and set your face for
Copes'." Mr. Cope lived seven miles from Lewes.
A sloop called "Black Duck," loaded with cotton, was
captured by the British just before the fight, but was re
captured by the Americans.
While Henry McCracken was standing near Colonel Davis
a musket ball grazed the latter. Turning to McCracken he
said, "Henry, an inch more and that ball would have fixed
me. Niles' Register of April 24th, says:
"The people of Lewistown are making themselves quite merry for
the late bombardment of that place. They enumerate their killed
and wounded as follows: one chicken killed, one pig wounded — leg
broken. It was a ridiculous affair on the part of the enemy. We
have nothing new from this quarter except that Sir John Beresford
has captured five oyster-boats, and, after a severe engagement, caused
these whole cargoes to be devoured."
After the battle the British made another attempt to ob
tain water. They dropped down the river seven miles and
sent men in boats with casks for water, and halters for bul
locks. Colonel Davis had suspected such a move and had
sent Major George H. Hunter with one hundred and fifty
men, to prevent the landing of the British. Major Hunter
drove the enemy back to their ships, minus water and bul
locks. Copies of Old Letters Found in Lewes.
Fort Cumberland Dec. 9, 1756.
"Sir: — I hear you have been at Annapolis lately and would have
been glad to hear ye news, —
"We have erected a sort of Ravelin on the north side the fort
one face fronting the Hill, the other, that of the Valley on the East
Side Wills Creek. The Rampart is brought almost to a Level with
the Hill, is about 20 foot thick. The parapet six foot high and of
the same thickness ; In the angle of the Ravelin I have built a maga
zine proof against small shells, and has out a way under ground to
the Water of Wills Creek. Gov. Denwiddie has given orders to
Continue the work.

294 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
"I expect news from the Ohio Daily — a small Detach™* has been
out about twenty days and I am sorry have had very severe weather
— I am "Sir Your most ob* hub' Serv*, "Adam Stephen.
"P. S. I wish you and Mrs. Dagworthy the Compliments of the
Approaching Season, We have had some diversion on the Ice al
ready." "Mr. Nunez pay unto Jacob Kollock, John Rodney and John Wilt
bank of Sussex County in Delaware Esq'' whatever Monies you as
Administrator of a certain Henrietta Sims late of the said County
deceased, may have recovered or shall recover as belonging to the
said Henrietta at her death and since to me as Govemor of the Three
lower Counties she having died without any relations or known
kindred, which Monies I expect when paid by you to those gentle
men they will apply to the use of Christ Church in the Town of Lewis
and the receipt of them or any two of them shall be your discharge
for the same from yo'^
"I am Sir Your very hble servant
"John Penn
"New Castle ye 24th March 1770.
"To Mr. Daniel Nunez
"of Lewis Town."
"Dr. Franklin presents his Thanks to Mr. Hill for the opportunity
given him of perusing this Manuscript which has afforded him much
pleasure by refreshing his Memory of things and Places that he had
formerly seen. Dr. F. would be glad to have also a sight of the
Drawings particularly that of the Marble Mill at Bakewell, having
lost one he made himself when there. It is to be wished that all our
young Men who travel had the same spirit of observation and Diligence
in noting down what might be useful to their Country.
"Jan. 18, '87." "Philadelphia, Oct. 16, 1780.
'My Dear General. ^
"I received your favour of the 29th of Septr. last, and have taken
the liberty of publishing to the World, tho' not as coniing from you,
the perfidy, villainy & meaness of the Wreck Arnold — This man
appears to me to be Phenomenon of Human Depravity, and were
I Qertain you would not conceive it arrogance in me, I should sup
pose that Omnipotence itself could not form so complicated yet so
complete a Character of every thing that is base and injurious —
"Inclosed I send you a number of late News Papers, from these
you will learn how great & how important a Change has taken place,
in our legislature. Will you believe me? Our honest friend Delaney
is a Member — Sam Penrose Mr. R. Morris Christian Sam, .(would we
had more christians) Geo. Gray, Geo. Campbell, &c. &c. in the same
stile— ^however, by these papers & the inclosed Lists you will see the
Change that has been affected, & I thank God, I have been instru
mental, in some small degree, in this business, having like a Freeman
given my vote for men who pleased me.

MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS. 295
"Pray what think you of the Principle estabhshed in the Report
of the Committee of the late House, respecting their making up on
Depreciation? However, as the Scale of Depreciation is the chief
thing, whenever that is agreed on by the New House we shall trans-
mitt you the sarae for your Observations thereon and approbation.
"Your family Dr General are all well, some of your friends are
not, among the number I am one; I have been persecuted with a
villianous fever which at length left me, but in a feeble and weak
State indeed — It has proved fatal to many, 20 having been buried
of a day for months past —
"I have nothing new to communicate therefore shall bid you adieu.
"Subscribing myself your sincere friend & Servant "F. Johnson"
Correspondence of William Hill Wells, Esq.,
Dagsborough, Del. Philada: 9 March, 1794.
My dear Son: — Tho' I have nothing worth Postage to communicate,
except the pretty general Welfare of the Family, yet I thought a Line
might remove any Anxiety that might arise from our Silence, for tho*
it is near 9 & the Post goes off to morrow neither of thy scribbling
Sisters have prepar'd a Letter — thy last ^ Post proved very pleasing,
and I hope thy new Arrangement of Businefs will be ultimately more
to thy Advantage, for great Undertakings require great Stock; I
wish thou had not quite so much locked up in Leather but I suppose
it was the best that could be done — If you get the Papers regularly
you will perceive that we are on the Brink of a War — the late out
rageous Proceeding of the British Cabinet in directing the Seizure of
all Vefsels going to a French Port whether beseiged or not has exas
perated all Clafses of Citizens, & altho' we must certainly suffer more
by War than even by the Restrictions aimed against us by England,
yet the Spirit of the People & the Idea of the Honor of a Nation will
precipitate us into a War unlets a Peace in Europe should speedily
take Place — Congrefs have resolved on the Measure of providing
Ships of War, and to have all the great Sea Port Towns immediately
fortified, — perhaps the Mornings Paper by the Post will furnish the
Acct. of the Evacuation of Toulon which took place on the IS Decr.
& all the french Fleet bumd but 2 Frigates — the Accot came from
Carthagena to N York the Harbpur was a noble one but the Town
could not be retained — the surrounding high Ground commanding
it, they embarked in such haste that it is said numbers of the Citizens
who wished to fly rushed into the water after the Boats & were drownd
the Harbour is somewhat thus [map]
Our Friend Charlotte is in Town & likely to have occasion to stay
here a few Months — I fear a War will make it difficult to find money
for the great Canal her Husband is engaged in tho' it may furnish a
number of idle hands — our dear Love to Bettsy & the Tiney ones
and thyself B W
Philad July 17 1794
My dear Son: — Having wrote by last Post, I should not write
again so soon, but as the present Conveyanc will cost nothing, a Letter
worth nothing ought not to be so much complained of — however I

296 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
am sure some 'Value will be given to it, for bringing only 4 Days
later Accot. of our being well & I hope I may add that Hannah walks
stronger every Pay — This Aftemoon Benny, Polly & Rachel go off
for the Sea Shore if Rain does not prevent of which there is some
Probability — ^we have had a more rainy Season spring & Summer
than I ever remember — though my Books will not hand down so
true a History of it as I fear thine will — at least it will be a negative
History of Work not done in the Swamp; — what a Pity it is that
when the Shingle Businefs stands still, the Saw Mills cannot be tumed
to Accot. — I formerly used to please myself with the Thought that
when there was too much Water in the Swamp the Mills wod dance
up & down more merrily — but this I am disappointed in.
Capt. Derrickson has brought up a Cargo of young Blacks — B Morris
has one Anth' Morris 2 — G Wells I believe one, & I am just now
going to look at a 7 year old Boy — perhaps to prove a Plague they
are all to be bound to 28, but we are going to bring on in our Su
preme Court the important Question, "whether any Man can con
stitutionally be held to Service either for Life or beyond 21 " — Lewis,
Rawle Ingersol & Bradford, have all undertaken to plead for general
Freedom, & a, Case is prepared — the 2 former are standing Coun
sellors of the Abolition Society & wod take no Fee — the other Gen
tlemen hesitated & have it ad referendum whether they will not
return the ' SO Dollars each which we we have given them — ^whether
we succeed or not. I shall not hold my Boy (if I get him) above 21 —
Love to Bettsey & the young ones.
Thy affect Father R W
Wilmington July 27th 95.
Sir: — In consequence of the communications made from your
county, respecting arrangements for the election of Govemor; a number
of Gentlemen met at this place on Saturday last. They fully agree
with you in sentiment, that union is most important, & more likely
to be obtained by a conference & mutual communication of senti
ments, than in any other way. On the part of this county we have
therefore appointed Mr. Grantham, Mr. Bayard & Mr. Frazer, to
meet the commifsioners from Kent & Sufsex at Dover at the time
mentioned in your letters. I sincerely hope we may get such a chief
magistrate, as will do honor to the State; & who by patriotic & con
ciliatory measures, may unite us all in sentiment & exertions for
the interest & happinefs of our common country — rescue us from
those factions which prevail, & which are so enemical to the peace
order & dignity of government.
I am with much respect Your obedt Hbble Servt
Gunn'g Bedford Jnr
Willm Hill Wells Esqr The Grove, December 24th, 1795.
Dear Sir: — I hope before now you have received a letter from me
refpecting some of your bufinfs in the Law — I have not as yet taken
any Steps in your suit against Leven Miller as it waill be proper to
Confult you refpecting the plase you wan to have prosefs ifsued,
should you Conclude to Commence profeedings in Sufsex I have no
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there — but should you Conclude to profeed against him in Maryland
it would be best I think to remove the Judgment as it is and ifsue
Si Fa there againft him which must be done when evere it is moved,
tho' I am sure the money Can be got without this mode of profeed-
ing — I suppose you must have had all the news from the City, the
difagreement of senate to the appointment of the Chief Justice of the
United States is Confidered a damn'd good thing The involved sit
uation of this man and the disreputable means which he was prac-
tiseing to extricate himfelf from embarrafsment in my Judgment ware
reasons suffecant to warrant the measure of the Senate, but added
to this thay I am told had other strong ones.
I inclose you here a speach of the Kings the attack made on
him as Stated there is gainsaid in other papers and that he only had
a Stone discharged against him.
The introduction of the govemor to the general afsembly of this
State for is qualification is to be vastly grand, I am sorry to tell
you that he is now confined to his bed with the Gout.
You have underftood I make now doubt the situation you are in
¦withregart to Sherriff — I am told that the two next highest on the
return in Sufsex and Kent are to be appointed — I hope it will be no
harm to say thank God for our Dear Moleston in Kent he is a fine
fellow indeed.
Mrs Botson is yet in the City she desiered me when ever I wrote
you to make her affectionate regard to yourself & Mrs. Wells
Davd Nixon has lately pranced off to the other World, and the
Porson is in good Sperits of being Clark to the House of Represen
tatives. Will you Spend a Night with me on your way to the Leges-
lature. it will give me much pleasure for you always to Consider the
Grove as a second Home be pleased to make my sincere Refpects
to Mrs Wells, your Dear little Son & Daughter
God bless you adieu Jno W. Batson
P. S. — finding the Kings speach in the papers I have omided
sending it. J W B.
The Grove, Sept. 19th, 1796
Dear Sir: — Your interesting letter of the 20th Uito never made
its appearance before last Evening owing to my unfortunate detention
in Philadelp. ¦with a Shocking iUness. The late Tour you and Mrs.
Wells have taken through the moft healthy parts of Maryland, Vir
ginia, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, was a Circumftance of some
little supprise to me" it being altogether a novel excurfion for any
of our Gentlemen. I hope the journey will Tend to the reeftablish-
ment of Mrs. Wells and Mifs Rachel's health and Totally baffle any
defign the Dagsborough atmosphere might have had against yours.
I am sure you have made your observation on the Federal City. I
¦wish much to have some Converfation ¦with you on that Subject:
it was my intention some ago, to have Visited it this Summer but
the destruction of my health from about the 15th of august to the
present period, give a stab to that and every other pleasure. "The
extreem lafsetude in which the deseas have left me I fear ¦will make
this letter too dull for my Friend" I remember that one of King
Charles's Golden Rules, was to repeat no grievances, and amongst

298 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
people that pity a greatdeal I am Cautious of doing it — I know the
magnanimity of your mind on Such Occafions Seours to the proper
Standard "a Bumper to my recovering health of your Salubrious
Wine will do -me the greatest honor and you the most good. I have
Since Yestorday got to drinking same good wine but am obliged to
dilute it [in consequence of my liver being much affected by the
Malignant bilious fence which I have been Just Confined with in the
City]. — I -will now make a glass as potent as I dare and drink it to your
health, and your late Traveling Party, and Succefs to the Federal
Ticket, if the situation of my health ¦will admit of it I will unques
tionably be with at your Ellection ! mourn ¦with me at the departure
of Gods best [earthly] likenefs, from our Govemment — I am much
flattered ¦with the present prospect of our Kent Ellection. Heaven
grant You Succefs in Sufsex and all will be right. I am much Obliged
to you and Mrs. Wells for your interestednefs for Mrs. Batson &
little Ann's Health they are now in the City but was tolerably well
when I left them about three days ago. We shall undoubtedly expect
you & Mrs. Wells &c in the winter^ — Honour me in making my most
profound refpects to Mrs. Wells and believe me your very Sincere
friend & most aff. St. Jno W. Batson.
D Sir: — I anticipated the pleasure of Seing you before this time
but my indisposition has been such Since you came home that I have
not been out of my house till within two days paft. I am now upon the
Recovery and hope in a few day to git out. the Election businefs I am
apt to think as it Regards myself has been turning against me fom
what on account of my Confinement and Robinsons activity — but if
my friends dont forsake me I hope to bring that up. I think I am
asking the voice of the public in a more proper manner than my
aponant is as I was put in the General Tickett agreeable to the form
of making ticket in our party — ^if I had not have been put in the
Tickett I should not have thought myself so much intituled to the
Interest of the party neither should I have offered myself in the
manner that Robinson has but should have felt myself bound to push
the Tickett (as I had declared before a Tickett was formed) but a free
people will think for themselves and act for themselves and I hope
they will in this instance — ^but as a friend to party I shall always feal
my self bound to stand to what my party shall do. from what I have
had the pleasure of hearing you Say on the Subject I hope I have your
Interest and good wishes &c — if so I am not afraid of my Election.
I am with great Esteeme your friend, &c Kendle Batson
Geo: Town Septr 24th 1796.
Wm. H. Wells Esqr. Philada. 25, Jany. 1798.
Dear Sir: — You will excuse the liberty I take of begging you to
consider how far it will be proper for the Legislature to interfere
in fixing the allowance which each County shall pay to the Atty
General. I presume you know the fact to be, that the Levy Court
of NCastle County refused to make the Atty any compensation for
his services. The consequence is that Kent & Sufsex support a State
officer, and NC is equally benefitted by his services without paying
any thing for them. A strong reason why the salary should be fixed,
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the Levy Court is liable to indictmt. & if the Atty does his duty he
loses the emoluments of- his office.
There is no foreign intelligence of late date & no dispatches have
yet been reed by our Governmt. The House of Reps, is still occupied
in debates on the foreign intercourse Bill. We have used each other
¦with very little ceremony. We have been charged as Monarchists
and it has been retumed ¦with the charge of Anarchifts. the question
which will follow the debates is the more important as it will go far
in deciding the strength of the Parties. It is calculated that we have
a small majority, but accident may occasion the lofs of the question.
I am with great regard my dear Wells, Your Obt Sert
James A. Bayard
Geo: Town August 27th 1798.
Dear Sir: — Yours of the 17th instant came to hand Some days ago
and I have to aske your pardon for not answering it before this time
which neglect was o^wing to my receiveing your Letter just as I was
leaving home and being gone three days. I forgot to answer yours
as I intended upon my return. You will receive herewith 30 Stamps
of 4 Cents each. I would have sent you a quire But have not got
them by me but I expect Some dowii in a few days and if you want I
will send some down. I have also inclosed you the Law Respecting
Stamped paper &c, which you "will please to Return after you have
perused it &c. I expect to see you at Geo : Town Tomorrow as that
is a day appointed by our friends to have Some Consultation Re
specting our Election &c.
I will forward you a Copy of my account with you in a few days.
I am with esteeme your Sinseare and very devoted friend
Kendle Batson
W. H. Wells Esq The Grove Sept 23rd 98
Dear Sir: — From the contrariety of opinions circulated here
relative To the Politics of Sufsex, I have felt anxious to have yours.
The federal party in Kent is pretty well united; and I think we have
reafon to calculate on a Majority of one hundred and SO at least for
Govemor, and reprefentative; this "with the ordinary superiority of
Sufsex, I trust will counteract the democratical fetes of N. Caftle
County, which by the bye I prefume will meet with a rub from the
rage of the fever in Wilmington. Tho it is a calamity I. very much
lament, and most ardently wish a speedy period to its ravages.
I must Confefs my supprise in the Changes that has taken place
with the Officers in Sufsex, that of the Prothonotary is an extra
ordinary Case indeed; and I doubt whether there is more than one
more character, in the federal Party, cloathed with the same power,
refulting from the People, as the Senate, that would at this time have
braved the same act. all intimacy between the former Officer and
my self, appears to have subfided: Yet I am not so much bereft of
the feeUngs of Propriety as it regards the Public, and the individual,
as to have no senfibilities on the Occafion.
Mrs. Batson unites with me in Sincere efteem for you, and Mrs. Wells.
beHeve me your devoted friend and Hub Sert
I. W. Batson
William Hill Wells Esquire

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The Grove Febry 24th 1799.
Dear Sir: — As the Conclufion of this Sefsion of Congrefs may take
place, before the Refignation of Mr. Bassett as Commifsioner of the
Fore may be Known in its proper department of Govemment; I have
thought it not improper to resume the Subject at this time ; and Ob
serve -tp you that such is the Supposition here. The Confidence I feel
in your political management, and favourable wishes for my happiness.
Saves here the Communication of any further ideas on the Subject.
It is a pleasing circumftance to your friends in Delaware, to find
the Federalists so Universally rejoiceing in your Ellection to the
Senate of the United States. I have often blefs'd my Stars that not
one d  n democrat voted for you. As I mean this for your own
Eyes alone You can make such mention of me to Mefsrs L. & B. as
you may deem proper.
I am your much devoted friend & Sincere Humb Sert
John W. Batson
George Town.
Dear Sir: — I reed your last ^mail, & as an apology for not writing
you on the return of the Mail I would observe that I was engaged -with
the Board of Property which was sitting at that time.
I am informed that the Court of Apl will sit at Dover on the 2nd
Tuesday in August.
If you have found the Whip which I left at your house please to
send it by the Stage. If not be so kind as to look about the Garden
or yard. It is a loaded whip Silver mounted & battered on the head.
It belongs to Mr Batson & may probably have some mark on the head.
I send by Stage the Plate of Buonaparte, Koskiusko &c.
I am Dr Sir sincerely yours &c J. M. Broom
Geo: Town 17. July '99.
Dear Sir: — I understand that Broad Creek & Le^wis Town are
about to follow the worthy example of Dagsborough in estabUshing
a public Ubrary. Geo: Town too I am sure will make the attempt.
But I fear while these intended institutions are so seperated, and
remain on the extremities of the County, neither can florish or be
of that public benefit, for which they may be designed. But if they
with the Dagsborough Library could be united and placed at Geo:
Town, the most central spot, and where people from all quarters of
the County resort at least once in two weeks, I should imagine we
could not fail to have a good library. For it is highly probable that
people from all parts of the County would subscribe, seeing it so easy
of accefs. One of the leading gentlemen of the library at Broad Creek
was yesterday talking ¦with me on the subject, and observed he thought
there would be no difficulty in supprefsing theirs, provided the one
at Dags, could be moved to Geo : Town.
At the instance of that gentleman I have taken the liberty to
addrefs you on the subject and to ask if you think it probable, the
Dagsborough library could be moved to Geo : Town in case the Gentle
men of Broad Creek, Lewis and this place will give up their design
and join in promoting the one institution.
I remain, dear sir, with much respect your mo. obt hble Servt
Outerbridgb Horsey

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Geo: Town 29. July '99.
Monday.
Dear Sir: — Tuesday the 20th of Aug. has been mentioned as
the time for our meeting to form the County ticket, but as yet no
time is absolutely fixed upon. You will please to pardon me for not
answering yours sooner as I have been waiting for the time to be
ascertained. '
Our next election is certainly a very important one. I dread the
effects of it. The obstinacy wth which the two candidates seem to
contend, and the great zeal, to frequently accompanied with slander,
displayed by the friends of each, I fear, will tend to encrease that
discord weh . unhappily has too long subsisted between the eastern
and westem friends, and which there is too much reason to apprehend,
¦without great care and cercumspection will one day or other be fatal
to our federal majority. But while we are apprehensive of so dread
ful an event, let us think how we shall prevent its taking effect, and
especially on the present occasion. As to my own part I have too
little experience to suggest any ways or means, by which harmony
could be restored; but I think if yourself with some of the leading
friends of both the candidates could have an interview previous to
the general meeting, and talk the matter over seriously, something
might be done towards a compromise, or at least to put the election
on such a footing that the contest between the two candidates should
not effect the ticket in any other respect than that of sheriff. And
even in this respect, I think it desirable, should a compromise not
take place, that something could be done, that would induce the can
didates and their friends to electioneer in a candid, fair and liberal
manner. For it is the false electioneering stories -that irritate, & do
most of the mischief of which the Demos, will not forget to avail
themselves. These no doubt they ¦will industriously circulate to set
us by the ears.
Tomorrow is meeting day here if you can conveniently come per
haps an earUer time might be fixed on than before mentioned and
some arrangement could be made preparitory to the general meeting
that might be of happy effect.
With much regard I remain, Sir, your very obt & hble fervt
O. Horsey
P. S. — I regret the death of Doc. Lacos. Isaac Davis is appointed
to succeed him in the registers office. Cap. White I understand has
marched to Elizabeth Town. The federalists in Kent I hear are
Ukely to have considerable difficuly about their sheriff, or rather
about the person to run -with Brinkly Wear.
N. B. — As soon as the time of meeting is fixed I will drop you a
line, but am in hopes you ¦will be here tomorrow & that it will then
be concluded upon. '
Geo: Town 9. Sep. '99.
Dear Sir: — You will not be a little surprised at my addrefsing
you again on the subject of the election. It is doing what I did not
expect to do when we parted last. But kno^wing the alUmportance
of our party, I could not reconcile it to my fealings, not to make one
effort more, at least, to afsuage the impending storm.

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If you adhere to the ticket you made out on tuesday last you
drive the friends of Mr. Batson to a measure, in my mind, highly
alarming. To a measure which nothing but the kind of policy used by
the friends of Mr. Robinson in forming their ticket could ever induce
me to consent to adopt. I mean that of forming a seperate ticket.
My dear sir shall we thus divide and destroy ourselves and suffer the
common enemy to take the field, in weh they have been so often
and so long defeated. They have already began to rally, and I am
told, should we divide, mean to make a desperate effort. They care
nothing about the Sheriffs. The representatives are their aim. But
I yet indulge a faint hope they will be disappointed.
I understand you mean to meet us again tomorrow. Can't some
thing be done to unite us in forming the ticket as it regards senators,
representatives, and Levy Court, if not as to Sheriffs. To attain this
object I would propose that we meet and form the ticket in all respects
excepting sheriff but about these say nothing. After we have formed
the ticket in this way, the friends of our candidate can retire to another
room and complete the ticket and those who remain can do the same.
I do not know that Mr. Batson's friends can be brought into this meas
ure. But I flatter myself if the friends of Mr. Robinson would cor
dially acquiesce, it might be effected. As one of Mr. B's friends I
declare I wish it from my heart and will do all in my power to bring
it about, and I am authorised to say Gen. Mitchell will do the same,
altho' it's relinquishing a right Mr. Batson is entitled to, and may
operate against him. But any thing to disappoint and Shagrin the
Jacobins. If something of this kind can't be done where is the use
of our meeting ? We had better not meet at all. For our meeting will
only tend to exasperate and widen the breach.
I was at Little Creek on Saturday last. I there saw a number of
different .tickets. But Batson's name in all. There was a large meet
ing, three companies, weh were for Batson Nemine Cont. Old Town-
send has started the Union Ticket, headed himself Senator &c.
Should this ticket be pushed with as much succefs at it was at the
last election, I should think it very probable, if we should run sepa
rate tickets, that some ot the Demos, would get into the Legislature.
But I trust federalism has too many friends in this County thus to be
wounded. With sincere regard & esteem I am, dear sir. Your Most Obt &
hble Servt O. Horsey
Geo: Town 18 Sep. '99.
Dear Sir : — I should have been one of the last persons to attack
Mr. Robinson's character in any shape, but especially in so serious a
point as that of religion. But when he and his friends have made
the afsault. When I see them labouring to degrade Mr. Batson, and
to destroy his reputation, not only as a politician, but as a private
man, I can't help emotions of resentment, and fealing a disposition to
retaliate. It was no longer than monday last, Mr. Sam. Williams,
in the presence of Air. Robinson, as I am told by unquestionable au
thority, in a speech he made to the people, declared Mr. Batson was
a damned rascal, a poor deceitful scroundrel, not to be trusted ¦with
the public money, and every man that voted for him was a damned
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are to pafs unnoticed? Is it to be expected that Mr. Batson's char
acter is to be tourn in pieces with, what we shall make appear,
unfounded accusations and the most unprovoked slander, without
recrimination? We have testimony in our hands completely to
refute all the charges made against Mr. Batson, even the big story
that is made out of what Mr France has said. Doc. Robertson con
versed ¦with Mr. France on this subject yesterday was a week, and
from what Mr. France told the Doc. I 'am most fully satisfyed that
there has been a misconstruction on what Mr. Batson said to France.
It is to be regreted that any accusations have been made, but as Mr.
Robinson & his friends gave the first blow, they must expect to re
ceive the last. And let it be remembered that all Mr. Batson has
said & done or may say and do, is nothing more than Mr. Robinson's
own strokes recoiling upon himself.
We collected several of Mr. Batson's friends last evening. I
read to them your letter. The determination was that the affi-
da^vit of Mr. Houston should be put into print.
I remain, dear Sir, ¦with much regard your hble Servt O. Horsey
N. B. — I think when we saw each other last, it was understood
that when we intended any part of our correspondence on the sub
ject of the election, to be in confidence, it was so to be expressly
mentioned. I hope I did not do wrong in reading your letter.
Geo : Town 16. Oct. '99.
Dear Sir: — I forgot to speak to you about the clerkship of the
house of representatives. I understand Tho: Clayton has it in view.
Should you give me the preference, will you be so good as to speak
to Mr. Burton & Doc. Wolf on the subject & such other of the mem
bers as you may have an oppy. to speak with.
When I talked of offering there was no person who made any pre
tention excepting Mr. Fisher, whether Mr. Clayton knew I ment to
apply I cannot tell, but should think it probable he did, as it was
known by a number of gentlemen in Dover. As to the appointment
itself I feel quite indifferent but do not wish to give it up before I
can develop the mistery of Clayton's standing.
If I find Mr. Clayton did not know I intended to offer and that he
stood simply in opposition to Fisher perhaps I shall relinquish. But
¦wish to be prepared for the event of his opposing me.
White tells me I can certainly get four of the Kent members and if
I can get sufsex there can be no doubt of my succefs. I should think
it probable that New Castle will vote for Clayton. Your afsistance
in this businefs -will be greatfuUy acknowledged.
I remain as ever with Sincere regard your hbl Servt O. Horsey
I was informed yesterdp,y by Mr., John Robinson that a Mr. Young
of Cedar Creek declares that Mr. Rodgers told him that he Mr.
Rodgers heard Mr. Bayard say "that the people of Delaware were
not half taxed." This story this Young and Mr. Haygalett are making
great use of and do not hesitate to make it known that Mr. Rodgers
is the author. I am sure it is impofsible that Mr. R. could have

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made any such declaration and that this story must be a mere
creation of Youngs or some other Democrats brain.
Would it not be advisable for you to write to Mr. Rodgers and
obtain a cerfificate on the subject. This story I understand is the
most formidable Weapon against us. O. Horsey
Hon. Sir: — Although nearly a stranger, yet from the parental
affection displayed by you to the people of your neighbourhood, I
am emboldened to Addrefs you on the present occafsion.
I have been informed by our Poftmaster (Capt Frisbee) that at
the expiration of the present quarter [Aexpires in April] he shall re
linquish the Poft Office and as I have been accustomed to conduct
a P. O. I have to beg the favor of your intercefsion for me -with the
Poftmafter General as his Succefsor. If Sir thro your means I may
be so happy as to get the, Appointmt I shall consider myself under
a lasting obligation.
With the profoundest respt I am. Sir, your obdt Servt
W. Black
Dover Feb. 25th 1800
8®° If Security or a recommendation is wanted I can procure the
first from my friends and I make no doubt Mr. Nining would give me
the latter tho' I have not asked him.
Sir: — I have reed your Letter of ye 25th of last Month relating
to the Post Office. I do not know what may be the Intentions of
the Post Mastr Genl, but I should suppose he would be much influenced
in his Selection of a Person to succeed Mr. L. if [illegible] by a Rec
ommendation from ye Inhabitants of Dover. You will pardon me
for saying that I cannot support your Application under any other
Circumstances. As You have so lately 'become a Citizen of our
State your Pretensions to this office ought to be maintained in the
most unequivocal Manner by those among whom you reside — & more-
particularly so seeing yt they are the Persons.
Geo: Town 19 June 1800
Dear •Sir: — A number of gentlemen, both of Mr. Robinson's & Mr.
Batson's friends ha-ving met on tuesday last to make some arrange
ments for the fourth of July, the subject of representatives to c6ngress
was mentioned; — and tuesday the 15th of July was agreed on as the
time of meeting, at this place, to appoint the conferrees to meet at
the Court of Appeals.
The conferrees are appointed in New Castle. I am happy to say
we met on both sides as if no differences had existed.
We calculate on the pleasure of your company the fourth of July.
Accept my thanks for the loan of De Lome. I have sent you the
Journal of the Senate & House of Representatives.
The Deed you sent me I have not been able to acknowledge owing
to neither of the Witnefses attending to prove the excon of it which
is required by the practice of the Court. Mr. Tunnel & Isaiah Long
are the Witnefses. You had better get one of them to come in the
next Court.
I remain as ever with great regard Your Obt Servt
O. Horsey

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Geo: Town 11. June 1801.
Dear Sir: — If you have any of the bills containing Genl. Wash
ington's Certificate pubUshed at Mr. Bafsetts election to refute the
charge that he was a tory, I'll thank you to send me one or two. Will
you also be good enough to State if you recollect whether the bill
verbatim or in substance was not printed in the Delaware & Eastern
Shore Advertiser, or if you have the paper containing it be so good
as to send it.
Have you heard of the letters Mr. Hargis lately has written to
several of our friends in Little Creek.
For this two weeks past this place has been more sickley than it
was ever known to be — I have been confined about a week but am now
getting up. In haste Yours -with regard & esteem O Horsey
Geo: Town 11. Sep. ISOl.
Dear Sir: — The follo^wing is the arrangement concluded on with
regard to our meetings — Baltimore, at the Widow Waples' on Thurs
day 17th inst.; Dagsborough at Tho: Wests on Friday the 18th;
Indian River at the Chapel on Saturday the 19th; Ceder Creek at
Eli Williams on Thursday the 24th; North W. Fork at Bridge
Branch on Friday the 25th; Little Creek at English's on Saturday
the 26th; Nanticke at Wm. Jones' on Friday the 2d October and
at Isaac Short's on Saturday 3d. We were forced to have meetings
at both these places on account of both having been spoken to & ex
pecting it before the places of meeting were concluded on.
Will it be in your power to send word to the Widow Waples to
make some pro-viscon for our dinner & liquors.
Yours very sincerely O. Horsey.
Geo: Town 13. Oct. 1801.
Dear Sir: — I received yours containing the hundred dollars which
you were pleased to return. As yet none of the gentlemen have come
down but Mr. Johns & Mr. Vandyke. It was thought best by Mr.
Johns & myself to postpone giving you an answer upon the subject
of the invitation you were so obliging to make, till thursdays mail,
that we might know the disposition of the other gentlemen.
I remain as ever yours O. Horsey.
Geo: Town 23. Sep. 1802. Thursday
Dear Sir : — I send you the document by the driver and please to
accept my thanks for the use of it. I am not able to give you a
precise account of the little elections. The general result tho' is we
are beat in 3 Hds. and have beat in 7. The Majority in Broad Creek
and L. Rohoboth are something greater against us than they weer
the last year, but the Majority in N. W. Fork is considerably lefs.
All the rest have terminated much as usual.
Our first meeting is at Isaac Shorts on tomorrow. The next day
it is at Mrs. Wests the -widow of Tho : Wests. The Thursday succeed
ing at Eli Williams in Ceder Creek and next day at Bridge Branch.
And the next day at EngUsh's. If your health will admit of it your
attendance will be very material. I calculate on a bold opposition

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from the other party. They will no doubt send their oritors round
¦with us.
We have taken great pains to draw our conferees out next tuesday
and I am persuaded we shall have a full meeting. The Com. of Con.
are to meet that day Mr. Rodney is written to and will no doubt
attend. My expectation is great upon the good effects of this Meet
ing. We must here afsign some of the most active to ride from
house to house in each hundred and we must endeavour to devise
ways & means to get those out who have not conveyances of whom
I am told there is a great number in Ceder Creek.
In hase Yours sincerely O. H.
Geo: Town 31. July 1803.
Dear Sir: — I have reed another duning letter from Black for
his $20. This letter is dated the 22d inst. What has become of
your remittance? It must have miscarried. I did not think to ask
you when here if you had ever reed the ten dollars I enclosed you,
but I take it for granted you did. I sd be glad to here from you on
this subject.
I have just got about after a weeks confinement by an inflamation
in my face occasioned by an unsuccessful attempt to extract a tooth.
Yours truly &c O. Horsey
Geo: Town 17. Sep. 1803
Dear Sir: — In Leues & R. we have lost our Inspector but have
carried our Afsefsor C. Wiltbank by a majority of 5. This our friends
consider a great victory & the demos, are completely downd. Every
exertion was made on both sides. The election was as large as the
last year & the year before. We have beat in N. W. Fork hand
somely Laws & Handy are elected by a majortty of 31. In short
we shall have all the little elections except Brad Creek where I am
told we did not intend to make opposition. Indian R. Little Creek
& Nanticoke I have heard from they are ours. We shall certainly
attend to the Levy Lists. As Laws is elected I take it for granted
that Sordein continues. I am unable to answer as to David Smith
but will endeavour to send you word tuesday next. We have up
wards of ;£20. subscribed to the Library. Yours truly. O. H.
Washn, 28th Nov. 1811.
My dear friend: — I but this moment reed enclosing the note
yours without date. I fear its too late. But I have guarded against
[illegible] by sending my note endorced by Mr. Ridgely to meet
yours in Bank. So there can be no protest. I have tho endorced
the note you enclosed & sent it to Mr. Worrell & have directed
him to return it to me in case it should not be in time.
Your prize shaU be attend to. Harrison has been surprized & se
verely handled by the Prophet. The U. S. Troops lost in killed &
wounded 179 — out of about 700 — Numbers engaged nearly equal on
both sides. Harrison was surprised by a piece of the most refined
treachery. The Prophet on the day of the morning before he made
the attack, sent about forty men to Harrison of a tribe supposed to
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they were the friends of the U. S. & ubraided him for having shewn
such a want of confidence in them — , that they did not mean war &
would intercede with the PrOphet & that a White flag should be sent
the next day. The next morning about 4. oclok the Indians killed
the centinels with arrows & got into the midft of the camp of our
troops before so unexpectly that many were tomihocked before they
could drefs themselves. Our men as soon & as well as they could
abandoned the camp & rallied & formed at some distance. When
the action afsumed a lefs promiscuous & more regular form & con
tinued till about sun rise, when upon the appearance of the horse the
Indians gave way. I saw a letter from a Capt Wells who was in St.
Clairs defeat & had fought with Waine & been in many Indian fights
but says this was the hardest & best maintained on both sides. Our
troops followed the Indians & burnt the Prophets Town weh was
in about one mile of the camp, & on returning to the frontiers.
They were about 100 Miles in the Indian Territory from the set
tlements, and it is apprehended, may suffer much on the retreat for
want of provisions as the Indians destroyed nearly all their provisions
while they had pofsefsion of t camp & sd the Indians attack them on
the retreat, weh is apprehended some suppose we must suffer very
severely, if not be destroyed.
A very serious riot has lately happened at Savannah. Two French
Privateers were burnt, & the [illegible] were obliged to fly to the Jail
as an asylum agst the fury of t mob. It or [illegible] — a banditti of
French sailors had stabbed two americans, sailors, who it seems were
buried a la [illegible] Pearce, I mean in solem procefsion. Our tars
as soon as they had paid their last tribute to thir brothers resolved
to be avenged. They were Joined by the Citizens & immediately
pofsefsed themselves of one of the Privateers & burnt her. In the
mean time the other was armed by French & a body of Mareens
belonging to U. S. who were ordered to protect the vefsel. [iUegible]
they got another vefsel & loaded her with combustable material &
were laying her along side of the privateer to blow her up. Our
marines seeing the fury of the afsailants abandoned the privateer to
her fate. She also was burnt.
This is news enough for one letter, in case you have not seen or
heard it before. The documents are not printed yet. O. Horsey
Wilmington 24. Aug. 1814.
My dear Wells: — The cashier of the bank at Laurel has in
formed me that the rules of the Bank require that persons residing
out -of the County should have two indorcers residents of the
County. I had a note for one thousand dollars discounted at that
Bank some time ago which runs out the 27th of next month weh
was indorced by two gentlemen of this town and to bring it within
the rules of the Bank Mr. Bull and Mr. Polk were good enough to
volunteer their indorcements. As I do not wish to impose on the
goodness of Mr. Bull I have taken the liberty to send the enclosed
note for your indorsement and ¦will thank you to indorse the same
and take it with you if you are a director, or otherwise send it to Mr.
Polk the cashier in due time, to whom I have written. If it should be
convenient to you I should be very glad if you would attend the Sen-

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ate on the firs't day of the Sefsion, on account of my brother in law
A. L. who is an applicant for the secretaryship, for whom I am
sure you' will vote on my account, if there be no other applicant of
higher claims to your preference.
Yours as ever truly & sincerely O. Horsey.
Remember me to my friends in your neighbourhood & in Geo : Town.
Wil 24. Apl 1S17.
Dear Wells: — I have reed yr communication & the duplicate
but our gentlemen are so scattered that I find it impofsible to get
their signatures at present. I am this moment on the point of starting
for my farm & when I return I shall devote myself your business.
In haste. God blefs & prosper yr undertakings O. Horsey
WiL. 26. Aug. 1817.
My Dear Wells; — I was not at home when your letter arrived,
but had I been it would not have saved the protest as the notarial
seal had been affixed to it before your letter was mailed or at least
before the date of the post mark. The truth is, tho the officers of
the bank growl and snarll, you are very popular with the notary &
so long as your custom enables him to buy his bread he ¦will praise
you for your absence of mind & wish you forgetfulness. It is however
well enough. Your forgetfulness operates as a benevolence. The
notary is a worthy revolutionary officer & like most of his surviving
compeers, poor and needy. He is worthy of your charity & may
your memory fail you while his wants continue.
Every other blessing I wish you with all my soul. O. Horsey
N. B. — Please sign the note enclosed "twice" & send it without
delay to y cashier of the bank at Laurel & request him to procure
Mr. Polke's endorsement. Also please send y check with y note.
Yr letter being 3ble I had to pay 25 cents additional postage &
will balance y % by putting y postage of this letter upon you.
Letter to The Honorable Gunning Bedford, Esq., New Castle.
Dagsborough 10 June 1795.
'' Sir: — Having been summoned to attend the Circuit Courts, as a
Grand Juror, and it not being in my Power to obey this notice, I think
it my Duty to communicate to the Court the occasion of my not
attending. At the Time I received the Marshall's Summons, it was
fully my Intention to have complied with its Requisition. I had,
but a few Days, retumed from condoling ¦with the Friends of my
honor'd, deceased mother, when it became necessary for me to leave
Home, again, in pursuance of the Summons I have mentioned. Not
withstanding the considerable Inconvenience of undertaking another
long Journey under these Circumstances, I resolved to discharge my
Duty, & accordingly did set off; but I had scarce proceeded twenty
Miles before my Horse became fick & I was compelled to return.
Thus, Sir, I shall be prevented from attending, not, I beg Leave to
assure the Court, by a Disposition to treat its orders without proper

MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS. 309
Respect upon all occasions whatsoever, but by Circumstances not
within my control.
I have the Honor to be Sir, yr most obed hble Sv
Wm. Hill Wells
The Honble Gunning Bedford Esq.
Leiter from S. White to Outerbridge Horsey, George Town.
Dover Octr Sth 1802
The Democracy of Delaware has done its utmost — it has trampled
on tallents and merrit and disgraced our State — Bayard is beat and
that too by only fifteen votes — R' majority in N. C. was 957 Bayard
in this county had 219 and in Sufsex it seems 723. We are down—
the irishmen of N. C. are to govern Kent & Sufsex. fare well.
S White
Letter from Daniel Rodney, Esq., to Commodore Murray.
Lewes Feb 24th 1814
Sir : — The app of a Ship of the Line, two frigates, and a Sloop of
War off the Cape on Saty and Sun last having caused an alarm along
the Shores of Delaware, and in the Creeks where they were preparing
to fit out and load their Shallops for Philada I addd a Letter to A Genl
Duane on Tues y last — SoUicitg him* to send us some military aid if
within his power, there being no force of any descripn organd here
or indeed in the State except abt 40 of the inhab of this Town chiefly
Pils ¦witht any Compt officer yet tbey are cald U. S. volunteers.
Persuad that a part of the Flotilla, could be advantageously em
ployed in the Western or Shallop Channel, to protect and convoy
the trade to Phila, and believing the Naval force in the Del. to be
under your direction Permit me to request your attention to this
measure — if the G B and Gs should be ordered on this Service,
tho' it is early in the season they will "be perfectly secure from the
N and E winds as they can make a harbour in any of the Creeks from
Bomb H to Lewes when the Wind is on Shore,* if necefsary good Pilots
for the Creeks can be obtained here or at Milford — I need not say to
you who has such a perfect knowledge of the Bay, thay the Enemy
cannot approach them the flotilla in this Channel except in their
Barges — * while the Shears, Boyds Shoals, and the long Western
flat, secures them from an Attack from the Enemy except in their
Barges. I am Sir with great fespect Your Obt Servt D R
Come, Murray.
¦Letter from William Hill Wells, Esq., to The Hon. William Hunter.
Dagsborough, June 25th, 1817.
My dear Sir: — I forward you herewith a more succinct Sketch of
the Estate, than that which I transmitted you previous to your em
barking for England. I should prefer receiving the payment, to be
made, in Cash: — but if it be a sine qua non, I agree to receive a part,
say a moiety of the whole amount or, if indispensably necefsary, the
whole in Manchester, Sheffield Birmingham and Leeds manufactures
suited for the Philadelphia Market, at the same Prices for which they
are Shipped there on orders. Sixty thousand Dollars, clear of all

310 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Expences, is the very lowest sum I will take : and the more I think of
sacrificing a moiety of this immensely increasing Estate which prom
ises so fairly to be in so short a Period, a Principality for my Family —
if I can keep it — the lefs I like to do it. Let me hear from you on
your Receipt of this Communication.
With the sincerest wishes for your Health and Happiness and
Succefs believe me truly and affectionately Your's
Wm. Hill Wells.
P. S. — I am content to receive for my share of the sixty thousand
dollars the sum of fifty thousand — and to divide -with you all that can
be got above sixty thousand — I do, on my conscience believe that
one hundred thousand dollars for a moiety — is but a small Price.
Bill of Sale, fames Maull to Tho. Rodney, for Negroe Boy Cyrus,
Aged II yrs or Thereabouts.
Know all men by these presents that I James Maull of George
Town in the County of Sufsex and State of Delaware for and in
Consideration of the sum of Two Hundred Dollars Lawful money
to me in hand paid by Thomas Rodney Esquire of Lewes Town in
the County and State aforesaid at and before the sealing and de
livery of these presents, the receipt whereof the said James Maull
do hereby acknowledge, have granted bargained sold and confirmed
and by these presents do grant bargain sell and confirm unto the said
Thomas Rodney Esqr. his heirs Executors Administrators or afsigns
a Certain Negro or Mulatto Boy nained Cye or Cyrus about the age
of Eleven years at the date of these presents. To have and to hold
all & Singular the Negro or Mulatto Boy afsd. by these presents granted,
bargained sold and confirmed unto the only proper use benefit & be
hoof of him the said Thomas Rodney his heirs Executors adminis
trators and afsigns forever, freely, quietly, peaceably and entirely
without any Contradiction, claim, disturbance or hindrance of any
person or persons whatsoever and without any account to me, or to
any other whatsoever to be made, answered or hereafter to be ren
dered, so that neither I the said James Maull, nor any other for me or
in my name, ought to exact, challenge, claim, or demand at any
time or times hereafter, any right, interest, claim or demand of, in to
or for the afsd Negro or Mulatto Boy, but from all action, right, title,
estate, claim, demand, pofsefsion and interest thereof, shall be wholly
based and excluded by force & virtue of these presents, and I the
said James Maull for myself my heirs •Exors & Admrs shall & 'will
warrant & forever defend the afsd. Boy unto the said Thomas Rodney
his heirs Exors Admrs & afsigns against me the said James Maull
my heirs Exors Admrs & afsigns & against all & every other person or
persons whatsoever of the before mentioned Boy I the said James
Maull have put the said Thomas Rodney in full pofsefsion of the afsd.
Negro or Mulatto Boy Cyrus, In witnefs whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal this Twenty third day of January in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Nineteen.
James Maull [seal]
Signed, Sealed & Delivered
In the presence of
James P. W. Kollock

MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS. 311
Reed January 23d 1819 of Thomas Rodney for the use of James
Maul in Cash One Hundred Dollars & his Bond for One Hundred
Dollars which when paid ¦will be in full for the Consideration Money
of the Boy ¦within Mentioned James P. W. Kollock
Test. Danl Rodney
Muster Roll of the Pirst Company of Delaware Light Artillery
attached to the First Battalion Eighth Regiment Third Brigade Dela
ware MiUtia.
1 James P. Barker  Captain
2 John E. Parker  1st Lieut.
3 Caleb R. Layton  1st Lieut.
4 James M. Rench  2nd Lieut.
1 Short W. Vincent  Orderly Sergt.
2 Thomas B Sipple  2nd
3 Levan B Day  3rd "
4 EUsha Gothard  4th
5 James Dunning  Sth "
1 WilUam Short ( of G)  1st Corpl.
2 Nathan Mefsick  2nd
3 James S Chase  3rd "
4 Thomas W Hatteld  4th
1 Adams Isaac  Private.
2 Barker Robinson  "
3 Chase George B 
4 Conaway John 
5 Conaway Jef se 
6 Davis Henry 
7 Dodd George 
S EUegood WilUam 
9 Ewing Adolphus P  "
10 Elwell Charles 
1 1 Fisher Isaac M  "
1 2 Greenley Thomas 
13 Houston John W 
14 Hastings Luther 
IS Hunter Joseph  : 
16 Jefferson Job 
17 Kollick Jacob M  '|
18 Mefsick John 
19 Marvell Joseph H  "
20 Morris Joseph B 
21 Morris Elihu 
22 Maxfield EUas 
23 McCalla John W 
24 McCalla Daniel  ''^
25 Pettyjohn Rowland D 
26 Pettyjohn Theadore  "
27 Pettyjohn WilUam 
28 Pettyjohn Purnall 
29 Parker James A 
30 Pride Job  '[
31 Pepper Edward G 

312 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
«
32 Pepper Peter  Private.
33 Pepper Levan 
34 Pepper Nutter 
35 Prettyman Burton C 
36 Pafsionters John 
37 Reynolds WilUam 
38 Short John M 
39 Short Samuel 
40 Windsor PhiUp  .¦ 
41 Wolfe James A  .'
42 Wolfe Wm P 
43 Walls George 
44 Wilson Major 
I Certify on Honor That this Muster Roll exhibits the true state
of the First Company of Delaware Light Artillery and the above named
persons are fully equipped with the Uniform of the Company
James P Barker
Captain Commanding
Georgetown Del. September 22nd 1846
For the Gazette of the United States.
To the
People of the United States
No. 12.
Friends & Countrymen: — I quit the Farmer in my last Number
just as he was boasting that the Innocence of the Federalists, with
regard to the Charge against them of embezzling the pubUc Money,
had been made as clear as the Sun at Mid-day. As I mean to reserve
myself until he has done, I shall not at this Moment, trouble you
with any Comments of mine upon this extraordinary Production of
his; but proceed to give it to you as he has given it to me.
The Farmer's Letter
to
Richard Falstaff,
continued.
"Be so good as to tell me, Mr. Falstaff, why Congress does not
call up the List of "black stocking" Gentry, that have made away
with the public Money during the administrations of Mr. Jefferson
and Mr. Madison? For a very plain Reason they do not, because
the People would then see the damning Proofs that their own Party
had been guilty of the very Offences that they falsely charged the
Federalists with.
I confess to you, upon this Subject, I can not restrain my Indig
nation. Such Villany ought not to go unpunished — a Whip ought
to be put into the Hand of every honest Man to lash it through the
World. Twenty two thousand dollars given to one Favourite! — and
a hundred thousand stolen and run away ¦with by another! — two
very pretty little Items in the account of Virtue and Patriotism!
Yes, Sir, the Federalists were honest men; and after your Party
had slandered them — vilely slandered them out of the good opinion

MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS. 313
of their Fellow Citizens, your Leaders thought it wise to make a liferit
of Necessity, and candidly acknowledge them honest Men. You,
and the whole of you, have now had nearly twelve years for Enquiry
and Investigation, and, I repeat, there is not a single FederaUst,
employed in the Govemment of the United States, upon whom you
have been able to fix the Charge of Peculation. All the Instances
of Corruption, and Knavery, and Falsehood, and Deceit and Treach
ery that have happened in the Affairs of the United States Govem
ment, for now nearly four and twenty Years, have been on your
Side of the House.
You seem to think the Villany of Brown of New Orleans a trifle.
Sir, was it a Trifle to run away -with more than a hundred Thousand
Dollars of the public Money? That Sum would have defrayed the
govermental Expenses of some of our smaller States for nearly ten
years. The Embezzlement of about the like Sum by one of your
leading RepubUcans, formerly of New York, now of New Orleans,
you pafs over with the same nonchalance. I suppose you would
consider as a Trifle the Present made by Mr. Jefferson, at the very
threshold of his Administration, out of the public Money to Mr. Cal
lender: not only contrary to Law, but in violation of the Consti
tution which he was sworn to support. The princely Present of
Twenty two thousand Dollars to Mr. Erving you skipped over : know
ing, perhaps, that the least that was said upon that Topic the better
— ^because an Investigation of it would implicate your Idol Jefferson —
his Deputy Madison — and their myrmidons in Congrefs who assisted
in thro-wing the Veil of Authority over that shamelefs Transaction.
You may say that Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Madison ought not to be
responsi'ble for the malconduct of their Agents. I am fully aware,
I acknowledge, that bad Men will get into office sometimes notwith
standing all the Foresight and Vigilance that can be exercised: but
both of those Gentlemen ought to be responsible when they have
been in the Practice of confiding important Trusts to notorious
S'windlers and blackstocking adventurers. Mr. Madison, most es
pecially, ought to be answerable when he acknowledges that he rec
ommends men to the Senate whom, he knows at the Time, are un
worthy of the Appointments he nominates them for.
You ¦will [must] excuse me for not dismissing the Subject of Money
Affairs so soon as you may wish to get rid of it. Your Leaders were
wont formerly to dwell -a good deal upon this Subject : but, in this
Respect at least, they have entirely failed to fix any Stigma upon
the poor Federalists, who have come out of the Furnace you heated
for them unhurt. I am not going [disposed] to throw you into that
Furnace, much as you deserve it: but you cannot surely blame me
, for wishing to put you, and your Friends to some little Trial. We
will say nothing more of the Twenty two thousand Dollars
made a Present of to Mr. Ervine : but, if you please, we will turn our
attention from the civil to the military Department. Your Idol
professed to have a great Regard for the "Mouth of Labour;" and
you shall see what pretty, nice, sweet little Things he reserved for
the mouths of his Friends.
From the 7th of December 1803 to the 24th of April 1804 (just
four Months and seventeen Days) Governour Clairbome and General
WiUdnspn were employed, as Commissioners, in taking Possession

314 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
of New Orleans, and their Table Expences, for that Period, amounted
to Six thousand, six hundred and nineteen Dollars and seventy
TWO Cents. I shall not trouble you with more than a few Items
from the List of Particulars such as 844 Bottles of Claret (a very
costly wine) — nine hundred and twelve Bottles of Madeira {the Farm
ers of Lancaster County in Pennsylvania know what Madeira costs)
144 Bottles of Champaign {a very nice and delicate Wine & comes
confoundedly high) — fifty Bottles of white Wine (/ don't know much
about that) 100 Bottles of Hermitage {old Hermitage, I suppose, that
must cost I should guefs three or four Dollars, at the least, a Bottle) 558
Bottles of red wine {this, I suppose, must be Tokay — it comes all the
way from the Dominions of Bonaparte's Father in Law, and they say
it is a most charming wine — rich, luscious and aromatic in the highest
Degree — I'll set this down, as the Farmer does not tell us how much ii
costs, at half an Eagle a Bottle — and I wish to gracious I had some of
it this moment at Hand to drink General Wilkinson, & Governor Clair-
borne & Mr. Jeffersons healths: — but I beg your Pardon, Mr. Farmer,
go on again if you please with your Bill of Fare) 81 Bottles of Porter
{we all know what this is, and if I had been Air. Jefferson's Accomptani
I would have allowed him for 8i Hogsheads instead of 8i Bottles — for it
looks ashamed resting on the Ground under the "huge Legs" of the other
Items.) 258 Bottles of Ale {surely the Ale & Porter Brewers of New
Orleans must have brought themselves under the Displeasure of our noble
General) 67 gallons of Brandy {this is worse than all — 6'/ gallons of
Brandy ! — this was not more than enough to 'have made Fog slings for
ihe General & the Governor — which, for four months a-nd feventeen Days
was just half a gallon a piece for every morning. Lord if our poor
foldiers that died there like rotten sheep could have had enough of this
they would still have been alive to help us take the Canadas from the
British.) and eleven thousand three hundred and fifty Cegars.
{In New England here, I admit that eleven thousand three hundred &
fifty Cegars {Spanish Cegars too I suppose) would be a pretty good Al
lowance for a couple of hearty fellows and a few Friends for four months
& feventeen Days: but the Farmer does not consider that the gingling
of Glasses & the Smoke of Tobacco are absolutely necessary, at New
Orleans, to keep off the Alusquitoes : and besides, too, he totally forgets
ihat Mr. Jefferson sent those Gentlemen to take possession of New Or
leans and it would have been a pretty story if they had surrendered them
selves Prisoners io the Musquiioes, as the Southern People have ihe
Impudence to say some of our Yankey officers did to the Bullfrogs during
our Revolutionary war.) I omit the Cakes, the Mackaroons, and the
Sugar Plumbs {Lord why would you leave them out ? You don't con
sider how much good they may have done f Would you have had our
Republican General and Governor to have gone about among the Women
and Children, like old Elves, with hard boiled Eggs in their Pockets?
You can't suppose that two fuch old Fellows could have been liquorish
enough to have eaten those things themselves : — no — no — ihey made better
use of them, they distributed them to the Women and Children: and
when the General gave to the Men of this new Country some of his rich,
luscioiis Tokay, they, no Doubt, exclaimed with Calaban,
This is a brave God, and bears celestial Liquer;
We will kneel to him.) When the People add to this modest
account the Pay of their General, they will find that their Presidents

MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS. 315
of New Orleans, for the Time being, cost them more than their Presi
dent at Washington.
From the 13th of September 1806 to the 24th of May 1807, Gen
eral Wilkinson was allowed for Rations 2033 DoUars and fixty fix
Cents, not-withstanding it was exprefsly declared by an Act of Con
grefs, passed on the 16th of March 1802 that his Pay of 225 doUars
per month should be "his full and entire Compensation, without a"
"Right to demand, or receive any Rations, Forage, travelling Ex-"
"pences, or other Perquisite or Emolument whatsoever, except such".
"Stationary as might be requisite for the use of his Department."
In the eight months then he recived for Pay & Rations 3900 DoUars.
You -will please to add to this, his Salary of Governor of upper Louis
iana, for the said eight months, about 1700 dollars, and you have
for your republican Brigadier General 5600 dollars; which is at the
Rate of 8400 dollars per year.
In 1802 and 1803 he received, for his personal Expenses, 2715
dollars and 29 Cents: — as Indian Commissioner 4898 dollars: — and
as Brigadier General 5400 doUars, total 13913 dollars and twenty
nine Cents, or Six thousand nine hundred and fifty six doUa-rs and
fixty four Cents per annum.
I make no account of 3879 dollars & 79 Cents paid him by John
Wilkins; nor of 7891 dollars the amount of Money and Supplies
furnished him by public agents; for, I suppose, he has rendered, or
will render, his accounts thereof; in which it is but Charity to hope
that there are no more Charges of Claret and Madeira, and red wine
and white wine & Champaign & Hermitage, and Mackaroons, and
Preserves and Sugar Plumbs, seeing there was enough of them, to
surfeit us all, in the other accounts. Nor do I say any Thing about
11000 dollars secret Service Money paid him, as that account was
Settled -with Mr. Jefferson himself who deemed ' ' the Specification of
its Disbursement inexpedient."
Mr. Falstaff you -will remember that, during one of the last year's
administration of the Federalists, Mr. Tracy, a member of the Senate
of the United States, was sent by the the Secretary of War, in the
Recess of Congress, upon Businefs of the Public, to the Westward.
I think he was allowed six dollars per Day for his Services : and there
was a Washerwoman's Bill, and perhaps a Barber's Bill in the List
of his Expences. Have you forgotten the Noise you exclusive Patriots
made about this thing at the Time? Mr. Tracy was a poor Man,
and very probably travelled with his Saddle bags behind him : and
his Six dollars per Day enabled him to lay by something for his Wife
and Children at Home, who lived in plain republican Simplicity.
My God! what would have been said if Mr. Tracy had sent in his
Bill of Hermitage, and Madeira, & Champaign, and Cegars, and red
wine and white wine, and macaroons, and Sweet meats, and Sugar
Plumbs? Where is the Difference in the Case? Was not Mr. Tracy
made of the same Flesh and Blood as General Wilkinson? In Point
of understanding there was no Comparison — it was Silenus to Apollo.
No Doubt he would have liked a Glass of sparkling old Hermitage as
well as the General: but not having such a Bank to draw upon he
was obliged to say, with Horace, (a)
 mea nee Falemce
Temperant vites, neque Formiani
Pocula coUes.

316 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Yes I venture to say that either the Sugar Plumbs or Mackaroons
would have been Ratsbane to him. He would never have drank
any more Tokay or Burgundy or Hermitage or Champaign, as long
as he lived, at the public Expence. How you impartial — and honest
— and virtuous — and honourable — and mouth of labour saving Patriots
would have hopped about with the account and blazoned it to all the
world! How you would have rung it in our Ears! One would have
given us the account under the biting Head of "SOBER HABITS."
Another would have dished it up to us under the Cover of "FEDERAL
FRUGALITY!!!" Here would have stared us in the Face "A
FEDERAL NABOB:" — there we should have feen "LOOK AT IT
FAIRLY:" and here would have been "SIGNS OF THE TIMES!!"
— "MONARCHY MEN" — and the Lord knows what.
Yes, yes, I see Mr. Falstaff I am taking Pains for nothing — you
WILL NOT DARE TO PUBLISH THIS LETTER: and the poor siUy Dupes
of your Party will glue their Eyes together — and stuff their Ears — ,
and turn their Heads away. You will not dare to publish it, and
yet you need not fear, for they will not dare to read it. Go on good
Folks-i-step high over the stumbling Blocks that Truth and Wisdom
lay in your Path — proceed; you will save your Faces by it — ^but you
[balance missing.]
When Edwd.
When Edward left his native plain.
He heaved a sigh he dropt a tear.
Ere spring returns thy Constant Swain
Thy faithful Edward will be here
Tho Edward vowd and I believed
Ah! blooming flowrets why so fair
Alas ye prove that I'm deceived
for faithlefs Edward is not here.
The early lark proclaims the Spring
The Thrush delights with notes so clear
The flowers will bloom and birds will sing
Tho faithlefs Edward is not here.
Had Edward been true oh how blest I'd been
Each fiowret more sweet and more gay every seen
If he had been true so had I been too
But if with another he seeks for delight
To be true to myself I his falsehood requite
Young Henry is true so will I be too
At the dance on the green at the wake or the fair
I'll be happy and Merry tho faithlefs Edward's not there.
My Sweet Village Maid
When I quitted the cottage that stands on the Moor
Round the which play'd the breezes of Health
'Twas to gain for fair Anna the nymph I adore
Abroad a snug portion of Wealth
I told the sweet girl when preparing to part
Of my constancy ne'er be afraid
Tho distant your Image will dwell in my heart
For there reigns my sweet Village Maid.

MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS. 317
2
I Fortunes prosperous gales had now wafted me back
And I hasted my Anna to meet
While fancy pourtrayed while I followed the track
With what Joy I my Anna shall greet
^ How her bright eyes will sparkle approaching to view
When of present my store I displayed
And touching her lips, whisper these are for you
Yes all for my Sweet Village Maid.
3
I trudged smiling thus with pleasure my guide
When a shriek onward did urge
I flew to the spot saw drove down by the tide
An angel embraced by the surge.
I dashed thro the stream brought her safe to the shore.
On the bank where she gently was laid
Reviving I saw the dear girl I adore
Ah me twas my sweet Village Maid.
Presbyterian Records.
" At the Court of Common Pleas held in Lewes, Sussex
County May 6th 1707 before Thomas Fisher, Joseph Booth,
Jonathan Bailey, James Russell, and William Bagwell Esqrs.
Justices of said court Thomas, Fenwick appeared in open
court and acknowledged and made over for the use of the
Presbyterian professors for a Meeting House, School House
and burial place a parcel of land in the town of Lewes be
tween the county road that goes to Mr. Samuel Davis'
plantation, on the Hill, containing one hundred foot square
according to a deed of settlement bearing date May 6"
inst." The Pennsylvania Magazine, Vol. 8, 1884, has a very inter
esting article by the Rev. Edward S. Neill about the Rev.
Matthew Wilson, D.D., of Lewes, Delaware. He says: —
"Among the prominent men in the State of Delaware, during the
formative period of the RepubUc, was Matthew Wilson, D.D. of
Lewes. " As a scholar, civilian, physician, educator, and divine, he was
surpassed by few in America. His parents settled in Chester County,
Pennsylvania, and in East Nottingham Township,, on the ISth of
January, 1731, he was born."
During his boyhood, a man of remarkable talent and
versatility, Francis AHson, D.D., afterwards Vice-Provost of
the College of PhUadelphia, now the University of Pennsyl
vania, was settled over a congregation at New London in
Chester County.

318 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
As a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian, Alison was imbued with
the idea that the school was as necessary as the church, as
the anvil to the blacksmith, and that Christianity must
advance by employing keen-eyed science as her servant.
He was among the first to agitate for a college in Penn
sylvania and Delaware.
The Presbytery of Lewes, in 1738, sent a memorial to the
Synod of Philadelphia, in which they use this language: — -
' ' That this part of the world where God has ordered our lot, labours
under a grievous disadvantage for want ofthe opportunities of uni
versities and professors skilled in the several branches of useful
learning, and that many students f];om Europe are especially cramped
in prosecuting their studies, their parents removing to these Colonies
before they have an opportunity of attending the college, after having
spent some years at the grammar school; and that many persons born
in the country groan under the same pressure, whose circumstances
are not able to support them to spend a course of years in the Euro
pean or New England colleges &c. &c."
In 1744 a school was established. Mr. Alison was "chosen
Master of said school, with privilege of choosing an usher
under him to assist him."
Matthew Wilson was pupil under Alison in the school at
New London.
Alison was succeded by the Rev. Alexander McDowell.
Under McDowell Wilson became a teacher in the school.
By the Presbytery of New Castle, Wilson was ordained as
a minister October, 1755.
One of Wilson's pupils was Dr. John Neill, of Snow Hill,
Maryland. Dr. John Neill was the son of John Neill, lawyer, of Lewes,
and the brother of Col. Henry Neill, of Lewes. After the
discussions relative to the Stamp Acts, on February 21st,
1769, a son was born to Wilson, and was named James Patriot
Wilson. When ships with tea, arrived at the mouth of the Delaware
River, upon which a duty of three pence per pound was to be
paid for the benefit of the East India Company, he resolved
that his family should use no more of the article. To recon
cile the ladies, he published a paper in the newspapers, which
afterwards appeared in the February, 1775, number of the
American Magazine, showing the enervating effect of tea,
and giving the names of seventeen herbs or vegetables which
were good substitutes. In the midst of this discussion his
wife's sister came from Philadelphia on a visit, and brought

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MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS. 319
down some of the prohibited article. She claimed that she
was a patriot, but saw no good reason why she should not
drink "old tea" upon which no duty had been paid, and
"tea she would drink." The good Doctor, always diffident,
and dreading "a tempest in a tea-pot," quietly submitted.
When, in 1774, the news reached Lewes that the British
government had closed the port of Boston, he was one of
the committee to send help to the distressed inhabitants of
that city.
After the Declaration of Independence there was an in
crease of the Tory feeling in Sussex County, and those in
favor of separation from Great Britain were in the minority.
The following letter throws a great deal of light upon
¦conditions prevailing in Sussex County: —
"Lewes Town, July 30th, 1778.
"Sir: Inclosed you have a letter from the Rev. Mr. Wilson, solicit
ing your interest for the liberty of a certain James Cooper, one of the
Reffugees from this State, now in your Gaol; the young man, I be
lieve, was corrupted by some persons of the disaffected class; but
they have ever acted so cautious, and ever so true to each other,
that no positive proof could be had against them.
"I should be glad that you would not let Mr. Wilson's Letter be
made public, as it will of consequence create him some enemies, that
may have it in their power to injure him. Should it be in your power
and not too much Trouble to obtain liberty for the young man to
come down, I will pay any expenses for his imprisonment.
"I am Sir Yours "Henry Neill.
"To Col. WilUam Bradford
"At the London Coffee House
"Philadelphia."
Dr. Wilson's Letter.
"To Mr. William Bradford, and other members of the honourable
Board of War in Philadelphia. Favoured by Henry Neill, Col.-
Lieut. of Sussex.
"Gentlemen: We are informed that some few of our Sussex
Tories have fallen into your hands, and are justly confined in Jail,
where they are much much more likely to have an Impartial Trial,
than here, where at least two-thirds of the County, by the Influence,
Lies, Falsehoods, & base insinuations of your Joshua Fisher, and about
a score of leading Men, who at that Time, held all Offices and Places
of Trust in this County, are really disaffected to the American Cause,
yet, by their numbers will soon be elected to fill their places again;
so that if this State can do any harm to the Cause of America, by
betraying the French, our Friends, or any of the Whig Colonists
trading here, or by assisting, supporting, or encouraging our enemies,
as weU as persecuting forever the Whig Colonies here 'who have borne

320 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
the burden and heat of the day,' there are more honors than I can
now foresee, must come from Tories ruling the Delaware State.
"To remedy these dangerous evils I can see only 2 plans that
appear practicable, either to disfranchise the Delaware State, and
divide it between Maryland and Pennsylvania, which appears more
necessary, because the State is too weak to bear the expense of its
present Government, and also because of its smallness: any conten
tion here between a leading Whig and a leading Tory would imme
diately divide the whole State into two parties, when Justice and
Peace would be excluded from the State.
"The other remedy would only be partial and temporary, i. e..
The Congress fixing such Resolves, by such accurate Descriptions
of Characters as would exclude all Tories and disaffected persons
from holding any Offices in the State during this Generation at least.
"This would, indeed, incapacitate a great numbei: from doing the
highest injuries to the Country, Yet the most artful and dangerous
Tories who stirred up the rest, and use them as Catspaws, would be
still at the helm. They have veer'd all around the Compass, give
the Whigs no positive proof against them, and have secured the
Tories, to give no Information.
"The most probable Way to come to the Truth, would seem by
pardoning some Tory or two on condition of becoming a true Wit
ness against the Rest. There is one, Couper (James), I think, who
would perhaps turn evidence on these terms. He kept Merchants''
accounts formerly for Col. Simon Kollock, a staunch Whig, when
this unhappy Couper was thought a good Whig, but going to live-
with Philip Kollock, he became such a Tory, as to go voluntarily,
with others, to the English.
"Would you take the trouble to have him sounded apart from the
rest, whether he would, in order to be restored, & pardoned, & ad
mitted to Protection in Col. KoUock's house again, honestly inform
you who were his advisers to prompt Him to go to the Enemy, whether
he knows and can prove enough to convict Lawyer Moor, Isaac Smith,
John Wiltbank, Philip Kollock, Esquires, Peter Robinson, late Sheriff^
Anderson Parker, Ben. Burton, Esquires, &c &c.
"If you should find that he will make a good State Evidence,
perhaps you could send him down in Col. Neill's vessel, who is Lieu
tenant of the County, and would take proper Care of Him, that he
might not be enticed by the Tories.
"I am, with great respect. Gentlemen,
" Very much at your Service "Mat. Wilson.
"Lewes, July 29, 1778."
Henry Neill, son of John Neill, of Lewes, lawyer, mar
ried Mary, daughter, of Col. Simon Kollock. He was made,
in September, 1775, Adjutant of the First Delaware Battalion,
of which David Hall was Colonel. In May, 1778, he was
elected Lieutenant of the County of Sussex. In June, 1780,
he was Acting Colonel of the Fourth Delaware Regiment,
being the second regiment of Delaware in the Continental
service.

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In 1803 he died, chUdless.
His friend. Dr. Wilson, prepared the following inscription,
which is cut on his tombstone in the Presbyterian grave
yard, Lewes: —
"In memory of Col. Henry NeiU who died Nov. 10, 1803, aged 61
years, who valued independence, who dared, scorning submission to
a foreign yoke, to. force dehverance from the oppressors rod."
Dr. Wilson died March 31st, 1790.
Grant for Cool Spring Church.
September 13, 1737.
To ye Minister & Congregation of Presbiterians near
Cold Spring in Sussex for 10 Acres to enclose their Meet'g
House. Fort Cumberland, April 9th, 1757.
Sir : — We esteem ourselves obligd to you for the kindness shown by
you & Mrs. Dagworthy to Old Ross &c. &c.
We are alive here. I have ordered the Volunteers to be informd
that none are to proceed [torn] this Expedition, but [torn] as Sure
them for me, and Mr. Ross by the first Occasion will Send them to
Maidstone. My Complimts to Mrs. Dagworthy. I am
Your most obt hule Sert. Adam Stephen.
Fort Cumberland, Feby 14th, 1757.
Sir : — John Fraser Complains that Some of the Detachmt from Fort
Frederick has Carried off a gang of His Horses brought in by the
•Cherokees & taken privately away from them & stabled at Cressops
plantation untill the Cherokees were gone out of the Way. William,
Ross has a Gray Lame Mare Carried down by the Same party.
The Cherokees are gone, & their return, in my Opinion [torn].
The Catabaws carried home at the Rate of £30 a man among which
was £20 in Silver & £50 of Wampum & yet disatisfy'd. Fear is the
strongest bond of an Indian they love & despise. Nothing but
hard fighting & Success will recover the Indian Interest.
I am Sir, Yr most Obt huble Serv Adam Stephen.
Sir : — I have made what Enquiry I Could Relating to Mr. Fraziers
Horses but do not find the Party from & his has taken them they
Brought an old Lame Horse which was turn'd loose as being Useless
which very Probably belongs to Mr. Ross & I suppose is Returned.
all the News we have here is that Lord London Meets the Governors
from the Differant Province this Day at Philada. the Result it is Prob
able we shall heare in a few Weeks.
Sir: — ^In Return for your [torn] Inclosed Some English [torn] to
Pass off an Hour or two, this Dismal Weather, I am &c.

322 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Sir: — Your Letter of the llth Inst. I have received & in Answer
thereto am to acquaint You that the Governor approves of Your Agree
ment with the Mason concerning the Building of the Chimnies & plais-
tering the Officers Barracks, but He says You must not enter into any
such Engagement with the Soldiers who are employed as Sawyers, or
into any with those that profess themselves Carpenters; Such as are
employed in those Capacities will be considered & have an allowance
[torn] unless You will enter into a particular Engagement with them
His Excellency desires You will find them Business on the Allegany
Mountains for a time or take any other method to bring them to a
right Understanding. The Governor desires to know how much
plank Mr. Waugh will want to finish the Soldiers Barracks that are
already set up & those of ye Officers; & as the Assembly is to meet
next Monday Sennight His Excellency desires You will as soon as
possible send him Muster Rolls of the three Companies specifying
for what time each man first enlisted or has since engaged to serve
that he might try the same before the House if it shall be thought
Necessary. I have writ to the Agents & presume they will forthwith
send up the Cloathing for the Recruits as well as Money to pay the
several Companies. I am Sir Your most humb. Servt J. RiDOUT.
Annapolis, The 13 Jan'y. 1757.
Sir: — This will be presented by John Linton the Recruit whom
I mentioned to You in a former Letter. He comes with the Waggon
& as He is to go by the Way of Elk Ridge I have given him a Dollar
to bear his Expenses to the Fort. He was enUsted the 27th of Jany.
so for his Board in Town since that time I must [tom] five Shillings
which with the Bounty [torn] advanced him & the Dollar above men
tioned makes £1. IS. 0. to be remitted me by any Opportunity of
Conveyance that shall offer.
I am Sir Your most humb. & obed. Servt., J. RiDOUT.
Annapolis, the 1st Feby. 1757.
Sir : — The Governor desires that those Officers & Men that brought
William Johnson from Plummer's to Fort Frederick may be part of
the Detachment that You shall order hither with the Covered 'Waggon
for Powder; His Excellency wants to ask them some questions but
You need not mention it to them. You will let me know by a Line
who the Persons are.
I am Sir Your most humb. & obedt. Servt., J. RiDOUT.
Annapolis, the 1st Decr. 1756.
P. S. — We have an Account that Adl. Hawke has had an Engage
ment with the French Fleet & taken & destroyed 7 of theirs with the
Loss of three of his own Ships. Many Circumstances that are men
tioned give us room to believe the Account ought to be depended on.
We are also told that Bing has shot himself.
The Governor would not have You take any of Capt. Joshua Beall's
Men into ye Company till farther Orders.

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PRELUDE.

Altho Capt Daggworthy is a bad Correspondent And has not
thought proper to favor me wh a Line these six Months nevertheless
to shew him there is one at Fort Cumberland does not forget the
many agreable Hours he has spent this time twelve Month whose
name will be at the Bottom of this Scrawl & wh Capt. Daggworthy
when he calls back past time may chance to recolect amongst the
many less Animals in ye Creation to be known to Nature however Sc.
to throw off the Disguise. Harry Woodward now speaks to you
Wishing you & Mrs. Daggworthy Health happiness & success in all
your Undertakings for the Present Year and at the same time cant
help wishing you up at Fort Cumberland where you could See Tamor-
lane Exhibited in a very pretty Play-House. And as Mrs. Dagg
worthy I ain sure woud ask who were the Actors I shall now set them
down wh the Parts they Acted.
Tamorlane performed by. . . . Capt. Peachy.
Bajazet  Lieut. Hall.
Mokeses  Mr. Hubbard.
Lama  Mr. Lawson.
Morvan  Mr. Kennedy.
Stratocles  Mr. Peachy.
Haly  Mr. Thompson.
Prince of Tanais  Mr. Brockenbrough.
The Derveze  Mr. De fierre.
Axalla  Humble Servant.
Omar  Mr. Peachys Man.
Selima  my Servant (who Acts very well.)
Aspasia  Myself.
There was an Occassional Epilogue wrote by Hubbard in which
my Actor was taken off and spoken by him.
N. B. — Brockenbrough was so touchd by it so that he will never
never Act Again.
.(Esop was the Farce and De fierre was the fine Lady by wh you
may judge if it was a Farce or not. I am just Summoned to a Genl
Court Martial wh obliges me abruptly to Conclude wh my respts to
Mrs. Dagworthy. Your most Obedt Humble Servt.,
H. Woodward.
Fort Cumberland.
Annapolis, Septr. 12th, 1755.
Sir: — You are hereby directed to repair to Fort Cumberland &
reassume the Command of the Mary [torn] with Your Co [torn] receive
Instructions from me for that purpose, or unless the Virginia Troops
find themselves strong enough & are ordered to march over the Alle
gany Hills to annoy the Enemy or construct some place of Defence
there, in such Case You are to act as shall be judged best for his
Majesty's Service Horo Sharpe.
To Captain John Dagworthy.

324 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
To Captain John Dagworthy. [Torn] Apl. 7, 1757.
Sir: — The Assembly is now sitting at Baltimore County & I under
stand Colo. Stan wick & Governor Sharpe are to have the Command
of the Forces upon an Expedition to the Ohio which are to be those
raised in Pennsylvania Virgini to be joined to one Batalion of the
Royal Americans & the Governor desired me to [torn] an Express
down as soon as either Daniel or the Indians should arive that he
might make provision for Encouraging them & such Voluntares as
shoud join them & I believe it would not be disagreable to him to let
as many Soldiers [torn] Garrison go Voluntares I have dispatched a
Messenger to the Governor yesterday who I imagine will Arive Today
I apprehend by The Governor that he will be up soon in Order to
have a Fort built at the Old Town, There is an Act. of the Fleet's
sailing from Britain with the Forces & since I came from Town I
heard that there had abt 10 or 12 Thousand Men arived at Hailifax
& 20 Men of War who are to be joined by the Forces from new York
& New England It's said that there is to be 500 Men raised in Mary
land & that the Pennsylvanians have passed a Bill for [torn]
Your Friend & Thos. Cresap.
To Captain John Dagworthy.
Sir : — Inclos'd is the whole Instructions I Receiv'd the 23d Ult. hope
you'l Lett Corpl. Love come Down to Join Mr. Beall in Charles County,
Shall use all Endeavours to Raise what men I can while Down &
Shall be at the fort by the Middle of March at Farthest, hope you'l
Excuse the sending Barrickman Back Again, As we are in hopes of
Stopping those person's Deserted.
I am with all Respect Your Humble Servt Alex. Beall.
P. S. — Have Sent Mrs. Dagworthy A pair of Stockings price 6/6
if Dont think proper to keep them I will take them Again at my
Return & as there was no more here shall Endeavour to serve her
Lower Down.
Fred Town, Feby 24th, 1757.
Sir : — In the Governor's Absence I Received your Letter to him and
Inclosed, you a Coppy of that part of the Act of Assembly that relates
to the Affair You Mention'd & to Which I Refer.
I am. Sir Your Very Humbl Servant
,„^, J. _ , ,_,,„ Benj Tasker.
Annapolis, 12th of Feby. 1757.
R Creek George Town, Feby. Uth, 1757.
Sir : — His ExceU. Sett out for Philadelphia the Day Before I Gott to
Annapolis I Apply'd to Esq. Tasker and he thought it Requisite
to Raise the Company's Again as Fast as possible. Which he Gave
the Agent Order's to Lett me have One hundred & Eight pounds
for that use, he Likewise has sent you A paragraph of the Last Act
of Assembly, Wherein Directs how we are to proceed in Recruiting,
we are to Inlist men till the 10th of Aprill, But if the Wise Assembly

MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS. 325
shall think proper, they Are to be Continued for Six Months Longer,
No News here, AU Freind well, & shaU continue at R Creek, till such
Time as I see or here from you Agreeable to Your Order's, I beUeve
that I shall Gett Recruits Very fast I have Inlisted one, and am to
Meet Several's at Bladenburgh this Week and am Sir your
Very Humble Servt to Command Leut. Colo. Beall.
To Captain John Dagworthy.
Fort Cumberland, March 1, 17S7.
Sir: — Pursuant to an order from Governor Dinwiddie, I have sent
down William Ross and two sons. Trotter & Slater who resided at this
Garrison ever since the Fort was built — They have behaved- honestly
as far as I know, & have been very serviceable to the Garrison, Slater
a Butcher & Salter, Trotter as Guide & Labourer. William Ross and
sons have resided here, ever Since plummer Left old tow [torn]
have observed the Rules of the Garrison, and has lived upon his stock
of Cattle having Supplyd us w ' Butter & other little things which you
know to be very necessary & agreeable at Such a distance from the
Inhabitants. Upon a Complaint from Colo. Cressop Sometime ago I had an En
quiry made by the officer of this garrison, into the reason of said
Complaint. Ross can let you see the proceedings. He brought up
two steers of Cressop's which he could not Easily separate from his
own Cattle, but immediately informed me of it, and in Cosequence
of a letter from Cressop I had them killed for the use of the garrison;
and orderd the Commissary to send Cressop an act. of them & several
others killed for the same purpose.
The old man brought up some Sheep of Plummer's which he said
he did out of friendship to him; and informed the officer of it, saying
plummer told him he should have Payment for them when he came
up again but WilUam Ross seeing that the place was a thorough fare
for country people and Indians as they went up & down, thought he
-did a kindness to Mr. Plummer, & meant to oblige him by bringing up
the sheep With some others which he drove to this Fort, and intended
to Acct with him for them.
I inform'd him of my orders to send him down & the old-fellow
never thought of moving out of the way and I had none of them Con
fined before the party came on.
It seems to me to be owing to an Old grudge between Ross &
Cressop; and as you will have his sons in pledge espically I shall take
it as a favour that you let him go About to do his Business, & make
Friends. If I imagin'd that he would, or had reason to Attempt as
Escape, be assurd I would never request the favour. I am obliged
to you for the news p [tom] Indians were down on the Bran [torn]
young men, burnt t'wo plantations.
We are big with hopes [tom] the governors. I offer my [torn]
Dagworthy and am Sir, Your [torn] humble Sert
Adam Stephen.
p S_ ; — Since writing the Above I am informd that you are in the
Commission of the peace, and one of the Magistrates to try these

326 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
people. It is needless to request you to act w ' the discretion which
is so common & natural to you, in this affair, & weigh the Characters
of the Evidence if there are any, because the affair will be canvessed,
and make a great Noise, if the people are long detaind & harassd.
The lighthouse at Cape Henlopen is supposed to have
been erected in 1725. The Hon. John Penn, November,
1763, had two hundred acres of land, or sand, surveyed
and set aside for the benefit of the lighthouse. The lantern
or top is said to have been burned by the British during the
Revolution. On the twenty-eighth of July, 1774, Thomas McKean,
afterwards signer of the Declaration of Independence, made
an address in Lewes, urging the people to make common
cause with the Boston people in their stand against the
imposition of unjust taxation.
This was after the Boston people had thrown the tea over
board. In 1779-80 when the British frigate Roebuck was lying
in the Bay, a number of men were sent ashore to obtain
supplies. They seized Thomas Fisher, a boy of 17, on his
father's farm near Lewes, and carried him and a negro
slave back to the Roebuck, sending word to the parents
that Thomas and the negro could be ransomed for one hundred
bullocks. The terms were hastily complied with and Thomas
was released.
Jerome Bonaparte was a guest in the old Peter Maull
house. He had been recalled to France by his brother,
Napoleon. On account of the British blockading the Bay the French
vessel could not leave. In the meantime a furious storm
drove the ship ashore on the point of the Cape. Jerome
with others escaped drowning and he was cared for at the
Peter Maull house. From Watson's Annals.
Nathiel Lukens, pilot of the "ketch 'James' (whereof Capt.
James Risbie was owner) was put ashore at Cape Henlopen
by Ely Lush, Wm. Rawlings, Charles kemarr, Robt. Lindsay,
peter Goss, mariners. By reason of the bad weather the
sailors could not get on the Ketch again." February I693.
January 18th, 1733. Great snow at Lewes; ice driven
ashore by a north-east storm.

miscellaneous records. 327
January Sth, 1741. "Our river has been fast some time,
and we heard from Lewes that 'tis all ice towards the sea as
far as the eye can reach."
"At this early period of time (1733), so much had the little
Lewistown at our southern cape the pre-eminence in female
tuition, that Thomas Lloyd, the deputy governor, preferred
to send his younger daughters from Philadelphia to that
place to finish their education." (Watson's Annals).
Joshua Fisher, of Lewistown, afterwards of Philadelphia,
merchant, first tried the quadrant in the bay of Delaware.
Joshua Fisher, of Lewistown, Delaware, made the first
known Bay-chart of the Delaware. The one from which
all our subsequent ones have been copied. It bears the
imprint of London, 1756.
1703. The Grand Jury (Philadelphia) present Henry
Brooks, the Queen's Collector at the Hore-kills, and three
others, for raising a great disturbance and riot in the city at
the dead of night.
Captain Drew and the De Braak.
James Drew was commissioned lieutenant in the Royal
Navy, July 29th, 1775; master and commander, December
1st, 1787, and took rank as post-captain in 1790.
He commanded in order, the Echo, Fly, and De Braak.
sloops-of-war. The De Braak was a Dutch national ship detained at
Falmouth by the Fortune (F. Wooldridge), August 20th, 1795.
The De Braak was commissioned, 1798, under the com
mand of Captain James Drew, and attached to the fleet
"off the Westem Islands."
The following report was received in London, July, 1798: —
"Philadelphia, May 31, 1798 — His Brittanic Majesty's sloop-of-war
De Braak, Captain Drew, was overset in Old Kiln Roads about
4 O'clock last Friday aftemoon. She was at the time under mainsail
and reefed topsail, just about to cast anchor, a mile from the light
house, her boat alongside, waiting for the Captain, who intended to
go on shore at Lewes Town; a sudden slew of wind laid her on her
beam ends; she immediately filled and went down, -with Captain
Drew, his Lieutenant, and thirty-eight officers, seamen, and marines.
"The rest of the ship's company, about twenty-five, including the
boatswain, escaped in the boats, and several were taken up by a
pilot-boat. " The De Braak parted with the fleet off the Western Islands in
chase of a strange sail and was unable to join the convoy.

328 some records of Sussex county.
"About twenty-five days ago she fell in -with and captured a Spanish
ship from La Plata, bound to Spain, •with a very valuable cargo,
consisting of 200 tons of copper, a quantity of cocoa, &c. The prize
is arrived in the Delaware. Twelve of the prisoners were lost in the
sloop-of-war. The surviving Spanish prisoners have been brought
to Philadelphia and given to the agents of Spain.
"The crew of the De Braak consisted of eighty-three persons in
all, about half of whom were saved, including those who were in the
prize. "The officers left alive are the boatswain, a midshipman, and the
prize-master. "This melancholy accident is heightened by the Captain's lady
being so near as New York, where she was every hour in anxious ex
pectation of meeting him. The prize lies at the fort."
When the De Braak sunk three Spanish prisoners took the
Captain's trunk and used it as a raft to get ashore.
Randolph McCracken, great grandson of Gilbert McCracken,
pilot on the De Braak, let the present rector have the trunk.
It is in the Sunday-school room of St. Peter's church.

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BIBLE RECORDS.

FOOTCHER.

Wills, Administrations, Marriages. Kent and Sussex
Counties, Delaware, 1683-95.
"William footcher son of WUliam and Mary footcher was
borne the Tenth day of the moneth called February one
Thousand Six hundred Seaventy four, five ;
"Sarah footcher daughter of William and Mary footcher
was bom the thirteenth day of the Second Moneth called
April One Thousand six hundred Seaventy Seaven ;
" Elizabeth footcher daughter of William and Mary footcher
was borne the Eight day of the Moneth called February one
Thousand Six hundred Eighty one, two;
"Richard footcher son of William and Mary footcher was
borne the first day of the forth moneth called June one Thou
sand six hundred Eighty four ;
" John footcher son of William and Mary footcher was borne
the first day of the Second Moneth called April one Thousand
six hundred Eight Seaven ;
"Henry footcher son of William and Mary footcher was
borne the Thirty first day of the Eight Moneth called
October, one Thousand six hundred Eighty nine."
Judge John Wiltbank departed this life, 1792.
Mary Wiltbank, wife of John Wiltbank, departed this
life, 1795.
Cornelius Wiltbank, son of Judge John and Mary Wilt
bank, died November 9th, 1813.
Ann Wiltbank, wife of Cornelius Wiltbank, departed this
life April 9th, 1801.
Esther Wiltbank, wife of Cornelius- WUtbank, departed
this life November 1st, 1802.
John Wiltbank, son of Cornelius and Ann Wiltbank, was
born January 23d, 1795; married Eliza Paynter, A. D. 1817;
died Febmary 13th, 1830.
Cornelius Wiltbank, son of John and Mary Wiltbank,
departed this life November 9th, 1813.

330 some records of sussex county.
Ann Hudson, wife of Henry Hudson, and daughter of
Cornelius and Ann Wiltbank, departed this life January 24th,
1812. Mary Metcalf, wife of Thomas Metcalf, and daughter of
Cornelius Wiltbank, departed this life October 29th, 1814.
Thomas Metcalf, son of John and Esther Metcalf, de
parted this life November 1st, 1814 (He survvived his loving
wife only two weeks).
Robert Wiltbank, son of Cornelius and Ann Wiltbank,
departed this life on Sunday, January 22d, 1815, at the house
of his grandfather. Judge John Wiltbank, "Dover," Dela
ware, was buried at the family burial ground on Wednesday,
January 2 Sth, 1815 (at Tower Hill Farm near Lewes).
John Wiltbank, son of Cornelius and Ann Wiltbank,
departed this life on Saturday morning, February 13th, 1830,
age 35 years and 21 days. Sermon delivered by Rev. John
Mitchell, from" Luke 12: 37. Buried in family ground near
Lewes. John and Eliza Wiltbank's first son was born September
Sth, 1818, and departed this life fifteenth of the same month.
Samuel Paynter Wiltbank, son of John and Eliza Wilt
bank, was born April 19th, 1820.
John Cornelius Wiltbank, son of John and Eliza Wilt
bank, was born on Tuesday, July ISth, 1823.
Alfred Stockley Wiltbank, son of John and Eliza Wilt
bank, was born on Saturday, September 12th, 1829.
John Cornelius Wiltbank departed this life September 9th,
1829. Alfred Stockley Wiltbank and Hannah Richards Wolfe
were married by Rev. John L. M'Kim, January 28th, 1852.
Samuel Rowland, John Paynter and Alfred Stockley,
children of Alfred S. and Hannah R. Wiltbank, all died in
infancy. Frank Comly Wiltbank, son of Alfred and Hannah R.
WUtbank, was born July 9th, 1859.
Alfred Stockley Wiltbank, M. D., son of John and Eliza
Wiltbank, departed this life August 7th, 1860.
Comly J. Wiltbank, M.D., departed this life December 23d,
1886. Samuel Paynter, Senr., was born October 20th, 1736.
Samuel Paynter, son of Samuel Paynter, Senr., was born
August 25th, 1768.
Elizabeth Rowland was born December 9th, 1779.

BIBLE RECORDS. 331
Samuel Paynter, Junr., and EHzabeth Rowland were
married by the Rev. James Wiltbank, at the house of Mr.
Cornelius WUtbank, on Wednesday, March 16th, 1796, at 4
o'clock. That and the next day were remarkably stormy
days, but it is hoped that prudence and economy may render
the married life a happy one.
Mary Paynter, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Paynter,
was born.
Mary Paynter and Simon K. Wilson, M.D., were married.
Samuel I. Wilson, son of Simon K. Wilson and Mary
Paynter, was born July, 1820; died in 1849.
Mary P. WUson, wife of Simon K. WUson, M.D., and
daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Paynter, departed this
life November 12th, 1820.
Eliza Paynter, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Paynter,
¦was bom December Sth, 1798; died November 14th, 1857,
at Lewes, Delaware.
John Wiltbank and Eliza Paynter were married by the
Rev. James Wiltbank, on Thursday, August 7th, 1817.
Samuel Rowland Paynter, son of Samuel and Elizabeth
Paynter, was born.
Sarah Paynter, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Paynter,
died August 10th, 1820.
John Parker Paynter, son of Samuel and Elizabeth.
Alfred Stockley Paynter, son of Samuel and Elizabeth
Paynter, died, age 5 years.
, Elizabeth Paynter, wife of Samuel Paynter, departed this
life November 10th, 1820, aged 40 years.
Samuel Paynter departed this life on October 2d, 1845, in
the 78th year of his age.
"With unfeigned regret that we announce the death of
Ex Governor Samuel Paynter at his residence at the Dracot
Bridge, Sussex County, Delaware, on the 2nd inst. in the
78th year of his age." — Delaware Journal; October, 1845.
Comly I. Wiltbank was baptized by the Rev. Walter
Franklin at St. Peter's Church, Lewes, Delaware, August
4th, 1844, making the seventh generation baptized in that
church, Sponsers his great-grandfather. Ex Governor Payn
ter of Delaware and grandmother, EUza P. Wiltbank.
He was born May 12th, 1844.
J. Comly Jones married, September 10th, 1821, by the
Rev. Mr. Meyer, Mary Mary Hillborn, daughter of Joseph
and Rachell Roberts.

332 some RECORDS of SUSSEX county.
Rachell Roberts Jones, daughter of Comly and Mary H.
Jones, was born May 7th, 1824.
Samuel Paynter WUtbank was married to Rachell Roberts
Jones August 4th, 1842, by the Right Reverend Bishop
H. M. Onderdonck.
Mary Elizabeth Wiltbank, daughter of Samuel Paynter
and Rachell Roberts WUtbank, was bom August 1st.
Died at Philadelphia on the tenth day of June, 1845, J.
Comly Jones aged 49 years.
Died on February 23d, 1850, Charles B. Jones, in the
seventeenth year of his age.
Died on June I7th, 1860, Mary R. Jones, in the nine
teenth year of her age.
Died in PhUadelphia on August 7th, 1860, Dr. A. S.
Wiltbank. of Lewes, Delaware.
WUliam Manlove, Senior, was bom December 25th, 1691.
William Manlove departed this life on the fifteenth day of
March in ye afternoon, about one hour before sun setting
A. D. 1761. (WUliam Manlove. His book bought in Phila
delphia in ye year 1729. The price of this book is £1. 15. 0.)
Ruth Manlove departed this life the fifth day of April,
1746. Sarah Masten, the wife of WUliam Masten, departed this
life February 27th, about one o'clock in the afternoon,
1776. Mary Mason, the wife of Joseph Mason, departed this Hfe
November Sth, about one o'clock in the aftemoon, 1779.
The ages of the chUdren of WUliam Manlove and Mary,
his wife:
Nathaniel Manlove was born the sixth day of January,
1717, and departed this life AprU 27th, 1729.
WUliam Manlove, Jr., was bom AprU 29th, 1721, about
midnight. Mary Manlove was born the twenjy-seventh day of October,
1723, about 4 o'clock in the aftemoon.
Ruth Manlove was born December 10th, 1726, about
11 o'clock in the evening.
Sarah Manlove was bom September 28th, 1830, about 8
o'clock at night.
Edmund Bibbe was married to his wife, Mary, October 1st,
1709. William Manlove was married to his wife, Mary, December
6th. 1716.

BIBLE RECORDS. 333
Mary Manlove, daughter of Mark Manlove and Ann, his
wife, was bom AprU 18th, 1712.
Elizabet Manlove, daughter of Mark Manlove and Ann,
his wife, was bom October 7th, 1716.
Thomas Manlove, son of Mark Manlove and Ann, his wife,
was born June 27th, 1714.
Esther Bibbe was born November 16th, 1710.
Matthew Bibbe was born January 19th, 17^1-.
Mary, wife of William Manlove, above, departed this life
December ye 1st day about 5 o'clock in the aftemoon Anno.
Dom. 17S7.
John Masson Brown was born August ye S, 1728, about
two o'clock in the afternoon.
Sarah Chipman was born the thirtieth day of October,
A. D. 1757.
William Shaw departed this life the twenty-fifth day of
May, A. D. 1758.
Elizabeth Polk, daughter of Ephriam and Mary Polk, was
born the twenty-ninth day of March, 1739.
William Borroughs, the son of John Borroughs & Ester
Borroughs, was born the second day of January, 173|-.
The above William Borroughs departed this life on the
fourteenth day of April, 1797.
Esther Borroughs, the daughter of John and Esther
Borroughs, was born the eighth day of January, 1739
or 40.
William Masten, the son of W. M. Masten and Sarah, his
wife, was born the seventh day of February, about 10 o'clock
in the morning, A. D. 175-f-.
Thomas Broxson was bom in the year 1736 on the 27th
December. Joseph Broxson bom, 1741, on the seventeenth of No
vember. An account of the birth of the children of Joseph Mason
and Mary, his wife:
Sarah was born AprU 7th, 1744;
Mary was born March 13th, 1748;
Jacob was born December 19th, 1754;
Charles and EHas were born March 24th, 1760;
Joseph was born December 24th, 1763, and died AprU 16th,
1851. Age 57 years and 4 months.
WUHam Masten, son of John Masten and Hannah, his wife,
was born January 15th, 1711.

334 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
John Masten departed this life December, twentieth day,
1771. William Masten, son of William Masten and Sarah, his
wife, was born February, seventh day, 1751.
Mary Masten was born November I7th, 1754;
Sarah Masten was born January 25th, 1756;
Deborah Masten was bom October Sth, 1760;'
John Masten was born November 1st, 1763;
David Masten was born February 6th, 1767.
Charles Mason and Catherine Stayton, his wife, were mar
ried May 6th, 1815.
Jacob Mason, son of Charles Mason and Catherine, his
wife, was born April 20th, 1816.
James L., son of Charles Mason and Catherine, his wife,
was born April 1st, 1818.
William S., son of Charles and Catherine Mason, was born
October 16th, 1821.
Joseph H., son of Charles and Catherine Mason, was born
February 20th, 1823.
Catherine, only daughter of Charles and Catherine Mason,
was born July 4th, 1830.
William S.. Mason departed this life October, 1876.
James H. Mason departed this life  , 1S52.
An account of the times of the births of the children of
Charles Mason and Betty, his wife:
Mary was born upon Sunday, the eleventh day of May,
1783. Rachell was bom upori Sunday, the thirty-first day of
October, 1784.
Jacob was born upon Friday, the twenty-eighth day of
December, 1786.
Charles was bom on Saturday, the thirteenth day of
September, 1788.
The above Betty Mason departed this life upon Saturday,
the nineteenth day of November, about 8 o'clock in the
morning, 1791.
The above Charles Mason, Senior, departed this life upon
Sunday, the thirtieth day of September, 1810, being aged
SO years, 6 months and 6 days.
'The above Jacob, son of Charles and Elizabeth Mason,
departed this life January 20th, 1825.
Charles, Junior, son of Charles and Elizabeth Mason, de
parted this life August 21st, 1858.

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BIBLE RECORDS. 335

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EHas Mason was 'married to Magdelan Owens on the
sixth day of March, 1783.
The births of the children of Elias Mason and Magdelan,
his wife, are as follows:
Joseph was bom October 23d, 17S5;
Elias was born November 30th, 1787;
Elizabeth was born January 28th, 1790.
The above Elias Mason, Senr., departed this life December
17th, 1793.
Stephen Sturgis was married to Sally Mason October 12th,
1807. The above Sarah Mason departed this life June 9th, 1847.
An account of the times of the births of the children of
George Cullen and Sarah, his wife, is as follows, vizi:
John Cullen was born June 7th, 176 — ;
Charles Mason Cullen was born January 9th, 176 — ;
Piercy Cullen was born September 17th, 1773;
Sarah Cullen was bom September 14th, 1 — ;
Jonathan Cullen was born  31st, 17 — .
. Piercy CuUen departed this life May 24th, 178 — .
Sarah Cullen, younger, departed this life December Sth,
1794. The above named Charles M. Cullen was married to Eliza
beth Dickerson on the twenty- sixth day of January, 1797.
Elisha D. Cullen, son of the abovenamed, Charles and
Elizabeth, his wife, was born April 23d, 1799.
An account of the children of Thomas Kellam and Mary
Mason, his wife: — •
Thomas Kellam and Mary Mason were married the fifteenth
<lay of December, 1802.
Elizabeth W. Kellam was born the twenty-fourth day of
AprU, 1804.
Joseph Mason and Mary, his wife, were married the twen
tieth day of November, 1807.
" (James W. Mason M.D. one among the decendants of those
whose births and marriages are recorded in this book will be 38 years
•of age the twenty-seventh day of this present month, February, 183S.
"Cincinnati Ohio
"February Sth, 1835.
"The Widow Cullen gave me this book when I was in Lewistown
Del in ye year 1832. J. M. M.)
"James W. Mason departed this life (margin destroyed) Cin
cinnati, Ohio, at 7 o'clock in the morning.

336 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
"This bible was presented to me by Sarah Mason widow of Joseph
Mason (the younger) : she resided in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she
died April 14, 1843, age 74.
"Joseph Mason, her husband, died April 16th 1821, aged 57 years.
"James W. Mason
"Son of Charles Jr.'^
Inscription of fly page of Bible: —
"Printed & Sold by Richard Ware at ye Bible & Sun in
Amen Corner." Marriages.
Thomas H. Carpentei, Margaret M. Staton; March 4th^
1826; Philadelphia.
Thomas H. Carpenter, Cathai ne F. Marshall; Septem
ber 3d, 1850; Lewes. Births.
Thomas Howard Carpenter, son of Joseph and Mary Car
penter, born March 2 Sth, 1804, Lewes.
Margaret [M. Staton, daughter of Warrington and Hester
Stanton, born Accomac County, Virginia, April 12th, 1806..
Mary Quinn, daughter of Thomas H. and Margaret Car
penter, born April 7th, 1827, Philadelphia.
Thomas Howard, son of Thomas H. and Margaret Car
penter, born December 10th, 1829, Philadelphia.
James Henry, son of Thomas H. and Margaret Carpenter,.
born October 9th, 1838, Lewes.
John Dorman, son of Samuel Dorman and Elizabeth
Staton, born June 24th, 1818, Baltimore.
Louis Marshall Carpenter, son of Thomas H. and Cather
ine F. Carpenter, was born in St. Louis, Mo., September
24th, 1863.
Mary Quinn Carpenter, daughter of Thomas H. and Cather
ine F. Carpenter, was bom August 26th, 1861.
Annie Eliza Carpenter was bom St. Louis, Mo., Septem
ber 24th, 1863, daughter of Thomas H. and Catherine F.
Carpenter. Thomas H. Carpenter, son of Thomas H. and Catherine
F. Carpenter, was bom St. Louis, Mo., August 19th, 1866..
James Carpenter was born May 15th, 1775.
Mary Dean was born January 16th, 1781.
Comfort H., married a Brown, Philadelphia, daughter of
James and Mary Carpenter, was bom June 12th, 1799.
Nancy, daughter of James and Mary Carpenter, was born
January 2Sth, 1801; died March 24th, 1808; age 7 years^
1 month, 26 days.

BIBLE RECORDS. 337
Elizabeth, daughter of James and Mary Carpenter, was
bom November 13th, 1802.
Thomas H., son of James and Mary Carpenter, was bom
March 28th, 1804.
Robert Howard, son of James and Mary Carpenter, was
born AprU 18th, 1806; died September Wth, 1808; age 2
years, S months, 16 days.
Mary Rodgers, daughter of James and Mary Carpenter,
was bom Febraary 13th, 1808; died December 24th, 1842;
age 34 years, 10 months, 11 days.
John Dean, son of James and Mary Carpenter, was born
April 13th, 1810; lived in Philadelphia; died, age 49 years,
4 months, 18 days.
Jane, daughter of James and Mary Carpenter, was born
July Sth, 1812; died, age 34 years, 11 months, 17 days.
Lydia, daughter of James and Mary Carpenter, was born
June 28th, 1815. Married a Conwell.
Elizabeth, daughter of James and Mary Carpenter, was
born January 24th, 181S.
James, son of James and Mary Carpenter, was born August
ISth, 1820; died Febmary 25th, 1842, age 21 years, 6 months,
10 days; pUot.
Margaret, daughter of James and Mary Carpenter, was
born AprU 2d, 1822. Married H. Long.
Benjamin, son of James and Mary Carpenter, was bom
September 22d, 1825; emigrated to South; married, and
supposed kUled on railroad. Marriages.
James Carpenter and Mary Dean were married February
ISth, 1798. „Deaths.
Nancy, daughter of James and Mary, died March 24th,
1808, age 7 years, 1 month, 26 days.
Robert Howard, son of James and Mary, died September
14th, 1808; age 2 years, 5 months, 16 days.
James, son of James and Mary, died February 25th, 1842;
age 21 years, 6 months and 10 days; pilot.
Mary Rodgers, daughter of James and Mary, died De
cember 24th, 1842; age 34 years, 10 months, 11 days.
Jane Sweeney, daughter of James and Mary Sweeney,
¦departed June 25th, 1847; age 34 years, 11 months, 18 days.
Thomas H., son of James and Mary, departed May 20th,
1858; age 54 years, 1 month, 32 days.

338 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Mary, wife of James Carpenter, departed July 3d, 1858;
age 77 years, 5 months, 17 days.
John Dean, son of James and Mary Carpenter, died Sep
tember 1, 1859; age 49 years, 4 months and 18 days; lived
in Philadelphia.
Lydia Coverdale, daughter of James and Mary Carpenter,
died December ISth, 1859; age 44 years, 5 months, 17 days.
James Carpenter, departed January 7th, 1861; age 85
years, 7 months, 22 days.
James H. Carpenter, son of Thomas H. and Margaret Car
penter, died at Corning, Arkansas, November 13th, 1877.
Mary Q. MarshaU, wife of J. A. MarshaU, daughter of-T. H.
and Margaret Carpenter, died January 16th, 1886, Lewes, Del.
Catherine F. Carpenter, wife of Thomas H. Carpeiiter,
and daughter of D. J. and Eliza A. Marshall, died June 29th,
1869; age 33 years, 6 months, 3 days.
[Inscriptions on Tombstones in St. Peter's Church Yard,
Lewes, Delaware.]
Margaret Huling, widow of James Huling, died February
16th, 1707, in the 76th year of her age.
Daughter of Margaret Huling, February 1st, 1708, in the
eighth year of her age.
Jacob Kollock, died March 30th, 1760, aged 63.
Mary, the late wife of Jacob Kollock, died September
30th, 1741, aged 95 years.
In memory of Mr. Rives Holt, Esq., who departed this
life May Sth, 1765, in the sixty-seventh year of his age.
Here lieth interred the body of Ryves Holt, Jr., who de
parted this life March 17th, 1760. In the twenty-second
year of his age.
In the memory of Daniel Nunez, Esq., who departed this
life the twenty-second day of June in (Stone broken) fourth
year of his age.
In memory of Mary, the wife of Daniel Nunez, who de
parted this life October 24th, 1746, aged S3 years.
Here lies interred Sarah, the late wife of Mr. Reese Wolfe,
who departed this life January ISth, 1771, aged 33 years,
8 months and 1 day. Also infant, Daniel Nunez Wolfe, son
of Sarah and Reese.
In memory of Hens Octs son of Daniel Nunez, who died
July 27th, 1753, aged 21 years.
In memory of Daniel Nunez, Esq., who departed this
life May 28th, 1775, in the forty-fifth year of his age.

BIBLE RECORDS. 339
Susanna, daughter of Jacob and Margaret Kollock, died
ye Sth of October in the sixteenth year of her age.
In memory of Moses, son of Daniel and Mary Nunez, who
departed this life February 24th, 1744, aged 23 years.
In memory of Esther, daughter of Daniel Nunez and
Dianna, his wife, died January Sth, 1763, in the sixteenth
year of her age.
Mary Becket, wife of the Rev. William Becket, departed
this life August ISth, 1732, aged 46 years.
William Byron, born in Malta, naturalized in Boston,
October 18th, 1849, died.
Henry F., son of the late Henry G. and Mary A. Dearborn,
of Salem, Mass., died on U. S. Ship Saratoga, July 4th, 1863,
aged 18 years.
Sarah H. Pa5mter, died September 19th, 1829, aged 55
years, 9 months, 23 days.
James J., son of William and Jane Paynter, died April
19th, 1836, aged 37 years.
Mary S. Paynter, died September 15th, 1S30, aged 21
years, 9 months, 3 days.
Albert J. Paynter, died June 10th, 1828, aged 28 years,
6 months, 15 days.
Jane, wife of William Paynter, died August 10th, 1813,
aged 30 years, 9 months, 20 days.
WiUiam Paynter, died March 19th, 1845, aged 71 years,
1 month, 25 days.
Elizabeth Jacobs, died December 24th, 1783, in the
twentieth year of her age.
Albert Jacobs, died March 4th, 1786, in the twenty-eighth
year of his age.
Thomas Truxton, son of WiUiam and Elizabeth Truxton,
died March 9th, 1861; bom May 17th, 1802.
Ann Green, departed this life June 10th, 1S30, aged 23
years, 5 months, 15 days.
Jane EHza Green, departed this life December 15th, 1829,
aged 2 years and 3 days.
Jane Paynter, departed this life December 9th, 1832, aged
27 years, 9 months and 2 days.
Jane C. Thompson, daughter of John M. and Sarah
Thompson, departed this life October llth, 1813, aged 13
months. James, son of John M. and Sarah Thompson, departed
this life October 18th, 1845, aged 5 years, 5 months.

340 some records of sussex county.
Marriages.
Thomas R. Norman and Miriam Bennett were married June
7th, 1798.
Thomas R. Norman, son of John and Anne Norman, was
born October 22d, 1774.
Mariam Bennett, daughter of Pernal and Mariam Bennett,
was born February 20th, 1779.
John B., son of Thomas R. and Mariam Norman, was bom
November 18th, 1799.
Mills R., son of Thomas R. and Mariam Norman, was
born August 4th, 1801.
Joshua L., son of Thomas and Mariam Norman, was born
December 10th, 1803.
Patience, daughter of Thomas and Mariam Norman, was
born February 20th, 1806.
Annes, daughter of Thomas R. and Mariam Norman was
born September 30th, ISOS.
Eliza, daughter of Thomas R. and Mariam Norman, was
born September 22d, 1810.
Mary, daughter of Thomas R. and Mariam Norman, was
born AprU Sth, 1813.
Purnal Norman, son of Thomas R. and Mariam Norman,
was born January Sth, 1816.
Mary Norman, daughter of Thomas R. and Mariam Nor
man, was born April 29th, 1818.
I Thomas L. Judge Norman, son of Thomas R. and
Mariam Norman, was born March 18th, 1821.
Mary, daughter of Thomas R. and Mariam Norman, died
September 13th, 1814.
Thomas L. Judge, son of Thomas R. and Mariam Norman,
died July llth, 1823.
Thomas R. Norman died March 27th, 1863.
Mariam B. Norman, died September 27th, 1857.
George Orton, son of WiUiam and Hannah Orton, died
2-5-1830. John Bennett Norman died 9-24-1853.
William Shankland, son of Mills and Sarah Shankland, was
born October 10th, 1768.
\ William and Patience Shankland were married October
6th, 1789.
William Shankland died October 21st, 1819, aged 51 years
and 11 days.
Patience, the daughter of Rhoads and Ann Shankland, was
born January llth, A. D. 1771.

MRS. ANN ELIZA MARSHALL,
Aged 96.

BIBLE RECORDS. 341
Patience Shankland, the wife of WUliam Shankland, died
September 20th, 1790. Born of this marriage one daughter,
Ann May, September 7th, 1790.
Ann May, daughter of William and Patience Shankland,
was married to John H. Burton, November 30th, 1808.
John H. Burton died January 15th, 1822.
Ann May Burton and Dr. Joseph Marsh were married
August 28th, 1822.
Ann May Marsh died AprU 12th, 1847, aged 57 years, 7
months, 5 days. ANN MAY'S CHILDREN.
Burton's.
William Shankland Burton, born January ISth, 1810.
Born. Died.
Mary Ann  Feb. 3d, 1812— Sept. 3d, 1812.
Eliza Ann,  Feb. 20th, 1814—
Theophilus,  May Sth, 1816— June 22d, 1825.
Caroline  Aug. 9th, 1818 —
Mary Vaughan  Nov. 22d, 1820- Dec. 21st, 1822.
Marsh's.
James P. W. Marsh, born August 23d, 1823.
John A., bom June 29th, 1825.
Sarah Ann May, born August 23d, 1829.
Nehemiah MauU, son of John MauU II. & Mary Marsh
married 1st, Mary Keen; 2d. Mary Marrott.
Issue by second wife: Jane, born 1791; Ann Jane, born
1796; Margaret and Hannah.
Nehemiah died October 23d, 1817.
John Maull his Bible brought from Londen by Capt.
Budden. John MauU born November 28, 1714.
Mary Field, born August 1, 1719.
John Maull and Mary Field were married October 12, 1736.
Issue:
Nehemiah, bom October 15th, 1737.
Elizabeth, born November 27th, 1739, died June 3d, 1753;
John, born October 9th, 1742;
James, born October 3d, 1744, married Jane Moulder,
October 16th, 1766;

342 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Henry, bom April 9th, 1747, died August 9th, 1748;
Mary, May 4th, 1749;
William, born May 6th, 1752.
John MauU, Senr., died July 27th, 1753.
Mary Field, widow of John Maull, Senr., married Luke
Shields. Peter Maull, son of John Maull and Mary Marsh, his wife,
was born March 29th, 1773, married Mary Allen, daughter
of Moses Allen; Mary Allen was bom August 4th, 1774.
Issue:
Mary born August 26th, 1795;
Joseph born September ISth, 1797.
Eliza born November 21st, 1799;
Jane born January 16th, 1803;
Peter born September 27th, 1804;
Margaret bom October 26th, 1806;
Hetty born September llth, 1809;
Lydia Marsh born November 6th, ISll;
Matilda born May 25th, 1814.
Nehemiah Maull, son of John Maull and Mary Field, his
wife, was born October ISth, 1737; married Mary Moulder
March 19th, 1763 Issue:
John, born August 23d, 1764, died October Sth, 1765;
Robert, born July 19th, 1766.
Elizabeth, born August 1st, 1768.
Mary, bom September 6th, 1770;
Nehemiah, born February 9th, 1774;
Rachel born  ; ,
William, born August 10th, 1778.
James Maull, son of John Maull and Mary Field, his wife,
was born October 3d, 1744; married Jane Moulder October
16th, 1766.
John MauU II. , born October 9th, 1742;
Mary Marsh, daughter of Peter Marsh and Esther, his
wife, was born December 7th, 1752;
John Maull and Mary Marsh were married March 24th, 1768.
Issue:
Peter, born AprU 9th, 1769, died August llth, 1771;
Peter Marsh, born AprU 10th, 1771;
Peter, born March 29th, 1773;

BIBLE RECORDS. 343
John IIL, born Febmary 22d, 1775, died October 9th,
1843; Nehemiah, bom April — -, 1777;
Samuel, born April 10th, 1779;
Hetty, September 2 Sth, 1783.
John Maull III., married Sarah
Issue:
James R., born October 3d, 1797;
Dedrouh, bom January 14th, ISOO;
John IV., bom September 25th, 1802, died November
ISth, 1842; '
Samuel, born April 22d, 1805;
WilHam Stette, September 29th, 1807.
WiUiam MauU, born May 6th, 1752.
WiUiam Maull and Leah Burton were married December
21st, 1777.
Hetty daughter of WiUiam and Leah Maull born  ,
1778; Catherine, born October 23d, 1779, married WilHam Mar
shall. Henry, son of John Maull, II. , and Mary Marsh, his wife,
was bom Septerdber 25th, 1783;
Mary Bedford Webb, daughter of Jacob and Hannah
Thompson Webb, was bom at New Castle, Del., December
2Sth, 1778;
Henry Maull and Mary Bedford Webb were married De
cember 19th, 1804. Issue:
Hetty, born November 10th, 1806;
Charles, bom November 22d, 1808;
Henry, bom November 30th, 1811;
Edward, bom September 22d, 1813; .
George, born December 23d, 1815;
John, bom December 10th, 1817;
Hannah, bom September llth, 1819;
Mary Ann W., born October 17th, 1821; _. ^ ,-
Sarah R., born August 2'lst, 1823; , . _
Deborah, bom October 10th, 1825;
Maria Louisa, born October 10th, 1827;
j WilHam, bom February Sth, 1829.

344 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
From the Clowes Bible
1783. Catherine Clowes within mentioned, now the_ widow
of John Young has but one child living (viz) John Young
born 28 July 1772.
Mary Clowes within mentioned, now the wife of John K.
Dorman, has living four children (viz) 3 boys and 1 girl. Ger-
hardus Dorman bom 23d of Aug. 1772, Nehemiah born
31 July, 1774, EHzabeth Dorman born 29 July 1776, John
Dorman born 22d May 1779.
Meirs Clarke was married to Aletta Clowes in the year 1785.
Meirs Clarke was born the 2 of May in the year 1761. Mary
Clarke daughter of Miers & Aletta Clarke was born August
28 about 3 Oclock in the afternoon, on Sunday in the
year 1786; was Baptized by the Rev. Sydenham Thorne.
Miers Clarke departed this life December 17, ISIO.
1792, May 9, Wednesday about 9 oClock was born Sarah,
daughter of Miers Clarke and Aletta, his wife.
Sept. 7, 1758, John Clowes, Jr., was married to Mary
Draper by the Rev. Matthias Harris at John Spencer's Esq.,
about 1 in the afternoon. Mary Draper, daughter of Isaac
& Sarah Draper, was bom the lOth day of November, 1739.
On frayday the 17th day of Aug. anno Domi. 1759 Be
tween the Hours of 12 & 1 in the morning was born Sarah
Clowes Daughter to John & Mary Clowes and was Baptized
Munday Privately by the Reverend Matthias Harris. On
thursday the 1st day of July 1761 about 2 Oclock in the
afternoon she was Siezed with a choaking fitt which ended
with her life in about 9 or 10 hours afterwards and she was
buried at John Havelaves on Saturday following.
1808, May 12th, at 4 Oclock in the aftemoon, James
Walker was married to Mary Clarke by Revd. Mr. William
Hickman. 1794, Sept. 10, on Wednesday about 9 o'clock at night
was born Hannah daughter to Miers Clarke and Aletta his wife.
1798, Oct. 24, on tuesday was born Elizabeth, about 11
in the morning, Daughter to Miers "Clarke and Aletta his wife.
1800, July 18, about 5 in the morning, on Friday, was
born Lidia, Daughter to Miers Clarke and Aletta his wife.
1803, febbruary the 1st, about 2 in the afternoon, was born,
tuesday, Ester Daughter to Miers Clarke and Aletta his wife.
1805, febbruary 6th, on Wednesday morning about 1
o'clock was born Anna, Daughter to Miers Clarke and Aletta
his wife.

BIBLE RECORDS. 345
1807, April 30, between 12 in the morning, was born Aletta,
Daughter to Miers Clarke and Aletta his wife.
Mary Clowes Died the 6th of August, 1813, aged 73 years,
8 months, & 26 days.
1809, Aug. 16, on Monday, was born James Miers Walker,
son of James & Mary Walker. He died March 10, aged 27
years, 4 months, S days.
1815, Joanna Truitt March 17, on Friday, Daughter to
John and Sarah Truit.
Sarah Pinner daughter of RJiers Clarke and Aletta his wife
died in North Carolina Jan. 3, 1871.
1733, September 16th, at S in the morning, their third
son David Clowes was bom at Lewes and Christened there
by Mr. Beckett 28 April, 1734. His sponsors were Mr. Ryves
Clowes & Mrs. Comfort Clowes.
1736, July 9th, at 9 in the morning, Catharine Clowes,
second daughter of John & Mary Clowes, was born at Lewes
aforesaid & there Christened by the aforesaid Revd Wm
Beckett on the Sth of Sept. following. Her sponsors were
Mr. Daniel Nunez, Mrs. Mary Nunez & Mrs. Eliza Price.
1737, Dec. 31st, at 6 in the evening, their fourth son,
Samuel Clowes, was born at Lewes & there Christened' by
Mr. Beckett on the Sth of March following. His sponsors
were Mr. Simon Kollock, Mr. Edward Naws & Mrs. (Jomfort
KoUock. He lived untiU the 19th March, 17SS, on which
day being about 9 in the morning he Dyed much regretted
by his friends. He was buried at Broad Kill in the burying
ground of his Mother's relations there.
On Monday the 22d of March, 1762, between one and two
in the aftemoon was born Samuel Clowes, son to John and
Mary Clowes, and Baptized on Saturday, the second of Oc
tober, following, by the Rev. Matthias Harris at Pilot Town.
On Sunday, the 7th of October, 1764, at 2 Oclock m the
afternoon, was born John Clowes, son to John & Mary Clowes,
and was Baptized on Sunday the 29th of September, 1765,
at St. Georges Chappel by the Rev. Matthias Harris, and on
Sunday the 21st of September, 1766, departed this life at
half after four in the aftemoon with a fiux of four days'
continuance. 1767, on Thursday, the 7th of Aprill, at half after nine in
the morning, was born Aletta Clowes, Daughter to John
& Mary Clowes, and was Baptized on Wednesday, the 13
of May, at home by the Rev. Matthias Harris.

346 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
" He Baptized 85 ChUdren here this day 46 girls &. 29 boys."
1769, On Monday, the 12th of June, at half after eight
in the morning, was born Sarah Clowes, Daughter to John
& Mary Clowes, and on Monday, the. 18 of Sept., following,
was Baptized by Rev. John Andrews.
1771, on Tuesday, the 1 6 day of July, at eight in the morn
ing, was born John Clowes, son to John & Mary Clowes,
and on Monday, the 5 of August, following, was Baptized
by the Rev. John Lyons; and the next day at }4 after one
in the afternoon it pleased God to take his soul, and on the
7th inst. his body was intered in the Vault at John Heavcloe's.
1780, Nov. 21, their first son, Samuel, was lost in Delaware
Bay in a violent storm, wind S. E., together with all the others
and the vessel. Heard on the 3d of June following that he
was buried on Murder Kill Beach, and on diging down to
the body believe it to be the remains.
1772, On Thursday, the 20th of Aug., at }4 after three in
the afternoon was born Isaac Clowes, son to John & Mary
Clowes, and was Baptized by the Rev. John Lyon the 28 of
Nov. following.
1775, Thursday, 2d day of February, at Twelve Oclock
was born Peter Clowes, son to John & Mary Clowes, & on the
29th of May following was Baptized by the Rev. Mr. Samuel
Tingle at our O'wn house. He died with a bilious fever leaving
one son Ezekiel Williams Clowes.
1777, Friday, Sept. 7, at 1 Oclock in the morning, was
born John Clowes, son to John & Mary Clowes, & was Bap
tized by the Rev. Samuel Tinley on Saturday, May 28, 1778,
at our own home. The reason why he was so long unbaptized
was the times. Toryism prevailed & it was dangerous to go
to church & the Parson seldom called on us.
1780, Friday, May 19, at 11 Oclock in the morning, was
born Mary Clowes, Daughter to John & Mary Clowes, and
was Baptized by the Rev. Samuel Tinley on Saturday, the
26 of August, at our own house, myself from home. July
17, 1781, she was taken with a purgeing which continued
till the 3d of September when she gave up the Gost. On
the 4th her remains was buried in the Vault.
1784, January 27, Our third son, John, left this life of trial
& probation of a malignant quencey or the putrid ulcerous
sore throat, of only three days continuance. On the 29th
we laid his remains in the Vault, in extreme cold.
1789, December 9, their 2d Daughter, Sarah, wife to John
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at 10 Oclock in the morning, with a violent head plurasy or
inflamation of the brain; llth we laid her in the ground at
the south end of the Vault. Mr. Wilson preached her funeral
the 14th. Aged 20 years & 6 months lacking 3 days. Left
2 children. Printed and Sold by Richard Ware at ye Bible & Sun
in Amen Corner. Just Published fitted to Bind up with all
sorts of House Bibles a Brief Concordance for the more
easy finding out of the useful Places therein Contained.
by I. Downame B. D. [No Date].
Anno Domini, 1727, August 25th, at 5 afternoon, John
Clowes was married unto Mary his wife at Lewes Town,
in the County of Sussex on Delaware, by the Rev. William
Beckett, Missionary from the Society for Propagating the
Gospel. 1728, June 2 Sth, at 4 in the morning William Clowes,
eldest son of them, the said John & Mary, was born at Broad
Kill, in the aforesaid County of Sussex, and was christened
by the abovesaid Missionary Beckett, privately at Lewes
Town, on the 28th Aug. following. Said Wm. Beckett, Jona
than Bayley, Jr, & Mrs Becket his sponsors.
1730, November Sth, at 11 in the morning John Clowes,
their second son, was born at Lewes Town, and there christ
ened by the said Mr. Beckett the llth December following.
His sponsors were Mr. Ryves Holt, Mr. John Welbor & Mrs.
Holt. 1732, August 28th, at 1 in the moming their first daughter,
AUetta Clowes, was born at Lewes Town, & on the Sth Sep
tember following she was Christened by Sd Mr. Beckett
privately (being very jll) & on. the 6th inst. at 8 in the morning
she Dyed & was buried in the Church yard at Lewes.
1739-40, February the 7th, at S in the morning, their
third Daughter, Mary Clowes, was born at Lewes & there
Christened by Mr. Beckett, on, the 27th of AprU foUowing.
Her sponsors were Mr. Cornelius Wiltbank Mrs. Margaret
Kollock, & Mrs. Hester PhiHps.
1742, May 19th, at 7 in the moming, their fourth Daughter,
Lidia Clowes, was born at Lewes, & there Christened by Mr.
Beckett on the first of August foUowing. Her Sponsors were
Mr. Ryves Holt, Mrs. Catherine Holt & Mrs. Mary Nunez.
1747-8, March 12, at 10 in the morning, their fifth son,
Gerhardus Clo-vfes, was born at Parktown on the Broad Kill,
in Sd County of Sussex, and was Christened by the Rev.

348 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
Mr. Usher, a Missionary at Lewes, on the 18th September
following. His sponsors were the said Mr. Usher, Mr. Daniel
"Nunez & his own Mother.
1766, Oct. 26th, their eldest son, William, departed this
life of a plurafie. He was Interred at Eliza Staytons at
Broad Kill, where his former wife was buried.
1768, March 19, their son, Gerhardus, perished to Death
in a Most Violent Storm of Snow on Apoquimini Creek, on
Delaware River, being Drove in a Vessel there, & was there
Desently Buried in an old burying ground Much lamented
by his friends.
1766, Oct. 26, the foregoing William Clowes, died of a
pluracy. He left 4 Children, Two by each Wife: — 1st, Cathe
rine, born  ; 2d, Mary, born  ; 3d, Lydia, born 15
Nov., 1762; 4th, John, born 18th March, 1765.
1770, June 18, John Clowes, the second son mentioned in
the foregoing Catalogue of Births, got this old Bible new
Bound at Philadelphia, and Proposeth to enter hereunder
the famely Deaths till God shall call him hence.
1769, AprU 24th, at 12 oClock in the day, John Clowes,
esq., father of the forementioned, departed this Life in the
ninth day of a plurasie, aged sixty six years and nine days;
the Corps was laid in an open grave the 27th inst. and on the
Sth of June was Intered in a New Vault built since his.
death at Mr. Heavelo's Landing. Mr. Andrews preached
his funeral.
1770, May 25, at 9 oClock in the morning, David Clowes
departed this Life of a disorder that had raged on him near
four years, and on the 27 inst was Intered in the aforesaid
Vault. Mr. Lyons preached his funeral sermon. He left
only one child, a daughter; she was Worn at Nanticoke, 22d
day of April 1767, 1783, the 9th day, the above Hannah
died of a quency at 12 last night and was intered in sd vault.
1781, Nov. 25, on Sunday, at 3 in the moming, Lydia
Clowes, the wife of Lot Clark, departed this Life of a Nervers
Fevor; and on the 27th her Remains was laid in the Vault.
On the 4th of Dec. Mr. Tillney preached her funeral sermon.
She Left six Children three by first, and three Girls by her
Second Husband, viz.. Shepherd Conwell, born 23d July,
1765; Gerhardus ConweU, born 12th Nov., 1767; John Con-
weU, born 29th January, 1770; Melicent Clark, born 24th
Sept., 1776; Anna Clark, born 27th AprU, 17.78; Charlotte
Clark, born 12th Feb., 1780.

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1790, Feb. 24th, at S oClock in the moming, on Wednesday,
the above mentioned John Clowes, Esq., & Judge of the Court,
Died the 9th day of his sicknefs, with a violent Plurasie &
inflamtion of the lungs. Aged 59 years 3 months & 18 days,
& was buried at the South Corner of the Vault. Mr. WUlson
Preached his funeral. He objected being laid in the Vault;
left his beloved wife; & Mary Clowes died 6 of August, 1813.
Only 3 children out of ten survived him.
From a Bible Owned by Miss Lydia Conwell.
1783. Catherine Clowes, within mentioned, now the widow
of John Young has but one child living, viz.: John Young
born 28th July, 1772.
Mary Clowes, within mentioned, now the wife of John K.
Dorman, has living four children, viz. three boys and one girl.
Gerhardus Dorman, born 23d of August, 1772;
Nehemiah, born 31st July, 1774;
Elizabeth Dorman, born 29th July, 1776;
John Dorman, born 22d May, 1779.
Miers Clarke was married to Aletta Clowes in the year 1785;
Miers Clarke was born the 2d of May, in the year 1761.
Mary Clarke, daughter of Miers and Aletta Clarke, was
born August 28th, about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, on Sun
day, in the year 1786, was baptized by the Rev. Sydenham
Thorne. Miers Clarke departed this life December 17, 1810.
1792. May 9th, Wednesday, about 9 in the morning, was
born Sarah Clarke, daughter to Miers Clarke and his wife.
1794. September 10th, Wednesday, about 9 o'clock at
night, was born Hannah Clarke, daughter to Miers Clarke
and Aletta, his wife.
1798. October 24th, on tuesday, was born Elizabeth
Clarke, about 11 in the morning, daughter of Miers Clarke
and Aletta, his wife.
1800. July 18th, about 5 in the morning, on Friday, was
born Lidia Clarke, daughter to Miers Clarke and Aletta,
his wife.
1803. February the 1st, at 2 in the afternoon, was born,
tuesday. Ester Clarke, daughter to Miers Clarke and Aletta
his wife.
1805. february 6th, on Wednesday morning about 1
o'clock, was born Anna Clarke, daughter to Miers Clarke
and Aletta, his wife.

3S0 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
1807. April 30th, between 12 in the morning, was born
Aletta Clarke, daughter to Miers Clarke and Aletta, his wife.
Mary Clowes died the 6th of August, 1813, aged 73 years,
8 months, and 26 days.
September 7th, 1758. John Clowes, Jr., was married to
Mary Draper by the Rev. Matthias Harris at John Spen
cer's, -Esq., about 1 in the afternoon.
Mary Draper, daughter of Isaac and Sarah Draper, was
born the tenth day of November, 1739.
On frayday, the seventeenth day of August, anno Domi.
17 59, between the hours of 12 and 1 in the morning, was
born Sarah Clowes, daughter to John and Mary Clowes,
and was baptized Munday, privately by the Reverend Mat
thias Harris. On thursday the first day of July, 1761, about
2 o'clock in the aftemoon, she was siezed with a choaking
fitt which ended with her life in about 9 or 10 hours after
wards, and she was buried at John Havelaves on Saturday
following. 1808. May 12th, at 4 o'clock in the aftemoon, James
Walker was married to Mary Clarke, by Rev. Mr. William
Hickman. 1809. Aug. 16th, on Monday, was born James Miers
Walker, son of James and Mary Walker. He died March
10th, aged 27 years, 4 months, S days.
1815. Joanna Truitt, March 17th, on Friday, daughter
to John and Sarah Truitt.
Sarah Pinner, daughter of Miers Clarke and Aletta, his
wife, died in North Carolina, January 3d, 1871.
Aletta Clarke's Book, April 28, 1789.
1789. Our family has the measles. In July, Polly, my little daughter,
had a gathering in her head.
August 24. I was taken very sick. Lidia Hall stayed with me.
September IS. Sister and I went to fathers.
September 16. Came home. Parted 'with the two old ladies from
New York, my father's cousins. We may never see them
again in this world.
September 19. I went to see my sister.
October 10. About 10 o'clock at night as I was returning home, I
saw a strange light in the house, that I could not account for,
the house being fastened up, and no one in it.
October 31. I went to see my sister. She told me of two dreams
she had dreamed. In one she was dressed in white, and her
company told her she did not look as if she belonged to this
world. In the other h'er child was born, and she was to die
three days afterwards.

BIBLE RECORDS. 351
November 5. My sister and I went to the store at the bridge.
November 7. We went to warp at Mrs. Russels, neither of us very
well.
November 14. Went to see my sister. She was poorly.
November 25. Went to see my sister and stayed all night. A most
violent storm came on, the -wind in the East.
November 29. Polly Draper came here.
November 30. Monday. Went to my father's. As it was snowing
and very cold I stayed all night.
December 1. I came home, and went to my Sister's, to get help about
sizeing up a web.
December 2. I got the piece out that I had in the loom, and got it
to work.
December 4. I wove on' it all day. Just at night Mrs. Russel sent
for me. I went over to see her. About 10 o'clock at night
she was delivered of a daughter. About 12 I got home. My
Brother Isaac Clowes came down this aftemoon for sister and
me to go to see our Dadda and Mamma.
December 5. In the morning my Brother came over and said that
Sister Sally was taken -with an ague, and was very sick. I
went right away to see her, and found her sickness most violent.
Mamma came down in the afternoon. About 9 o'clock at
night I sent for Grandmamma. Her violent sickness brought
on her labour. On Sunday the 6th at sunrise she was delivered
of a son. Not being well I went home. In the afternoon I went
back. I found my sister in a sleepy condition. I walked home.
December 7. This morning she complained of a sharp pain in her
head, and about 9 o'clock she had a convulsion. She would
frequently cry out: "Oh my head! my poor head!" About
2 in the afternoon she was taken with another convulsion,
and that left her speechless. She lay in this distressing con
dition until the 9th day about 3}4 o'clock it pleased God to
take her into His safe keeping. She was 20 years and 6 months
old this day lacking 3 days.
December 11. The burial — but the Parson could not come. Parson
Willson preached her funeral Monday the 14th.
December 23. A violent pain in my head and eyes.
December 24. Some better.
December 25. Christmas Day. Go to see my Dadda and Mama.
December 26 & 27. My sister's little baby had the measles, and
Comfort Staton's child is sick.
December 28. My father very sick. We send to the Doctor.
December 29. Comfort's child died, and Comfort exceeding bad.
My Dadda got better, thanks be to heaven. .
December 30. I came home from niy Dadda's.
December 31. Negroes a Christmasing.
1790.
January 1. Negroes gone.
January 2. Mr. Watson and his wife here.
January 3. Watson and his -wife and Mr. Cade and his wife here
Sunday. Some people make the holy day a da,y of visiting.
January 4. Negroes at home.
January 5. Miers from home.

352 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
January 6. I go to my father's. He is at Lewes town.
January 7. Came home and went to see Mrs. Heveloe. She was
very sick.
January 8. In the moming she was some better.
January 16. Go to my father's.
January 17 & 18. Came home. Comfort was some better.
January 20. Mrs. Heaveloe died, after a long tedious spell of sickness.
January 22. I was at her burying. She was a very kind neighbor..
She lived one mile from me.
January 23. Charles Conwell died. A young man, married about
three months. His -widow with child. He lived two miles
from me. Abner Lamb died the same day. He lived about
five miles away.
January 30. Was at Conwell's burying. From there rode to my
father's about 3 o'clock at night. We thought my sister's.
little son was dying. Sent word for its father about 10 o'clock.
It got better by the next moming.
February 1. On Monday my Dadda came here. He gave me an
Almanack and a paper of pins. From here he rode to Lewes
town.
February 2. Wove all day.
February 3 & 4. Wove on my piece.
February 8. Wove some but was not well.
February 13. Shoul'd have gone to my father's but was not well.
February 14. Harry Fisher and Sarah Truit were buried. Fisher
lived 7 miles from here, and Sarah Truit 5 miles.
February 16. On Tuesday mama sent me word that Dadda was
very sick. I rode to see father as soon as I could and found
hiin in a sleepy condition. We had means from the Doctor.
February 17. My father was very sick.
February 18. A little better. Sat up some.
February 19. We thought him a great deal better. He walked out
of his room. I ventured to go home, brother Isaac with me.
We stopped to see two sick neighbors. Jonathan Lewis died
1 mile from here.
February 20. Mary Miller died 1 mile from me.
February 21. Miers gone to Lewises. On Sunday Mama sent for
me to go arid see my father. He was worse than ever before.
I rode up there as fast as I could and found him exceeding bad.
He had a piercing pain in his breast and side, and the worst
cough that I ever saw any person have. We sent for the Doc
tors on Monday.
February 22, 23. There were two Doctors with him but they
were of no manner of service. Everything was done for him
we poor creatures could do, but it was of no service.
February 24. At 5 o'clock in the moming it pleased God to ease
his body by taking his soul into His safe keeping. Thus my
dear and tender parent is gone. A most violent pleurisy has.
ended his life the 9th day of his sickness. He is this day 59
years, 3 months, and 18 days old. He lived 32 years, 5 months,
and 17 days with my Mama, and I never knew them to have-
any anger the time of his life. He was an affectionate hus-
[ band, a loving father, a kind good master, and a kind neigh-

BIBLE RECORDS. 353
bor in sickness or in health. His greatest anxiety was to love
mercy, justice, and truth. In doing justice towards God and
man, his parents saw his young mind improve in every virtue.
February 26. Mr.'Willson preached his funeral. Yonder like a faded
flower lies the dust he has abandoned. Sarah Claypool died.
Lived about 2 miles from me. Patience Coverdale died the
same day, 6 miles from me.
February 28. Mary Lewis died, her husband died nine days before.
They lived about 1 mile from me. The sickUest time that I
ever knew, there is hardly an individual without complaint.
Wm. Chace died the same da 9 miles. I was at Sarah Clay-
pool's burying.
March 2. Dorman Cade died 6 miles from here.
March 3. A sister of Chace's died, 9 miles from here.
.March 10. John Clifton died, about 8 miles, and John Caddy died
about 7 miles from here.
March 11. Another of the Chace family died, 9 miles, and Sarah
Heavelo died just in her 1 7 year, 1 mile.
March 17. I hear there are 4 more of the Chace family dead, I am
told that out of 10 there are but 3 left. Lord have mercy.
Thy arrows fly not at random.
March 17. Elizabeth Jeams died 6 miles off, and Mr. Hinmon died,
6 miles off.
March 19. A child of Chaces scalded to death. Rachel Heaveloe died
in her 19th year. Mrs. Heaveloe, her 2 daughters and a negro
child have died since this day 2 months, just 1 mile from i-ne.
March 21. Reece Rickets died about 4 miles from me.
March 24. John Fisher died. About 3 miles off.
March 25. Luke Watson's wife died. Lived 6 miles away. George
Wiltbank and one of his children died. 7 miles.
March 30. One of Mr. Russel's children died. Mrs. Russel left the
child in bed when she got up in the raorning. About break
fast time, on going up to get it, she found it was dead. Her
surprise was very great. I was out back of our garden and
heard great lamentations. I could not imagine what it could
be. I walked up to the house and found what was the matter.
March 31. Parson Wilson died about 7 miles from me. He was a
very fine Parson and an oblidgeing Doctor. He died in the
60th year of his age, greatly missed and lamented.
.April 4. Sarah Corwidda died. She lived 4 miles from me. She
was a great loss to her children and family.
April 8. Sarah Finley died. 4 miles.
April 9. Nelly Draper died 7 miles. Both young women.
April 19. Mary Russel died very suddenly, only a few hours' sick
ness. Lived about \}4 miles.
April 24. My Grandmama was here.
April 25. Sunday, the old lady went home, well and hearty. Miers
went to church at Cedar Creek. (St. Matthew's.)
April 26. Very cold -wind. E.
April 27. Wind N. W. very cold.
April 28. Snow a good part of the day. The green wheat was cov
ered with snow. Very cold.
April 29 & 30. Still very cold.

354 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
May 1. Middling warm. Mama & Grandmama came here.
May 2. On Sunday they went home.
May 3 & 4. Miers cut his knee middling bad.
May 9. Mr. Luker & his wife here on Sunday. All middling well.
May 10. Fine weather. I go to see aunt Polly Dorman. Bhe was
very sick.
May 11 & 12. My Brothers came here.
May 13. The Boys went home. My knee is swollen, and it hurts me
to walk.
May 14, 15, & 16. Miers knee upon the mend, & my own some
better.
May 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, & 23. Whitsun Day. I came home from
Mamma's, my Brothers, & Cousin Sally Draper with me.
May 24. A great meeting on the Beach, Cakes, Raisins, Meat, Bread,
Rum, Wine, & all such things there to sell.
May 25. The Boys & Sally went home.
May 26,27,28,29,&30. Trinity Sunday. All middling well.
May 31. The last day of May.
June 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6. Sunday. People more healthy.
June 8, 9, & 10. Philis sick.
June 11, 12, & 13. Philis very sick Sunday.
June 14. Some better.
June 15. I went to Mamma's. Philis some better, and came home the
same day. Betty sick, keeps her bed.
June 16, 17, 18, 19, & 20. Betty still sick.
June 21 & 22. Some better.
June 23, 24, & 25. Still keeps about.
June 26. Taken down again to her bed.
June 27, 28, 29, & 30. Some better.
July 1. 'Very warm.
July 2. Went to Mamma's.
July 3. Saturday.
July 4. Sunday. Went to quarterly meeting. There was a great
fright among the people. A crazy man threw an axe up at
the meeting house windows. It struck somebody, but I did
not see the person. The second preaching was under the trees,
a very great number of people, and the same man, they said,
got a gun and was going to fire it through the crowd. The
first thing I knew the people were screaming and halloing, and
rushing almost over one another. I could not imagine what
could be the matter ; such a noise in the time of the sermon,
when all should have been peace, and quietness. Some said
the Devil appeared; some one thing, and some another. When
I found out the truth, that it was the crazy man, with his gun,
I came back to Mamma, and from there home with a very bad
pain in my head. The dust and heat almost overcame me.
July 5. Billy did work here.
July 6. Brother Peter, Sarah & Polly Draper came here.
July 7. Went to the harvest at John Clark's.
July 8. They went horae.
July 9 & 10. I was at the bridge.
July 11. Sunday. I
July 12, 13, 14, & 15. Abby Fleetwood.lives here.

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July 16. Am sick & fainty.
July 17. Some better. Mamma and Brother Isaac came here. I
had 3 of the neighbour's women here the same day, to see me.
July 18. Sunday. Very dry weather. A smart shower this after
noon.
July 19. Mamma & Brother Isaac rode home.
July 20 & 21. Hannah and Liddy Russell here to see me. I am
better.
July 22, 23 & 24. I went to Mamma's.
July 25. Came home on Sunday.
July 26, 27, 28 & 29. Mamma here. Still very dry.
July 30. My Brothers came here. Almost 4 weeks since we have
had a good rain.
July 31. Mamma & the Boys went home. A fine rain this after
noon. Thanks be to the Great Providence. Our corn is in
a manner burnt up, and the grass is dying.
August 1. Sunday. Very likely for rain. I should have gone to
Church.
August 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7. Very seasonable weather; everything takes
new life. Sally Draper & Peter Jackson & his wife here. Rain
this afternoon.
August 8. Sunday. Very showery all day.
August 9. They went home. I went to see Mrs. Russel this after
noon.
August 10, 11 & 12. Not very well. Very warm. A pain in my head.
August 13. Sarah Draper came here & we were at the singing school.
August 14. She rode home. I -with her. From there to Mamma's.,
August IS & 16. We came home from Mamma's. Very warm.
August 17. 18, 19 & 20. I was at the singing school at Mr. Russel's.
August 21 & 22. Sunday. Rainy this morning. Could not go to
church.
August 23, 24, 25 & 26. A bad pain in my breast.
August 27 & 28. We started for Philadelphia. The tide being very
low we could not go out.
August 29. Still could not get out.
August 30. The -wind being in the East we came home.
August 31. We rode down to the boat again.
September 1. About 1 o'clock we got out of the mouth of the Creek.
About 4 o'clock we struck on the Shears, a very dangerous
place. The •wind blew fresh & the waters were in a great rage.
Everybody was very much frightened, but the Blessed Pre
server of all poor mortals preserved us through all danger.
Next morning we were up against New Castle. About 4 o'clock
we arrived at Philadelphia. Got up to Mr. Irwin's about 5
o'clock.
September 3. We walked about a great deal in the afternoon. Mr.
& Mrs. Ir-win & the young  Cousin & myself drank tea at
Mrs. Ashmead's.
September 4. We drank tea at Mrs. Stretcher's.
September 5. Sunday. I stayed out almost all day. We walked
to church and heard a very fine sermon.
September .6. I walked down to Mrs. Stretcher's and dined there &
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September 7. After dinner I walked down to Mrs. Snoud's, and drank
tea there. The old lady was very glad to see me. Stayed all
night at Mrs. Stretcher's.
September 8. Walked home to Mrs. Irwin's. Her two daughters
and myself walked down to Mrs. Ashmead's. From there we
walked to Major Moore's where my Brothers lodged, to know
when the vessel was to go. We found it was to go the next
morning at 5 o'clock.'
September 9. We took leave of our friends and made sail.
September 10. We anchored about 7 o'clock just without the mouth
of the river.
September 11. About 2 o'clock we found ourselves on a shoal, but
it was very calm and smooth. We lay there until flood tide.
About 10 o'clock we made sail again. Got down against
Mushmillion and there anchored. About 2 o'clock made sail
again.
September 12. We anchored off Slaughter Creek, the weather very
stormy and wind from the East, so that we could not get into
the Creek. When the tide made, we turned about and ran
into Mushraillion. There we got ashore, and tried to put her
off but' could not. My two Brothers, my Cousin and mysell
walked down to Cedar Creek, 7 miles, and there we hired horses
and got home the same night. Our people were very glad to
see us, being very uneasy about us.
September 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 & 18. Not very well. Caught a great
cold on board the vessel. Rode up to Mamma's.
September 19. Sunday. Rode home.
September 20. Not very well.
September 21. Miers sick.
September 22, 23, 24, 25 & 26. 'Sunday. Miers Clark still very sick.
Not well myself.
September 27 & 28. Still poorly.
September 29. Poorly.
September 30. Polly sick. Her Dadda some better. Myself not
well.
October 1. Polly and her Dadda some better, but very poorly. My
self a very bad pain in my head. I did not sit up.
October 2. A great deal better.
October 3. Came home from Mamma's. Polly sick.
October 5, 6, 7 & 8. Rode up to Mamma's. Little Johnny, the child,
very sick. Intended to go home on the 9th, but there came
up rain so that I could not get home until the llth.
October 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 & 17. Sunday. Middling cool weather.
We heard of Polly Jackson's being (sick) sometime back, but
had got some better.
October 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 & 24. Sunday. Middling cold weather.
8 months to-day since my Dadda left this troublesome world.
October 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 & 31. Rainy weather. Family midd
ling healthy.
November 1,2,3, 4, S,6&7. Sunday.
November 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 & 14. Singing school at Wessel's and
Coolspring the last days of the quarter, but I did not go.
November 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 & 21. Cold weather.

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November 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 & 28. Sunday. Moderate weather.
November 29 & 30. The last days of November.
December 1 & 2. Henry Vessels came from the backwoods.
December 3 & 4. Singing school at Russel's. Our corn gathered.
December 5. Sunday. Sally & Polly Draper go home. Very cold.
December 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11. Philis moves away. I rode up to see
Mamma. Came home on Monday, the 13, Brother Isaac
¦with us.
December 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 & 19. Sunday. Polly has ague and
fever.
December 21, 22, 23 & 24. Great shooting at the bridge. Brother
came here from me to go up to Mamma's.
December 25. Christmas Day. We go to Mamma's. Foggy and wet.
December 27. Came home. Brother Peter with us.
December 28, 29, 30, & 31. The last day of the year.
1791.
January 1. New Year's Day. Very cold. We were to go to Mr.
Draper's today to take dinner with them, but it is too cold.
January 2', 3, 4, & 5. Today we go to my Uncle Draper's. Prom
there to Mamma's.
January 6. Came home. Mamma with us. John Clarke taken sick
this night.
January 7. Send for Doctor Hall. Mamma, Miers, and myself stay
all night.
January 8. A great deal better. Mamma rode home.
January 9. Sunday. This day 13 months ago my dear sister died.
January 10, 11, 12, & 13. Mrs. Hazzard died. She lived about 2yi
miles from here.
January 15. This day I walked over to see my Aunt Polly Dorman.
She is very sick. I don't think she will recover.
January 16. Sunday. I went to see my Aunt again. Stayed and
minded her. I had not been home very long the next morn
ing before they sent for me. I went back again and stayed
•with her until she died. She departed about 3 Oclock Tues
day morning.
January 18. Of the month she was born the 7th day of this same
month 1739. I have but one Aunt alive, and not one Uncle on
my Dadda's side.
January 20. The funeral sermon was preached by Dr. McKee.
January 21, 22, & 23. A great many people sick.
January 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, & 31. The last day of the month.
February. Mrs. Waller died and 2 of her daughters lie sick 2 miles
from me.
February 7. She is buried. Grandmamma came here from the bury
ing. Shepherd Conwell is taken sick and could not get home.
Caught cold at the funeral.
February 12. We go to see Betty Jackson. We heard she was very
sick. William Hazzard died. He lives about 2 miles from
me. A great many sick, Edward Ross.
February 15. He lives 2%, Sally Rowland, the widow Rowland's
daughter.
February 18. Griffith Jones died, about 7 miles, & Andone Will-
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February 19. Lot Clark's Mother was buried. 3 miles.
February 24. This day 12 months my dear and tender parent
left me.
February 27. A very sickly time in this neighborhood.
February 28. The last day of this month.
March 1. Middling warm weather.
March 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6 to 13, Sunday, to 20, Sunday.
April 1 to 10. Sunday. Sally Paynter here.
April 11 to 17. I was at John Clark's and Lydia Hall came there,
and came home with us.
April 18. Polly taken very sick.
April 19 & 20. We hardly expect her to recover. Polly Draper
came down. Mamma came down to see the child. She bleeds
at the nose.
April 21. Grandmamma came to see the child. She is rather worse
this afternoon.
April 22 & 23. The child some better. Grandmamma goes home.
Miers goes after Sam and brings him home with him, and they
go a fishing.
April 24. Easter Day. Polly a great deal better. Betty & Polly
Heaveloe here, and Aunt Caly Young, and 3 more people
today.
April 25 & 26. The child seems quite well, thanks be to God for
His mercy.
April 27, 28, 29, & 30. We all ride up to Mamma's.
May 1. I go to Coolspring meeting. Mr. McKee preached there. ,
May 2 & 3. Milla Clarke came to stay awhile with me. Sally
Draper came today.
May 4. Sally went home. I am not well.
May 5, 6, 7, & 8. Not very well.
May IS. Rode up to Mamma's. They are all well there.
May 16. I came home and met Brother going home. He has been
seeing to the cutting of his com, aud to haveing it put on
the vessel. Polly has a large red place on her hand and has
ague and pains in her head and back, and high fever.
May 22. Still sick. and the spot remains.
May 29. We ask the Doctor about it. He thinks it is scurvy. Gave
her a warm purge, and it made her very sick.
June 1 & 2. Mamma came down & Polly very sick.
June 3. A fine rain.
June 4. Mamma goes home. Good rain this morning.
June 5. Sunday. I am poorly, and the child also.
June 6-10. Rode up to Mamma's. The Doctor came down with
me to see Mr. King's negro with small pox.
June 12. Whitsun Day. So unwell that I cannot sit up. The child
still has ague and fever.
June 13. A great day of frolic on the beach. I hear there were a
great many there and a great disturbance. Many were hurt.
Thompson finishes the ditch.
June 14 & 15. Sally Painter and Betsy & Polly King here.
June 16 & 17. King's negro dies with the small pox.
June 18, 19. Sunday. A very fine rain this afternoon.
June 22. Mamma came down to see us. Polly sick.

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June 23. Mamma goes home. She carried my poor Sister Sally's
clothes home -with her, to keep them for the child she left.
M}' Sister's marseiUes coat was given me, because my Sister
was buried in a white one of mine.
June 24. Mr. & Mrs. Jackson here and their two little boys.
June 2S. We all go over to John Clarke's. Miers and the child sick.
June 26. ilr. & Mrs. Jackson went home. Miers and the child go
to Mamma's. I went to quarterly meeting and came round by
Mamma's. Was very tired, the weather veri.- warm and
crowds of people.
June 27. Came home and commenced preparations for harvest.
June 28. We have our harvest. The greatest part of the wheat cut.
June 29 & 30. Finish whitewashing the house and am very tired.
Brother Peter goes home.
July 1 & 2. Milly goes home sick. Polly sick.
July 3. Sunday. All middling well.
July 4. Hessy began to work.
July 8. Rode to Mamma's, and came home Sunday the 10. *
July 17. Sunday. Polly still sick.
July 24. We rode up to Mamma's. There was singing. Came home
on Sunday and went to meeting at Wilham Conwell's.
July 30. Mamma came here. I was at the bridge. Mamma went
to John's.
July 31. Sunday. Went home the 1st daj- of August, and Grand
mamma came down.
August 6. Grandmamma goes home. Hessy went home today.
August 7. Sunday. We went to hear Livy HaU preach.
August -14. We went to see Gerhardus & Nancy Conwell.
August 21. We went to Jonathan Heaveloe's and to hear Livy.
August 25. Sheldron Dorman married Tabitha Parmore [Palmer].
August 27. I go up to Mamma's, & from there to Uncle Isaac Draper's
and stayed all night. Came home on Sunday the 28th.
August 30. ily Grandmamma, Mamma, Aunt, Brother, 3 Cousins,
husband, and chUd, all •n-ent do-wn to the beach, together with
others. I suppose as an extraordinary company that has gone
down for years. There was my Grandmamma, & her Daughter,
her Daughter's Daughter, that is myself, and her Daughters
Daughter's Daughter, that is my PoUy, and she was 6 years
old day before 3'esterday.
August 31. They aU rode home in good health, only a little fatigued.
September 1. Hessy gets her hat. Costs 26s.
September 3. Polly very sick. Miers goes to John Hazzard's. Rained.
I send for Betsy Dorman to come and stay with me.
September 4. Sunday. Betsy went home after the rain was over.
September 10. Haimah Russel very sick yesterday. Sunday the
1 1th we go to her funeral. We got wet.
September 18. Mamma 8c Brother Isaac came her. PoUy and I
not weU.
September 25. I went to meeting at Coolspring and heard a very
fine sermon. Brother Isaac came home with me. I saw
Mamma there. She said that Granny was sick. When I came
home Miers and PoUy were both sick.
September 26. Miers stUl sick. PoUy is about today.

360 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
September 30. Miers some better today.
October 1. We go to Mamma's. Miers goes out to the election.
October 2. We came back. Brother Peter with us. Miers very
poorly.
October 9. Miers very bad -with his pains.
October 16. Miers still in great pain.
October 23. Miers some better.
October 27. Grandmamma came here. I am not very well.
October 30. Grandmamma goes home today. Miers very poorly.
October 31. A little better today.
November 1. Mamma came here today, & Doctor Hall advised
Miers to try brimstone water. Nancy Conwell is very sick.
November 4. Mamma went home today. Very cold weather.
November 6. Brother Isaac came. Miers a great deal better. He
went out today for the first time this 5 weeks.
November 8. Miers well enough to ride out. Weather warm. I go
to see Nancy Conwell. She is still very poorly.
No-vtmber 10. Miers in much pain.
November 13. Miers still down. I suppose he caught cold.
November 19. Doctor Hall came here today. He says that Miers'
leg will break, or must be lanced. I rode up to Mamma's this
afternoon and back again. They are all middling well. Mamma
gave me 10 yards of Calico.
November 20. Middling cold today, and windy.
November 27. Miers is poorly.
December 3. Brother Isaac came today.
December 8. Nancy is sick and goes home, leaving the piece not
woven.
December 9. Brother Isaac & Brother Peter came today.
December 10. They trod out our wheat.
December 1 1 . The Boys went home today.
December 15. Mamma came today.
December 18. Sunday. Very warm for the season.
December 23. Brother Isaac & Brother Peter came, & went to the
shooting match at Dick Star's.
December 24. Brother Peter went home. Brother Isaac went to
the bridge and got a bad fall. Miers is sick.
December 25. Christmas Day. I went to Church, and from there I
went to Joseph Watson's. The horse started, throwing me and
hurting me very badly.
December 26. Mrs. 'Watson carried me to her father's Mr. Draper's.
December 27. They sent me in a carriage to my Mamma's.
December 31. Nancy Conwell came here.
1792.
January 1. Very wet weather.
January 3. I let Gerhardus Conwell have 6 geese.
January 4. I hired Ainee Fowler today.
January 7. Middling cold weather. There are a great many frolics
this Christmas.
January 9. A frolic at John Conwell's. John Hazzard got drunk,
and John Clarke got to dancing, so I was told.
January 15. Brother Isaac came today.

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January 18. Polly Draper is to be married today. Brother Isaac
sat up a Uttle while ago, for the wedding. Is sick. Snowing
hard today. Bill Coverdale is married today to Nance Rida.
January 22. Sno-wing all day and very cold. The snow was so deep
that people could not pass the Causeway. There were three
lodged here all night.
January 23. Dreadfully cold weather. The -wind N. W.
January 26. John Clarke has a frolic at his house.
January 27. Brother Peter and Sarah Draper went home.
January 29. John Clarke and Brother Isaac went to church.
January 31. StiU very cold.
February 2. I went to Mrs. RusseU's to warp my web.
February 5. Sunday. Middling cold weather.
February 7. Cold rain. Wind Easterly.
February 9. Mamma and Brother Peter came here.
February 11. Mamma and Brother Peter rode home. Miers, myself,
Polly, and Anne rode up to Gerhardus Conwell's. We left the
children all night.
February 12. Miers brought the children home. Drizzling weather.
February 14. Miers went to Fergus's and from there to John Haz
zard's, and did not get home until today. Mrs. Russel's girls
stayed -with me.
February IS. John Heaviloe and his wife came along and would
have Miers and me go to David King's •with them.
February 16. David King and wife, John Heaviloe and wife, and
several others were here until night. After they left we put
the horse to the sleigh and rode up to Mamma 's. It was quite
dark 'when we got there, and we were very cold.
February 17. Came home. ' Left Polly at Mamma's sick.
February 18. Miers went after the child. She would not come, and
Miers left without her. On the way home the horses ran away
with the sleigh and broke it.
Februray 19. Miers and myself went over to the bridge.
February 20. Very cold weather.
February 23. Mrs. Blount sends for me. Sarah Draper brings Polly
home. She has fever again. Sally went home after dinner.
Mrs. Russel and I went to see Mrs. Blount.
February 26. Sunday. PoUy is sick today.
February 28. Sally Painter, Mrs. Dorman, came to see me.
February 29. Hannah Russel and David Pennewell are married.
March 3. I and Polly went to Mamma's.
March 4. We came home. Grandmamma with us. The horse threw
Grandma and hurt her middUng bad.
March 6. Philis is delivered of a girl.
March 9. Grandma went home.
March 11. Sunday. Brother Isaac came.
March 12. Polly sick. Brother Isaac went home.
March 15. Snow storm from the E. Quilting at Mrs. Russel's and
at Uncle Isaac Draper's. I was not invited to my Uncle's.
March 16. Miers went to the bridge to see about his plank.
March 17. Carting plank from the vessel. Brother Isaac is here.
March 18. Sunday. Drizzhng weather. Wind S. E.

362 SOME RECORDS, OF SUSSEX COUNTY. ;
March 19. Betty Russel came to wekve for me.
March 23. Warm, damp weather.
March 25. Sunday. Middling cool today. Maud Draper is here.
March 29. Sally Draper came.
March 30. Betty Russel got her piece out. I and Polly went home
•with Sally, and from there to Mamma's.
March 31. I came home. Brother Isaac with me. Middling cool.
April 1. Brother Isaac and John Clarke went to Coolspring. Aunt
Katy came. We all went to John's after they came back from
meeting Katy wanted to see the painting.
April 2. Brother Isaac went home. Mrs. Russel sent for me to go
to David King's with her, but I did not go. Mrs. Dorman
went.
April 3. Betty came and put in my blankets.
April 4. Mrs. Dorman came to see me.
April 5. Lydia Russel came to see us.
April 6. Betty got out her other piece.
April 7. I and Polly went to Mr. Heaviloe's.
April 8. I went to church. Sacrament was given to a great many
people. All the weaving that Betty has done came to 13s. 6d.
April 13. Brother Peter came to see us.
April 14. Brother Peter went home and John Clarke with him.
April IS. Meeting at Mr. EUits. John Hill preached.
April 17. Warm with lightning, and thunder and showers.
April 18. Damp and cool. Aunt Caty came, and carried Polly to
Nancy Conwell's.
April 19. Mrs. Blount, Sarah Painter, Aunt Caty, and Nancy Con
well came to see me. Rain and very cold.
April 20. Nancy went home. Still very cold. Wind E.
April 22. Brother Isaac came here from meeting.
April 23. Brother Isaac went home. Pleasant weather.
April 25. A great deal of rain fell this evening.
April 27. Nancy Conwell came this evening.
April 28. Gerhardus and Nancy started from the bridge in Heavileo's
vessel. I walked down with them. Walked over to Mrs.
Russel's this afternoon and met Grandma and Mamma. They
went home with me.
April 29. Middling cool. Aunt Caty came. Hear that Dorman is
drunk, it being such a fitting day to be that way, Sunday.
April 30. Rain all the morning. Mamma went home.
May 1. Damp weather.
May 4. Anne hurt her face with a fence log, Polly went over and
stayed all night. The greatest rain this morning, perhaps for
several years.
May 5. Brother Isaac came here. Mrs. Russel came this afternoon.
May 6. Sunday. I was walking and saw Dorman just going home
from the Justice's meeting. He had remained all night.
May ^(7. Middling pleasant weather.
May 8. Rainy weather. Very busy with my goslins. Brother
Peter came.
May ^9. My little girl Sarah was born. Grandma and Sally
Draper went home.

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May 14. Brother Isaac came down and brought Polly home.
Mamma and Brother went home this afternoon.
May 12. Sally Draper came down.
May 13. Sacrament at Coolspring. Mrs. Dorman here, and sev
eral others.
May IS. Sally went home. Bubba Russel broke his thigh.
May 17. Mamma came down.
May 19. Mamma went home. Mr. and Mrs, Hooker, Mrs. Hook
and Betty Dorman here.
May 20. Sunday. They went home. Uncle Isaac and Aunt Betty
came to see me.
May 21. Lydia Hall went home with her poor cross child.
May 27. Mamma and Sally Draper came down and brought me
some pease. The child is very cross.
May 28. Whitsun Monday. A great many people going to the
beach. They have a frolic at John Hazzard's. Sally Draper
and Brother Isaac went there.
May 29. Mamma and Sally went home. Sally not well.
May 31. Brother Isaac and Miers went up to Milford. They took
Jack to Mamma's.
June 1. Miers came home. Very warm. Jack went back.
June 7. Very cool. Wind E. Miers went fishing and caught a fine
lot.
June 10. The worst spell of weather that I ever remember for this
time of year.
June 11. Betty Dorman went home. Still cold and damp.
June 14. I walked out of doors for the first time. Brothers Isaac
and Peter, and little John Clarke came down.
June IS. I moved out of the room and had it washed out. SaUy
Painter here. A great fog.
June 22. Mr. & Mrs. Jackson came down, their 2 sons, a hired
man, and a negro boy and girl.
June 23. Brother Isaac came down for me to go home with him, but
I could not go. Mrs. Jackson and Brother Isaac went to
John Clarke's. Miers and Mr. Jackson went down the Creek.
Brother Isaac went home this afternoon, and took the girls
with him.
June 24. Sunday. Warm. Musquitoes very thick.
June 25. I went as far as Mamma's with Mrs. Jackson, and a dread
ful time I had of it. From there I went home.
June 26. Harvesting at Mamma's, and Washy's.
June 27. Grandmamma and I went to Uncle Isaac's. A very warm
afternoon.
June 29. We begin our harvest. 4 hands hired. There came up
a cloud just before sunset, as I stepped in the door there was
one of the loudest peals of thunder I have ever heard. Mr.
TuU's house was struck, and part of the chimney fell.
June 30. I went to see Mrs. Russel. John Clark, Brother Isaac,
and Mr. Simpler here. We rob our bees tonight.
July 1. Sunday. Wm. Painter here. He eats some honey.
July 2. Peter came down. Mrs. Russel & Mrs. Pennewell here.
Brother Peter went home. Aunt Caty here.

364 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
July 7. Finish harvesting this afternoon.
July 8. I go to meeting at Elliots. Bevy Hall preached. They
expected Aydelott. I went to Uncle Isaac's and came home
in the aftemoon, Cousin Sally with me. Very warm.
July 9. Cousin Sally went home. Very warm and dry.
July 11. Lidia Russel came to see me. John Clarke from
home.
July 12. Brother Peter came down. He took Polly home with
him.
July 13. Brother Isaac and Doctor Wilson came down down.
July 14. Brother Isaac and a great many went to the beach. I
went to John's to eat oysters.
July IS. A great many people went to meeting today. I see
. Brother Isaac riding alongside of Hannah Conwell.
July 16. Very warm, windy, and dry.
July 18. Brothers Isaac & Peter, Mrs. Ashmead & Benny Draper
went down to the beach, Miers with them. Came back in the
afternoon and went home. Little Sally very poorly.
July 22. Went up to Mamma's. Looks like rain. Child still has a
bad purgeing. Polly not well.
July 28. Polly Hook and Lidia Hall came.
July 29. Rainy weather. Toby's funeral preached today. Polly
Hook went home. John Clarke & Hazzard here.
July 30. Lidia Hall went home. Mamma and Brother Isaac here.
He is not well.
July 31. Brother Isaac middling today. They go home. Mrs.
Russel and Aunt Caty here. Aunt Caty is not well.
August 5. I hear that Mamma is sick.
August 6. Brother Isaac came. I go with him to see Mamma and
find her very sick with Rose ( ?)
August 7. Mamma very sick this morning. Did not sleep. Mamma
some better this aftemoon. I came home. Brother Peter
with me.
August 8. Brother Peter went home. He bottomed Polly's chairs.
August 11. Roderick Heaviloe here. They have a frolic at John
Hazard's. Roderick looks very poorly.
August 12. Sunday. Very warm. Nat Wright came here. Lidia
Hall and her son here, & Shepherd Conwell.
August 13. Lidia gone. Brother Isaac here. He says Mamma is
middling again.
August 15. I went to Mr. Heaviloe's to warp.
August 16. John Clarke went to town. He heard that James Wil
son was married yesterday.
August 17. John came back. Wilson was married 7 weeks ago and
noone knew of it except the Parson and his Brother.
August 18. Miers went out and got our sugar & coffee from on
board. Brother Peter came. Very warm weather.
August 19. Sunday. Brother Isaac and Sally Draper, & John
Clarke came this morning to bid us farewell. They went
to Philadelphia. From there John & Isaac are to go to
New York. Brother Peter went home and took Polly & Anna
with him.
August. 21. Ruth has been sick since Sunday.

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August 22. Got my piece and wove more than two yards. Ruth
better.
August 23. Brother Peter brings Polly home and says that Mamma
and several of the family are sick. Aunt Caty came she wanted
me to go to Mr. Russel's with her, but I could not go.
August 24. A smart shower of rain today.
August 25. Thomas Clarke came this evening.
August 26. Sunday. Little Sally very cross.
August 27. I am not well. Brother Peter came.
August 29. Brother Peter went home. Aunt Caty here. She is
not well.
August 30. Aunt Caty and I walked over to Mrs. Russel's.
August 3 1 . Very warm and dry.
September 1. Miers had such a bad fall that he thought he had
broken two of his ribs, but I think they are not broken. Miers
had a letter from John Clarke today. He says they did not
arrive in town until Thursday, the 23d and are to leave there
Sunday the 26th. They are well.
September 2. Looks Uke rain. John Conwell here.
September 3. Mamma came down to see us. Mrs. Russel sent for
me. I was there when she came.
September 4. Mamma goes home. Mrs. Pennewell and Lidda Rus
sel here.
September 6. Wm. Coffin's wife is dead. Left a young baby.
September 8. Brother Peter ca-me down this afternoon.
September 9. I went to meeting at Wm. Conwell's, and heard a
fine sermon. Coming home it was very warm. It hailed,
the stones very large. Brother Peter went home.
September 10. John Young here. ¦
September 11.. Polly sick, and Sally.
September 13. Polly still very sick, but determined to go to Grand
ma's.
September 14. We took her there.
September IS. Brother Isaac came back from New York by land.
John Ashmead came with him. They left John Clarke in
Philadelphia, to come by water.
September 16. It rains. Polly some better. We ride over to Mr.
Draper's. Sally came back with us. Mrs. Martin's child very
sick.
September 17. John Clarke came up to Mamma's. He came back
yesterday. We came home. Polly a great deal better.
Brother Isaac with me.
September 19. Lidia Hall came to stay with me until the children
are better.
September 20. Lidia & PhiUs picked the geese. Wm. King's child
died.
September 22. Mrs. Young came to see us.
September 23. My Brothers, Sally Draper and myself went to Wm.
King's to the funeral. David King's -wife very sick.
September 24. The boys and Sally went home. Lidia went to see
her children.
September 30. Polly stiU poorly. Mamma & Brother Isaac here.
October 2. Miers goes to vote. Very rainy and cool.

366 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
October 6. Miers very sick. Lidia goes to see her child.
October 9. Miers still sick. Mamma & Brother Peter came down.
Aunt Caty is sick & Mamma went to see her. It is a very
sickly time. Brother Peter went to work on the cherry tree,
-with Philip. He worked until he nearly fainted, then got
John's Frank. Mamma & Brother Peter went home and
left the negroes at work. Miers is better. Filiis is sick. Sue
and Mos sick, & Ruth gone.
October 13. The negroes still sick. Miers better.
October 16. I am not well. Filis middling. Her children still
sick.
October 20. Brother Peter carrie after me to go up there.
October 21. We came home. Brother Peter -with us. Left Polly
at her Grandma's.
October 22. Brother Peter went home.
October 23. He came down to go gunning on the great marsh. Sue
sick & Filis gone to mill.
October 24. Betty Dorman brought Polly home.
October 28. Joseph Russel is dead.
October 29. Sally very cross, she has one tooth just out. Polly
not well.
October 31. Middling warm weather.
November 2. James Vent buried. Miers went to the funeral. Our
folks are at a goose picking. Somebody has picked a good
many of them for me. I understand it is Mrs. Dorman.
November 3. Mamma came down after little Johnny. I under
stand he is at his dadda's.
November 4. We went over to John's. The boys came down and
we all ate dinner there. Brother Isaac went to John Hazzard's,
Mamma came home -with us.
November 5. Brother Peter came down. Old Whorten hewed his
tree. Brother Peter & Mamma went home and took Anna
-with them.
November 9. Sally is 6 months old today. Sally Draper is here.
November 10. Brother Peter came do-wn and took Polly home with
him. Miers gone to the great marsh. Fisher ConweU is here.
November 11. Miers & Fisher went to Elias ConweU's. Thomas
Clarke came. Mrs. Russel went to Mrs. Hazard's to see Mrs.
Cade. We got back in the evening.
November 12. Brother Isaac came.
November 13. Clarke went home. Brother Isaac went to Milford.
November 14. Went to Mrs. Russel's to warp my piece.
November 16. Brother Peter came do^wn for me to go there.
November 17. I went to Mamma's.
November 18. We came home. Brother Isaac with us.
November 19. Jerry Claypool & George, Miers, Brother Isaac, &
John out gunning. I am a good deal afraid that Claypool
will carry off Ruth.
November 21. Miers, Brother Isaac & John went to Burton Robi-
son's.
November 22. John sends in Mamma's name for Uncle Isaac's
mare. He and Brother Isaac went to Milford to a wedding.

BIBLE RECORDS. 367
November 24. Rainy weather. Brother Isaac & John came back,
and went off again. I do not know where. Filiis is sick.
November 25. Sunday. Anna sick. Her Dadda not at home. Miers
gone to the great marsh to look after his cattle.
November 30. Middling cold weather.
December 1. John Heaviloe here. Shepherd Conwill & Sue Cover-
dale here.
December 2. I went up to Mamma's. Very cold.
December 3. Came home not very well. I saw a man -with his nose
bit off.
December 4. Brother Peter went home.
December 6. Hessy came back from Charles Connerly's.
December 8. Hessy went to see her Brother with his nose bit off.
The boys came here. Isaac went to Hazzard's.
December 9. Sunday. Joshua Clarke, his- wife and child came.
John & Anna here. Peter went home. Very cold.
December 10. Aunt Caty here. Clarke & his wife went away,
Hessy got home. Her Sister Feeby came after her to go and
weave.
December 15. I and the child not well.
December 16. Brother Isaac came. Have a very bad pain in my
head.
December 17. Brother Isaac asked me to go and see him married.
Feeby came home, and Hessy with her.
December 18. John Hazzard married to Mrs. Hosman in Lewes town.
December 19. Brother Isaac married to Hannah Conwell, John
Hazzard's first -wife's daughter about 1 o'clock. The wed-
deners came from to-wn. There being so many spectators
Brother Isaac and Hannah were married privately up stairs.
None but the Parson, the groomsman, the bridesmaid, and
John Clarke saw it. About 10 o'clock at night we got home,
Sally Draper -with us.
December 20. Sally and I set off very early to Mamma's that all
of Hazzard's guests were to come there about 1 or 2 o'clock.
Grandma & Ma welcomed their new relation. They all left
about 10 o'clock.
December 21. Brother Isaac and Hannah came home with me.
Feeby was still here. When we were at supper she wanted
Ruth to get some shad for her. Ruth said No. She said
take the key and go, they are at supper, they -will not know it.
The poor creature would have been as much deceived as Cain
when he slew his brother and thought that no one knew it,
for his Maker knew it, she was going to her Brother's that
night and wanted to carry the fish with her.
December 22. Brother Isaac and Hannah went to Hazzard's to see
them.
December 25. Christmas Day. Aunt Caty came. Miers not at
home.
December 26. Clarke went to the forest. Annie is here.
December 27. Brother Isaac and several neighbours came for dinner.
December 28. John & Brother Peter came. I was to go up the Neck,
but did not go. All went to Russel's to a frohc. Paid % of
a dollar a piece. Got back about 2 o'clock.

368 SOME RECORDS OF SUSSEX COUNTY.
December 29. We went to Mamma's, and from there to Mr. Collin's,
, ,,-iH -Brothers Isaac & Peter, and Hannah with me.
December 30. Mrs. Collins and I went to Mrs. Jackson's. We
dined upon rockfish. Mr. Collins, Brother & his wife, and
Brother Peter went to Meeting.
December 31. Coming home Hannah fell out of the carriage. The
wheel ran over her and hurt her very much. We stopped to
see Polly Jackson. She is very poorly. When we came to
Mamma's, Mr. Hazzard and his wife were there. They went
away, and we went. to Uncle Isaac Draper's. I wished Sally
much joy as she and John were married privately last Thurs
day at Georgetown. Only two or three knew of it.
1793.
January 1. I came home. Brother Isaac, Hannah & Sally went to
I '.-^ meeting.
January 2. They went home. John went to see his wife last night.
January 6. We went to John's. He said he would bring his wife
home this week.
January 11. John came for me to go there. I went. Filiis went
and made some bread.
January 12. I went over very early before John had his breakfast.
He got ready as soon as he could. Brother Peter and Sam
Painter went with him. I was there until about 2 Oclock, and
then went home to get clean clothes on, and to get my child.
But John and the guests got back before I did. We had a
very agreeable evening of it, and all went home in peace about
10 o'clock.
January 13. Sunday. Brother Isaac & his wife. Brother Peter &
Polly Wiltbank came in the aftemoon. John sent for us.
We stay until after tea. They went to John Hazzard's, and we
came home.
January 20. Mr. Hazzard, his wife, and myself went to John Clarke's.
January 22. Sally Clarke came and we passed a pleasant evening
together. Miers and John having gone to the vendue.
January 23. I went to see' Sally. Middling cool weather.
January 25. Brother Isaac and Hannah, Brother Peter, John and
Sally came. They stayed until bedtime. After much laughter
they went home, Peter and Shepherd with them.
January 26. We go up to Mamma's. The men value the land today.
January 27. Isaac, Hannah, Brother Peter, and I walked to Luker's.
Came by Mr. TuU's. He and his wife very sick.
January 28. We came home. Brother Peter -with us.
January 29. Miers away. Weather fine. Grandmama, Aunt Betsy,
John, Sally, and Annie came.
January 30, Dreadful snow storm came on about 1 o'clock in the
morning. I could not hear whether the vessel went out. It
is now almost night and Miers not at home. I am afraid he is
out in the storm. About 8 o'clock he came home. I think
I was never so glad to see him in my life, for I did not know
what might happen.
January 31. Aunt Betsy went home. Polly Wiltbank married.

BIBLE RECORDS. 369
•February 1. Miers not weU. Grandma and I insisted that he
should not go out, but he said he would go to the vessel and
get his clothes. About dinner time I expected him back,
and kept his dinner by the fire until almost night, and his
supper also until bedtime, but he did not come. I heard the
vessel went out about 1 o'clock. Mrs. Russel came today.
February 2. Very rainy. Miers not returned. I hear that Ma is sick.
February 3. Sunday. Fine moderate weather. Mr. Cary is buried
today.
February 4. Grandma went home. Lidia Russel came here. John,
Sally, & Annie here.
February 5. Lidia went home. I got her to stay all night. Betty
and Polly Heaviloe and Sally Clarke came. Sally stayed all
night.
February 6. I went home. Sally stayed all night.
February 7. I expect Miers at home, the wind being fair all day.
February 8. Brother Peter came.
February 10. Brother Peter went home. Brother Isaac and Han
nah came here from meeting. John, Sally, and Lidia Russel
came over. Miers back from Morris River.
February 11. We all went over to John's, and came back in the
night. It snowed and blew so that we could not see our way.
February 12, 13, 14. Very cold weather.
February 16. Mama came to see us.
February 18. Mama went over to John's and stayed all night. Lidia
Hall came.
February 19. Mama went home.
February 21. Lidia went away.
February 24. It is three years since my father died.
March 2. 'Brother Isaac & Hannah here.
March 3. They went home.
March 9. The boys here. Very cold weather.
March IS. Lidia Russel here.
March 16. Polly Hook here.
March 17. I went to meeting at Wm. King's.
March 22. . I went to Mama's.
March 24. Mama came back with me.
March 25. Mama and Aunt Caty went to John's.
Joshua Fisher of Lewes went to Philadelphia, 1745.
Inscriptions on Tombstones in the Ancient Cemetery
IN Pilot-town.
In memory of Hannah Baily who died January 16th,
1732, aged 72 years.
Here lies the Body of Hannah Jacobs, Born May llth, 1734;
Departed this life December 18th, 1767.
In memory of Albertus Jacobs, who died April the 2 Sth,
174S, aged S3 years.
In memory of John Jacobs, who dyed ye 19th March, 1741,
aged 45 years.

370 some records of sussex county.
In memory of Jacob Art, who departed this life September
13th, 1769, aged 48.
In memory of Sarah Art, the wife of Bailey Art, who
departed this life October 1st, 1797, aged 26 years
John Naws.
Benjamin Naws.

INDEX.

Abchurch, Mary  145
Able, Henry  70, 72
Accomake. .. 10, 12, 13, 14, 19, 31, 141, 172
173, 179, 237
Aot of Parliament  215
Adams, Rev. Alexander  225, 227
Adams, John  51
Adams, Peter  46
Adams, Samuel  144
Adams, William  134, 154
Adkinson, Richard  57
Adkinson, Thomas  93
Adolph, Peter  104, 106
Alef, Joseph  138, 151
Alexander, Ffrans  158
Alison, Mr. Hector  230
Alison, Mr. Isaac  230
Allen, Henry  127, 134, 136
Allen, Mary  342
Alien, Moses  '.  342
Allen, William  79
All Hallo-ws Parish  232
AUoways Creek  142
Alrichs, J  12
Alrichs, Peter.. . .2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10. 11, 36, 56
Alston, A  21
Alstone, Arthur  21
Ammand, Mr  199
Amsterdam  2, 3, 11, 12, 34
Amsterdam, Fort  5
Anderson, Robert  32
Anderson, William  14, 3 1, 32
Andrews, George  109, 111, 113
Andre-ws, Rev. John  220, 234, 235
346, 348
Andros, Sir Edmond.. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18
20, 25, 30, 31, 32, 33, 36, 38, 39, 142
Angola Neck  142
Annapolis  172, 177,321
Antego  139
Aplegate, Bartholome-wr  116
Appoquiminich  173, 180, 184
Arendael, Will  135
Arnestead, Daniell  21
Arnold, William  255, 257
Art, Baily  370
Art, Jacob  370
Art, Sarah  370
Asewomet Inlet  82, 84
Ashmeads, John  365
Ashraeads, Mrs  355, 364
Ashton, Thomas  122
Askew, James  25
Assawarnon  13, 31
Assbury, William  142
Athanasian Creed  200
Atthow, Thomas  59, 61, 62, 65
Audrey, John  13 37:

Avery, John... 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 29, 30
32, 33, 38, 54, 56, 58, 59, 60
61,66,69,71,72, 74, 75, 77
80, 81,86,90, 92
Avery, Mary  93
Avery, Sarah  92
Aydelott  364
Backhouse, Rev. Richard  231
Backstead, John  15
Badger, John  138
Baggwell, John  78
Bagwell, "William  45
Baily, Elias  149
Baily, Hannah  137, 149
Baily, Hannah, Jr  369
Baily, John  51
Baily, Jonathan. . .41, 42, 44, 46, 119, 122
126, 130, 134, 143, 149
Baily, Jonathan, Jr  347
Baily, Mary  149
Baker, William  Ill
Ball, Lt. George  S3
Balsch, Isaac  21
Baltimore, Lord  7, 10, 12, 30, 31, 187
Barbados  42, 148, 153
Barker, Elizabeth  132
Barker. John  35,90,96, 101, IOS, 113
116, 133
Barkstead, Joshua  23
Barnard, Captain  50
Barnes, Benoni  21
Barnett, John  59, 62, 76, 78, 102
Baron, John  155
Barrows, John  67
Barrett, John C  21
Barry, Edward T  136
Barsteede, Joshua 66. 68, 114, 116, 118, 135.
Barthelmy, Jeremiha  156
Bartlett, Nichols  79
Bartlett, Sarah  79, 100, 133
Barton, John  21
Barton, Robert  126
Barwick, Katharine  154
Baswell, John  21
Bateson, Ffrancis  76
Batson, John W  297, 299, 303
Batson, Kendle  276, 298, 299
Bawcombe. Peter  18, 21
Bayard, James. A  299
Beall, Capt. Joshua  322
Beall Lt. Col  325
Beaman, John  78, 94
Beauchamp, Isaac  160
Beaveriy, William  78, 79, 80, 89, 96
105, 107, 111
Beavers  61
Beckett, Alexander  133

372

INDEX.

Beckett's Dream  190
Beckett, Elizabeth  219
Beckett's Farm  196
Beckett, Hester  133
Beckett, James  189
Beckett, John  189
Beckett, John, Sr  203
Beckett, Katherine  133
Beckett, Mary  203, 339
Beckett, Susanna  219
Beckett Will  219
Beckett, Rev. William. . 182, 183-6, 194-5
199, 202, 206, 209-19, 338, 339
345, 347
Bedewell, Robert  21, 134
Bedewell, Thomas  122
Bedford, Gunning, Jr  296, 309
Bedwell, Susanna  122
Beekman  6
Beer-selling  122, 123
Bellamy, John  22, 23, 78, 85, 89, 90
97, 120, 146
Bell, Elizabeth Hamilton  271
Bell, Rev. Hamilton  270, 271, 272
Bell, Mary Eleanor  271
Bell, Mrs  270, 272
Benbrick, Edward  124, 153
Benbrick, Jane  153
Bennett, John  340
Bennett, Miriam  340
Bennett, Pernal  340
Benson, George  93
Berry, Edward  137
Berry, Samuel  158
Berry, WiUiam, Jr  21
Besant, Thomas  67, 135, 140, 148, 152
Bessant, Jane  129
Bessant, Thomas  123, 129
Betts, John  134
Bibbe, Edmond  332
Bibbe, Esther  333
Bibbe, Mary  332
Bibbe, Matthew  333
Bible Records  329
Biship, Arin  75
Bishop, John  157
Blackbird Creek  20
Black, W  304
"Black Will,"  76
Black, Rev. William. . . 169, 173, 174, 177
179, 227
Blackwell, John  144
Blagge, Benjamin  115
Blair, Mr. Commissary  179
Blanck, Jurien  6
Blockhouse  7, 40
Blount, Mrs  361
Bluett, Rev, Thomas  229
Bocent, Thomas  ¦.  117
Bolstiok, Thomas  21
Bombardment of Lewes  178
Bonaparte, Jerome  326
Bonaparte, Napoleon  326
Boodle, Edward  80, 87, 99
Boomtieshook  1 1, 30
Booth, Francis  148
Booth, James  45
Booth, John  76

Booth, Joseph. .42, 125, 147, 150, 152, 155
Borden, Mark  157
Borroughs, Ester  333
Borroughs, John  333
Borroughs, William  333
Boston  33, 141, 170
Bounds of Lewes  124
Bourne, William  78, 79, 85, 94, 96
Bowd, Isaac  138, 146
Bowd, Jane  138
Bowman, Henry. 23, 33, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58,
60, 62, 63,65,66, 67, 69
70, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 90
96, 105, 107, 113, 115
118, 124, 131, 137, 154
Bowman, John  1 50
Bowman, Mary  148
Bowman, Mr  18, 33
Bowman, Thomas  131
Bracey, Ann  136
Bracey, Elizabeth  124, 125
Bracey, Mary  124
Bracey, Robert, Sr  22, 56, 59, 74, 75
77,123,136
Bracey, Robert, Jr  69, 74, 80, 103, 115
123, 125, 133
Bracey, Thomas  22
Bradford, Mr  193
Bradford, Nathaniel. . 57, 58, 69, 71, 74, 96
Bradford, Capt. William.. .52, 87, 96, 103
106, 116
Bradshaw, John  137
Bradshaw, John, Jr  137
Brady, Philip  158
Brady, Sarriuel  157
Braines, Capt. Thomas  44
Branscom, Elizabeth  151
Branscom, Mary  148
Branscom, Sarah  148, 149, 151
Branscom, Thomas  118, 141, 148, 151
Brate, Abram  21
Bravan, Joseph  145
. Brearday, John  144
Brereton, Robert  255, 257
Brereton, William  248, 252
Bridge, John  16, 21, 78, 94
Bridge, Mr  170
Brighte, Charles J  90, 92, 95, 105, 137
Brinklo, John  21
Bristol  184
Broad Creek. 8 7, 92, 108, 124, 126, 141, 155
Broad Creek Churoh  271, 300
Broad Kill  345, 347
Brock, Capt. William  279
Brooke, Henry.. 43, 45,46, 47, 181, 187,20
206, 211
Brooke, Ralph  127
Brooks, Henry  327
Brown (Breen, Broen), Daniel  4, 8, 14
15, 17,29,33,36,37, 56
57,58,59,64,65,66,67 69, 73, 74, 77, 85, 87
Brown, John  104, 109, 116, 123
Brown, John Mason  300, 333
Brown, Joseph  56
Broxon, Joseph  333
Broxon, Thomas  333
Bundiclc's Branch  126

INDEX.

373

Bundick's Bridge  124
Bundock, Grace  55
Bundock, Richard 62, 63, 93, 103, 133, 134
Bundock, Ruith  118
Bundon, Rich  75
Buoys  ,  3
Burch, Edward  42
Burgess, Captain  43
Burgess, Comfort  127
Burke, Hen  183
Burlington  162
Burough, Susanna  137
Burton, Albert  276, 279
Burton, Ann May  341
Burton, Benjamin  248, 320
Btirton, Caroline  341
Burton, Cornelius  220
Burton, Eliza Ann  341
Burton, Gideon  276
Burton, John H  276, 279, 341
Burton, Joshua  252, 253, 280, 283
Burton, Leah  343
Burton, Mary Ann  341
Burton, Mary 'Vaughn  341
Burton, Robert  67, 250, 276, 280
Burton, Theopholus  "341
Burton, WiUiam  78, 252, 254, 256
264,273
Burton, Woolsey  46
Burying Ground  40, 120, 122
Butler, Deborah  127
Butler, William  60, 86, 110
Byron, William  339
Caddy, John  353
Cade, Dorman  353
Cade, Mr  351
Cade, Mrs  351
Cade, Robert  128
Callary  43
Calvert, Philip  9
Camomile Street  25, 40
CampbeU, Mr  .' . 187
Canaries  43
Canes, William  23
Cannon, Elijah, Sr  253, 256, 258, 262
Cannon, Elijah, Jr  251, 259
CantweU, Ed. . .7, 10, 14, 17, 19, 31, 37, 97
Cape Fear  50
Cape Francois  48, 49
Cape Henlopen  326
Cape James  82, 84, 88, 108, 115
Cape May  6, 48, 49, 154
Capes of Delaware  48. 52
Capes of 'Virginia  48, 50
Card-playing  122,258
Carey, Edward  134
Carey, John  134, 136
Carey, Mr  369
Carlisle, Mr  265, 266, 269
Carman, Michiel  6
Carpenter, Affyance  143
Carpenter, Annie Eliza  336
Carpenter, Benjamin  337
Carpenter, Catherine  329
Carpenter, Comfort H  336
Carpenter, Elizabeth  337
Carpenter, James  143, ISO

Carpenter, James Henry  336
Carpenter, Jane  337
Carpenter, John Dean.  337
Carpenter, John Dorman  336
Carpenter, Joseph  336
Carpenter, Louis Marshall  336
Carpenter, Lydia  337
Carpenter, Margaret  336, 337
Carpenter, Margaret M  336
Carpenter, Mary  336
Carpenter, Mary Dean  336
Carpenter, Mary Quinn  336
Carpenter, Mary Rodgers  337
Carpenter, Nancy  336, 337
Carpenter, Robert Howard  337
Carpenter, Thomas Howard  336
Carpenter, Thomas Howard, Jr  336
Carr, Capt  9, If.
Carter, EUzabeth  S7, 58
Carter, John  115
Carter, William. . . 57, 59, 61, 62, 63, 64, 74
75, 87, 88, 104, 106, 107
110, 113, 136
Cartie, Elijah  56
Caudmes. WiUiam  152
Cedar Creek  18,20, 33, 57,76,84, 91
92, 124,129, 136, 141, 353,356
Cedar Creek Forest  221
Cedar Creek Hundred.. . 158, 234, 237, 238
Cedar Neck  17, 33
Chace, William  353
Chamberlayne, John  162, 174
Chambers, John  152
Chambers, MicheU.. 55, 67, 86, 93, 125, 152
Chaptonke  17
Charles, Mr., Secretary  204
Charles, Symon  136
Charleton (Companion)  43
Chester  82, 83, 84, 231
"Chevaux de Frize Pilots "  53
Chew, Mr  200
Childs, Rev. John A  282. 283
Chipman, Sarah  333
Christian the Indian  122
Christina Kil  11
Chiu-ch and Chapels  232
Church Lots  255
Cinnepuxon Inlet  41
Claessen, WUliam  11,30
Clament (widow)  15
Clampitt, WiUiam  134, 144, 154
Clark, Honor  54, 60, 100, 133, 135
136, 137
Clark, James  129
Clark, John  71, 134
Clark, Sarah  155
Clark, William.. . . 18, 21, 22, 23, 33, 35, 36
37, 41, 44, 45, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59
60, 61, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 72
73, 75, 76, 77, 80, 81, 82, 84, 85, 86
89, 93, no, 114, 121, 131, 135. 139
Clark, WiUiam, Jr  132,134
Clarke, Aletta  344, 349
Clarke, Aletta, Jr  345
Clarke, AUetta's Diary  350
Clarke, Anna  344, 348, 349
Clarke, Charlotte  348
Clarke, Elizabeth  344, 349

374

INDEX.

Clarke, Ester  344
Clarke, Hannah  344, 349
Clajke, John. ..354, 358, 360, 362, 365, 367
Clarke, Joshua  367
Clarke, Lidia  344
Clarke, Lot  348, 358
Clarke, Mary  344, 349
Clarke, Melicent  348, 358
Clarke, Miers  344, 349, 356
Clarke, Polly  . 350
Clarke, Sarah  344, 368
Clarke, Thomas  365
Claypoole, EUzabeth  137
Claypoole, George  366
Claypoole, James  134, 143
Claypoole, Jeremiah  46, 149
Claypoole, Jerry  366
Claypoole, Mary  100, 133
Claypoole, Norton  23, 55, 56, 59, 63
64, 65, 66, 68, 74, 75, 77, 78, 81, 82
85, 93, 97, 100, 103, 105, 106, Ul
114, 115, 118, 123, 133, 135, 137
Claypoole, Rachel  100. 111. 115, 123
133, 135, 137, 138, 141, 144
Claypoole, Robert  Ill
Claypoole, Sarah  353
Clayton, John  157
Clement, Abraham  13, 14, 29, 31,37
Clemmy, Abraham  4
Cleveland, Rev. Aaron  232, 233
Cleveland, Susanna  233
Ciitord, Mongo  155
Cliford, Thomas  21
Clifton, Robert.. ..23, 26, 41, 104, 112, 113
116, 130, 138, 152, 154
Clifton, John  353
Clifton, Sarah. . . .25,26, 116, 136. 138, 152
Clifton, Thomas  24, 25, 40, 154
Clowes, Aletta  344, 345,349
Clowes Bible  344
Clowes, Catherine  344
Clowes, Comfort  345
Clowes, David  345, 348
Clowes, Ezekiel Williams  346
Clowes, Gerhardus  347
Clowes, Hannah  348
Clowes, Isaac  346, 351, 364, 367
Clowes, John  22,47
Clowes, John, Jr  344, 347, 349
Clowes, Judge John  349
Clowes, Mary  344, 345, 349
Clowes, Peter  346
Clowes, Ryves  345
Clowes, Samuel  345
Clowes, Sarah  344, 346
Clowes, WiUiam  347
Clubb, Mr  173
Cocke, Edward  15
Codd, Berkley  225
Coe, Elizabeth  136
Coe, John  25, 136
Coe, William  149
Coffin. William  365
Coggeshall, Preserved  149
Cold Spring  141,224
Cole, John  256
Coleman, Thomas  276
Colle, James  118

Collens, Darby  131
Collens, George  18, 34
Collens, WiUiam  148
CoUins, Mr  368
Collins, Mrs  368
CoUison, Barbary  135
Collison,John...29, 36, 37, 96, 97, 113, 135
Commis  1
Commissary  199
Commissions for Lower Counties. ... 194
Conely, John  21
Connepuxon Inlett  41
Conventions (Diocesan)  251, 253, 258
259, 262, 266, 267, 268, 270, 274
275, 276, 277, 278, 280, 282, 283
Connerly, Charles . . . '.  367
Conwell, Charles  352
ConweU, Elias  366
ConweU, Fisher  366
ConweU, Gerhardus  348, 359, 361
Conwell, Hannah  364, 367
ConweU, John  348, 360, 365
Conwell, Lydia  349
ConweU, Nancy  359, 360, 362
ConweU, Shepherd  348, 357, 363, 367
ConweU, WiUiam  359, 365
Cool Spring  321
Cook, Capt. Robert  45
Cook, Rev. Mr  166
Cooks, Edward  67
Cooper, Mr  272
Coore, Esther  140
Coore, Richard  136
Corbet, Robert  134
Corbet, Roger  42, 125, 144
Cord, Joseph  46
Cord, William  255,258,260
Cordiner, Mr  171,175
Cornelius, Harmen.. 7, 55, 56, 59, 61, 63, 64
Comellison, Herman  36
CornweU (ConweU), Francis  24, 112
119, 120, 121, 130, 132, 137, 142, 146
CornweU, Francis, Jr  132, 142
CornweU, Mary  130, 138, 142, 146
Corsey, Da -vid  71
Cortes, John  21
Corwidda, Sarah  353
Coudrey, Ben  56, 59, 61
Couper, Capt. Henry  238
Couper, James  320
Court House  117, 121, 181,254,255
264,272,274,275
Court, the first  30
Courtney, Thomas  158
Coutter, Joseph  265, 267
Coverdale, BiU  361
Coverdale, Nance  361
Coverdale, Patience  353
Coverdale, Sue  367
Coverdale, Thomas  155
Cowdree, Joseph  18, 33
Cowdrey, William  .89, 91, 152
Cowthry, WiUiam  156
Crafford, Mongo  124
Crafford, Richard  155
Craford, WiU  85
Craig, Rev. George  232
Crawford, Rev. Thomas  161, 163, 166

INDEX.

375

Cra-wford. Mrs. Thomas  166
Creagor, Cornelius  62
Cregier, Capt. Martyn  36, 59, 61, 63, 65
69, 73, 77
Cresap, Thos  324
Cressop, Colo  325
Crew, John  75, 76, 96, 102, 117
Crompton, Thomas  16, 17, 33
Croper, Jo  56, 57, 58
Cross, Mr. Robert  230
Croutch, John  144, 154, 155
Crowell, Samuel  154
Crowell, Susanna  143, 155
CuUen, Charles M. .266, 268, 270, 273, 275
CuUen, Charles W  335
Cullen, Elisha D  335
Cullen, Elizabeth  335
CuUen, George  89, 335
CuUen, John  335
Cullen, Jonathan  33 5
Cullen, Piercy  335
Cullen, Sarah  335
Cumings, Enoch  46
Cummings, Rev. Mr  187, 195, 212
Cummings, Mrs  199
Curtis, John  18, 34
Cypress Bridge  141
Daggworthy, Capt  323
Daggworthy, Capt. John  323, 324, 325
Dagworthy, Mrs  294
Dampier, Capt  43
Daniel, John  '  69, 74, 96, 116
Darby, Daniel  67
Darrall, WilUam  35
Dause, Eauan  21
Da-vids, John  57
Da-vids, Judith  15
Davids, Susanna  149
Davids, Thomas. ..15, 56, 57, 58, 59, 61, 93
Davids, William  62, 78, 80, ISO
Davis, George  138, 146, 159
Davis, Mark  160
Davis, Mr  198
Davis, Mrs  250
Davis, Nehemiah  160
Davis, Samuel  46, 182, 317
Davis, William  155
Dawson, John  21
Dawson, Michael  S3
Dawson, Rich  71, 102
Daygtet Richard  141
Deal, New  21,22,54,55, 56, 58,60
62,65,68,69, 72, 73, 77
81,84,85,99, 157
Dean, Mary  336, 337
Dean, Michael  53
Dearborn, Henry F  339
Dearborn, Henry G  339
Dearborn, Mary A  339
De Braak  327
Debter, Miney  150
Deeds  182
Delaware  6, 8, 21, 22, 85
Delaware Bay  1, 6, 7, 17, 30, 32, 38, 48
51, 52,83
Delaware River  34, 51, 52, 81, 83
DellavaU, Capt. Thos  69

Denison, Thomas  56, 65
De Payster, Abraham  206
Depister, Abraham  28
Deprea, Andrew.2S, 26, 56, 66,92, 110, 113
Deprea, Jacob  67, 99, 100, 133
Deprea, John. .25, 26, 55, 60, 64, 66, 67, 68
74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 92, 93
99, IOS, 109, 133, 144
Deprea, Mary  26, 131
Deprea, William  26
Dere, WiU  97
De Shaw, John  18, 34
Designy, Doctor Petter, 104, 107, 108, 111
Devries  .,  1,2
De Walvis  1
Dicldnson, John  54, 75, 89, 143, 240
Dickinson, Samuel  132, 136
Dickinson, Walter  17, 18
Dicks, Robert  13, 18
Dishaa, John  ¦  21
Ditch in Lewes  40, 125
Dixon, Thomas  157
Dobson, Richard  128
Dod, George  '145
Dorchester County.  17,33
Dorman, Betsy  359
Dorman, EUzabeth.344, 349, 359, 363, 366
Dorman, Gerhardus.  344, 349
Dorman, John  344, 349
Dorman, John K  344, 349
Dorman, Mary  344, 357
Dorman, Nehemiah  344, 349
Dorman, Sheldron  359
Dorman, Tabitha  359
Douglass, Ann  136
Douglass, William  7
Dover  122, 193, 229, 2S1, 258, 275, 276
Dover Hundred  161,162
Dover River  134
Dowgan, Timothy  124, 150
Draper, Alexander. . .22, SS, 56, 57, 58, 63
67, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 85, 91, 97, 102, 115
Draper, Alexander, Jr  137, 138, 146
Draper, Benny  364
Draper, Chatrine  148
Draper, Henry  137
Draper, Isaac  344, 350, 359, 361, 368
Draper, John  148
Draper, Mary  344, 350, 361
Draper, Maud  362
Draper, Nelly  353, 357
Draper, Polly  351,354,357,361
Draper, Rebecka  137, 146, 150
Draper, Sarah  344, 350, 361, 363
Drew, Captain James  327
Drigers, "William  145
Droochestraeder, Herman  36
Duch6, Rev. Mr  221
Duck or Duke Creek  17, 18, 33, 38
Dumfries  170
Dunavan, The Widow  131
Dunton, Thomas  64
Dunton, William  67
Durborow, Hugh  157
DumaU, WiUiam  60, 62
DurvaU, William.. 65, 66, 67, 70, 75, 81, 82
85,88,90,91
Dyer, Edmund  141

376

INDEX

Dyer, James  141
Dyer, Mary  23, 141, 142, 144
Dyer, Sarah  141
Dyer, Major William  23, 123, 137, 142
Dyer, William  124, 141, 143, 150, 155
Ecclesiastical Records  157
Edinburgh  169
Edmondson, James  154
Edmondson, John  153
Edwards, Morrice  113, 121, 124, 130
135, 137, 144
Edwards, Simon  51
Edwards, Thomas  106, 113, 145
Edwardson, John  17
Elliott, James  254, 258,261, 263
Elme, John  134, 135
Elme, Margaret  135
Ely, George  148
Ely, Jane  148
Emitt, Mary  59
Emitt, William. . .56, 59, 65, 67, 69, 71, 79
86,87,96, IOS, 107, 108
no, 114, 116, 122, 126
133, 138, 145
Emitt, William, Jr  100
Empson, Richard  45
Endsor, John  158
England  -  25, 40, 86, 138
Enloes, Anthony  58
Ennis, Levin  255, 258
Enos, Richard  269
Erskine, Mr. John  230
Eubanck, Henry  71, 117
Evans, John  158
Evans, Mrs  199
Evans, Peter  187
Evans, Rev. Mr  161
Evans, Thomas  158, 160
Everson, Matthias  59, 65, 74, 100, 135
Eves, Oswald  48
Eyres, Abigail  133
Eyres, Abigail, Jr  133
Eyres, John  133
Eyres, John, Jr  133
Falconer, Captain  52
Fast Day  4
Fenton, Mr  187
Ffancy, WiUiam  116
Ffarmer, WilUam  128
Ffenwick, James  47
Ffenwick, Thomas  45, 145, 317
Ffinch, John  54, 60
Ffietcher, Capt. Gen  1S8
Ffietcher, Rev. Thomas  225
Ffietcher, WiUiam  276
Ffox, Jonathan  136
Ffrances, Robert  21
Ffreeland, Isaac  158
Ffreeman, Rev. Aaron  284
Ffreeman, Susanna  134
Ffretwell, Dorothea  153, 154
FfretweU, Ralph  153
FfretweU, Roger  153
Field, Luke  51
Field, Mary  341, 342
Field, Nehemiah. .40, 41, 45, 123, 124, 125
133, 135, 138, 143, 149, 154

Field, Nehemiah, Jr  139, 144
Field, Rachel  139, 144
Field, Williara  51, 139
Finley, Sarah  353
Fisher, AUs  136
Fisher, Dennis  Ill
Fisher, George R  158
Fisher, Harry  352
Fisher, James  136
Fisher, John  121, 131, 136, 158, 353
Fisher, John, Jr  136
Fisher, Joshua.. 47, 319, 327, 362, 364. 369
Fisher, Lydia  369
Fisher, Margaret  35, 136
Fisher, Miers  369
Fisher, Rachel  136
Fisher, Samuel Rowland  369
Fisher, Sarah  136
Fisher, Susanna  Ill, 134
Fisher, Thomas. . 35, 45, 121, 123, 136, 154
156, 363,326,369
Fisher, (widow)  35
Fisher, William  45, 131, 150, 156
Flaman, Capt  3
Fleetwood, Abby  354
Fleming, Thomas  150
Flower, WiUiam  49
Forman, Rev. John  272.275, 276
Fort Amsterdam  5
Fort at Lewes  7, 12
Fort Cumberiand  293, 321
Fort Frederick  322
Fort James  8, 9, 10, 30
Fofit (Fossit), Charles  151
Fofit (Fossit), Rachel  151
Foster, Ann  26
Foster, John  26, 134
Foster, Robert  67
Fowler, Ainee  360
Franklin, Benjamin  193, 210, 233, 294
Franklin, Rev. Walter E  281
Frounsen, Simon  21
Fulham Palace  230
Fuller, John  137
Futcher, EUzabeth  146, 329
Futcher, Henry  146, 329
Futcher Island  148
Futcher, John  130, 146, 148, 329
Futcher (Ffootcher), Mary. . 145, 146, 329
Futcher, Richard  146, 148, 329
Futcher, Sarah  146, 329
Futcher, William.. .7,17, 22, 33, 55,56, 59
65, 68, 69, 70, 74, 75,77, 78, 104
145, 146, 219, 274,276, 329
Futcher, WilUam, Jr  146, 148
(Jamble, Joseph  ,  53
Garland, Susan  15
Garritt, Barnard  85
Garritt, BarnweU  94, 124, 151, 154
Gazette of the United States  312-317
Geddington  234
Georgetown. . .280, 283, 298, 301, 305, 312
Gerris, Barrents  140
Getes, John  221
Gibb, Marie  154, 155
Gibson, John  79
GiU, Rich  56, S7, 59, 102, 103, 105, 133

INDEX.

377

Gill, Robert  47
Gillum, Robert  102
Gilpin, Lydia  369
Gilpin, Thomas  369
Gitto, Dorothy C  137
Gitto, Henry  120. 137
Glass, John  106
Glebe  234, 236, 247,248, 249
Glover, John  17,21
Godijn, Samuel  1^2
Godsell, Peter  137
Godsell, Robert  136
Godsell, Sarah  136
Godwin, Cesar  124
Godwin, WiUiam  182
Goesen, Jafeth N  21
Goit, Mary  127
Goit, Peter  127
GoUidge (Jones), Thomas  134
Gordon, Daniel  53
Gordon, Major  187
Gordon, Hon. Patrick  198, 200
Goss, Peter  326
Gould, Edward  149
Goylack, Yoakim  54, 60
Grainger, Nichos  45
Grammar School  235
Grant, Alexander  1 38
Grantam, John  Ill
Gray, David  1 52
Gray, EUzabeth  152
Gray, Ffackly  55
Gray, Isaac  152
Gray, James  64
Gray, Jonathan  152
Gray, John  152
Gray, Rebecka  152
Gray, Samuel.. 17, 23, 33, 56, 57, 58, 62
63. 64, 74, 75, 93, 96, 106
108, 114,121,125, 142,152
Gray, Sarah  149, 152
Gray, Susanna  100, 125, 133, 152
Gray, Thomas  152
Great KiU  135, 150
Green, Ann  339
Green Branch  88
Green, George  158
Green, Jane Eliza  339
Green, Pyramus  48
Green, Thomas  158
Greenbury, Nicholas  78, 94
Greentree, John  157
Griffin, Richard  21
Grimdyk, Thomas  76, 80, 87, 90
92, 106, 108
Groondyk, Peter.. 13, 31, 36, 37, 54, 58, 59
60,61,62,63,66,69, 70, 71
72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 102
Groves, Sarah  138, 143
Groves, Thomas.l8, 21, 34, 97, 127, 138,143
Gum, Roger  77, 78, 105, 111, 113
Guinney  6
Gunby, Francis. 56, S7, 59, 63, 65, 66, 67, 7
Hackester, John  17, 33, 54, 55, 94
Hacket, Rev. Walter  195, 199
Hagester, John... 66, 67, 69, 71, 79, 80, 114 131

Hagester, John, Jr  79, J51
Hague  2
HaU, Bevy  364
HaU, Col. David  320
Hall, Doctor  357, 360
HaU, Livy  359
HaU, Lydia  350, 358, 363
HaU, Robert C  159
HaU, Thomas  67, 92
HaU, The Widow  Ill
Hamen, Andreas  132
Plamen (alias Haverly), Anthony.. .59, 61
63, 65,66, 68, 69, 73, 74
75, 77, 78, 85, 97, 104
117, 124, 132, 154, 155
Hamen, Daniel  133
Hamen, James  133
Hamen, John  132
Hamilton, Mr  192
Hancock, Thomas  109
Hanser, Aminadab, Jr  146
Hanzer, Aminadab  99, 146
Hanzer, Rose  146
Hardin, James  118
Harding, Frances  ,  132
Harford, Thomas  149
Hargrove, George  158
Harley, Robert, Jr  97
Harman, Henry  54, 57, 58, 92, 94
Harmanus  10
Harmassamale the Indian  Ill, 116
Harris, Rev. Matthias  232, 234, 344
345,350
Harris, William  269
Harris, Dr. William  280
Harrison, William  248
Harrison, Rev. Mr  206, 207
Harte, Daniel  4
Harte, James  48
Harte, Joane  138, 152
Harte, John  22
Harte, Margaret  136
Harte, Margaret, Jr  136
Harte, Robert  18, 33, 61, 82, 85, 152
Harte, Robert, Jr  85, 87, 91, 95, 107
115, 133, 136, 152
Harte, Thomas  101
Hartie, Elias  75
Harvey, Richard.. 67, 86, 92, 113, 136, 144
Hassold, Thomas  64, 65, 66, 71
Haward, Thomas  17, 33, 55, 56, 65, 80
86,90, 96, 113, 129
Haye, John  21
Haynes, Charles  136,141
Haynes, Elizabeth  135
Haynes. John  135
Hazzard, Elon (Ellen)  26
Hazzard, Cord  26, 220
Hazzard, David  26
Hazzard, Hap  247, 251, 253
Hazzard, James  26
Hazzard, John.. 26, 359, 360, 363, 366, 367
Hazzard, Jacob  252, 255, 260, 262, 268
Hazzard, Mrs  357
Hazzard, William  357
Heath, James  114
Heavelo, Betty  358, 369
Heavelo, John  346, 361, 367

378

INDEX.

Heavelo, Jonathan  359
Heavelo Landing  348
Heavelo, Mrs  352
Heavelo, Polly  3S8, 369
Heavelo, Rachel  353
Heavelo, Roderick  364
Heavelo, Sarah  353
Heiffer, Thomas  18, 21, 34
Heights, Samuel  67
Heher, Danel  99
Henlopen  2, 6, 11, 13, 30, 31, 42, 49
50,53,81,82,88,223
Henlopen Lighthouse  326
Henry, Francis  71, 76, 96, 97
Herington (Harrington), Eles  152
Hews, EHzabeth  100, 133
Hews, James  78, 138
Hews, Katherine  100, 133
Hickman, Ffrancis  150
Hickman, George  276, 280
Hickman, Joseph  150
Hickman, Mary  350
Hickman, Rev. WiUiam  344, 350
Hickman, WilUam M  284
Hide, Cornelius  145
Higbee, Rev. Daniel  272
Hignett, Robert  68, 69, 74, 75, 109
Hignett, WUUam P  137
Hilard, Daniel  126
Hilard, John  21, 38, 108
HiU, Elizabeth  •. ..135, 136, 137
HiU, John  23, 24, 41, 45, 55, 56, 59, 61
62,63,64,65,73,77,80,81
82,87,89,90,93,96,97,108 lis, 125, 150, 151,155, 362
HiU, Richard  157
HiU, Thomas  21
Hillborn, Mary  331
HiUyard, Charles  158
HiUyard, John  38, 138
HiUyard, John, Jr  138
HiUyard, Rachel  138
Hinman, Mary  131
Hinman, Richard  26, 46, 131, 136
Hirons, Samuel  158
Hix, William  157
Hockaday, Samuel  153
Hoddom  170
Hodges, Barnard  18, 19
Hodkins, Jane  137, 150
Hodkins, Thomas  113, 115, 135
Hogbean, Richard  24
Holgate, Robert  136
Holland  2
Holland, James  265
Holloway, Jane  59
Holloway, Nazareth  134
Holloway, Richard  40
Holt, Rives...46, 47,48, 220, 224, 230, 234
338, 347
Holt, Ryves, Jr  338
Holt, Mrs. Catherine  347
Hoogland, Martin  96
Hook, Polly  363,369
Hook, Mrs  363
Hooker, Mr  363
Hooker, Mrs  363
Hoorn  2

Hoorn KU  2, 5
Hore KU....2, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11,12,13, 18,21
22,30,33,35
Horse Races  56, 130
Horsey, Outerbridge  300, 301-3, 304-8
Hosman, Mrs  367
Howard, Richard  252, 255,258, 260
262, 266
Howard, Robert  157
Howard Wight (Knight). .56, 65, 121, 150
Howard, WiUiam  137
HoweU, Capt  210
Howell, Katherine  154
Howell, Major Edmtind  154
How, John  138, 139
¦ Hudson, Anderson  274, 276
Hudson, Ann  330
Hudson, Henry  1,330
Hudson, Robert  64
Hudson, Walter  252, 255, 257
Huling, James  136,338
Huling, John  129
Huling, Margaret  338
Huling, Martha  149
Humphrey, Alexander  21
Humphrey, Mr  173, 184, 188, 191,207
Hunter, Hon. WiUiam  309
Huntington, Capt  176
Hyshebon, John  7
Inch of the Candle  120
Indian Inlett  17
Indian River. . .78, 106, 111, 116, 124, 198
Indian River Hundred  247
Inglis, Rev. Charles  234
Inglows, Anthony  131
Ingram, John  158
Inloes (Enloe)  64, 139
Inscriptions on Tombstones  338
Ireland  136, 231
Irwin, Mr  355
Irwin, Mrs  355
IsheU, Daniel  140, 143
IsheU, Mary  143
Ixwonboult, Peter  145
Jackson, BarnweU  65, 68, 78, 1 16
Jackson, Betty  357
Jackson, Christopher  18, 21
Jackson, Mr  359
Jackson, Peter  355, 359
Jackson, Polly  356, 367
Jacobs, Albert  23, 118, 124, 128, 135
136,150,339,370
Jacobs, Elizabeth  339
Jacobs, Hannah  369
Jacobs, John  46, 369
Jacobs, Martha  141, 128
Jansen, Jacob  6
Jeames, Elizabeth  353
Jeffrey, John  264
Jenkins, Francis  32,40, 112
Jenlcins, Mr  7
Jenkins, Thomas  171, 172, 174, 174
Jennings, Ann  136
Jennings, Edward  158
Jennings, John  59
Jenny, Rev. Dr  218

INDEX.

379

Johnson, Adam  24, 45, 127, 137
Johnson, Burton  252, 258, 260, 262
Johnson, Charles  17, 33
Johnson, Cornelius. . . 37, 55, 57, 58, 63, 6S
66,71, 74, 78, 79,86
<S| 87,92,94,97,102
Johnson, David  . .263, 266, 273. 276
Johnson, Elisabeth  102
Johnson, F  295
Johnson, John, Jr  68, 75, 110, 134
Johnson, John, Sr  63, 74, 96, 103
105, 110
Johnson, Martha  127
Johnson, Robert  21, 55, 56, 58, 59, 61
63, 65, 106, 108, no, 116, 117
Johnson, Susan  103
Johnson, William  322
Jones  9, 10
Jones, Charles B  332
Jones, Daniel  21, 134
Jones, Evans  158
Jones, Gabriel  21
Jones, Griffith, 17,21,35,108,109,136,357
Jones, Henry  89, 97
Jones, Jane  155
Jones, J. Comly  332
Jones, John  135, 150, 155
Jones, Mary H  332
Jones, Rachel Roberts  332
Jones, Samwell  76, 87, 92
Jones, Solomon  117, 135
Jones, Thomas  118, 135
Joyce, Sarah  143
Joyce, Thomas  143
Jury of Women  103
Kanning, Stephen  132
Kearl, Ben  145
Keene, WiU  56, 58
Keith, Col. WUUam  26,46, 181, 183
KeUam, EUzabeth  335
Kellam, Mary  335
Kellam, Thomas  335
Kelly, Margaret  134
Kelly, WiUiam  48
Kemarr, Charles  326
Kenninge, WiUiam.. . .67, 74, 75, 77, 80, 97
106, 118, 135
Kenny, WiU  104, 105
Kent County. .20, 22, 35, SI, 102, 134, 136
137, 138, 157, 183, 229, 234, 238
Kerle, Annto  154
Kickatan  177
Kickout Neck  64
Kidd, Captain  42
King, Betsy  358
King Charles  6
King, David  361, 365
King, John  3, 12, 30, 56, 70, 75, 77, 96
107, 110
King, Mrs. Mary  284
King, PoUy  358
King, William  365, 369
Kingsberry, Rev. Nathan  272, 283
King's Collector  215
Kipshaven, Bartree  54
Kipshaven, Burkee  136
Kipshaven, Honor  127, 128

Kipshaven, John. .14, 16, 17, 18,22,29,32
33, 36, 37, 38, 40, 54, 55, 58, 59, 60, 61
62, 64, 65, 69, 72, 75, 76, 77, 82, 85, 88
90,91,93, 100, lis, 127, 143
Kipshaven, John, Jr  99, 127, 135 136
Kipshaven, Martha  100, 127, 136
Kipshaw, John  109
Kirwithy (Cirwithen), EUzabeth .... 143
Klaessen (Claessen), 'VViUem  36
Knitting Street  182
Knowles, Jane  129
Knowles, Samuel  129
KockshaU (CoggeshaU), Rich  71
Kollock, Col. Simon  27, 47, 320, 345
Kollock, Comfort  338
Kollock, Jacob. . . 46, 48, 52, 127, 140, 144
230, 294, 338, 339
Kollock, James P. W  310
Kollock, Margaret  332, 347
Kollock, Mary  338
Kollock, Phillip  247, 320
Kollock, Susanna  339
Kurk, John  57, 58, 78, 79, 86
Lacham, George  115
Lamb, Abner  352
Langhorne, Thomas  23, 118
Latham, Adam  158
Lattan, James  ., . . . 133
Lawes, Richard. . .63, 64, 74, 75, 77, 78, 97
104,110, 114, 118, 124, 129
Laytree, James  127
Lee, Joseph  103
Lee, Rt. Rev. Alfred, D.D  281
Lehamaine, PhiUp Th  122, 138
Lekater, Christopher  276
Leonard, Samuel  107
Lepay, Captain  48
Leveritt, EUzabeth  103, 133
Leveritt, Richard  103
Levick, Richard  17, 33, 158
Lewes  1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 20,23, 25, 38,41, 42
43, 44, 45, 51, 85, 172, 178, 181
186, 193, 194,204, 207
Lewes Creek  7
Lewes Road  48
Le-wis, Grace  136
Lewis, Jonathan  352
Lewis, Mary  353
Lewis, Peter  42, 134, 136, 143
Lewis Town  26, 27, 48, 5
Lewis, William".  57
Lewis, Wrixam  52
Leyes, James  60
Lilevoort, John  134
Lind, Mr  166, 168
Lindsay, Robert  326
Linton, John  322
Lismore  231
Liston, Edmund  48
Litany Days  185
Little Creek  18, 271
Little, John, Jr  269
Lloyd, John  21
Lloyd, Mary  1S2
Lloyd, Thomas  118, 122, 142
Lloyd, WiUiam  103
Lober, Michael  1S8

380

INDEX.

Locke, Rev. Richard  232
London, Bryan  145
Lot\g, James  270, 273, 276
Long, Mr  265
Lookerman, Nicholas  158
Louicks, Richard  21
Love Creek  114, 141
Lovelace, Sir Francis  7, 8, 9, 10
Love, Timothy  3
Lowe, Joseph  71
Lowing, William  95
Lowther, George. . .'  45
Luckassen, Peter  6
Ludgar, Peter  24
Lukens, Nathaniel  326
Luker, Mr  354
Lush, Ely  326
Lynch, Author  153
Lyon, Rev. John  220,235, 345
McBean, Angus  52
McCracken, GUbert  328
McCracken, John  259,263, 2 67
McCracken, Randolph  328
McHam  249, 25 1
McHam, Hester  2SS, 257
Mcllvaine, David M  254
Mcllvaine, Mills  255
McKean, Thomas  326
McKee, Doctor  357, 358
McKim, Rev. John Linn  277, 281
Maccandlis, Thomas.  154
Maccomb, John  64
Macnab, Joseph O  136
Maelsteyn, Sander  11, 30
Magaw, Rev. Samuel  234
Mahon, John  150
Manloe, Alice  134
Manloe, John  135
Manlove, Ann  333
Manlove, Elizabeth  330
Manlove, Mark  333
Manlove, Mary  332
Manlove, Nathaniel  332
Manlove, Ruth  332
Manlove, Sarah  332
Manlove, Thomas  333
Manlove, William, Sr  332
Manlove, William, Jr  332
Margin, David  21
Markham, Capt. WilKam  97, 142
Mariner, Thomas  132
Marriner, Reece. .'  275
Marriner, Sarah  272, 273 275
Marriner, Simon.. ..252, 258, 261, 264, 272273
Marrott, Mary  341
Marsh, Ann Mary  341
Marsh. Esther  341
Marsh, James P. W  341
Marsh, John A  341
Marsh, Dr. Joseph  341
Marsh, Mary  341
Marsh, Capt. Paul.... 12, 14, 15,29,30, 59
86, 135
Marsh, Peter  26. 342
Marsh, Sarah Ann Mary  341
Marshall, Catherine  343

Marshall, Charies  23
MarshaU, David J  .-  276
Marshall, Eliza A  338
MarshaU, J. A  338
MarshaU, John  53,276,279,284
Marshall, Mary Q  338
MarshaU, William, Sr. . . . 53, 276, 279, 281
Marshall, WiUiam  343
Martens, Bernard  50
Martens, George  21, 38, 102
Martin, Thomas  252
Maryland. ..3, 7,8,9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 30,31
32, 33, 36, 37, 40, 75, 78, 86, 107, 142
149, 178, 187, 196, 198, 213, 225, 232
234,241
Mason, Catherine  334
Mason, Charles  334
Mason, Charles, Jr. ,  334
Mason, EUas  335
Mason, Jacob  334
Mason, James  334
Mason, Dr. James W  335
Mason, Joseph S  334, 335
Mason, Magdalen  335
Mason, Margaret  129
Mason, Mary  332
Mason, Rachel  334
Mason, Sarah  333
Mason, WiUiam  129
Mason, WiUiam S  334
Massey, WiUiam  r  42
Masten, David  334
Masten, Deborah  334
Masten, Hannah  333
Masten, John  333
Masten, Sarah  333
Masten, WiUiam  333
Masten, W. M  333
Matthews, James  127
Maud, Jane  137, 138
MauU Family  341, 343
Maull, James  52, 53, 310
MauU, John  51,52,252,255,258,262 266, 273,276
Maull, Nehemiah  52, S3
Maull, Peter  326
May, Margaret  143
May, Thomas  143, 146
Medcalf, George  158
Mein, Patrick  118
Mennonists  34
Merten, George  38
Metcalf, Esther  330
Metcalf, John  330
Metcalf, Mary  330
Metcalf. Thomas  330
Michiel, Jan  3, 36
Middleton, Mr  170
Midgely, 'Thomas  152
Midleton, EUinor  137
Miers, Elizabeth  134
Miers, John  40, 42, 126, 134, 141, 143
Miers, Mary  134
Milby, John  270, 274, 276
Miles, Colonel  53
Milford  266, 268,270, 274
275,277,278,283
MiU Creek  126

INDEX.

381

MiUen, Robert  21
Millen, WUUam  21
MiUenor, Robert  56, 58
MiUer, Mary  352
MiUiner, Rebecka  137
Milliner, John  150
MiUington, John  138, 141
Millner, Mercy  137, 150
MUlner, WiUiam  137
Mills, James  30
Miscellaneous Records.  285
MispUUon Creek  82, 84, 88, 141
Mitchell, Mark  143, 151
Molestine, Abraham  142
Molestine, Alexander. .4, 12, 14, 16, 17, 22
26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 36, 40, 46, 55
58, 59, 61, 63, 64, 65, 69, 75, 77, 80
93, 102, 108, no, 116, 124, 135
Molestine, Alexander, Jr  143
Molestine, Elizabeth  143
Molestine, Henry  42,67, 122, 135, 138
148,157
Molestine, John  47, 142
Molestine, Lidia  142
Molestine, Margaret  100, 133, 138, 141
148
Molestine, Mary  138
Molestine, Thomas  79, 142, 155
MoUeston, WilUam  53
Moore, Isaac  143
Moore, John  103, 113
Moore, Major  356
Moore, Mr  199
Moore, Mirs  -.  199
Moore, N  98
Morgan, Edward  137, 149
Morgan, Mary  ,  ISl
Morgan, Thomas  138, 143
Morgan, WiUiam  157
Morris, PhiUip  54, 62
Morris, Samuel, Jr  52
Mosely, EUzabeth  '.  134
Mosely, Hannah  134
Mosely, William  134
Moulder, Jane  342
Moulder, Mary  342
Mountveale, Capt  61
Mulberry Street  40, 41, 182
Murder Kill  346
Murdick, Robert  29, 37, 65, 137
Murffy, Charles  102
MurtherkiU  8, 19, 33, 134
MusmiUian Creek  131, 356
Muster RoU of 1846  311
Muther Creek  33
Myers, Henry  276
Myles, Mr  170
Nandins, Mr.  47
Narragansett  142, 170
Naws, Benjamiii  370
Naws, Edmund  46
Naws, Edward  345
Naws, John  370
NeiU, Rev. Edward S  317
NeiU, Col. Henry  321
Neill, Rev. Hugh  "... 193
NeiU, Dr. John  318

Neill, Joseph  25
Nesbit, Mr  53
NewaU, John  56, 58, 157
NewaU, William  158
New Amstel  2, 3, 5, 6, 11, 12, 30
New Amsterdam  6
Newbold  48
New Castle.. .7, 9, 10, 17,21,22, 36, 47, 51
80, 81,84,85, 142, 177, 181
187. 192,204, 207,223, 225
259,294,343,355
New Church  268, 284
Newcomb, Ann. , .79, 80, 94, 114, 137, 151
Newcomb, Baptis. 67, 69, 74, 77, 79, 80, 87
92, 94, 97, 102, 104, 111, 121, 137, 151
Newcomb, Baptist, Jr  151
Newcomb, Daniel  151
Newcomb, David  151
Newcomb, William  151
Newell, George  158
New England  137, 141, 142, 233
New Jersey  51, 220
Newmains, Mrs  199
New Netheriand  3, 4, 5, 11, 21, 34
New York.. .8, 10, 11, 21, 22, 25, 30, 31, 32
33, 39, 57, 60, 61, 120, 122
142, 153,236,238,272,343
NichoUs, Captain  10
NichoUs, Governor  33
NichoUs, Matthias  17, 32
NichoUs, Samuel  157
Nickerson, Joseph  158
Nixon, Edward  25
Norman, Anne  340
Norman, Annes  340
Norman, Eliza  340
Norman, John  340
Norman, John B  340
Norman, Joshua L  340
Norman, Mary  340
Norman, MiUs R  340
Norman, Miriam  340
Norman, Patience  340
Norman, Purnal  340
Norman, Thomas  278, 280, 340
Norman, Thomas L., Judge  340
Norris, Admiral Sir John  176
Northampton County  137
North Carolina  48
Norwick  232
Nunez, Daniel  46
Nunez. Daniel, Jr.. .249, 294, 338, 345, 348
Nunez, Esther  339
N-unez, Hen. 0  338
Nunez, Mary  338, 345, 347
Nunez, Moses  339
Oakey, John  .55, 59,63, 66, 68, 69, 77
80, 93, 100, 103, no, 150
Oakey, Mary  110
Qboab, Moses  141
Oharon, Timothy  158
Oldman, EUzabeth  140, 144
Oldman, Thomas  41, 42, 123, 136, 140
144, 154
Oliver, Alexander  101
Oliver, Levi  255
OUerton  189

382

INDEX.

Orema, L  21
Orion, William  141
Orr, John  269
Orr, WiUiam  42, 124, 155
Orr, WilUam P  282, 284
Orr's MiU  128
Orton, George  340
Orton, Hannah  340
Orton, WiUiam  340
Osborne, Capt. John  75, 86, 96
Osborne, Matthew  76, 93, 138, 148
Outim, John  57
Owen, Magdalen  335
Pack, E  21
Pagan Creek  65,134
Page, WiUiam  62, 65
Paling, Simon  29, 37, 56, 110, 111, 154
Palraer, Anthony  51, 52
Parishof Sussex County. 197, 215, 226, 234
Parke, Thomas  158
Parker, Anderson  132, 247, 320
Parker, Edward  132
Parker, George  247, 251, 261, 263
273, 276, 279, 281
Parker, George. Jr  276, 279, 281
Parker, John  254, 258, 260, 263
266,268,273,276
Parker, John, Jr  274, 275
Parker, Matthew  129
Parker, Thomas  132
Parkiomen  184
Parktown  347
Parling, Elizabeth  54, 111, 134
Parling, Simon  56, 71, 80, 90, 116, 134
Parmore (Palmer), Tabitha  359
Parr, Richard  144
Parradee, John  157
Parradee, Steven  157
Parrit the Indian  62, 76
Parrit's Neck  65
Parrot   10
Parry, Ester  130, 140
Parry, Rowland  140
Parsley, Anthony  77, 80, 126
Parsley, EUzabeth  137
Parvis, WiUiam  157
Patte, Ann  150
Patte, John  150
Patte, Lidy  137, 150
Patte, Richard... .59, 65, 66, 77, 78, 79, 92
95, 113, 150
Pawling, Dina  154
Paynter, Albert J  339
Paynter, Cornelius  252, 256, 259, 261
263,274,276
Paynter, David  274, 275
Paynter, Eliza  ,  331
Paynter, Elizabeth  331
Paynter, James J  339
Paynter, Jane  124, 339
Paynter, John P  129, 155, 282"
Paynter, Mary  136, 331
Paynter, Mary S  339
Paynter, Richard, Jr  124, 125, 134
144, 280
Paynter, Sally  129, 136, 137, 141
154,358,361

Paynter, Samuel Rowland  361
Paynter, Samuel, Sr  129, 136, 154, 251
253, 255, 258, 262, 273, 274, 276, 330, 331
Paynter, Samuel, Jr  256, 258, 259, 261
263, 266, 273, 276, 281, 361, 330
Paynter, Sarah H  339, 358, 362
Paynter, WiUiam  274,276, 279, 282
339, 363
Pearce, Jno  120, 138
Peaty, Richard  17, 33
Pedington, Henry  89
Pemberton, Elizabeth  135, 144
Pemberton, Joseph  47, 187, 223
Pemberton, Capt. Thomas  40, 41, 42
45, 62, 93, 124, 125, 143, 151, 154
Pendree, Margaret  136
Penn, Hon. John  326
Penn, John  294
Penn's Heirs  187
Penn, William. ...21,33,80,81,82,83,84
85,98,99, 100, 101, 112, 113
Pennewell, David  361
PenneweU, Mrs  363,365
Pennsylvania  21, 22, 51, 80, 81,83, 84
85,179,183,187
Permaine, Henry  138
Permaine, Henry, Jr  138
Permaine, Jane  138
Pernatry, Robert R  21
Perrot, Richard  8
Petefar, Herry  6
Peterkin, Elizabeth  135
Peterkin, James  42, 134, 143, 149, 154
Peterkin, Jane  135, 154
Peterkin, Thomas  154
Peters, Rev. Mr  186, 221, 234, 237
Petters, Abraham  106
Pettitt, Jane  148
Pettly, Thomas  112
Phelman, Thomas  156
Philadelphia.. .22, 23, 24, 35, 41, 42, 44, 45
49, 50, 137, 138, 144
Phillips, Hester  347
PhiUips, Jacob  48
Phillips, Thoraas  17, 18, 30, 120
Pickering, Charles  24, 122, 142
Pieters, Abraham  36
Pieters, Anthony  36
PUes, Affyance  143
PUes, Comfort  143
Piles, Isaac  .'  143
Piles, Rebecca  '  145
Piles, WiUiam  127,250
Piles, William, Jr  151
PUot Town  345
Pindar, Thomas  56, 58, 59
Pinner, Sarah  345, 350
Piscatawav  179
Planer, William  13, 37, 38, 68
Flasket, Ann  220
Flasket, J. P  220
Pleasanton, John  158
Plockhoy  3, 6, 34, 87, 97, 285-8
Plomer, Henry  21
Plundering of Lewes  41, 47
Pocleut Letebt  154
Pocopson  103
Polk, EUzabeth  333

INDEX.

383

Polk, Ephraim  333
Polk, John  271
Polk, Mary  333
Polk, William  255, 258
Pollard, Samuel  143
Pomfrey, Walter  Ill
Pond (Blockhouse)  25
Ponder, Alexander  158
Ponder, John  158
Pope, Samuel  138, 141
Port Lewis  45
Porter, AbeU  113
Porter, Robert  21
Pothooks Creek  124
Potter, Abraham  60, 67, 129
Potter, Jane  ¦  128, 137
Powel, Walter M  21
Prentice, WiUiam  23, 29, 32, 37
40,59,112
Presbyterian Records  317
Presbyterians  224
Preston, Samuel  125,146, 152, 154
Prettyman, Frances  131
Prettyman, James  268
Prettyman, Thomas  268
Price, Catheren  156
Price, Catherine  156
Price, Ian  156
Price, John  138
Price, Mrs. Eliza  345
Price of Pews  252
Price, RacheU  156
Price, Thomas, Sr. ..23, 121, 138, 146, 155
Price, Thomas, Jr  *. . .149, 150, 156
Price, William  156
Prime Hook  20, 22, 23, 78, 79,88
97,112, 137, 138, 141
Prince, Ed  21
Prison  128
Pryor, Thomas  52
Pullen, Capt  43, 44
Pulpit Hangings  235
Putteet, John  126, 155
Pye, John  80, 150, 151
Quakers  45, 178, 224, 369
Quant, Thomas  47
Queen's Road  128
Quincy, Rev. Mr  234
Rawlings, William  326
Ray, Alexander  18, 21, 34
Rayman, Dina  154
Rayman, Mary  144
Rayman, Peter  144, 154
Rechardson, John, Jr  21
Redwood, John  24, 41, 141
Reed, Captain  52
Register, John  157
Rehobah IJay  17
Rehoboth  26, 124. 136
Rehoboth Bay  33, 71, 78, 198
Rehoboth Creek  3
Renords, Richard  137
Rest, WiUiam  114
ReveUle, RandaU  3,13,37
Reynolds, John  158
Reynolds, Rev. John  279, 280

Rhoads, EUenor  26
Rhoads, Hinman  26, 249
Rhoads, Margaret  26
Rhode Island  142
Richards, EUoner  135
Richards, John  85, 87, 89, 104
138,142, 155
Richards, Mary H  155
Richards, Robert  76, 104, 105, 135
Richards, Sai-ah  138
Richards, William  52, 155
Richards, Wm. M. L  284
Richardson, Hannah  134
Richardson, James  134
Richardson or Richards, John. ..16, 17, 18
33, 34
Richardson, Mary  144
Richeson, John R  21
Rickets, Reece  353
Rida, Nance  361
Ridont, J  321, 322
Rideout, Nichols  136
Rigs, Ann  '.  137, 139
Rigs, George  137,139
Risbie, Capt. James  326
River Lewes  25
Roads, Comfort  119, 123, 138
Roads, Elizabeth  134,. 135, 136, 138
151, 152
Roads, John  110, 115, 119, 121, 123
135, 137, 138, 152, 249, 250
Roads, Patience  138, 151, 152
Roberts, James  53
Roberts, Joseph  331
Roberts, Mary HiUbom  331
Roberts, Rachel  331
Robinson, Alfred P  283
Robinson, Burton  366
Robinson, George  158
Robinson, John  303
Robinson, Peter  247, 250, 256, 320
Rodney, Csesar  158
Rodney, Caleb  255,257, 266, 270, 292
Rodney, Captain  164
Rodney, Danl  158
Rodney, Daniel  249,251, 253, 257, 261
272, 276,279,282, 283, 309
Rodney, Henry F  276
Rodney, John  52,255, 257,279,282
Rodney, John, Jr  276, 280
Rodney, Nicholas R  280
Rodney, Thomas  269, 273, 274, 310
Rodney, William  35, 56, 58, 63, 64, 66
69,96, 123, 136, 138, 158
Roebuck  53
Roebuck Frigate  326
Rogers, John  13S
Rogers, Thomas  78
Roods (Rhoads), John ... 4, 15, 16, 17, 18
22, 23, 26, 30, 32, 33, 36, 46, 47, 55
56, 57, 58, 60, 62, 64, 65, 67, 69, 70
. 72,77,79,80,81,82,85,81,92
Roots (Rhoads), Doctor Jan  11, 15, 30
32, 33, 40
Ross, Edward  357
Ross, George.. 172, 184, 187, 199,225.227
Ross, William  53, 321, 325
Row, Frederick  253. 257

384

INDEX.

Rowland, EUzabeth  330
Rowland, Mary  149
Rowland, Sally  357
Rowland, Samuel  28. 42, 43, 46, 51
Rowland, Samuel, Jr  51
Rowland, William  51
Rowles, Bartree  94
Rowles, Bryant  15, 56, 77, 78, 86
Rumbolt, Francis  59,61
Russel, Mary  353
Russell, Betty  362
RusseU, Bubba  363
Russell, Hannah  355, 359, 361
Russell, John  46,247,251, 282
Russell, Joseph  366
Russell, Liddy  355
RusseU, Lydia  362, 364, 369
RusseU, Philip  23,45, 46, 118, 121
122, 123, 137, 143
RusseU, PhiUip  182
RusseU, Sarah  138, 144
Ryan, Edward  18
St. George's Chapel  191, 194, 221, 226
227, 232, 233, 248, 252, 338, 345
St. GUes  65, 106
St. Jacob  6
St. John's Parish  158
St. John's (Sussex Co.)  241
St. John the Baptist Chapel  193, 202
225,226
St. Jones County  19, 20, 21, 85
St. Jones Creek  17, 20
St. Marys  10, 32, 40
St. Matthew's Chapel  158, 160, 191
202, 225, 227, 232, 233, 234, 346
St. Paul's  234, 238'
St. Peters  247, 250
St. Peter's Church  213, 222, 230, 232
St. Peter's Congregation  157,191,234
Sadler, Mickell  139
Samuel, Corporal  5,6
Sander, Anthony  36
Sanders  10
Sanders, Charles  123, 142
Sanders, Mr  104
Sargent, Stephen  126, 138
Saverus, Hendrick  150
Savidge, John  60, 68, 76, 102, 113, 126
Scarbrough, Mathew  92, 113
Schey, Ferdinand  278
School at Lewes  327
Schoolrnaster  2
Schnieder, John  53
-Scotland  170
Scott, Comfort  136
Scott, Ferimia  141
Scott, Jane  1 46
Scott, Jeremiah  117
Seaford  278
Seaton, Ann  135
Seatton, James  143, 154 .
Selthuge, WiUiam  147
Senior, Mary  132
Shackleday, James  18, 33
Shackley, John  59, 61, 63
Shackelys Plantation  18
Shaltham, Jacob  59, 61,86,93, 135

Shankland, Ann  340
Shankland, Ann Mary  341
Shankland, John  47
Shankland, Mills  340
Shankland, Patience  340
Shankland, Rhoades  340
Shankland, Robert  46
Shankland. Sarah  340
Shankland, WiUiam  47, 340
Shard, Randolph (Chirurgeon). .. 110, 114134
Sharp, John  170
Sharpe, Horo  323
Shattain, Jacob  67
Shaw, Henry  158, 203
Shaw, William  326, 335
Sheepard, Harcklos  67, 93, 96, 97, 105
108, 115, 131, 135
Sheepard, Mary  131
Shibo, Mr  165
Shields, Luke  48, 49, 130, 335, 342
Shields, Mary  335, 342
Ship Society  115
Shipcarpenter Street  25
Shoulter, Richard. . .65, 69, 74, 77, 93, 133142
Showell, Samuel  75, 78
Sickoneysincks Kil  12
Sikeoyness  1
Sikes, EUzabeth  118, 140
Sikes, Helen  137
Sikes, James  121, 138, 140
Sikes, Nathaniel  118, 121, 138
Sikoness  1,5
Silby, Thomas  77
Simons, Johana  135, 144
Simons, John  105, 107, 135, 138, 144
Simons, Mary  55
Simons, William  71
Simmons, WiU  106
Sims, Henrietta  294
Simson, James  1 36, 1 54
Simson, Margaret  134, 136, 154
SkeUinger, WUliam  280
Skidemor, Henry.. 63, 65, 66, 68, 78, 85, 97
Skilley, Rev. WilUam  251, 252, 253
Slater Creek  13, 76, 92, 97, 112, 356
Slater Neck  63, 68, 155
Slawter, Thos  158
SUcher, Wigbolt  35
Smith, Doctor  13
Sraith, Rev. Dr  220, 221,234
Smith, Francis  24
Smith, Henry  13, 15, 19, 20, 22, 23, 30
31, 32, 36, 38, 39, 40, 63, 64, 66, 93
102, 112
Smith, Henry, Jr.63, 69, 78, 79, 85, 90, 137146
Smith, Isaac  320
Smith, Jane  ,  145
Smith, Jenkin  150
Smith, John. .56, 57, 58, 77, 78, 92, 95, 130
Smith, Judge  10
Smith, Mary  134, 145
Smith, NathanieU  114
Smith, Pieter  36
Smith, Robert  46, 47
Smith, Sarah  137, 146

INDEX.

385

Smith, Thomas  130
Smith, WUUam  24, 143, 145
Snouds, Mrs  356
Soldiers of 1813  !'.'.!!!'.'. 292
Somerset County  3, 2 5, 75, 86, 96, 1 1 2
135, 182,225,241
South River  1, 2, 6, 11, 30
South Seas  43
Southrin, Ed  12, 14, IS, 17, 29, 30, 31
32, 33, 36, 38, 39, 55, 57, 58, 63, 66
67, 79, 80, 81, 82, 85, 86, 90, 95, 99
107,133,135
Southrin, Mary  133, 135
Spartes, WiUiam  21
Spencer, Frances  141, 143, 148
Spencer, John  337, 343, 344
Spencer, Major  Ill, 122, 141, 145
Spencer, Margaret  141, 143
Spencer, WiUiam, Jr  116, 141, 143, 146
S. P. G. Journal  228
Spicer, Mathew  132
Spooner, Charles  124, 137
Spooner, Charles  71, 136, 154
Spooner, Susanna  137
Squyer, Peter  145
Staplton, William  149
Starges, Honor  127
Starges, Jonathan  127
Star, Dick  360
Starr, Author  25, 96, 108, 116, 117, 135
137, 144
Starr, Catherine  135, 141, 144
Starr, Nathaniel  150
Staten Island  206, 207
Staton, Comfort  351
Staton, Esther  336
Staton, Margaret M  336
Staton, Warrington  336
Stayton, Comfort  351
Stayton, Eliza  348
Steel, James  46
Stephen, Adam  294, 321, 325
Stephens & Booth  107
Stevens, Henry H  21
Stevens, John  13, 16, 17, 18, 33
Stevens, Richard  55
Stiles, George  42
Stoaklie, John  42, 125
StoakUe, Woodman  124
Stockley, Burton  276
Stockley, Sarah  260
Stockley, Paynter  52
Stockley, Woodman  250, 256, 260
Stocks  117,118
Stokeley, EUzabeth  137
Storey, Nathan  53
Streacher, Thomas  65
Streate, Joane  60, 94, 107, 110
Strecther, Mrs  355
Streeter, Henry  14, 32, 96
Stretcher, Edward  143, 149
Stretcher, Mr. Fen-wick  198, 203
Stretcher, Loury  144
Strieker (Stracher), Henry. . .3, 23, 42, 55
56, 57, 58, 59, 61, 62, 63, 65, 66, 68
70, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79 81, 85, 86
92, 105, 108, 117, 120, 121, 129
134, 135, 138, 149, 154

Strieker, Sarah.lOO, 133, 137, 138, 411, 144
Stubbs, Rev. Mr  162
Stuckbury, EUenor  135, 136
Stuckbury, John  135, 136
Sturgis, Stephen  328, 335
Stuyvesant, Petrus  3, 5
Styles, Samuel  17, 18, 32
Subscribers for St. Peter's Church. . 222
Subscription List for Becket's Farm. 216
218
Suffragan Bishop  188
Sugars, Sarah  143
Sumerford, Jeffrey.. .67, 100, 102, 103, 110
Sussex County  2, 7, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26
27, 28, 35, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 46
47,51,52,81,82,83.84,85
Sussex County Enlarged  234
Sussex on Delaware  165, 169, 171
181, 197, 220
Sutton  157
Swaanendael  1,2
Swain, John  106
Swedes  2, 21
Sweney, John  276
Swetman, Jean  149
Swetman, WiUiam  124, 149
Syonsen, Yoems  138
Taelus, Michiel  6
Talbot County  153
Talbot, Rev. Mr  162
Tarrant, Thomas  158
Tasker, Benj  324
Tayler, Mathew  71
Tayler, William  37, 75
Taylor, Apalina  136
Taylor, EUzabeth  143
Taylor, Christopher  133
Taylor, John  158
Tea Ships  318
Terry, A. H  159
Thomas, Ann  137
Thomas, Governor  204, 210
Thomas, James  138
Thompson, George  42
Thompson, James  53
Thompson,, Jane C  339
Thompson, John M  339
Thompson, Sarah  339
Thompson, Rev. Thomas  220
Thorne, Rev. Sydenham  238, 344. 349
Thornton, David  158
Thornton, EUshe  160
TiU, William  27,28,29,45, 183,211
Tillotson, Abp  209, 210, 211
TUton, John  157
Timber Neck  25
Timber Neck  25
Tingley, Rev. Samuel.. .221, 222, 237, 238
346, 348
Tom, William  7
'Tomson, Ezekiel  158
Tenny, Diggerie  42
Tomlinson, Robert  139
Torbut, Esseble  137
Toryism  346
Townsend, Jacob  160
To-wnsend, John  67, 71

386

INDEX.

Townsend, WiU  55, 62, 67, 86, 92
Trenton  220
Trottgr, WiU  55, 66, 68, 88, 92, 93, 108
Trout, Elizabeth  143
Truitt, George  135
Truitt, Joanna  345,350
Truitt, John  345, 350
Truitt, Sarah  345, 350, 352
Trustees, St. Georges  247, 250
Trustees, St. John the Baptist  000
Trustees, St. Matthews  000
Trustees, St. Peters  247, 250, 283
Truxton, EUzabeth  339
Truxton, Thomas  339
Truxton, WiUiam  339
Tryal, James  158
Tucker, Elizabeth  143
Tucker, Henry  143
Tucker, John  158
TuU, John  000
TuU, Matha  151
TuU, Mr  363
TuU, Richard  138 •
Tumer, Isaac  258,265, 267, 270
Turner, Joseph  50
Tumer, Martin  158
Tumer, Robert  137
Tuxbury, EUmer  150
Tuxbury, John  135,150
Upland  30
Ussher. Rev. Arth-ur  186. 228, 231, 348
"Van Courtland, Capt., Stephanus. . . . 142
"Vandehyden, Mathias  73
"Van den Borgh, Hendrick  142
"Vanderhagen, Mathias  135
Van Frenho ven  2
Van Kirk, Ard Johnson. .55, 101, 122, 141
145, 148
Van Kirk, Grace Johnson  148
Van Renssalaer. Kilian  \  1,2
Van Ruyven  5
Van Sweeringen, Sheriff  5
Vent, James  366
Verhoofe, ComeUus.. . 14, 15, 16, 19, 21, 22
29, 31, 33, 36, 37, 55, 59, 63, 65, 66, 68
69,70, 71,72, 73, 74, 75,77,85
97, 102, 107, 110, 114, 134
Verhoofe, Eve  134
Verplank, Gurlaine  37
Vessels, Henry  357
Vestry Records  247
Vines, John  22, 23, 33, 37, 54, 55, 67
68, 70, 72, 75, 77, 79, 84, 85, 90, 94
102, 107, 111, 118, 145
Vines, Katherine  116, 133
Virginia  8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 30,31,33,37
93,96, 103, 113, 137
Virginia  172, 173, 177, 179
196,221,227,237
VoshaU, Obadiah  158
Walker, Capt., Nathaniel... .17, 33, 54, 56
57, 58, 65, 70, 72, 85, 88, 93, 133, 137
Walker, James  45,127, 136, 143,154
Walker, James  344, 350
Walker, James Miers  345, 350
Walker, John  21, 111, 136

Walker, Mary  344, 350
Waller, Mrs  357
Walker, Robert  148
Waltham, John  45
Walton, George  46
Walton, WUUam  ¦  158
Waples, Burton  247
Wardens, St. Peters  250
Wargent, Willi&m  67,111
Warner, Edmond  88, 89, 102
War of 1813  273, 288-93
Warren, Jacob  113, 123, 138
Warrin, Robert  64
Warrin, Sarah  91
Warrington, Peter  280
Warrington, Stephen  260, 262
Warrington, Thomas... .260, 262, 265, 268
273,275
Warrington, William  198
Washington, John  104
Water MiU  126
Watson, Captain  41
Watson, Elizabeth  150
Watson, Elizabeth  169
Watson, Isaac  143
Watson, John  137, 143
Watson, Joseph  360
Watson, Luke  353
Watson, Luke, Jr. .137, 138, 149, 150, 151
Watson, Margaret  137
Watson, Mary  137, 149
Watson, Samuel  137
Watson, WUUara  18
Wattson, Luke... .16, 17, 18, 22, 23,24, 32
33, 40, 41, 44, 45, 55, 56, 58, 60, 62
63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 69, 72, 73, 76, 77
78, 80, 81, 82, 85, 91, 95, 106, 116
123, 129, 155
Wattson, Luke, Jr  42, 60, 130, 146
Wattson, Sarah  129, 137
Webb, AbigaU  160
Webb, Hannah Thompson  343
Webb, Jacob  343
Webb, Mary Bedford  343
Webb, Sylvester. ..160 ,263, 266, 269, 272
Webe, Isaac  21, 137
Webe, Mary  -  137
Webster, Johii  21, 137
Webster, Rachel  131
Weedon, James  36
Weems, Mason Locke  241, 246
Weems, Parson  269
Welbor, John  347
Welch, Nehemiah D  158
Welius, Domine  5
Wellbume, Thomas  14, 31, 32, 55
WeUs, James  16, 17,32,33,40, 56.57
SK59, 67-
Wells, John  151
Wells, John  157-
Wells, Thos  158
Wells, Thos., Jr  157
WeUs, WiUiam HiU  .2.9.5, 299, 309
Welton, Rev. Doctor  187, 189
Wessels, Gerardus  115
West, AbigaU  132
West, EUzabeth  132
West, George  131
West India Company  1,2

INDEX.

387

West. Jersey  142, 154
West, John  131, 132
West, John  267, 269, 276
West, Major, John  13, 14, 31
West, Tabitha  132
West, Thomas  131
Westcott, Mary  132
Westly, Richard  44, 45
Westrom, Abram  -107, 134
Wetherspoon, Da-vid  48
Weyman, Robert  184
Whalebone  115
"Wharton, Walter  7, 8, 10
Whetmann, Stephen.. 65, 71, 77. 86, 87, 90 96
"Whipping Post  117
"Whitefield, Mr  209, 210, 212, 215
"White, Grace  138
White, John  115, 136
White, Samuel  115
"White-Marsh  184
"White Wrixliam  134, 138
Whitesides, Rev  278
Whitman, Stephen  104, 108, 139, 141
Whittman, EUzabeth  100
"Whittman, John  100
"WhitweU, Frances 16, 17, 21, 32, 33, 38, 40
"Whore KiU  2, 3, 7,9, 11, 15, 16, 17, 18
20, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39
40,42,81,82,84, 85
Wickes, Rev. WiUiam  272
Widows, &c., of the County  100
Wilkins, Andone  357
Willbank, Mr  198
WUliam and Mary  24
William and Nicholas  6
WiUiara, Richard, Jr  127
• WUUaras, Anne  131
Williaras, Edward  63, 64, 66, 70, 144
Williams, Ffrancis.. . .76, 77, 104, 135, 136
WiUiams, Henry  113
Williams, Jaraes  118
Williaras, John  44
WUUaras, John  117
WUUams, Rebecca  141, 150
Williams, Reynear  160
Williams, Richard  54,55,56, 126, 127
Williams, Robert  57, 58, 59, 78,89
Williams. Thomas  18, 21, 34
WUUs, Richard  113
Willoughby, WUUam  13, 18
Willson, Mercy  150
WiUson, Rev. Matthew  2 50, 3 1 7
WiUson, Thomas  150
Wilmington  280, 282
WUson, Dr  357
Wilson, James  364
Wilson, Mary P  331
Wilson, Mr  347, 349, 351, 353
Wilson, Simon K  331
Wilson, Thomas  250
Wiltbank, Abigail  133
Wiltbank, Abraham  .'  51, 52
Wiltbank, Abraham  124, 133, 150
Wiltbank, Abraham, Jr  133
Wiltbank, Ann  329
Wiltbank, Anne  133
Wiltbank, Coraly J  330
Wiltbank, ComeUus  42, 44, 45, 47

Wiltbank, Cornelius  126, 135, 143, 150
Wiltbank, Cornelius  251, 253, 256, 258
261,263,273,329, 347
Wiltbank, Cornelius, Jr  253, 322
Wiltbank, Dr. Alfred Stocldey. . . . 330, 332
Wiltbank, Elizabeth  143
Wiltbank, Esther  329
Wiltbank, Fonira  133
Wiltbank, Frank Coraly  330
Wiltbank, George  353
Wiltbank, Halraanus. . . .56, 57, 58, 61, 62
67,68,70,73,74,78,79,86,87,89 91,97,102,104,105
Wiltbank, Halmanius Frederick. . . 3, 4, 11
12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 29, 30, 31
32, 33, 36, 37, 40, 54, 55, 57, 58, 59
61, 62, 63, 64, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71
73,74, 78, 79,80,81,86
Wiltbank, Isaac  124, 150
Wiltbank, Jacob  133
Wiltbank, John. .. .247, 251, 276, 320, 329
Wiltbank, John, Jr  322
Wiltbank, Jonica  100, 113, 115, 143
Wiltbank, Mary EUzabeth  .332,368
Wiltbank, Rebecca  136
Wiltbank, Rev. James. .251, 254, 256, 258
259, 261, 263, 266, 268, 271, 331
Wiltbank, Robert  330
Wiltbank, Samuel Paynter  330
Winch, John  145
Winder, Robert  3
Winder's Neck  93
WindmiU  .'  119
Winn, EHzabeth  130, 137, 138
Winn, Thomas, Dr  113, 118, 119, 121
123, 130, 137
Winster, Johannis  130, 136, 138
Winster, Peter  130
Wocon, John  116
Wolfe, John  252, 255, 258, 262, 268
Wolfe, Mary  130
Wolfe, Reece.'  247, 252, 276, 338
Wolfe, Rice  130
Wolfe, William  150
Wolfenden, Mary  155
Wolgast, Otto  4, 14, 17, 18, 29, 33, 36
37, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63, 106, 110, 114
Wolves  109, 116
Wood, Robert  158, 330
Woodward, Harry  323
Woolf, Daniel. .255, 258, 268, 273, 275, 338
Woolf, Sarah  338
Woolf, William 252, 258, 260, 266, 270, 273
Worcester County  232
Wright, Nat  364
Wrighte, John  135
Wynkoop, John  47
Wynne, John  138
Yeates, Jasper  45, 47
Yerris, Barrant  154
York, Duke of  19, 20, 21, 80, 84
Yorke  33
Young, Caly  358
Young, Catherine  344
Young, George.... 18, 23, 33,55, 59, 74, 75
77, 78, 79, 90, 96, 135
Young, John  344, 349, 365
Young, Mary  59, 135, 349

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