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INTRODUCTION "The history of every family is a romance; to those who scratch its pages, a poem." (Lamartine)

The reasons for compiling a family history are many and varied.

I can think of several, but possibly the most substantive

one has to do with finding the answer to that age-old question: Who am I?

Biologists tell us we are a composite of various

chromosomes conveying hereditary characteristics representative of all our ancestry.

Over the half century I have lived, I have seen

in myself traits, both good and bad, that caused me to wonder about this.

Probably the most significant example of a trait of mine

that I feel I was gifted with is a love of God and a thirst to know and understand things of a religious nature.

Now that I have

completed this labor of love and come to better know my ancestors, I feel that some of their genes found their way to my being; certainly my heart has been touched by their lives. Through my religious affiliation, I know that I am a child of God; through this endeavor, I have come to know I am a child of goodly lineage.

Another characteristic of mine has been

an innate love of America, a patriotic respect for its past.

Now

I can feel doubly proud that many of my ancestors were some of those courageous souls who made America great. No doubt there are lots of others "out there" who possess some relationship to these same ancestors and thus we share a common heritage.

Should this

book come into the hands of some cousins now unknown to me, I would welcome your acknowledgment and contact.

EIGHT GENERATION ANCES TRAL CHART n...

September 1980

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4 Samuel P o t t s born I * " where M o n m o u t h C o . , N J merrled 1 8 J u l y 1 8 1 5 died 1863 where C l e r m o n t C o . , O h i o

born 9 Nov 1 7 5 6 where M o n m o u t h C o . , N J died 2 2 - J a n 1813 9 S a r a h AshEon bom c a 1760 where New J e r s e y died 1845

Thomas P o t t s

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born wh«r» died where

Mary

born where died 11 born

Riggs

1799 New J e r s e y 23 J a n 1 8 8 1 Clermont Co. , Ohio

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where

16 R i c h a r d born 1733 Rebecca )7 born 1737

Pntts Arney

Died

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33 arah Beakes 34 j o s e p n a r n e y 1 8 0 1 J * £S a r a h

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1706-1757 1772

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2 Samuel P o t t s born 18 March 1 8 2 9 where Clermont Co. married 14 F e b I 8 6 0 died 26 Nov 1 9 0 6 where Clermont Co. W-

3 Ellen Kerr born 14 F e b 1 8 3 9 where Clermont Co. died 28 F e b 1924 where Clermont Co.

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John Kerr 23 March 1813 where Dumfrieshire, Scot. died where

born 1 7 D e c 1 7 8 0 where Dumf r i e s h i r e , died i n S c o t l a n d

3 O c t 1897 Clermont Co.

7 Marv A g n e s P a g a n born 17 J u . l v 1 8 1 7 where Scotland died 2 6 May 1 8 7 3 where C l e r m o n t C o .

George Kerr bom Scotland 2S C h r i s t i a n B u r g e s s bom Scotland 26 John Bell born 1762 24

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born

Ohio " * !*Y ALICE DOLL spouse ol No. 1

•7 '** Mahlon S t a c y

born 8 J a n 1 7 7 0 where Scotland died 1 6 A u g 1 8 5 2 13 Helen 3 e l l

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POTTS

born 2 S e p t 1 8 8 0 where G u i n e a , C l e r m o n t , married 1 3 Nov 1 9 0 1

born where

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died

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The upcoming 100th birthday of my grandfather, Charles Potts, provided the needed

incentive to put together in some

organized fashion all the material gathered over the years.

The

genealogy herein is incomplete only to the extent that the data, if indeed recorded at all, is still to be discovered. Shown on the eight generation ancestral chart as No. 1 is CHARLES

POTTS

and

gives

his

known

ancestors.

Within

this

compilation when first referring to such ancestors, I have put in parentheses ancestral

the

chart.

number

of that

This

progenitor

compilation

as shown

pertains

on this

to the paternal

ancestry of Charles Potts only and contains virtually nothing on those lines going back from his mother, Ellen Kerr. I do have some data on those maternal lines but only a start and welcome the interest of any who care to pursue that research. additions and/or corrections

I invite

(documented, if possible) to the

Potts' collection for I am sure in any such compilation, mistakes are unintentionally made.

As a general "rule of thumb" I have

accepted as "accurate" any data I found recorded in two or more sources giving the same information. Admittedly, this is dangerous in that one source may have used the other for its documentation, and too, some data was found in only one source.

Because primary

sources are obviously limited beyond the last century, we can only hope that past researchers used secondary sources that were as accurate as humanly possible. By way of explanation on the pedigrees given at the end of each Chapter:

B means birth, BP means birthplace, M means

married, D means death, d/o means daughter of, and s/o means son iii

of, w.p. means will proved, w.d. means will dated, ca stands for approximate.

Wherever dates are given, i.e., 9 mo 16, 1703, this

indicates it was copied from Quaker records since that is how they record

dates.

In most cases

after

giving

the

bibliography

reference, I have copied the material directly from the book not only to save time but to show the reader exactly as it was found in the written record. Where I was able to get names and statistical data on generations beyond that given in the pedigrees, I have added that material in the Addendum referring to the appropriate Chapter linked to the extended families. For purposes of this compilation, I have not spent time carrying family generations out indefinitely but when that data was readily available, those family groups are given.

(See FOREWORD for Supplement material.) For anyone seriously interested in Potts research, I

recommend THE POTTS FAMILY IN AMERICA by Thomas Maxwell Potts, which book gives an overall picture of most all families who came to this country with that surname.

Wherever I mention THE POTTS

FAMILY in this compilation, it is to his book I r e f e r .

Just as

Chapter III of that book served as a nucleus from which to start this endeavor, it is my hope that this compilation will serve as the nucleus and incentive for others to further this effort. To do so could bring such others the satisfaction I now feel for having "scratched my few pages."

Gloria (Potts) Stracke September 1980 IV

FOREWORD

My original compilation of the 1980 Thomas Potts book contained, for one reason or another, some incorrect data. To correct those mistakes and to add the names and statistics discovered in the intervening period, a Supplement was compiled. The Supplement, which was printed in 1991, did not purport to be complete, nor could such ever be, but rather an extension of some lines where statistics were available either from public records or provided by a descendant. The only way I knew to harmonize the Supplement with the original was to use a page suffix method, i.e., 93a, 93b, etc. While this edition contains all (and more) of the 1991 Supplement, for the most part, it is paginated sequentially. The following format was used for descending generations: 1), (2), iii), (a), 1], [A], A1], representing seven generations. In some instances where an eighth generation name was furnished, those names were listed without a pre-fix. (In that rare instance where ninth generation data was given, those names were put in parentheses.) Sources, notes and documentation for Supplement data were given within the applicable chapter or addenda. Thomas Maxwell Potts, compiler of THE POTTS FAMILY of GREAT BRITAIN and AMERICA (1901), would no doubt feel rewarded in knowing that at least insofar as his Chapter III, that compilation has been added to considerably. Not all but many of those he named have been extended herein down to recent date. It is the writer '.s hope that others will take up the laboring oar and continue rowing the lineal tributaries from which his book emanated.

Gloria P. Stracke 1567 22nd Avenue San Francisco CA 94122 April 1994

TABLE OF CONTENTS Page INTRODUCTION

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FOREWORD

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CHAPTER Richard Potts/Anne Ashe Pedigrees

1 19

II

Mahlon Stacy/Rebecca Ely Pedigrees

20 32

III

Nathaniel Records/ William Beakes/Mary Wall Pedigrees (Revised)

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Thomas Potts/Mary Records William Beakes/Ruth Stacy John Arney/Elizabeth Pedigrees (Revised) ADDENDA

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Thomas Potts/Sarah Beakes Joseph Arney/Sarah Pedigrees (Revised) ADDENDA

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IV

VI

VII

VIII

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74 81

142 145

Richard Potts/Rebecca Arney Thomas Potts/Sarah Ashton Pedigrees (Revised) ADDENDA

156

Samuel Potts/Mary Riggs Samuel Potts/Ellen Kerr Pedigrees (Revised) ADDENDA

190 201 204

Charles Potts/Mary Alice Doll Pedigrees (Revised)

215 226

Bibliography Index

230 233

April 1994

171 175

CHAPTER I

In 1901 a book titled Historical Collections relating to THE POTTS FAMILY in Great Britain and America was published by the compiler Thomas Maxwell Potts.

This large volume of 654

pages is available in a few libraries and is highly recommended to anyone wishing to pursue Potts genealogy.

That book provided

the basis for these compilations branching out of the subject ancestor Thomas Potts (128).

Because there were several men named

Thomas Potts, many even in the same general areas, it was necessary to distinguish them and the particular Thomas Potts after whom this work is named became Thomas Potts [Shield] as that was the name of the ship on which he came to America.

That book's Chapter

III deals exclusively with Thomas Potts [Shield] and portions of that Chapter have been lifted intact along with material learned subsequently.

Much of the 54 pages of Chapter III is interwoven

into this compilation and, in effect, served as the nucleus to this endeavor. The POTT pedigrees following on pages 2, 3 and 4 were copied from FAMILIAE MINORIUM GENTIUM with page 5 being an abbreviated version.

A study of these charts reveals that the parents

of Thomas Potts [Shield] were Richard Pott and Anne Ashe. However, whether this Richard Pott of County Derby is the same Richard Pott shown as having lands at Stretton in Derby is not definite.

If

this could be proven, indeed these charts might then be the direct and collateral ancestors of Thomas Potts [Shield] back to the fourteenth century.

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MS. 580 St 581

Arms granted by Sir Richard St. George 19 Nov. 1611, Arg', 4 bars sab., on a bend azure 3 trefoils or. Crest, A greyhound couchant gules on a mound vert, collared or. A Ped. in Harl. 5809, f. 11 b. It. P. B., x., 170. This account of the Potts is a union of several accounts of the family, viz., that in Harl. 2146, f. 211, which is the best; Harl. 1537, f . U b i 82b. (31. P. B., xii., 44, vtt/»t VW/7J&.

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PLANTATION.

Mahlon Stacy's home plantation comprised five hundred acres on both sides of the creek at the Falls, which he called "Ballifield," for his ancestral home in England. His own dwelling there was called "Dore House." His mill was built on the south bank of the-Assunpink Creek, adjacent to the road called York Road, afterwards Queen Street, then Greene, and now Broad Street As already stated, he died at his home, Ballifield, April 3, 1704. In the record of burials in Liber K of the Friends Chesterfield Monthly Meeting (Trenton and Crosswicks being subsidiary to the Chesterfield Meeting) is an entry that Mahlon Stacy was buried the 5th day of the 2nd month (April) 1704, at the burying place in Nottingham in the county of Burlington. This refers to the early Quaker burying ground in the extreme southwesterly part of Riverview Cemetery. His grave is now

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unmarked; although-originally there probably was a very small stone erected over it after the manner of marking graves by the Quakers of those days. The inventory of his estate, bound up with the will, shows he left personal property valued at £1034 os. 6d. Beside the provision for his wife he said in his will: I give and bequeath onto my sonn Mahlon Stacy his heirs and assigns forever, all that my plantation whereon I now dwell, called "Ballifield," together with the Mill, and all other houses, and Buildings, Lands, Meadows, and pastures, &c containing 500 Acres of Land, more or less, when he shall attain the age of one and twenty years, and also, all my Land lying on the south side of greater Shabba-cunck, and all other lotts, shares or portions of Land throughout the sd province of Nova Cesarea. aforesd, not yet taken up, and which shall at any time hereafter become due, and of right to me, belonging.

Mahlon Stacy married in England Rebecca Ely, and left surviving him one son, Mahlon, the younger, and five daughters. Two daughters were born in England, but two others and the son were born at the Falls. Mahlon Stacy, the younger, the one continuing to bear the surname, married Sarah Bainbridge, but died childless in 1742, and the name Stacy of this family became extinct. The daughters all married and numerous descendants of theirs are still living in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and elsewhere."

OLD STACY MILL, ENLARGED AND IMPROVED BY WILLIAM TRENT, AS IT APPEASED I N I 8 4 8 , DOAPmATSD BY P B B

AND FLOOD.

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The following is part of the extensive write-up given by Mr. Walker in the book HISTORY OF TRENTON: IV. The Coming of Mahlon Stacy

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N THE tenth month (December) Old Style, 1678, the ship Shield arrived from Hull, England; Mr. Raum in his history says that it was December 10." The Shield entered Delaware Bay and sailed up to Burlington, where it stopped. The river froze during the night and the people from the boat went ashore across the ice in the morning. In her came Mahlon Stacy, his wife and children and several servants, men and women. The others who came in the same ship were: William Emley (for the second time), with his wife, two children (one of whom was born on the way), and two men and two women servants; Thomas Lambert, his wife, children and several men and women servants; John Lambert and servant; Thomas Revell, his wife, children and servants; Godfrey Hancock, his

wife, children and servants; Thomas Potts, his wife and children ; John Wood and four children; Thomas Wood, his wife and children; Robert Murfin, his wife and two children; Robert Sehooly, his wile and children; James Pharo, his wife and children; Susannah Fairnsworth, her children and two servants; Richard Tattersal, his wife and children; Godfrey Newbold; John Dewsbury; Richard Green; Peter Fretwell; John FretweH; John Newbold; one Barns, a merchant from Hull; Frands Barwick; George Parks; George Hill; John Heyres; and several more." While in England Mahlon Stacy had acquired his interest in West Jersey, and was one of the Quakers from Yorkshire who selected the Yorkshire tenth as a place of residence; he settled at the Falls of the Delaware, apparently the most eligible spot, where he built a grist mill. He and his family and some of the other Quakers, who intended to settle at the Falls, must have stayed with their friends ail winter at Burlington, where there was a town and houses already erected, and doubtless he and they came to the Assunpink in the early spring of the year 1679, cm the breaking up of the winter." MAHLON STACY THE FIRST SETTLER

Mahlon Stacy was the first permanent English settler upon the site of what is now Trenton, who owned all the land to a-considerable extent about the Assunpink Creek on both sides thereof,— " from the Delaware River back for considerable distance inland, building a grist mill here for the accommodation of the settlers in this and the surrounding neighborhood. He was a prominent man in his day and generation and held many offices of trust and profit in the Colony. He was elected by the people of the Province of West Jersey, within his tenth, to sit at Burlington in the General Assembly of New Jersey, 1682.8* He was also that year chosen a member of Council and a justice for Burlington County." He was again returned as a member of the Assembly for the Yorkshire tenth in i684,M and was reelected to the General Assembly in 1685." . * Smith, History of New Jersey, p. 96 and note. "ibid., p. 97. -*» Raum, History of Trenton, p. 42. This is apparently the only place that that exact date in December 1678 appears, and no authority is cited in verification. The "10" undoubtedly refers to the month only.

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AN HISTORIAN S VIEW OF STACY

The following appreciation of Mahlon Stacy was written by the historian, Mr. Lee."' Of the early settlers of West New Jersey none stands in more striking light than does,Mahlon Stacy, of HansTvorth, in the county of York, in Old England. To him must be given the CTedit for the practical settling of the northern portion of the Yorkshire Xth, which extended, by virtue of the purchase df 1677, from the Rancocas to the Assunpink. Mahlon Stacy reached America in the Shield, from Hull, Daniel Towes, master, which, in December 1678/- landed her passengers at Burlington. With Mahlon Stacy i n M l wife, children and men and women servants. That he at once earn* to- the site of Trenton is shown by the fact that he began the erection of his grist mill in 1679, and in 1679-80 Jasper Dankers and Peter Sluyter, Dutch Labadists, speak in their Journal of Mahlon Stacy's house on the site of Trenton. H e was the representative man in the vicinity of "Ye ffaHes." Mahlon Stacy was influential in the Society of Friends, of which body he was a faithful member. His large plantation interests and his wealth made him rank easily among the half score of men who framed the destinies of Burlington County between 1676 and 1715. In the political life of the time, he held, from one year to another, nearly every office of profit and trust in the Province. He appears as commissioner in 1681-82, and as a member of Assembly in 1682, 1683, 1684 and 1685. He was also a member of Council in 1682 and 1683. In 1683, 1684, 1685 he was an Indian Land commissioner, and in 1683 was selected to write to the members of the Society of Friends, in London, describing the condition of the new settlement A s a justice, he sat in the 1st Xth in 1685, and continuously remained on the Burlington bench as His Majesty's Justice from May 1685 to May 1701.

27 Mr. Willard Heiss collected biographies of various Quakers and published that collection under the title QUAKER BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

This sketch on Mahlon Stacy includes a

couple of letters he wrote to relatives in England giving his vivid impressions of life in the New World and perhaps this will acquaint the reader with the man better than any historian possibly could.

MAHLON STACY.

Edward Byllingc purchased of Lord Berkeley, llio ri"ht held by him under a deed of sale from the Duke of York of the western half of the pro- j vince of JNcw Jersey. The deed was made by ! .Berkeley to John Fcnwick, who was to hold tho said half province on behalf of Edward ISyllingc, and his assigns. A difficulty afterwards arose between Fcnwick and BylUugc which was com-, promised, and the onc-tcnth of the land bciDg divided off and apportioned to the said Fcnwick, the balance waa due to Uyllinge. By this time Byllingc was much in debt, and he conveyed to his ; creditors or the principal part of tliom, the residue of the province, as in lieu of their claims. Among those who thus as it were without their will, became largo landholders, was Mahlon Stacy, a member of the Society of Friends. He was a tanner by trade, and residedut Handsworth in the county of York. Ho and four of his fellow members, oil principal creditors of Byllingc, had one-tenth of West Jersey assigned them in payment of debts due them, amounting to £3,500. In tho couccssions and agreements of the proprietors, freeholders, and inhabitants of the province of West New Jersey, signed " the third day of the month, commonly called March, in the year of our Lord one thousand sis hundred seventy-six," it is Eaid that when the lund is divided iuto tenths or shares, that the said Friends of Yorkshire, shall have free liberty to uiako choice of any one they please. Tho concessions also provide for the fulfilment of a contract made by .Wm. Pcnn, See., as trustee for Byllingc, to the same Yorkshire Friends, "wherein they grant unto the said persons, certain privileges for a town to be built, whereby they have liberty to choose their own magistrates, and officers for executing the laws according to the concessions within the said town !" The land chosen by the commissioners, appointed by the Yorkshire Friends, was from the Falls of tho Delaware, downward. The town of Burlington was laid out by agreement, in which one-half belonged to the Yorkshire tenth and one-half to a tenth purchased by Friends of London. Tho country in 1G77 began to draw many settlers, and in the Eighth month 1C7S, Mahlon Stacy, with " his wife, children, and several servant men and women," took pas,-age at Hull in the good ship " the Shield," Daniel Towes commander, for tho Delaware River. They were accompanied by many other intended settlers, and had

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a prosperous voyage. As the vessel sailed up the Delaware, the shore was so bold at Coaquunock, where Philadelphia now stands, that the ship safely moored where part of her rigging brushed tbe overhanging trees. One of the passengers remarked, it was a fine spot for a town. With a fresh favourable gale, " t h e Shield" was homo onward to the little village of Burlington, which was peeping out from the ancient forest. This was the first ship that had reached so high a point on the Delaware. I t was sometime in the Tenth month old style, corresponding to the Twelfth month of the new, that " t h e Shield" "dropped anchor," and "moored to a tree." The next morning tho river was frozen,—and so intense, was the cold, that the people from the shore came to tho ship oa the ice. Mahlon Stacy settled near the Falls of the Delaware, now called Trenton, where in a year or two he built a mill. He was a man of much enterprise, and in 1G79 with some others, purchased a vessel which was put into the Barbadocs trade, and proved a profitable investment. ' Many ftraDge and injurious reports were fabricated and circulated in England concerning the new colony, and some of those who had endeavoured to persuade their friends not to remove thither, were not slow in sending such reports to the new settlers. Mahlon .Stacy's brother, Revell haviug forwarded him such account.-", he thus wrote in reply :—Fourth inoDth 2Gth, 1GS0. i " But now, a word or two of those strango re- 1 ports you have of us and of our country. I; affirm they are not true, and fear they were! spoken from a spirit of envy. I t is a country I that produces all things for tho support and sustenance of man, in a plentiful uiauncr. If it wore not so, I should be ashamed of wJiat I have before written. But I can stand, having truth on my sido, against and before the face of all gninsaycrs and evil spies. I have travelled through most of the places that are settled, and some that are not, and in every place I find the country very apt to answer tho expectation of tho diligent: 1 have seen orchards laden with fruit to admiration,—their very limbs torn to pieces with the weight, and most delicious to tho taste, and loveJy to behold. I have seen an apple-tree from a pippin-kernel, yield a barrel of curious cider,'— and peaches in such plenty, that some people took their carts a peach gathering. I could not but smile at the conceit of it. They are a very delicate fruit, and hang almost like our onions that arc tied on ropes. 1 have seen and known this summer, forty bushels of bold wheal of one bushel sown. Many more instances I could bring, which would bo too tedious here to mention. We have from the time called .May to Michaelmas, great store o( very good wild fruits, oa strawberries, crnnbcrrii'*, and huckleberries, which aro like our bilberries in England, but far sweeter. They arc very wholesome fruits. Tho cranberries much like cherries for colour and bigness, which may be kept till fruit come in again. An excellent sauce is mado of them for venison, turkeys and great fowl, and they aro better to make tarts than cither gooseberries or cherries. Wc have them brought to our houses by the Indians in great plenty. My brother Robert* had * Robert Staccy cameto WVit-Jewj in IIMT...

as many cherries this year as would have loaded several carts. It is my judgment by what I havo observed, that fruit trees in this country destroy themselves by the .very weight of their fruit. As for veuison and fowls, we have great plenty. Wo havo brought homo to our houses by the Indians, seven or eight fat bucks ol a day: and sometimes put by as many, haviug no occasion for them; and fash in their season very plenteous. My cousin Rcvcllj* aud I, with souie of my men, went last Third mouth, [Fifth month ucw style] into the river to catch herrings, for at that time they caino in great shoals iuto the shallows. Wo had neither lod nor uet; but after the Indian fashion made around pinfold,about two yards over, and a foot high, but left a gap for the fish to go in at, and made a bush to lay in the gap to keep the fish in. When that was done, we took two long birches aud tied their tops together, aud went about a stone's cast above our said pinfold. Then hauling these birch bougbs dowu tho stream, wo drove thousands before us, and so many got into our trap as it would hold. Then we began to haul them on shore as fast a.i thrco or four of us could, by two or thrco at a timo.' After this manucr in half an hour wo could havo filled a three bushel sack of as good and largo herring as ever I saw. As to beef and pork, there is a great plenty of it, and cheap;—and also good sheep. The common grass of this country feeds beef very fat. I have killed two this year, and therefore I have reason to kuow it. Beside, I havo seen this [last] fall, in Burlington killed, eight or nine fat oxen and cows on a market day, and all very fat. Though I speak of herrings only, lost any should think we have little other sorts, we havo great plenty of most sorts of fish that ever I saw in England;—beside several other sorts that arc not known there, as rock, catfish, shad, sheops-hcad, sturgeon ; and fowls as plenty—ducks, geese, turkeys, pheasants, partridge*, and many other sorts. Indeed, -the country, take it as a wilderness, is a brave country,— though no place will please all. Some will bo ready to say, ho writes of conveniences, but j.oi'of 'inconveniences. In answer to these, I honestly 'declare, there is some barren laud, as, I suppose, . thcro is in most places of the world, and uioro wood than somo would have upon their land; neither will the country produce corn without labour, — n o r is cattlo to be got without something to 'buy them;—nor bread with idleness;—else it 'would be a bravo country iudecd. I question not, but all then would give it a good word. For my ' 'part, I like it so well, I never had the least .thought of returning to England, except on account of trade.

MAULON STACY."

Oa tho same date Mahlon wrote to William Cook of Sheffield, and others. " T h i s is a most brave place. Whatever envy or evil spies may speak of it, I could wish you all here. Burlington will bo a placo of .rule quickly, for hero is way for trade. I, with eight, more, last winter, bought a good kctrh of fifty tons, freighted her out at our own charge, aud sent her to Barbadocs, and so to sail to SalU-rtugas, to take in part of her lading in salt, and the rc*t in Barbadocs good:, as xhc came back. Which | f Tlioiuns Iterell who came ori-r wiih MuMon SUcr io (he "Shield."

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said voyage sho hath accomplished very well, and now rides before Burlington, discharging her lading, and so to go to the West Indies again. We intend to freight her out with our own corn. W-e have wanted nothing since wc came hither, but the company of our good friends and acquaintances. All our people aro very well, aud in a hopeful way to live much better than ever they did; and not only so, but to provide well for (heir posterity. They improve their lands and have good crops. If our friends and countrymen, come, they will find better reception by far, than wc had at first, before the country was settled as now it is. I know not one among the people that .desires to be iu England again; I wean aincc settled. I wonder at our Yorkshire people, that they had rather live in servitude, and work hard all the year, and not be three pence the better at the year's end, than to stir out of the chimney-corner and transport themselves to a place where, with the like pains, in two or three years they might know better things. '* I never repented my coming hither.—I live as well to my content, and in as great plenty as ever I did, and in a far more likely way to get an estate. 41

MAHLON

STACY."

From the Fulls of Delaware, in 'Wcst-Jfew Jersey, the 26th of the Fourth month, 1G80." Mahlon Stacy being a man of large property, of enterprise and good abilities, was much regarded in the community, aud of course had o large sharo of public business to attend to. As one of tho commissioners for settling and regulating lands,uV,0« »' -

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OUT-PARTS O F H A L L A M S H I R R The birth at Hansworth ofWilliam Crawshaw, Ballifield is at a short distance from the the writer, may be mentioned. He-was father church, near" the road to Aston.1 The Stacycs of Richard Crawshaw, author of " Steps to the were very ancient at this place, but are now Temple." removed.8 PEDIGREE OF STACYE, OF BALLIFIELD. ARMS.—Azure, on a fess between three falcons or, as many fleurs-de-lis of the field. CHEST.—A cubit arm habited azure, cuiTed argent, charged with three bezants, grasping a fleur-de-lis or. STACYE.-?= J O H N STACYE. of BalIifield,=f=ANNE, dau. of Thomas Par-

RICHARD

STACYE,

MAUN

m parish of Hansworth, yeo- ker, of Whitley Hall, and named in his brother's man. Will dated 13 ApriL widow of Thomas ScargilL will, 1593. 1593. Buried-11 May follow- Bur. 15 July, 1609. ing. J.

STACYE. of Shcf-=PHtin>PA

field, mercer. Will dated Mar. secondly 26 Nov., 1589, to be buried at Sheffield 18 in the church of Sheffield. Nov., 1596. to Bur. there 14 April, 1590. Thos. Robinson.

THOMAS STACYE,-T=ANNE, dau. and co-heir of John Booth, of K A T H E R I N E . wife of

ELIZABETH.

of Ballifieid, gent. Hansworth Woodhouse, gent., son of OliBap.24Feb.,i574. ver Booth, ofoo. Derby, by Elizabeth HatBur. ioFeb.,1632. field, of Whitfield,-co, Derby. Bap. 8 Jidy, 1579. M^ at Hansworth 18 May, 1597.

June, 1567. Mar. 12 1572. Made principal 28 Feb., 1 5 ; July, 1590, t o Nicholas heir to her uncle Ma- Mar. 17 Seed, Bullowes. Had issue Iin.15S9. Mar. 18 May, 1598. to RJchd. Ann and Elizabeth. . 1597, to Richd. Eaire. Jervis.

JOHN ^MAiY.dau. THOMAS STACYE, ofJao.Ful-- STACYE.

of Ballifield and Cinder Hil],gnt Bap. 28 January, ISQ3-9. Buried 20 Sep tern-, 1658.

ROBERTSTA-

James Ardron, of Treeton. Had issue William, Katherine, Ann, and Elizabeth.

CCTHBERT STACYE. B a p .

Bap. 27 A N N E .

ELIZABETH.

HELEN.

CTE, of Lon-. 15 Nov., 1618. ApprenBaptized don. Bap. 20 deed for seven years in the Company of Cutlers of 28 May, July, 1614. Hallamsnire 12 Jan., 1633. 1609. D . in. 1669. f ) | | r , pJ1 j—,

B a p . n Mar., woooS of 1600. Married Eastwood, Goodrich, co. Notts., by whom John,, yeoman, by Benjamin, and Mary, his William. wife,dan.of — Thos. Gar- J O H N , of' A N N E . Mar. M A R Y . Mar. L Y D I A . MARGARET. land, of • Sheffield. z6 2ndmth., 22Mar.i672, ELIZABETH. B a p . 16 OctTodwick. THOMAS. l67i;toThos. to J o h n K e l - DiediiMay, i6rx. Buried M. atHans- M A U N . Aldam, of lam; and se- • 1607. Bur. 31 Mar., 1630, worth 16 MARY. Warms worth, condly Fran- in t i e cemeD e c . v i 6 i 8 . MARGAcis Smith, of tery at CinBalby. der HilL RET.

THOMAS S T A C Y E ^ J U D I T H CLARKE.

Ballifield, gent oCYork. Married Bap. 28 Septeni., iathof lothmntb,, 1619. Died tg (655, at the house May, 1687, andof Judith K a y in was buried in-the York. D . 25 Nov., cemetery at Cintler 1680, and was buHill, where his tied in the cemetery tomb remains. at Cinder HilL

JOHN.

Bap.

ROBERT M a h l o n

1623., Buried STACYE. 1643. Baptized W I L L I A M and 11 Feb., MATTHIAS. 1630-1. Bothd-young. Living 1669.

J O H N S TACYE, of=pSARAH. dau. and

s

R

^°Y'*

'

b e g C

f

T H O M A S STACYE,

J U D I T H , wife

of

M A R Y . Bap.i8

7 April, 1607. April, 1616. Mar. 12 F e b . , Mar. 11 July, 1627-8, to Alex- 1658,to Richard ander Sampson. Famsworth, and Had issue Alex- being his widow, ander and The- and. residing at mas. Ballifield, made her will 3 Nov., 1679, proved 8 F e b . , 1680.

r

-«ap. rjnJy77638?' S l y . o f Of Dore-House, in Mansfield. Hansworth. gent Mar. 29th Emigrated with his of the 5th family of one son month, and several daugh- 1668. ters to America.

of Ballifield, gent. I heir of Jonathan of -Sheffield, George Harrison, Bern 3 . I >ece_r.. I Shaw, of Hall- apothecary. WQ1 of Orgrave, g e n t it-fs. iViUdsrsc, Broom, in Brad- dated2Sep.,i7l6. Died 3 June, 1688. ; A'jj;-. T i — —'• , i i d . a n d widowof Bur. in the ceme£ .Ka*., 1:12. a r c ' Marriott.. teryat Cinder HilL ;-cr. in ilit-church-: Marr. sett, dated vardalliau-iworth. 1 April, 1690. M . at Bradfield 28th •• of same month.

Bap.

Bcp. 8 Nov., PnitrpPA. Bap.

MAXY.

MARY.

B a p . 20. March, 1621, wf. of Abel Tyllie.

D.

25 • - June, 1671. Bur. at Cinder HilL

HELEN.

ANNE.

ANNE.

E p . 1 F e b . , 1627-8

Bap. 2 Mar. 17 Dec., 1645, to God-, April, firey Wilkinson, o l Hans.: 1626, wf. worth Woodhouse, whoi ot John had been vicar of Clown,; Frerwell. co. Derby, but became a: Quaker. She died 23rd of 5th month, 1702, leaving Issue.

ELLEN. D.

ELIZABETH.

27- July, 1683. Bur. at Cinder HilL

Darton 2 Oct., 1694, to Rev. John Hevwood, a Nonconformist minister at Pontefract (son of Revd. Oliver Hei-wood). D . a widow at Ballifield 15 April, 1721.

'"

Mar. at

T H O I I A S STACYE, of==MARY, dau. of Joseph JOHN STACYE,

Boliifield, gent, eld- Moore, of Chesterfield, second son. Bp. est s o n . Will dated gent. Marr. there 7 18 July, 1694. 19 Nov., 1749, D i e d S e p t , 1721. Living living 1716. same-year. 1782. r Rev. J O H N STACYE, o/=pANNE. only child and heir THOMAS S T A C Y E , - • A N N , widow Ballilield, clerk, eldest of RobL Jessop.of Water- of So thai, in par. ofsua and heir. Bap. 13 thorpe, in pa. of Brighton, of Beighton, gent, W r i g h t LivAug., 1722, executor of co. Derby,. g e n t Marr. younger son. Bap. ing 1778. his father's wil] and resi- s e t t dated 20 O c t , 1753- 28 October, 1723. duary devisee and lega- Died 26 S e p t , 1816, aged Living 1768. tee. Died 3 July, 1791, 80, and was bur. at Hansand bur. at Hansworth. worth. THOMAS. Rev. T H O M A S S T A C Y E , = P M A R I A , dau. of

Died an infant Bur. 20 Feb., 1756.

ofBallineld.clerk,M.A., vicar of Worksop 55 years. B o m 17. Feb., 1757. Died 28 Jan., 1847, and buried there.

Wilm. Owtram, of Worksop, g e n t V . i Jan., 1810, -

J O H N STACYE,

ROBERT,

b i London, Baa, 29 July, merchant, 2nd 1760. Bur. 16 son. B o m 17 O c t , 1762. Feb., 1758. Living in 1786.

Rev. J O H N STACYE, derk,*f=HARRixT, dan. of Thomaa

M-A-, Governor and Chap- j Falkner, of Lound Hall, co. lain of the Shrewsbury Hos- | Notts., M.D. Married at pita], Sheffield. Born 26 I South Collingham, county Dec^ 1809. I Notts., 30 D e c , 1847

MARY, bom

M A R Y , wife of JOHN SHAW,

of Eckington, surgeon. M . 19 Dec., 1751, d. 23 May, 1759. ag«- 33ANNE.

Bap. 19

August, 1627.' Married Rhodes, of Tickhill, and being his widow • made her will q 1 March, 1660. proved Sept., 1670.

Bom

2

ELIZABETH.

34 March, Mar., 1759. Died unmar., -755- Wife of K A T H E R I N E . 7 Jan., 1848, R o nt_Athorpe Bap. 19 June, aged 8 1 . Atiorpe, of 1763. Dinnington Both died young. HaU.esq.Had issue.

KALLAMSHIRE by Jos. Hunter, FSA London (1819)

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CHAPTER II PEDIGREES John Stacie (Stacye, Stacy) of Ballifield, Yorkshire, England Chr 28 Jan 1598/1599 Bur 20 Sep 1658 M 16 Dec 1618 Nottinghamshire s/o Thomas Stacye and Anne Booth

Mary Fulwood of Eastwood Nottinghamshire D 23 Jan 1683 d/o John Fulwood and Mary Garland

Issue 1)

Thomas Stacie

Bapt 28 Sep 1619 D 19 May 1687 M Judith Clark 10 mo 12, 1655 Bapt 1623 D 1642 Died young Died young Bapt 11 Feb 1630/31 D 5 Oct 1701 Bapt 1 Jul 1638 D 3 Feb 1704 M Rebecca Ely 5 mo 29, 1668 Bapt 29 Mar 1621 M Abel Tyllie Bapt 2 Apr 1626 M John Fretwell Bapt 1 Feb 1627/28 D 5 mo 23, 1702 M Godfrey Watkinson 17 Dec 1645

2) 3) 4) 5) 6)

John William Matthias Robert Mahlon

7)

Mary

8)

Helen

9)

Anne

6)

Mahlon Stacy/Rebecca Ely W.P. 26 Oct 1711 d/o George Ely & Sarah Heath Issue John Stacy (2) Elizabeth (1)

(3) Sarah (4) Mary (5) Ruth (6) Rebecca (7) Rebecca (8) Mahlon

B B M B M B M B M B B M

30 Sep 1671 D 11 Dec 1671 20 Oct 1673 D 1743 Abel Janney Feb 1699/70 4 Jul 1675 D 29 Sep 1703 Joseph Kirkbride 17 Oct 1702 12 Apr 1677 W.P. 10 May 1763 Reuben Pownall 7 Mar 1700 30 Jan 1680 D 9 Jun 1755 William Beakes 3 mo 3, 1705 30 Jul 1682 Died young 8 Apr 1684 D 2 Feb 1754 Joshua Wright (1) 5 Jul 1705 Thomas Potts (2) 3 Mar 1742 B 7 Feb 1686 D 14 May 1742 M Sarah Bainbridge 1 Mar 1712

Source: Hunter's Hallamshire, parish of Sheffield, p 488; NJ Archives Vol. 23, p 437, Vol. 30, p 488; Colonial Families of US by MacKenzie, No. 5, p 543-544; Hinshaw's Ency. of America Quaker Genealogy; NJ Colonial Documents-Calendar of Wills, various Vols.

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CHAPTER III Two other contemporaries of Thomas Potts [Shield] who are also (7th) great grandfathers of those of us who are (7th) great grandchildren are Nathaniel Record (130) (sometimes Records) and William Beakes (132) (sometimes Beaks). From Revel's Book of Surveys, the following four entries appear: 1) 1686 May 24

George Porter, late of Burlington, batchelor,

to Nathaniel Richards (Records) late of the same place, planter, for 50 acres in the First or Yorkshire Tenth. 2) 1688-9

Do

Do (ditto) for the same, of 8 acres along the

creek, over against Nathaniel Record's house, next to Tho. Revell. 3) 1696 May 30

George Porter, yeoman, to Edward Boulton,

husbandman, both of Mansfield Township, for 114 acres, whereof 100, bought of Tho. Hutcheson, et al. July 10, 1677, are bounded by grantor, Sarah, Farre, James Croft and Tho.. Revell; 8 acres by the creek over against Nathaniel Records and Tho. Revell... 4) 1696 Dec 5

Deed.

George Porter to (sold) Nathaniel Records,

both of Mansfield Township, yeomen, for a house and plantation there of 165 acres. The first entry is interesting since it suggests that this man may also be shown under the Richards name since this was taken off the record exactly as recorded in the Archives. A book on English surnames also notes that the name Record was anciently used interchangeably with Rickward.

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THE POTTS FAMILY suggests that Nathaniel Record thought well of Thomas Potts, his son-in-law, as evidenced by a deed he executed on 8 March 1702, as follows: Nathaniel Records, of the Townshippe of Mansfield, in the County of Burlington within the Province of West Jersey, Yeoman, of the first part, And Thomas Potts, of the same place, Husbandman, of the other part, WITNESSETH that the said Nathaniel Records for and in consideration of a marriage allready had and solemnized between the said Thomas Potts and Mary, the daughter of the said Nathaniel, and as a marriage portion with her the said Mary, for their better support and supply and for the natural love and affection which he the said Nathaniel hath and beareth to the said Thomas Potts, his sonne in law, and to the said Mary, his daughter, hath given, granted, etc unto the said Thomas Potts, his heirs, etc. By this deed Nathaniel Record reserved a one-half interest during his lifetime. In the Calendar of New Jersey Wills is this interesting abstract: 1697 Nov 3

(copied as shown in the record) Scattergood, Thomas, of Mansfield, Burlington Co.,

yeoman; will of.

Son (?in-law) Thomas Brian, who has Thomas,

Benjamin and Samuel.

Sons - Thomas Scattergood, Joseph

Scattergood; Daughters - Sarah French, who has son Richard and daughter Elizabeth; Hannah Pancos, who has dau. Elizabeth; Tomsin Pancos; servant Mary Recors.

Real and personal estate.

Son

Benjamin executor, with Richard French, William Pancoast and Nathaniel Records as overseers. Nathaniel Records.

Witnesses - Edward Boulton and

Proved November 27, 1697.

It is believed that the Mary Recors named is probably the wife of Nathaniel, but it could possibly be his young daughter as we do not know Nathaniel's wife's name. Mr. Scattergood was a large landowner in Burlington County and from this it appears Nathaniel Records worked for him as an overseer.

Also in the Calendar of Wills of the New Jersey Colonial Documents is this abstract: 1705 Dec 22

RECORDS, NATHANIEL, of Mansfield, Burlington Co.,

Inventory of the personal estate of, o & /fe/iJUa & /JL. /£uAoe2 fc&//€c^ lfcjcAjt&i\7_, ^ / f a fpciwroV 7*%**/ *S ., ///to c7y ^ # b •/trug-a&td Javu>uA,yeSi*s f%AJs£:^/ts/2 & / &#£&£& ~ / u c / ^ fro-i^Q/?/ t/r.Wi-, W e .

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