The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, Vol 46, No 2, Title and Contents

THE PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE Before 1948 called Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania Volume 46 Number 2 Fall/Winter 2009 Patricia Law Hatcher, FASG, Editor . Sandra M. Hewlett, < x , Proofreader ©2009 by the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 2207 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine (ISSN 0882-3085) is published twice per annum (Spring/Surnmer and Fall/Winter). Nonmember subscriptions are sold by volume only (4 issues), $45.00; foreign subscriptions, add $2.00 per issue sur¬ charge; single issues, $12.00 each; back issues, contact the Society office. The Society does not assume liability for statements of fact or of opinion made by con¬ tributors. EDITOR’S NOTES THE EXPECTED AND THE UNEXPECTED I ii llu- last Editor’s notes I mentioned we would be publishing several Pennsylvania Bible records that had been sent to the editor of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. One of these records was an unexpected surprise, h was for a Van Akcn family, on the original, oversized pages from a Dutch Bible, with entries in Dutch. One of my pre¬ decessors at the Record had made research notes on an early New York settler of the Van Aken surname, and I had researched another New York family of the surname, but I could not see how either connected with the family of the Bible record. I struggled to create a rough translation of the Dutch, beginning with the first entry, a marriage in 16B2. Finally I came to entries that mentioned Philadelphia and Germantown. In Acta Germanopolis I found a footnote identifying the progenitor of the Bible rec¬ ord as the only member of the Krefeld, Germany, Quaker meeting involved in the establishment of Germantown who did not emigrate with the rest of the group, although three of his children and a grandson eventually came lo Pennsylvania. Good researchers know that deed books often contain valuable state¬ ments of relationships, but the extensive transcripts of English records provided by Peter Wright to establish his pedigree as a grandson of Aren t Sonmans was unexpected. Research to clarify wording in a Sonmans will led to a popular 1912 compilation, in which were found many errors (not unexpected) concerning the Glentworth family. It was unexpected that I was not able lo lie together two Snowden immigrant families and that of the Quaker minister Elizabeth (Snowden) Hooten. It was unexpected to find that one Snowden family member had gone to North Carolina— and that another person of the same first name and almost the same age was also residing in the area. It was not so unexpected that a biographical dictionary had seriously tangled the two. Twenty-six freemen of Bedford Township, Bedford County, objected that someone had called together a group of men to vote for his favorite candidate in a 1790 election. It was not unexpected (some things never change) that none of the petitioners had bothered to vote at the original election, but were ready to complain about the results. Patricia Laic Hatcher, / iso 98 Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Vol. i6 (2009) THE PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE Volume 46 Number 2 Fall/Winter 2009 CONTENTS EDITOR'S NOTES I'm; I-XPIX :i i;n ANDTIII; UNEXPECTED 9<S IN MEMOIUAM: PETER STEBBINS CRAICI, FASC., FGSP IOI VAN AKF:N FAMILY BIBLE RF.CORD AND TIII; FAMILY IN EUROPI: AND PENNSYLVANIA 102 Patricia Law I Iateher Ti i F ARHNT SON MANS FAMILY: PETER WRIGHT’S 1769 “PROOF OF PFDIGRFF” IN PHILADELPHIA DEEDS 113 Aaron Goodwin GI.ENTWORTH-WILSON ADDI TIONS AND CORRECTIONS 128 Patricia Law Hatcher THE SNODFN/SNOWDEN FAMILIES OF ENGLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY, AND NORTH CAROLINA 132 Patricia Law Hatcher ADAMS-DAVIS FAMILY BIBLE RECORD CHESTER COUNTY, BERKS COUN TY, PHILADELPHIA 143 ZANTZINGFR-BARTON FAMILY BIBLE, RECORDS LANCASTER COUN I Y 143 ANDERSON FAMILY BIBLE RECORD CHESTER AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES 148 QUAKF.R MARRIAGE CERTIFICATES HUMEIIREY-LEWIS, CM ESTER COUNTY, 1787 149 ELECTION RETURNS, LISTS OF VOTERS, 1776-1790 152 BEDFORD TOWNSHIP, BEDFORD COUNTY, 1777 TURKEY FOOT TOWNSHIP, BEDFORD COUNTY, 1778 BROTHERS VAI.I.EY TOWNSHIP, BEDFORD COUNTY, 1778 l)i BUN TOWNSHIP, BEDFORD COUNTY, 1778 BELFAST T< JWNSI UP, BEDF< >RD COI IN'TY, 1788 HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP, BEDFORD COUNTY, 1789 LONDONDERRY TOWNSHIP, BEDFORD COUNTY, 1789 . . . DUBLIN TOWNSHIP, BEDFORD COUNTY, 1789 BEDFORD TOWNSHIP, BEDFORD COUN TY, 1790 152 152 152 154 OBJECTION OBJECTION 156 157 154 154 155 155 156 COURTS OF OYER AND TERMINER, 1757-1787 transcribed by Elizabeth B. Bunting MINUTES, YORK COUNTY 158 JURIES AND APPOINTMEN TS, PHILADELPHIA COUNTY ( concluded) 180 ARTICLES OF PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST IN NON-PENNSYI.VANIA JOURNALS REVIEWS WILLIAM BROOKE FEITERS./O/ZW Brooke ( 16.18- 1699) one/ Frances Morton oft hillock and Hagg, Yorkshire, and Sons James and Matthew Brooke of Limerick, Pennsylvania 191 192 IN MEMORIAM: PETER STEBBINS CRAIG, FASG, FGSP fleeter Stebbins Craig died Thursday, 26 November 2009, Thanksgiving JL Day, at his home in Cleveland Park, Washington, D.C., at the age of eighty-one. A member of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania since 1982, he was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists in 1991 and of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania later that year. A few weeks before his death lie received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Swedish Colonial Society. Peter was born 30 September 1928 in Brooklyn, son of Clarence Tucker and Rena Catherine (Stebbins) Craig. 11c married first 9 June 1 958 Lois Achor. lie married second 14 February' 1970 Sally Love Banks. He is survived by wife Sally and four children: Stephen Tucker Craig (Steve), Caroline Allien Craig (Cary), Jennifer Stebbins Craig (Jenny), and Katherine Love Craig (Katie), four grandchildren, and a brother. He attended Oberlin College (BA) and Yale Law School (JD). His vocation was as an attorney specializing in transportation law, but his genealogical avocation centered around the earliest European settlers on the Delaware River, in the area originally known as New Sweden, their origins, and their descendants. He compiled The 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware: Family Histories of the Swedish Lutheran Church Members Residing in Pennsylvania, Delaware, West New Jersey <md Cecil County, Md., /638-1693 (1993) and The /67/ Census of the Delaware (1999). His most recent work was the Colonial Records of the Swedish Churches of Pennsylvania: Vol. /, The Log Churches at Tinicum Island and Wicaco, 1616-1696, Vol. 2, The Riulman Years, 1697- /702: Vol. 3, The Sattdel Years, 1702-171 9 (2006); Vol. 4, From Lidman to Ndsman, /7/9-/750 (2008). lie has written numerous monographs, articles, and sketches, including series for the Swedish-American Gene¬ alogist and the Swedish Colonial News. Peter Craig was Quaker, and memorial services were held at both the Friends Meeting of Washington and Gloria Dei Old Swede's Church, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Vol. 46 (2009) 101