The Family of Thomas Olive of Wellingborough, Northamptonshire and of Burlington County, West Jersey

VANMaS/P3M230., a§M§NORS§ The Pennsylvania GENEALOGICAL a§ Magazine R2 MVA SiiMMMMagiMniggliM2AM2401M2AMMVIM2:Xsv• The Family of Thomas 01live of Wellingborough, Northamptonshire and of Burlington County, West Jersey* Research by JANE W. T. BREY URING the seventeenth century, England was beset with political, L./economic and religious problems. A regicide, the civil war, the plague and great fire of London all contributed to the economic hardships experienced throughout England. Religious dissension, particularly among the Protestant majority, gave rise to various sects and the evettual persecution of those who did not conform to the Established church. It was also a period during which England was expanding her empire by the establishment of colonies in the New World and inadvertently was providing a safety valve for the mounting tide of dissatisfaction in the Old World. To these new colonies were drawn groups of dissident sects, members of which hoped by their migration to better themselves and to live according to their own lights, unfettered by regulations imposed on them by an indifferent government. Among these dissenters were the followers of the Quaker George Fox. Fined and imprisoned year after year for their refusal to pay tithes or • This study was undertaken in order to correct certain inaccuracies, in the author's Quake. Saga, published in 1967, made concerning the wives of Isaac Marriot, John Woolston and Thomas 011ive, and their relationahip to each other, which appeared on pages 267, 375, 377 of that work. 139 140 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine take oaths, the Quakers looked with growing interest on the newly opened lands acquired by England from the Dutch under the Treaty of Westminster in 1674. In particular the land on the east bank of the Delaware River, when it was offered for sale on shares to adventuring investors, was of special interest to men of both small and large means. Included among these investors were two Quakers, Thomas 01live, a haberdasher of some substance, of Wellingborough in Northamptonshire, and Daniel Wills, a "practicioner in chymistry," of the town of Northampton, both of whom had been fined and imprisoned at various times in Northampton Gaol. They joined with other purchasers from the south of England to form what became known as the London Company. In like manner Quakers from Yorkshire formed the Yorkshire Company. Jointly these companies engaged to establish settlements on the Delaware for the benefit of their Quaker investors. Deeds of lease and release, dated 22 and 23 January 1676/7, executed by William Penn, Gawen Lawrie, Nicholas Lucas and Edward Billinge, conveyed to Thomas 01live and Daniel Wills jointly one share or propriety of land to be laid out in the new colony. On the same day the same grantors conveyed a second share to 01live, Wills, and William Biddle of London.' A month later on 26 February 1676/7, Olive and Wills sold about a third of a share to six underpurchasers in various fractional amounts. The largest single underpurchaser was John Woolston, also of Northamptonshire, who had been in Northampton gaol with 011ive, and who bought one-eighth of a share from 011ive.z Having disposed of what property they had in England, and subscribed their names to a mutual covenant of "Concessions and Agreements," dated 3 March 1676/7, outlining in detail regulations for the proposed settlement,' Thomas 01live, Daniel Wills and John Woolston travelled to London where they loaded their household goods on board the ship engaged for the voyage, the Kent, Gregory Marlow, master. .Calendar of Records . . . ," New Jersey Archive,, 1st Series, XXI, 441. It should be remembered that in Englmd until September, 1752, double dating between 1 January and 25 March wes in ell cc; in order to distinguish between the legal and historical year. Nov all writen of legal documents, however, were careful to follow this usage, so that in many cases the reader must take careful note of the context and the chronology of eVtI213 to establish the precise dam. 5 Th, other purchasers were Robert Powell, clothier, and Thomas Eva, packer, both of London, John Roberts, yeomm of Overston, Northants., Richard Parks, ironmonger, of Hook Norton, Oxon., and Thomas Harding, boxmaker, of London. See ibid., 397, 424, 464, 467, 478, 479. °See Samuel Smith, The History of the Colony of Nova-Casesaria or Neu , Jersey . ..to the year 1722 (Spartansburg, S. C., 1966 reprint), Appendix II, 521, 538. John Vcolston did not sign the version printed here, but may have signed the copy kept in England. The original of the printed version obviously must have been signed after it was sent over, for many of the namea subscribed to it were of men who were inhabitmts of the or,, before the Rent seled from England. The Family of Thomas Ollive 141 With well over 200 passengers on board, the vessel sailed from London in April, 1677.° Their first landfall was in August, 1677, at Sandy Hook in the New York government. Here they presented their credentials to the authorities, and here the first commission for magistrates for the east bank of the Delaware was granted to Thomas Olive, whose name headed the list, Daniel Wills, and seven others.' All but three Yorkshire proprietors represented the London purchasers. When they resumed their voyage and arrived finally in the Delaware, it was these commissioners or magistrates who purchased land from the Indians and selected the site of the first settlement, now called Burlington. For a time, however, at least one colonist, John Woolston, referred to it as "Thomas 011ive's Town" on the Delaware.° Although much has been written about this Thomas 01live T and his public service in West Jersey between 1677 and 1692, there has been much confusion and uncertainty as to his origin and relationship to several other early West Jersey settlers, notably the Woolstons, Jenings, Marriots, Lippincotts and Wills. Certain members of these families were all remembered in 011ive's will, a verbatim copy of which follows: Thomas °Woe's will. The Sth day of the 9th month [November] 1692, I Thomas Olive of willingborough in the county of burlington in west new Jersey, being weake in body but of perfect memmory & rememberance praised be god doe make and ordaine this my last will & Testament in manner & form following first I committ my soul into the hands of Almighty god my creator & my body to be buoyed in Christian buryall Item— I give to An the wife of samuell Jenings the sum of five pounds Item —I give to Joyce the wife of Isiak Marriot the sum of five pounds Item—I give to John Woolston Junior the sum of five pounds Item— I give to my Brother benjamin olive of London the sum of five pounds 4 000ds were leaded on the Kent consigned to West Joey between 19 March and 31 March, according to Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. and Marion Balderston, "Early Shipping to the Jersey Shore of the Delaware,” Passengers and Ships Prior to 1684 (Baltimore, Pa., 1970), 139-141. 'New jersey Archives, let Series. I, 291. See ibid., XXI, 400, 23 December 1680, John Woolston to Thomas Potts "for Va of a lot in Burlington, called Thomas Olive's Town." This surname appears in contemporary docummts under various spellings: Oelife, Olave, Olife, Olive, 011iff, 011iffe, Olive, Olytf, ete. Not all members of the same family spelled it identically, and scribes seem to have been unable to decide upon a consistent spelling in the same document. The usual modern form is "Olive," but Thomas himself signed his will as Thomas "011ive." following transcript is made Oman a iteroa copy of the original, filed in Unrecorded Wills, Volume 3, 231-218, furnished by the Archives and lillanry Bureau, New Jersey State Library, Trenton. The will, an abstract of which is in New Jersey Archives, In Series, XXIII, 346, was admitted to probate 24 December 102. 142 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Item —I give to my sister Sarah Gurney if Eyeing the sum of forty shillings Item — I give to my sister Martha the sum of forty shillings Item — I give to my cozen Thomas Olive the sum of twenty shillings All which sums to be paid within two years after my decease if legally demanded Item —I give unto the children of freedom lippingcot the sum of five pounds to be eaqually divided amongst them & to be paid when they shall come to the age of eighteen years Item —I give unto Mary my wife al my plantation being about 800 acres of land with the house & houses thereupon erected as also the mills meadows & all other appertinencies thereunto belonging as also all my goods & chattels bils bonds & wrighteings whatsoever with the reversion of my propriety of land. To sum up all in short I give her all my estate both real & permnal to her & her heires for ever upon condition that thee shall pay all my debts & legacies. And doe make her Joyntly with her father Daniel wills & brother John wils executors of this my last will & testament revoaking all other wills & testaments Iso wittnesse whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal the day & year above written Signed & sealed in the presence of us Jaimes delaplaine Daniel Leeds Edward Lancaster /s/ Tho: Olive In this will Thomas 011ive noted only five specific relatives: his brother Benjamin Olive of London, his two sisters Sarah Gurney and Martha [Olive), his "cozen" Thomas Olive, and his own wife Mary, daughter of Daniel Wills, whom he had married in his own home under the care of Burlington Monthly Meeting on S 5m (July) I 691,'' when she was just twenty-one years of age. A new search, in English Quaker and Anglican church records, for the identification of the other legatees has now resolved some, if not all, of the uncertainties concerning Thomas 011ive's own identity and his relationships to the others. His place of nativity, as now established, was in Buckinghamshire where the marriage of his father Thomas Oliffe was entered in the register of the parish church of St. James ° 5 at Bierton, a village one-and-a9 Transcript of Records of Burlington and Mt. Holly Monthly Meeting, 8678-1872, 18, in Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania (GSP). 10 This church nerds near the south end of the village of Bierton (anciently Barton, Burton, Berton) and is conspicuous front the hills bordering the vale of Aylesbury. The building is cruciform with a square tower at the juncture of the nave, aisles and chancel. In the upper story are four mullioned windows with pointed arches, and against that on the north side is the dial of a clock. Anciently the Manor of Bierton was appendant to Aylesbury as a chapel of ease. George Lipscomb, County History of Buckinghamshire, England (London, 1847), 97. In 1969 the church's unpublished registers for 1628-1655, 1655-1645, and 1645-1700, were searched for the anther by Miss Cicely Baker, through the courtesy of the vicar, the Reverend R. A. R. Henesey-Law. At that time the registers were in the care of the Buckinghamshire Archeological Society in the monks.,, room of the Buckin/hamslure County Museum in Aylesbury The Family of Thomas Ollive 143 half miles northeast of the county town of Aylesbury: 1630 4 November Thomas Oliffe and Ann Hopkins alias Jones married The baptisms and burials of some of their children were also entered in the church registers: 1631 6 November John son of Thomas Oliffe baptized 1634/5 24 February Mary daughter of Thomas Oliffe baptized 1635 14 June Francis son of Thomas Oliffe baptized 1635/6 24 February Mary daughter of Thomas Oliff,e buried 1636 14 June Francis son of Thomas Oliffe buried 1636/7 1 February Thomas son of Thomas Olife baptized 1638/9 19 February Mary Oliffe buried 1639/40 18 March Henry son of Thomas Oliffe baptized 1642 21 November Sarah daughter of Thomas Oliffe baptized 1643/4 3 January [name faded, possibly Martha] daughter of Thomas OM baptized The mother of these children, Ann Hopkins, alias Jones, wife of Thomas Oliffe, Sr., appears to have died about 1643, whereupon the father took a second wife, Elizabeth," to whom the following children were born, according to St. James's register: 1646 1647 1649 1651 July Ann daughter of Thomas & Elizabeth Oliffe baptized November Hannah daughter of Thomas & Elizabeth Oliffe baptized, bona 14 November 24 June Richard son of Thomas & Elizabeth Oliffe baptized; buried 26 June 16 October Benjamin son of Thomas & Elizabeth Oliffe baptized 5 22 The Quarterly Meeting records of London and Middlesex provide further information on this youngest son of Thomas Oliffe, Sr.: 1680 [Sept.] Benjamin Olive, dyer of Old St., Middlesex, son of Thomas Olive of Barton [Bierton], Bucks., and Elizabeth Meakins, daughter of John and Margaret Meakins, married at Waltham Abbey, Essex 2 7m The births and deaths of their family are entered in the same Quarterly Meeting records: 3m [May] John son of Benjamin Olive, Crmplegate Parish, Peel Meeting, born 1682/3 10 12m [Feb.] Thomas son of Benjamin Olive & Elizabeth, Cripplegate Parish, Peel Meeting, born 1681 22 According to Miss Baker, the old registers were written in a very confused manner and difficult to smell, but she found no burial entry for Am Oliffe, and no marriage for Thomas and Elizabeth. The inference is slut he probably marned her in another parish, the records of which a/so have vac been publiehed. Si See Digest of Marriages, Births and Burials, Quarterly Meeting of London and Middlesex, GS?, for the following rem, 144 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 1685 18 10m [Dec.] Elizabeth daughter of Benjamin Olive & Elizabeth, Inks Green, Chinkford Parish, Essex, Tottenham Meeting, born 23 9m [Nov.] Margrett daughter of Benjamin Olive & Elizabeth, Tottenham Meeting, born 1687/8 22 1 m [March] Benjamin son of Benjamin & Elizabeth Olive, Chingford Parish, Tottenham Meeting, born 1688/9 21 lm [March] John son of Benjamin Olive of Hall End, Essex, died of a consumption, aged 8 1690 30 8m [Oct.] John son of Benjamin Olive, Chingford Parish, Essex, Tottenham Meeting, born 1692 19 9m [Nov.] Joseph son of Benjamin Olive, Dyer, Walthamstow Parish, Essex, Rateliff & Barking Meeting, born 1690/6 4 1 lm [Jan.] Ann daughter of Benjamin Olive, Citizen & Dyer, London, Cripplegate Parish, Peel Meeting, born 1698 20 4m [June] Jonathan son of Benjamin Olive, Old St., Peel Meeting, died, aged 2 weeks 7 7m [Sept.] Nathaniel son of Benjamin Olive, Edmonton Parish, Peel 1702 Meeting, died, aged 3 months 1711 30 5m [July] John son of Benjamin Olive, dyer, died of a fever, age 21, Cripplegate Parish, Peel Meeting 1713 20 7m [Sept.] Benjamin Olive, Sr., Olave Parish, Cripplegate, London, Dyer, died of convulsion, aged 62 years u 1717 19 2m [Apr.] Elizabeth Olive, widow, St. Giles Parish, Cripplegate, London, died of Consumption, aged 07 years; buried 23 2m 1717, Bunhillfields, Peel Meeting 1686 The marriage and age at death of Benjamin Olive, citizen and dyer of London, thus provide indisputable proof of the parentage of his halfbrother, Thomas 011ive, the emigrant to West Jersey. Both were the sons of Thomas Oliffe, Sr., of Bierton, Buckinghamshire. Contemporaneous with the elder Ofiffe, was another Oliffe family" in Bierton, according to the registers of St. James's church at Bierton: 1628 14 May Richard Olive and Joan Greene married Their first child, however, was baptized in the parish church of Aston Abbots," a village some three miles north of Bierton: It Is evident froni these records that Benjamin Olive moved around from place to place as his occupation of dyer warrmted. From Cripples. Parish he had moved to Chinkford Parish an Esser by 1685: by 1692 he was in Valtharostow Parish; by 1696 was back in London in Cripplegate Parish and lud become s Citizen of London and member of the Dyne' Guild. By 1702 he was up in Edmonton Parish, and then was back in London by 1711. 16 The registen of St. James, as transcribed by Miss Baker, also include the family of a Roger Olife of Bierton whose children were baptized between 1636 and 1641; the children of a Francis Oliffe who were baptized between 166! and 1668, and the children of a Henry Oliffe whose children were baptized between 1665 and 1678. The above Roger Olife wa.s obviously a contemporary of Thomas and Richard Oliffe, while Francis and Henry may have been the emigrant Thomas 011ive'a elder and younger brother. 16 ...Aston Abbora, 1559-1837," Butkiffshasubisr Baptisms, ldamlages and Burials (London, 1912), 1, 17. The Family of Thomas Ollive 145 1628/9 14 March William son of Richard and Jone 011iff baptized But baptism and burials of later children were entered in St. James's register: 1631 1635 1635 1640 1642 1643 1647 2 October Mary daughter of Richard Oliffe baptized 15 September Francis son of Richard Oliffe baptized 1 November Ann daughter of Richard Oliffe baptized 10 August John son of Richard Oliffe baptized 12 September William son of Richard Oliffe buried 23 May John son of Richard Oliffe buried 22 May Jane Oliffe buried The last entry above may have been transcribed incorrectly, for among the marriages in the registers of the parish church at Stone, a few miles southwest of Aylesbury, is the entry of a second marriage for Richard: 1646 28 September Richard Olife and Joyce Fenner married le Baptisms and burials of their children were entered in St. James's register at Bierton: 1650 1651 1651/2 1655 1655/6 1657 1659 1661 7 October Elizabeth daughter of Richard & Joyce Oliffe baptized 6 October Thomas son of Richard & Joyce Oliffe baptized 7 February Elizabeth daughter of Richard & Joyce Oliffe buried 19 August John son of grazier 01liffe baptized n 5 March Richard son of Richard 011ife grazier baptized, been 18 February, buried 24 March 28 April Joyce daughter of Richard 011ife grazier baptized, been 10 April 2 November Anne daughter of Richard 011ife & wife baptized 14 April Richard OE& buried The last entry above appears to be the burial of the father of the above children. In the light of later evidence, he is believed to have been the brother of Thomas Oliffe, Sr., (the father of Thomas Olive, the emigrant to West Jersey), and was in all probability the latter's uncle. A year after Richard Oliffe's burial, his widow was married again at the Stone parish church where she had first been married: 1662 15 May, Robert Gurny and Joyce Olife as W"Marriages at Stone, 1558 to 1812," lisseihsghoesshwe Perish Registers (London, 1907), Ill, 47. 17 An nary in the register of St. Junes of the birth and baptize on 6 and 27 June WI, of Margaret, daughter of Richard °Rife and wife that dwells in the Mercer's rents," would seem to indicate another Richard who was not "grazier Mile." 1 . "Marengo at Stone," 48. cited in Note 16. 146 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Sometime during the next ten years, Joyce Gurny's " children, Thomas, Joyce and Anne Oliffe, joined the Upperside Monthly Meeting of Friends at Aylesbury. In 1672 the first of them came under the notice of the Meeting. That year Samuel Jenings, salesman of Aylesbury, and Anne Oliffe of the same place, declared their intentions of marriage before the Meeting. Consent to their union was granted by the Meeting 4 10m (December) 1672, which directed that "Samuel (before y' consummation of their intended Marriage) should endeavour to give al reasonable satisfaction to Anne Olive's Grandfather and Grandmother, concerning a provision of future maintenance to be made for said Ann in case she should survive y° Samuel." This apparently was accomplished to the satisfaction of the Meeting, for they were married under the care of the Meeting 7 11m (January) 1672/3." The next Oliffe to come under the Meeting's notice was Anne's brother, Thomas Oliffe of Aylesbury. On 4 10m (December) 1678, he was granted permission to marry Dorothy Doyly of Adderbury, Oxon., by the Upperside Monthly Meeting of Buckinghamshire. They were married on 17 12m (February) 1678/9, at H. Horn's house under the care of Banbury Monthly Meeting." Before that year was over, Samuel Jenings, Thomas's brother-inlaw, had become the father of two children: William Jenings, born 18 9m (November) 1673, and Sarah Jenings, born 10 2m (April) 1679. Samuel was also entertaining thoughts of emigrating to the New World, e 10 At the time of the Episcopal Visitation ho Buckinghamshire in October and November 1662, one Robert Gurny and his wife, having been cited "for not coming to church to hare the sermon nor divine service," were mcommunicated as they had not appeared after public proclamation was made. No definite proof has been found so for that this couple were indeed Robert Gilroy and his wife Joyce. Episcopal Visitation Book for the Archdeaconry of Buckingham, 1662, Buckinghamshire Record Society (1947), VII, 48. ..Minute Book of the Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends for She Upperside of Buckinghamshire, 1669-1690, Records Branch of the Buckinghamshire Archeological Society (1937), 1, 19. See also "Marriages' . enured in the Digested Copy of the Registers of the Quarterly Meeting of Buckinghamshire, 16113.1729, GSP. Although Anne was na baptized until 1659, probably she woo the eldest child of Richard and Joyce 011ife, bona perhaps about 1648, unless she was the Ann, baptized ill 1631, daughter of Richard's first wife lone. No death record for either girl has been found in the registen of St. James. The modern spelling of Anne's husband's surname is "Jennings," even though in seventeenth and eightundt enatury documents the accepted form was "Jenings." His dieted., by the Meeting, to clear his intended marriage with Anne's grandparents implies that both her parents were then deceased. ..Minute Book, Upperside Monthly Meeling, is, 65, cited above. See also Digested Copy of the Registers of the Quarterly Meeting of Berkshire and Oxfordshire, and of Buckinghamshire, in GSP, for the births and burials of their children: Thonsas, b. 6 10m (December) 1679; Anne, b. 2 gns (October) 1681; Dorothy, b. 24 10m (December) 1683; Joyce, b. 21 6m (August) 1685; Doily, b. 21 5m (July) 16118; Dorothy (2nd), b. 29 3m (May) 1690. Their father, Thomas 011iffe of "Ailsbury," who had been imprisoned for 30 months "for not receiving the Sacrament," was discharged from his confinement in 1686, .cording to Joseph Besse, A Collection of the Wining, of tili Prof le Clika Q.A., (London, 1753), I, SS, hereinafter cited as Besse, Sufferings. The Family of Thomas Ollive 147 having purchased in September, 1678, a one-quarter share of a propriety in the new province of West Jersey, from George Hutcheson, one of the original proprietors." By 26 3m (May) 1680, jenings' thoughts of emigrating had crystallized, for on that date Upperside Monthly Meeting, held at the house of Thomas Ellwood in Coleshill, Amersham, Hertfordshire, granted Jenings a certificate of removal: Whereas Samuel Jenings late of Alisbury in ye County of Bucks Salesman, hash ggnified unto us ye he bath an intention (if ye Lord permit) to transport himself with his Wife & Children unto ye Plantation of West-new-Jersey in America, & hada desired a Testimonial from this Meeting, for ye satisfaction of friends there or elsewhere, unto whom he may be outwardly unknown. We therefore ... hereby certify al whom it may concern, yt ye said Samuel & Anne his Wife, having lived in these parts for many years, have walked conscientiously & honestly amongst us . . • according to ye best of our knowledge & observation of them . . . • Among those signing the certificate was Thomas 01liffe of Aylesbury, brother of Jenings' wife Anne. It is also apparent that Samuel and his family had already removed themselves to London preparatory to taking shipping for the voyage, as evidenced by a further notice in the same minutes: Rowland Foster of Wiccomb complaining to this Meeting, yt Joyce 01liffe formerly of Alisbury, having for some time entertained him in ye way of a Sutor in order to Marriage, is lately removed to London, in order to transport herself beyond ye Seas, to his great trouble & dissatisfaction; The Meeting desired T. Ellwood to speak with the said Joyce at London, & acquaint her, That it is ye Judgmt of this Meeting, yt she ought (before her departure) to endeavour to give ye said Rowland satisfaction in this case, & yt if he shal desire to have ye business heard by some Friends of London, to be chosen indifferently by him & herself, she ought not to refuse it. Obviously she had decided — perhaps at the last minute — to join her sister and family, and so had left Aylesbury without obtaining the requisite certificate of clearness. Two months later Thomas Ellwood reported back to the Meeting that "he had delivered their Message to Joyce 011iffe, who received it very kindly; & yt afterwards, Rowland Foster & she discoursing together, did wholly end ye Controversy yt had been between them each of them solemnly releasing ye other by a writing under their hands." " 16, 17 September 1678, George .2 New Jersey Archives, 1st Seth,, SOU, 394, cited in Note 1 Hutcheson to Samuel Jeniogs. The births of the Jeninge children are enured in the Digested Copy of the Registers of the Quarterly Meeting of Buckinghamshire, GSP. hflinste Book, Upperside Monthly Meeting, 82-84, deed in Note 28. 148 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine With this problem settled, the Jenings were free to depart, according to Jenings' account ° 4 written in the New World to Friends in England on 17 October 1680: "Dear Friends, This may give you an account of mine and my families safe arrival in New-Jersey, with all the rest that came with us . . . . about sixe weeks since, we arrived in Delaware river .. . ." Probably by the ship which had carried them over, Joyce 011ife " wrote back to Upperside Meeting for the neglected certificate; on 2 lm (March) 1680/1, Thomas 011ife acquainted the Meeting that his Sister Joyce 011ife (who ye last summer went from England to live in New Jersey in America) hath by letter desired him to move this Meeting for a Certificate on her behalf. The Meeting in order thereunto desired John Archdale, Nicholas Noy & William Kidder to make inquiry concerning her clearness, It to speak particularly with Rowland Foster. The following April William Kidder reported back to the Meeting that he had spoken with Rowland Foster concerning Joyce, and that "said Rowland did leave ye matter wholly to Friends of this Meeting to do therein as they should think fit." Whereupon the Meeting issued the requisite certificate, which, however, contained certain conditions: ... These are therefore to certify al whom it may concern, that upon inquiry made concerning her, we find that, there having formerly been some affection tending to Marriage between ye said Joyce 011iffe It one Rowland Foster of Wiccomb in this County, web afterwards upon more serious thoughts through a dissatisfaction on her part, was wholly laid aside, ye said Rowland Foster, by a Writing under his band bearing date ye second day of ye 4th ma: 1680 did acquit her It leave her perfectly free, with this proviso, yt she ye said Joyce 011iffe should keep herself free from ingaging in Marriage to Isaac Marriot for ye space of one year. And, unless there be some affection tending to Marriage between her It ye said Isaac Marriott (wch we have no certain knowledge of) we do not know, nor have ground to suppose yt she is under any engagement to or entanglement with any person in England, but we do look upon her to be clear It free as aforesaid, no far as we have been able to inform ourselves . . . Communications being what they were, Upperside Monthly Meeting apparently was unaware that Isaac Marriot, whom Joyce obviously had met while in London the previous summer awaiting transportation to West Jersey, had already come to an understanding with her. The 24 Smith, History of the Colony of Nova-Canaria . . . , 124, cited in Note 3. The letter was directed CM/4W of London, reported vuiously to have arrived in the Delaware in September or October, 1650. See "The Philadelphia and Bucks County Registers of Arrivals," Passengers and Ships Prior to 1684, 172, cited in Note 4. Joyce 011ife was cce of the witnesses at the muriage in Burlington on 14 Bm (October) 1650, of Freedom Lippincot and Mary Cowin, for which see the teat below, and Book of Births, Deaths, Marriages, 1677-1777, Burlington Monthly Meeung, on deposit .c Friends Archives, 3rd and Arch Smote, Philadelic4. IS Minute Book, Upperside Monthly Meeting, 92-94, cited in Note 20. so "07illiam Penn, Edward Byllinge or Gowen Lawrie." They may have sailed on the The Family of Thomas Ollive 149 minutes of Peel Meeting in London, under date of 26 I lm (January) 1680/1," noted that hack marriot of Holbourn Joyner, the sane of Richard Marrit of Wappingham in Northampton Shyer husbandman deceased, did propose to take to Wiff Joyce 011ives the Sister of Samuel! Jenings Wiff, & now in new Jersey & doth desyer A certificate by consent of this meeting to the 2 weekes meeting wth was consented unto by the meeting & John Edge & Thin Zachary or desyrd to get a Certificate & present him to the 2 Weeks meeting. The certificate was duly issued to Isaac under date of 7 12m (February) 1680/1, and by the following September he was in Burlington, having concluded arrangements for his marriage to Joyce 011iffe by virtue of a pre-marital agreement: as Isaac Marriott By one Bond dated Sept. 3' 1681, bound in frame Hundred pounds of Lawf tall English money to Sam° Jennings & Thomas Oliffe—now in England, as flee flees for Joyce Olhffe, with Condition in Consideration of a Marriage intended betweene ye said Isaac & Joyce, That if (after ye said intermarriage) The said Isaac shall depart this life before ye said Joyce, Then ye said Isaac shall give & bequeath Two Hundred pounds sterling of his Estate to ye said Joyce, her Exec. & Assignes; And if ye said Joyce shall depart this life before ye said Isaac & leave no Issue of her body then Eyeing; That then ye said Joyce shall have liberty before her decease, by her will, to dispose of what Legacyes thee shall please, not exceeding in ye whole one Hundred pounds sterling; which will ye said Isaac thereby Covenants to perform. But if ye said Joyce shall die before ye said Isaac & leave Issue of her body then Eyeing, Then ye said Isaac, his Exec., Adm. or Assignes, shall pay to ye abovesaid Sam° Jennings & Thomas 011iffe, their Exec. or Assignes, Two Hundred pounds Sterling for the use & benefit of each child or children then Eyeing, at such tyme as ye said Sam" Jennings It Thomas 011iffe, their Exec" or Assignes, shall see it needf till to take such child or children into their own Tuition; Sealed and dehvered to Sam° Jennings to ye uses abovesd before John Butcher, Thomas Walters 8t Thos. Revell. Four days later on 7 7m (September) 1681, Joyce Olive married Isaac Marriott, late of Holborn, at the house of Thomas Gardiner in Burlington. Witnesses included Thomas Olive, of West Jersey, and Samuel and Anne Jenings." Now, if the premise is valid that Thomas Oliffe, Sr., and Richard 011iffe, both of Bierton, Buckinghamshire, were brothers who had children baptized in St. James's parish church, then those children were first cousins to each other. That being so, it is clear why Thomas Olive of 27 Gilbert Cope, "Notes lean Friends Records in England," Publications of the Genealogkal Society of Pennsylvania (PGSP), III, 229. Tranuript of Records of Burlington and Mt. Flolly Monthly Meeting, 16711-1572, 237; "Burlington Court Records," in John F. Stillwell, Hittorkal and Genealogical Miscellany (New York, 1906), 4. The author is indebted to Mr. George Ely Russell for this reference. 88 Transcript of Records of Burlington and Mt. Holly Monthly Meeting, 1675-1972, 5, GSP. 150 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine West Jersey, son of Thomas Oliffe, Sr., of Bierton, remembered in his will children of his uncle, Richard 01life: Anne, wife of Samuel Jenings, and Joyce, wife of Isaac Marriott. He felt there was no need to identify them as cousins since they were both in West Jersey when his will was written. He also remembered their indisputable brother Thomas of Aylesbury, but identified him only as his "cozen Thomas Olive," because he was in England and not in West Jersey. But what of John Woolston, Jr., also remembered in Thomas's West Jersey will? What, if any, was Woolston's relationship to the testator Thomas, to Anne Jenings and her sister Joyce Marriot and their brother Thomas Oliffe of Aylesbury? In order to establish his identity, it is necessary to go back in time and pick up the thread of the emigrant Thomas Olive's life. As already noted, he was baptized in Bierton at St. James's church I February 1636/7, son of Thomas Olife, Sr., and his wife Ann. The next recovered record places the younger Thomas 01live in the market town of Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, about ten miles northeast of the English county town of Northampton. When or why young 01live removed there remains unknown; he may have been sent there as apprentice to a haberdasher, the calling he followed until his removal to West Jersey. It is claimed that he was converted to Quakerism about 1654 or 1655 by William Dewsbury when he visited that area, and that in 1657 Thomas 01live with others was fined "under the Name of Sabbath-breakers, for no other cause than travelling to their religious Meetings on the First-day of the Week." " Be that as it may, whatever the time of his conversion, by 1666 he was a sufferer for his convictions. On 20 3m (May) 1666, Thomas Olive, now aged 29, was at a meeting at the house of John Mackerness in Findon (Finedon), a village about three miles northeast of Wellingborough. A constable appeared at the meeting "with a Rabble of Assistants" bearing a warrant to arrest those attending the meeting. When it was over the constable and his assistants "dragged" about forty of those present to a neighboring alehouse where they were detained all night. Next morning they were put in a cart and waggon and conveyed to Ealson where Justice Yelver"Besse, &define, I, 530, rated in No 21. See also The Friend, XXVII (1814), 228, 236, 237. The Thomas Olive who was fined in 1657 might have been the Thomas Olive, Gent., late of NoldenhYi for whom a precept was issued to the sheriff to appear with others before the justices at Northampton Castle of 5,s Easter to answer ''divers felonies," for which see Quarter Sessions Records of the County of Northampton, 1630, 1657-8, Northamptonshire Record Society (1824). I. The emigrant Thomas Olhve would have hem only 20 years of age at that time, and certainly not dignified by the name of 'rent." which tam a term used to signif y 0 man of material substance. The Family of Thomas Ollive 151 ton and another justice fined them each forty shillings. Since they refused to pay the fine, they were sent to the county gaol for six weeks. Among those so gaoled were Thomas 01live, John Nottingham and Judith 01live, all from Wellingborough, and a John Woolston from "Attleborough" (now known as Irthlingborough) , a few miles north of Wellingborough." While Thomas 011ive was confined in Northampton Gaol he wrote his first religious tract which he called "A Signification from Israel's God to English rulers and inhabitants." To this he added a postscript to the effect that it was written "the 3rd of 5th month 1666 where I am a prisoner with near 80 more of the people of the Lord, who, at this day suffer for the testimony of a pure conscience, waiting for the Lord to plead our cause and clear out innocency in the face of our enemies." " There has been a persistent tradition that Thomas 011ive had a wife Judith, and a woman of that name was among those imprisoned in Northampton Gaol at the same time as Thomas. If she was his wife, he did not mention her in his postscript, and no marriage record for him has been found in either Anglican or Quaker records. Another persistent tradition is that in these early years Thomas 01live married into the Woolston family, and that one of Thomas's sisters married John Woolston. In the hope that a search in the unpublished parish registers of Irthlingborough, where John Woolston lived, might clarify these 011iveWoolston traditions, the registers were examined in August 1969, and again in 1970.0 From these examinations it is apparent that the Woolston family was one of long standing in the neighborhood, the name appearing as early as 25 May 1562, when a Robert Sibley married an Elizabeth Wolson. Thirty years later in the register is the marriage on 27 November 1592, of Geffery 'Colson and Alice Drage, and the baptisms and burials of their children: 1592 1591 11 October Jhon Woolson son of Gefferie 20 April Jhon Volum buried Wolson baptized SI-Besse, Sufferings, I, 534, cited above. g2 Four years later, 011ive again suffered for his principles, as reported in a letter of 23 4m (June) 1670. It appears that ''the wicked Ruler's Agmts came & streined from Thomas Olive 60 pds worth of good cloth at one time," probably because he had refused to pay tithes. Besse, Sufferings, I, 536. a. They were first searched for the author by the courtesy of the Reverend Canon 3. K. King, The Rectory, Irthlingborough, Northmts; later a further search was made for Mrs. D. Warren, of 1 Chestnut Road, Yardley Gobion, near Towcaster, Northants., at the request of the author. m The proximity of the date of baptism of this child, and the date of marriage, poses the question as to whether the father was the same person who married Alice Drage. Perhaps erron III transcription were made. 152 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 1594 30 March Alice Wolson daughter of Geffery Wolson baptized 1596 16 May Jnon Wolson son of Geffery Wolson baptized 1598/9 28 January William Wilson [sic] son of Jeffery Wylson baptized 1601 28 December Gefferie Wo!son son of Gefferie Wolson baptized 1604 26 May Thomas Wo'son son of Gefferie Wolston baptized 1607 20 June Simon Walston son of Jefferie Walston baptized 1609/10 17 February Thomas Wolston buried Search in the registers also brought to light the marriage on 29 January 1628/9, of John Wolston (presumably baptized 16 May 1596, inasmuch as no other John NiTolston of the period appeared in the register) and Anne Reeve. The baptisms of their children in the same registers were also found: 6 December William Wolston son of John baptized 18 December Thomas Wolston son of John and Anne baptized 22 December John Wolston son of John and Anne baptized 1635/6 6 March Alice Wolston daughter of John and Agnes baptized" 1638/9 10 February Geffery Wolstone son of John and Agnes baptized 1641 21 April Elizabeth Wolston daughter of John and Agnes baptized 1642/3 10 March Agnes Wolstone wife of John Wolstone buried 1665 22 September John Wolston buried 1629 1631 1633 This last John Wolston could not have been the man imprisoned with Thomas 01live in Northampton Gaol in 1666, but his son John, baptized 22 December 1633, could have been 01live's fellow prisoner. While there is no record of that John Wolston in the Northampton Friends' records of the meeting at Wellingborough, those records do include the marriage of William Woolston, his presumed elder brother, who was baptized 6 December 1629. He was of "Artillonyberry" when he married 2 10m (December) 1659, Susanna Nottingham. The births of their children were also entered in the Meeting records: 30 6m (August) Ann daughter of William and Susanna Woolston 1660 1662/3 6 lm (March) John son of William and Susanna Woolston of Arranberry 1663/4 6 12m (February) Thomas son of William and Susanna Woolston of Irelinborow" as Here the mother's name is given as Agnes which, accordin,g to Mn. Warren, at the time was interchangeable with Anne, as Wilson and Volum appear for Wolston or Woolston. The pariah register does include the baptism m 12 June 1601, of Agnes Reeve, daughter of Richard Reeve and wife Amy Broughton, who were married 6 November 1598. Na deals for an Anne Wolston was noted its dee register. 80Friends records for Wellingborough show that Thomas Woolmn and Alice 'Worms, bode of "An teingborrow," were married 18 10m (December) 1695, and had the births of their children entered in the records, one of whom was Jeafry, b. 16 4m (June) 1699. It nem, evident that this Thomaa was the son of William Woolston and his wife Susanna Nottingham. See Digested Copy of the Reginers of the Quarterly Meeting of Friends of Northamptonshire, GOP. The Family of Thomas Ollive 153 1666 1 6m (August) Samuel son of William and Susanna '1 ,7oolston of Irtellingborow 1668/9 17 I 1m ( January) Mary daughter of William and Susanna Woolston of Artellborough 1672 7 8m (October) Susanna daughter of William and Susanna Woolston of Artellingberry Although this William Woolston had his childrens' births entered in the Wellingborough Friends Meeting records, his own death was entered in the register of the parish church at Wellingborough: "1685 27 November, William Woolston of Irthlingborough buried." His will, dated 23 October 1685, at Irthlingborough, and proved in Northamptonshire 8 December 1685, named his son Thomas executor. He left to his wife (unnamed) ten pounds, "the house formerly Sharps in Irthlingborough, land known as Kelleson's" and household goods. He named his "brother Jeffery Woolston of Queenhithe, London," and left to his "eldest son John Woolston in America the sum of ten pounds to be paid to him within three years after my decease." His younger sons Sam and William were to receive ten pounds when they reached the age of fourteen, and a further sum of thirty pounds at twenty-one years of age. He also named his daughters Ann, Mary and Susanna. He further noted that "whereas some of my children have had legacies given them by the will of their grandfather Nottingham, and some others, such legacies are included in legacies left by my will." " The parentage of John Woolston, Jr., legatee under the will of the emigrant Thomas 011ive, is thus established by his father's will. He was the son of William Woolston and Susanna Nottingham, and the nephew of John Woolston, emigrant to West Jersey in 1677, who was his father's brother. Moreover, it appears that he also was related to Thomas Olive, for on 1 4m (June) 1685, Thomas 011ive of Northampton River, West Jersey, made over to John Woolston, Jr., "of y north branch of Rankokus Creek. . ,for y' natural! love which he bath toy' said John Woolston his Nephew," a tract of 100 acres within the Second 3, The marriage of Susanna Woolston is entered in the Wellingborough parish church register, searched for Mrs. Warren: "1698 Sepmmber 6, danyel mm, Smith, & Susan Woolstone, Quakers, muried in their own way." The deaths of Daniel Man and his wife Susan, who both died (or were buried) on the same day, were entered in Wellingborough Friends records u haying taken place on 15 3m (May) 1713, while the Wellingborough parish register included the burial of one child: '1701 October 23, A son of Ihnyel Man, Smith." Northants Archdoconry Wills, 3, 306, 3rd Series, will of Willman Woolston, searched for Mrs. ^Warren. 154 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Tenth adjoining 200 acres where John, Jr., was "seated." " To establish the identities of John Nottingham who was in Northampton Gaol with Thomas Olive in 1666, and Susanna Nottingham who married William Woolston in 1659, the unpublished registers of the Anglican church at Wellingborough were searched in the spring of 1970. The first pertinent entry proved to be the marriage record of a Thomas Nottingham and Mary Hills on 24 April 1624. Baptisms from 1624 to 1628 are missing in the register, a page evidently having been torn out. But later pages revealed the following Nottingham baptisms and burials: 1628/9 8 February Mary daughter of Thomas Nottingham baptized 1631 11 April Mary daughter of Thomas Nottingham baptized 1634/5 24 January Susanna daughter of Thomas Nottingham baptized 1636/7 9 February Hannah daughter of Thomas Nottingham baptized 1639 Judith daughter of Thomas Nottingham baptized 1641/2 13 February John son of Thomas Nottingham baptized 1642 20 December Mary daughter of Thomas Nottingham buried 1644 24 April Mary daughter of Thomas Nottingham baptized 1644 29 October Mary daughter of Thomas Nottingham buried The death (or burial) of Thomas Nottingham, father of the above children, was entered in Wellingborough Friends records as having occurred on 2 11rn ( January) 1670/1. As a yeoman of Wellingborough, Thomas Nottingham in his will, dated 19 December 1670, and proved 28 February 170/1, mentioned his wife Mary, his son (-inlaw) William Powers and Elizabeth his wife (presumably the eldest daughter born perhaps about 1626), their sons Thomas and Sam Powers, and his own sons Sam and John Nottingham. He left legacies "to every Daughter," without naming them individually. He devised other legacies to his "Daughter Potter's children," to his "Daughter Palmer's children and Sam Palmer her husband," to his "Daughter Woolston's children," and to his "Daughter Ann Custance, lately deceased, her 80 West Jersey Deeds, Libor B, Part 1, 91, a maw copy of which was supplied by abs Archives and History Bureau, New Jersey State Library. The abstract of the record in New Jersey Archives, 10 Senn, XXI, 410, omits the phrase "Ins Nephew." John Woolston, Jr. had come over in 1677 with his uncle, John, Sr., Thomas 011ive and Daniel Wills, mcording to the 2CCOU12C written in 1715 by Daniel Wills, Jr., and printed in George DeCou, Burlington, A Provincial CoPitai . . . , (Philadelphia, 1945), 30. He married in Burlington public court 6 70m (December) 1681, Lemke Newbold, b. 14 October 1659, daughter of Michael and Ann Newbold, originally from Sheffield Park, Yorkshire. "Marriages, 16651800," New Jersey Archives, lst Series, 3031, travi. The Family of Thomas Ollive 155 children, except Hannah, the wife of John Hansel" He named his wife Mary and son John Nottingham executors." "Daughter Woolston" named in this will undoubtedly was Susanna Nottingham, wife of William Woolston, and the son John 4' the man who was in Northampton Gaol in 1666 with Thomas 011ive, John Woolston, Sr. (son of John and Anne), and Judith 011ive. It therefore seems more than likely that Judith was Thomas Olive's wife, and was included in her father's will under the bequest to "every Daughter," but having no children, was not specifically identified. If this premise is valid, then John Woolston, Jr., son of Judith's sister Susanna Nottingham and William Woolston, was Judith's nephew, and a nephew by marriage of Thomas 011ive of West Jersey. On that assumption, the often repeated but undocumented claim of a supposed marriage of Thomas 011ive to a sister of John Woolston, Sr., variously named as Judith or Elizabeth Woolston," is no longer reasonable. That there was a further bond of relationship between the Woolstons and Thomas 011ive has been put forth in a number of unsubstantiated claims. One of these is that John Woolston, Sr., had married a sister of Thomas Olive before his emigration, and that her death in England was perhaps a reason for his decision to emigrate. That claim says she was Ann Olive whose son John Woolston, Jr., came with his father to West Jersey in 1677." The last part of that statement is demonstrably false, in light of the identification of John Jr. as the son of William Woolston, noted above. And while it is a fact that Thomas 011ive did have a half-sister Ann, baptized at St. James's parish church in Bierton, 5 July 1646, there is no further reference in the parish 40North... Archdeacoury Wills, 1,, 135, 3rd Series, will of Thomas Nottingham, searched for Mrs. Warren. John Nottingham was surety for Elizabeth Powers, widow and sole executor of the estate of William Powers, when administration was granted 22 November 1676. Administrations of the Archdeaconry of Northampton, 1546-1676 (London, n.d.), 84, estate of William Powers. 91 John Nottingham had previously been arrested on 6 Septnuber 1663, when he was taken at a sereties in Bugbrook with others "for refusing the Oath." Then in July, 1666, soon after his release from Nottingham Gaol, he was again arrested and though sentenced to transportation, it being his third offence, he was kept imprisoned until 1672. Besse, Sufferings, I, 533, 535, 537. After his release he married on 12 10m (December) 1672, Mary Ashby of Bugbrook, under the care of Wellingboro9gb Friends Meeting. Their children? births and deaths were all entered in that Meeting's records. Significantiy their Sot child, Judith, b. 29 1m (March) 1674, who d. 12 2m (April) following, was followed later by a second Judith, b. 26 4m (June) 1685; the name Judith is found only in the Nottingham family and never in any Woolston family record so for examined. IRSm for example, "The Genealogical Record of John Wills (New Jersey 1660-1746/7)7 National Genealogical Society Quarterly, XLII (1954), 65, 0.9s William Bacon Evans, "Additional Wormed= on Thomas 011ive, 1692," the original of which is in Haverford College Library, Haverford, Pa., and a photocopy in Friends Howe, London. 4 . Arthur E. Bye, History of the Bye Family and Some Allied Families (Easton, Pa., 1956), 318. 519. Note A. 156 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine registers either to her or to her sister Hannah, born 14 November 1647, and neither of them are mentioned in 01live's 1692 will. John Woolston, Sr. could have married either of these girls, possibly after he got out of Northampton Gaol." He did marry Hannah Cooper, daughter of William and Margaret Cooper of Pine Poynte, under the care of Burlington Monthly Meeting on 7 Sm (October) 1681, and in his will, written 12 3m (May) 1698, spoke of his "now wife Hanah." " Such phrasing often indicated a prior wife, but neither English Friends records, nor Anglican parish register so far searched have provided proof of a first marriage for him. While John Woolston, Sr., was not a legatee under the will of Thomas 011ive, the children of Freedom Lippincott were. Freedom was the son of Richard and Abigail Lippincott who appear to have come from Devonshire originally, whence they emigrated early to New England, perhaps in the late 1630s. Finding the climate there not to their taste, especially in religious matters, they returned to Plymouth in the late 1640s where Freedom, their fourth son, was born about 1655. In 1660 they once more emigrated, this time to Rhode Island, and from there made their way with others to Shrewbury in East Jersey." In 1676 Richard Lippincott purchased from John Fenwick 1000 acres of land in Salem, West Jersey, on "Chohanzich R. and Wee-hattquack Cr." Three years later in May, 1679, Richard and his wife Abigail, now of "New Shrowsbury," planter, divided his 1000 acres between his five sons, giving each 200 acres." On 2 7m (September) 1680, sixteen months later, "Freedom Lipingcott of Shrewsbury and Mary "Costoms" of Burlington proposed their intentions of marriage before the Burlington Monthly Meeting held at John Woolston's house in Burlington. They passed meeting the f Often in the early days of Quakerism record keeping among the Frimds was apt to be quiedy centered in the personal hands of one Friend until such time as monthly meetings were formed around structured meeting houses. Thus many early vital record of Friends do not exist, particularly if the events normally recorded occurred when religious dissent was considered illegal, and Anglican clergy were helping English justices to persecute dissenters. 45 Transcript of Records of Burlington and Mt. Holly Monthly Meeting, 1670-1872, 7, GSP; will of John Woolston: Unrecorded Wills, Volume 4, 221, xerox copy from Bureau of Archiv. and History, New Jersey State Library, Trenton. See also abstract in New Jersey Archives, 1s0 Series, MOB, 517. 40 5ee Jam. S. Lippincott, The liPPincotts in England and America (Philadelphia, 1892), 41, for a record of their children from which their parents' wanderings cm be deduced, and Abstract of Marriages and Copy of the Record of Births and D.ths of the Members of Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting of Friends, 135, 131, in GSP. The original mooed from which that copy was made was badly torn, so that birth years for the younger children are uncertain. 4, New Jersey Archives, MU, 565, 567. At first also called "Shrewsbury Neck on Cohanaye,“ New Shrewsbury apparently was so designated hmause of the numbers from Shrewsbury in East Jersey who took up land there, The Family of Thomas Ollive 157 lowing 6 October, and eight days later were married at Burlington. The unpublished marriage record is of special interest: Burlington ye 14th of ye 8th me 1680 These are to Certifie whome it may conserne that Freedome Lippingcott of Shrewsbury & Mary Custin of Burlington hash Declared their Intentions of Marriage at two severall Monthly Meetings hence & after ye Consideration & Consent of friends & Relations they were Joyned in Marriage at a Publique Meeting in Burlington ye Day and rare above written; in ye presence of us Thor 01live Remembrance Lippincott Thor Palmer John Woolston Samuel Jenings Wm Peachee Thor Gardiner Daniel Wills Walter Pumphrey Robert Stacy Thor Ellis John Pallcoast John Sterks Jude alive Ann Jenings Joyce 01live Ann Peach. Ann Tucker Frances Bucker AnnaII Eves The surname of the bride, given in the above record, is not the same as that given in the extant Minute Book, which is a fair copy of the original record. Genealogical records of the Lippincott family have said her surname was Curtis, but personal observation of the original recorded certificate proves that to be incorrect. What actually was her surname, and who were her relations, if any, who gave their consent and witnessed this marriage? Remembrance Lippincott was Freedom's eldest brother. A connection between Thomas 01live, John Woolston, Ann Jenings and her sister Joyce 01live, who married Isaac Marriot the next year, has already been demonstrated. Where did Mary Custin fit into this group? It will be recalled that Thomas Nottingham in his 1670 will, left legacies to the children of his daughter "Ann Custance, lately deceased." This Ann was a sister of Susanna Nottingham Woolston who was John Woolston, Jr.'s mother, and therefore a sister-in-law of John Woolston, Sr. who witnessed the marriage. If the first syllable of "Custance" is pronounced as hi "just," and if consideration is taken of the vagaries of seventeenth century phonetic spelling, then "Custin" could have been the way the clerk heard it when he omitted the last sibilant. If This marriage record is taken from the original Burlington Monthly Meeting Book of Births. Deaths and Marriages, cited in Note 27, whams the entry in the copy of the Minute Book is apparently the source from which William W. Hinshaw took his information for his entry in his Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1930, /I, 238. wherein her name is given as Mary Cowen. 158 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Mary Custin was a daughter of Ann Custance, she was then a niece by marriage of John Woolston, Sr., and a true first cousin of John Woolston, Jr. Also one other name subscribed to the marriage record of Mary Custin is of particular interest: that of Jude Olive. This is only the second time that her name is coupled in surviving records with Thomas 01live, John Woolston, Sr., and members of the Nottingham family. No positive contemporary proof has been found to date that she was Thomas 01live's wife, but there is little doubt that she came with him to West Jersey in 1677 as a member of "his family." As "Judy Olive" she was one of the women who witnessed the birth at Burlington on 1 10m (December) 1677, of Ann Wills, daughter of Daniel and Mary, who had arrived on the Kent with Thomas 01live." Again as "Jude Olive" she was present at the birth on 1 3m (May) 1678, of Joseph Peachee, son of William and Ann, and as "Judy Olive," at the birth on 21 12m (February) 1678/9, of John, son of Thomas and Hannah Eves. Later that year as "Judeth Olive" she was present when Mary, daughter of Thomas and Suzanah Budd, was born on 2 7m (September) 1679." Three years after the marriage in 1680 of Freedom Lippincott and Mary Custin, "Judeth" Olive was present at the "birthing" on 25 7m (September) 1683, of Hannah, daughter of John and Sarah Roberts. The next year she was present at the birth on 20 5m (July) 1684, of Samuel, son of Thomas and Anna Eves; was a witness at the marriage of Henry Ballinger and Mary Harding on 4 9m (November) 1684, and six weeks later at the birth of Samuel, son of Freedom and Mary [Custin] Lipincott on 24 10m (December). On 29 8m (October) 1686, she was present at the birth of Benjamin, son of Thomas and Ann Eves, and two months later on 28 10m (December), at the birth of Thomas, son of Freedom and Mary [Custin] Lipincott. Significantly, she was not present on 22 6m (July) 1689, when their daughter Judith, Lippincott was born." Judith Olive's death is not noted in Friends records, and she has not been found a party to any deeds of conveyance which Thomas 011ive 61 See "Seventeenth Century Birth Records in the Delaware Valley,. The Pennsylvania GenreWire/ Magazine (PGM), XXVII (1971), 54- Who else comprised his family is uncertain. One known aervant was Arm Burnham who married William Satterthwaite, shoentaker, on the last day of 12m (February) 1685/6. Transcript of Records of Burlington and Mt. Holly Monthly Meeting, 1678-1872, 12, GSP. 10 7GM, XXVII, 84. 11 /bid., 56-55. A second daughter Mary Lippincott was b. 29 7m (September) 1691, who WZI also a legatee under the will of Thomas 01live. Ibid., 90. The Family of Thomas 01live 159 executed between the time of his arrival and his own death.' It was not until the early part of the nineteenth century, when Asa Matlack (1783 - 1851) copied genealogical notes which had been entered in a small volume by John Wills (1660 - 1747) , son of Doctor Daniel Wills (Thomas 011ive's co-passenger on the Kent), and brother of Olive's young wife Mary Wills, that Judith's death date came to light. The entry, as copied by Matlack, reads: Judy Olive, Died on y. 4 an, hour before day of 9 month [November] and was buried on the 6 day of same month 1688." In this entry she was not identified as the wife of Thomas 011ive, although other wives were identified in the record of burials Matlack copied. Perhaps John Wills, who knew Judith, thought her too well known to need special identification when he made the original entry. Matlack, however, did identify her in another one of his books of miscellaneous notes. He wrote that "Thomas Olive came to this country with wife Judy," and again that "After Thomas 011ive's wife Judy deceased in 1688 he married in 4 month 1691 to Mary Wills daughter of Daniel and Mary." " If, as Matlack claimed, Judy was Thomas's wife, then she was also the aunt of Mary "Custin" Lippincott who named her third child Judith, born less than a year after the elder Judith's death. And if that assumption is valid, then Thomas 011ive's legacies to his first wife's niece's children are fully explained. 52 Her irregular and infrequent appearance at .birthings" and marriages perhaps might be attributed to such poor health that for months at a time she did not appear in public. It seems strange, however, that she never joined with Thomas 011ive, assuming she was his wife, in the conveying of land. "Miscelkneous Notes" in Matlack', Historical Notes of Old Coles Church with a copy of the Church Register, 1766-1830, 219, copy in GSP. Ibid., (Book 6), 723; 226. Matlxle in this entry gives Thomas 011ive's death as 3 9m (November) 1692, which obviously is incorrect since his will was phi* dated 8 9m 1692.