Philadelphia Business Directory, 1690

PHILADELPHIA BUSINESS DIRECTORY, 1690 COMPILED By HANNAH BENNER ROACH, F.G.S.P., F.A.S.G. On 24 6m (August) 1690, five months after John Blackwell's departure from Philadelphia, and exactly six years after William Penn's departure for England, John Goodson wrote a letter to friends in England. In it Goodson listed some thirty-five different trades and businesses which were then flourishing in the town of Philadelphia, and enumerated the number of men engaged in each occupation. As one of the commissioners of the Free Society of Traders, he perhaps wrote as he did to counteract reports of the unhappy state of affairs which had obtained in the province during Blackwell's tenure as deputy governor. But whatever his motive, the letter came to be used for promotional purposes by William Penn when he arranged publication, the following year, of Some Letters and an Abstract of Letters from Pennsylvania, Containing The State and Improvement of that Province.' Regrettably, Goodson did not name the individuals engaged in the various occupations he listed; if he had, his listing would have formed Philadelphia's first business directory. To supply this deficiency, at least in part, the subjoined list offers the possible identification of as many of those individuals as the records which have been examined permit. The earliest Philadelphia deed records form the basic source for information on occupations. In these records, when a person was consistently listed as being "of the Towne and County of Philadelphia," either as grantor or grantee, both before and after 1690, it has been assumed that that person was a resident of the town. Other sources examined include patents recorded in Philadelphia exemplification books, warrants and returns of surveys, minutes of the Board of Property, Blackwell's 1689 rent 5 Reprinted in Tbe Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biograf,by (PMHB), IV (1580), 1119-201. Goodson', letter was addressed to his "Loving Friends John and S. Dew." John Dew was a joiner of London who had rn. 29 205 166g, Susanna Swinn at Peel Monthly Meeting. He died "of a consumption" 17 4n5 1691, ise-- 16, and was bur. at Dunhill. Digested Copy of the Registers of the Quarterly Meeting of London and Middlesex, in Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania (GSP). Pot a list of tradesmen in Philadelphia, compiled probably about 1699, see PMHB, XLIV (1920), 157-3511. 2 Until 1691, Philadelphia was not a city, but a town. On 20 Ion 1691, William Penn erected by chsster the town into a "Burrough," and the "said Town & Burrough" into a city, appointing a mayor, recorder, aldermen and common councilmen to be "One Body Politiq & Corporate," henceforth to be known as the "Mayor and Comonalty of Philadelphia." See transcript of the charter in PMHB, XVIII (1994), 504-509- 9C 96 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine roll and James Logan's 1703 rent roll; Joseph Reed's Explanation of the Map of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia and William Parsons' "Draughts or several Squares of Ground within the City of Philadelphia...." It should be noted here that Parsons' plans of city lots, drawn ca. 1745, do not necessarily represent the holdings of individuals in 1690; many of the lot owners listed by him were patentees who by 1690 had sold their rights or improvements to others. Nor is the 1693 tax list, which has been used as a gauge in determining the relative economic standing of the tradesmen, necessarily definitive for 1690. 8 Testamentary and estate records have provided further information on Philadelphia residents, while in the absence of land records, references in the minutes of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends often indicated the presence in town of an individual. As a rule, the evidence presented with each name in the following list has been restricted to information which appears to establish that person in Philadelphia in 1690. Goodson began his list with "Eight Merchants, Responsible Men, Housekeepers"' merchant, had his Front Street lot, between Walnut and Chestnut Streets, laid out 31 15m (December) 1682. At the foot of his bank lot, surveyed 14 2m 1684, he had built the wharf or "Key of about three hundred foot square ... to which a ship of five hundred Tuns may lay her broadside," and here he burned lime to be used in the erection of buildings in the town. By 1693 his Philadelphia estate was assessed at £1300, the highest in the town.° SAMUEL CARPENTER, 8 Warrants and Suarteys of the Province of Pennsylvania, 1682-1759, hereinafter cited as Warrants and Surveys, are to be found in the Municipal Archives, Department of Records, City Hall, Philadelphia; minutes of the Board of Property in Pennsylvania Archives, Sod Series, XIX, and 3rd Seria, 1; Jaen Logan's 1703 rent roll, the original of which is now in the custody of the Division of Public Records (State Archives), Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pa., was published in the Internal Affairs Monthly Bulletin, XXII (March, April 1914), hereinafter cited as 1703 rent roll. For reprint of Reed's Explanation, see Peignylvani. Archives, led Series, III, 279-401, specifically 384-401; foe Parton,' Draughts, see PMHB, LXXX (1956), 177-226; for the 1693 tax list, art ibid., VIII (1884), 82103. The originals for the last two cited sources are in the mrtuscript collations of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP). 4 In this category, it has been presumed that Goodson MOt, those men who not only owned tuba.dal land holdings in the country, but were importing and exporting merchants and wholesalers, as distinguished from retailing shopkeepers. The 1693 tax list which has been used as an rtonomic guide to clistinguish these men, is of course not necessarily valid for 1690. It should also be pointed out that no evidence has been found which establishes the various companies included in the 1693 fiat, in Philadelphia in 1690. They do not recognize, how5 Da. of surveys, unless otherwise noted, are from Reed's Exhanation. ever, the system of double dating elm current in England and her colonies. Until Sept. 1752, from 1 January to 25 March the year was double-dated to indicate both the historical year and the church year rtcording to the Julian calendar; 2 March 1681, as Friends reckoned was 2 In 1682/3, March being considered as the first month, December the tenth month. Dates not as double-dated in the text are historical dates. See "A Further Account of the Province of Pennsylvania . ." PASHB, IX (1885), 66, 71, for references to Camenter. Philadelphia Business Directory, 1690 97 whose Philadelphia estate in 1693 was rated at £1000, arrived with his family and servants on the Amity in August, 1682. One of the commissioners sent out by the Free Society of Traders to reside in the province, he lived first in the Blue Anchor tavern in the middle of what became Front Street, close by the swamp or Dock, as it was called. This small building he purchased the January after his arrival. In addition to his city lots appurtenant to his purchase of 5000 acres from Penn, he obtained from the Proprietor in June, 1683, the grant of an additional lot at the northwest corner of Front and Walnut Streets on which he built his town dwelling. Here John Blackwell lived during his term as deputy governor.° ROBERT TURNER, merchant and First Purchaser of 5000 acres, rated in the town in 1693 on an estate of £900, had his town house on his lot, at the southwest corner of Mulberry (Arch) and Front Streets, which had been surveyed for him 19 4m (June) 1683. In February, 1689/90, he was granted a warrant for a bank lot above Sassafras (Race) Street, "he having purchased of Rob't Taylor and Rich'd Crosby their Lotts on the front of Dellaware." T ROBERT Fyne., merchant, was a member of the "Petty Jury" impanelled for the trial of Charles Pickering in October, 1683. In 1690 he sold the south half of his bank lot, between Walnut and Chestnut Streets, to Thomas Masters. His Philadelphia estate was rated at £600 in 1693.° ANDREW ROBESON, merchant, one of the West Jersey proprietors, began investing in Pennsylvania real estate while still a resident in West Jersey, purchasing in 1685 from Thomas Rudyard the latter's rights to 5000 acres. The next year Robeson also acquired land in the Northern Liberties from James Claypoole and William Stanley, Jr. In March, 1690, he had bought at Sheriff's sale Thomas Holme's house and lot at the northwest corner of Front and Mulberry Streets, and moved to Philadelphia. Assessed in 1693 on GRIFF/TH JONES, Merchant, Samuel W. Permypacker, Penneylvania Colonial Cases (Philadelphia, 1892), 110; recstai in Philadelphia Deed Book E-1-5, 361: 16 3to 1686, Griffith Jones to George Bartholomew; Exemplification Book I, 28: 30 2m 1684, Patent to Griffith Jones; Deed Book 0-1-5, 494: 25 Feb. 1686/7, Griffith Jones to John Otter, in which Jonm "ccw dwelling place" is noted. Jones had started out in life as a glover, but acquiring a substantial estate by his marriage its 1673 to Joan, widow of Thomas Powell, he was in a position to set up as a merchmt. See the testimony of his third wife, Elizabeth, formerly widovr of Patrick Robinson, at end of conveyanu recorded in Deed Book H-7, 315: 30 Oct. 1707, Griffith Jones to Joseph Wilcox. All deeds cited are Philadelphia records unless otherwise noted. 7 Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, 23; Deed Book E-1-5, 176: Robert Tailor to Robert Turner; ibid., 667: I 12m 1687/8, Richard Croshie to Robert Turner. Turner spent part of the peaces his plantation "Sweadland" in the Northern Liberties; set Gloucester Deeds No. 2, 75: 10 Feb. 1689/90, Robert Turner to Thomas Pairman, as abstracted in "Client!. of Records in the Office of the Secretary of State, 1664-1703," New Jersey Archives, 1st Series, XXI, 656, hereinafter cited as N. 3. Archivet, XXI. 6 Apparently a member of the Friends' Meeting at Farington, Berkshire, where he signed certificates of removal for John and Richard Bunce and John Mason early in 1682, Robert Ewer had been a responsible member of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting since at least December, 1683, the first time his name is mentioned in the minutes of the meeting. See Certificates of Removal Received, 1681-1758, 4, 6, Friends' Record Department, Third and Arch Streets, Philadelphia, and minutes of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends as abstracted in Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania (POOP), I, 261. His first wife was Elizabeth Bangs, his second, whom he married in 1696, was Mary Wills, daughter of Daniel Wills and widow of Thomas Olive of West Jersey. Pennyslvania Archives, Sod Series, XIX, 64; West Jersey Records, Liber B, Part 2, 186: ST March 1696/7, Robert Ewer to John Test, abstract in N. J. Archives, XXI, 495. She married as 1699 Nathan Stanbury after Ewer's death in 1697. For the sale of the bank lot moiety, see recital in Deed Book 11•13. 104: 25 5m 1692, Thomas Masters to Richard Keys. 98 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine an estate rated at £600, he probably was in residence by August, 1690, when Goodson wrote his letter.' HUMPHREY MORREY, merchant, came to Philadelphia from New York. On 11 12m (February) 1683/4, Thomas Phillips, attorney of Mercie Jefferson of Rhode Island, widow of Edward, confirmed to Morrey for £50 the house and lot on the south side of Chestnut, between Front and Second Streets, which had been laid out in right of Jefferson's purchase of 1500 acres. By the beginning of August, 1685, Morrey had built a "large Timber house, with Brick Chimnies" here. The bank lot opposite it he acquired in December, 1688, and the following spring petitioned with other merchants for right to build a wharf at the end of Chestnut Street. In 1691 he was named mayor when the town was granted its first charter as a city. His assessed estate was rated at £500 in 1693." Pr.m.i.m RICHARDS, merchant, was another New York merchant who moved to Philadelphia. He was in Philadelphia in November, 1686, when he signed the administration bond for his brother-in-law William Frampton's estate, and the following February, 1686, bought from John Test 30 feet of the latter's Front Street lot between High and Chestnut Streets. Richards still considered himself a resident of New York, however, when in 1688 he was made attorney for two merchants in Ireland. By February, 1689, when he obtained a warrant for a bank lot opposite his front lot, he had moved his family to Philadelphia. He joined with Morrey that same spring in petitioning for a wharf at the end of Chestnut Street. His Philadelphia estate was rated in 1693 at £400.” PATRICK ROBINSON, merchant, so described himself in his real estate transact;ons, although he also had served as clerk of Philadelphia county courts and deputy register of wills. He first lived in Passayunk, where at the age of thirty, in April, 1683, he was rated on 100 acres, twelve of which were improved, and on a Negro servant, Robert Neverbegood. By the end of 1687 he was buying lots on the south side of High Street between Fifth and Sixth where he was assessed in 1693 on an estate rated at £400. 12 °Deed Book E-1 - 5, 117: 15 July 1685, Thomas Itudyud to Andrew Robeson; ibid., 177: 1 3m 1686, James Claypoole to Andrew Robeson; ibid., 379: 15 ern 1686, William Stanley, Jr., so Andrew Robeson; recital in Deed Book F-3, 79: 6 March 1716, -Andrew Rok.sso -n, jr., to Samuel jOves. 10 Deed Book 0-1-5, 226 1 11 12m 1683/4, Thomas Phillips to Humphrey Morrey. PMHB, IX, 75, cited in Note 5 above. Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania . . ,1 (18521, 267, hereinafter cited as Colonial Records. 11 Estate of William Frampton, Will Book A, 41, #90:1686. Deed Book E-1-5, 165: 1 12m 1685/6, John Test to Philip Richards; Pennsylvania Archives, Cod Series, XIX, MI ibid., 3rd Series, m , 6, warrant 2014 of "Old Rights." 12 "Returns of Inhabitants and Lands Owned and Improved in Portions of Philadelphia County in 1684," PMHB, VII (1883), 106, the original of which is in the American Philosophical Society (Am); Deed Book E-1-5, 617: 12 10m 1687. Thomas Masters to Patrick Robinson. The lots Robimon acquired on the south side of High between Fifth and Sixth eventually came into the possession of Griffith Jones who married Robinson's widow, Elizabeth; they are now within the bounds of the first block of Independence Mall State Park. Robinson and his wife had low Livewell, Peter, Thomas and William, all born before 1687, when Andrew Robeson settled on Livewell, or his brothers, a lot Robeson had patented in town; there was at least one other son, Septimus Robinson, so-named in Griffith Jones' will. See Deed Book E-1-5, 572: 10 Jose 1687, Andrew Robeson to Livewell Robinson. Patrick Robinson was also assessed in 1699 on an additional £400 in the Front Streets possibly this la an error made by the assessor, and is a duplicate of the assessment in High Mr.,. Philadelphia Business Directory, 1690 99 "Twenty-nine Shop-Keepers, great and small". THOMAS TRESSE, shopkeeper, was so described in 1688 when Thomas Hooton, Jr., sold him part of a Front Street lot between High and Mulberry Streets. When Tresse sold to the widow Hester Lynn part of the bank lot opposite his front lot in 1691, he called himself a merchant. In 1693 he was rated on his Philadelphia estate assessed at £200.15 JOHN OTTER, shopkeeper, was so designated when he was listed as one of the attornies named by Walter King in 1690. Three years before he had called himself a merchant, although he was then a resident of one of the caves on the bank. By 1693 his Philadelphia estate was rated at £400. 5 t JOHN DAY, a First Purchaser, although a carpenter by trade, preferred to call himself a merchant. The fact that he had a "good house after the London fashion, most Brick," built by 1685 on Front Street between Sassafras and Vine, "with a large frame of Wood, in the front, for Shop Windows," suggests that by that year he was, in fact, a shopkeeper. In 1693, although he himself was on a trip to England, his Philadelphia estate was rated at £200 0 SARAH ECRLEY, formerly Burge, and widow of the merchant John Eckley who had died early in 1690, continued her husband's store until her own death in 1692. He apparently had been an importing merchant specializing in yard goods, judging by the items listed in the inventory of her estate, which totalled £607 16s. 9 3/4e/. 1T ELIZABETH CULCUPP, widow, may have been keeping a small shop in 1690 in her dwelling on the north side of Chestnut, between Front and Second Streets. In 1696 the With the exception of Thomas Tress, noted in the text, no one called himself a shopkeeper in any land conveyance recorded between 1684 and 1697. Even though a tradesman called himself a merchmt in these records, it is evident he was considered by others to be a shopkeeper, as with John Otter, cited in the text. Thus it would appear that the term merchant, when applied to those who were in fact shopkeepers, was used as a status symbol. Furthermore, small shops seem to have been kept by most artisans, whatever their trade, as a means of augmenting their income, the lack of hard money in these early days forcing them to accept in payment country produce or other commodities. It is therefore impossible to identify positively the 29 shopkeepers meant by Goodson. I. Deed Book E-24, 96: 5 10m 1688, Thomas Hooton to Thomas 'Creme: Thomas Tresse to Hester Lynn. ibid., 208: 25 In 1691, 10 Otter settled first in Bucks County; probably the death of his first wife occasioned his removal to town where on 24 7m 1686, he declared intentions of marriage with Mary Blinston, widow of Isaac. Otter presenting a certificate from the meeting at Neshaminy. PGSP, II, 100. Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, Is ; Deed Book E-2- 5, 258: 25 Im 1690, John Claypoole to John Otter et al. 10 Day never called himself a carpenter in his land conveyances. See Colonial Records, I, 222, however, for reference in 1688 to his being a carpenter, and PMHB, IX, 75, cited in Note f above, for the description of his house in 1685. He left for England on a trip in the autumn of 1692, and was apparently lost mesa. When his estate was finally probated in 1696, the inventory of the shop included "Several odd things" such as pins, tape, whipp cord and knitting needles, valued at 6L, which suggests the widow had sold off the major part of his stock. 175 Colonial Records, I, 321, 322, for reference to time of Eckley's death, and PIKHB, XXVIII (1904), 462, for abstract of his will as probated in England. In it he mentions his lot "on front of Scolkill Rivet" wink the dwelling house thereon, and his lot in Second Street with houses thereon. Sarah Eckley's first husband John Burge, by whom she had two children, William and Mary Burge, was a clothier by trade; he took up land in the 'Welsh tract, having purchased 750 actes from Penn. He was deceased by 1 1m 1685/6, when Sarah Burge sold to John Exkley 900 acres belonging to her late husband, and a lot with dwelling in Second Street "near Skoolkill" as recorded in Deed Book E-1-S, 590. The inventory of her estam includes large quantities of "Brown osenbrigs narrow Blew Linnen ... Blew Hamel, . • • Sheeting Holland . • • Hamborough Dowlas ... French Canvas . white harfords • • • course Tickin • Broad Garlick .. . Black hoods • .. Kersey . . silke crape . Scotch cloth .. . fine white Callico . Bengali Searge . . . shaLlon," and interestingly, 138 gallons of "Rums" and 72 gallons of Lutmtring "Helene." Will Book A, 213, #84:1692, photostatic copies of which and the inventory are in GSP 100 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Philadelphia Meeting looked with disfavor on her purchase of "Jews Harps" from Walter Long; the Meeting's disapproval suggests she dealt in small wares. She was rated on an estate of £40 in 1693." SAMUEL AWNS, glover, who as a "Student of the Mathamaticks and Astrology" compiled the almanac published by William Bradford in 1685, almost certainly kept a shop. In 1690 he was probably occupying the bank lot at the northeast corner of Front and Walnut Streets which Nathaniel Sykes assigned to him in October of that year. Three years later, when Atkins was living at the southwest corner of Second and Chestnut on the lot John Barnes had sold him in 1691, his estate was rated at ALEXANDER BEARDSLEY, also a glover by trade, probably kept a shop. A First Purchaser of 500 acres, he had arrived on the Bristol Comfort from Worcestershire on 28 7m 1683, and that same day assigned his $00 acres to Francis Pincher, a fellow glover from Worcester. Beardsley apparently settled first on the Schuylkill side of town, but in February, 1688, bought a lot on Front Street, between Walnut and Chestnut, where he was assessed on an estate rated at £200 in 1693." FRANcis CorsEE, who married in October, 1687, Mary Claypoole, daughter of James Claypoole, was called a merchant, but may have kept a shop in 1690. He had settled first in the lower counties, and was of New Castle County when he declared intentions of marriage at the Philadelphia Meeting. In 1690 he was granted half a lot on High Street next that of the Plymouth Friends, and appears to have been assessed here in 1693 on an estate rated at £100.21 JOHN DELAVALL, merchant, and son-in-law of Thomas Lloyd, came to Philadelphia from New York probably late in 1689, having purchased from John Otter in August of that year, the latter's house and lot on Front Street adjoining Griffith Jones' town house. He may have kept a shop here, or around on Walnut Street on the lot purchased from Jones. His widow Hannah's estate was rated at £250 in 1693." 1 9 See recital of bounds in Deed Book 2-2-5, 139: 15 Stn 1690, Thomas Harris to Charles Sanders, for location of the widow Culcupp's lot. POOP, IV, cited in Note 8 above. Si Colonial Records, I, 165; PMHB, X (1886), 8). S. recital in Deed Book C-2-1, 191, II Aug. 1693, John Saunders to Robert Yeldhall, for the Sykes assignment to Atkins; ibid., 2-2-5, 182 , 23 flm 1691, John Barnes to Samuel Atkins. NS. PMHB, VIII, 331, for Beardsley', arrival with his wife Margaret, daughter Mary, and Thomas Boweter, a glover and servant to Francis Fincher. For Beardsley's assignment of his land to Ember, see Pennsylvania Archives, lad Series, XTX, 351: see Warrants and Surveys, III, 261, cited hi Note 3 above, for the return of his lot on Schuylkill side between Se.nd and Third Streets, laid out 19 8ns 1683, by warrant dated 12 so, 1683, and Deed Book E-2-5, 95: 9 12m 1687/8, Anthony Morris to Alexander Beardsley for she purchase of the Front Street lot. 21 The Cooke-Claypoole marriage is given as on 11 Oct. 1688 in Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, VIII (1878), viii, but see PMHB, XIV (1890), 87, where it is given simply as 8m 1687. This was two nsonths after the death of James Claypoole; the intentions of marriage were presented to the Philadelphia Meeting 3m and 4m 1687, but the couple were delayed by the illness and death of Mary's father which occurred 6 6m 1687. Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XDC, 35; see also Record of she Courts of Chester Gooney, Pennsylvania, 1681-1697 (Philadelphia, 1910), 225, hereafter cited as Chester Coact Records, for reference to assignment by John Blunston to Francis Cooke of Imd in Darby Twp., Chester Co., on S June 103. Cooke seems to have spent a large part of his time settling the estate of his father-in-law, James Claypoole, who, if he had been living in 1690 would certainly have been included in Goodson', list of me.hantx 99 He was married at Flushing 11 3ro 1686, and had been an active member of that monthly meeting from the user of his marriage until his removal to Philadelphia. First referessce to him in the Philadelphia Meeting records was on 27 am 1690. PGSP, II, 167. Deed Book E-2-5, 144: 12 7m 1689, John Otter to John Delavall; ibid., III: 6 12m 1688/9; Grth Jones to John Delavall. For further reference to this last property “Bentall St Harts Brew-House," in the text, infra. Philadelphia Business Directory, 1690 101 ALBERTUS BRANDT, merchant, had married at John Delavall's in New York probably on 21 12m 1687/8, Susanna Telner, daughter of the Dutch merchant, Jacob Telner. Brandt apparently came to Philadelphia about the same time as Delavall, purchasing from Nathaniel Allen a lot on Front Street south of Chestnut. He had removed to Germantown by 1693 where he was assessed on an estate rated at £120. He, too, may have kept a shop in town while a resident there." CHARLES Picituartvo, merchant, formerly of Halton, Cheshire, almost certainly kept a shop, but precisely where is uncertain. A First Purchaser of 1000 acres, in 1691 he was occupying the lot on the west side of Second, south of Chestnut Street, which Humphrey Morrey owned, and was rated here on an estate assessed at £100 in 1693. 26 BENJAMIN CHAMBERS, turner by trade f rum Bearsted in the County of Kent and a First Purchaser of 1000 acres, may have kept a shop in 1690. He had married Hannah Smith, with consent of Friends, in the spring of 1686, was high sheriff that year, and in July, 1690, had been appointed water bailiff for the province. He was then living in Front Street above Mulberry, where his city lot had been laid out, and in 1693 was assessed here on an estate of £100." JoHhl and ZECHARIAH WhirrrAtx, sons of Richard Whitpain, citizen and butcher of London, probably kept a store in the "great house" they lived in on Front Street south of Walnut, since they were acting as factors or attorneys for a group of London merchants. In 1693 John Whitpain was rated on an estate assessed at £100 at this location; his brother Zechariah had died earlier that year." SAMUEL Ricithaosohr, a bricklayer by trade, but called a merchant in his land conveyances after his arrival from Jamaica, also probably kept a store of some kind. He had purchased Thomas Bowman's 5000 acres, thereby acquiring the great lot on the north side of High extending from Front to Second Streets. He was assessed here in 1693 on an estate rated at £2313." 2 . The marriage date in the New York Monthly Meeting records is given as 21 12ro 1667/8, obviously a typographical error, since the Telners did not come to New York until 1684. See William I. Hull, Williams Penn and the Dutch Qnaker Migration to Pennsylvania (Swarthmore College Monographs on Quaker History, No. 2, 1935), 253. Deed Book 0-24, 146: 18 4r0 1689, Nathaniel Allen to Albertus Brandt. 96 See Deed Book E-2-0, 3: 17 Ilm 1682/3, Charles Pickering to John Test, for Pickering's place of origin; recital of bounds in ibid., 182: 23 8m 1691, John Barnes to Samuel Atkins; E-1-5, 163: 0 10m 1685, Richard keel° to Humphrey Morrey, for the latter', ownership of the lot on which Pickering was living in 1691. He died in 1694; see Will Book A, 263, #103:1694, in which he called himself a tee, chant. 215 Colonial Records, 1, 86, 342. By 1690 Chambers had acquired three lots, in addition to his own lot, on the west side of Front, sold one of thena, and still owned three, as recited in Deed Book 0-2-5, 62: 30 In 1686, James Brooke to Benjamin Chambers; ibid., 1 4m 1688, James Kennerly to Chambers; Exemplification Book 1,314: Patmt to Arthur Wells; ibid., 7, 37: 4 12m 1688/9, Benjamin Chambers to Lionel Brinell.; ibid., 1, 312: Patent to Richard Sutton. These lots now comprise the major put of the ground occupied by the dwellings fronting Elfreth's Alley. e Pennsylvania Arehives, 2nd Series, XIX, 32, 114. The location of this hones has always been as on the east side of Front, south of Walnut Street, but in April, 1690, the two Whitpains each applied to the commissioners of property for the gra. of '10 foot of the Bank the great house they Live 'm" (sk). As the bank lots were not surveyed to than until July, 1690, and the great house was in the process of ereetion in 1686, Wal its location actually on the west side of Front? See PMHB, IV, 452. Administration Book A, 162, 240, #20:1693, estate of Zechariah Whitpisn. 07 See Deed Book 0-1-5, 356: 3 On 1686, Thomas Bowman to Samuel Richardson of Jamaica, brick- layer, the purchase. 102 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Jokix Sourxwoserx, apothecary, must have kept a shop while in Philadelphia. He had been clerk of the county in 1683 as well as clerk of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, and in 1685 had served as clerk of the Provincial Assembly. After he sold his lot in Second Street between Walnut and Chestnut, to William Powell in 1686, his residence in town in unknown, but he was still around in 1691 when he witnessed an assignment made by Samuel Miles." JoHr.t Cor-Lxv, hatter and felt-maker, probably kept a shop if he was in town in 1690. He and his wife Susanna and daughters may have lived for a time in the country after his arrival in 1683, or rented a place in town; not until 1692 did they acquire a bank lot between Chestnut and High on the south side of the steps next to the widow Aloe Guest. He was rated here in 1693 on an estate assessed at £72. 29 THOMAS Moms, glover, in 1688 acquired from Anthony Sturgis an improved lot on the north side of Mulberry Street on Schuylkill side, but may have rented property closer to the Delaware where he probably lived and presumably kept a shop. In 1693 he was rated on an estate assessed at £60, next to Samuel Cart in the Front Street near Walnut." ANTI-foxy STURGIS, hatter and felt-maker, after disposing of his patented lot in Mulberry Street in 1688 to Thomas Morris, eventually acquired the large lot at the northwest corner of Third and High Streets, originally granted to Griffith Jones. It is emceetam where he was living in 1690, but he was assessed in 1693 on an estate rated at £30, probably on part of Robert Turner's Front Street lot at the south corner of Mulberry. He may have had a small shop at this location." THOMAS HARRIS, merchant, in October, 1690, mortgaged for £110 the premises he presumably was occupying and where he probably had a shop. This was on the north side of Chestnut between Front and Second Streets, next to the widow Culcupp. In 1693 he was rated here on an estate assessed at £50." ISAAC RICKETY, snuff-maker in 1687 when he married with consent of Friends, Elizabeth Palmer, was calling himself a weaver when he bought from Griffith Jones in 1690 a portion of the latter's bank lot near Walnut Street. He may have continued his snuffmaking as a sideline, or kept a small shop which his wife maintained." 25 Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, 142, 614; ibid., "Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the Province of Pennsylvania," Sth series, I, 58, hereinafter cited as Votes of Asternbly. Deed Book 04-5, 470: 1 10m 1686, John Southworth to William Povrell. No record of Southworth's death or removal have been found. See PMHB, VIII, 330, for his arrival. Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, 325; Exemplification Book 7, 02: 29 3m 1697, Assignment, John Colley to James Fox et al., trustees. .Exemplification Book I, 175• 29 12m 1657/8, Patent to Anthony Sturgis. Deed Book 0-2-5, 39: 6 8m 1688, Anthony Sturgis to Thomas Morris. 0 x See Exemplification Book 7, 190: 1 Jan. 1697/8, Anthony Sturgis et al. to Thomas Sisom, for ce-. Mal of his purchase of the entire lot. He first boughs only the corner portion of the lot from John Jennet in the late summer of 1690; a year later he bought the rest of the lot on ground rent from Jones. See Deed Book F-5, 288: 2 Sept. 1691, Griffith Jones to Anthony Sturgis. s9 Deed Book 0-24, 139: 15 Sm 1690, Mortgage, Thomas Harris, with consent of his eon John Harris, to Charles Sanders. 09 Deed Book E-2-5, 241: IR 6in 1690, Griffith Jones to Isaac Rickets. He was dmemed by 30 4m 1692, when letters of administration on ho mate were granted his widow Elizabeth; see Administration Book A, 163. #104.1692. Philadelphia Business Directory, 1690 103 WILLIAM BRADFORD, printer, must have kept a shop in order to augment his income. He had obtained a warrant for a 25-foot bank lot, opposite Letitia Penn's Front lot at High and Front Streets early in 1689, and may have set up his press at this location." JOHN FULLER, merchant, probably kept a shop, perhaps renting it from his friend Robert Turner; no record has been found of Fuller's acquiring land of his own until late in 1690. In November of that year he was granted a warrant for a 31-foot bank lot, between Mulberry and Sassafras, which after his death was patented to Robert Turner, his executor, in September. 16916" In addition to the above twenty-two known and possible shopkeepers in business in Philadelphia in 1690, there were undoubtedly others, but the lack of sufficient evidence placing them definitely in town that year has not warranted their inclusion." "Three Brewers that send off many a Tun of good Malt-Beer" HENRY BAncocx, brewer, in 1686 bought from James Feller for £17 a house and 30-foot lot between the west side of the swamp, or Dock, and the east side of Second Street, south of Walnut. In 1691 he was granted six "timber trees" for enlarging his house; by 1693 his Philadelphia estate was rated at £250." JosxuA CARPENTER, brewer, brother of Samuel Carpenter, had been called a glasier in 1687 when he bought from George Willard a lot between Seventh and Eighth Streets on the south side of High. By 1692 he had become a "bruer" when he bought eight acres of liberty land from Francis Smith, and was so styled in the will of William Royden the following year." 04 Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, II, 675. Where Bradford had his prem before this time is unknown. He had obtained a warrant for liberty land in February, 1686, shortly after his arrival in town. See Ibid., 669. The bank lot by 1703 was in the possession of Philip Howell, according to the 1703 rent roll. at Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, 44, 48, 70, 73 In March, 1690, Friends were instructed to treat with Robert Turner "about some more convenient room for the Enlargement of" George Keith's school. The next month they reported to the meeting that they had "agreed with John Fuller on the said Roberts behalf for a convenient room to be fitted up," all of which suggests that Fuller was renting from 'Turner. See POOP, II, 163, 164, cited in Note g above. This may have been the second of the two brkk houses Turner had built, as noted in PMHB, IX, 74, cited in Note I above. For Fuller's will, probated S 10m 1692, see Will Book A, 188, #74: 1692. 08 The question also arises as to whtther Goodson included ohm, tom with specific trades who also kept a shop in order to supplement the income from their usual occupation, as did the butcher William Brightwen. When he died in 1694, the inventory of his shop included such goods as calico, stockings, linen, nails, tobacco pipes, shot, thread and ribbon. If Goodson included him in his list, and others in similar situations, they were counted twice. Pennsylvania Archives, 50 0esd Book E-1-5/2111: 1 12m 1685/6, James Pellet to Henry Bedrock, 2nd Series, XIX, 59. 08 Deed Book E-1-5, 638: 17900 1687, George Willard to Joshua Carpenter; ibid., 0-2-5, 234: 17 3m 1692, Francis Smith to Joshua Carpenter. In the summer of 1686 Joshua had been granted a license to keep an ordinary for three months "in his Brother Sarni! Carpenter's house, on ye Wharfe," as entered in Colonial Recorde, I, 185. Possibly this was the premises Samuel Carpenter granted him in 1689, being part of the large bank lot patented to Samuel 4 6m 1684, between Walnut and Chestnut Streets. See Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, I, 52. Carpenter's assessment in 1693 on an estate rated at £1000, was nearly as large as his brother Samuel's, which suggests Joshua had more than one source of income. For -will of William Boyden, me Will Book A, 300i #120,1693. 104 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine "BENTALL Or HARTS BIEW-HOLISE" on the north side of Walnut, midway between Front and Second Streets, had been built for John Delavall of New York on a 32-foot lot he purchased from Griffith Jones in February, 1689. In 1693, when the brew-house was assessed at £505, Delavall was dead, and it was probably rented to Charles Sanders, the attorney or factor for two London merchants, Thomas Hart and Walter Benthal. Who the actual brewer was has not been determined." "Three Malsters in this Town also" FIENRT LamNo (Lakin, Laykin), from Chesterfield in Staffordshire, England, arrived in Philadelphia late in 1685 on the ship Unicorne. As a "husbandman" he married Ann (Barrett) Lee, widow of Charles Lee, on 9 March 1686/7, and took up residence on Lee's lot at the northeast corner of Walnut and Fourth Streets. Assessed here on an estate rated at £30 in 1693, when Laking died intestate two years later he was described as a "maulster." No other maltster in Philadelphia has been identified for this period." "Seven Master-Bakers " 41 JxxIns Fox, baker, as he described himself in his will, had arrived with his family and servants in 1686 on the ship Desire from Plymouth. Joint purchaser with other Plymouth Friends of 5000 acres laid out in the country that same year, by 1688, when he acquired the rights to all the city lots appurtenant to the joint purchase, he was settled in Philadelphia. In 1693 his Philadelphia estate was rated at £200. 42 FRANCIS RAWLE, JR., who with his father and servants arrived in the same ship with James Fox, in 1690 bought from Andrew Robeson the bank lot, opposite Thomas Holmes front lot, at the northeast corner of Mulberry and Front Streets. Later that year he was requesting permission to "cut for his Bakeing such trees as he shall find already Cut Down in the Woods." His estate in Philadelphia in 1691 was rated at 505, Note 22 above for purchase by Delavall of the brew-house lot. Deed Book E-2 - 5, 165: 13 March lag, Letmr of Attorney to Charles Sanders from Thomas Hart and Walter Benthal, London merchants, recites Smders was "now bound for Pennsylvania... In the fall of 1690 Sanders was agent and attorney for Richard Haynes and James Bryan Sr Co., London merchmts. See Deed Book 1E-2-5, 139: II 8m 1690, Thorne, Harris to Charles Sanders. Delavall died either in August or September, 1693; see his will in Will Book A, 235, #90:1693. It was dated 10 fan 1693, and probated 20 Sept. 1693, as that the date of 9 Aug. 1693, given in Philadelphia Friends' records, appears in error, as well as that given in the Flushing, or New York Meeting records, of 26 12m 1697/8. 40 Ann Barrett and Charles Lee declared their intentions of marriage before the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting 6 3rn 1684. Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, 24, 29, 40. Administration Book A, 213, #90:1691, estate of Henry Laykin. For his arrival in Philadelphia see PMHB, VIII, 338. 40Th, "identification of master tradesmen in the listings in the text has been based on their several economic standings as revealed in the 1693 tss list, and on the mtent of their recorded real CM. transactions. Such identification is not necessarily exact; the intmtion is to refers Me possible status of the various tradesmen in 1690, not the status they acquired at later periods. 42 PMHB, VIII, 338. Deed Book E-2-5, 230: 14 6m 1608, Henry Cease et al. to James Fox; Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, 43. His son James Fox was also a baker, and presumably in business with his father. Abraham Roe, one of the servants the Plymouth Friends brought with them, was a baker, and may have been in charge of the baking during the period of his indenture. See Deed Book E-2-5, 326 , 25 March 1696, Joseph Kirll to Abraham Roe, for the latter's idmtification as a baker. Another baker they brought with them was Justinian Fox, who came in as servant to John Shellsont see Colonial Records, I, 576. 48 Deed Book E-2-1, 305 24 4m 1690, Andrew Robeson to Francis Rawle; Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, SD. That same year of 1690, Earle had petitioned with other landowners in the neighborhood to build an arch c, es Mulberry Street, for which see Colonial Records, I, 330. Philadelphia Business Directory, 1690 105 Dv PLOUVYS, baker, had married at the Philadelphia Meeting House Weyntie Van Sanen in 1687. Late in 1690 he purchased from Patrick Robinson a 25-foot bank lot just south of Walnut Street, and in 1693 from Jacob Telner 2 Front Street lot between Walnut and Chestnut which had been patented to Nathaniel Allen. That year Du Plouvys' estate in Philadelphia was rated at £200." MArrNew BoxNay, baker, in 1690 purchased from Philip James part of a bank lot "near Alce Guest" and north of Chestnut Street; he sold it the following year to Anthony Morris, and probably moved away as he was not rated in 1693." GABRIEL WirntrNsoN, baker in 1686 when he was living in New Castle County where he acquired 200 acres that year, may have been in Philadelphia in 1690. Early the following year he bought from Philip England part of the latter's bank lot north of Mulberry Street, and in 1693 was rated on his Philadelphia estate at £80." WILLIAM SAY, baker, in 1687 had taken up 100 acres on rent "above Highlands in Bucks," but when he declared his intentions of marriage with Mary, daughter of the Widow Guest, on 31 8m 1690, he was requested to bring a certificate of clearness from Burlington Meeting. He was assessed in 1693 in Philadelphia, next to his mother-in-law, on an estate rated at £100." ANTNoNv MORRIS in 1687 called himself a baker when he purchased from Joseph Wood, son of William Wood of Darby, a lot on the west side of Front Street midway between Chestnut and Walnut Streets. Two years later he married Agnes Born, widow of the Dutch baker from Haarlem, Cornelius Born, and in 1691 assigned the lot he had purchased from Matthew Bonney for the benefit of Cornelius, Abraham and Christian Born. He now styled himself a merchant, and in 1693 was rated on an estate assessed at £800." JAN "Four Master- Butchers" Joirn Born, butcher, obtained a warrant for a lot on rent on 18 8m 1683, which was surveyed for him early in 1684 on the north side of Chestnut Street between Second and Third Streets. The next year he petitioned the Provincial Council "against Countrey butchers bringing their meat to towne on other days than Marquett days." In 1693 his estate in Philadelphia was rated at £120." 44 Deed Book E-2-s, 321: 3 lOrn 1690, Patrick Robinson to John Duplouvys. The sale by Jacob 321:4 Apr. 1695, John Duplouvys to Jacob Collick. Telmer is recited in ibid., as Ibid., 199: 30 6m 1690, Philip jantes to Matthew Bonney; ibid., 160, 5 3m 1691, Matthew Bonney to Anthony Morels. Dmd Book 0-1-5, 475: 18 Dec. 1686, Francis Johnson to Gabriel Wilkinson; Iles 1690/1, Philip England to Gabriel Wilkinson. ibid., 0-2-5, 211: 1 41 Pennsylvania Archives, lad Series, XIX, 325. William Say had been indentured to Anthony Elton. The 3 9rn 1686, he petitioned Burlington Court "for what belongs to hien . . as the Customs of the Countrey," in his case 10 bushels of corn, neceesary "Apparel', Two Howes and one Axe." H. Clay Reed and George j. Miller, eds., The Burlirsgton Court Book . . . 1680-1709, (Washington, D. C., 1944). 62, hereinafter cited as Bnrlington Court Book. PGSP, II, 170. Say's wife Mary Guest d. 1 2m 1698, according to Philadelphia Monthly Meeting records. He m. 2nd, Mary Paschall, daughter of Thomas, on 4 2rn 1699. 48 Deed Book E-2-5, 75: 1 10m 1688, Joseph Wood to Anthony Morris. This deed had first been entered in Deed Book 0-1-5, 647. For the assignment of the Bonney lot, are ibid., E-2-5, 172: 16 40, 1691, Anthony Morris to Cornelius Born et al. A note in the margin of this record states this deed was cancelled, and mother made out to John and SILUILIS Colley; see also Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, 325. .1 . Pennsylvania Archives, led Series, II, 671; ibid., Ill, 194. Colonial Records, I, 145. 106 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine EDWARD Doom-fry, butcher, in 1688 bought from William Stanley, Jr., a 30-foot lot on Front Street north of High which extended to Second Street. He was assessed here in 1693 on an estate rated at £120." WILLIAM B1UGHTWEN (Britwin, Bnghtwell), butcher, came to Philadelphia from West Jersey where on 12 October 1680, a survey of 30 acres on the Assiscunk Creek made for him was returned into the surveyor general's office. By 1691 he was a member of the Philadelphia Meeting, and involved in a dispute with William Bradford. He was assessed in Philadelphia in 1693 on an estate rated at £100. 01 The fourth butcher has not been identified. "Nine Master Carpenters" THOMAS BRADFORD, carpenter, probably arrived in Philadelphia from Bristol in Au- gust, 1682. In 1685 he purchased from William Deverell, brazier, of Wiltshire, 500 acres, and by 1689 had acquired the lot on the south side of Walnut, between Second and Third, first laid out to Robert Summer. He was assessed here on an estate rated at £200 in 1693.'2 THotdxs MASTERS, carpenter, married with the consent of the Philadelphia Meeting, Hannah Hard on 7 December 1685. Two months later Henry Flower conveyed to him a house and lot on the south side of High, between Fifth and Sixth Streets, which Masters sold to Patrick Robinson in 1687. While building in 1686 "certain buildings" valued at £50 province money for Robert Longshore on the latter's plantation, Thomas and Hannah Masters had lived in West Jersey; in recompense Masters was granted 200 acres in Bristol Township by Longshore. Masters next bought f mm Patrick Robinson in December, 1687, a 51-foot lot between the Swamp and Second Street south of Walnut, and in 1690 petitioned the commissioners of property for a lot in Third Street on which to plant an orchard, and for a "Convenient time" to build thereon. He was taxed here on an estate rated at £150 in 1693." JoHN Paxsows, carpenter of Muldlezoy, Somersetshire, was joint purchaser with Abraham Hoopper of 500 acres, and was in Philadelphia by 20 2m 1683, when he was granted a warrant for his city lot, laid out at the northwest corner of Second and Walnut Streets. He returned to England where he married at Greinton in Somerset on 23 6m 1685, Ann Powell of North Curry; he was back in Philadelphia by 1 1 m 1685/6, when he attended the Philadelphia Meeting. In 1691 he sold to James Coate, another SO Deed Book E - 2 - 3, 115 1 3 lOrn 1688 , William Stanley to Edward Doughty. See also Pennsylvania Archives, led Series, I, 45-46, M Revel's Book of Surveys, 8: 12 Oct. 1680, Return of survey for William Brightwell (sic), abstracter! in h, J. Archives, XXI, 347. S. also West Jersey Records, Liber B, Part 1, 2, and Liber B, Part 2, 667, abstracted in ibid., XXI, 394, 522, for the identification of Brightwell with Brightwen. PGSP, rv, 154. ,52 See Bradford's loading oa ths Society in Marion Balderston, 'William Penn's Twenty-three Ships . • • in this Magazine. Deed Book C-2-3, 141: 19 3m 1685, Willis5, Deverell to Thomas Bradford. His first wife Cicely d. after 31 in 1699; he had ru. 2nd, Alice Pemberton, widow, by 30 9m 1703, according to Abington Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1682-1744, 49, in GOP, and 3rd, in 1713, Priscilla Parker, widow of Richard Parker. For location of his lot in town, see PMHB, LXXX, 184, cited in Note 3 above. 88 Deed Book E-1-9, 204, 2 12m 16335/6, Henry Plower Sc Thomas Masters; ibid., 617: 12 10m 1687/8, Thomas Masters to Patrick Robinson; ibid., 175: 17 2m 1686, Robert Longshore Sc Thomas Pennsylvania Archives, lne1 M.,eem; ibid., 618. 12 10m 1687, Patrick Robinson to Thomas Masters. Series, XIX, 39. Philadelphia Business Directory, 1690 107 carpenter, the west end of his Second and Walnut Street lot. Parsons was rated on an estate of £150 in 1693 and Coate at £30, at this location." DANTE'. COOKE, carpenter, in 1686 bought from John Redman a 40-foot lot on the north side of Chestnut, midway between Second and Third Streets. In August, 1693, he also acquired a 27-foot lot on the bank between Chestnut and High Streets from Philip Richards, and that year was assessed on an estate rated at £100." ANDREW Gsiscons, carpenter, married 15 April 1685, Sarah Dole who had come to Philadelphia as a servant with her brother John Dole in 1682. The Griscoms lived on the west side of Second Street between Walnut and Chestnut, on a 51-foot lot warranted to Andrew 5 2m 1683, and surveyed for him a week later. The year of his marriage he agreed to do the timber work for the meeting house about to be built at the Center, including the "floor, roof, and to Cover it," but even though he had the assistance of his servant, Matthias Jewell, he was apparently so busy building houses he had not yet finished the work in October, 1686. At that time Friends were desired to speak with him "That he forthwith come to finish the hipping of the Roof, that workmen may go on with shingling the same." In 1690 Griscom built a house for John Morrey, and with James Pellar had viewed and appraised work done at Pennsbury. His Philadelphia estate in 1693 was rated at £100." NATHANIEL SYKES (Sikes), carpenter, married with consent of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting on 18 June 1686, Eleanor Paine, formerly indentured to William Wade. Two weeks before Sykes' marriage, he had been licensed to keep an ordinary, but apparently considered himself a carpenter, since he was so described an his real estate transactions. In February, 1689, be obtained a warrant for a bank lot next to that laid out for Humphrey Morrey, between Walnut and Chestnut Streets, which was surveyed to him the next day. He was assessed on an estate rated at £100 in 1693, by which time he had also acquired a lot directly across Front Street." Ricrusin HILLYARD (Hilliard), carpenter, in 1688 bought for £27 10s. the house and lot at the northwest corner of Fourth and Chestnut Streets, formerly the property of Henry Patrick, mariner. This was directly across Chestnut from the lot which had been surveyed for Hillyard on 9 9m 1683, in right of the $00 acres he had purchased from William Smith. The "Mary Hilyard Brick House" belonging to his widow was assessed at £100 in 1693." m For Parson's firet certificate of removal, dated 4 7m 1681, eft Albert Cook Myers, Quaker Arrivals at PhiladelPhia, 1612-1750 (Baltimore, 1957), 7, hereinafter cited as Myers, Quaker Arrivals. For date of warrant, see Pennsylvania Archives, led Series, II, 765; for Ins marriage, see PMHB, VIII, 120. Deed Book E-2-5, 3171 20 ilrn 1691, John Parsons to James Coate. Pennsylvania Archives, Sod 0 0 Deed Book E-1-5, 374: 7 5m 1686, John Redman to Daniel Cooke. Seem, XIX, 335. "Ibid., 3rd Series, II, 712; Warrants and Surveys, III, 500, cited in Note 3 above. For mention of his work on the Center Meeting House, see 0030, II, 95 et Passhn; for Mathias Jewell, see Colonial Records, I, 93; for the Pennebury work and John Morrey'a house, see Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, II, 53. See ibid., 514, for adentification of Sarah Dole. Colonial Records, I, IBS. Pennsyl17 Ibid., 434, gives Eleanor (Ellinor) Sykes maiden none as rain. vania Archives, sod Series, III, 17; Deed Book E-2-5, 225: 24 8m 1691, Samuel Lewis riot to Nathaniel Sikes. 8 8 The Hillyards arrived in Philadelphia in September, 1683. on the Bristol( Comfort; see PMHB, VIII, 333. They were apparently from Rmgwood, in Hampshire, as recited in Deed Book C-1-3, 143: 28 Apr. 1683, William Smith to Richard Hillyard. Deed Book 0-2-5, 51: 10 Oro 1688, John Ring to Richard Hillyard. For the warrant to the first lot held by Hillyard, see Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, II, 725. See Ibid., 2nd Series, XDC, 160, for the sale of the second lot to Charles Sobers, in which the lot is incorrectly cited as being bounded ems wish Peons Street, instead of with Fourth Street. 108 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Toohus MARLE, carpenter, may have been considered a master carpenter by John Goodson. He took up on rent a 49-foot lot on the north side of Mulberry "on Schulkill side" a little west of the Broad Street in 1684, which adjoined a lot he subsequently acquired. In 1686 he purchased from Ann Lee the SO-foot lot at the northeast corner of Third and Mulbbery Streets, on Delaware side, where he may have been living in 1690. The next year—I691—he made the first of several purchases of property on the north side of Chestnut, between Front and Second Streets, where he was living in 1693 when he was rated on an estate assessed at Jonas Jonas, carpenter, possibly was included in Goodson's list, although he may not have been in town, havan received a certificate of clearness in marriage from the Monthly Meeting 29 9m 1689, he intending for Barbados with matrimony in mind. In right of his joint purchase with his kinsman John Jennings, chinageon of Barbados, Jones had obtained a warrant 13 ins 1683, for a lot which was laid out two days later. It extended f rem Second to Third Street, on the south side of Mulberry. The western half of this lot Jones made over to Jennings in 1686, and when the carpenter was rated in 1693 on an estate assessed at £100, he was living on the Second Street end of the lot." Philadelphia seems to have been reasonably well supplied with carpenters in 1690; even though their economic standing in 1 693 does not indicate they were master carpenters, there were at least five additional men who called themselves carpenters and who were resident in the town that year: jAmes CHICK, carpenter, in 1689 bought a house and lot at the north corner of Griffith Jones' Front Street lot above High, and sold it the following year to Joseph Knight, In 1693 his estate was rated at EDWARD CLEMENTS, carpenter, bought from James Chick in December, 1690, a lot on the east side of Second Street, further north in the some square, which was part of 'William Stanley's lot. 62 JAMES PELLAR, carpenter, Was granted a lot in Strawberry Alley by the commissioners of property in June, 1690. 60 Warrants and Surveys, Ill, 242; Deed Book E-1-0, 485: 3 Nov. 1686, Ann Lee to Thomas Marie. For his Chestnut Street purchase, see recital of bounds in ibid., 0-20, 173: 0 July 1691, Silas Crispin er al to Elizabeth Culcupp. See Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, 311, for Marie's purchase 6 1m 1683, of 200 acres from Henry Condo , 00 501ars Jona was granted a certificate of removal by Plantation Meeting, Barbados, on 11 52r1 1683: see Myers, Quaker Arrivals, 3, cited in Note 04 above, See Dad Book E-I-f, 222: 4 3m 1686, John Jones to John Jennings, for the lot SI x198 feet, east of Third Street. The Second and Mulberry Street corner of the lot, where Jones praumably was living in 1693, was the site of the George Tavern; did he operate an ordinary there, and thus account for the high valuation of his estate in 1693? Probably, baause of his Barbados connections, he carried on an importing business, and may have kept a store. Chick, formerly savant to Richard Styling, was from Collo:won in Devon; see Myers, Quaker Arrivals, II. He had arrived in town by 16 600 1683, when he was granted a warrant for a lot on the north side of Mulberry at the corner of Schuylkill Fourth; see Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, 431. Deed Book H-19, 484' 16 10m 1689, Griffith Jones to James Chick; ibid., 483: 13 gm 1690, James Chmk to Joseph Knight, 51 Deed Book E-2-0. 149: 0 10m 1690, James Chick to Edward Clements. Philadelphia Business Directory, 1690 109 Joax DENzr, carpenter, was also granted a lot in Strawberry Alley at the same time as James Peliar." WILLIAM HARWOOD, carpenter, in 1688 had bought from Samuel Richardson the west end of Richardson's Front and High Street lot, extending 70 feet east from Second Street. Harwood divided this into lots, and in February, 1691, sold to Thomas Prichard a piece, at the east end of the larger lot, having 19 feet frontage on High Street." "Seven Master Brick-layers" WILLIAM HUDSON, bricklayer, called himself a mason of Chester County in 1685 when he bought from William Nicholls a 50-foot lot on the north side of Chestnut between Fourth and Fifth Streets. The next year on 12 August 1686, as a bricklayer of Philadelphia, he married Ann Wayes, and took up residence on the lot. He was taxed here on an estate rated at £100 in 1693." THOMAS DUCKETT, bricklayer, settled first in the country, having been granted a warrant for 10 acres of land on 12 12m 1682/3. In 1686 he was "building a Brick House at Skulkill, forty eight Foot long and three Stories high," and was laying brick for the Center Meeting house. Although "of Skoolkill" Goodson probably considered him one of the master bricklayers. He was assessed "Beyond Schoolkill" in 1693 on an estate rated at £100." WILLIAM PRESTON, bricklayer, called himself a mason of Philadelphia County when he bought in 1685 from the widow Anna Salter a small tract in the Northern Liberties on the south side of Frankford Creek. With Thomas Duckett he carried on the "mason and bricklayers work" done at the Center Meeting House. While working there he took up on rent in 1686 a lot on the north side of Chestnut Street, 200 feet east of the Broad Street, which extended north to the Center Square, but in 1693 was assessed in the Liberties on an estate rated at £130." Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XLX, 35. For work Feller had done for Enoch Flower, the latter had granted has in 1684 part of his lasso the west side of the Dock. See Deed Book E-1-5, 154: 19 2m 1684, Enoch Flower to James Pella. In 1693 Pellar was occupying a small lot on the north side of Walnut, between Front and Second, which was part of Griffith Jones' large lot. The carpenter was rated here on MI estate assessed at 030. John Denser had married Sarah Hollyman, after they had been given liberty to proceed to marriage by the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting on 29 10m 1688. His identification as a carpenter, and that of Pellet's, are cited in Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, 139. 00 Deed Book E-2-5, 76 3 8ns 1688, Samuel Richardson to '67illiarn Harwood; ibid., 149: 6 II,,, 1690/1, William Harwood to Thomas Prichard. 00 Deed Book E-1-5, 126 , 28 7r0 1685, William Nicholls to William Hudson; in this record the lot is erroneously described as being between Third and Fourth Streets, but see Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, III, 394. Hodson died in 1694, leaving his widow Ann, a son John and daughter Elizabeth. Will Book A, 258, *100:1694. The widow subsequently married Edward James, also a bricklayer; see Deed Book E-3-6, 50: 14 Aug. 1706, Edward James to David Lloyd, and Penneylvania Archives, 2nd Series, X.DC, 487. 86 /bid., led Sena, II, 691. PMHB, IV, 452. PGSP, II, 99. Although Duckett called himself a . malster" in his will, dated in 1699, in his land conveyances the year before that he was still considering himself a bricklayer. See Exemplification Book 7, 163: 26 12m 1697/8, Thomas Duckett to Thomas Simla. For additional notes on Duckett, see Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine (PGM), XIX, 61. 07 Deed Book E-1-5, 99: 3 lm 1685, Anna Salter to William Preston. Warrants and Surreys, DI, 548. For a brief account of Preston, see PGSP, XI, 103; regrettably skis notice of the bricklayer gives little attention to his land transactions. For further such, see Deed Book E-1-5, 114: 27 601 1685, Anna Salter to William Preston, and she recital in ibid.. 1-6, 454: 7 March 1715, Timothy Hanson et al. to Thomas Chalkley. 110 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine bricklayer, acquired from John Bezer's executrix a lot above Sassafras Street on the west side of Front, and in 1690 a bank lot "beyond the Penny poet house," north of Vine Street. In 1693, when he was assessed on an estate rated at £80, he was a near neighbor of John Day at the upper end of Front Street." JOHN REomAN, bricklayer, in February, 1684, took up on rent a lot at the northeast corner of Mulberry and Schuylkill Eighth, and the next year bought for forty shillings from Joseph Hood the latter's lot adjoining Redman's lot. That year of 1685 he built the large brick house, 60 feet long and 56 feet deep, for the London butcher, Richard Whitpain, in Front Street, between James Claypoole's lot at the corner of Walnut, and that of William Frampton on the south. In 1690 he sold to William Rakestraw for £45 his two lots on Schuylkill side. He was rated in 1693 on his Philadelphia estate assessed at Wrtr..ram BETHELL, bricklayer, presented on 30 10m 1687, a certificate dated 14 7m 1687, from Amboy, East Jersey, to the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, and declared his intentions of marriage to Eleanor Claypoole, daughter of James. Married the following February, he bought from William Markham in 1690, a lot on the south side of High Street adjoining the westernmost part of the lot on which the great meeting house was eventually built. In 1691 he and his wife moved to Jamaica, where she died shortly after their arrival." JoHar HART, bricklayer, may have been considered a master bricklayer by Goodson, although his economic standing in 1693, when he was assessed on an estate rated at £30, would not seem to indicate it. Early in 1690 he bought from James Jacobs for £60 the "front part"—fronting High Street—of Jacobs' lot at the southwest corner of Third and High Streets. Six months later he requested two squares for a pasture. He was a member of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting from 1690 until the spring of 1696, when he obtained a certificate to Oxford Meeting where he married Mary Scary, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Seary.” THOMAS LANGSTON, In addition to the above bricklayers, there was at least one other in town in 1690, and possibly others. However, whether any of them qualified as master workmen that year is not known. 86 See recital in Deed Book E-7-10, 452: 10 July 1717, Jacob May to Thomas Coats; Warrants and Snrveys, I, 420. After Langston's death in 1699, his widow Sarah married John Walker from Maryland; see Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XDC, 201, 242. 00 Deed Book E-2-0, 214: 2 7m 1690: John Redman to William Rakestraw; ibid., E-1-5, 93: 27 em 1685, Joseph Hood to John Redman. PMHB, IV, 452. See PMHB, XLIII (1919), 279, for notes on his descendants. 10Myers, Quaker Arrivals, D. Deed Book 0-2-3, 143: 1 lm 1689/90, William Markham to William Bethel!. Its the fall of 1690 Bethell asked the commissioners of property for permission to cut 6 cords of wood on the Proprietor's land; it was granted, but he was cautioned not to cut any timber fit for building. Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XDC, 50. Inasmuch as be was cat in Philadelphia in 1693, his economic standing is unknown; he may not have been a master bricklayer. His marriage into the Claypoole family suggests a certain standing, however. 71 Deed Book E-2-5, DS: II Jan. 1689/90, JiMP Jacobs to John Hart; Pennsylvania Archives, 204 Series, XIX, 44. This lot was the site of the 'New ." prison, not built, however, until nearly forty years later. The identification of Hart's wife Mary, whose name is given as Leary in Abington Minutes, is established in Deed Book 0-4-7, 198: 4 Dec. 1703, Mary Pletcher to John Shallcross; this deed recites the sale by John and Mary Hart of 112 y. acres to John Fletcher in 1701, the land being part of that originally belonging to Thomas and Sarah losre: Philadelphia Business Directory, 1690 111 JOSEPH YARD, bricklayer, in 1687 bought the south end of the High Street lot, the north end of which John Hart acquired three years later. At the time of Yard's purchase, he was of the county, but was rated in Philadelphia m 1693 on an estate assessed at MARTIN HOULT (Holt), bricklayer, appears to have been settled in Burlington by the end of 1683. In 1688 he bought 150 acres in Gloucester County from the executors of William Higgens. Precisely when he moved to Philadelphia is not known, but when he died in Philadelphia in 1694, letters of administration were granted to his eldest son Samuel who had been in residence at least a year." JOHN SANDERS (Saunders), bricklayer, may have been in town in 1690, but the first reference found is in June, 1691, when he bought a lot on the west side of Second, between Walnut and Spruce Streets. In 1693, when he was rated on an estate assessed at £100, he was given liberty by the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting to marry Elizabeth Wood." "Four Brick-makers, with Brick-kills" DANIEL PEGG, brickmaker of Hartsfield, was so called in June, 1690, when he bought 300 acres of land in West Jersey. He had been making bricks since at least 1685, was still calling himself a brickmaker ian 1692, but by 1697 was described as a yeoman. His estate in the Northern Liberties in 1693 was rated at £250." RANDALL SPAREmAN (Spikeman, Speakman), brickmaker, in 1688 was granted 10 acres of the Proprietor's land at the north end of town for a term of three years on which to make bricks. He was to pay 5000 bricks per year for use of the land. In 1691, when he requested permission to cut wood on the Proprietor's land for that summers' burning of bricks, he was allowed to cut sixty cord, in view of the "great rent" he had been paying, but was "not to Cut any Timber Trees or White Oke." 7° JOSEPH BitowNE, briclunaker, in partnership with George Guest in 1685, engaged to deliver to Patrick Robinson £20 worth of good sound well-burned merchantable so Deed Book E-1-5, 561: 4 6m 1687, John Austin to Joseph Yard. Yard acquired more real estate in town, including the Sign of the Bear at the southwest corner of High and Third Streets, as recited in ibid., F-1, 181, 6 March 1720, Joseph Yard, Jr., ei at. to James Yard. 713'07est Jersey Records, Liber B, Part I, 36: 25 10m 1683, Martin Holt to Thomas Budd, abstracted in N J. Archives, XXI, 402; Gloucester Deeds No. 1, 123: 15 10m MS, Joseph Browne et 4 so Martin Holt; Administration Book A, 194, #831694, estate of Martin Holt. His son Samuel, a cooper, was one of the founders of Christ Church; he was assessed in Philadelphia in 1693 on an estate rated at 170. 34 E-2-5, 154: 4 4m 1691, Robert Longshore to John Sanders. The relationship of John Sanders to Charles Sanders, the agent for numerous London merchants, if any, has not been established for this record. If John was the nephew mentioned in Charles Sanders' will, he may have come to Philadelphia with the older man, arriving sometime between 1688 and mrly 1690. See Deed Book E-2-1, 165: 13 Mar. 1688, Letter of Attorney, Thomas Hart et el. to Charles Sanders, which record was acknowledged in open court in Philadelphia 21 3m 1690. IS Gloucester Deeds No. 2, 65, 118: 2 June 1690, Daniel Howell to Daniel Pegg, and 29 Sept. 1692, Daniel Howell to Daniel Pegg, abstracted in N. J. Archives, XXI, 656, 660. Deed Book D-46, 174: Daniel Pegg to Jacob Coifing. PASHA IX, 75. PMHB, LIII (1929), 14, gives an accoum of Spakeman. Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, 51, 61. He seerm to have had a varied career, if he is identical with the Randall Speakman of Stepney who, as • weaver, married Anna Ward at Horslydown on 8 1m 1669/70, according to the Digested Copy of Register of Marriages of the Quarterly Meeting of London and Middlesex, GSP Early in 1700 he was calling himself a tobacco,utter, as noted in Colonial Records, I, 176 112 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine bricks at the rate of 16 shillings per thousand, or 25,000 bricks. In exchange they were to have Robinson's Negro man Jack, and £20 worth of merchantable corn, beefe, pork and English goods. After Guest's death, Browne continued to make bricks, and in December, 1690, was granted liberty to cast 100 cord of wood for burning bricks, "but no white oaks."" RICHARD CANTRELL, brickmaker, came over as a servant to Captain William Smith of the Bristol Merchant. He was in Philadelphia in 1689 when he was granted letters of administration on the estate of his nephew Joseph Cantrill, late of Derbyshire, who had drowned. In 1692 he obtained a warrant for a lot in Third Street "near the burying ground" which was laid out on the east side of the street between High and Mulberry." "Nine Master Shoemakers" 7. THOMAS HOOTON, JR., cordwainer, married on 30 November 1686, Elizabeth Stan- ley, daughter of William Stanley, dec'd. On the death of his father, also a cordwainer by trade, young Hooton became his residuary legatee, and in 1695 was rated on a Philadelphia estate assessed at £400. The family had moved to Philadelphia by the summer of 1684 from Burlington where the elder Hooton, one of the proprietors of West Jersey, had first established himself... WILLIAM FORREST, cordwainer, may have been the man of that name who came over as a servant to Major Jasper Farmar, to serve for "fife years, at ye expiration of fower Ito have} fifty acres of land according to custom with a howse to be built on it by me ez two sutes of clothes with 20 shill, in monie." If so, he probably came over with Jasper Farmar, Jr., in 1683 when the latter was in Philadelphia to inspect the province. Whoever he was, in 1687 Forrest bought from William Carter, attorney for Sarah Wool. 7" Dmd Book E-I-5, 150, 7 lOm 1685, Patrick Robinson to Joseph Browne; Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, 56. Browne took up a lot fronting Schuylkill Second Street in 1686 69 noted in Warrants and Surveys, III, 548, but this was not the location of his brick yard. It was on 22 acres warranted 27 On 1684, and was described in 1697 as bounding on lands of Samuel Carpenter and William Rude. Browne assigned the property, with "brick kilns, sheds, brick" and houses to SMUG] Dewberry in 1694. See recital in Exemplification Book 7, 230: 28 Jan. 1697, Samuel Dewberry to Richard Hoskins, also PMHB, LIII, 13-14. ' 8 Cantrill probably arrived in February, 1683; see PMHB, IX, 224, which lives this date, and Warrants and Surveys, I, 475, in which Philip Howell applied for Cantrill's headland. Administration Book A, 66, *54:1689. Pennsylvania Archives, Sod Series, XIX, 88. It should be noted that all of these brickmakers appuently had their kilns in the country, not within the linnts of the town. 08 It is interesting to note that of 13 men identified in this trade, ten of them called themselves cord. wainers—originally those who worked in cordovan leather—while the others were termed shoemakers. Of the tm, six had estates assessed at 8100 or better in 1693, one an estate rated at ISO, and one at P60. It would seem, therefore, that the term cordwainer indicated a certain standing, possibly its use implying membership in the English Company of Shoemakers or Cordwainers "as they styled themselves." See Sir James A. H. Murray, A Nov English Dictionary on Historical Princigles (Clarendon Press, Oxford, Eng., 1888 et seq.) 00 The elder Thomas Hooton, shoemaker of Blackfriars, London, had married Elizabeth Huckle 15 701 1664, according to the Digested Copy of Marriages of the Quarterly Meeting of London and Middlesex, GSP. He called himself a cordwainer in his will, although it was as a chandler that he disposed of part of his share in 07est Jersey lands in 1677. West Jersey Records, Liber B, Part I, 162: 2 ,june 1677, Thomas Hooton to John Pope, abstracted in N. J. Archives, XXI, 420. First mention of him in the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting muds is on 5 On 1684; by 1686 he was settled on the south half of Christopher Taylor's Front Street lot between Walnut and Chestnut; the north half Taylor sold to Thomas Lloyd. See recital In Deed Book E-1-5, Oh 4 3m 1685, Thomas Lloyd to Anthony Morns. Philadelphia Business Directory, 1690 113 man, the latter's lot at the southeast corner of Fourth and Chestnut Streets, and in 1695 the next easternmost lot from John Martin. Forrest's Philadelphia estate was assessed in 1693 at £120." P.m COOPER, cordwainer, born about 1661, came from Stratford upon Avon, in Warwickshire, where in 1682 he bought from Edward Byllinge 50 acres to be laid out in West Jersey. In Philadelphia by October, 1683, he acquired title in 1686 and 1687 to the 51-foot lot at the northwest corner of Second and Mulberry Streets and was rated here on an estate assessed at £100 in 1693." DANIEL JONES, cordwainer, in 1686 bought from John Hodkinson, Chester County innkeeper, the latter's lot on the north side of Walnut between Fourth and Fifth Streets; it adjoined on the east two lots Jones had obtained by warrants in 1683 and 1684. In November, 1690, Caleb Pusey assigned to Jones Pusey's lot at the northeast corner of Fifth and Walnut Streets. Jones' Philadelphia estate was assessed at £100 in 1693." JAMES Jwcous, cordwainer, in 1686 paid Thomas Rowland of Bucks County £30 for the 66-foot lot at the southwest corner of Third and High Streets, part of which Jacobs sold to John Hart in 1690, as noted above. In March, 1693, he acquired the 51-foot lot at the southwest corner of Front and Sassafras, where he was rated on an estate assessed at £100 in 1693." RALPH WARD, shoemaker, with Joseph Coleman obtained a warrant for a lot on 16 2m 1683, which was laid out 100 feet wide on Mulberry Street at the northwest corner of Fifth. Ward does not appear to have lived here, for in 1693 when he was rated on an estate assessed at £80, he was listed next to Thomas Tresse in Front Street." WILLIAM Haan, cordwainer, obtained a warrant for a 40-foot lot which was laid out on the east side of Third, south of Mulberry Street, prior to 19 4m 1684, when the survey was returned into the surveyor general's office. In 1692 he applied for the adjoining 30-foot lot on the north, and may have been taxed here when he was rated on an estate assessed at £60 in 1693." THOMAS PRICHARD, cordwainer, in 1687 Was one of "ye Inhabitants of ye Caves On the Bank," having sold his lot at the Center the previous year to Robert Kent, another 81 See PGM, XXI, 97, for reference to the servants of Major Farmer. Deed Book E-1-5, 574: 27 5m 1687, William Carter to William Forrest; ibid., 1-2-5, 292 , 30 4m 1695, John Martin at al. to William Forrest. 88 Gloucester Deeds, No. I, 77: 21 Sept. 1682, Edward Byllinge to James Cooper, abstracted in N. J. Archhses, XXI, 651; The Friend, XXVIII, H. Exemplification Book I, 65: 1 10m 1684, Patent to James Cooper, recites the warrant granted hien 12 Sm 1683, for a lot 012 the north side of Chestnut Street between Fourth and Fifth. Deed Book E-1-5, 461: 1 Dec. 1686, Joseph Phipps to James Cooper; ibid., 1-1, 313: 1 10m 1687, Joseph Phipps to James Cooper. Pennsylvania Archives, led 83 /bid., 1-1-5", 410 , 27 ftn 1686, John Hodkinson co Daniel Jones. Seties, II, 732, 733; ibid., 2nd Series, XIX, 346. In 1692 Jones also acquired the lot at the northwest corner of Fourth and Walnut Streets, f:rst patented to Thomas Livesey; see Deed Book E-2-9, 294: 1 6m 1692, John Green to Daniel Jones. Ibid., E-1-5, 480: 28 6m 1686, Thomas Rowland to James Jacobs. Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, 252. He was also assessed in 1693 on property in Third Street, rated at 145. 88 Warrants and Surveys, Ill, 241. Ward had also taken up land on the Nesharniny by warrant dated 7 6i0 1682, which was surveyed two weeks later; it adjoined land of Philip Alford, another cordwainer. Ibid., 140; see also Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, 309, 310, 80 /bid., 3rd Series, II, 720; ibid., 2nd Series, XIX, 83. William Hard died intestate, letters of administration on his estate being granted 19 June 1697, to his widow Elisabeth, sister of Aloe Guest. Administration Book A, 239. *171:1697. Will of Aloe Gwen: Will Book C, 7, #4:1705. 114 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine cordwainer. Early in 1691 he bought from William Harwood for £30 the small dwelling where Prichard had been living, on the north side of High east of Second Street. He was rated here on an estate assessed at £30 in 1693." THOMAS DENNIS, shoemaker, was probably included in Goodson's list. He bad taken up on rent by warrant dated 12 1m 1687/8, a lot laid out 40 feet wide on the south side of Walnut Street east of Fifth Street. In 1692 he obtained a patent for the lot immediately to the east of this lot, adjoining Valentine Bird's lot, which was surveyed in 1691. He removed to Gloucester County, probably by 1693, and was not rated in Philadelphia that year." Four other shoemakers have been identified. At least two of them may not have been resident in town in 1690. Goodson may have inchided any of them in his list, rather than some of those cited above. THOMAS ROBERTS, shoemaker, in 1689 laid before Friends "his necessity and great want of a habitation." The Meeting granted him LI as a loan, and in 1691, when he was "Dwelling in Delaware street," Thomas Callowhill offered to rent him his "little house and Lott of Land thereto adjoining" for £6 a year, provided Roberts would make some improvements on the property. Apparently Roberts performed satisfactorily, for the following year Callowhill executed a lease to Roberts for the property. He was rated here in 1693 on an estate assessed at £i0 s. BENJAMIN Howortn, cordwainer, married on 15 April 1687, Mary Paine, spmster, according to "Marriages Recorded by the Registrar General of the Province, 1685-1689." His father Thomas Howard patented in September of that year a lot on the north side of Mulberry between Fifth and Sixth Streets, and "left it to his son Benjamin who left it to his wid'w, with whom Geo. Harmar Intermarried." Benjamin Howard witnessed a deed the following October, and then disappears from history, no estate proceedings of any kind in his name being on record in Philadelphia. Whether he was alive in 1690 and in Philadelphia remains unresolved." Pmcip ALFORD (Oxford), cordwainer, married 8 December 1686, Sarah, daughter of Henry Jones of Moyamensing, just a month after he purchased the "lower," Le., Sec- " Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, 13. 111 December, 1684, he had surveyed a lot at the Center, at the northeast corner of Broad and Chestnut Streets, which extended north to the "back of the Square." Warrants and Surveys, III, 252. Poe the lot bought from William Harwood, see Note 64 above; Prichard sold it to Robert Kent, also a cordwainer, in 1686; see Deed Book E-1-5, 203: 2 12m 1685/6, Thomas Prichard to Robert Kent. Prichard died in 1692, as per Will Book A, 419, #181,169g, incorrectly printed as the will of Henry of Richard in PGSP, II/, IL After the death of his widow Barbara, their eldest son Matthew in 1700 applied to the Philadelphia Meeting for a certificate for himself, brother Benjamin and family to Carolina. Ibid., Iv, 263. While Prichard's estate does not seem to warrant classing him as a master workman, he was apparently a man well up in years, and before his dmth acquired additional property in town. His family was well grown, and the fact he called himself a cordwainer seems to indicate • certain standing. NI Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, II, 693; ibid., 2nd Series, XIX, 74. Exemplification Book 7, 14: 2 Sept. 1696, Thomas Dennis seal, to John Coombe. The removal m West Jersey was no doubt occasioned by the bequest to Dennis's two sons, John and Samuel, of 1000 acres there, left by Walter Forrest. See Porrest's will, recorded in Will Book A, 198, #78:1692. 80 Deed Book E-2-5, 20, 205: 7r0 1691, Thomas Callowhill to Thomas Rohm.; ibid., 280: 20 Aug. 1692, Thomas Callowhill to Thomas Roberts. See also Pennsylvania Archiver, 2nd Series, XIX, 66. 00 /bid., 472; Deed Book E-1-5, 597: 1 Oct. 1687. Richard Wallington to Richard Mansell. Philadelphia Business Directory, 1690 111 ond Street end of Philip James' Front Street lot between Chestnut and High Streets. lie appears to have still owned the property in 1692, but had sold in 1687 land patented to him in 1684 in Bucks County, his land in the Liberties, and a lot between Sassafras and Vine on the west side of Fourth Street which he had taken up by warrant dated 16 3m 1683. He was not rated in Philadelphia in 1693. Whether he actually was in town in 1690 is unknown.. REES PETERS, cordwainer, brought a certificate from Montgomeryshire dated 26 5m 1681, and on 29 1m 1684, obtained a warrant for a city lot laid out "on ye n. of Thos. Masters in 3rd 30 ft. front," between Vine and Sassafras on Schuylkill side. Ira December, 1690, he bought from the widow Sarah Wilcox another lot on Schuylkill side. He appears to have lived at first in the Welsh Tract, however, removing to Philadelphia between 1688 and 1692. Whether he was in Philadelphia in 1690 or not is undetermined... "Nine Master Taylor?' JOHN JENNET, taylor, as a silk-weaver of Bristol was a First Purchaser of 500 acres to be laid out in Pennsylvania. His city lot, warranted 22 9m 1681 and patented to him 12 4m 1684, was laid out at the southeast corner of Third and Sassafras Streets. By 1693 he had acquired the 26-foot lot between Front and Second Streets immediately south of Letitia Penn's great lot at the corner of Front and High, but he does not appear to have been living there when his Philadelphia estate was assessed at £120 that year." CASPAR HOEDT (Hoodt), taylor, came from New York to Philadelphia, probably before 1690. In 1691 he bought from Abraham Hardiman for £45 the northernmost half of Hardiman's Front Street lot nearly midway between Chestnut and High Streets. He was rated here on an assessed estate of £120 in 1693." D6vm BRE1NTNALL (Brintnall), taylor, had a 35-foot lot on the south side of Chesnut Street between Third and Fourth surveyed 23 3m 1683. Fie also acquired the adjoining lot to the east, and in 1693 sold the easternmost 20 feet of it to John Jones for £5, Jones agreeing "to make one whole side of the fence between the hereby granted premises and the said David Brintnall's lott, and to maintain the one-half thereof at his, the Said Jones' proper charge . . . together with the whole End between the granted premises and Henry Lakin's lott, and the one-half of the Side fence between Joseph Os Pennsylvania Archives, Bed Series, VIII, vii. Poe the arrival of his servant, Robert Kent, also a cordwainer, see PMHB, VIII, 337. Deed Book E-1-S, 540, B 9m 1686, Philip James to Philip Alford. See Exemplification Book 7, 268: 29 July 1693, Philip James to Daniel van Beek, in which is recited Alford's lot as bounding on the west the lot conveyed to van Beek. Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, 309, 310, gives further data on Alford, whose identity as Philip Oxford seems indicated. His marriage under the latter name probably WU incorrectly transcribed. 00 Thomas Allen Glenn, Medan in the Welsh Tract. . . . (Norristown, Pa., 1596), 218, 220, 370. Warrants and Surveys, II, 92, and III, 237; Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection, APS, Philadelphia, List of Warrants issued . . 1683-1692. Deed Book E-2-5, 148: 1 Dec. 1690, Sarah Wilcox et al. to Rees Peters. 8. See Pennsylvania Archives, led Series, II, 731, for date of warrant for his city lot; ibid., III, 400, for the date of patent. Exemplification Book 8, 22: 24 On 1692, Joseph Pawls (Paul) to Job, Jenne; for which see also Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, 115. 06 According to the New York Monthly Meeting Minutes, Caspar Hoedt married at Thonsas Lloyd's on 12 6rn 1686, Elizabeth Delaplaine, daughter of Nicholas Delaplaine of New York. Hoedt appears to have left New York for Philadelphia after the birth of his son Jacob in 1688. He married 2nd, Sarah Coleman, widow of Stephem Coleman, in 1701. PGSP, VI, 130. Deed Book E-21, 211: 20 90t 1691, Abraham Hardiman to Casper Irm-A 116 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Walker's, and the said premises. .. • " Breintnall was assessed here in Chestnut Street on an estate rated at £100 in 1693." WILLIAM BouLnixo (Bowling, Bowlin), taylor, complained to the Board of Property in 1690 that "he had Layd out the greatest part of his Estate on his Lott at the Schoolkill so that he cannot, as others have done, Remove from the same." This lot, probably between Chestnut and High Streets, extended from Schuylkill Second to Schuylkill Front Streets. In 1691 he was granted the "land that fronts his Lott on the Schoolkill between the River and his house," and was assessed here in 1693 on an estate rated at £100." PHELLP HOWELL, taylor, had come in as a servant to David Davies, son of Richard Davies, "Served about a Year, [then) bought off the remainder of his time." He married 5 May 1686, the widow Jane Luffe, and two years later bought from Henry Paxson the latter's lot on the east side of Third between Mulberry and Sassafras. By 1693 he had also acquired a bank lot between Chestnut and High where he was rated that year on an estate assessed at JOHN McComn (Maccoom), taylor, brought a certificate from William Stockdale which he presented to the Philadelphia Meeting on 31 6m 1688, when he was given liberty to proceed in marriage with Elizabeth Middleton, In 1690 he was employed by John Blackwell to collect the quit rents in Philadelphia, and the same year was granted a lot on rent "near the Burial Ground." He was assessed on an estate rated at £100 in 1693." THOMAS WHARTON, taylor, married with consent of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting on 20 January 1688/9, Rachel Thomas, daughter of Grace Thomas. In 1693 he was assessed on an estate rated at £100 and was perhaps living on the east side of Second Street, between Walnut and Chestnut, where he was listed next to John Duplouvys. He did not buy property in the town until 1695 when Patrick Robinson sold him a house and 34-foot lot on the west side of Second between Walnut and Chestnut Streets." Mcnte THOMAS, taylor, who had come in as a servant to William Howell, on 24 3m 1688, was granted letters of administration on the estate of his father Lewis Thomas, 55 38e rams from Loudon, fonowlY bel0OgiAg to Breach Monthly Meeting in Derbyshire, with a certificate dated 10 goa 1631, from that meeting. He married with consent of the Philadelphia Meeting on 6 10m 1683, Jane Blanchard, whose certificate from Ringwood in Hampshire was dated 11 Ins 1682/3. Myers, Quaker Arrivals, 3. Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, II, 672, 673. Exemplification Book 7,23: 24 4m 1693, David Brientnall to John Jones; Pennsylvania Archives, Sod Series, XIX, 117. Inlaid., 37, 60, 212, 337. Bouldines lots on Schuylkill side were patented to him in 1701; see Exemplification Book 1, 339: 9 Oct. 1701, Patent to William Bowfin. KPennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XDC, 316. Deed Book 0-24, 35: 17 2n1 166g, Plenty Paxson to Philip Howell. For Howell's possession of the bank Inc see recital of bounds in ibid., ISM 10 111n 1690, Thomas Jmner to Thomas Paschall, In 1703 Howell applied to the commissioners of property Co take up the headland of 13 servants whose rights he had acquired. See Warrants and Surveys, I, 475, and Perussylvanhs Archives, lad Series, XIX, 409. 08 Myers, Quaker Arrivals, 15. PMHB, LXXIV (1930), 471; Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, 41. McComb does not seem to have owned any real estate until after 1700. Se Sec Will Book A, 318, #129:1695, for will of Grace Thomas, in which she mentions her daughters Maxie Snead and Rachel Wharton. Thomas Wharton appears to have first rented a brick house and lot from Anthony Morris; see recital of bounds in Exemplification Book 7, 232: 1 2m 1697. Anthony Morris m John Fleckney. The purchase of Wharton's property on the were side of Second Street, almost directly opposite the premises he had been rmtiog from Morris, is recited in Deed Book 38-5, 509, 2 Apr. 1702, Thomas Wharton to Edward Evans, in which the lot is stated to have been laid out originally to Katherine Martin. Philadelphia Business Directory, 1690 117 late of West Jersey, but originally from Monmouthshire in Wales. Brother-in-law of Thomas Wharton, in 1690 he married Gwenlin Thomas, daughter of John, with consent of the Philadelphia Meeting. The next year that body disciplined him for having sued Benjamin Chambers at law without first giving him "gospel order." He was not rated in town in 1693, and had probably already moved to West Jersey where he later died.". JOHN MARTIN, taylor, of Styning, County Sussex, England, on 17 December 1685, married Elizabeth Simms (Symes). Both had each purchased 500 acres, in right of which his lot had been laid out on the south side of Chestnut between Third and Fourth, next to David Brintnall. After their marriage, her lot was surveyed 19 5m 1686, on the south side of Walnut between Third and Fourth where they were living in 1691 when he asked to rent 90 feet fronting Fourth Street and adjoining the back of the lot he lived on. I-Es Philadelphia estate here was rated at £30 in 1693. 1. "Two Pewterers" THOMAS PASCHALL, pewterer, was Philadelphia's first such artisan, probably having arrived in August, 1682, from Bristol. A First Purchaser of 500 acres, his first settlement was "on the banks of the river Schuylkill;" when he sold his city lot in 1686 to Ann Lee, he was of Philadelphia County. By 1690, when he bought from Thomas Jenner a bank lot between Chestnut and High, he had moved to town, and was rated here on his Philadelphia estate assessed in 1693 at L150. 000 THohms LANGSHAW, pewterer, in 1689 leased on ground rent from Griffith Jones a lot 25 by 100 feet in depth on the west side of Front at the southernmost corner of Jones' whole lot north of High Street. He was not rated here in 1693, probably having already moved to Chester County where he died in 1696.". "One Brasier" CHRISTOPHER SIBTHORP, brasier from Peel Monthly Meeting in London, was a wid- ower when he married in Philadelphia in 1689, Mary Pincher, widow of Francis Finches. In right of Thomas Scott's original purchase of 500 acres, which Sibthorp had bought in 1684 in London, he had a lot on the west side of Second between Sassafras and Vine Streets, laid out by warrant dated 26 3m 1685, shortly after his arrival in town. In 1693, when he was rated on an estate assessed at £110, he was living next to Casper 200 Warrants and Surveys, I, 472. Estate of Lewis Thomas, Administration Book A, 43, # f blank]: 1658. POOP, IV, 151. For data on Micah's family see recital in Deed Book H-6, 385: 16 May 1753, Edward Brooks to Thomas Brooks, relating to lot on west side of From Street between Mulberry and Sassafras. I11 this deed mention is made that Gabriel Thomas (the author of An Historkal and Geographical Account of Pensilvania and of West-New-Jersey . • . 1698), was a brother of Micah Thomas and Rachel Wharton. See also Albert Cook Myers, Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, 'West New Jersey and Delaware, 1630-1707 (New York, 1912), 309-311. ...Pennsylvania Archives, sod Series, XIX, 70, 72, 360. In 1695 he was of Pennsbury; see Deed Book E-2-5, 292; 30 4m 1695, John Martin et al. so William Forrest. ..PMHB, VI (1882), 321. Paschall's city lot, surveyed 19 2rn 1683, was at the northeast corner of Mulberry and Third Sums. See Deed Book E-1-5, 231, 4 3m 1686, Thomas Paschall to Ann Lee; ibid., E-2-5, 150: 10 8m 1690, Thomas Jmner to Thomas Paschall. See PMHB, XXVII (1905), 216, for Paschall family records. 105 Deed Book 0-2-5, 126: 1 6m 1689, Griffith Jones to Thomas Langshaw. See Chester Court Re, ords, 363, cited in Note 21 above, where as Thomas Lonshaw he was a member of the petty jury 11 lam 1695, and ibid., 385, where as Thomas Longshaw he was dmeased by 13 June 1696. 118 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Hoedt on the west side of Front between Chestnut and High on a lot he had bought early in 1688 from the widow Elizabeth Shorter.'" "One Sadler" '2,7n.ivos Dnimmr, sadler, from Tewksbury, Gloucester County, England, by virtue of a warrant dated 6 6m 1684, had a city lot laid out three months later on the east side of Schuylkill Eighth 50 feet wide and extending east 100 feet to the Center Square. He married at Abington in 1687, Sarah Fuller, a First Purchaser in her own right of 1000 acres, and the next year sold the lot at the Center to John Loftus. The Dillwyns were living on Sarah's city lot, laid out on the west side of Second between Sassafras and Vine, when he was taxed in 1693 on an estate rated at "One Clock and Watch-maker" Jenny FARMER, clock and watchmaker, bought from Thomas Holme for £10 a 42 by 51 foot lot at the northeast corner of Second and Mulberry in October, 1683. was taxed here ten years later on an estate rated at in."' He "One Potter" Wn.uxxs CREWS (Ceases), potter, late of Southwark, Surrey, in 1685 bought from Samuel and John Bunting a house and lot in Burlington. He had removed to Philadelphia by early 1689 when he was granted 50 feet on the north side of Chestnut Street, between Fifth and Sixth, "for the making of Potter's work." The next year the commissioners of property ordered "that the 62 foot lott he took up and built his pott House upon be made up 100 [feet] at the Rent Eight Shillings English." He was taxed here in 1693 on an estate rated at £150. 107 "Three Tallow Chandlers" JosEPH PHIPPS, tallow-chandler, "late of Reading, County of Berks," in 1683 bought from Benjamin Clark, citizen and stationer of London, 500 acres to be laid out in Penn- sylvania. The following year he obtained a warrant for a 25-foot lot on the west side of Front, between Mulberry and Sassafras Streets, which extended west to Second Street. This property he "duly improved and built on," but in 1693 sold it to Richard Sutton and removed to Cheltenham Township.'" 108 Pennsylvania Archives, Sad Series, YJX, 123, and for his arrival on the Amity, 21 3m 1685, em PMHB. VII/, 340. Deed Book E-2-5, 6: "Last Day" of 12m 1687/8, Elizabeth Shorter to Christopher Sibthorp. Ia 5701 he obtained a certificate to Dublin Monthly Meeting and there married Am Dilworth, widow of James, as his third wife. 1 . Exemplification Book 8, 95 14 Aug. 1684, Letter of Attorney, Joel Jelson to William Dillwing (sic). Warrants and Surveys, II, 35; ibid., III, 539. Deed Book E-2-5, 37, 7 On 1688, William Dillwyn to John Loftus. 100 Ibid., E-3-6, 240: 29 601705, John Webb to Thomas Redman, gives recital of Farmer's purchase from Holm.. See PGM, XXI, 1000, cited in Note 66 above, for reference to this John Farmer. 207 West Jersey Records, Liber B, Part 1, 158, abstracted in N. J. Archives, XXI, 420. PMHB, L1V (1930), 102; Pennsylvania Archives, lad Series, XIX, 31. Crews' dwelling eventually was convened into an inn, the State House Inn; its site is now within the bounds of the first block of Independence Mall State Park108Deed Book C-2-3, 90: 12 July 1683, Benjamin Clark to Joseph Phipps; Pennsylvania Archives, lad Series, XIX, 225, 268-269; Warrants and Surveys, I, 952. The ground Phipps and Sutton held comprises ground ern occupied by the houses or, the north side of Elfreth's Alley. Philadelphia Business Directory, 1690 119 WILLIAM SOUTHEBE (Southesby, Southersby), may have been included in Goodson' list, although the earliest record found in which he is called a tallow-chandler is dated 1704. He had settled first on Schuylkill side, but in 1690 requested a lot on Delaware side, and was granted one between Sassafras and Vine Streets, 30 feet in width, next to Thomas Langston's lot on Front Street. He was assessed here on an estate rated at £40 in 1693; his son William Jr., was rated on Schuylkill side on an estate assessed at £50. 1" WILLIAM ALLOWAY, tallow-chandler, early in 1685 declared his intentions of marriage with Elizabeth Prothero. Whether she backed away from the intended marriage, or he did, is not known, but by June, 1686, the meeting was calling upon him to explam why they had not married. Satisfactory reasons must have been presented, for in June, 1694, he and William Southebe's daughter Elizabeth declared their intentions of marriage and a month later were given liberty to proceed. He was assessed as a single man m I693. 5 " "Two Sope Makers" RICHARD Surrox, soap boiler, is the only such artisan identified to date. In April, 1688, he petitioned for a lot on the south side of the burying ground, and was granted one in the Third Street between High and Mulberry. In 1693 he bought Joseph Phipps' Front Street lot, and was rated here that year on an estate assessed at L100. 1n "Three Woolen Weavers that are entering upon the Woolen Manufactory in the Town" NICHOLAS PEARCE (Pierce), weaver, arrived in Pennsylvania in 1686 with two servants, Richard Weymouth and John Fox, as a member of the group of Plymouth Friends who had bought 5000 acres in the province. In 1688 he acted as attorney for several of these Friends when they conveyed their rights appurtenant to that purchase to James Fox. In July, 1690, Pearce was granted a lot upon the bank at the north end of town above Vine Street. In 1693 he was rated in Philadelphia on an estate assessed at E100." 2 ABRAHAM HARDMAN, weaver, early in 1689 had a 30 - foot lot surveyed to him on rent on the north side of Chestnut between Third and Fourth Streets. In 1691 he bought from Griffith Owen for £80 the 01 - foot lot in Front Street, between Chestnut and High, originally patented to John op John, and was living on the south half of the lot in 1693 when he was rated on an estate assessed at £100.." 80. Warrants and Surveys, lIt, 251; Pennsylvania Archives, Sod Series, XIX, 23. He seems to have had a somewhat varied career, apparemly starting out as a shoemaker, as indicated in PGSP. I, 293, 298. He was elected to the Assembly in 1688, for which see Votes of Assembly, I, 82, 87, sited in Note 28 above, and in 1700 had been clerk of the market, for which see Colonial Records, I. 582. POSP, 1, 277; ibid., II, 95; ibid., IV, lay, He died is 1699, as per Will Book A, 132, #226:1699. 855 Warrants and Surveys, I, 906; ibid., II, 118. ExCmplification Book 1, 312: 2 4m 1701, Passxs tc Richard Sutton; Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, 269. Sutton was called a chandler and "sops boyler" in his certificate of marriage, dated 12 7m 1698, to Mary Howell of Cecil County, Md., recorded as Philadelphia mouthly Meeting Marriages, 1672-1709, Friends' Record Department, Third and Arch Streets, Philadelphia. 8 .PMHB, Vol. 338. Deed Book E-2-5, 230: 14 in 1688, Henry CCMa ei al. to James Fox, in which Pearce is called a clothier, but as a weaver he jMned with Francis Bawls in conveying land to Edmond Cardidge; me Exemplification Book 7, I, 19 4m 1696, Francis Rawls et al. to Edmund Cardidge. Pessinylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, 40, 71. 11811a., 38, and aid., 3rd Series, III, 394, for location of the lot and date of survey, casually given therein as 17 In 1688, but properly 1688/9. Deed Book E..2-5, HS: 1 4m 1691, Griffith Owen to Abraham Nudism,. 120 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine jonn Bossy (Buzby), weaver, who arrived in Pennsylvania in August, 1682, on the Amity, may have been included in Goodson's list. Busby married in 1690 the deceased Christopher Taylor's daughter, Mary; two years later he bought on ground rent part of a bank lot from Griffith Jones. He was rated on an estate in Philadelphia assessed at £40 in 1693. 1" "Five Smiths" BxrrrArN, blacksmith, from Alney, Buckinghamshire, and his wife Elizabeth had arrived in the Delaware in 1680 in the Owner's Advice of "Barmoodes." They settled first in Bucks County, but by 1688 had removed to Philadelphia, sub-leasing from Thomas Bristow the lot on Front, south of Mulberry Street, which Robert Turner had leased to Bristow the year before. By 1693 Brittain had acquired the three lots in Front Street immediately south of Richard Sutton's lot, between Mulberry and Sassafras, and was assessed here that year on an estate rated at £110. 111 THOMAS PEART, whitesmith, and his wife Mary brought a certificate of removal from Thusk meeting in Yorkshire to Philadelphia in 1686. The next year he purchased from Rowland Ellis the latter's lot in Front, between Mulberry and Sassafras, and here married Anna Wilson on 2 February 1687/8, his first wife having died shortly after their arrival in town. He was rated here in 1693 on an estate assessed at £120. 110 JOSHUA Momus, "Tynn-plate-worker" or tinsmith, arrived on the 'Welcome with William Penn in the fall of 1682. By a warrant dated 16 Sm 1684, a lot was laid out to him at the Center, just east of Schuylkill Eighth, on the north side of the Square. In 1693 he was assessed here as a single man." 7 JAm8s MOORE, blacksmith, by warrant dated 17 4m 1684, had a lot surveyed to him at the Center apparently at the southeast corner of High Street and Schuylkill Eighth. Here he built a house and presumably lived here while employed at the Proprietor's mill, and while making the windows for the Center Meeting House. In December, 1693, he sold it to Richard Worthin, but was not taxed that year. ," JEREMIAH ELFRETH, blacksmith, in 1686 bought from John Wheeler the latter's lot "before Henry Flower's house." When he came to build on this bank lot in 1 6 9 0, he LTONEL 124 Myers, Quaker Arrivals, 19, notes he came from Milton, parish of Shipton. For his arrival aee Pennypacker, Pennsylvania Colonial Gases, 110, cited in Note 6 above. Deed Book 0-2-5, 222: 25 Ilm 1691/2, Grath Jona to John Busby. 111 PMHB, IX, 2211. Exemplification Book 8, 14, 18 2m 1688, Assignment, Thomas Bristow to tonsil Bfitt2i0; ibid., I, 314: 2 4m 1700, Patent to Arth. Wells which recites Brittain's purchase of the Sutton lot. 110 Deed Book E-1.5, 673: 10 10m 1687, Rowland Ellis to Thomas Peen; Pennsylvania Archiver, led Series, XIX, 24. 111 POOP, I, 46; Morris witnessed the will of Thomas Mercies, written on the Welcome. Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, II, 752, gives the date of the warrant; the location of the lot is determined by the bounds of Charles Brigham's lot, cited in 'Warrants and Surveys, III. 249, which was surveyed 1 Cu 1684. Brigham sold his patented lot to Morris in 1687; see Deed Book E-2-1, 38: 9 4m 1687. Charles Brigham to Joshua Morris. When Morris died, lams of administration on his acne were granted to Samuel Nicholls, in behalf of Henry, Richard and John Morris, his brothers. Administra1.00 Book A, 233, *1101697. 1111 Pconsylvania Archives, 363 Series, II, 752; ibid., 2nd Series, XIX, 328, which recites Moore'. sale of the house and lot to Richard 07orthin in 1691; ibid., 89, 92. PGSP, II, 169. See also PGM, XX, 62, for further notes 00 James Moore. Philadelphia Business Directory, 1690 121 bought from Richard Russel the right to build into Russell's north "gavell" wall. He was not taxed in 1693. 119 "One Comb-maker" GEORGE Ilititidna was probably the comb-maker meant by John Goodson. Son of George Harmer of Mourden in the Parish of Redbourne Chainey, Wiltshire, and brother of William Harmer, by 26 Sm 1684, he had "served the time bound for in the Country" and was requesting his headland. This he assigned to his brother William in 1686, and in 1688 obtained a warrant for a lot on the west side of Third Street north of High which was laid out in April of that year, adjoining Richard Sutton's lot. He appears to have married first the widow of Benjamin Howard, and then on 20 lies 1697/8,99 a comb-maker, married Honour Oxley, spinster, with consent of the Philadelphia meeting. He was rated in 1693 on an estate assessed at £72, apparently on the lot on the south side of High Street, between Second and Third, "at the end of Strawberry alley," which had been granted him on rent in 1690 by the commissioners of property.'" "One Tobacco-Pipe Maker" No such tradesman in Philadelphia in 1690 has been definitely identified. William Crews, the potter, may have made pipes, in addition to other earthenware, but certainly did not limit his work to pipes. jOSHUA TrrrEar, who started out as a "broad-glass maker" employed by the Free Society of Traders, became a potter, but does not appear to have been such in 1690. JOHN Win, who came in as a servant to Richard Hillyard in 1683, was called a potter in 1698, but no record has been found establishing him in Philadelphia in 1690. 121 "Three Dyers" Joesse SIBLEY, dyer, is the only man with that trade so far identified. He had married after 9 Sm 1683, Katherine, widow of Isaac Martin, a First Purchaser of SOO acres and investor in the Free Society of Traders. On the foregoing date, she had sold to Patrick Robinson the lot in Second Street, between Chestnut and Walnut Streets, which had been laid out to Isaac Martin, and which Thomas Wharton eventually pur chased. In 1691, the Sibleys were living in Dublin Township, where John Sibley was rated on an estate assessed at £60. Whether they were in Philadelphia in 1690 remains undetermined. 122 us Deed Book E-I-5, 430:4 7m 1666, John Wheeler to Jeremiah Elfreth; ibid., E-2-5, 237: 13 July 1690, Richard Russel to Jeremiah Elfreth. Apparently Elfreth died some time in 1693, although Ietters of administration e.t.a., on his estate were not granted until I Apr. 1694 to Henry Plower. See Administration Book A, 182, *25: 169). His will was dated. 2 4r0 1693, 120 Deed Book G-1-3, 328: 23, 24 June 1684, Edward Jeffries to William Harmer. Warrants and Surveys, III, 445. Deed Book E-1-5, 416: 27 655 1686, Assignmmt, George Harmer to William Harmer. Warrants and Surveys, III, 265. Per Benjamin Howard's widow, see the text, sutra. Pennsylvania .4'- chives, 2nd Series, KIK, 3 6. 192 See PMHB, VIII, 338, 339, for arrival of Tittery and John Witt, and Aid., LIV, 100-102, for Tittery's activities as a potter. First record of Witt in town is found in Deed Book 80-4, 547: 2 Sept. 1698, Thomas Langston to John Witt. The lot conveyed in this deed Witt sold in 1700 to Tittery. Richard Warder, file first identified tobacco pipemaker, did not arrive until 1698, as noted in Myers, Quaker Arrival, 19. 122 Deed Book E-1-s, 42: 9 in 1683, Katherine Martin to Patrick Robinson. Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, REX, 50, The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 122 "One Joyner" ABRAHAM HOOPPER, joiner, possibly Was the man Goodson had in mind when he compiled his list. As a joiner Hoopper had married the spinster Philitia Green 3 March 1686/7, at the house of John Moon in Philadelphia. She was the owner of a lot between Fourth and Fifth on the north side of Sassafras "with a cave thereon" which she had bought for £8 from Robert Pressmal in 1685. It was as a cabinet-maker, however, that Hoopper bought for £40 from Griffith Jones early in 1689, a 30 - foot lot on the north side of Walnut, between Front and Second Streets, and was living there in 1693 when he was rated on an estate assessed at £150. In his will, written in 1706, Hoopper called himself a joiner?" "One Cabinet-Maker" JoHN ComwrEss, cabinet-maker, although described in the Blackwell rent roll of 1689 as the "French Joyner," seems to have considered himself a cabinet-maker when conveying property. He had had surveyed to him 1 8m 1684, a 48-foot lot on the north side of the Center Square, about 150 feet east of Schuylkill Eighth Street, half of which he sold to Richard Turner in 1688. He lived for a time in the country, probably on the small plantation he had bought from William Frampton. By 1690 he was back in town and in possession of a lot on the north side of Chestnut Street, between Fourth and Fifth. This he held until 1692 when he assigned it to John Biddle. He was not listed in the 1693 tax list."4 "One Rope-Maker that makes Ropes for Shipping" established the first ropewalk near the town; by 1685 he had "cordage for shipimg already spun at it." He died a month after Goodson's letter was written, and the following November, 1690, his son Joseph applied for and was granted a lot "to the northwards of the Slipp at the north end of the town of Phila'a (Viz.) in the Front street 50 foot front, to run Backwards Westwardly unto a new Street now Called Cable Lane . . . the Rope yard or walk, to begin on the West side of the said Cable lane, over against [opposite] the said Lott and with the same breadth of 50 foot . . • Straight unto the third Street, Skiping or passing over the streets already laid out . . . ." BAngtABAS WILCOX "Three Master Ship-Carpenters" JAMES WEST, shipwright, obtained a warrant on 8 6m 1684, for land to be laid out "next to Paul Saunders for conveniency of his Trade a Shipwrt." No return of this land has been located, but if it was surveyed it presumably was laid out on the Schuylkill, on the west side, opposite the south line of the town. By 1689 West had removed to the Delaware side, purchased the Penny Pot Tavern, north of Vine and east of Front, 125 Deed Book E-1-5, 122: 7 Sm 1685, Boilers Pressmal so Phillis Green: ibid., E-2-5, 121: Mortgage, Abraham Hoopper to Griffith Jones. After the death of his wife, Hoopper apparently went to England, armed with a certificate of his clearness in marriage. PGSP, IV, 215. His second wife Ann, after his death, married Thomas Wood; they sold the house and lot on Walnut Street to Thomas Banes. See Deed Book F-3, 368: 10 Nov. 1723, Thomas Wood to Thomas Banes, and will of Hoopper, recorded in Will Book C, 56, #46:1707. 3,4 Warrants and Surveys, III, 142; Deed Book E-24, 54: 4 Sept. 1688; Jobs Coons., to Richard Turner; ibid., E-1-S, 74: 2 4m 1685, William Frampton to John Countess. Pennsylvania Archives, Ind 31, 231. Series, 115 PMHB, DC, 66. Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, 50, 60. xrx, Philadelphia Business Directory, 1690 123 and in 1690 petitioned for additional land as "a Conveniency to build ships and Vessels upon." He promised "to make a Convenient Slipp with timber and fill it up with Earth and Pitch it with stone against the street which is to be left 100 foot wide." In 1693 he was rated here on an estate assessed at £100. 125 RICHARD RUSSELL, shipwright, requesting to take up on rent 200 acres on Schuylkill side, a lot in the city to build on, "with a spot of ground on the water side to lay a sloop in," was granted a warrant for same 23 9m 1683; the city lot was laid out the following April, 1684, on the west side of Schuylkill Third Street. In December, 1689, he bought from Patrick Robinson a 51-foot bank lot and in July, 1690, entered into a building agreement with Jeremiah Elf reth who had acquired the adjoining lot. For the consideration of E5, Elfreth was to have the privilege of utilizing the "north gavell [gable] end of his house ... from Bottom to top," in building a house on the adjacent lot, "with power to breake into said wall and place Girders, Joysts ... as also to lean into and upon ye same with the house he [Elfrethl is now building . .. as also to run the Rooffe of his said house upon the half of the topp of the wall. . . ." Russell was not taxed in Philadelphia in 1693, possibly having moved away.'°t TENIS LINCH (Tennis Lynsey, Tunis Lynch), ship carpenter, may have been included in Goodson's list. In the spring of 1684 he had purchased from Charles Pickering a 20 by 72/a foot lot "at the lower end of Marie Shorter's lot." This interior lot was midway between Chestnut and High and Front and Second. Linch built a house on it which he sold to Richard Whitfield in 1685 f or E25. Whether he remained in town through 1690 is uncertain, but late in 1693 he was granted a warrant for a 4T-foot bank lot "next below the Dock ... in or near Society Hill at the south end of Town." The east end of this lot, from the "cartway" to the river, he sold to John Hockins two years later for £12, who was "to erect a wharf or key and to build houses thereon 1f6o9rtis l;e better improvement of the place." Linch was not assessed in Philadelphia in 3. "Three Barbers" HENRY FloirEa, barber, son of Seth Flower "of Middlesex," also a barber, and nephew of the schoolmaster Enoch Flower, "came into this Province" with his uncle Enoch before 2 3m 1683, when the latter was a member of the first grand jury convened in the town. Henry was executor of his uncle's will, probated in 1684, and in the ensuing years much engaged in settling various contracts his uncle had entered into in order to improve the city lots appurtenant to Seth Flower's purchase of 2000 acres. These included a High Street lot between Fifth and Sixth on the south side sold to Thomas Masters, and a Front Street lot between Walnut and the Dock. Henry was 5.. List of Warrants issued • • • Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection, APS, cited in Note 92 above. Pennsylvania Archives, Sod Series, XD4, 29. The widow from whom West purchased the Penny Pot tavern has never hem identified; it is suggated it was either Hannah Salter, or Margaret Hartsfelder, widow of Joni. Hartsfelder; see ibid., 444-445. 5" Warrants and Surveys, I, 860; ibid., III, 220. Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, 321; Deed Book E-2-5, 237, 13 July 1690, Richard Russell to Jeremiah Elfreth. Russell may have moved to New York and set up as a merchant; see ibid., E-2-5, 514: 17 Oct. 1695, Bond, Samuel May to Richard Russell. He had acquired 300 acres in West Jersey in the third Tenth by 17 4m 1684; see Burlington Court Book, 29, cited in Note 47 above. 555 Deed Book E-1-5, 171: 3 12m 1653/4, Charles Pickering to Tennis Lyncey (sir), and ibid., 21 Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, II, 742; Deed Book 1m 1684/5, Tennis Lynsey to Richard Whitfield. E-2-5, 348: 2 Sept. 1695, Tunis Lynch to John Hockins. In 1699 Linch war of Cape May Co., as recited in West Jersey Raords, Liber B, Part 2, 648, abstracted in N. J. Archives, MO, 515. 124 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine living on part of the latter property when he was rated on an estate assessed at £150 in 1693.'" JoHN Elam's, barber in 1701, had arrived in October, 1683, with his father Henry Fume, and relatives most of whom, including John, were indentured to Robert Turner for four years. The father Henry took up on rent in 1685 a 50 by 100 foot lot at the northwest corner of Vine and Second Street "in the Governor's Land adjoining the city;" here he, a sadler by trade, was taxed on an estate rated at £30 in 1693. In 1701, when John Furnis applied for the headland due his relatives, amounting in all to 350 acres, he was also employed by the Proprietor to collect the £2000 tax in the town, "after Thomas Farmer had failed to discharge his Duty therein." The third barber has not been identified."' "Two Chirurgions"un GRIFFITH OWEN, doctor of Physick from Prescoe in Lancashire, arrived in the Vine of Liverpool on 17 7m 1684, with his wife Sarah, son Robert, and daughters Sarah and Eleanor, accompanied by seven servants. He elected to settle on the Schuylkill side of town, was coroner of Philadelphia in 1685, member of the Assembly for Philadelphia County 1686, 1688 and 1689, and in 1690 was appointed to the Provincial Council, in which he served for ten years. He was taxed on an estate rated at £100 in 1693 when he was living on Schuylkill side.'°° DANIEL HODGSON (Hutson, Hudson), practioner in Physick, was in Philadelphia by 4 9m 1688, when Nathaniel Watson on his deathbed desired "that Doctor Hutson may be sufficiently satisfied for his care and paints of me." The following year on 4 April 220 Deed Book E-1-5, 194: 2 1200 1685/6, Henry Flower to James Pella, recites Henry's parentage and place of origin. Penmylvania Archives, and Series, XIX, 714, recites Henry's arrival with his uncle Enoch. Seth Flower, however, was of Corsham, in the County of Wilts when he purchased 2000 acres from William Penn. According to the will of Henry Flower, dated 14 June 1734/5, probated 17 May 1736, and recorded in Will Book E, 366, #439:I736, he left a wife Ann, probably a second wife, children Elizabeth, Thomas and Enoch, and grandchildren Seth Flower and Martha Drason. See Pennsylvania Gazette, 30 May 1736, for notice of Henry Flower's death. 180 See PMHB, VIII, 331, for 1IIIV21 of the Furnis family. Warrants and Surveys, III, 253; Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Seri., XIX, 200, 566. 282 Actually there were three so-called chirurgeons in the province: John Goodson himself, Edward Jones from Bala in Merionethshire, and Thomas Wynne from Flintshire. However, Goodson seems to have considered himself "of the county" rather than of the town; Edward Jones lived in the Welsh Tract, and Thomas Wynne's chief place of residence was at Lewes in Sussex Co. Two other chiturgeons had been in Philadelphia prior to 1690: John Bent, who sold his lot at the Center to Michael hard in 1686 (Deed Book E-1-5, 371: 7 1. 1686, John Bans to Michael Yard), and moved elsewhere, and John Houghton. He left Philadelphia early in 1689, went to West Jersey, and then to Christina Hundred in Newcastle Co. (Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XDC, 113, 565. 709). In the 17th century, as now, a chirurgeon (surgeon) was one who cured bodily diseases and injuries by manual operation; he usually belonged so, or was licensed by the Worshipful! Company of Barber Chirugions. Physicians, on the other hand, were skilled in the use of herbs and "physicks" as cures for disease, and by some accounts were considered more learned. Frequently, however, the two terms were used interchangeably, perhaps by the ignorant. Certainly the terms "practioner in Physick" and "Doctor of Physick" appear to have been used indiscriminately when applied to the two mm identified in the text. They do not appear to have been called "Chirurgeons," but are arbitrarily placed under this heading. 282 PMHB, VIII, 332-333; the servants were Thomas Annes and John Ball, to serve for 4 years each, Robert Lon, for g years, Almond. Edwards, Jeane, Bridget and Elizabeth Watts, to serve S years each. Deed Book E-2-5, 97: 4 Ilm 1688/9, Philip James to Griffith Owen, records the sale of James' lot, between Schuylkill Front and Second Streets, to Owen. In this deed Owen was of Merion, but in subsequent records he was of the town of Philadelpina. Votes of Assembly, I, 71, 82, 94; Colonial Records. I, 159. 322 ff. Philadelphia Business Directory, 1690 125 1689, the doctor married Hannah HoImo, daughter of John Holme, at the latter's plantation, Green Spring, in Philadelphia County. In 1693 he was assessed in Philadelphia on an estate rated at "Three Plaisterers" (Burgis), plasterer, in 1686 sold to Michael Izard for £6 26. his 48 by 178 foot lot fronting the north side of the Center Square. It had been located in August, 1684, about 100 feet west of the Broad Street, by virtue of a warrant dated the same month. When he was assessed in 1693 on an estate rated at £100, he was probably living on part of the Widow Delavall's Front Street lot, north of Walnut."' FRANCIS &arm, plasterer, was assigned in 1688 a right to 1250 acres in the Welsh tract, and a lot on the west side of Second Street, between High and Mulberry, by Joseph 'Harris. Smith apparently mortgaged the land to Anthony Morris, and unable to meet his payments, by February, 1689, was in gaol, having been committed there on a judgement issued by the county court. Smith, and his son William, also a plasterer, petitioned the Provincial Council while John Blackwell was deputy governor, for right to appeal to the provincial court, Charles Pickering acting as their attorney. Smith claimed to have paid interest on money due "for longer time than was yett Expired," but it appeared the extra sum had been deducted "out of ye principall money adjuged against him" by the court, probably for costs. When Pickering offered to go their security for paying the debt, "or making over ye Land floe which he [Smith] was indebted to that purpose," Smith declined and was remanded back to gaol. Upon his complaint that "he had no bed to lye on," the sheriff granted permission for him to "bring in his beside to ye prison if he pleased, and Should have them out with him upon his discharge." In 1692, Benjamin Fordham, attorney of Margaret Fordham, daughter of Margaret Davies, now deceased, released all rights in the 1250 acres to Smith, and the next year, after his father's death, William Smith made final settlement with Thomas Lloyd "to the use of Anthony Morris." " 6 ROBERT 'WALLIS, plasterer, in 1687 bought from Giles Knight for £20 the latter's house and lot in Philadelphia at the northwest corner of Fourth and Sassafras Streets. Two years later he sold the property for £25 to Lewis Hughes, and bought from Griffith Jones a small part of the latter's Front Street lot above High, which adjoined the lot of the pewterer, Thomas Langshaw. Wallis was taxed here on an assessed estate of £50.140 ANTHONY BUBOES ...For will of Nathaniel Watson, see Will Book A, 91, #49:1688. Green Spring wu the plantation of Dr. Nicholas More, whose widow John Holm marriul. For a time the liodgeons owned a lot on the east side of Second Street, near Sassafras, next to Richard Sutton; in 1693, the doctor appeared to be living in Front Street north of Mulberry. He died probably early in 1709; see his will recorded in Will Book C, 155, #12:1709, which motions his wife Sarah. See also Deed Book E.1.5, 29: Assignment, no date, Richard Sutton to Daniel Hodgson and wife Sarah. Pennsylvania Archives, Sod Series, VIII, viii, cited in Note 21 above. 134 Warrants and Surveys, III, 245. Deed Book E-1-5, 172: 7 Son 1686, Anthony Borges to Michael Yard (sic). Letters on his mate were granted 17 Nov. 1701, to James Coat, carpenter; see Administration Book A, 345, #192:1701. 186 Deed Book E-2-5, 27: 23 May 1688, Joseph Harris to Francis Smith; ibid., 311 , 19 10m 1692, Release, Bemamin Fordham to Francis Smith; ibid., 312: 21 10m 1693, William Smith to Thomas Lloyd "sod,. use of Anthony Morris." Colonial Records, I, 241, 243. ISODeed Book 0-1-5, 538: 16 3m 1687, Giles Knight to Robert Wallis; ibid., E-2-1, 247: 12 Ins 1689, Robert Wallis to Lewis Hughes. Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, 146. Wallis married Esther Lakin, probably a sister of Henry Lakin, 0.1 , in the teat, who had arrived in the Unicorn in 1685. For the relationships, see Gloucester Deeds No. 3, 309, 1 March 1695/6, Daniel Howell es al. to Henry Johnson, abstracted in N. Archives, XXI, 674. 126 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine "Several Victualing Houses, or Ordinaries" The BLUE ANCHOR HOUSE, originally standing in the middle of the Front Street near the Dock and south of Walnut Street, was assigned by William Dare for £70 to Colonel Edward Hill in January 1682/3; later that same month Hill sold the house to Griffith Jones, the merchant, for £100. Because its location impeded traffic. Penn in August, 1684, granted to Jones a 16-foot lot "to remove the Blue Anchor upon." This new location was on the north of a lot of George Bartholomew which was laid out to Bartholomew, in right of James Boyden, the following month. The little building was moved to the new site, and in 1686 Jones sold it to Bartholomew for £150, taking a mortgage on it and Bartholomew's adjacent log house. When Bartholomew died before the mortgage was satisfied, both properties reverted to Jones, who sold them 6 August 1690, to Thomas Budd. 587 The PENNYPOT HOUSE on the bank at the north end of town beyond Vine Street had been purchased before March, 1690, by the shipwright James West "of the Alice Guest, widow of the brickmaker George Guest, in 1689 requested a 24-foot lot on the bank between High and Chestnut Street. On this lot, about 110 feet north of Chestnut Street, the CROOKED BILLET was established, and here she was assessed on an estate rated at £250 in 1693?" Nathaniel Ible, a brewer by trade, had married with the consent of the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Elizabeth Anna in 1684. In 1687, as brewer in Philadelphia, he may have rented the Frampton brew house on the bank below Walnut Street. By 1689 he was an innholder, possibly in tenure ofWhitpain's "Great House," on Front Street. If so, it was to this house the Provincial Council adjourned in February, 1690, "ye season being very Cold." Ible was deceased by 24 8m 1690, when letters of administration were granted his widow Elizabeth.l 40 Although he was a cordwainer by trade, John Test was called an innholder of Philadelphia in 1689 when he purchased 80 acres in Gloucester County. He had owned property in Philadelphia since 1684, but had sold it, and not until 1692 had acquired more of which there is a record. That year he purchased the lot on the bank at the southeast corner of Walnut and Front Street, the probable location of the tavern called THE SEALE& He was rated here in 1695 on an estate assessed at £150. 1" 1117 Exemplification Book 8, 7:10 Jan, 1682/3, Edward Hill to Griffith Jones; Deed Book E-1-5, 361, cited in Note 6 above; Exemplification Book 7, 80 , 8 4m 1697, Thomas Budd to Anthony Morris. UP+ See Note 126 above. 185 Lessees of administration on the estate of George Guest were granted 6 Ilm 1685/6, to Joseph Browne, the brickmaker. See Administration Book A, 7, #601685. Exemplification Book 1, 207: 3 May 1692, Patent to Alice Guest. She died in I707, leaving children George and John Guest, Elizabeth, wife of Arthur Holton, end Phehe, wife of Anthony Morris; bet son-in-law William Say, widower of her daughter Mary Guest, their son William Say, Jr., and grandchildren Marshall and Phebe Guest, Mary Holton, and Mary Guest. Will Book C, 7, #4r1705. HO Ible was called a brewer in West Jersey Records, Giber B, Part I, 148: 28 Aug. 1687, Nathaniel This to Rebecca de Cow, abstracted in N. J. Archiver, XXI, 419. He was described as an innholder in Gloucester Deeds, No. 1, 143: 24 April 1689, John Ladd to Nathaniel Ibis, abstracted in ibid., 653. Colonial Records, 1, 317. For administration of his mum, see Administration Book A, 128, #6:1690. As reeked in Deed Book E-2-5, 150 10 8m 1690, Thomas Jenner to Thomas Paschall, Jenner had already sold to Ibis's widow Elizabeth a small lot between Prost Street and the 30-foot cartway under the bank, 100 feet south of High Street. 11 For Test as a corciwaines, itee Pennsylvania Archives, Sod Series, XIX, 167. He was styled an innholder in Gloucester Deeds, No. 1, 1: 15 On 1689, Joseph Browne et al. to John Tess, abstracted in N. 3. 'Philadelphia Business Directory, 1690 127 George Emlen, from Shipton Mallet, Somersetshire, had surveyed to lum in February, 1687/8, a lot on the north side of Chestnut Street between Second and Third. He had married 12 9m 1685, Eleanor Allen, daughter of Nathaniel Allen, and may have lived temporarily in the country before moving to town. On the Chestnut Street lot he probably established the THREE TUNS inn, and was rated here on an estate assessed at £150 in 1695.142 Though a taylor by trade, John McComb apparently also kept an ordinary at one time. His license was revoked in 1692 because during the Keith controversy he had been guilty of distributing papers considered inimical to the government. 143 Katherine Thomas in February, 1690, petitioned for a license to keep an ordinary. It was granted provided 'thee procure Sufficient Cirtificate of her good behaviour." ". William Snead (Sneed), victualler, married Mary Thomas, daughter of Grace Thomas and sister of Thomas Wharton's wife Rachel, in 1689. He probably kept a small ordinary, but seems not to have owned land in town in 1690. He was listed next to Ralph Jackson, probably on the north side of High between Second and Third, when he was rated on an estate assessed at £60 in 1693. 1" "Four Master Coopers, that make abundance of Cask for the Sea" THomas BUDD, cooper, son of the elder Thomas Budd, probably lived with his parents on the 100-foot Front Street lot north of the Dock which was laid out to the elder Budd 7 4m 1688, and adjoined the land he purchased in 1690 from Griffith Jones. Presumably it was he, as Thomas Budd at Company, who was assessed on an estate rated at £200 in 1693.'" PHILIP JAMES, cooper, early in 1689 had surveyed a 40-foot bank lot between Chestnut and High next to the lot laid out for the widow Alce Guest. He sold the northernmost half, and was taxed at the south half in 1693 on an estate rated at £200. In 1691 he was named one of the common councilmen in the city's first charter?" NATHANIEL ALLEN, cooper, with his family had arrived in the Delaware in December, 1681, from Bristol, England. In 1689 he confirmed the sale of his Front Street lot Arthives, XXI, 657. Test had removed to Burlington by 1698; see Exemplification Book 7, 239: 26 lm 1698, John Test to Samuel Carpenter, reciting sale of the lot he had acquired at the southeast corner of Walnut and Front Street. 140 Sophie Selden Rogers Collation, Ro16, 43, GSP. Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, VIII, 357, Patent to George Proles, 140 See Note 98 above. For his tribulations during the Keithian controversy, see Charles P. Keith, Chrronkles of Pennsylvania. . • . (Philadelphia, 1917), I, 226, and PMHB, XV (1891), 344. 144 Co!mad Records, I, 320. If this Katherine Thomas was the widow of the Welsh purchaser John Thomas, she obtained a warrant for a 50-foot lot to be laid out on Delaware side in Second Street, adjoining John Griffith, on 24 10rn 1692. See Charles H. Browning, Welsh Settlement of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1912), 592, for her problems relating to the lot, and Exemplification Book 7, 13: 24 lOrn 1692, Warrant to Catherine Thomas. 2401'G5P, 11, 143, 145. Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, 329, 369. 1 " See ibid., led Series, III, 387, for date of the survey of the lot. Thomas Budd, Jr., the cower, was buried 19 7m 1699, according to Friends' records. For his will, see Will Book A, 511, #218:1699. His father predeceased him; for his will see Will Book A, 584, #218; 1698. 1" For date of survey of the lot, sa Pennsylvania Archives, led Seria, Ill, 385; for the sale, Deed Book E-2-5, 1591 SO On 1690, Philip James to Matthew Bonney, and ibid., 2nd Series, XIX, 325. James bought and sold numerous properties along Front Street; the earliest conveyance noted is recited in Deed Book E-1-5, 207: 2 12m 1685/6, Dennis Rochford to Philip James, which mentions a prior "short deed of sale" dated I lOnt 1684. 128 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine between Walnut and Chestnut Streets, appurtenant to his purchase of 2000 acres, to Albertus Brandt. In February of the same year he had taken up a 30 - foot bank lot north of Chestnut Street adjoining the lot of Philip James, where he presumably was living in 1690. His widow Ellinor was living here in 1693.". JAN WILLEMSE BOEKENOOGEN (BOCkertogeo), cooper from Haarlem, arrived in Philadelphia in 1684. By 1688 he was in possession of the two lots at the corner of and west of Third, fronting Walnut Street on the north side, laid out originally to Nehemiah Mitchell and John Green, as well as a 30-foot lot he held on ground rent from Samuel Richardson on Front Street next to the pewterer Thomas Langshaw. The cooper probably lived on this latter lot, where he built two houses which he left by will to his wife and children.". "Sawyers" EDWARD Smour, sawyer, with his future wife, Elizabeth Prigg, came to Philadelphia on the Increase of Youghall, Richard Choson, master. Both he and his wife were indentured to Major Jasper Farmer for four years, "to have for the three last yeares 50d, a yeare with land according to costom of the Country, with a new state of cloths." In November, 1689, Smout bought a lot on the west side of Second Street, between High and Chestnut, at the south end of William Markham's great lot, which he sold the following March to Francis Cooke. In exchange he obtained from Cooke the east half of Cooke's lot on the north side of High, above Second Street. He was rated here in 1693 on an estate assessed at SAMUEL Nicstou-s (Nicholas), sawyer, in June, 1690, was granted by the commissioners of property a lot in Third Street which was laid out on the east side, north of High Street. He was single in 1693, and was listed next to Christopher Sibthorp in Front Street, between Chestnut and High Streets... CORNELIUS STuRoIS (Sturges) may have been considered a sawyer by Goodson. Son of Anthony Sturgis, he called himself a sawyer in 1698, when he sold to William Bubb 100 acres in the country which Sturgis had purchased from Silas Crispin in 1693. Presumably in 1690 he was living with his father.'" 14 8 Deed Book E-2-5, 146: 18 4m 1689, Nathaniel Allen to Albertus Brandt. For date of survey of the bank lot, see Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, III, 383; for its sale by his widow, see Deed Book E-2-5, 298: 20 5m 1695, Ellinor Also et al. to Joseph girl!. For the Allen's arrival, see W. W. H. Davis, The History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, From the Discovery of the Delaware to the Present Tim (Doylestown, Pa., 1876), 144. Nehemiah Allen, son of Nathaniel, was also a cooper; in 1691 he was rated on m estate in Philadelphia assessed at f100, his lot being on the west side of Second Street between the Dock and Wahmt Street. See Deed Book E-2-1, 219: 29 son 1689, Jemes Atkinson to Nehemiah Allm. 549 Heretofore this Dutch cooper has always been considered • resident of Germantown, but from the deeds in hie name it is obvious he lived in town. See Deed Book E-2-5, 56: Last day of 3m 1688, John Green to John William [Bockenogen]; Exemplification Bosh?, 59: 9 June 1694, John Duplouvys, execstor, to 'William Paschall; ibid., 588: 7 Sept. 1702, Stephanus Bockenogen et al. to William Hudson. Cf, PGIVL, XVII, 50-51. 200 See ibid., XXI, 97, for accoum of Edward Smoot. Deed Book E-2-5, 139: 5 March 1688/9, Edward Smola to Frmcis Cooke; Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XIX, 160. 151 Ibid., 38; for the location of the Third Street lot, eee PMHB. LXXX, 207. By 1697 he also held a lot on the west of the Strawberry Alley lots, as recited in Exemplification Book 7, 120, 7 Dec. 1697, John Densey to Thomas Prichard, 1 02 Exemplification Book 7, 249: 7 June 1698, Cornelius Sturgis to Williston Bubb. Earlier that year he had joined with his father in conveying to Thomas Shorn, part of the lot at Third and High Strewn the deed mentions a brick house built by Cornelius adjoining on the south of the lot sold to 50661... Philadelphia Business Directory, 1690 129 "Six Carters that bare Teams daily imployed to carry and fetch Timber and Bricks, Stone and Lime for Building" LEWIS HycHES (Hewes, Houghs), carter, in 1689 purchased for a total of £30 two lots at the northwest corner of Sassafras and Fourth Streets from Robert Wallis and Thomas Jenner. He was not rated in 1693." 8 Wn.Lum SNOWDEN may have been a carter. In 1690 he was paid £1 "for haleing timber to the [Proprietor's] mill." He was rated in town in 1693 next to Edward Smout on an estate assessed at £40. 1" Persons known to have been settled in Philadelphia ill 1690, who had teams for hire in 1704, included: Christopher Lobb, who had come to Pennsylvania as a servant to James Fox in 1686; the cordwainer James Jacobs and the weaver Nicholas Pearce. John MilIlin, Jr., included in the 1704 list, was a resident of the Northern Liberties where he was assessed on an estate rated at £100 m 1693. 155 Goodson himself probably was not statistically minded. However, if he had been, he probably would have been satisfied with what he learned had he taken the trouble to analyze his own list. His findings might have been not too different from an analysis of the present enumeration. This latter-day listing shows that by far the greatest number—nearly sixty percent—of those tradesmen taxed in 1693, were rated on estates assessed at between £100 and £250. Over one-quarter had estates rated at less, while only twelve had estates in excess of £400. It is clear Phila(lelphia resident businessmen in the early 1690's were largely men who were neither rich nor poor; surprisingly, of the 148 identified, only five percent were original First Purchasers. Others had purchased the rights of First Purchasers, but only after the initial risk of pioneering in a new country had lessened, and it appeared that the little settlement on the banks of the Delaware would become permanent. 168 Deed Book E-2-1, 247: 12 8:0 1689, Robert WaIlls to Lewis Hughes; ibid., 248: 12 gm 1689, -Thomas Jemaer to Lewis Houghs. The carter seems to have spelled his name Hewes when he witnessed the deed recorded in Deed Book E-2-5, 69. 1 4m 1688, James Kennerly to Benjamin Chambus. 1 08 William Snowden, Jr., aged 22 in 1684, had 100 acres of land, 12 of which were improved. PMHB, VII, 106; Deed Book 8-14, 65: 14 5m 1684, Lassey Cock to William Snowden recita this land ia Passayunk had been sold to his father, but the bill of sale had been lost. PMHB, XXXV (1911), 202. 106 See Minutes of the Common Council of the City of Philadelphia 1704-1776 (Philadelphia, 1847), 6, for notice of those who kept teams in town in 1704. Christopher Lobb was apparently a woolcomber by trade, as evidenced in Exemplification Book 7, 186: 19 Nov. 1697, William Paxton to Christopher Lobb; see also Note 42 above, for James Fox. For references to James Jacobs, see Note 84 above, and for Nicholas Pearce, Nose 112. The Migins appear to have settled in Blockley Twp., from whence John, Jr. moved to the Northern Liberties. He leased to,, time the five squares at the north side of town granted first to Benjamin Chambers in 1690, extending from Vine Street south to beyond Sassafras Street, and from Sixth to Ninth Streets. See Warrants and Surveys, III, 164, for the location of the squares, and Pennsylvania Beehives, Sad Series, XDC, 546, 614, for the lease to Mifflin.