The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, Vol 46, No 4, Title and Contents

THE PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE Volume 46 — Number 4 Fall/Winter 2010 Published by the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania 2207 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 THE GENEALOGICAL S( >CIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA OFFICERS President'. Carol Sheaffer, MD l ice Presidents'. Susan S. Koelble, < <; Deborah Coombe Haas Secretary: Karen Higgins Treasurer: Aaron Goodwin DIRECTORS Terms expiring JO 1 1 Terms expiring JO IJ Terms expiring JO I j Daniel Dailey Donn Devine, co Nancy C. Nelson Nancy C.Janyszeski Norman Douglas Nicol, PHD Anita Sheahan Coraluzzi Shamele Jordan Valeri Metzlcr FELLOWS OF THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA Annette Kunsclman Burgert Jane Adams Clarke James M. Duffln Patricia Law Hatcher Dr. Don Yoder THE PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE Before 1948 called Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania Volume 46 Number 4 Fall/Winter 2010 Patricia Law Hatcher, FASG, FGSP, Editor Sandra M. Hewlett, Proofreader ©2010 by the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 2207 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine (ISSN 0882-3685) is published twice per annum (Spring/Summer and Fall/Winicr). Nonmember subscriptions are sold by volume only (4 issues), $45.00; foreign subscriptions, $53.00; single issues, $12.00 each; back issues, contact the Society office. The Society does not assume liability for statements of fact or of opinion made by contributors. EDITOR’S NOTES CHANGES AT PGM T his issue of the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine is my last as editor. I took on that role in 2001. During those ten years its pages have presented abstracts with thousands and thousands of names to help those conducting research into their Pennsylvania ancestry. This issue, for example, concludes the abstracts of lists of voters and of courts of Oyer and Terminer. We have also presented numerous compiled articles, articles revealing origins, and genealogically oriented articles about per¬ sons or families with a meaningful presence in the history of Pennsylva¬ nia. This issue includes such varied articles as the English origin of the family of noted entertainer W. C. Fields, an informative piece on tracing the free Black Truman family of Fayette County, the interesting reason that the wife of William Dehart of Berks County seemed to have two totally different first names, and the descendants of the merchant Kollock family who settled in Nova Scotia, New England, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, the South, and the West Indies. For the forthcoming year, I will assume the role of coeditor with Aaron Goodwin, who will assume sole editorship in 2012. It is time for another change, too. In its early years— and in difficult times such as the war years— Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine was published very irregularly (until 1947 as Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania). As a result, each volume covered a number of years. In the early sixties it settled into a pattern of each volume contain¬ ing four issues, published two per year, most recently vaguely designated as Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter. This is the system followed during the years of my editorship. Beginning with 201 I, we will switch to one vol¬ ume per year, in sync with the other scholarly journals, comprised of two issues, April and October, of ninety-six pages each, their current length. This means there will be an annual index, a boon to members and librar¬ ies alike (this volume’s two-year index, for example, contains over ten thousand names). Nothing will he changing about the high scholarly standards of PGM. It has long been held to be among the premier scholarly genealogical jour¬ nals, and it will remain exactly that. Patricia Law Hatcher, FASG, FGSP 290 Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Vol. 46(2010) THE PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE Volume 46 Number 4 Fall/Winter 2010 CONTENTS EDI TOR’S NOTES CHANGES AT PGM THE ENGLISH ORIGIN OF WILLIAM CLAUDE DIIKENEIELD, OF PHILADELPHIA, AKA W. C. FIELDS 290 293 Sandra M. Hewlett THE AFRICAN AMERICAN TRUMAN FAMILY OF FAYETTE COUNTY 31 I Tony Burroughs IDENTIFYING THE WIFE OF WILLIAM DEHAR T OF BERKS COUNTY James M. Beidler 327 JACOB KOLLOCKOI- PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, AND LEWES, DELAWARE, AND HIS DESCENDANTS 332 Patricia Law 1 1 atelier CJRIFFTTH-WRIGHT FAMILY BIBLE: RECORD, LANCASTER COUN TY, CHESTER COUNTY, AND PHILADELPHIA 336 transcribed by Sandra M. Hewlett ARTICLES OF PENNSYLVANIA IN TEREST IN NON-PENNSYLVANIA JOURNALS 337 MEN ABOVE 33 YEARS, 1778 BRECKNOCK TOWNSHIP, LANCASTER COUN TY 338 transcribed by Patricia Law Hatcher BASTARDY CI JARGES AND MARRIAGES IN THE DOCKET OF THOMAS CHEYNEY, CHESTER COUNTY, 1779-1806 transcribed by Patricia Law Hatcher 360 ELECTION RE TURNS, LISTS OF VO TERS, 1776-1790 367 FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, WESTMORELAND COUNTY, 1787 . . ROSTROVER TOWNSHIP, WESTMORELAND COUNTY, 1787. SALEM TOWNSHIP, WESTMORELAND COUNTY DERRY TOWNSHIP, WESTMORELAND COUNTY, 1788 WIIEAITIELD TOWNSHIP, WESTMORELAND COUNTY, 1790 UNITY TOWNSHIP, WESTMORELAND COUNTY, 1789 367 368 369 370 370 371 COURTS OF OYER AND TERMINER, 1737-1787 transcribed by Elizabeth B. Burning JURIES AND APPOINTMENTS, BERKS COUNTY 372