Elliott family found in Bucks County, PA as early as 1678

 Read previous blog post for how I backed into this family.  That blog was getting too confusing.  I am gong to add information  here in a more organized way.  I spent the day at the Boyd County Library yesterday and have some conflicting information that I wish to organize.  However, I think perhaps this research may be a dead end, so if you are reading this in the future, ask me if I threw it all out.  

On an Ancestry tree, I found a link to an article taken from

This book is available on Ancestry

This article sums up the proofs that I list below:

There is without a doubt two men mentioned in the records of the area near Falls MM in Bucks County, PA.  Andrew and William Elliott are there as early as 1678.  They came directly too the area from Somerset County in England from the port of Bristol.

Andrew Elliott did not come from New England as many Ancestry trees suggest.  He came directly from England.  He was affluent enough to bring two servants and to buy a large amount of land once he arrived. Note there is no date given nor children.  But several pages later I found an entry for Gideon Gambell of Hevizes in the County of Wilts.  Slator Arrived....Deleware River in the "Bristol Factor" Master Richard True 10th Month 1681

Many of the Ancestry trees suggest that Andrew was the father of William Elliott and have information in their trees making the birth of Willliam happen about the time Andrew turn eight years old.  I found information proving that William is a brother not a son:

One thing of interest in the area that is Makefield is that William Penn had originally set this area aside for his children.  However,  the children did not settle there and it was sold off to others.  There is also information that William Penn had built a home in Bucks County on the Delaware River and was often seen traveling there via boat from Philadelphia.  

Something that I had never realized before is that William Penn was only on these shores for four years out of his life:

http://www.pennsburymanor.org/history/william-penn/

However, there is a major problem with this new theory.  I can not find a son named John among either man's children.  Both men die with only daughter's and son-in-laws named in their wills.  Andrew died in 

And William's will was proved in 1721

The above is taken from a collection found on Ancestry:

Pennsylvania, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1683-1993

However, it is clear that at least one of the men did indeed have a son.  We find William's daughter, Mary, marrying James Hawkins of Dublin MM in Philadelphia in 1705.  And in 1706 Andrew Ellliott asks for a certificate to take to Dublin MM as he intends to marry Hannah Mead.

And also in the Falls MM in 1704 William's daughter, Elizabeth is to marry  a weaver of Makefield Township named William Downey.

Apparently, Andrew who was the son of William died young as his widow is found marrying Samuel Combe in 1713.  

William Ellet's daughter, Hannah, married James Downey, yeoman, in 1712.

In 1702 Ann Ellett is to marry Lennett Shaweres no parents named:

And in 1707 Richard Bidgood brings a certificate from Dublin Township intending to marry Sarah Elliott

I decided to look up the Dublin MM next.  It was pretty much in the middle of no where north east of Philadelphia.  But in looking up this MM I found a huge article about the Irish Quakers that I didn't read carefully.  I will want to read this at some point:

http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~billie0w/books/quakers/part_3/chapter_1.htm

I am winding yarn for my As You Wish shawl while I read books on-line.  I am reading: 

History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania : from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time

by William W.H. Davis.  It is available on Ancestry.  On page 18 the author tells that our Elliott family are among the first to arrive directly to Bucks from England:

This information starts at:

https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/14300/images/dvm_LocHist001132-00020-0?ssrc=&backlabel=Return

and continues for several pages telling the order that people moved into the area on both the east and west banks for the Delaware river. While our Elliott line is not mentioned many other families are mentioned and could be families from which John Elliottt's wife, Sarah was from.

There is an excellent bibliography that I would like to explore at:

https://www-personal.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/mn/m3343x3344.htm

Newton Friends Meeting in New Jersey

 Coming from England, William Cooper, settled at Pyne Point in 1680. He and other Quakers who had settled further south on Newton Creek (by the Walt Whitman Bridge) worshipped with Friends who had settled at Shackamaxon on the Pennsylvania side. With the arrival of William Penn, the Pennsylvania Quakers were gathered into meetings on their side and New Jersey Friends formerly formed the Newton Meeting in 1682. The first meetinghouse was built on Newton Creek, in what would now be West Collingswood, in 1684......

https://newtonmeetingcamden.org/about-us/history-of-the-newton-meeting/

Pyne Point is just above this outlined in Red across the river from Philadelphia.

A meeting for worship at Pine Point was established in 1681 by Burlington Monthly Meeting. In 1682, the meeting became part of a short-lived monthly meeting for Pine Point and Shackamaxon (Pa.) established by Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. It became part of Newton [Haddonfield] Monthly Meeting at its formation, possibly as early as 1682. A preparative meeting was established in 1717.

I went through the entire Vol II of Hinshaw and found only the mention of the Certificates for John and Sarah Elliott.  However, I did have a bit of interest in the last  meeting mentioned.  It is Falls Meeting in Bucks County.

 

There is an Elliott couple mentioned in the births for this meeting:

It is not impossible that this couple could have been parents of John Elliott.

And among the minutes and marriage records is the following:

I had to look up ltm in the abbreviations and it stands for is at liberty too marry.  Again it is not impossible that this Elliott group could be related to John Elliott.  

The below map shows Buck County and the blue marker is approximately where the Falls Meeting was located.

Remember that in the early days the members of Falls Meeting met in their homes for worship but went to Burlington for Monthly Meeting for business.  By the time the Elliott family was in the minutes, they had formed a monthly meeting of their own.  But My guess is that there was a bit of back and forth between the two communities.  Bucks County is outlined in red.

Now a bit of quick and dirty tree making via Ancestry.  Ann Elliott's father was Willam Elliott.  william was born in 1645 in Somerset, England.  He died in 1721 in Bucks County, PA.  One tree says that William's father was Andrew and his mother was Ann Holmes.

Somerset is outlined in red in above map.  It is just below Wales on the map and last county before the land runs out in the south west.

One tree had several documents:  https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7097/images/41815_b0153548-00010?pId=426208

Among them was a marriage for William Elliott and Mary Bart in 1680.  This works very well for the children found in the trees that I have looked at.  There is a will for William Ellliot on this site.  There are no sons mentioned.  Only four daughters.  The William Elliott that is on this lady's tree is not the father of my John Elliott.  On this same site is a Quaker record for a William Ellot born in 1688 in Bucks County

Next I looked at Andrew Elliott who married Hannah Mead in 1706.

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/160344823/person/172119011266/facts

The above tree had information about the arrival of this couple on our shores in 1678.

Ok....slow down.  This is not the same Andrew who arrived on these shores in 1678.  I am going to start a new blog post about this Elliott family found in Bucks County as early as 1678.  Date of new blog is Feb 19, 2022.

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/156734544/person/282097516804/facts

The above tree has William Ellet married to Mary/Ann Holmes with son John Born in 1680.  And William's father, Andrew Ellet is the original immigrant and dies in Bucks County in 1684,

After spending much of the day looking at these families, I realize that almost everything that I have pertains to William Ellet who is the brother of Andrew Ellet who arrived on the ship Factor of Bristol around 1681 with wife Ann and two servants.  I can find nothing of Andrew Ellet.  He is not in the Quaker records nor can I find a will for him.  The Ancestry trees who include him call him father to William but have birth dates that indicate that Andrew was 8 when he fathered William.  This is both good and bad news.  No one seems to have found anything at all about Andrew's family.  Perhaps there is nothing to find?  But also perhaps he had a son named John who did join the Quakers when he married Sarah?

I found this about Newtown:

Somerset County in Maryland

 I have brick walls in both my Lackey family and my Elliott family.  So tonight I decided to look at Somerset County, Maryland.  

From:  https://www.cecildaily.com/our_cecil/irish-immigrants-helped-build-cecil-county-america/article_8ec73170-48d8-52ac-b7be-a3cc22861841.html

In the 1680s, an influx of Ulster Scots, or Scots-Irish immigrants from Northern Ireland, came to Maryland’s Eastern Shore.  [from my reading in other places, it seems that Maryland was actively recruiting Scotch-Irish and they were moving into the area much earlier than they moved to other places.]....

In the early 1700s, a number of these early immigrant families to Somerset County broke away to become pioneers of new lands in the north of Maryland. Among the families that made the move are many familiar to Cecil County residents, including Alexander, McKnitt and Wallace. They settled, by and large, on a large tract of land called New Munster, between the Big Elk and Christiana creeks, some 2 miles from the Head of Christiana Presbyterian Church. This church dates to 1706, when it split off from the New Castle church.

With Gillespie at the pulpit, John Gardner and John Steele became the first elders of the church and were deeply connected with the Alexander family that was active in the congregation. Representatives of these families would be among the pioneers who later chose to move into the frontier territories — first to Cumberland Valley, Pa., and eventually all the way to Mecklenburg County, N.C. In North Carolina, many of these once Cecil locals became the framers of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence and peopled the area known as the “Hornet’s Nest” by Gen. Charles Cornwallis and his troops during the Revolutionary War.

More to look at.....I am looking at Immigration of Irish Quakers to Pennsylvania 1682-1750 by Albert Cook Myers and found the below footnote that has much to think about! 

Maiden name for Sarah who married John Elliott and moved to Nottingham in 1722

The Elliott puzzle is a hard one.  Last night I went through the Burlington digitalized Quaker records one more time.  A librarian at Swarthmore had invited me to e-mail directly when I asked if there were more records at Swarthmore than had been digitalized on Ancestry.  So in order to ask a good question, I read through them one more time.  This time I looked at the births for possible maiden names for Sarah.  

I looked at every child born in the Burlington MM who had first name Sarah and was born in a time that might make sense.  I ruled out four of them quickly and am left with Sarah Lane.  Sarah is the daughter of Barnard Lane and Jennet Cowgirl according to the records of births that I have fleshed out with Ancestry tree information,  She was born 25th day of the 4th Month in 1699,  Her parents were both Quakers.  Her other must have died in childbirth or of complications from Sarah's birth as she died the same year that Sarah was born.

Barnard died while Sarah was underage, but had a will 

New Jersey, Calendar of Wills, 1670-1760

So what we have here is a young girl above the age of 14 who his totally orphaned in 1715.  She is perfect for a woman who might have married John Elliott and moved to the far frontier by 1722.  Her sisters were Elin Cutler, Marey Naylor

I found the will on an Ancestry tree:

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/102433825/person/290110267355/facts

Eno River in Orange County, NC

My ancestors who moved to NC about 1754 are my Moore family and my Lackey family.  Both families settled in Orange County, NC.  Richard Moore's family were Quaker while I suspect that Alexander Lackey was likely Scots Irish. 

The brothers Alexander and William Lackey/Leaky/Lucky bought land in Orange Co NC in 1754, were on the 1755 tax list there. 

The Moore family stayed in Berks Co PA at Exeter MM until 1755.  The certificates from Exeter were received by Cane Creek MM in Orange Co NC on 6-4, 1757, for Richard Moore, his wife Sarah (Jenkins), their son John and their daughter Prudence.  A receipt of certificate for Mordecai and Abigail Moore is not in the extant records for Cane Creek, but they had to have had one, since Cane Creek disowned both for marrying out of unity.

So I have been looking at who was settling in Orange County.  There were definitely Quakers!  I believe that they likely settled near Eno preparatory meeting.

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https://lakeorange.org/index.php/about-2/

So, I started this blog post and then was distracted.  But two days after Valentine's Day, I received the North Carolina Genealogical Society's Oct/Nov/Dec Journal  Vo47, #4. And guess what! the very first page that I read had a link to the online website, NC Historical Records Online. And lo and behold I immediately found Alexander Lackie's land in Orange County!  VERY EXCITING!

Here is the link: 

His neighbors are Joseph Duncan and Col Rutherford.  There is no waterway mentioned for Alexander Lackey's 256 acres. However, I looked for Col Rutherford. And there is only on Rutherford in this set of land records and he is Patrick Rutherford. He bought his land in 1759 as well.  He is on the North Fork of the Little River. 

Compare this map with where Eno Cemetery is located.  I could not find a land grant for Richard Moore. 

Here is a URL for a couple of maps showing land owners in the area. The maps may show land ownership after Alexander Lackey has died and after Richard Moore has moved to Wrightsboro.  But it is possible that I could figure out who bought the land that had belonged to both men.

https://ncgenweb.us/orange/landowners-little-river/