Yesterday, FTDNA sent me an e-mail that there were new matches to Roland and Gerald Elliott. I bought both 37 marker tests this past year and the match was to both men. Here are parts of the answer that I received when I reached out to the new match with geography added:
Yesterday, my prayers were answered with the connect to Sir Thomas Elliott line, and obviously yours at some time, when a Hoghton of Hoghton tower it seems started a cadet house in Yorkshire, and married an Elliott, and within two generations or so are in Nottinghamshire, and now close the link to our years in Derbyshire starting around the time of our Civil war.
Yorkshire is a historic county in northern England. It’s known for its Roman and Viking heritage, as well as its Norman castles, medieval abbeys, Industrial Revolution-era cities and 2 national parks. The county town of York, founded by the Romans, is home to 13th-century cathedral York Minster, Tudor houses and medieval walls. The interactive Jorvik Viking Centre recalls the area’s 9th-century Norse occupation.
Yorkshire
From Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer: (page 438)
"The Quaker founders of Pennsylvania and West Jersey came from every part of England. But one region stood out above the rest. The Friends' migration drew heavily upon the North Midlands, and especially the counties of Cheshire, Lancaster, Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. In a list of English immigrants who arrived at Philadelphia between the years 1682 and 1687, more than 80 percent came from these five contiguous counties."
and
"On both banks of the Delaware River, these Quaker immigrants distributed themselves in small settlements according to their places of origin in Britain. Country Quakers from Cheshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire settled mainly in Chester and Bucks Counties. "the farmers amoung them poverty stricken dalesmen from the moors of northern England." writes Frederick Tolles, "headed straight for the rich uplands of Bucks and Chester" The lands around Trenton were occupied by emigrants from the Peak District of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. London Quakers preferred the city and county of Philadelphia. Emigrants from Bristol founded a town of the same name on the Delaware River. Dublin Quakers occupied Newton, West Jersey. Emigrants from, Wales colonized the "Welsh Tract" west of the Schuylkill River"
Just to make this easier to think about here are the boundaries of the original three counties:
So we have Bucks, Philadelphia, and then Chester which stretched as far west as anyone would want to go.
Lancaster was carved out of Chester in 1729. It is the area that is west of the other three counties. It was growing exponentially by this time. No one was settling yet on the other side of the Susquehanna River. The Indians considered it their land at this time.
I am reading Albion's Seed and adding to this blog post as I have time.
In July, I am adding again to this blog post that was interrupted by Mary's wedding and my having finally caught Covid. This next excerpt is from The Beginnings of Quakerism on page 42:
I am reading this on google books.
"We now turn to the small beginnings of this Quaker Movement.....In a document written in 1676, Fox says that the Truth sprang up first in Leicestershire in 1644, in Warwickshire in 1645, in Nottinghamshire in 1646, in Derbyshire in 1647, and in the adjacent counties in 1648, 1649, and 1650.
This is from George Fox Epistles p 2.
In another paper he speaks of business meetings concerning the poor.....held earlier than 1650 in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, and Leicester, where there was a great convincement.
