Sunday, July 31, 2022

Burlington MM in New Jersey

I am relooking at some of what I looked at before the yDNA match of our Elliott participants to Jeff Houghton.  Jeff's match has me looking at an area in England rather than an area near Philadelphia.  I decided to look at the passengers who came over in the Kent in 1677 to settle in Burlington.  I knew that the Kent sailed from London and I have looked at the names of those who are said to have made that voyage.  But when I relook at the sites I have viewed before, I get some additional information that is indeed of interest. 

From: https://www.geni.com/projects/Quakers-of-New-Jersey-Kent-Passengers-1677/291

It should be noted that many passengers alleged to have been aboard were from Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, and other northern counties. They probably loaded at a northern port, perhaps Hull or Liverpool, before the Kent arrived at London, which is why they do not appear in the London loadings.

Reference: Passengers and Ships Prior to 1684, Penn's Colony: Volume I by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., 1970.

 I have found that the book can be found at the Boyd County Library and will go there to view it in August.

And on the site:

http://genealogytrails.com/njer/burlington/early_settlement.html

I have found the following:

Early settlement of the county (Burlington, NJ)
In 1675, Fenwick sailed from London in the ship "Griffin," Robert Griffiths, master, with his family and a company of Friends, and after a pleasant passage landed near the old fort " Elseborg," and named it Salem. This was the first English ship that entered the Delaware with emigrants, and no others followed for nearly two years.

Among the purchasers of West Jersey lands were two companies, one of Friends in Yorkshire, the other of Friends in London. In 1677 commissioners were sent by the proprietors, with power to buy lands of the Indians, to inspect the rights of such Europeans as claimed property, and to order the lands laid out, and in general to administer the government. Of the commissioners, those for Yorkshire were Joseph Helmsley, William Emley, Robert Stacy, and Thomas Foulke

And

The Yorkshire purchasers chose from the Assunpink to the Rancocas, which was called the first tenth; and the London chose the second tenth, from Rancocas to Timber Creek. For mutual protection and assistance they agreed to build a town in company, and the present site of Burlington City was chosen.

As best as I can tell those from London would have land starting at Burlington and going south on the Delaware river while those from Yorkshire area would have land starting at Burlington and going north on the Delaware River.

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