Children in this family from Gwynned MM, PA, Hinshaw
1727?
1682?
“THOMAS ELLIS, from Quarterly Meeting, at Dolyserre [Wales], dated 5 mo 27, 1683” From Certificates of Removal Received at Philadelphia Meetings, 1682-1750 (Ancestry.com)
Came to PA about his 24th year. Abt 1707?
Thomas Ellis, father of Mordecai, was the first of the Ellis family to arrive in America. He came from the North of Wales, near Merionethshire in his 24th year. He was born in the year 1682. Soon after his arrival in America he settled in Pennsylvania and soon was converted into the Friends Church. In the year 1712 he married Jane, daughter of John Hughes, of Gweynedd.
Thomas was an elder for more then 30 years in the church.
(Writtings from "The Friends Religious and Literary Journal" Vol 33, page 20, dated 1860 and from "Exeter Monthly Meeting Records")
1777?
Gwynedd MM
Died young
Died Young
From Pennsylvania Quakers and the War for Independence, pp. 24-25: “The case of two Exeter Friends reinforces the proposition that the punishment suffered was overly harsh for the crime committed. Moses Roberts and Job Hughes both lived along the frontier in Northunberland Co. (which the Assembly had formed out of Berks and other counties in 1772) and were active in the establishment of Catawissa indulged Meeting in 1775 to serve the needs of Quakers along the advancing frontier. Bother Roberts and Hughes had moved there from Oley Twp. in eastern Berks Co., and they had married daughters of Thomas Lee, one of the leaders of Exeter Monthly Meeting. Roberts remarked in 1780 that he had decided to settle in that region after noticing ‘the loos and irreligious lives and conversations of the people’ The Quakers who migrated to Catawissa did not experience the harsh effects of the War for Independence until 1778 when some of the Connecticut migrants who had settled in northeastern Pennsylvania fled west to avoid Indian raids in the Wyoming Valley. The situation remained tense between the ‘Yankees’ and the Quakers until April 1780. On April 9, 1780, representatives of the Northumberland Co., sheriff imprisoned five residents, including two Quakers, Roberts and Hughes. When they arrived at the county seat, a military officer ordered them to jail without pressing any official charges. A few days later, a judge finally questioned them about the suspected crimes of high treason and of cooperating with the Indians. All of the prisoners denied passing messages along to the British or to the Indians and contended that the only Indian they had even seen since the beginning of the war was ‘one Dead one, that went down the River in a Canoe.’ They also did not know who had gone to aid the Indians, although they had heard reports of such activity. After the qu3estioning, the law enforcement officials told them that they all would be leaving the county for another jail unless they posted £10,000 bail each and promised not to appear in the county for the rest of the war. None of the prisoners could afford the bail, so the sheriff ordered their removal to the jail in Lancaster. The imprisonment of Moses Roberts and Job Hughes prompted requests for assistance. In July 1780 Jane Roberts and Eleanor Hughes appealed to Chief Justice Thomas McKean, pleading for the release of their husbands. They contended that county officials had unjustly arrested their spouses, and that they too had suffered since then. Armed men had forced the Roberts and Hughes families to leave their homes without warning, not even allowing them to prepare food to sustain themselves on their journey back to their father’s home in Oley Twp. Their property losses included livestock, crops, furniture, a sawmill, a gristmill. and ‘a Chest of Carpenters tools which we were just burying under ground when the men came upon us.’ The soldiers also confiscated four horses, leaving the women with only two mares to use to transport their families and personal effects. In October, Exeter Monthly Meeting appointed a committee to visit the two women to inquire into their circumstances and raised £5 for the families’ support. A month later, Philadelpha Meeting for Sufferings joined the call for assistance. A committee appealed to the General Assembly of Pennsylvania to inquire into the ‘oppression’ suffered by the two men. Moses Roberts described in a letter to the assembly how ‘when the Calamities of war Encreased in Northumberland] County, my heart and houses were always ope to Receive and Entertain my Distressed Country people, as well as fields and Meadows to pasture their Cattle, without pay or Reward, when they fled from their own Dwellings for fear of the Indians.’ But because he was a Quaker and not an active supporter of the war effort, he suffered imprisonment; consequyently, he feared ‘whether the Noble cause of Liberty’ is not in Danger of being turned into Cruel Slavery, tyrany, and oppression...’ Job Hughes also wrote to the assembly, describing the manner in which Northumberland County officials had captured them and hauled them to jail without being ‘so much as charged with the breach of any Law.’ Hughes further pointed out that the assembly should ‘weightily Consider whether the Government you are establishing, is not in danger of being more Corrupt than that from under which you are come if such work as this is allowed of and acknowledged.’ The appeals of the Meeting for Sufferings and of Roberts and Hughes had litrtle impact, as the assembly refused to consider the cases of the two men, and Chief Jusice McKean ignored the pleas for justice. Finally, in mid-1781, the Lancaster County sheriff released the two men, perhaps recognizing that they no longer posed a threat to the Commonweaalth.”
Marriage Notes for Job Hughes and Eleanor LEE-387062
Exeter MM
Exeter MM
Marriage Notes for Samuel Lee and Rachel CHERRINGTON-387065
in dis mou, Exeter MM
Exeter MM
Exeter MM
Marriage Notes for Amos Lee and Sarah PIM-387067
“in Amos gct Bradford MM to marry”
Marriage Notes for Anthony Lee and Abigail HUTTON-387069
Exeter MM
?1754
Marriage Notes for William Scarlet and Mary LEE-387070
Maiden Creek Meeting House
Exeter MM
Marriage Notes for Benjamin Wright and Sarah LEE-387072
Exeter MM
? Kings Stanley, Gloucestershire, England
1744?
Came with her father and 3 brothers to America on The Welcome w/William Penn in 1682"Dorothy Storr Hutchinson, b 1677, Hull, West Riding, Yorkshire, England; d 1746, Middletown MM, Upper Makefield Twp, Bucks Co, PA; dau of Thomas Hutchinson and Dorothy Storr. Thomas Hutchinson, b May 1640, Beverly, Holderness, Yorkshire, England; d 1689, Burlington, Burlington Co, NJ; m 29 3rd mo 1668, Hull MM, Dorothy Storr, b 1648, Owstwick, Yorkshire, England; d@1689; dau of Marmaduke Storr of Owstwick and Dorothy _____. Dorothy, her brothers, Thomas, Ebenezer, and John and her father, Thomas Hutchinson came to America on the Welcome with William Penn in 1682. It is unknown whether her mother and her sister, Hannah, accompanied them or remained in England. William Penn granted Thomas Hutchinson about 600 acres in Burlington Co, NJ to settle on."
1705?
Philadelphia MM
9 Oct?
Came to PA on William Penn’s ship “Welcome” Aug 1682 from Billinghurst, ENG “with wife Mary and children Sarah and Mary. Arrived in Delaware on Oct 27, 1682.