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THE SAILING OF THE SHIP "SUBMISSION" IN THE YEAR 1682, WITH A TRUE COPY OF THE VESSEL'S LOG.
The log of the ship "Submission", of which the following is a copy, commences the fourth day of the week, sixth day (26th) of the seventh month (September) and on the seventh day of the week, twenty-first day of the eight month,(11 Nov) 1682. The vessel at this day being near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, which appears by the entry made on the nineteenth day of October, at which time the odor from the pines was noticed, "supposing ourselves not to be within 80 leagues." Phineas Pemberton in his record states that they arrived in the Choptank, Maryland, on the second day (22nd) of ninth month (Nov), 1682, thus making the voyage in fifty-eight days from port to port, the last days of the passage not being recorded in the log.
As Captain Settle was bound for another port, and the weather being overcast, it is highly probable that upon the twenty-first day of the seventh month he did not know where he was, and therefore did not complete the log.
Many of the passengers remained in Maryland for a con-
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siderable time (some of them married there), and then walked to Appoquinimink, the lowest section of New Castle County, about 40 miles from the place of landing, and 20 miles south of the established town of New Castle.
The most important colonist on the "Submission," judging from their
respective positions in after-life, were: Phineas Pemberton and Randle (or
Randolph) Blackshaw. Pemberton states in his record that the Blackshaws arrived
in Appoquinimink on the 15th day of the 11th mon. 1683. And as James Harrison,
Phineas Pemberton, James Clayton, Randle Blackshaw and Ellis Jones with their
families were residents of Bucks County in 1684, it is evident that they did not
remain in the lower county long. The voyage across the Atlantic had been a most
trying on to the passengers, due principally to the severe exaction of the
Master, James Settle, but partly from the fact that many of them had
over-invested in that commodity of the time known as "servants,"1
so much that their funds became exhausted and Randle Blackshaw was compelled to
sell in Maryland Elenore, the wife of Roger Bradbury,2 together with her
three sons, so as to liquidate his indebtedness to the Captain and enable him to
reach the Quaker province on the Delaware. Much information can be obtained of
these people and of their lives and form of transportation from the Chaptank to
Bucks Co. Of the passengers other than those settled in Bucks Co. possibly the
most interesting to the genealogist are the daughter and
Note 1: Many of those registered as servants appear to be closely related to and quite the equal of their masters, and had been influenced to emigrate on account of the liberal inducements offered by the Proprietor; for even before this time we find in the Upland court records the sale of William Still, tailor, for four years to Captain Edmund Catwell. And a short time after this the clergyman at New Castle in a letter states that they have lost their schoolmaster, but that he can be replaced, as he learns that a vessel is shortly to arrive, when he will go to the dock and buy one. And it is also stated that no less a person that a distinguished signer of the Declaration of Independence was sold in his youth as a servant and after the expiration of his time taught school.
Note 2: As the name of Bradbury does not appear among the residents of Bucks Co. it is to be presumed that the entire family remained in Maryland.
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step-daughters of Dr. Thomas Wynne, Rebecca Winn and Marjory and Jane Mede.
Hannah Logan Smith commits an error when she states that Elizabeth, the second
wife of Thomas Wynne, came in this ship with her children, for as her name does
not appear in the list of passenger, it is fair to presume she came with her
husband in the "Welcome." This mistake could be easily made when we
consider that the vessels made the voyage at the same time. Rebecca, daughter of
Thomas Wynne, married first Solomon Thomas and 2nd John Dickinson. Marjory Mede,
his step-daughter married Thomas Fisher (whose descendants are numerous), and
Jane Mede married and died probably without surviving children. From the Bucks
Co. Friends Record it would appear that Robert Bond died 7th mom. 16th day 1684;
that Jane Lyon married Richard Lundy 4th mon. 24 day 1691, and that Phoebe
Blackshaw became the wife of Joseph Kirkbride on the 13th day of 1st mon. 1688.
Neither of the company's servants appear on the records, and the name of
Janeclif Hodges in Pemberton's list looks more like Farclif Hodges, although it
may be Francis, but not Harriet as printed in the Pennsylvania Magazine V. IX.
There are a number of books and manuscripts in the library of the Pennsylvania
Historical Society1 that throws much light on the lives of these early
emigrants, from which much genealogical information could be obtained.
Note 1: the most interesting are the records of Phineas Pemberton, printed in V.IX of the Pennsylvania Magazine, and his book of ear-marks of the cattle and horse made in 1684
An acct of our passage towards Pensylvania --- the passengers Subscribers, went Abord the vessel submission from the Port of Liverpoole 5th 7/mon 1682. The master's name James Settle, the mate Samuel Rigg - Brian ffleetwood the Carpenter, Anthony Busshell the cooper, Elijah Cobham, Thomas Bullock, Peter Travis, John Royle, Thomas Hatcley, servants. Henry Blivin, Michael Colon, apprentices. Heads ii.
The Passengers names & ages & number as - near as cold be well taken.
free Passengers Passengers
Of Lancashire
James Harrison 54 years Anna Harrison 58 years 2 - 0
Agnes Harrison 80 -
Richard Radclif21 - 2 - 0
Robert Bond 14 Joseph Steward 14½
2 - 0
Phineas Pemberton 32½ Phebe
Pemberton 22½ 2 - 0
Abigail Pemberton 2½ Ralph
Pemberton 70 1 - 0
Joseph Mather18 Joseph
Pemberton 16 weeks - 0
Lydia Wharmsby Elizabeth
Bradbury 16 2 - 0
Allis Dickinson Jane Lyon 16½
2 - 0
Of Cheshire
James Clayton 50 Jane Clayton 48
2 - 0
James Clayton 16 Sarah Clayton 14
2 - 0
John Clayton 11 Mary Clayton 8
1 - 0
Joseph Clayton 5 Lydia Clayton 5
1 - 0
Randulp Blackshaw 60 Allis Blackshaw43
2 - 0
Phebe Blackshaw16 Sarah Blackshaw14
2 - 0
Abraham Blackshaw 10 Jacob Blackshaw8
1 - 0
Mary Blackshaw6 Nehemiah Blackshaw 3
1 - 0
Martha Blackshaw 1 freight free
His Servants (could also be family members )
Roger Bradbury 49 Ellenor Bradbury 46
2 - 0
Jacob Bradbury 18 Martha Bradbury 14
2 - 0
Joseph Bradbury 10 Sarah Bradbury 8
1 - 0
Roger Bradbury 2
From Wales
Ellis Jones 45 Jane Jones 40
1 - 0
Barbary Jones 13 Dorothy Jones 10
1 - 0
Mary Jones 12 1/2 Isaac Jones 4
months 0 - 1
Rebeckah Winn 20 Jane Mede 15
2 - 1
Marjory Mede 11 1/2
heads 49
whole passengers 37
hed the owners servants for sale
Janeclif Hodges & Ellen Holland
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1682 about 4 afternoon set sails & came to an anker black Rock about 6 from whence & sent 3 letters by boat one Roger Longworth one for Henry Haydock one for Thomas Jonjois
4-6. About one in the morning I sail & came that
night to an anker about 7 betwixt Hollyhead and Beaumorris.
5-7. About 12 in the morning set sails & the wind came south & put us a
little to the north till about 10 in the morning then it came no-west & we
came about Hollyhead & left sight of it yt night
6-8 that night over agt Waterford fair weather
7-9 A misty day Becalmed
1-10. A clear day the wind easterly in the morning on east Waterford
2-11. A fair day wind easterly at 10 in ye morning on east Kingsale
3-12. in the forenoon left sight of Cape Clears
4-13. The wind south-westerly
5-14. Wind S W that day we spoke with A ship from East India bound for London,
that we went about 75 leagues from the Capes
6-15. Becalmed
7-16. A high wind much westerly that day we saw A distance A whale
1-17. A high wind westerly in the afternoon A whale came near us & appeared
fair to us & followed us some time
2-18. The wind much westerly about 12 in the night there arose A great storm
that day were forced to take of the main top & to lay the ship by for about
10 hours the sea was exceedingly high ye waves ran as high as the main yards but
we received little damage
3-19. In the afternoon the wind S west
4-20. About 4 in the morning the wind n west the day fair
5-21. Wind N W day cold
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6-22. Wind N W very cold & stormy
7-23. Wind N W very cold & stormy
1-24. Wind N W a calm day & cleare
3-26. Becalmed most of the day in the afternoon wind S W in 48 degree 31 minutes
no latitude
4-27. The wind westerly at night wind high in 48 degrees & 20 minutes about
15 degrees in longitude from the Cape
5-28. The wind westerly till evening no-east
6-29. Westerly and cold
7-30. About 11 in the forenoon we saw a ship about 12 we saw 14 ---? One company
about 3 in the afternoon we saw a ship all supposed to be a ffrench ship
1-1.5/mon the wind N W at night was high & the sea very [----?]
2-2. The sea very Rough the wind high about 4 in the [----?] dyed Abraham the
son of Randulph Blackshaw about 6 in the morning A great head sea broke over the
ship & staved the boat & took the most part of it away, broke up the
main hatches that were both nailed & corked & took them away that they
were not seen where they went, broke the boat's mast & hyst that were lashed
in the midship, broke the forre shet & took several things of the decks
& several things that were in the boat it cast betwixt decks. At 9 in the
morning the was put overboard, about 4 in the afternoon A great sea fell on our
Rudder & broke it about 1 yard or something more from the head, was again
pieced as well as it cold that night - not being discovered until 10 at night
& was made pretty firm the next day.
3-3. The Sea rough.
4-4. The Sea indeferent high the wind calme
5-5. The wind No-E.
6-6 the day fair wind easterly
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7-7. day fare wind NE
1-8. A fresh gale N, we Saw a whale.
2-9. Faire wether and wind, hundreds of porpoises about the ship some leaped
high out of the water and followed the ship about an hour.
3-10. Faire wether and wind, this morning we saw another great school of
porpoises in 30 degree 57 minutes no latitude.
4-11. The day faire, the wind East this day we spoke with a New England ship
bound for Lisbourne.
5-12. The wind Southerly extraordinary hot.
6-13. In the morning the wind S.E. with raine from 8 in morning to 4 in the
afternoon that day was seene in the great raine at the ship's side blood half
compas of the ship.
7-14. At twelve in the morning it began to raine and continued showering all
day, the sea rough, the wind northerly and N.N.E.
1-15. The wind easterly the day faire.
2-16. winds and wether good in 37: 46 minutes latitude and 31 de 48 minutes
Longitude.
3-17. day and winds faire.
4-18. lightened all day & night but little raine to us
5-19. Faire this morning the wind being west we smelled the pines, supposing
ourselves not to be within 80 leagues.
6-20. This day faire till evening it begun to blow wind S.W.
7-21. Raine some pte of the day.
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Source: NEW WORLD IMMIGRANTS vol. I by Tepper