This extract is from the Minutes of a Mens Meeting at the Third Haven Friends Meeting House* in Talbot County, Maryland. I've transcribed the final sentence which contains the only mention of this maternal 8th great grandfather.**
[Ancestry.com. U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA. Original data: Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Men's Minutes, 1676-1746; Collection: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes; Call Number: MR-Ph 607]
The Meeting Ordered that William Coale Should have Two (or possibly Five) hogshead
of tobacco.
[Old Third Haven Meeting House. Credit: Photograph by James Rosenthal, HABS]
[Detail from A New Map of New England New York New Iarsey Pensilvania Maryland and Virginia, 1685.
Source: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.]
I don't know why my ancestor was given tobacco which served as currency at the time*** but looking at several other meeting notes, I found other grants made from "our Stock".
*You can read what the Society of Architectural Historians have to say about this building here.
**William Coale is the father of William Coale Junior whose marriage to Elizabeth Sparrow is covered here.
***Was the tobacco a gift, a loan, a reward or payment?
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