Working on Wednesday: William Coale in Maryland, 1676

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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Gone for Soldiers? Richard Richardson, Senior & Richard Richardson, Junior

While in search of more information about my Tomlinson upline I came across this paragraph about my 6X great grandfather Richard Richardson and one of his sons, also named Richard.* It appeared in a 1912 reference book (which has been reprinted several times) and, although I can find evidence for Junior's support of the American Revolution, so far I haven't been able to locate anything about my ancestor's expulsion from by the Quakers because of an involvement in the earlier war.

[Ancestry.com. Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. Original data: Mackenzie, George Norbury, and Nelson Osgood Rhoades, editors. Colonial Families of the United States of America: in Which is Given the History, Genealogy and Armorial Bearings of Colonial Families Who Settled in the American Colonies From the Time of the Settlement of  Jamestown, 13th May, 1607, to the Battle of Lexington, 19th April, 1775. 7 volumes. 1912. Reprinted, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1966, 1995.]

I'm going to see what I can discover about this and report back in a later post.




*Richard, Junior, seems to have undertaken the administration of his father's 1761 will after the named executors refused to act in that capacity.


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