America
New Jersey
In the spring of 1677 two hundred and thirty Quakers left England on the ship Kent for West Jersey. Half were from London and half from Yorkshire. They chose a landing place the spot where Burlington now stands, and there began a settlement, which they named New Beverley; this was afterwards changed to Bridlington, ... and subsequantly to Burlington.
A list of settlers were mentioned in a letter from the Burlington's Men's Monthly Meeting (Quakers) sent to the London yearly Meeting in 1680. Amongst them were Robert Stacey, Mahlon Stacey, John Stacey, Peter Fretwell, Henry Stacey, Thomas Schooley and Thomas Revel, all from Yorkshire.Burlington was named the capital of West Jersey. A jail was built in 1682, followed by a courthouse in 1683. Fruit and vegetables were grown and the surplus went downriver to Philadelphia. Quantities of shingles, logs, boat planks, and fence posts also went downriver from the pinelands to the city of Brotherly Love.
Source: "History of Nova Caesarea; or New Jersey" by Mr. Smith
Hutchinson
George Hutchinson, distiller of Sheffield, Yorkshire, a Quaker, settled in West Jersey. He was one of the commissioners appointed by the Proprietors, 1676, to lay out the town of Burlington. 1694- he was Treasurer. He was a prominent member of the Society of Friends(Quakers). He returned to England to settle his affairs then returned to New Jersey. He named his large plantation, Onnianickon; an Indian name. He also bought a tract of land, on which, a few years later the township of Nottingham was built. In 1692, Hutchinson sold Onnianickon to Richard Stockton - 164 acres of land. He sold off his other lands and in 1696 and went to live in Philadelphia, where he died in 1698.Kaye
John Kaye born in Yorkshire, emigrated to America in 1683 and was one of the early settlers in Haddonfield, Gloucester County, New Jersey. He purchased 100 acres in 1684 from Francis Collins. Kaye was a Quaker, persecuted for his beliefs. He married Elizabeth Frame in 1684, he became a Judge of the Court of Gloucester. He and Elizabeth had 8 children. He was a very wealthy man when he died in 1740.Mauleverer
Edmund MAULEVERER (1631-1679), a Quaker; bur.Pickering, Yks. marr. in a Quaker ceremony in 1666 to Anne PEARSON of Mowthorpe near Malton, Yks. Widow Anne marr. in a Quaker ceremony in 1681 to Matthew WATSON, a chemist, of Scarborough. Matthew, Anne and her daughter Anne emigrated to America in 1682, where he became a wealthy landowner, owning 1000 acres located on the south bank of Crosswicks Creek in Burlington County, NJ. He had purchased the land from Thomas Hutchinson, late of Beverley, Yks. He died in 1703 and Anne died in 1721, they were survived by 2 sons, Matthew (1682) and Marmaduke (1685). Stepdaughter Anne born 1678 in Yorkshire marr. John Abbot, yeoman born in Nottingham, England. They had 10 children. John died in 1719 and widow Anne died in 1754.Pierson
Rev. Abraham Pierson was born 1609 in Bradford, Yorkshire; he died 1678 in New Jersey. He was the first pastor of the settlements of Southampton, Long Island, Branford CT and Newark, NJ. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, England in 1632. He was a strong Puritan and left England for America. He was a member of the church in Boston in 1640 and was ordained as the minister in Lynn, MA. He and other settlers left Lynn and founded Southampton, Long Island in December, 1640. In 1647 he moved to Branford, New Haven Colony, where he organized a church and served as minister for 20 years. In 1667, he and his congregation moved to New Jersey when New Haven was absorbed into Connecticut. There they founded Newark. Pierson remained the pastor there until his death in 1678. When he died his library included 400 books. Abraham had married Abigail Mitchell and they had 11 children.His son, Abraham returned to Connecticut and became one of the men who founded the Collegiate School in 1701 - which became known as Yale.
Henry Pierson was Abraham's 2nd. cousin, a weaver from Olney. They had travelled together to America.
Schooley
John SCHOOLEY, Quaker, born 1609 in either Aston or Handsworth son of Richard married 1633 at Rotherham to Elizabeth FLETCHER daughter of Richard and Alice(Ellis). Children:- 1636 Richard
- 1638 Ellen
- 1640 William
- 1644 Mary m. NJ John Rogers
- 1648 Robert
- 1650 Thomas m. 1686 Burlington, NJ Sarah Parker born 1665 Burlington, NJ
Thomas & Robert went to Chesterfield Township, Burlington, NJ first, according to family records, then elderly John and other family members joined them.
Smith
Andrew Smith(1640-1704) born in Farsley, Yorkshire. He sailed to New Jersey with a group of Quakers on the 'Kent' in 1677 from Hull, Yorkshire, though he himself was an Anglican and attended the Anglican church in Burlington, NJ. Andrew's occupation was as a surveyor.Stacey
Mahlon Stacey (1638-1704), tanner, born Handsworth near Sheffield, Yorkshire; son of John & Mary Stacey(Fulwood) of Ballifield Hall, Handsworth. The family were well known Quakers. Mahlon sailed to the Americas in 1677 on the ship 'Shield' with many other Friends and their families. He had married in Clowne, Derbyshire to Rebecca Ely. Mahlon was a highly respected member of Burlington County, New Jersey. He named his home, Ballifield, it stood at the Falls of the Delaware (now the city of Trenton), NJ.Extracts from his Will: "I bequeath to my son, Mahlon Stacey ...... all my plantation, called Ballifield, together with the Mill, and all other houses and buildings, lands, meadows and pastures, containing 500 acres of land...... (he also left land and property to each of his 5 daughters).
Wood
Henry Wood, was the son of William Wood of Attercliffe, Sheffield, Yorkshire and his wife Sarah. William had returned to England but his son Henry stayed on in Burlington County, New Jersey and named the family home Hopewell. In 1684 he was appointed one of the commissioners for laying out land and purchasing land from the Indians. Henry married Hannah Thackara, daughter of John and Hannah from Yorkshire. Seven children were born to Hannah and Henry. When he died in 1691 he owned land in New Jersey, where he lived, in Philadelphia and Rhode Island.
