Richard Jones

Notes:

from the records of Abington Friends Meeting:
Richard Jones, Born ye 9th of 8m 1691 at Philadelphia

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 15 May 1683, Barbados, West Indies; to Philadelphia
• Will: 11 May 1708, Philadelphia Co, Pennsylvania

Notes:

certificate of Friends Meeting dated 5m July 15, 1683
Common Council of that city named in charter of 1691

John Jones:
Alderman: 1701 
Member: 1691, of Common council 
Office: one of the Justices of the County courts.

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Subj: Re: JONES/BONHAM, CRAPP/BUDD Philly
Date: 8/10/98 10:34:15 PM Central Daylight Time
From: kmilano@libertynet.org (ken milano)
To: Lumoto@aol.com

Sherry,

I noticed the names of John Jones of Barbados in your researches. I am researching a man named Anthony Palmer, who came to Philadelphia about 1704, he was friends with a Jon.Jones of Barbados, as the appear together on the will of Thomas Dodd, f Barbados (1701). Dodd was my Palmer's
father-in-law. Have you come across any Palmer's in researches? The Palmer's were also related through marriage to other Barbadian families, namely the Hassell's, Bickles, Beresford's, Walcott's,Scott's, Pilgrim's, and some god-children of the Gibb's family. Allot of these families moved to Philadelphia, or at least some of them, and kept business connections in Barbados. Some of their friends and business associates were the Dixwell's of St.John's Parish- Barbados, John Vaughan, Charles Buttall, both of Barbados.

Palmer moved up in Pennsylvania society and became the acting governor in 1748, before dying in 1749. His daughter's married into the Keith, Allaire, and Chevalier families.

I would be interested in knowing more of the Jone's family, as well as any of the other families I mentioned above.

Ken
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Date: 8/11/98 12:46:27 AM Central Daylight Time
From: kmilano@libertynet.org (ken milano)
To: Lumoto@aol.com

Sherry,

I don't recognize the Palmer name's that you mentioned, but I'm still in the first half of the 18th century when it comes to doing the Palmer research. I think more likely that my Palmer family and your family of Jones, were more of business asociates.

Samuel Preston and Clement Plumstead were friends and associates of my Anthony Palmer. The Claypoole family were also fellow Barbadians. There were also Budd's in Barbados, but I haven't tracked their immigration to
America. The Budd's were a prominent family in the early annals of the District of Northern Liberties. The current New Market street in the Northern Liberties neighborhood of Philadelphia, use to be called Budd Street in the early part of our city's history.

The historian Gary Nash, wrote an article about early merchants of Philadelphia. I forget the title of the book, but I have a copy of the article. It was a collection of various historical articles, by various historians. In any event, he mentins Palmer and your Jones as being from
Barbados, and while not going into particulars about any of our folks, he does paint a pretty good picture of the early merchants of the day.

My Palmer was a long time member of Christ Church. The bell there was suppose to have been first rung when his wife Tomasine died. I don't know the Bonham's. Taggert is a name I am vaguely familiar with. There is a small street in Fishtown named Taggert, they had some property up here in earlier days.

Your Palmer's were probably the Quaker Palmer's, descendents of William Palmer (& Elizabeth, I think). Don't know this for sure, but there were other early Palmer's who were Quaker, my Anthony Palmer was always of the Church of England (here and in Barbados). There is a six volume set of Barbados; Will & Administrations, Baptisms, and Marriages. It is edited by I believe Sanders. It is available at the Pennsylvania Historical Society.
It has proven very helpful in tracking down Barbadian families.

Take care, and keep me posted of any of my interests. If I could be of help, let me know.

KEN

c/o Ken Milano
Kensington History Project
2313 E. York Street
Phila., Pa. 19125
(215) 426-2019
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Subj: Re: JONES/BONHAM, CRAPP/BUDD Philly
Date: 8/12/98 6:31:16 AM Central Daylight Time
From: kmilano@libertynet.org (ken milano)
To: Lumoto@aol.com

Sherry,

There are a number of books you could read about the history of Barbados.
This is an area that I studied quite a bit some years ago. Basically, Barbados was the jewel of the British empire. Starting around the 1630's, it was "THE" sugar producer in the world. By about the 1680's or so, other islands in the Carribean caught up to her (Jamaica, Antigua, etc.). The
middling planters and the free indentured servants, tended to migrate out of Barbados, and to the emerging North American colonies of Virginia, New England, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. South Carolina was literally
founded by these types of Barbadians. A lot of the leading merchants of Philadelphia's early days were ex-Barbadians (your Jones, the Claypoole's, Carpenter, Palmer, etc). Also, a lot of other folks from other islands (Norris and Masters, from Jamaica, various other folks from Bermuda, etc).

Living in the islands was rough. Hurricanes, heat, etc. Once they made a coule of bucks, if they didn't go back to England like allot of the very wealthy planters, they tended to immigrate to America. Thousands and Thousands of white Englishmn left Barbados in the 1670's thru the 1690's.

Go to your local library or University Library, and do a little research.
KEN
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Philadelphia, PA 19101-3464 phone #215-WA5-0379 #609-869-0368
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Immigration:
Pennsylvania, Quaker arrivals at Philadelphia (Meeting), 1682-1750
Name: John Jones
Location: from Plantation Meeting, Island of Barbadoes
Date: 15 May 1683
Comments: Desiring to remove with his family to Pennsylvania


Will:
from Abstracts of Philadelphia County Wills 1682-1726, p 103
John Jones: Philadelphia, Merchant
28 Feb 1708, 11 May 1708, codicile, 2 May 1708
Wife Margaret and unborn child, son John and his wife Margaret. Other children, Richard, Grace, Samuel, Rebecca, Sarah, Jacob and Gibbs. Testators deceased wife Rebecca.
Executrix: Wife Margaret.
Trustees: Samuel Preston and Clement Plumsted
Witnesses: John Webb, James Cooper, Thomas Story, Richard Jones, Marthe... Claypolle, and Ann Webb.
Quakers, records of Abington Friends Meeting, list children and their perspective mothers.
From Colonial Families of Philadelphia: He came from Barbados to Philadelphia. Certificate of Friends Meeting dated 5m July 15, 1683. Common Council of that city named in charter of 1691.

John married Rebecca (..) Jones about 1687 in Philadelphia Co, Pennsylvania. Rebecca was born about 1670; died in 1694. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]