Category: Genealogy

Luce

Luce

by Justin Durand

“Ad Lucem”

Henry Luce (c1640-1689), a Puritan, came from Wales to Massachusetts about 1666. Attempts to discover his ancestry have been unsuccessful, but I believe he might have belonged to the Lewes family at Chepstow in Monmouth.

Henry Luce’s descendants in the male line have tested consistently as belonging to yDNA haplogroup I2b1a (Luce Surname DNA Project at FamilyTreeDNA.com). Wikipedia says this group “has been found almost exclusively among the population of Great Britain, suggesting that the clade may have a very long history in that island.” So, it is nearly certain that the Luces were an indigenous Welsh family, not descendants of the Norman family of de Lucy (Wikipedia).

Henry Luce settled on Martha’s Vineyard, and was progenitor of the largest single family there. During the French and Indian Wars of the 1760s, a branch of this family moved to Vinalhaven, off the coast of Maine, where they were fishermen and whalers.

In 1838 Malatiah Luce (1772-1849) converted to Mormonism and moved with his family to Nauvoo, Illinois, becoming one of the pioneer families there. Malatiah died in Nauvoo but his children moved west with the Mormons in 1848 and 1850, becoming one of the pioneer families of Salt Lake City, Utah. Some descendants of this family are members of Daughters of the Utah Pioneers.

Malatiah’s son Stephen Luce (1801-1872) was a polygamist. Stephen’s sons Wilford, John and Jason were members of the notorious Bill Hickman gang; Hickman was their brother-in-law. The Luce brothers were convicted of assault on Territorial Governor Dawson. Jason was later executed for murder, having killed a man in a knife fight.

Wilford Luce Jr. (1864-1948) settled in Wyoming Territory in the 1880s. He became a prosperous rancher at Big Piney. His ranches included the LU Quarter Circle, the Flying Heart, the Circle Dot and others. He was president of the local cattlemen’s association, and founder of Marbleton State Bank.

Lineal Genealogy

  1. Henry Luce (c1642-1689), a tanner at Tisbury, Massachusetts. He married Remember Litchfield (c1644-aft 1708), daughter of Lawrence and Judith (Dennis) Litchfield.
  2. Thomas Luce (c1679-1727), a farmer at West Tisbury, Massachusetts. He married Hannah Butler (1685-c1753), daughter of Capt. Thomas and Jemima (Daggett) Butler.
  3. Malatiah Luce (c1710-1801), a farmer at Tisbury. He married Eleanor Harlow, perhaps daughter of Benjamin Harlow.
  4. Bethuel Luce (c1741-bef 1820), a fisherman, fish curer and farmer at Vinalhaven, Maine. He served in the French and Indian War. He married Susanna Norton (1742-bef 1800), daughter of Timothy and Lydia (?) Norton.
  5. Malatiah Luce (1772-1849), a farmer. He married Ruth Grant (1775-1860), daughter of Capt. Andrew and Elizabeth (Dunton) Grant. They converted to Mormonism and settled at Nauvoo, Illinois, where he died. She went across the plains in 1850 to Salt Lake City at the age of 75.
  6. Stephen Thomas Luce (1801-1872), a shoemaker in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was a polygamist. He married Mary Ann Wheeler (1801-1879), daughter of David and Mary (Clark) Wheeler.
  7. Wilford Woodruff Luce (1838-1906), a farmer in Cottonwood, Utah. He married Anna Quarmby (1842-1904), daughter of John and Ann (Wagstaff) Quarmby.
  8. Wilford Woodruff Luce, Jr. (1865-1948), a rancher in Big Piney, Wyoming. He married Esseneth Wilson (1878-1927), daughter of John C. and Elizabeth Ann (Mallory) Wilson.
  9. Vivian Luce (1901-1979), married Harry William Swanström (1903-1957).

Prominent Luces

  • Cyrus Gray Luce (1824-1905) was 21st Governor of Michigan. He was a descendant of American immigrant Henry Luce.
  • Stephen Bleecker Luce (1827-1917) was an Admiral in the U.S. Navy. He was a descendant of American immigrant Henry Luce. He was instrumental in founding the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island, and served as its first President. Three ships have been named USS Luce in his honor.
  • Henry Robinson Luce (1898-1967) was co-founder with Britton Hadden of Time-Life Publications. He was a descendant of American immigrant Henry Luce. The writer Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) was his wife.
  • John Victor Luce (1920- ) is a professor of Classics at Trinity College, Dublin. He was among the first to suggest credibly that the Atlantis legend might have had a basis in fact, the eruption of Santorini during the Minoan Era. See J. V. Luce,The End of Atlantis (1970).
  • Richard Napier Luce, Baron Luce, of Adur (1936- ) is a British politician. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1986, knighted in 1991 and created a life peer in 2000.

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A Woodruff Connection?

There is a persistent idea among older generations that Wilford Woodruff Luce Sr. was a son of Wilford Woodruff, the 4th President of the LDS Church. Others of the same generation find it necessary to vehemently deny the rumor.

This is almost certainly nothing more than a confusion of names, compounded by the fact Woodruff converted the Luces to Mormonism, and led them from Maine to Nauvoo. In fact, Wilford Luce was born in November 1838, during that journey. Nothing would be more in keeping with human nature than to name the baby for the leader of the company. Moreover, Woodruff was newly married to his first wife (April 1837), and there is no evidence he knew Joseph Smith had begun to preach polygamy. Woodruff did not marry his first polygamous wife until 1846.

Those who doubt circumstantial evidence respond that Woodruff was physically present in Vinalhaven in February 1838, so could have been Wilford Luce’s father.

The question could be easily settled by genetic testing. The yDNA signature of Wilford Woodruff is known from the Woodruff DNA Project, and there are half a dozen male-line descendants of Wilford Luce who could be tested.

Shaw

Shaw

by Justin Durand

“By Faith and Fortitude”

The Shaws were one of the principal branches of the Clan Mackintosh, a branch in turn of the Earls of Fife, and ultimately of the old royal family of Dalriada. The name Mackintosh derives from Mac-an-toiseach (son of the commander).

Shaw of Tordarroch Tartan
Shaw of Tordarroch Tartan

The first chief was Shaw Macduff, second son of Duncan Macduff, Earl of Fife. He accompanied Malcolm IV on an expedition in 1160 to suppress a rebellion in Morayshire, and was made constable of Inverness Castle about 1163. He was succeeded by his son Shaw, 2nd of Mackintosh, in 1179. Farquhar, 5th of Mackintosh, led his clan against the army of King Haakon of Norway at the Battle of Largs in 1263. He was killed in a duel in 1265, leaving his infant son Angus as heir.

Angus, 6th of Mackintosh, was brought up at the court of his uncle, Alexander of Islay, the Lord of the Isles. He supported Robert Bruce during the War of Independence, which led to a feud with the Comyns that outlasted the war. In 1291 Angus married Eva, daughter and heiress of Dougal Dall, Chief of Clan Chattan in Lochaber. Thereafter the history of the Mackintoshes was bound up with Clan Chattan.

Clan Chattan takes its name from St. Cattan. The clan descends from Gillichattan Mor, the co-arb (baillie) of the Abbey of Ardchattan. The clan, like many others, rose to prominence after the downfall of the MacDonalds. Under the leadership of the Mackintosh chiefs, Clan Chattan evolved into a confederation — the original Chattan clans Macpherson, Cattanach, Macbean and Macphail, with the Mackintosh clans Shaw, Farquharson, Ritchie, McCombie and MacThomas, and other clans not originally related by blood to the others, MacGillivray, Davidson, Maclean of Dochgarroch, MacQueen of Pollochaig, Macintyre of Badenoch, and Macandrew — each under the leadership of its own chief.

Shaw Mor, a great-grandson of Angus, 6th of Macintosh and Eva of Clan Chattan was, by tradition, the leader of Clan Chattan at the battle on the North Inch, Perth in 1396. He received Rothiemurchus as a reward but the lands were sold in the 16th century. His son, James, was killed at Harlaw in 1411 but his heir Alasdair “Ciar” succeeeded him. Alasdair’s brother, Adam (Ay) of Tordarroch was founder of Clan Ay. Tordarroch acted for Clan Shaw and at Inverness in 1543 and Termit in 1609 signed the Clan Chattan Bands. They supported Montrose and raised the Shaw contingent in the Jacobite rising of 1715. Alasdair’s second son, Alexander, was ancestor of the Shaws of Dell; his third, James, of the Shaws of Dalnavert; his 4th, Farquhar, was progenitor of Clan Farquharson; and the fifth, Iver, was ancestor of the Shaws of Harris and the Isles.

The present chief of Clan Chattan, Duncan Alexander Mackintosh of Torcastle, lives in Zimbabwe. The present chief of Mackintosh is John Mackintosh of Mackintosh, who lives in Scotland. In 1970 Lord Lyon recognized Major Iain Shaw of Tordarroch as chief of Shaw. His son is the present chief.

Lineal Genealogy

1. William Shaw (1720-?), brought to America as a prisoner after the Battle of Culloden. He was a farmer in Augusta County, Virginia. He  married Agnes Carswal (c1727-?).

2. Dorcas Shaw (abt 1754-1814). She married John Hildreth (c1747-1814), a farmer and slave owner in Bourbon County, Kentucky.

3. William Hildreth (abt 1776-1816). He married Mary (Polly) Kenney (1779-aft 1850), daughter of Capt. James and Mary “Polly” (Frame) Kenney.

4. Angeline Hildreth (1806-1860). She married John Mallory (abt 1793-bef 1880), a farmer in Champaign County, Illinois.

Coat of Arms

Shaw of Tordarroch: Quarterly, 1st, Or a lion rampant Gules armed and langued Azure; 2nd, Argent a fir-tree growing out of a mound in base seeded Proper, in the dexter canton a dexter hand couped at the wrist holding a dagger point downwards Gules; 3rd, chequy Argent and Azure, and on a chief of the Second three mullets of the First; 4th, Or a galley sails furled Azure flagged Gules oars in saltire of the Last. Crest: A dexter cubit arm couped and holding a dagger erect all Proper. Motto: Fide et Fortitudine (By Faith and Fortitude).

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Gov. John Dawson

Gov. John Dawson

by Justin Durand

Third Governor Was Run Out of Utah After 3 Weeks
By Will Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune (Dec. 30, 2001)

Nobody ever had a worse New Year’s Eve than the Utah Territory’s third governor, John W. Dawson.

Dawson, an Indiana lawyer and newspaper editor, had a tough time during the three December weeks he spent in Utah in 1861. In a speech to the Legislature, he called on Mormons to pay $26,982 in federal taxes to help fight the Civil War.

Brigham Young did not like the idea. First, the Feds would want the taxes and then “they will want us to send 1,000 men to the war.” He would “see them in Hell before I will raise an army for them.” The LDS prophet said that anyone who had been a newspaper editor for 15 years must be “a jackass.”

After Dawson vetoed a popular scheme to win statehood for the Territory of Deseret, someone took five shots at a federal judge in front of the governor’s rooms on Main Street. Local authorities laughed it off, but Dawson got the message.

On New Year’s Eve, he boarded an eastbound stagecoach under “circumstances somewhat novel and puzzling.” Dawson said his health “imperatively demanded” that he return home, but the Deseret News reported he left “in a state of mental derangement, or in other words, distressingly insane.”

An LDS apostle charged that the governor had gotten in trouble “hunting a seamstress.” Dawson allegedly propositioned a Mormon widow, who “drove him out of her house with a fire shovel,” which, the News claimed, accounted for his mental state. An odd gang of rowdies fell in behind the stagecoach as it rumbled up Emigration Canyon to Mountain Dell.

“I was followed by a band of Danites [legendary Mormon vigilantes],” Dawson informed Abraham Lincoln. That night the crowd at the stage-coach station got drunk. After the governor discovered someone had stolen his valuable beaver robe, stage driver Wood Reynolds knocked him down. Lot Huntington and other thugs then inflicted serious violence on their victim. The gang wounded “my head badly in many places, kicking me in the loins and right breast until I was exhausted,” Dawson wrote. Once the governor had been “viciously assaulted & beaten,” and, according to some, castrated, the hoodlums carried “on their orgies for many hours in the night.”

This vile attack upset Salt Lake City authorities and they ordered the perpetrators rounded up. The ruffians claimed the chief of police had ordered the assault, but within a month most of them were dead at the hands of either Orrin Porter Rockwell, at the time a deputy sheriff, or the Salt Lake City police.

“How long does the government intend to persist in foisting such characters upon us?” asked Brigham Young. “It is our purpose to no more endure the imposition of such men as . . . Governor Dawson.”

Dawson said he felt the “misrepresentation calumny & unjustifiable invective” in the Deseret News was an attempt to justify his assault. Given the rough handling Dawson received, one might expect historians to give him a break, but most Utah chroniclers treat him as badly as the thugs did that New Year’s Eve at Mountain Dell.

Ironically, being Utah’s shortest serving governor was not John Dawson’s greatest claim to fame. The battered politician returned to Indiana and spent his last 15 years as a pain-wracked invalid. He devoted his time to the study of local history, earning the title “the Herodotus of Fort Wayne.”

Dawson published the first account of the adventures of John Chapman, an old friend who had spent 49 years wandering the frontier planting apple trees. Walt Disney eventually made Chapman famous, but it was John Dawson who created the American legend, “Johnny Appleseed.”

Grant

Grant

by Justin Durand

“Stand Fast”

The Grants are a Scottish clan, traditionally said to be descended from Gregor Mor MacGregor, who lived in the 12th century. On that basis the Grants are one of the principal branches of the Siol Alpin, of which Clan MacGregor is the chief. However, the name father of the clan is sometimes said to have been Haakon Magnus, a Norse king. The two traditions are not compatible. The first recorded ancestor of the chiefs was Sir Lawrence Grant, Sheriff of Inverness in 1263. The first ancestor from whom it is possible to trace the inheritance of the chiefship was Sir Ian Ruadh Grant, Sheriff of Inverness in 1434.

The present chief is Sir James Patrick Trevor Grant of Grant, Baronet and 33rd Chief. The clan is divided into five branch clans: Grant of Freuchie (the chiefs), Grant of Auchernack (Clan Allan), Grant of Tullochgorm (Clan Phadraig), Grant of Gartenbeg (Clan Donnachie, Baronets of Dalvey), Grant of Dellachapple (Clan Chiaran). The Grants of Corrimony and Grants of Ballindalloch are feudal Barons. Glenmoriston is also a possession of a branch of the family.

Battle of Dunbar

Peter Grant was taken prisoner at the Battle of Dunbar in 1650 and deported to America.

During the English Civil War, the Parliamentary Army executed King Charles I. His son Charles attempted to regain his father’s throne through various invasions originating in Scotland. The Scots, although by religion in sympathy with the Parliamentarians, were loyal to the Stuart dynasty. During one of these invasions Oliver Cromwell, Protector of England, marched on the Scots. The Scots surrounded the English army at Dunbar, but General David Leslie, commander of the Scottish army, believed that the English were still in the best position. The Covenanters (leaders of the Scottish Presbyterian Church) claimed that victory had been revealed to them in a vision and ordered Gen. Leslie to attack the English, which he did on 3 September 1650. The battle lasted all day and the Scots were defeated. Ten thousand of Leslie’s forces, including the whole of the Scottish foot, surrendered. Three thousand were killed. Cromwell wrote, “I do not believe that we have lost twenty men.”

One hundred forty members of Clan Grant, including Peter Grant, fought for Prince Charles under the command of the Chief’s brother at the Battle of Dunbar. The English pursued many remnants of the Scottish army as far as eight miles before capturing them. The English took 5,000 prisoners and marched them 100 miles from Dunbar to Durham and Newcastle in England. The Cathedral at Durham was converted into a prison for the prisoners. Banks wrote, “Their food consisted of Pottage made with Oatmeal, Beef and Cabbage, a full Quart at every Meal for every Prisoner. They had also Coals daily brought them, as many as made about 100 Fires both Night and Day and Straw to lie upon.” Yet, 1,600 of them died in 58 days from disease and lack of medical attention to their wounds. Of the surviving prisoners, 900 were sent to Virginia and 150 to New England. Peter Grant was among those deported to New England. They sailed on the ‘Unity’ captained by Augustine Walker. The ‘Unity’ sailed in the winter instead of waiting for spring, so the trip was rough and the prisoners had scurvy, but all arrived safely in Boston near the end of December. The prisoners were sold as indentured servants for £20-30 each, and were expected to work off the price of their voyage for 6-8 years, then be given their freedom. The typical cost for passage across the sea was £5, so Capt. Walker made quite a profit. Peter Grant was sold to work at the Lynn Iron Works in Massachusetts and like his fellow prisoners probably received his first medical attention after the battle from his purchasers.

Battle of Worcester

In 1651 another battle for Prince Charles, the Battle of Worcester, resulted in the deportation to New England of Peter’s brother, James Grant, and a kinsman of theirs, another James Grant.

Origin of the Grant Family of Berwick, Maine

A tradition in one branch of this Grant family claims that the surname was originally MacGregor and that an ancestor adopted the surname Grant, as did many of the MacGregors when that surname was outlawed in 1604 after the Battle of Glenfruin in 1603. Some American sources say our Grant family is probably from the Glenmoriston area of Scotland because only the Grants of Glenmoriston are said to have participated in the Battle of Dunbar at which Peter Grant was captured. However, Prof. Gordon Donaldson of the Scots Ancestry Research Society states that there is no authority for a particular part played by the Grants of Glenmoriston in that battle. In fact, James of Freuchie, the 16th chief of Grant, raised the entire clan for Bonnie Prince Charlie.

The confusion probably arose from events 100 years later. After the Revolution of 1688, the Grants of Freuchie supported the new regime, while the Grants of Glenmoriston supported the exiled Stuarts. During the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Duke of Cumberland’s men ravaged the lands and burned the house of Grant of Glenmoriston. After the Battle of Culloden ended the Stuart hopes, Grant of Freuchie persuaded 70 of the Glenmoriston Grants to return to Inverness and surrender their arms, promising them their freedom. Instead, the government captured them, convicted them, and sold them as indentured servants in the colonies. In 1746, when the Young Pretender was in hiding in the Highlands, he took refuge in a cave with a band of robbers who have gone down in legend as “The Seven Men of Glenmoriston.” One of those men was a “Black” Peter Grant.

Instead of Glenmoriston, it is more likely that this family of Grants came from Strathspey. In 1650, 140 Grants fought at the Battle of Dunbar under the command of the chief’s brother. A year later, 150 Grants from Strathspey, the area ruled by the chiefs, Grant of Freuchie, fought under the chief at the Battle of Worcester. Because three different Grants in this family were captured and deported after these two battles, it seems likely that all three came from Strathspey.

Peter Grant was probably not among the gentry of the clan. After the Battles of Dunbar and Worcester those who held the rank of Captain and above (that is, the gentlemen) were imprisoned, while those below the rank of Captain were transported. Further, neither Peter nor the two James are recorded as having been officers at Dunbar or Worcester.

In 1997 I suggested James Grant the Drummer might have been James Grant of Auchterblair, an illegitimate son of James Grant of Ardneidlie and Logie. In 1629 James of Auchterblair married his cousin Agnes, daughter of Robert Grant of Lurg. They had a son Peter, born about 1630. They are also said, on unknown authority, to have been the parents of Deborah Grant, wife of John Knowlton, of Ipswich, Massachusetts. This family of Grants came to an unknown end. They were replaced at Auchterblair by a different family of Grants sometime before 1673.

It was a nice theory but it didn’t bear up to yDNA analysis. The yDNA signature of the descendants of Peter Grant (R-CTS3655) does not match the yDNA signature of the chief’s family (R-DF88).

Grant Tartan
Grant Tartan

Lineal Genealogy

  1. Gregory le Grant, said to have been a cadet of the MacGregors.
  2. Sir Laurence le Grant (about 1230-?), Sheriff of Inverness; married a daughter of Gilbert de Comyn.
  3. John le Grant of Inverallan (about 1296-?).
  4. Sir John Grant (about 1333-about 1370), married Elizabeth.
  5. Sir John Grant (about 1380-?), married Matilda, daughter of Gilbert Comyn of Glencairnie.
  6. Sir Duncan Grant of Freuchie (before 1413-about 1472).
  7. John Grant, younger of Freuchie (about 1448-1482), married Muriel, daughter of Malcolm Macintosh of that Ilk.
  8. John Grant of Freuchie (about 1462-1528), married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Ogilvy of Findlater.
  9. James Grant of Freuchie (about 1485-1553), married Elizabeth, daughter of John, Lord Forbes.
  10. John Grant of Freuchie (1507-1585), married Margaret Stewart, daughter of John, Earl of Atholl.
  11. Duncan Grant, younger of Freuchie (1527-1582), married Margaret, daughter of William Macintosh of that Ilk.
  12. James Grant of Logie & Ardneidlie (abt 1568-?), had by an unknown mistress:
  13. James Grant of Auchterblair (abt 1605-?), married Agnes Grant of Lurg.
  14. Peter Grant of Auchterblair (abt 1630).

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  1. James Grant “the Drummer” (abt 1605-1683), captured at the Battle of Worcester (1651) and deported to America. He left property to Peter Grant, to Peter Grant’s son James, and to his own foster daughter Elizabeth Grant, the daughter of Peter’s brother James, but without naming his relationship to any of them. Historians are divided on the question, but he might have been the father of Peter Grant.

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  1. Peter Grant (abt 1634-abt 1712), of Berwick, Maine; married 1664 Joanna (Ingersoll?), the widow of his brother James Grant “the Scotchman” and perhaps daughter of Lt. George Ingersoll, of Salem, Massachusetts. Peter Grant was captured at the Battle of Dunbar (1650) and deported to America.
  2. Capt. James Grant (1672-1735), of Kittery, Maine; married Mary Nason, daughter of Jonathan Nason, of Berwick, Maine. James Grant served as a Captain in the local militia during King Philip’s War.
  3. Capt. James Grant (1703-1765), of Kittery, Maine; married Sarah Joy, daughter of Ephraim Joy, of Kittery, Maine. James Grant was a member of the Louisburg Expedition against the French in 1745, and in 1757 Captain of the Montsweag Militia.
  4. Capt. Andrew Grant (1730-1809), of Woolwich, Maine; married Elizabeth Dunton, daughter of Timothy Dunton, of Westport, Maine. Andrew Grant served as a Captain in the Penobscot Regiment during the American Revolution. In 1777 his company marched to the Relief of Machias, Maine, and engaged the British at the Battle of Machias.
  5. Ruth Grant (1775-1860); married Malatiah Luce (1772-1849), of Vinalhaven, Maine. She was born the year before the American Revolution, went west with the Mormons to Nauvoo in 1838, and went from Nauvoo to Salt Lake City in 1850 at the age of 75. She died at Ogden, Utah in 1860 at the age of 85.

Castle Grant

Coat of Arms

Grant of Freuchie: Gules three antique crowns Or. Crest: A burning hill proper. Supporters: Two savages proper. Motto: Stand fast.

The hill depicted in the crest is Craigeleachie (opposite Rothemurchus), where a fire was lighted to call the whole clan together in Strathspey, the seat of the Grants in Morayshire.

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Grant Badge
Grant Badge (Source: Wikipedia)

Ulrich Howry’s Estate (1724)

Ulrich Howry’s Estate (1724)

by Justin Durand

Ulrich Howry, a Mennonite, was granted 150 acres at Conestoga, Pennsylvania in 1717 and enjoined to be naturalized. He died in 1723, dividing his estate between his “brethren” and his widow Barbara.

Barbara Howry’s Bond as Administrator of Wolrick Howry’s Estate
transcribed by Pat Sorenson

Know all men by these presents that wee Barbara Howry John Lampher and Edmund Carlisle ? of the County of Chester and province of Pennsylvania are held and firmly bound unto Peter Evan Register General for the probate of wills and granting letters of Administration in and for the Province of Pennsylvania in the sum of one Hundred pounds Currant mony of the province aforesaid to be paid to the Register General his certain Attorney Executor Administrator or Assigns to which payment well and truly to be made toe bind ourselves jointly and severaly for and in the whole our heirs Exe. Of Adm firmly by these presents Sealed with our Seals Dated the Second day of June Anno Dom 1724.

The condition of this obligation is such that if the above bounders Barbara Howry Adminstrator of all and Singular ye goods rights and credits of Wolrick Howry Deceased do make or cause to be made a true and perfect inventory of all the singular ye goods rights and credits of tye said Deceased which have or shall come to hands possesion or knowledge of the Said Barbara Howry or into the hands and possession of any other person or persons [hole in document] the same so made exhibit or cause to be exhibited into the Reg. off of Co. of Chester [looks like due to hole] on or before the Forth Day of Jun necessary and value given such at the time of his Death were of the said Deceased or which at all [hole] Shall come to the hands possession of knowledge of persons.

Barbara Howry or into the hands and possession of any other person or persons the same do we are truly administer according to laws and further doe make or cause to be made a true and just account of their said administration at or before the first day of June which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and twenty six and all of rest and residue of said goods rights and credits which shall be found remaining upon the Adm. Account of the same being first examined and allowed of by the Orphans Court of the County of Chester shall deliver and pay unto such person and persons respectively as the said Court by its decree and sentence as the said Court by its Decree and Sentence and persuant to Law shall limitt and appoint ??? that shall hereafter appear that any Last will and Testament was made b y the Deceased by the Exe. of Executors therein named to exhibitt the same unto the Registers Office at Chester making request to have it allowed and approved of Accordingly of the Said Barbara Howry’85 .being thereunto requested do render and deliver up the s aid letter of Administration Approbation of such certain being first had ye made at the said office that then this obligation to be void or else to be and remain in full force and virtue with effect.

Sealed and Delivered in the Presence of

Fran: Worley (his mark)

Barbara Howry (her mark)

David ??? (his mark)

???

Edm d Cartlisle

[three wax seals]

Inventory of Wolrick Howry’s Estate
transcribed by Pat Sorenson

Inventory of the Lands and Tennements Goods and Chattles of Wolrick Howry late of Conestoga Deceased. Taken and applied by us the subscribers as they was shewed us by his widdow Barbara Howry the Twentyeth day of March Anno domini 1723/4

Item
To 75 acres of land with all of the buildings and improvements thereon £ 20
To 1 mare and 2 colts £ 6 10
To 2 Cows and 2 Calves 4 10
To 2 young steers 2 5
To 5 piggs 15 0
To 5 yd farmming 7 6
To Sundry household goods 17 4
[Total] £ 35 5s.