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Maria Marten (Morton) Stalcop (abt. 1695 - aft. 1764)

Maria Marten Stalcop formerly Morton
Born about in Ridley, Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Americamap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married Mar 1710 in Old Swedes Church, Wilmington, Delawaremap
Descendants descendants
Died after after about age 69 in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, British Americamap
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Biography

Maria Morton was born in 1694/1695 in Ridley, Chester, Pennsylvania, British America. An alternate DOB is 15 March 1696 in New Castle, Delaware.

John Stalcop and Maria Morton were married in 1710/1711 in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware and had the follow children:

  1. Catherine Stalcop
  2. Peter Stalcop
  3. Christina Stalcop
  4. Matthias Stalcop
  5. Tobias Stalcop
  6. Catharina Stalcop
  7. Ericus Stalcop
  8. Israel Stalcop
  9. Annika Stalcop
  10. Johan Stalcop
  11. Andreas Stalcop

Maria is buried in the Old Swedes Churchyard, Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware.[1]

(John Dedrick Yoes, Emily Jane Boydstun), (David Dedrick Yoes, Elizabeth Mankins), (John B. Mankins, Mary Sloan), (Peter Mankins, Rachel Bracken), (Isaac Bracken, Rachel Stalcup), (Peter Stalcup, Susanna Paulson), (John Stalcup, Msrion Morton), (Peter Stalcup, Catharina Samuelsdotter, immigrant from Sweden), (John Anderson Stalcup, Christina Carlsdotter, immigrant from Sweden)]

John A. Stalcup was born about 1627 in Strangnas, Sweden. John Stalcup emigrated in 1641 from Stockholm, Sweden, on the Charitas. He married Christina Carlsdotter about 1650. Their son Peter Stalcup was born in Christina, Delaware. Peter married Catharina Samuelsdotter of Sweden about 1675. Their son, John Stalcup, was born 1692 in New Castle County, Delaware. He married Marion Morton about 1710 in Delaware. Marion was born in Ridley, Chester County, Pennsylvania, about 1695. John A. Stalcup's Swedish name was Johan Andersson Stalkofta, born about 1627 in Strangnas, Sweden, died February 8, 1684/5, in New Castle County, Delaware, also Stalcup, which means "steel jacket" and John's nickname that was adopted by their family as their last name. John Anderson alias Stalkofta, signed his name Andrison. He was a gunner and constable at Fort Christina in Governor Rising's time. He was doing business as early as 1655 and took his oath of allegiance from William Penn in 1682/3. His will was dated August 29, 1679, and read on July 20, 1686. The will read: "Wife, Christina Carlos; son-in0law, Lucas Stiddom; eldest son named Auchin; children, viz: Charlos, John, Peter, Mary, Jonas." The 1693 Census book below says that his wife was the daughter of Carl Jonsson, a Finn from Letstigen, Varmland, who arrived in New Sweden on the Mercurias in 1656. (Varmland is a county in Sweden). It says he was accompanied by his wife, a maidservant, and three children. Christina was also noted as "Kerstin". Peter Stalcup, born July 12, 1712, in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, and the son of John Stalcup and Marion Morton, married Susanna Paulson December 15, 1737, at Old Swedes Church in Wilmington. Susanna Paulson was born March 1715/16, in New Castle County. Peter Stalcup died July 19, 1768, in New Castle County. Susanna died December 17, 1830, in Sumner County, Tennessee. Peter and Susanna's daughter, Rachel Stalcup, married Isaac Bracken on August 31, 1769, in Wilmington, Delware. Rachel and Isaac Bracken's daughter, Rachel Bracken, married Peter Mankins September 32, 1803 in Orange County, North Carolina.

Marion Morton's father was Mathias Martonson who was born about 1665. He married Anna Justis who was born 1670 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mathias Martonson parents were Marton Martonson, born about 1630, and Margaret Eskilsson who was likeely from Sweden. "Mathias Martonson, 2nd son of Marton Martonson (otherwise Mortonson and Morton), was of Amosland, yeoman. His descendants assumed the name of Morton. A deed dated May 24, 1703, states Marton Martonson to Mathias Martonson (otherwise Morton), his son, for 350 arces of land, which the grantor had by deed from Andrew Jansen, March 12, 1694-5. Mathias died instate before March 15, 1717-18". (Jones 1986, p24).

Anna Justis' parents were John Justis, born 1618 in Kinnekulle, Skaraborg Lan, Sweden, and Brita Mouncedotter, born 1625 in Sweden. John Justis died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1682. Kinnekulle is a large wooded hill or plateau, nine miles long and four miles across, rising 860 feet above Lake Vanern in Skaraborg Lan in central Sweden. Brita Mouncedotter died August 1724 in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. John Justis was a soldier. John Justis came on the Swan to the colony of New Sweden, on the Delaware River, on November 1, 1642. He landed at Fort Christina, now Wilmington, Delaware, on February 15, 1643. He was later stationed at Fort Elfsborg, and then to Fort Trinity. 'Jan Justen' on February 13, 1655/56, requested he be allowed to make a plantation on the Christina Kill.

Johan Gustafsson (1618 - 1682) sailed from Gottenburg November 1, 1642 on the Swan with Governor Printz in the Fifth Swedish Expedition and arrived on the Delaware below the present site of Philadelphia, Feb 15, 1643. Johan was one of the twelve soldiers in Fort Elfsborg below the present city of Philadelphia on the east side of the Delaware from 1644 to 1653. He was promoted to the posistion of a gunner and stationed at Fort Trinity (New Castle) in 1655 when Captain Sven Skute surrendered the fort to the Dutch.By 1669, John Justis was at Kingsessing or West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the banks of the Schuylkill and was granted a patent there as John Eusta, dated May 16, 1669. In the first English census of the Delaware, taken in 1671, Johan Gustafsson was listed as "John Eustace". The November 1677 tax list for the Upland court jurisdiction showed a slight improvement in naming, "Jan Justa", and two sons are shown as taxable (i.e. over sixteen years of age). After the surrender of New Sweden to the Dutch, Johan Gustafsson moved northward to Kingsessing where ho died about 1682, leaving a widow and at least eleven children. They kept Gustafsson as their surname, but it was heard and written by the English as Eustason, Justison, Justis, Justus, or Justice finally evolved as the family surname (Parris 1993, 8).

Mans Andersson, born about 1600 and father of Brita Mouncedotter, had arrived in New Sweden on the second voyage of the Kalmar Nycke in 1640. The original Kalmar Nycke was one of America's pioneering colonial ships. Her historical significance rivals that of the Mayflower, yet her remarkable story has never been widely told. The original Kalmar Nyckel sailed from Sweden to the New World in 1638, leaving its passengers to establish the first permanent European settlement in the Colony of New Sweden in present-day Wilmington, Delaware. She made a total of four roundtrip crossings of the Atlantic- more than any other ship of the era. Her first voyage to the New World left twenty-four settlers of Swedish, Finnish, German, and the Dutch descent in the Delaware Valley. In 1644, Mans Andersson was a servant of the company, planting tabacco at Christina, but had earned the status of a freeman by 1648. He established his plantation, which he called Silleryd or the Salted Herring, in a section known as "Finland", the area between Marcus Hook and Chester (and called Upland) in present Pennsylvania. As other European countries were doing, Sweden was also planning a North American Colony. Plans began under King Gustavus Adolphus (reigned 1611-1632) and were put into action during the reign of his daughter Queen Christina (1632-1654). Two ships, the Kalmar Nykel and the Fogel Grip, left Sweden under command of Pieter Minuet and landed in late March 1638 at "The Rocks", near present-day Old Swedes Church in Wilmington. The colonists built Fort Christina. Although the settlement never contained more than 200 people and never received enough support from home, it surrived. Fort Christina became the first permanent European settlement in Delaware. The Dutch throught the Delaware Valley should be theirs. In 1651, a detachment of Dutch soldiers, commanded by Peter Stuyvesant, came down from New Netherland (now New York). They established Fort Casimir (now New Castle) seven miles south of Fort Christina. The Dutch built that fort to threaten the Swedes. In 1654, however, the Swedes captured Fort Casimir and renamed it Fort Trinity. A little over a year later, in 1655, the Dutch took back Fort Casimir ans went on to capture Fort Christina. They now controlled the Delaware Valley, and Sweden's dreams of empire were over. By the early 1660's, King Charles II of England, newly restored to the throne, wanted to add the land the Dutch controlled to his empire. English naval forces attacked New Netherland in 1664. Peter Stuyvesant was forced to surrender to the English. King Charles II granted his new lands to his brother, James, Duke of York. Now Delaware was English. Of course, the Dutch did not accept England's victory. In 1673, they retook Delware. The English retook the area in 1674. Delware was again under the control of the Duke of York. Although Delaware remained under English control for the rest of the colonial period, one more change of ownership lay ahead. William Penn, from a wealthy, influential English family, had become a leader in the new Quaker religion. He dreamed of a settlement in North America where the persecuted Quakers and members of all other faiths could worship freely. Peen's father had helped King Charles II regain the English throne, so William Penn felt that he could ask the king for something in return. He requested and received grants of land from the Duke of York's holdings in 1681 and 1682. These lands became Pennsylvania and Delaware. In December 1656, "Moens Andriesen" was named tabacco inspector by the Dutch, and a 1660 deed mentions the land of "Mannis Andries" at the second hook above the fort (Paerden Hook or Swanwyck). By 1661, he owned a plantation north of the Christina River on the Brandywine River, as is shown by later litigation involving the land. In 1661, Mans Andersson moved to Maryland with his wife and six children. On April 25, 1662, a one hundred fifty-arce tract called "Mountsfield" near the mouth of the Elk River, on the Southeast side was surveyed for Mans Andersson. On June 6, 1674, Mountz Anderson, a native of Sweedland, was naturalized by the Maryland government. He was still living when he gave a deposition on June 25, 1678. The deposition was related to his former Brandywine River property. No will or probate record for him has been found. In 1707, "Mountsfield" was occupied by Chistopher Mountz. Christopher Mountz is presumed to be a son or grandson of Mans Andersson. Christopher had a son, born Oct 18, 1708, who was christened as Christopher Mounce Anderson.


Birth

Birth:
Date: 1695
Place: Ridley, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA[2]


Marriage

Husband: John Stalcup
Wife: Marion Morton
Child: Peter Stalcup
Relationship to Father: Natural
Relationship to Mother: Natural
Marriage:
Date: 1710
Place: Delaware, USA[3]
Husband: @I492@
Wife: Anna Justis
Child: @I871@
Relationship to Father: Natural
Relationship to Mother: Natural
Child: @I872@
Relationship to Father: Natural
Relationship to Mother: Natural
Child: @I870@
Relationship to Father: Natural
Relationship to Mother: Natural
Child: Marion Morton
Relationship to Father: Natural
Relationship to Mother: Natural
Child: @I869@
Relationship to Father: Natural
Relationship to Mother: Natural
Marriage: [4][5]

This biography is a rough draft. It was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import and needs to be edited.

Sources

  1. Find A Grave Memorial #52624347, Maria Morton Stalcop
  2. Source: #S98 Page: John A Stalcup Pages 391 -392 Data: Text:
  3. Source: #S98 Page: John A Stalcup Pages 391 -392 Data: Text:
  4. Source: #S189 Page: Annika Justis
  5. Source: #S189 Page: Mathias Morton
  • WikiTree profile Morton-2033 created through the import of Callahan, Wiley, Plotner, Powell Family Tree - 2009.ged on Dec 2, 2011 by Ron Callahan.
  • Source: S-2123128525 Repository: #R-2145025786 Title: Public Member Trees Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.Original data - Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.
  • Morton-3671 was created by Ila Jones through the import of Sources Cited Tree_2014-07-22.ged on Jul 22, 2014.
  • Source: S98 Title: Nuckolls, Charles R., The Roses Repository: #R6 Call Number: 929.107207 NUC NOTENuckolls, Charles R.. The Roses: The Nuckolls Family, the Lyman Family, and One Hundred Fifty Immigrants Who Helped Shape America. Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse, Inc, 2010.
  • Repository: R6 Name: King County Library System Address: E-Mail Address: Phone Number:
  • WikiTree profile Morton-2030 created through the import of Callahan, Wiley, Plotner, Powell Family Tree - 2009.ged on Dec 2, 2011 by Ron Callahan.
  • Source: S-2123128525 Repository: #R-2145025786 Title: Public Member Trees Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.Original data - Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.Original data: Family trees submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created. Page: Ancestry Family Trees Note: Data: Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=1231806&pid=3113
  • Repository: R-2145025786 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com Note:




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Morton-3671 and Morton-1768 appear to represent the same person because: she's a match, as are the husbands
posted by H Husted
Morton-2033 and Morton-1768 appear to represent the same person because: they are the same person.
posted by Karen (Old) Panek
I have her as daughter of Mathias Morton and Annika Justis
posted by Michael McGinnis

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