Robert (Stacy) Stacie (bef. 1630 - aft. 1686)

Born before 11 Feb 1630 in Handsworth, Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Died after 1686 after age 55 in North America

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Biography

Robert was a Friend (Quaker)

Robert was the son of John Stacy and Mary Fullwood. He was born in 1630 and baptized on 11 Feb 1630 in Handsworth.^[1][2] His parents had property and Ballifield and Cinderhill in Yorkshire.

Robert was one of the group of Seekers, dissatisfied with organised religion, in the Balby area of Yorkshire, who joined the incipient Quaker movement at the start of the 1650s.^[3] He was a member of Cinderhill local Quaker meeting, which became part of Balby Monthly Meeting, Yorkshire.^[4]

His wife was called Ann.^[5]

In 1677 Robert was one of the Quakers who sailed in the Kent to West Jersey in North America.^[4] There he was made a magistrate^[4][6] and took part in negotiations with the indigenous population for the acquisition of land. His family followed him, sailing in the Martha.^[4] Robert was a member of the General Assembly of West Jersey by 1682.^[7]

In 1686 Robert Stacy and Thomas Budd helped organise a meeting for the indigenous people of West Jersey.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ "England, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1538-2016", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:66BT-1WC4 : 23 February 2022), Robert Stacie, 11 Feb 1630.
2. ↑ Richard Hoare. Balby Beginnings. The Launching of Quakerism, Balby Monthly Meeting in association with Sessions of York, 2002, p. 112
3. ↑ Richard Hoare. Balby Beginnings, p. 8
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} Richard Hoare. Balby Beginnings, pp. 79-80
5. ↑ Richard Hoare. Balby Beginnings, p. 54
6. ↑ Aaron Leaming and Jacob Spicer. The Grants, Concessions, and Original Constitutions of the Province of New Jersey, The Lawbook Exchange Ltd, 2002, p. 443, Google Books
7. ↑ Robert Proud. The History of Pennsylvania, in North America, from the Original Institution and Settlement of that Province, Under the First Proprietor and Governor, William Penn, in 1681, Till After the Year 1742, Vol. I, Philadelphia, 1797, p. 155, Google Books
8. ↑ Rufus M Jone. The Quakers in the American Colonies, Macmillan, 1911, p. 377