Mary (Fisher) Cross (abt. 1623 - aft. 1698)

Born about 1623 in Yorkshire, England [uncertain]

Wife of John Crosse — married 19 Sep 1678 in Southwark, London, England

Descendants

Died after 28 Aug 1698 after about age 75 in Charles Town, Province of Carolina

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Biography

Mary (Fisher) Cross is Notable.

Mary was a Quaker missionary.

Mary (Fisher) Cross was born in Yorkshire, England.

Mary (Fisher) Cross migrated from England to Province of Carolina.

Mary (Fisher) Cross was a Carolina colonist.

Birth

Mary's birth date is not known for certain, but her birth has been described as about 1623 (about thirty in 1653).^[1] She was probably born in Yorkshire.

Early Life

In 1652 she was working as a servant in the household of Richard and Elizabeth Tomlinson of Selby, Yorkshire.^[1]

Quakerism

While employed by the Tomlinsons, she heard George Fox's Quaker ministry and became a Quaker by 1652.^[1] She quickly became active in the Quaker movement and was one of the set of early Quaker missionaries called the Valiant Sixty.^[2] That year she was imprisoned for 15 months^[3] for speaking against the parish minister of Selby at the end of a service, apparently saying, "Come downe, come downe, thou painted beast, come downe. Thou art but a hireling, and deluder of the people with thy lyes."^[1] While she was in prison, she and four other Quaker prisoners put their names to a tract entitled False Prophets and Teachers Described.^[1]

On her release she went to southern England with Elizabeth Williams to spread the Quaker message.^[1] In 1653 they entered into a dispute with student at Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge, which they termed "a cage of unclean birds, and the synagogue of Satan." This led to their arrest. They were taken to the market cross, stripped to the waist, and whipped and then expelled from Cambridge.^[4]

Mary suffered further periods of imprisonment in Pontefract, Yorkshire in 1653 and 1654^[5] and, in 1655, in Newport Pagnall, Buckinghamshire.^[6]

First Activity in the Americas

In 1655 she went with another Quaker, Ann Austin, to the West Indies.^[1] The following year they went on to Boston, Massachusetts, where their books were confiscated and burnt and they were imprisoned. In gaol they were stripped and searched to see if they had the marks of witches on their bodies. On their release they were sent back to Barbados.^[1][7] Mary sailed back to England in 1657.^[1]

Meeting with the Sultan of Turkey

Mary did not stay long in England. In the summer of 1657 she and other set out for the Eastern Mediterranean.^[1] Believing she had a divine message for the Turkish sultan, she attempted to reach him but was turned back by the British Representative in Turkey. In a second attempt, she reached the sultan at Adrianople, entering into some discussion with him. She continued on foot to Constantinople.^[1][8] She reached England again in early 1659.^[1]

First Marriage

In 1662 Mary married William Bayly (or Bayley), a Quaker speaker and writer of Poole, Dorset.^[1][9] They had three children:

• William, who died before 25 Apr 1702. He and his wife Hannah had a son, John, who was a planter in Berkeley County, South Carolina.^[9]
• Mary, who married twice. Her first husband was Charles Basden, who died in early 1698, and by whom she had four children. Her second was Nicholas Nary, and they had a son Nicholas who died under age in 1722.^[9]
• Susannah, who also married twice. her first husband was Edward Rawling, by whom she had three children. Her second was Henry Wigington, Deputy Secretary of South Carolina.^[9]

Mary supported William Bayly in his Quaker ministry. When William was arrested in London in 1662, and one Richard Brown, an Alderman, struck him several times, Mary complained, and was herself hit and felled twice to the ground, despite it being made clear she was pregnant.^[10]

William Bayly died Jun 1675 on a voyage back from Barbados to England.^[1]

Second Marriage and Subsequent Life

On 19 Sep 1678, at Horslydown, Southwark, Surrey (which came under Southwark Monthly Meeting), Mary married again, her second husband being John Cross, a Quaker and London cordwainer.^[1][11][12] In 1682 they emigrated to North America.^[1] John Cross died about the end of 1687.^[1]

Death

Mary died in 1698 in Charleston, South Carolina. Her will, dated 28 Aug 1698, was proved 19 Nov 1698.^[1]

Research Notes

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On 18 Apr 1688, Charleston, Charleston Co., SC Mary Crosse, widow, was granted a town lot in Charleston from the Lord Proprietors of the colony of South Carolina.

Mary was involved in a land contract-purchase or sale: 5 Dec 1688, Charleston, Charleston Co., SC. This 1/4 lot was purchased from John Given (Gibbon?) a cordwainer of Charleston. The lot bordered on property owned by John Given.

On 10 Jun 1689, in Charleston, Charleston Co., SC Mary Crosse, widow, was granted a town lot in Charleston from the Lord Proprietors of the colony of South Carolina. This lot was previously assigned to Richard Dymond and he deserted it.

On 19 Apr 1692, in Charleston, , SC Mary Crosse and Mary Joy provided testimony about the will of William Dunston, Gent.

On 1 Dec 1692, in Charleston, Charleston Co., SC Mary Crosse, widow sold the 1/4 lot next to John Given to John Moore {Gent.} of Berkeley Co., SC.

On 4 Jul 1695, in Charleston, Charleston Co., SC Mary Crosse, widow, was granted two town lots in Charleston from the Lord Proprietors of the colony of South Carolina.

She signed a will on 28 Aug 1698 in Charleston, Charleston Co., SC.

Will

"WILL OF MARY CROSSE The following will was Recorded Herin ye sixth Anno per 1698 & is perfect: Per Henry Wigington Depty Secretry I Mary Crofse of Charles Town in ye Province of Carolina Widdo being very sick & weak but of Sound & Disposinge mind & Memory do make this my Last Will & Testemt. First I recommend my Soul to ye Mercy of God my Creater hopeing through ye merits of Jesus Christ to obtain forgivenefs for all sins & Everlasting Life, My Body I Comitt to ye Earth to be buried at ye Discretion of my Executor & Executrixes & my worldly Estate I dispose of as followeth ffirst I Give grant, Demise & Bequeath to my Son William Bayely ye Corner Town Lott in Charles Town wch was formerly Capt John Clapps, whereon ye great house Stands ye he lately Lived in, together wth ye sd Huse & all other buildings on ye Said Town Lott Also my half of a Parcell of Land near Bermudos Towne containing 50 acres or thereabouts wch I purchased I purchased wth my Son Capt Charls Bafden to have & to hold ye sd Towne Lott Buildings & Premises thereto belonging & ye sd Parcell of Land to my Said Son William Bayley his Heirs & afsigns for Ever----------------------- Item I Give, Grant, Demise & Bequeath to my said Son William Bayley one other Towne Lott in Charles Town wch formerly belonged to ye sd Capt John Clapp & whereon Capt John fflavell now lives, together wth ye houses & buildings thereon To have & To hold ye sd Town Lott & Premises to my sd Son William Bayley dureing his naturall Life & after his Decease I Give Grant & bequeath ye said Town Lott & Premises to my two Daughter Mary Basden widdow & Susanna Rawlin their Heirs & afsigns for ever to be divided equally betwixt them ------------------- Item, I Give, Grant, Demise, & Bequeath unto my Daughter Mary Basden Widdow, one Moiety or half Part of my Towne Lott in Charles Towne fronting ye warfe whereon I now Live vizt. Ye Moity or half Part of ye sd Towne Lott next Capt Rhetts where Mr Beckly lately Lived To have & to hold ye sd half Towne Lott to my sd Daughter Mary Basden her heirs & afsigns for Ever-------------- Item, I Give Grant Demise, a& bequeath unto my Daughter Susannah Rawlins ye other Moiety or half part of my Said Town Lott fronting wharfe Vizt ye Northermost half of ye sd Towne Lott & ye house wherein I now live to have & to hold ye sd half Town Lott wth ye buildings thereon to my sd Daughter Susannah Rawlings her heirs & afsignees for Ever----------------------- Item, My will is ye my three Towne Lotts Situate near ye Markett Place in Charles Towne be divided into three Equal parts as folloeweth ye front to ye broad Street along (?) Cooper Street & ye front to ye Little Street ye runs by Dr. ffr(?)liage & Mr Symonds to be divided into thirds ye sd Lotte to be divided by Straight Lines running Northward & Southwardly & ye third part of my sd Towne Lotts wch Lyee Westermost, I give Grand & bequeath to my Sonn William Bayley dureing his Narurall Life & after his Descease, I Give, grant & bequeath ye sd third part of ye sd Three Towne Lotts to my two Daughters, Mary Basden & Sufanna Rawlings their Heirs & afsigns for Ever to be equally Divided betwixt them. That third Part of my sd three Town Lotts wch Lyes Eastermost next my son Rawlings Land I Give, Demise & Bequeath to my Daughter Susanna Rawlins her Heirs & afsigns for Ever, and ye third of ye sd three Town Lotts wch Lyes between ye other two thirds of ye sd three Town Lotts, I Give, grant Demise & bequeath to my Daughter Mary Basden her Heirs & afsigns for Ever Item, I do hereby appoint wuthorize & impower my Executor & Exexutrixes hereafter named or any two of ym to Sell & Dispose of ye half Towne Lott wch was purchased of Mr Henry Samwayes & lyes to ye Southwd. of ye two town Lotts yt was formerly Capt Clapps to any Person or Persons yt will Purchase ye Same & ye Money raised by ye sale thereof I Will & appoint to pay my Debts------- Item, I give & Bequeath unto my Daughters Mary Basden & Susanna Rawlins all & singular my household goods to be equally Divided betwixt them---------- Item, I Give & Bequeath to my Daughter Mary Basden my Indian girle Slave, named Reigner-------------- Item, I do Give & Bequeath unto my sd Son William & Daughters Mary & Susanna all and Singular my Shop Goods & all my real or personal Estate not already bequeathed in this Will to be equally Divided amonf ym they paying my Just Debts here & there alike Lastly I Do Appoint my Son William Bayley & my two Daughters Mary Basden & Susanna Rawlins my Executor & Executrixes of this my Last Will & Testmnt. Hereby making Null & Void all former & other wills herebefore by me Made and Dealing In Witnefs whereon I have hereunto Sett my hand & Seale at Charles Town this twenty Eighth day of August, 1698. Mary Crofse [Seal] Signed Sealed Delivered & Declared in ye Presence of us Mildred Shory Ann Pawley Edith (her Mark) Herne Jonathan Amory Recorded March ye 6th 1699/700 Henry Wigington Dept Secrety Recorded in Original Will Book 1687-1710 Recorded on Page 2 "

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The following Hume will gives information about Mary Cross and her children and the location of the properties they owned in Charleston.

"ALEXANDER HUME, ESQ., of London (brother & devise named in will of ROBERT HUME, attorney-at-law, of St. Philips Parish, SC) by his attorney JOHN GUERARD, merchant, of Charleston, to BENJAMIN D'HARRIETTE, merchant of Charleston; for L 2200 SC money, the N part of 3 lots in Charleston, fronting 150 ft. on Queen Street; & 194-1/2 ft. on Meeting House Street (formerly old Church Street), bounding E on JOHN BEE & backwards S from Queen Street, upon that E line 197 ft.; S on ANTHONY BONNEAU & backwards upon that S line from Meeting House Street, 153 ft. Whereas MARY CROSS, widow, of Charleston, owned 3 lots near the market place of Charleston by virtue of certain grants from the Lords Proprs. & of a deed of feoffment with livery & seizin to her from JOHN BIRD, planter, dated 1 June 1688, & by her will dated 28 Aug. 1698 directed that the lots be divided into 3 equal parts by straight N & S lines, fronting Broad Street to the S, & that little street which then ran by DR. FRANKLIN & MR. SIMMONDS (now called Queen Street), to the N; the westernmost of which lots she left to her son WILLIAM BAILEY for his lifetime & afterwards equally to her 2 daughters MARY BASDEN & SUSANNAH RAWLINGS. giving the E lot to her daughter SUSANNAH RAWLINGS; & the middle, or 3rd lot to her daughter MARY BASDEN; & whereas after the death of MARY CROSS & of her son WILLIAM BAYLEY, the lots were divided by a line running from E to W into 6 lots, 3 fronting Broad Street, 3 fronting Queen Street, the E & W lots of the N division becoming the property of SUSANNAH RAWLINGS (afterwards SUSANNAH WIGGINTON); the E lot of which, fronting Queen street, she by deed poll dated 30 June 1720, conveyed to EDWARD RAWLINS, Joiner, of Charleston, & MARY his wife; & whereas PETER MANIGAULT, vinter, of Charleston, & MARY his wife, & whereas PETER MANIGAULT, vintner, of Charleston, became owner of the middle of the N lots (half the lot bequeathed by MARY CROSS to her daughter MARY BASDEN); & EDWARD RAWLINGS owned the middle third part of the S division (being the other half bequeathed to MARY BASDEN); & whereas MANIGAULT & RAWLINGS agreed to exchange their holdings with each other, so that on 4 May 1721 MANIGAULT Sold his half to RAWLINGS: & whereas EDWARD & MARY RAWLINGS, now already owning the E third of the N division (by conveyance from SUSANNAH WIGGINTON) & obtaining the middle third of the N division by exchange with MANIGAULT, by L & R dated 7 & ft Mar. 1721 sold to ROBERT HUME 2/3 of the whole front of said 3 lots on the street running E from Cooper River by the lots of GIBBON & ALLEN. now Queen Street, & backwards from that street to the land fenced in & owned by PETER MANIGAULT & thy land formerly of TOBIAS FITCH, bounding E on MR. JACKSON: W on a part of the 3 lots: & whereas SUSANNAH WIGGINTON owned 1/3 of the N division & EDWARD RAWLINGS owned 2/3, they agreed that the western most third part of the N division, fronting Old Church Street, should he conveyed to said ROBERT HUME & the E third part of N division be conveyed to SUSANNAH WIGGINTON, in consequence of which agreement, containing more fully in an indenture dated 16 Mar. 1721, SUSANNAH granted ROBERT HUME all the W third part of the N halt of the 3 lots, which deed also contained a conveyance of the E third part of the N division from ROBERT HUME to SUSANNAH WIGGINGTON; & whereas SUSANNAH WIGGINTON, claiming certain title to said third part of the N division devised to MARY BASDEN by MARY CROSS, for the better settling thereof & of the W third part, by deed probated 11 Jan. 1723 confirmed to ROBERT HOME that part of the 3 lots fronting 100 ft. on Queen Street. & backwards as far as MR. MANIGAULT'S fence, bounding E on the part belonging to SUSANNAH WIGGINTON; W on the street running towards the Presbyterian Meeting House; & whereas SUSANNAH WIGGINTON by L & R dated 15 & 16 Dec. 1731 sold to ROBERT HUME the E third lot in the N division being the same conveyed to HOME by EDWARD RAWLINGS & MARY his wife, & by HUME to SUSANNAH WIGGINTON in exchange for the W third of the N division: & whereas ROBERT HUME, owning the whole N division, by will dated 16 Dec. 1736 bequeathed to ALEXANDER HUME, his brother, party hereto that part whereon HUME'S coachhouse & stable stood, being 1-1/2 lots, with certain other lands mentioned in the will (HUME dying in 1737); whereas ALEXANDER HUME by letter of attorney dated at London, 5 Aug. 1743, appointed JAMES ABERCROMBY, RICHARD HILL & JOHN GUERARD his attorneys, to dispose of all the real estate left by ROBERT HOME for him; & by another letter of attorney in 1744 authorized HILL & GUERARD to act in ABERCROM-BY'S absence; & whereas ABERCROMBIE & HILL have been absent from SC for some time: now GUERARD. in their absence; conveys to D'HARRIETTE the N half of the 3 lots. Witnesses: RIBTON HUTCHINSON. JOHN RATTRAY. Before ROBERT AUSTIN. J.P. JOIN BEALE, Dep. Pub. Reg."

Biography from The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine

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The following account of Mary Fisher a Quakeress, afterwards Mary Crosse, wife of John Crosse, both of whose wills are to be found among the "Abstracts from the Court of Ordinary" in this number of the Magazine, is compiled chiefly from an article by Mr. George Vaux on "Friends in Charleston, S. C.," printed in The Friend, in 1909, and from data gathered by Mr. D. E. Huger Smith.

The story of Mary Fisher's early life is told in Besse's Sufferings, Sewers History, and Bowden's History. As Mary Fisher, in 166o she paid a missionary visit to the Grand Turk, the account of this visit, and her courteous reception, have been fully preserved in the history of the Friends, and celebrated both in prose and verse. In 1662 she was married to William Bayley, a well-known minister among the Friends; he died in 1675, and in 1678 she was married to John Crosse of London. The date of the arrival of John and Mary Crosse in South Carolina has not been recovered, some time prior to 1685, for at that date John Crosse made his will. In Bowden's History of Friends in America, an abstract of a letter from Robert Barrow to his wife is given, dated 12 MO. 1696/7, written on the coast of Florida while travelling in the ministry. He speaks of arriving at Ashley River and of there having a kind landlady and nurse, "one whose name you have heard of, a Yorkshire woman, born within two miles of York; her maiden name was Mary Fisher, she that spake to the great Turk, afterwards William Bayley's wife * * * she is a widow of a second husband, her name is now Mary Crosse." Mary Crosse had three children, all by her husband William Bayley.

Biography from Find A Grave

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Quaker preacher and missionary. In 1652 when she first appeared in a historical record, she was living in the town of Pontefract in Yorkshire, England as the servant of Richard Tomlinson. At this time, under the influence of George Fox, the founder of the Society of Friends, many converts were made in the area, among them Mary Fisher and probably her master and mistress also. The public rebuke of clerical and civil officers was a characteristic act of early Quakers; Mary Fisher was imprisoned in York Castle in 1652 because she thus spoke to the "priest" at Selby. That same year she was one of the six Friends, all "prisoners of the Lord at York Castle," who supplements their rebuke by issuing a pamphlet, "False Prophets and False Teachers Described." In 1653 and 1654 she suffered further imprisonments at York for like offense at the church in Pontefract. The Quakers hostility extended also to the colleges where the regular ministry were trained. In December 1653, now a full-fledged itinerant preacher, Nary Fisher went with an older unmarried woman, Elizabeth Williams, to Cambridge University, where they reproved some students and were heckled in return, The two women were, upon instructions from the mayor, taken to the Market Cross, stripped naked to the waist, and severely flogged, probably under the terms of an old law against vagabonds then being revived and used against Quakers. In 1655 Mary Fisher-still formenting trouble in pursuit of her faith-was imprisoned for rebuking the "priest" of Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire. Later that year she made her first contacts with America, traveling with another woman older than herself, married and the mother of five children, named Ann Austin. After some time in the British West Indies island of Barbados, a relatively receptive place for Quakers, these two made their way to Boston harbor in Massachusetts Bay colony. They arrived in July 1656. Though no Quakers had before visited that colony, the sect's reputation as heretics had preceded them. Seeking to avoid the danger of contagion, the deputy governor, Richard Bellingham, and the Council took firm steps. The two women were not allowed to land until their "books," about a hundred pamphlets of Quaker propaganda, had been confiscated and burned by the common hangman and they themselves had been searched naked for marks of witches; they were then taken ashore, help incommunicado for five weeks, and banished back to Barbados. About two days after their departure eight more Quakers sailed into the harbor, and others followed, to be met by still sterner measures of repression, until in the years 1659-1661 four Quaker visitors were executed, among them Mary Dyer. There are scattered references to Mary Fisher in the West Indies after her attempted missionary work in New England, But the next major episode of her colorful life took her in the opposite direction. As early as 1657-58 (not, as often reported, in 1660) she joined a group of three men and three women traveling from England by ship to the Mediterranean and the Near East, by her own account, then journeyed alone overland some five to six hundred miles from the western shore of southern Greece to Adrianople in Turkey to interview the young Sultan Mahomet IV, who was encamped nearby with his army. Describing herself as an ambassador of "the Most High God," she was presented to the Sultan, to whom she freely spoke her mind. The formal interview completed, she declined a proffered escort and guard and made her way safely to Constantinople and so back to England. Her report of these events made a lasting impression, for the "Great Turk" was a dreaded figure in the imagination o the West. His kindness to an unprotected maiden stood in contrast to the treatment she had received at the hands of Christian both in England and New England. Of the next years of Mary Fisher's life little is known. In 1662 she was married to William Bayly, a sea captain of Poole, England, and a noted Quaker preacher and writer. The same year she was present when he was arrested on St. Martin's Street, London, and though great with child she was roughly treated by the officers. When Bayly died at sea in June 1675 returning from Barbados, three of their children were living: William, Mary, and Susanna. The next year his Wrightings were collected in a stout quarto volume, ending on page 747 with Mary Bayly's testimony to her deceased husband. On September 19, 1678, at Horshydown, Southwark, she was married a second time, to John Cross, a "cordwainer," with whom in 1682 she migrated to Charleston, S.C., along with her three children. Cross died about 1687. Ten years later, in February, 1697, Robert Barrow, a forlorn Quaker traveler in Charleston, writing in his last illness to his wife in England, refers to his "landlady and nurse," "one whose name you have heard of, a Yorkshire woman, born within two miles of York; her maiden name was Mary Fisher, she that spake to the great Turk." Mary Cross made her will in August 1698 and died before the end of the year. In all probability she lies buried in the Friends' burial ground still extant in Charleston, for it was near her home. Her children married and settled in South Carolina. A granddaughter, Sophia Hume, became a noted Quaker preacher.

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1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17} Villani, Stefano. "Fisher (married names Bayly, Cross), Mary (c. 1623–1698), Quaker missionary." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 23 Sep. 2004; Accessed 24 Feb 2020.
2. ↑ Ernest E Taylor. The Valiant Sixty, revised edition, Sessions of York, 1951, p. 40
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• Ross, Isabel. Margaret Fell, Mother of Quakerism, William Sessions, 1984
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• Vipont, Elfrida. George Fox and the Valiant Sixty, Hamish Hamilton, 1975
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• Octavia Zollicoffer Bond, The Family Chronicle and Kinship Book (Nashville, TN, McDaniel Printing Co., 1928).
• Probate: "South Carolina, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1670-1980"
  South Carolina Wills and Related Probate Matters, ?land and Property Records, ?public Records, Some ?marriage Contracts, 1671, 1692-1868; Author: South Carolina. Probate Court (Charleston County); Probate Place: Charleston, South Carolina
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 9080 #906579 (accessed 10 October 2023)
  Mary Crosse probate on 8 Aug 1698 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. Residence Charles Town, Carolina.
• “Historical Notes.” The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, vol. 12, no. 2, 1911, pp. 106–08. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27575299. Accessed 11 Oct. 2023.
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/52351571/mary-fisher-crosse: accessed 21 October 2023), memorial page for Mary Fisher Crosse (1623–1698), Find a Grave Memorial ID 52351571, citing Quaker Churchyard, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA; Maintained by Saratoga (contributor 46965279).
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