John (Hollowel) Hallowell (abt. 1648 - 1706)

Born about Apr 1648 in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, England [uncertain]

Husband of Sarah (Claye) Hallowell — married 17 Apr 1672 in Skegby, Nottinghamshire, England

Husband of Mary (Holland) Hallowell — married 27 Dec 1675 in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England

Descendants

Died 27 Dec 1706 at about age 58 in Abington, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania

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Biography

John was a Friend (Quaker)

John Hollowel. ^[1][2]

Born 1648 Hucknall, Mansfield Mm, England. ^{[citation needed]}

Marriage: John Hallowell married Sarah Clay at a public meeting of the Friends in Scekby on the 17th day of the 2nd month of 1672.^[3][4] Skegby is in the current day parish of Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.

"Marriage" John married second Mary Holland as recorded in the Minutes of the Quarterly Meeting at Mansfield (England), 27 10mo 1675 (qos) "John Hallowell of Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, and Mary Holland of Millnepney, in Derbyshire, declared their intention of marriage" with this record appeared the certificates: "I do give my free consent that my soone should take Mary Holland to wife, and that she should take him to husband" /signed/ John Hallowell and: "We do give our free consent that John Hallowell shall have our daughter to wife. Knowing nothing but that he is cleare from all other women. /signed Thomas and Mary Holland/

Died 1706 Abington, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania.^{[citation needed]}

John came to America with a Quaker certificate dated 19 Dec 1682 from the Derby Monthly Meeting in England as follows: "Deare Friends: These are to signifie unto you of John Hallowell of Huchnal in ye parish of Sutton, County of Nottinghamshire, having in his mind to remove beyond the sea and he being within ye compas of this our mo. Meetinge, we are willing to signifie to Friends that we know concerning him, of his behaviour, & manner of Life in the time yt he has Lived amongst us, whcih has been so we know soberly, and honestly, in his callings & dealings which has been a savor amongst ye people of ye world, and we know nothing but that he goes cleare as to any outward Engagement to any heare, and to ye truth he has lived answerably to ye measure which he has received; and hath no ways caused it to suffer, and our desires are yt he may keepe close to ye measure of God, which hee hath received, that he may be a good savor to ye truth in these remote places. So having not much more but our dear son in ye truth, to all faithful Friends we rest & remain in ye service of ye blessed truth with you all, in ye measure. //signed// Samuel Barke & others"

He arrived shortly before 19 2mo 1683 (qos) (19 Feb 1683) when he presented the above letter to the Darby PA meeting, almost certainly onboard "The Bristol Merchant" which was the only vessel that departed from England after the date of his letter (in mid-late December 1682) and that could have reached the Delaware Bay before March 1682/3. Although he and his family are not specifically listed as being onboard this vessel (it was not common in those days to list every passenger in the ship's manifest), his wife's parents Thomas and Mary Holland were onboard this ship as well as an uncle of the future husband of his eldest daughter (Thomas Hood). Below is a list of all known ships around the departure/arrival times of John Hallowell [compiled from Balderston, Marion "William Penn's 23 Ships (1682)" and "Pennsylvania's 1683 Ships and Some of their Passengers", itself a compilation of articles that attempts to identify every ship and passenger in this era, published as Walter Sheppard, ed. "Passengers and Ships Prior to 1684, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1970" the second article originally published in The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, vol. 24:2 (1965), pp. 69-114.] Name Port Date Departed England Date Arrived

Submission Liverpool 6 Sep 1682 2 Nov 1682 Antelope Belfast 9/10 Dec 1682 Unicorn Bristol aft 17 Oct 1682 bef 25 Dec 1682 Bristol Merchant Bristol late Dec 1682 bef 8 Feb 1683 Thomas & Anne London mid January 1683 Late Mar/early Apr (Unknown) Plymouth early May 1683 mid June 1683

John Hallowell first acquired land for his family at Secane, formerly Spring Hill, Upper Darby, Chester (now Delaware) Co. PA on land designated by patent as First Purchaser for John Potter totalling 250 acres as follows:

100 acres from John Simcocke by deed dated 10 Jul 1686; he built his house on this property.

50 acres from John Potter via John Blunston by deed dated 5 Jan 1688;

50 acres from John Blunston by deed dated 12 Jan 1693; and,

50 acres, probably from the Thomas Whitby tract (date unknown)

These lands are all contiguous and all of the above land was deeded by gift to his son John in 1706.

He appears several times in the court records of Chester Co., serving as a juror, constable of Darby, and in 1688 on the list of "ye Grand Inquest".

In 1696 he moved his family to a 630 acre tract of land near Abington in Philadelphia Co. This land was part of 2500 acres which Thomas Holme first had under warrent from William Penn in 1684 by patent dated 29 Jan 1688. Silas Crispin, the executor of Thomas Holme's estate, sold 630 acres of this land in "Hill Town" (as Abington was then called) to John Hallowell by deed dated 15 Jun 1696 for Ð58 16 shillings.

"Death" 27 Dec 1706 ^[5]

Research Notes

Discussion on possible third wife Mary Sharp/Sharpe: Several older secondary sources (most notably "The Hallowell-Penrose Genealogy", "The lives of eminent Philadelphians now deceased" and "Colonial Families of the United States of America") give his second wife Mary's surname as "Sharp or Sharpe", but this is corrected to "Holland" by the research of the Hallowell-Paul history published in 1924, including a cited examination of parish records in England. Burke's "American Families with British Ancestry" (1975) also corrects those earlier works and agrees with Hallowell-Paul. It is also possible that Mary Holland's marriage to John Hallowell was her second (her first being to a Sharpe), but this would have required the Nottingham and Darby Meeting records to have used her maiden name in the marriage to John Hallowell, a practice which was not common. A variant of this purported Sharp/e connection is given in a couple of secondary family history sources (themselves without further documentary references), most notably the "Hallowell-Halliwell Family's" compiled by Harriet May (Hunt) Lybolt (1980), that the marriage to Mary Sharp/e was actually a third marriage following the death of John's second wife Mary Holland in England and that it occurred on 19 Dec 1682. [It is not explained how the letter of transfer given to John Hallowell by the Derby meeting dated the same date appears in the records, but this purported third marriage does not.] The reasoning in support of this third marriage, which to-date has not been found in Quaker records in either England (Derby or Nottingham researched) or Pennsylvania, is given as follows: 1. A four year gap in children born to John around the time of the immigration 2. Mary Holland's parents immigrated with their own Quaker certificate 3. Only John Hallowell is listed in his certificate - why are his children not listed or did they have their own certificate? 4. Once in Pennsylvania, the Darby MM did not record the oldest 3 children in one of its listings, only the children born in Pennsylvania.

Rebuttal: (1) John's children are generally spaced under 3 years apart. The gap of three years and four months (not a full 4 years as suggested above) around the immigration of late 1682/early 1683 is the only exception so it might be indicative of a third marriage at this point. However, this gap between children is only 5-6 months longer than other gaps and it comes at what would have been a stressful time in a marriage - uproooting the entire family and travelling to America to start a new life. For all we know there could have been a miscarriage earlier in this time or they simply were unable to or chose not to conceive during the travelling period. More importantly, the Quaker records in Derby and Nottingham are otherwise very complete when it comes to recording births, deaths, and marriages relating to John Hallowell. Yet we are asked to believe without further evidence that (a) the death of John's second wife Mary Holland was not recorded, and (b) John's third marriage to yet another Mary (this one Mary Sharp/e) was also not recorded (whether it took place in England or Pennsylvania). (2) That Mary Holland's parents immigrated is undisputed. Did they do that to remain close to their grandchildren after the death of their daughter or to accompany the entire family, their daughter included? It seems that both answers are equally likely. Quaker adults who married within society rules were given their own certificates, so the married adult children of the Holland's, living or dead, would not have appeared on the elder Holland certificate. (3) Only John Hallowell is listed in his certificate. It was more common to list all members (and children under 21) in one certificate. Because this wasn't done in this case does not make it more likely that there was a change in marriage status. The children born before 1682 were not listed in any known certificate, even though they did immigrate with John and his wife Mary. She was also not listed in any found certificate. It seems most likely that the head of the family was granted a certificate that covered the entire family, and that documents surviving that list his wife and children by name did not exist or cannot be found. In any case, there is nothing to identify either the new wife by maiden name or the children from the purported previous marriage born in England, yet they did in fact immigrate. None of them can be found in any certificate so this provides no evidence in support of either position. (4) The Darby PA MM review of births applied only to those born in America and was accomplished in a historical review by the society a few years after the last of his children were born - the children born in England would not have been listed whether they were from a previous marriage or not. The Darby MM records only list the children born in Pennsylvania, omitting the 3 children born in England prior to immigration. That this is an indication of them coming from a different wife can be further rebutted by the fact that the entire family (including the children born in England and wife "Mary" - no maiden or surname name given) was listed in the Abington MM records when John moved the family to that area a few years later.

I believe the evidence supports that John Hallowell was married only twice, his second wife being Mary Holland and have indicated it that way in my records until documentary evidence for a third marriage is found that would necessitate a change. Hallowell-384

Sources

1. ↑ Gale Research Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s (tertiary source), ancestry.com, Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Year: 1682-1683; Page Number: 111
2. ↑ Gale Research Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s (tertiary source), ancestry.com, Place: Pennsylvania; Year: 1682; Page Number: 35
3. ↑ Marriage: "England & Wales, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Marriages 1578-1841"
   Reference: RG6/1368
   FindMyPast Image - FindMyPast Transcription (accessed 23 July 2022)
   John Hallowell marriage to Sarah Clay on 17 Apr 1672 in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire, England.
4. ↑ Marriage: "England & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837"
   The National Archives; Kew, England; General Register Office: Society of Friends' Registers, Notes and Certificates of Births, Marriages and Burials; Class: RG 6; Piece: 1368
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry uk Record 7097 #100560 (accessed 23 July 2022)
   John Hallowell marriage to Sarah Clay on 17 Apr 1672 in England.
5. ↑ Death Registration of John Hallowell, 1706 Darby PA Monthly Meeting Record of Births and Burials, on microfilm at Swarthmore Friends Library, Film MR-PH139

• Birth: "U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935"
  Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry uk Record 2189 #1735685 (accessed 23 July 2022)
  Samuell Hallowell born on 25 Apr 1692, child of John Hallowell & Mary Hallowell, in Delaware, Pennsylvania.

• Passenger List: "U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s"
  Place: Pennsylvania; Year: 1683; Page Number: 117
  Ancestry uk Record 7486 #3079180 (accessed 23 July 2022)
  Name: John Hallowell; Arrival Year: 1683; Arrival Place: Pennsylvania; Primary Immigrant: Hallowell, John; Source Publication Code: 8370; Annotation: This excellent work contains over 3,000 names and an index to vessels. Reprints the following articles with corrections, additions, and new materials: "The Real Welcome Passengers," by Marion Balderston (no. 242) pp. 1-26; "Pennsylvania's 1683 Ships," (no; Source Bibliography: SHEPPARD, WALTER LEE, JR., compiler and editor. Passengers and Ships prior to 1684. (Publications of the Welcome Society of Pennsylvania, 1.) Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1970. 245p. Reprinted by Heritage Books, Bowie, MD, 1985.;
  Household Members Relationship:
  John Hallowell
  Mary Hallowell
  Sarah Hallowell Child
  Thomas Hallowell Child.

• Burial: "U.S., Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current"
  Find a Grave. Find a Grave. Find A Grave: Memorial #119391428
  (accessed 23 July 2022)
  John Hallowell burial (died on 27 Oct 1706) in Jenkintown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States of America.