Antelope, sailing of 1682

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Antelope sailed from Belfast Ireland and arrived either the 9th or 10th of December 1682. She is the only known ship of William Penn's fleet with an Irish connection. See Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750 by Albert Cook Myers for more on this group. No surviving passenger list is known to exist.

Ships Master: Edward Cook ^[1]

James Atkinson from Clanbrazill, County Armagh ^[2] and indentured servant John Ashbrooke ^[3]

Ann Milcome, a widow from County Armagh Ireland^[4], her daughters Mary Milcome and Jane (Milcom) Graves.^[5], and indentured servant Francis Sanders ^[6] (Although not recognized by the Welcome Society, daughter Grace probably accompanied her mother).

• Valentine Hollingsworth^[7], his wife Ann^[8], his children Katherine^[9], Thomas^[10], Samuel^[11] and Mary^[12]; Mary's husband Thomas Conway^[13]; and indentured servant John Musgrave^[14]

• John Low ^[15] and Joseph Low ^[16] both of Ballhyhagen parish of Kilmore Armagh on a joint Certificate of Removal dated 31 5m 1682.

Notes

1. ↑ Beine
2. ↑ recognized by Welcome Society
3. ↑ recognized by Welcome Society; Beine #PS, #PM8
4. ↑ Beine, PM9
5. ↑ recognized by Welcome Society
6. ↑ "loose the 10th of the 10 mo 1686" #PS
7. ↑ recognized by Welcome Society
8. ↑ recognized by Welcome Society (this would be his 2nd wife, Ann Calvert-183; his 1st wife, Ann Ree-2, died in 1671)
9. ↑ recognized by Welcome Society
10. ↑ recognized by Welcome Society
11. ↑ recognized by Welcome Society
12. ↑ recognized by Welcome Society
13. ↑ recognized by Welcome Society
14. ↑ recognized by Welcome Society; possibly Musgrave-45
15. ↑ Beine, #PS
16. ↑ Beine, #PS

Sources

• Passengers recognized and approved for membership by the Welcome Society

• Joe Beine, Reconstructing the Antelope Passenger List citing as sources:

#HR Hollingsworth, Harry. The Hollingsworth Register (Inglewood, CA); Volume 24, Number 2, June, 1988; "A Case for the Antelope."

(WC) McCracken, George E. The Welcome Claimants Proved, Disproved and Doubtful with an Account of Some of their Descendants (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1970); pages 248-250.

(IQ) Myers, Albert C. Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750, with Their Early History in Ireland (Swarthmore, PA: The author, 1902); pages 277-278. This book is searchable online (with an Ancestry subscription): Immigration of Irish Quakers to Pennsylvania, 1682-1750

(PM8) The Pennsylvania Magazine of History & Biography (Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1884); Volume 8, pages 328-340; "A partial list of the families who arrived at Philadelphia between 1682 and 1687."

(PM9) The Pennsylvania Magazine of History & Biography (Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1885); Volume 9, page 224.

(PS) Sheppard, Walter Lee. Passengers and Ships Prior to 1684 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1970); pages 61-62.

	Fleet of William Penn Pennsylvania Settlers
1681	Bristol Factor, John & Sarah
1862	Amity, Antelope , Bristol Factor, Elizabeth, Ann & Catherine , Freeman , Friends Adventure , Friendship, Golden Hinde, Hester and Hanna, Hopewell, Jeffrey, Lamb, Lyon, Mary, Providence, Samuel, Society, Submission, Unicorn, Welcome