Captain William CRISPIN
(October 3, 1627 - 1681)

GENETIC PARENTS

Father: William CRISPIN (October 23, 1602 - April 8, 1645)
Mother: Elizabeth HARRISON (1605 - )

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GENETIC CHILDREN

OTHER RELATIONS

BASIC DATA

Names: William CRISPIN
Born: October 3, 1627
Married: Rebecca BRADSHAW September 28, 1652 in St Dunstan's, Stepney, Middlesex, England.
Resided: England and Ireland
Died: 1681
Buried:

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William CRISPIN Capt (1627 - 1681)

 

Early Pennsylvania Land Records

The following information is from "Minutes of the Board of Property of the Province of Pennsylvania" edited by William Henry Egle, M.D., Harrisburg: E. K. Meyers, State Printer, 1893.

Originally published as Volume XIX, Second Series, Pennsylvania Archives Harrisburg, 1893. Reprinted Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1976. Forward by George E. McCracken.

FORWARD

Not long after King Charles II granted to William Penn on 4 March 1680/1 the vast tract now known as Pennsylvania, the great Quaker began to lay plans for his new property. Uppermost in his mind was doubtless the desire to provide for his Friends a refuge from persecution, but along with this must have gone a wish to convert his new assets into cash.

This last aim was implemented, not by selling land outright, in which case conveyances would be delivered to the purchaser with a description of the land described in terms of metes and bounds, but by offering "rights" to a specified number of acres, the purchaser receiving for his money a warrant. This would prove his right when, after he had come to America and selected desirable land not yet taken up, he applied to the Surveyor General for a survey. The surveying done, the purchaser might then apply for a patent when he could afford to pay the fee.

Those who purchased rights while Penn was still in England have come to be known as "First Purchasers." A number of lists of such purchasers have been printed at various times, but most recently and most reliably by Mrs. Hannah Benner Roach in Welcome Society Publications, Vol. I (Genealogical Publishing Co., 1970), pp. 195-208, where previous printings are listed.

The "rights" were originally offered in lots of 5,000 acres, but a few persons purchased 10,000 acres, and many in fractions of 5,000 acres, the minimum number of acres accepted being usually stated as 250, but there is evidence of some purchases of only 125 acres, and a few of odd sized lots, e.g. 300 or 400 acres. Many of the First Purchasers appear to have bought only for investment and never came to America but sold to others who did become settlers.

As might be expected, a great many problems arose calling for decision by proprietary authority. Penn had sent on ahead as lieutenant governor his first cousin, William Markham, and when at London on 25 October 1681, he appointed as commissioners of property his trusty and well beloved Friends, William Crispin, William Haige, John Bezer and Nathaniel Allen. Crispin, however, died on his way to America and a new commission was issued by Penn at Gravesend on 31 [sic] 2nd month called April 1682, in which Crispin's name was replaced by Thomas Holme, actually the first Surveyor General. Upon his arrival on the Welcome on 28 October 1682, Penn took over control, which lasted until he departed on the Endeavor on 16 August 1684.

CRISPIN. Biographical & historical sketch of Capt. William Crispin of the British Navy ...also an historical research concerning the remote ancestry of English & American Crispins ...to which is added a section on genealogy & ancestry, by Rev. William F. Crispin. 144 pages 1901.

Some sources cite Wm. Crispin as having married Ann Jasper rather than Rebecca Bradshaw; it has been determined that this was an error which has been perpetuated in the literature; Wm Penn's father, Admiral Penn, and Rebecca Bradshaw's mother, Rachel Penn Bradshaw, were brother and sister, making Rebecca Bradshaw Crispin & Wm Penn, found of PA, 1st cousins - and their son, Silas Crispin, a 1st cousin once removed, in accord with the letters Wm and Silas exchanged, in which they referred to each other as cousins.

Colonial Families of the United States of America

Description:
This impressive database is a series of seven volumes covering the families of the early English colonies in America. Beginning with the first landing at Jamestown, this series covers families up through the start of the American Revolutionary War and beyond into the Nineteenth Century. Many vital records are included, as well as locations of births, marriages, and deaths. In addition to containing family genealogies this database also contains armorial bearings, or coats of arms, for some of the more prominent families from England and Scotland. Researchers will find this database filled with important information compiled by George Mackenzie, who was a member of the American Historical Association and National Genealogical Society.

Bibliography:
Mackenzie, George Norbury, ed. Colonial Families of the United States of America, New York: 1907.

Colonial Families of the United States of America: Volume 2
[p.373] ISSUE
ISAAC HOUGH, b. 15th Nov. 1726; d. 13th Apr. 1786. Removed to Warminster Township, Bucks Co., where he was a considerable landowner. He was an associator in the Warminster Company, 2d Bucks Co. Battalion, Col. Dr. John BEATTY, 1775; on administrative committees appointed by the Bucks Co. Committee of Safety, 1776-1777.
m. 24th Sept. 1748, Edith HART, b. 14th May, 1727, d. 27th Mar. 1805,
dau. of John HART, Jr., High Sheriff, Coroner and Justice of the Court of Bucks Co., by his wife, Eleanor,
dau. of Silas CRISPIN, first cousin of William PENN, Proprietary of Pennsylvania;
she was granddau. of Capt. Thomas HOLME, of the Parliamentary Army, Surveyor General of Pennsylvania, and sometime President of the Provincial Council; and of
Capt. Wm. CRISPIN, British Navy, Proprietary's Commissioner for settling the Colony in Pennsylvania;
she was the sister of Col. Joseph HART, Lieutenant of Bucks Co., Colonel Pennsylvania Militia, Chairman Bucks Co. Committee of Safety, member Provincial Conference and of Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania.

Colonial Families of the United States of America: Volume 7
ISSUE
The ancestor of this family was Richard STOCKTON, Lieutenant of Horse; b. in England, circa 1630; d. in Flushing, Long Island, September, 1707, Probably gd. son of Randall STOCKTON of London and gr. gd. son of John STOCKTON of Keddington, Cheshire County, England, and a descendant of Sir John STOCKTON, Lord Mayor of London, 1470-1471. Came to America with son Richard, settled first in Flushing, Long Island, prior to 8th November, 1656. Removed to Oneanickon, New Jersey, 1694 and bought 2000 acres of land; commissioned Lieutenant of Horse, 22d April, 1665; m. in England in 1652 Abigail, surname not known
(see "The Stockton Family," by Thomas Coates STOCKTON, M.D., of San Diego, California, published by The Carnahan Press, Washington, D. C., 1911.)
I. RICHARD, b. in London, England, probably 1654, of whom later.
II. John, b. 1674; d. 29th March, 1747; m. (firstly) Mary LEEDS, dau. of Daniel LEEDS, Surveyor General of West New Jersey; m. (secondly) Ann OGBORN, widow of John OGBORN.
[p.430]
III. Job, m. Ann PETTY, sister of William PETTY.
IV. Abigail, m. Jacob RIDGEWAY, Sr. of Burlington County, New Jersey.
V. Mary, m. (firstly) Thomas SHINN, son of John SHINN; m. (secondly) Silas CRISPEN, son of Rear Admiral William CRISPEN of the Royal Navy.
VI. Sarah, m. (firstly) Benjamin JONES of Burlington County, New Jersey; m. (secondly) 1706, William VEMCOMB.
VII. Hannah, m. Philip PHILLIPS.
VIII. Elizabeth, m. William BUDD, son of William and Ann BUDD.

HARRISON HERITAGE
p. 295 SEPTEMBER 1982
Genealogies Of Pennsylvania Families
(Family History Articles from "The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine")

VOLUME I: A-He

p.383 William Crispin, eldest surviving son of William and Alice (Colson) Crispin,
and father of Capt. William Crispin, was baptized at Hull, 23 Oct 1602.
He m. 14 Dec 1626 Elizabeth Harrison, dau. of Robert Harrison,
who m. Elizabeth Johnson at St. Mary, Hull 11 March 1599/1600.
Elizabeth Johnson was dau. of John and Ann Johnson of Hull.

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