HISTORY OF BUCKS COUXTV. 



been wrought by the various plots, and 

 so great was the fear of Catholic ascen- 

 dency among the people at that time, that 

 later, in t6S6, when James 11 issued the 

 general pardon to all who were in prison 

 on account of conscientious dissent, over 

 twelve hundred Quakers — perfectly inof- 

 fensive and harmless subjects as they were 

 — were released, "many having been im- 

 mured in prison, some of them twelve or 

 fifteen years and upwards, for no crime but 

 endeavoring to keep a good conscience to- 

 wards God." 



It was from this English barbarism and 

 English oppression that William Penn in- 

 vited his fellow Friends to join him in 

 what he called his "Holy Experiment" in 

 America. Accordingly, on the sth of the 

 7th month (September), 1682, the Pember- 

 tons and Harrisons, with other families, 

 sailed from Liverpool in the ship "Sub- 

 xnission" for Pennsylvania. As it may be 

 of interest to their descendants we give 

 below the list of passengers on the "Sub- 

 mission." This list is taken ,from James 

 Pemberton Parke's mss. account of the 

 Pemberton family, 1825. It is from this 

 >manuscript that the account of the family 

 ^published in the Friends' miscellany, vol. 

 vii, is drawn. The latter, however, con- 

 tains only a partial list of the passengers 

 given below. Our list also contains some 

 particulars not included in the list given 

 :in the "Sailing of the Ship Submission" 

 in vol. i, no. i, of the "Publications of 

 the Genealogical Society of .Pennsylvania," 

 Philadelphia, 1895. 



Passengers on board the ship "Sub- 

 xnission." 



Ralph Pemberton, Bolton, Lancashire, 

 age 72; servants, Joseph Mather, Eliza- 

 beth Bradbury. 



Phineas Pemberton, Bolton, Lanca- 

 shire, age 33 ; servants, William Smith, 

 servant of Phineas Pemberton, came in 

 Friends' Adventure, arrived 7th mo. 28, 

 :l682. 



Phebe Pemberton, wife of Phineas, 

 daughter of James Harrison, age 23 



Abigail Pemberton, daughter of Phineas, 

 age 3 years. 



Joseph Pemberton, son of same, aged 

 pne year. 



James Harrison, Bolton, Lancashire, 

 age 57 years: servants, Joseph Steward, 

 Allis Dickerson, Jane Lyon. 



Agnes Harrison, Bolton, Lancashire, 

 mother of James, age 81. 



Ann Harrison, his wife, Bolton, Lanca- 

 shire, age 61. 



Robert Bond, son of Thomas Bond, of 

 Waddicar Hall, near Garstang, Lancashire, 

 age 16; being left by his father to the tu- 

 ition of sd. James Harrison. 



Lydia Wharmsby, of Bolton afsd., age 



42- 



Randolph Blackshaw, Hollingee, in the 

 Co. of Chester, servants, Sarah Brad- 

 bury. Roger Bradbury, and Elinor his 

 wife and their children Hager, Jacob, 

 Joseph, Martha, and Sarah. 



Alice Blackshaw, his wife, and their chil- 

 dren, l^liebe, Sarah, Jacob, Mary, Neiie- 

 miah, Martha and Abraham, the latter 

 died at sea, 8 mo. 2d, 1682. 



Ellis Jones, and Jane his wife. Coun- 

 ty of Denby or Flint, in Whales, and 

 their children, Barbara. Dorothy, Mary 

 and Isaac Jones. "Servants of the Gov- 

 ernor Penn these came." 



Jane Mode and Margery Mode of Wales. 

 daughters of Thomas Winn, and the wife of 

 sd. Thomas Winn ; servants, Hareclif Hod- 

 ges, servant of Thomas Winn. 



James Clayton, of Middlewitch, Chester, 

 blacksmith, and Jane his wife, and cliil- 

 dren James, Sarah, John, Mary, Joshua 

 and Lydia. 



The list conforms to the account given 

 in the original "Book of Arrivals" in the 

 handwriting of Phineas Pemberton, now in 

 possession of the Bucks County Historical 

 Society. The list given in the Publications 

 of the Genealogical Society, above referred 

 to, gives, in addition to the above, "Rich- 

 ard Radclif, of Lancashire, aged 21," and 

 Ellen Holland, whose name adjoins that of 

 Hareclif Jones ; "Joseph* Clayton, aged 5," 

 and omits Joshua Jones ; and gives age of 

 Barbara Jones as 13, gives "Margery and 

 Jane Mede, aged 11 1-2 and 15, respective- 

 ly. It also gives "Rebeckah Winn. 20 years," 

 but omits the name of — Winn, wife of 

 Thomas. In re, Winn and Mode, see "Pen- 

 na. Magazine of History and Biography," 

 vol. ix, p 231, also "Genealogy of Fisher 

 Family, 1896, pp. 15, 199, and "Ancestry of 

 Dr. Thomas Wynne," 1904. 



James Settle, captain of the ship "Sub- 

 mission," was by the terms of his agree- 

 ment to proceed with the ship to the "Del- 

 aware River or elsewhere in Pennsylvania, 

 to the best convenience of the freighters," 

 but through his dishonesty they were taken 

 into Maryland, to their very great disad- 

 vantage where after a severe storm they had 

 enconntered at sea, on 8 mo. 2. 1682, they 

 arrived in the Patuxent river, on the 30th 

 of October, and unloaded their goods at 

 Choptank. Here James Harrison and Phin- 

 eas Pemberton, his son-in-law, left their 

 respective families, at the house of Will- 

 iam Dickenson, and proceeded overland to 

 the place of their original destination, the 

 "falls of the Delaware," in Bucks county. 

 William Penn, who had arrived on Octo- 

 ber 24, was at that time in New York ; 

 Harrison and Pemberton had hoped to meet 

 him at New Castle. When they arrived 

 at the present site of Philadelphia they 

 could not procure entertainment for their 

 horses, and so "spancelled" them and turned 

 them into the woods. The next morning 

 they sought for them in vain they having 

 strayed so far in the woods that one of 

 them was not found until the following 

 January. After two days searching they 

 were obliged to proceed up the river in a 

 bont. Philadelphia was not then founded, 

 and the country was a wilderness. 



James Harrison had received grants of 

 5,000 acres of land of Penn, when in Eng- 



