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Below is a timeline I put together from various sources. I did this awhile back and still need to get the source where I got the information from, but in most cases it is stated.

 

Timeline for Shackmaxon

 

1664.  

 

June     Peter Larsson Cock patented original Shackmaxon tract from Governor d'Hinojossa on June 5th, 1664.

 

1671.   [1671 Cenus of the Delaware by Dr. Peter Craig]

 

“Although Wharton listed Lasse Cock as residing at Tinicum Island, he lived at

Shackamaxon on a 600-acre tract patented to his father, Peter Larsson Cock, by

Governor d'Hinojossa, 5 June 1664.

 

Lars Petersson Cock (#2), commonly known as Lasse Cock, was born in New Sweden on 21 March 1646, the eldest son of Peter Cock (#28), and had married Martha Ashman, daughter of Robert Ashman (#10), 15 May 1669. They had two children, Catharine (born December 1669) and Peter (b. 20 January 1671) by the time of this census. Concurrently with this census, Wharton issued him a patent in the name of Governor Lovelace, dated 1 May 1671, confirming this tract to Peter Cock and Michael Nilsson Lyckan (#70), who was then in the process of joining his nephew Lasse Cock at this location.

 

The land was not surveyed by Walter Wharton until 2 November 1675, when he found the land contained 1600 (not 600) acres.  The survey was not only for Lasse Cock and Michael Nilsson Lyckan, but also for Eric Cock, Otto Ernest Cock, Gunnar Rambo (who had married a daughter of Peter Cock), and Peter Nilsson Lyckan.  Lovelace issued a patent to these six, which was recorded 13 July 1676.

 

Lasse Cock sold his interest to Elizabeth Kinsey on 30 March 1676 and thereafter

lived in Passyunk.  Otto Ernest Cock never lived at Shackamaxon; he appears to

have given his share to Michael & Peter Nilsson Lyckan. Michael and Peter Lyckan and Gunnar Rambo conveyed parts of their land to Jacob Young, sexton of Gloria Dei Church, on 1 January 1684.  Young had probably moved to this land before Penn's arrival.

 

At the time of Penn's arrival, the two Lyckan families, Eric Cock's family,

Gunnar Rambo's family and Jacob Young were living at Shackamaxon.

In the late 1690s, Michael Lyckan and Eric Cock moved to West New Jersey and

Gunnar Rambo moved to Upper Merion Township.  Jacob Young died at Shackamaxon in 1686 as did Peter Lyckan in 1692.”

 

1677.  

 

March  On March 13, 1677, there was a court again held in Upland. The justices present were Peter Cock, Peter Rambo, Israel Helme, Lasse Andries and Otto Ernest (Cock).

 

The first case handled in this court was an attachment of goods for debt. Sheriff Cantwell being the plaintiff and John Ashman [the father of Lasse Cock's wife] the defendant. The case was continued until the next court. The High Sheriff then appeared as plaintiff against an Englishman Richard Duckert and a negro woman, a servant of Lasse Cock. This case also was continued until the next court. Justice Israel Helme then appeared as plaintiff against Oele Oolsen (Kukko). The defendant is accused of an attack upon Justice Helme. A witness Lace Coleman testifies that he had seen it and that Israel Helme's shirt was torn all in pieces. The defendant remaining absent, the court ordered him to appear at the next court to defend himself, or in case of further default judgment will be passed against him according to law and merit. Thereafter Morten Mortensen appears as plaintiff against Mouns Staeck. The defendant is accused of killing the plaintiff's ox. The witnesses not appearing, the case was continued until the next court when the witnesses were ordered to appear upon fine. The same plaintiff again appear against the same defendant in a case of assault and battery. The witnesses being heard the case was continued until further order and the parties were recommended to settle their differences in the meantime. In the next case Anthony Nealson was the plaintiff and Lace Dalboo the defendant. The plaintiff not appearing by himself or by attorney a non suit was ordered against the plaintiff with costs. A petition was presented by Johannes d'Haes in which he says of having obtained a patent from the late Governor Lovelace upon a piece of land at the bend of the river, between the land of Oole Fransen and Company and the creek called Naaman's Creek; which said land was not yet surveyed, so that the petitioner is uncertain of the quantity of his land and therefore desired that the court would be pleased to give order and issue a warrant for the laying out of this land. The court did grant the request and that warrant will be issued for the survey of the land.

The charges for keeping the court in the house of Neales Laersen and the diet of the justices and their guest Captain Collier amounted this day 100 guilders, which sum was allowed by the court.

The court adjourned until the 2d Tuesday of June next. After which there is a land deal, Jan Hendrickse acknowledging a deed for a parcel of land transferred by him to William Orian. The latter again conveys half of the land to Michill Izard.

After the court session there was a council held about the Indian affairs by the commander and the justices. A news had reached the River about the coming of the Simeco (Seneca) Indians to fetch the Susquehannos that were keeping themselves amongst the Delaware River Indians. It was concluded upon the motion of Rinowehan the Indian Sachamore for the most quiet Indians at the River, that Captain Collier and Justice Israel Helme go up to Sachamexin (Shackamaxon) where a great number of Simeco and other Indians had gathered and that they endeavor to persuade the Simecos, the Susquehannos and the Delaware River Indians to send each a Sachamore or Deputy to his honor the Governor at New York, and that justice Israel Helme goes with them to hear and receive the governor's resolutions and answer to the demands of the Indians.

 

Aug.     JOHN KINSEY was born in Much Haddam, Herfordshire, England, and died August 14, 1677 in PA. He was the father of Elizabeth Kinsey, the wife of Thomas Fairman.

 

According to the family records of George Kinsey, the first of the name to settle in this country, with whom we can claim relationship, was John Kinsey. He was an English Quaker originally from the village of Much Haddam, Hertfordshire, England and was a friend and associate of George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends. While living in England he was frequently put in prison with Fox for non-payment of thithes. In the year 1677, John Kinsey sailed from England in the ship 'Kent' and landed in this country June 16 at Newcastle on the Delaware River. Settlement was made by the emigrants of the ship 'Kent' at what is now known as Burlington, N.J. John, however, selected and bought three hundred acres of land of Laurenz [Lasse] Cock, a Swede, on the west side of the Delaware River above the mouth of the Schuylkill, embracing the locality which afterwards became famous for Penn's Treaty Tree [Shackamaxon], and which is now included in the city of Philadelphia. John Kinsey died August 14, 1677, before the purchase was completed, and at a court held at Upland (now Chester), Pa., on November 12, 1678, Laurenz Cock appeared before the Justice and made formal acknowledgement of his deed of conveyance to Elizabeth Kinsey, daughter of John, and heir to the land. John Kinsey was one of the Commissioners for the settlement of New Jersey under the purchase of Edward Byllinge.

           

[Descendants of Philip Kinsey: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~kenzie/GenKinsey.htm]

           

1682.  

 

Jan.            “William Haige, a London Quaker merchant of Scottish descent, who served two years on the Provincial Council, helped to implement proprietary land policies in Pennsylvania and East New Jersey….William Haige, lived with Thomas Fairman at Shackamaxon, briefly upon his arrival in January of 1682.  He soon accompanied Fairman and Markham on many expeditions through the woods, exploring the quality and availability of lands.”

           

[p. 395-398, Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania; a Biographical Dictionary, Volume one 1682-1709, Craig Horle & Marianne S.Wokeck, Editors.]

 

June.    William Cooper, no doubt conversant with the project of planting a city near Shackamaxon (now Kensington, Philadelphia), located a tract of three hundred acres immediately opposite, at the junction of the Delaware with Aroches Creek [in New Jersey], which now bears his name, and obtained a certificate for the same from the commissioners June 12, 1682.

 

On his arrival the place he selected was occupied by a small band of friendly Indians, under a chief named Arasapha. The title to the land on the Delaware between Oldmans Creek and Rancocas Creek had been purchased of the Indians in 1677, but William Cooper extinguished what rights they still might possess at Pyne Point by a conveyance from the chief Arasapha. This deed was a few years ago in the possession of Joseph W. Cooper, but is now unfortunately lost. Intercourse between Shackamaxon, where the pioneers of Penn’s colony, under Fairman, the surveyor, and Markham, the deputy-governor, and Pyne Point had long been established by canoe ferry between the Indian settlements at those places, and the settlers on both sides of the river could therefore well meet together for religious worship.

 

At a Yearly Meeting of Friends held at Salem, Second Month 11, 1682, for both Jersies and Pennsylvania, it was therefore ordered "that the Friends at (Pyne Point) and these at Shakomaxin do meet together once a month on the 2d and 4th day in every month, the first meeting to be held at William Cooper’s, at Pyne Point, the 2d and 4th day of the 3d month next, and the next meeting to be at Thomas Fairman’s, at Shakomaxin, and so in course." This meeting was alternately held at Cooper’s house until the arrival of Penn, when it was removed to Philadelphia.

 

William Cooper was present at the treaty of Penn with the Indians in 1682 at Shackamaxon, opposite his house.

 

Aug.            “Thomas Holme, a gentleman and captain in the English Army, settled in Ireland, where he became a prominent Quaker and from where he migrated to Pennsylvania. As surveyor general of Pennsylvania and the Lower Counties his influence on the development of settlement in the province was considerable; his maps of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia have gained him special recognition far beyond the sphere of the colonial Delaware valley…. Thomas Holme lived with Thomas Fairman, at Shackmaxon, for six months upon arrival (Aug, 1682) with his two sons and two daughters and three servants that accompanied him on the voyage.”

           

            [p. 442-446, Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania; a Biographical Dictionary, Volume one 1682-1709, Craig Horle & Marianne S.Wokeck, Editors.]

 

Sept.    Samuel Allen (c. 1635-1702), a cordwainer, of Chew Magna, Somersetshire, arrived in Philadelphia on the ship "Bristol Factor," in 1681. His daughter was Priscilla Allen (c.1665-1706). Priscilla, married Thomas Smith on September 9th, of 1682, at the Abington Meeting, which was at that time held at Shackamaxon, at Thomas Fairman's home. Thomas Fairman was a witness to Samuel Allen's will.

 

Thomas Smith, Priscilla's husband,  was a brickmaker and the brother-in-law of Daniel Pegg, the well-known brickmaker. Samuel Allen's eldest daughter Martha married Daniel Pegg, of the Northern Liberties, in a home wedding 22 2nd Mo. 1686. Daniel, known as a brickmaker,  was listed as a yeoman owning 300 acres along the Delaware River between Cohocksink and Pegg's Run. Pegg had purchased Jurian Hartsfielder's tract on the south side of the Cohocksink Creek. He was the same Pegg who the creek "Pegg's Run" was named for. On Thomas Smith's will Daniel Pegg was his overseer. Daniel Pegg's brick house was completed in 1685 on the banks of the Delaware River between the Cohoquioque (Pegg's Run, now Willow St.) and the Cohocksinck Creek, in what is now the Northern Liberties section of Philadelphia.

 

A brother of the Allen girls, was Samuel Allen, Jr., who married Jane Waln, the daughter of Nicolas Waln and Jane Turner. The Walns and Turners were both large landowners in the Northern Liberties.

 

[Allen Family Genealogy: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~marshall/esmd111.htm]

 

Nov.    William Penn's Treaty with the Indians at Shackamaxon.

 

1683.

 

Oct.            “Samuel Carpenter, an English Quaker arrived in Pennsylvania in October 1683… His allotted 80 acres of liberty lands were surveyed to him at Shackamaxon, north of Philadelphia, the beginning of an estate there that would reach 470 acres…About 1704 Carpenter had moved to his plantation at Shackamaxon; in September 1713 he sold that estate to Isaac Norris and moved to Bristol.”

           

            [p. 257-265, Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania; a Biographical Dictionary, Volume one 1682-1709, Craig Horle & Marianne S.Wokeck, Editors.]

 

This estate sold to Norris was the Sepviva plantation, containing some 380 acres. This estate was located between Frankford Avenue, Aramingo Avenue, Lehigh Avenue, & Norris Street.

 

            “Robert Turner, English born, Irish bred Quaker linendraper, soldier, colonizer, real-estate speculator, and officeholder…arrived in Pennsylvania October of 1683... Turner owned 432 acres of liberty land north of Philadelphia and 892 acres in Shackamaxon… He sold 420 acres of liberty land for 257 pounds... He was involved in the laying out of a road from Philadelphia to the falls of the Delaware River, current  Bristol Pike.

 

            [p. 709-716, Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania; a Biographical Dictionary, Volume one 1682-1709, Craig Horle & Marianne S.Wokeck, Editors.]

 

1684.  

 

            “John Goodson, a Quaker surgeon from London…arrived in Pennsylvania October of 1682. Between 1684 and 1693, Goodson amassed a 435-acre estate in Shackamaxon and the Northern Liberties... By 1721 Goodson disposed of about 314 acres of his Northern Liberties holding, including 271 acres to his son Job...  Beginning in 1690 Goodson resided primarily on his estate in the Northern Liberties, but in 1721 he returned to the city of Philadelphia.

           

            [p. 371-373, Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania; a Biographical Dictionary, Volume one 1682-1709, Craig Horle & Marianne S.Wokeck, Editors.]

 

1686.

 

Jacob Jongh [Young], sexton and school-master at Wicaco church, dies in Shackamaxon. Anders Bengtsson becomes lay reader to assist the now-blind Jacobus Fabritius. His wife married John Tonk [Tanck] afterwards and continued to live in Shackamaxon.

 

[http://www.colonialswedes.org/History/Chronology.html]

 

1692.

William Salway, arrived in Pennsylvania in November of 1683.  He contructed a fulling mill in 1690 along  the Frankford Creek in Tacony Township, Philadelphia, on the site of his 220 acre home…. Apparently Salway did a brisk business, for in 1692 residents in Shackamaxon requested that a road be built to his mill.

 

[p. 655-656, Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania; a Biographical Dictionary, Volume one 1682-1709, Craig Horle & Marianne S.Wokeck, Editors.] 

 

1696.

 

Francis Rawle, arrived in Philadelphia June 1686. He married the daughter of Robert Turner. By 1696 Rawle had moved outside the city to 212-acres in the Northern Liberties granted to him by his father-in-law, and apparently reduced his mercantile activities, becoming essentially a yeoman; by 1717 he was described as a gentleman. On Robert Turner's death in 1700 Rawle's wife inherited half of her father's considerable estate, adding to the Rawle family holdings properties in New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Chester County along with more then 35 Philadelphia City lots. As Turner died interstate, however, problems arose over the division of the properties. The 212-acre Northern Liberties estate home was partitioned under separate agreement in 1723. Rawle died in 1726. His widow offered his estate for sale describing it as two and a half miles from town.

 

[p. 874-881 Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania; a Biographical Dictionary, Volume Two 1710-1756, Craig Horle & et al, Editors.]

 

1697.

 

June     On June 6th, 1697, Gunnar Rambo sells part of this Shackmaxon tract to George Lillington (183 acres plus 8 acres of meadow).

 

1698.

 

June     On June 11th, 1698, Gunnar Rambo sells to Thomas Fairman, Shackamaxon Island, later called Petty's Island.

 

1699.

 

July      On July 17th, 1699, Gunnar Rambo, now residing above the falls of the Schuylkill [Matsunk] sold 100 acres at Shackamaxon (part conveyance from his father-in-law Peter Cock) to John Bowyer, shipwright. Bowyer is believed to be the first shipwright in the area. This property was on Gunnar's Run, today’s Aramingo Avenue.

 

1710.  

 

Jan.      Isaac Norris, arrived circa 1693, from Jamaica.  Norris settled at Fairhill, his country estate on the Germantown Road (modern Germantown Avenue) in 1717. It was near the Fairhill meeting where he sometimes worshipped.   The mansion house was supposed to have been located on modern day 7th Street, between York and Cumberland Streets. He had purchased the 156-acre property in January 1710, and it became the nucleus of a three-plantation estate that he assembled in the Northern Liberties of Philadelphia. In January 1713 Norris bought Samuel Carpenter's 457-acre estate at Shackamaxon, and the next month he acquired 192 acres from John Michener. In October of that year he purchased a single patent covering all three tracts, known respectively as Fairhill, Sepviva, and Michener's.  He died in 1735 leaving his Fairhill estate to his wife who died in 1748. He left the Sepviva Estate to his son Isaac.

 

[p.760-784, Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania; a Biographical Dictionary, Volume Two 1710-1756, Craig Horle & et al, Editors.]

 

1711.

 

June.    Job Goodson, ally of Sir William Keith, arrived October 1682 with his father, John Goodson.  Aside from three Philadelphia "tenements" that his wife had inherited from her first husband, Goodson evidently owed most, if not all, of his real estate holdings, including the Skippack land, to his father. In June 1711 he bought 108 acres in two tracts in the Northern Liberties of Philadelphia from his father; on the same day, out of "natural love," the elder Goodson conveyed to him six other tracts in the liberties and in Shackamaxon Township, altogether 335 1/2 acres, plus a lot on Front Street in the City. Alone and in conjunction with his father, Goodson subsequently sold all of that property except for a small tract of 12 acres on the east side of the Germantown Road (modern Germantown Avenue) for slightly over 1,300 pounds. Although Goodson paid quitrents on tracts of 288 acres and 70 acres in 1732, 1736, and 1738, after his sale of 338 acres in the Northern Liberties in 1737, his rural holdings were probably limited to the 12 -acre tract on Germantown Road and a small lot in Germantown that he bought in 1741. He died in 1742 leaving his estate to his wife who remarried to Henry Van Aken.

 

[p. 396-400, Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania; a Biographical Dictionary, Volume Two 1710-1756, Craig Horle & et al, Editors.]

 

1714.

 

April.    Samuel Carpenter died at the house of his son-in-law William Fishbourn, at Sepviva Plantation, in the County of Philadelphia, on 10th April, 1714, after having been ill for almost two weeks of a fever “accompanied w[I]th violent Rehumatick pains.”

 

[p.263-264, Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania; a Biographical Dictionary, Volume One, 1682-1709, Craig Horle & et al, Editors.]

 

1716.

 

Joseph Redman, arrived by Jan. 1684.  By 1716 he had purchased 37 1/2 acres in the Northern Liberties (which he sold in 1715), and 191 1/2 acres at Shackamaxon. Worked with Thomas Masters on the causeway at the upper end of the city of Philadelphia. He sold his Shackamaxon land by 1718. Brother of Thomas Redman.

 

[p. 884-886, Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania; a Biographical Dictionary, Volume Two 1710-1756, Craig Horle & et al, Editors.]

 

This 191 ½ acres of Redman would eventually be purchased by Anthony Palmer and Palmer would found his town of Kensington upon it.

 

c1726-1729.

 

            A club called the Bachelors' Club, located on the Delaware River shore, at about today’s Shackamaxon Street, was founded.  It was considered the first country club adjacent to the city. "Bachelors' Hall," as it was commonly called, was made “notorious” by its festivities. It is stated that the first botanic garden, for the cultivation of plants having medicinal properties, was established at Bachelor’s Hall, in Shackamaxon, in the neighborhood of the present Allen and Shackamaxon Streets.

 

1742.

 

William Callender (Callendar/Callandar), arrived in Pennsylvania in 1733, from Barbados. In 1742, with the acquisition of three small parcels of land along the Delaware River in Shackamaxon Township, Philadelphia County, Callender had begun to assemble a country estate. Altogether, he forged a plantation of nearly 70 acres out of seven contiguous tracts acquired through six purchases made from 1742 to 1750. The smallest tract, which he bought from Joseph Fox in December 1745, consisted of 2 acres, while the largest, which he purchased from his brother Benjamin and two other Barbadians in November 1750, comprised 23 acres. By at least the end of 1747, Callender, who named the plantation Richmond Seat, had a country house on the property. He died in 1762 leaving his estate to his wife Catharine who sold Richmond Seat for 2,500 pounds in 1763 and moved to Burlington, NJ.

 

[p. 253-261, Lawmaking and Legislators in Pennsylvania; a Biographical Dictionary, Volume Two 1710-1756, Craig Horle & et al, Editors.]


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