1683.10.01: Bristol Comfort
Date of Arrival: 8th month, 1, 1683
Master: John Read
Listings: 1W. L. Sheppard, Passengers and ships prior to 1684: volume 1 of Penn’s colony : genealogical and historical materials relating to the settlement of Pennsylvania. Westminster, Md.: Heritage Books, 2006.
- Beardsley, Alexander and wife Margaret and daughter Mary, settled in Philadelphia
- Bezer, Edward (Beazer) from Rowde, Wiltshire, settled in Bethel township
- Bowater, Thomas, as servant to Francis Fincher, settled in Edgmont township
- Burrows, Robert
- Bushel, Joseph, whose second wife Sarah Webb and children Jane (married Walter Martin) and Abigail (married Nicholas Pyle) may have been with him. He settled in Concord township
- Flower, Enoch and nephew Henry Flower, from Wiltshire
- Fincher, Francis and wife Mary
- Gibbons, John and wife Margery and sons John and James. Gibbons had shipped goods on the Amity in 1682
- Hayward, James – a servant to Edward Beazer
- Hillyard, Richard a and wife Mary and sons Richard and Philip
- Hodgkins, Millicent (or Hopkins) with daughter Birdget
- Lewis, Christianus
- Luff, John and wife Jane and father Edward
- Maris, George and wife Alice of Hadswell, Inkborough, Worchestershire and children Alice, George, Elizabeth, Anna, John and probably Richard
- Pierson. Thomas, married Rachel Sharley in 1686, and then Rose Dixson in 1690
- Price, John, a probable passenger
- Pyle, Robert , with wife Ann and daughter Sarah, settled in Bethel township
- Smith, Elizabeth, a widow, married Edward Luff
- Waite, John
- Yarnall, Francis, settled in Springfield township, may have been accompanies by his brother Philip
Sources & Notes
- 1W. L. Sheppard, Passengers and ships prior to 1684: volume 1 of Penn’s colony : genealogical and historical materials relating to the settlement of Pennsylvania. Westminster, Md.: Heritage Books, 2006.