1683.10.01: Bristol Comfort

Date of Arrival: 8th month, 1, 1683
Master: John Read
Listings:​[1]​

  • 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
  1. [1]
    W. 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.

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