Dorothy Jane Jones

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Quaker
• Death: 1730, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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1703 Delaware Court: "Dorothy, wife of Richard Cantrell, presented for masking in men's clothes the day after Christmas, walking and dancing in the house of John Simes at 9 or 10 o'clock at night." John Simes who gave the masquerade party, was presented for keeping a disorderly house," a nursery of debotch ye inhabitants and youth of this cithy..to ye grief of and disturbance of peaceful minds and propagating ye throne of wickedness amongst us." Dorothy Jones Cantrill seems to have been a young lady of considerable spirit and independence of character. She not only married the man of her choice, irrespective of her religious training, but later evidence is found of her love of gayety and society in an old history of Philadelphia, where she figured at a masquerade ball, much to the horror of her more quiet Quaker friends. She seems to have inherited her love of society from her mother, for the name of Jane Jones appears as a witness to the marriage of a great many Quakers of her day, and the Quaker weddings were probably the principal events affording those of that sect an expression to there social instinct.

Name: Dorothy Jane Jones

Sex: F

Birth: 1672 in Wales

Death: 30 OCT 1755 in Philadelphia, PA

Father: Ellis Jones

Mother: Jane

Marriage 1 Richard Cantrill 2 b: 13 MAY 1660 in Derbyshire County, England

Children

Mary Cantrell b: 1694
Joseph Cantrell b: 1695 in Philadelphia, PA
Zebulon Cantrell b: 1697
Dorothy Cantrell b: 1699

http://www.ajlambert.com/jones/gen_ctrl.pdf

Richard married about 1693 Dorothy Jones. Dorothy was born aborn in 1672 in Wales and came to Pennsylvania with her parents in the ship "Submission" in 1682. She was the third of four children of Ellis and Jane Jones, who were Quakers and had come to America to escape religious persecution. Since Richard Cantrell was not a Quaker, he and Dorothy were married "out of meeting", as the Quaker term goes. Their apparent first child died, and the Race Street meeting house records list under Burial os Those Not Friends, "Mary, 1-6, 1695, parents Richard and Dorothy Cantrill." Dorothy Jones Cantrell is said to have gone so far from her Quaker upbringing that she attended a masquerade ball in Philadelphia, and she was apparently fond of social events. Dorothy and Richard Cantrell, as city dwellers, had what was probably an easier life than many of their descendants would have when they moved to the frontier communities of the Carolinas and Tennessee. As shown by the will of Dorothy's mother, Jane Jones, Richard and Dorothy Jones Cantrell had four known children: + 2. i. Mary2 Cantrell b abt 1694 burial 6 Jan 1695 Race Street Meeting House, Philadelphia, PA. + 3. ii. Joseph2 Cantrell b ca 1695 Philadelphia, PA m Catharina _______. + 4. iii. Zebulon2 Cantrell b abt 1697 Philadelphia, PA, and appears on the tax list in Chester Co., Pennsylvania, in 1718. He was a cordwainer, or shoemake, by occupation. Zebulon moved later into the Welsh Tract district in New Castle County (now Delaware). There he was a witness to a will in 1758. In 1763 he bought 200 acres of land there. Family tradition says that he and his son Joseph moved to Botetourt Co., Virginia, befor the Revolutionary War. + 5. iv. Dorothy2 Cantrell b abt 1710, was living and unmarried when her grandmother Jane Jones made her will in 1730. No further information..

Dorothy was the daughter of Ellis Emmanuel Jones and Ellen Jane Evans, natives of Wales.

Ellis Jones immigrated to the Colonies aboard the "Submission" in September 1682, along with his wife, Jane (age 40), and his children, Barbara (age 13), Mary (age 12), Dorothy (age 10), and Isaac (age (4 months). Ellis was a resident of Bucks County, PA in 1684, but by 1689 had settled in Philadelphia. He is on a list of “Important Colonists” who came to Philadelphia on board the Submission. His name is also on record in the Welsh Tract Purchases as having purchased one hundred acres in Nantonell Parish, Radnor. He was a weaver and servant to the Governor. Ellis Jones made his will March 22, 1722, and he died in Philadelphia July 16, 1727. His will was executed September 23, 1727. His wife, Jane was the executor. Kinsman John Pugh. Wit: Ellis Jones (his mark), John Jones, John Jones, Jr.

Dorothy married Richard Cantrell on 5 Mar 1691 at Philadelphia, PA. They were the parents of four children: Mary, Joseph, Zebulon, and Dorothy.

Jane Jones died in Philadelphia October 2, 1732. The will of Jane Jones, relict of Ellis Jones, was executed at Philadelphia, August 3, 1730, and recorded December 27, 1732. It mentions child: Mary; grandchildren: Daniel and Nathan Pegg, Jane Flower, Zebulon Cantril, Joseph Cantril, and Dorothy Cantril, Mary Price, Jane, Richard White. Exec: Mary Jones. Codicil: December 7, 1732. Grandchildren: Ellis and Susannah Jones, children of Mary Jones, deceased: Exec. John Cadwalader. Witnesses: James Estaugh, Joseph Fordham, and Sarah Elfreth. To each she gave “one English shilling, or the value of it in coyn current.”

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Dorothy Jones was the daughter of Elias and Jane Jones. They had come to America from Denbigh, Flint, Wales, in the ship Submission, in September 1682. The log of the ship lists the family. Dorothy was 10 when she arrived. The Jones family were Quakers, so by marrying someone from the Church of England, Dorothy had married "out of meeting," to use the Quaker term.


This site tells this story about Richard and Dorothy Cantrell.......


1703 Court Proceeding, extracted by Schart.

Among the Grand Jury presentments-

"Dorothy, wife of Richard Cantrell, presented for masking in men's clothes the day after Christmas, walking and dancing in the house of John Simes at 9 or 10 o'clock at night. (John Simes, who gave the masquerade party, was presented for keeping a disorderly house, described as a 'nursery of debotch ye inhabitants and youth of this city...to ye crief of and disturbance of peaceful minds and propagating ye throne of wickedness amonstus'.

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Birth:
Old map of Flint ... http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genmaps/genfiles/COU_files/WAL/DEN/saxton-kip_den_1607.html

Religion:
History of the Quakers. The Religious Society of Friends began as a movement in England in the mid 17th century in Lancashire. Members are informally known as Quakers, as they were said "to tremble in the way of the Lord".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Quakers

Dorothy married Richard L. Cantrell, II on 5 Mar 1691 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Richard (son of Richard L. Cantrell, Sr. and Alice LNU) was born in 1666 in Bakewell, Derbyshire, England; was christened on 13 May 1666 in Bakewell, Derbyshire, England; died on 31 May 1753 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; was buried in Gloria Dei Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Since Richard Cantrell was not a Quaker, he and Dorothy were married "out of meeting", as the Quaker term was used.

1. Mary Cantrell was born in 1694-1695 in (Philadelphia) Pennsylvania; died in (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); was buried on 1 May 1695 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2. Joseph C. Cantrell was born on 29 Dec 1695 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died in 1738 in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware; was buried in Gloria Dei Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
3. Zebulon Cantrell was born in 0___ 1697 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
4. Dorothy Cantrell was born in 0___ 1699 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Weaver
• Religion: Quaker
• Immigration: 5 Sep 1682, Flint, Denbighshire, Wales
• Immigration: 2 Nov 1682, Maryland
• Will: 22 Mar 1722, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Notes:

The Jones family came from either Denby or Flint, Wales. They sailed to America on the Submission, the last of the 23 ships which brought Quakers to Pennsylvania in 1682. The Submission sailed on September 6, 1682, but unfortunately for the passengers, landed on Chesapeake Bay instead of Philadelphia. On October 19 they had noticed the smell of pine trees and on November 2 landed at Choptank on Maryland's Eastern shore. (Capt. James Settle didn't keep a log for the last days of the voyage; it's quite likely that he didn't know where he was.) Left to get to Pennsylvania on their own, most of the passengers walked about 40 miles to Appoquinimink, the lowest section of New Castle County, and 20 miles from the town of New Castle. Ellis Jones, along with several other passengers, lived in Bucks County, PA in 1684.

He was listed among the servants aborad the Submission and was called "the Govern's miller" when he sold 20 acres to Richard Miles in Radnor Township, Bucks County. (Date not known.) Ellis is listed as a weaver of Nantele in a survey of Radnorshire land owners; he is credited with 100 acares. Another record lists him as buying land in Chester County.

ELLIS JONES, of county Denbigh, in Wales, with his wife and servants of William Penn, Barbara, Dorothy, Mary, and Isaac; Jane and Margery, daughters of Thomas Winn, of Wales, and mother; Hareclif Hodges, a servant; Lydia Wharmly, of Bolton; James Clayton, of Middlewich, in Chester, blacksmith, and his wife, Jane, with children, James, Sarah, John, Josiah, and Lydia;

Old map of Flint, Denbighshire, Wales ... http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genmaps/genfiles/COU_files/WAL/DEN/saxton-kip_den_1607.html

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"From the log of the "Submission";

Ellis Jones, age 35 years
Barbara Jones, age 13
Dorothy Jones, age 10
Jane Jones, age 40
Mary Jones, age 12
Issac Jones, age 4 months.

Ellis Jones is mentioned in the "Pennsylvania Historical Magazine" in a list names of "Important Colonists who came in the 'Submission'". He resided in Bucks County (PA) in 1684 but did not remain there long and in Welsch Tract Purchases his name appears as having purchased one-hundred acres in Nontonell Parish, Radnor.

Quaker by conviction...Christie.

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W.W. Hinshaw's "Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy"; Wills; JONES, Ellis. City of Philadelphia. Weaver. 3 mo 22, 1722/23. Sept. 23, 1727.E.60. Wife and Exec.: Jane. Kinsmen: John Pugh. Witness: Ellis Jones (his mark), John Jones, John Jones, Jr.

More About ELLIS EMANUEL JONES:
Emigration: 1682, Arrived on the ship "Submission" in Chester Co., PA
Religion: The Religious Society of Friends or "Quakers"

Ellis and Jane came to America in 1682 on the "Ship Submission" from Wales. Children; Barbary, Mary, Dorothy and Isaac. were in Berks CO, in 1684.

"WILL OF ELLIS JONES I,

Ellis Jones of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania, Weaver, & being at presest weak of body but by the mercy of God of perfect and sound memory, I now considering the certainty of Death and the Uncertainty when it may please God to bring me to it, do think it convenient to settle my concerns in the worly according to my mind and will and I do now make null and void all former wills by me made and I do Order and appoint this to be my last will and Testament in manner and form following

. First, after my death, I will and bequeth my soul to Almighty God through Jesus Christ My Lord and my body to a Decent Buryall at the discretion of my Executrix hereafter named and all my just debts to be paid. Item first, I do give to may kinsman John Pew, dweller in Chester County, one English Shilling Sterling to be paid by the executor and I do give to my Beloved wife Jane Jones all of the remainder of my goods and Estate both Real and personal to be hers and at her disposal for ever, to sell or dispose of as she thinks fitting and I do make, Order and appoint my well Beloved wife Jane Jones to be my full Executrix of this my last will and Testament. I witness there unto & have put my hand and Seal Twenty Second day of yr. 3 months in the yr. our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and twenty two. Wit: John Jones, John Jones, Jr. (Signed) Ellis Jones (his mark) (Seal)."

(Will Book "E" page 60, File #63, 1727, Register of Wills, City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.)

Submission from Liverpool, 5th day of the 7th month, 1682

Surname First Name Age Where From Remarks

Settle James Crew, Master
Riggs Samuel Crew, Mate
Fleetwood Brian Crew Member, Carpenter
Busshell Anthony Crew member,Cooper
Cobham Ellijah Servant on crew list
Bullock Thomas Servant on crew list
Travis Peter Servant on crew list
Royle John Servant on crew list
Hatoley Thomas Servant on crew list
Blivin Henry Crew member, Apprentice
Colon Michael Crew member,Apprentice
Harrison James 54 Lancashire Free Passenger
Harrison Anna 58 Lancashire Free Passenger
Harrison Agnes 80 Lancashire Free Passenger
Radcliff Richard 21 Lancashire Free Passenger
Bond Robert 14 Lancashire Free Passenger
Steward Joseph 14½ Lancashire Free Passenger
Pemberton Phineas 32½ Lancashire Free Passenger
Pemberton Phebe 22½ Lancashire Free Passenger
Pemberton Abigail 2½ Lancashire Free Passenger
Pemberton Ralph 70 Lancashire Free Passenger
Mather Joseph 18 Lancashire Free Passenger
Pemberton Joseph 16wks. Lancashire Free Passenger
Wharmsby Lydia Lancashire Free Passenger
Bradbury Elizabeth 16 Lancashire Free Passenger
Dickinson Allis Lancashire Free Passenger
Lyon Jane 16½ Lancashire Free Passenger
Clayton James 50 Cheshire Free Passenger
Clayton Jane 48 Cheshire Free Passenger
Clayton James 16 Cheshire Free Passenger
Clayton Sarah 14 Cheshire Free Passenger
Clayton John 11 Cheshire Free Passenger
Clayton Mary 8 Cheshire Free Passenger
Clayton Joseph 5 Cheshire Free Passenger
Clayton Lydia 5 Cheshire Free Passenger
Blackshaw Randulph 60 Cheshire Free Passenger
Blackshaw Allis 43 Cheshire Free Passenger
Blackshaw Phebe 16 Cheshire Free Passenger
Blackshaw Sarah 14 Cheshire Free Passenger
Blackshaw Abraham 10 Cheshire Free Passenger
Blackshaw Jacob 8 Cheshire Free Passenger
Blackshaw Mary 6 Cheshire Free Passenger
Blackshaw Nehemiah 3 Cheshire Free Passenger
Blackshaw Martha 1 Cheshire Free Passenger
Bradbury Roger 49
Bradbury Ellenor 46
Bradbury Jacob 18
Bradbury Martha 14
Bradbury Joseph 10
Bradbury Sarah 8
Bradbury Roger 2
Jones Ellis 45 Wales Free Passenger
Jones Jane 40 Wales Free Passenger
Jones Barbary 13 Wales Free Passenger
Jones Dorothy 10 Wales Free Passenger
Jones Mary 12½ Wales Free Passenger
Jones Isaac 4mo. Wales Free Passenger
Winn Rebeckah 20 Wales Free Passenger
Mede Jane 15 Wales Free Passenger
Mede Marjory 11½ Wales Free Passenger

heads 49
whole passengers 37
hed the owners servants for sale: Janeclif [sic] Hodges & Ellen Holland

Transcribed on 07/09/03
By Laura Freeman

Voyage log of the ship, "Submission"

The voyage was rough. Some days were calm and misty. More were described as rough, cold and stormy. A few were described as “faire”. Imagine you were sailing to the New World with young children of 13, 12, & 10 years old plus an infant in your care.

Highlights from the ship’s log:

September 12th: “left sight of Cape Cleare” – Ireland’s southernmost island, and likely the final view of European land.

They saw two or three whales. The first one was only at a distance. The next day, on September 17th: “A whale came neare us & appeared fair to us & followed us some time.” I bet the kids thought that was cool.

The day after, on the 18th of September “there arose a Great Storm . . . the sea was exceedingly high ye waves ran as high as the main yards but we received little damage.” (A yard is the horizontal spar to which the sails are attached. Big waves.)

October brought severe multi-day storms. October 2nd:

“The sea very rough, the wind high…. A great head sea broke over the ship & staved the boat & took the most part of it away, broke up the main hatches that were both nailed & corked & took them away that they were not seen where they went, broke the boat’s mast & hyst that were lashed in the midship, broke the gunnell head in the midship & broke the forre shet & took severall things of the decks & severall things that were in the boat it cast betwixt decks. … A great sea fell on our Rudder and broke it about one yard or something more from the head …”

They buried one of their friends’ children at sea that day.

The voyage continued.

October 9th: “Faire wether and wind, hundreds of porpoises about the ship some leaped high out of the water and followed the ship about an hour.”

They kept sailing west. Some days brought good weather. Others didn’t. Most were cold. Once a wind from the south brought warm air. For several days it rained.

Then, near the end of the journey, the rain cleared. On October 19th they couldn’t see land yet but the wind blew from the west and they could smell the pine trees of the New World.

The travelers made shore at Choptank, Maryland on November 2nd, according to a record kept by Quaker shipmate Phineas Pemberton.

The captain’s official log ends without a conclusion. The last entry is the 7th day of the week on October 21st. The storms had blown the ship off-course and it was overcast; the captain may not have known exactly where he was. Some say that’s why he did not finish the record.


TYPE OF WILLIAM PENN’S SHIP, WELCOME – from an engraving of the period. The Welcome carried twice as many passengers as The Submission.
The Submission was one of 22 ships, including William Penn’s “Welcom” that brought the first 2,000 people – mostly Quakers – to the brand new Pennsylvania Colony in 1681 and 1682

Birth:
Map of Denbighshire ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denbighshire
Old map of Flint ... http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genmaps/genfiles/COU_files/WAL/DEN/saxton-kip_den_1607.html

Religion:
History of the Quakers. The Religious Society of Friends began as a movement in England in the mid 17th century in Lancashire. Members are informally known as Quakers, as they were said "to tremble in the way of the Lord".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Quakers

Immigration:
on the ship, "Submission", Liverpool, England to Choptank, Maryland and arrived November 2, 1682 on the Maryland coast...

Immigration:
on the ship, "Submission"...

Ellis married Ellen Jane "Jane" Evans in 1671 in (Denbighshire) Wales. Ellen (daughter of Eytyn Evans and unnamed spouse) was born in 0___ 1642 in Denbighshire, Wales; died after 1731 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Religion: Quaker
• Probate: 27 Dec 1732, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Notes:

"...Father: Ellis Emmanuel JONES. Mother: Ellen Jane EVANS. Note: Came to this country when she was 13, from Wales in the ship 'Submission'"

Abstracted by Barbara Pace, 6605 Dakar Road, Fort Worth, TX 76116 and reprinted in "Cantrell Cousins",April 1996,Vol.#3 Series 2, pp. 3-4;

Will of Jane Jones, Will Book "E",p. 204, File #278,1732, Register of Wills, City of Philadelphia, PA;

"Be it remembered that I Jane Jones of the City of Phil. in the Province of Penn., widow, being at present weak of body but by the mercy of God of perfect & sound memory, I now considering the certainty of death & uncertainty when it may please God to bring me to it, do think it convenient to settle my concerns in the world according to ,my mind & will--& I do now make void & null all former wills by me made & I do order & appoint this to be my last will & testament in manner & form following viz:

1st after my death, I will & bequeath my soul to Almighty God through Jesus Christ my Lord & my body to a descent(sp) buryall(sp) at the discretion of my executrix hereafter named & all my debts to be paid.

Item 1st. I do give & bequeath to my grandson Nathan Pegg 1 Eng shilling or the value of it in coin current;

I do give & bequeath to my grandson Zebulon Cantrell 1 Eng schilling (etc)

I do give & bequeath to my grandson Joseph Cantrell 1 Eng shilling (etc)

I do give & bequeath to my granddaughter Dorothy Cantrall (same)

I do give & bequeath to my granddau Mary Price (same)

I do give & bequeath to granddau Jane---- (same)

to grandson Richard White (same). &

I do give & bequeath to my dau. Mary Jones all the remainder of my goods both real & personal to be hers & at her disposal forever to sell & dispose of as she shall think fit & convenient & I do make order & appoint my said dau. Mary Jones to by my full & sole executrix of this my last will & testament. In witness hereunto I have set my hand & seal, dated ye 3rd day August in yr of our Lord 1730.

Signed Sealed Published & Declared by the Testatrix Jane Jones as her Last Will & Testament in the presence of

James Estangh her
Att Jane X Jones
Joseph Driker mark


I the above Textatrix, Jane Jones in consideration of my above Mary here decease since the above date to hereby give, devise & bequeath unto my grandchildren Ellis Jones & Susannah Jones (my said dau Mary Jones her issue) & their heirs & assigns forever all the above mentioned residue & remainder of my estate real & personal & I do hereby nominate & appoint my friend John Calwalader of Phil. my executor, witness my hand & seal set to this codical(sp) of my will dated 7 Dec 1732.

Codical was witnessed & sworn to at the time of probate 27 Dec 1732, inventory--27 July next--acct 10 Feb--filed 2 Mar 1733".

end of will

Notes for ELLEN JANE EVANS:

Philadelphia Wills, Vol. C, p. 226; Will of Jane Jones, City of Philadelphia, widow, dated Aug. 3, 1730/1 (probably 8mo. 3da 1730/1) , pr. Dec. 27, 1732, mentions daughter Mary, grandchildren: Daniel & Nathan Pegg, Jane Flower, Zebulam, Joseph & Dorothy Cantrell, Mary Price, Jane & Richard White. Exec.: Mary Jones Wit.: James Estaugh & Joseph Drinker. Codicil Dec 7, 1732/3 (probably 12mo. 7da. 1732/3) mentions grandchildren: Ellis &Susannah Jones, children of Mary Jones deceased. Exec: John Cadwalader. Wit: James Estaugh, Joseph Fordman & Sarah Elfreth.

Birth:
Flint? not listed in Denbighshire...

(Flint, Flintshire, Wales)

Religion:
History of the Quakers. The Religious Society of Friends began as a movement in England in the mid 17th century in Lancashire.

Members are informally known as Quakers, as they were said "to tremble in the way of the Lord".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Quakers

Eytyn married unnamed spouse(Flint, Flintshire, Wales). unnamed was born in (Flint, Flintshire, Wales). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]