Here Was an Interesting Diversion

Rebecca Scattergood Savery 1770-1855 20 North Fifth Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Rebecca Scattergood Savery • The Widows of North Fifth Street • Roadmaps • The Watson Family • The Scattergood Family • Widow Scattergood and Her Sons • The Head Family • Marriage of John Scattergood and Elizabeth Head • Death of John Scattergood • The Baker Household • Marriage of Rebecca Scattergood and Thomas Savery • Children of Thomas and Rebecca Savery • The Savery Businesswomen • The Quaker Ministers/Tanners • Pegg’s Run • Rebecca Scattergood Savery’s Death and Legacy • The Savery-Scattergood Quilts

Friendship Quilt - American Folk Art Museum

Star Quilt - International Quilt Museum

Medallion Quilt - International Quilt Museum

Endnotes • John Scattergood Inventory • Rebecca Scattergood & Thomas Savery Marriage Certificate • Deeds - Scattergood Complex at North Front Street, Margaretta Street & Pegg’s Run • 1790-1850 Census Records • Rebecca & Elisabeth Savery Real Estate • A Cresson-Scattergood-Savery Connection - Watson Family • Descendant Tree - New Jersey Scattergoods • Endnotes for Rebecca Scattergood Savery • Endnotes for the Quaker Ministers/Tanners Thomas Scattergood and William Savery • Endnotes for the Savery/Scattergood/Cresson Quilts • End Page - What Would Rebecca Think!

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The Widows of North Fifth Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

William F. Hansell 1813-1881 is in a family line I have been investigating. In the 1850 census, I noticed that his close neighbors on North Fifth Street were all widows. Here was an interesting diversion.

30/32 North Fifth - Elizabeth Witmer nee Eckfeldt came into possession of this property from her grandfather Jacob Eckfeldt, the famous blacksmith whose family is associated with the U.S. Mint. Grandpa Eckfeldt had operated this property as a tavern. By the time Elizabeth assumed management, after her husband Henry Witmer died in 1833, the use of the building was transi- tioning from an inn to a boarding house.

28 North Fifth - Ellen Mathews, with an infant in her arms, took over her dead husband’s dying and scour- ing establishment. Ellen’s shop was the forerunner of the modern dry cleaner.

26 North Fifth - Lydia Bailey was a master printer. Her husband, the printer Robert Bailey, died in 1808. Lydia gathered up her children (ages four months to nine years), packed up the printing presses and set up shop at 10 North Alley. In 1832 she moved her printing operation around the corner to 26 North Fifth Street. Her life has been illuminated in Karen Nipps’ Lydia Bailey: A Checklist of Her Imprints, 2013.

24 North Fifth - William F. Hansell lived here. He was a dyer by trade and a widower twice over. Lydia Bailey knew him when he was in diapers--the Hansell family lived at 12 North Alley when William was born. In 1848, William purchased this lot from the estate of the widow Ann Ritter, who had kept her husband’s bakery going since his death in 1798.

22 North Fifth - Susan Brady’s husband purchased this property in 1848 and died shortly thereafter. Susan rented out his Gold Leaf and Dentist Foil Manufactory located in the back yard and took in boarders. She sold the property in 1866 and the money provided her children with a good start in life.

20 North Fifth - The 1850 census lists Rebecca Savery, 80, $10,000 real estate; Eliza Savery, 35; Eliza Carver, 45; and Rebecca S. Barr, 24. What were these women up to?

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1875 Philadelphia Atlas, G.M. Hopkins North Fifth St, just above Market St. Between South Alley/Commerce St and North Alley/North St. Across Fifth Street is Christ Church Burial Ground.

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Here are two roadmaps for where I’m going with this.

Note that most of these people are of the Quaker faith.

Abigail Shute 1674-1750 married (1705) John Watson ?-1729 Their daughter Rebecca Watson 1719-1800 married (1737) Joseph Scattergood 1714-1754

1 Abigail Shute abt. 1674-1750 .. +John Hood 1677-1702 ...... 2 Elizabeth Hood 1696-1769 ...... +John Koster 1693-1760 ...... 2 John Hood 1698-1786 ...... +Mary Snead ...... 2 Samuel Hood 1700-? ...... 2 Abraham Hood 1702-?

*2nd Husband of Abigail Shute: .. +John Watson ?-1729 ...... 2 William Watson ?-1748 ...... +Mary ?-before 1748 1733 sampler by Rebecca Watson 1719-1800

...... 3 Anna Watson ?-1784 http://www.scarlet-letter.com/samplers/watson.php ...... + Samuel How 1724-1782 ... 3 Rebecca Watson ?-1809 ...... 3 John Watson ?-1782 + Mary ...... 2 Rebecca Watson 1719-1800 ...... +Joseph Scattergood 1714-1754 ...... 3 John Scattergood 1742-1776 ...... +Elizabeth Head 1749-1836 ...... SEE NEXT PAGE

*3rd Husband of Abigail Shute: + John Morton ?-1730

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Rebecca Scattergood 1770-1855 married (1791) Thomas Savery 1751-1819

Rebecca’s only full sibling is John Head Scattergood 1774-1842

1 Elizabeth Head 1749-1836 (daughter of John Head, merchant & Mary Hudson) .. +John Scattergood 1742-1776 (son of Joseph Scattergood, mariner/lawyer & Rebecca Watson; brother of Thomas Scattergood tanner/Quaker minister) ..... 2 Rebecca Scattergood 1770-1855 ...... +Thomas Savery 1751-1819 (son of William Savery joiner/chairmaker and brother of William Savery tanner/Quaker minister) ...... 3 William Savery 1798-1858 +Elizabeth H. Cresson ...... 3 Mary Savery 1800-1869 +Thomas Forman Scattergood ...... 3 Thomas Savery 1802-1860 +1st Rebecca Cresson, 2nd Hannah H. Webb ...... 3 Elisabeth Savery 1806-1860 ...... 3 Sarah Savery 1810-1832 ..... 2 John Head Scattergood 1774-1842 ...... +Sarah Forman 1771-1795 ...... 3 Thomas Forman Scattergood 1795-1876 +Mary Savery ..... *2nd Wife of John Head Scattergood: ...... +Catharine (Christianna or Kitty) Hepburn abt 1777-abt 1863 ...... 3 Samuel B. Scattergood 1796-1864 +Charlotte Redding/Reading/or unknown ...... 3 John H. Scattergood, Jr. 1802-1861 +1st Hannah B. McGowan, 2nd Elizabeth Norris ...... 3 Margaret B. Scattergood 1811-1880 +Cyrus Cadwallader ...... 3 Rebecca S. Scattergood 1820-1895 +Moses VanHorn ...... 3 Absalom B. Scattergood 1822-1893 +1st Rachel King, 2nd Mary Wilson *2nd Husband of Elizabeth Head: .. +Samuel Baker 1752-1813 ..... 2 Henry Baker 1778-1827 +Mary Ustick ..... 2 Samuel Baker, Jr. 1784-1810 ..... 2 Elizabeth Baker 1784-1855 +John Brooks ..... 2 Margaret Baker 1788-1843 +Thomas Betts

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The Watson Family

Around 1680, Abigail Shute 1674-1750 and her family sailed from England to America and settled near the Schuylkill River in Chester County. Abigail outlasted three husbands.

John Hood, husbandman of Darby died 1702 John Watson, sawyer of Philadelphia died 1729 John Morton, shipwright of Philadelphia died 1730 (a few months after marriage)

After the death of her first husband, Abigail and her four young children moved from Darby to Philadelphia. Here she married John Watson in 1705. There’s a lack of clues to the history of the Watson family. When John Watson died in 1729, his will (Philadelphia E/122) named two children: Rebecca and William.

Abigail married into the shipbuilding community of Philadelphia. Her daughter Rebecca married a ship’s captain Joseph Scattergood. Abigail’s son William Watson was a shipwright. John Watson was a sawyer and Abigail’s third husband John Morton was a shipwright. Men- tioned in the wills of John Watson/John Morton/Abigail Morton are: shipwrights Charles West who had inherited his father James West’s ship building enterprise; Charles West’s sons James and Charles; James Parrock, shipwright; Jacob and Herman Casdorp, shipwrights; and Paul Preston, blacksmith. In her will, Abigail gave silver porringers to Prudence and Sarah West, children of Charles & Sarah West, as a token of her love and respect for them and their parents.

Abigail died August 24, 1750 in Philadelphia. The people in the advertisement below are: John Koster married Abigail’s daughter Elizabeth Hood. John Hood is Abigail’s son. Jo- seph Scattergood, husband of Abigail’s daughter Rebecca.

5-23-1751 Pennsylvania Gazette

Abigail’s son William Watson and his wife were both dead by 1748, leaving three young children, Anna, Rebecca and John. In 1764, Rebecca Watson Scattergood filed the final accounting for the estate of her deceased brother which included 582 pounds for boarding, clothing and schooling the three children. Perhaps Rebecca and Joseph fostered these children. The children settled in Burlington, New Jersey. ______

Here is an archaeology dig near the West shipyard. http://www.phillyarchaeology.net › uploads › 2012/10 › HertzLot

Abigail’s brother Thomas Shute is featured in The Road to Black Ned’s Forge, A Story of Race, Sex and Trade on the Colonial American Frontier by Turk McCleskey, 2014

There is some circumstantial evidence that John Watson died 1729 is a brother of Anna Watson, quilt maker, who married Solomon Cresson, turner & chairmaker in 1703. See the Endnotes for an exploration of this early Cresson-Scattergood-Savery connection.

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The Scattergood Family

In the 1730s, Joseph Scattergood 1714-1754 sailed ships on the trade route between Philadelphia and Barbados. At one time he was master of the Katharine and Mary, a 60 ton brigantine built in Philadelphia and owned by John Fisher, Joseph Noble and William Callendar.

11-23-1738 American Weekly Mercury

Joseph learned the mariner’s business under the famous Quaker missionary Thomas Chalkley 1675-1741. Chalkley likely got into the shipping business to facilitate his travels to the West Indies and Europe, where he spread the Quaker doctrine. Chalkley ran a tight ship--no swearing or drunkenness.

When Joseph sailed his vessel into the Philadelphia harbor and debarked, outfitted in his Captain’s uniform, he must have caught the eye of the young Rebecca Watson; or maybe it was the other way around. The Watson family lived on Front Street and were associated with the West shipbuilding family and other shipwrights, so it’s not a stretch of the imagination to find common ground for the meeting of Joseph and Rebecca. In any event, pressed for time (on a tight sailing schedule), Joseph and Rebecca side stepped the formal Quaker marriage require- ments and married with a civil license in 1737. Joseph and Rebecca made their apologies to the Friends and were not dismissed for marrying out of unity.

Joseph and Rebecca settled in Joseph’s home town, Burlington, New Jersey, where his Scattergood ancestors had lived since arriving from London in 1677. At some point, Joseph gave up the high seas and practiced law until his death. His epitaph at the Friends Burying Ground in Burlington:

On the 30th day of July 1754 died Joseph Scattergood, Esq aged 40 years And the next day was interred here He was a Husband Loving & Beloved A Tender parent A Kind Relative A Sincere & faithful Friend a Good Master an Honest Man This Stone is placed over his Grave by his Mournful Widow as a Tribute Justly due to his Memory

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The Widow Rebecca Scattergood and her Sons

In Burlington, New Jersey, Joseph Scattergood died in 1754, leaving his widow Rebecca and two children, John born in 1742 and Thomas born in 1748.

The eldest child John Scattergood became a tanner and currier in Burlington, NJ. In 1762, Thomas Scattergood, age 14, went to Philadelphia to apprentice under a merchant and then a hatter.

Reading between the lines, John came across an opportunity to buy a tan-yard in Phila- delphia. To this end, John, as the eldest son, sold some Burlington, NJ properties inherited from his father and the Scattergood family regrouped in the Northern Liberties.

The Scattergood Complex, Pegg’s Run/North Front St/Margaretta St, Northern Liberties Map 1797, John Hills, Plan of the City of Philadelphia

https://brbl-zoom.library.yale.edu/viewer/15829225

Between 1763 and 1770, Rebecca Scattergood and her sons assembled six lots on North Front and Margaretta Streets in the Northern Liberties section of Philadelphia. See End- notes for the details.

In 1763, 21 year old John Scattergood purchased a tannery situated on the two lots running south to north from Margaretta Street to Pegg’s Run. The deed states “building improvements, tan yards, tan vats and utensils.” For Delaware River access, John purchased a lot in Kensington that ran south from Queen Street to a river landing.

Next, the Scattergoods acquired lots with frontages on North Front Street and rear lines abutting the tan-yard. Here were their residences. From north to south, Rebecca Scattergood owned the lot on Pegg’s Run, Thomas owned the next two and John the fourth.

John and Thomas were now in the tanning/currying business. ______

Tanning in the United States to 1850: A Brief History, Peter C. Welsh, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1964 https://archive.org/details/bulletinunitedst2421964unit/page/n8/mode/2up

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The Head Family

John Scattergood is now situated on the north end of Front Street. Living four blocks to the south on Second Street just above Market was Elizabeth Head, daughter of the wealthy shipper/merchant John Head 1723-1792 and his first wife Mary Hudson 1724-1757.

John Head was a Philadelphia success story. At his death he was described as a chari- table, industrious, rich and worthy man. He started off as a hatter, switched to shipping and worked his way into a fortune.

This is the best story told about John Head. It may or may not be apocryphal.

Robert Morris, the financier, was urged to apply to Mr. Head for assistance in the early days of the Revolution, when the Continental Congress was greatly hampered for money to provision and clothe the troops. Mr. Head was known to have made a large fortune in the shipping business, and, although he was a Quaker, it was hoped that he would yield to the entreaties of his friend Mr. Morris. The latter explained to the Quaker merchant the necessities of the case, the gloomy outlook for the winter, and the importance of rais- ing a considerable sum of money for immediate use, to which Friend Head replied, after listening with much attention, “Thou knowest the principles of our society, and that I can- not conscientiously do anything to promote and keep up a war.” Mr. Morris renewed his entreaties, with such effect that the old gentleman finally sprang up, saying, “Robert, on that mantel is a key, in that room is an iron chest,” and without another word upon the subject took up his hat and left the house. A word to the wise was, in this instance, sufficient, as Mr. Morris took up the key and opened the chest, from which he took sixty thousand dollars in gold and silver, with which clothing, shoes, and other necessities were provided for the army.

The narrator adds that Mr. Morris left treasury notes to the amount of sixty thousand dollars in place of the coin, which notes were later redeemed by the new government.

By his death in 1792, John Head’s iron chest had been replenished. He left upwards of 50,000 pounds to his legatees and 18 real estate holdings located in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Virginia.

Marriage of John Scattergood and Elizabeth Head

John Scattergood, tanner of the Northern Liberties, son of the late Joseph Scattergood of Burlington, NJ, and Elizabeth Head, daughter of John Head of Philadelphia, married August 13, 1767 in Philadelphia.

John’s mother Rebecca Scattergood, his brother Thomas, and Elizabeth’s father John Head and his second wife Elizabeth were among the 68 witnesses to the marriage.

John and Elizabeth had two children who lived to adulthood, Rebecca and John. There are burial records for a Mary and Elizabeth Scattergood in the Quaker records. It is assumed they are children of John and Elizabeth.

Mary Scattergood 9-24-1769 to 11-30-1778 Rebecca Scattergood 1770-1855 Elizabeth Scattergood 1771-1771 - died at nine months John Head Scattergood 1774-1842

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Death of John Scattergood

By 1775, it became apparent to members of the Northern District Monthly Meeting that John Scattergood’s use of Strong Drink had moved beyond acceptable norms.

June 27, 1775 - John Scattergood’s ban was also mentioned, he having been advised by the Overseers long since to refrain from the intemperate use of Strong Drink and has at times afforded hopes of his abstaining therefrom, but having lately given way to the same weakness and appeared in public in a reproachful way--William Norton and Wil- liam Cowper are appointed to labour with him and report to next Meeting.

By October, the Friends had little hope for John’s recovery. And then this terse notice:

1-30-1776 - Our religious care to John Scattergood’s affecting case was terminated by his late decease.

John Scattergood was buried January 14, 1776 in the Friends Arch Street Meeting House Burial Ground. He was 33 years old. His widow Elizabeth was 27 and the children six (Rebecca) and two (John).

John died intestate. Included in the Endnotes is the inventory of his estate. Not only is the document written with careful penmanship, but the extensive, detailed inventory gives us a close look into John’s tan-yard. The inventory shows 20 vats and dozens of hides in various stages of the tanning/currying process. There’s a room-by-room inventory of the Scattergood’s three-story 20’ x 37’ brick home.

The Baker Household

Rebecca Savery was six years old when her father John Scattergood died, so the only father she really knew was her mother’s second husband Samuel Baker 1752-1813.

The Baker ancestors had settled in Makefield, Bucks County. As a young lad, Samuel Baker came to Philadelphia to join his uncle Joseph Baker 1719-1804. In 1749, uncle Joseph Baker married Esther Head and worked with her brother John Head (yes, father of Elizabeth, Rebecca’s mother) in the hatter’s business.

On December 7, 1777, the widow Elizabeth married Samuel Baker. The marriage is recorded in the St. Michael’s and Zion Church Records. Seven months later their first child was born. The Quakers opened a case against Elizabeth for unchaste conduct. Samuel and Eliza- beth professed their sincere apologies and it’s not clear if they were allowed continued membership with the Quakers.

By 1790, the Baker household included six children:

Rebecca Scattergood 1770-1855 John Head Scattergood 1774-1842 Henry Baker 1778-1827 Samuel Baker, Jr. 1784-1810 Elizabeth Baker 1784-1855 Margaret Baker 1788-1843

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The Baker family lived at 9 South Second Street, a property Elizabeth apparently inherited from her mother’s side of the family. Samuel Baker was a shopkeeper/merchant.

And who lived directly next door but the Savery family!

The Savery Family

The father William Savery 1721-1787, joiner and chairmaker, is known today for his furniture which can be found in museums and is auctioned at places like Sothebys and Christies. Surely the chairs, tables, and bureaus found in the estate inventories of Scatter- goods and Saverys came directly from his shop at 11 South Second Street.

William and his wife Ann Peters had 11 children; only four survived to adulthood.

William Savery 1746-1814 was a tanner and well-known Quaker minister. More about him later.

Winterthur Online Catalog

Thomas Savery 1751-1819, carpenter/house builder, married Rebecca Scattergood, the girl next door.

Elizabeth Savery 1756-1784 married George Richie (Ritchie or Ritchy), watchmaker, March 1784; she was disowned for marrying out in May; and she died in November, 28 years old.

Ann Savery 1762-1789 married John Poultney, clockmaker turned ironmonger, in 1781. Elizabeth and Samuel Baker attended the wedding. Ann died at 27, presumably at the birth of her third child.

Marriage of Rebecca Scattergood and Thomas Savery

Thomas Savery was 19 years older than Rebecca, so it was a marriage of next-door- neighbor convenience or a long courtship of love. Within a few months of her 21st birthday, Re- becca and Thomas announced their intention to marry and on November 24, 1791 the couple exchanged vows before 110 witnesses.

The marriage certificate entered into the Quaker records is presented in the Endnotes. Close family members are listed in the right hand column.

Samuel Baker & Elizabeth Baker Rebecca’s mother & step-father Mary Savery Thomas’s mother John Head Rebecca’s maternal grandfather Rebecca Scattergood Rebecca’s paternal grandmother John H. Scattergood Rebecca’s brother William Savery & Sarah Savery Thomas’s brother & his wife Thomas Scattergood & Sarah Scattergood Rebecca’s uncle and his 2nd wife

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1 - Thomas & Rebecca Savery residence - 20 North Fifth St High St = Market St 2 - Baker shop/residence - 9 South Second St Mulberry St = Arch St 3 - Savery furniture shop/residence - 11 South Second St 4 - John Head shop/residence - North Second nearly opposite the Church

On July 19, 1784 Thomas Savery purchased a house on a 20’ x 78’ lot on the west side of Fifth Street for 241 pounds (Deed D 13/428). 20 North Fifth Street would be the Savery home until Rebecca’s death in 1855. Today the lot is under the Independence Mall. See Cen- sus Records in the Endnotes.

On April 1, 1799, Thomas Savery, house carpenter, purchased from Samuel Clapham- son, cabinetmaker, a house and 23 acres near Monument Road in Blockley (Deed EF 2/192). The house is marked “Thos Savory” on the 1849 Rea & Miller map of Blockley Township. At the time of Thomas Savery’s death in 1819, this working farm had a horse, a cow, five small pigs, ducks, and fowls. Also a plow, harrow and pitchfork.

In 1826, the Savery brothers placed this advertisement in Poulson’s American Daily Ad- vertiser.

The Savery’s country home was surrounded by estates of wealthy Philadelphians. The home provided refuge from the yellow fever epidemics that swept through Philadelphia each summer. The property was in close proximity to the Belmont Inclined Plane. Surely the Sav-

Nancy Ettensperger - April 2020 Rebecca Scattergood Savery - Page 11 Ancestors & Others erys went over to inspect the construction of the inclined plane and railroad tracks in 1832 and may have been on hand in 1836 when the first steam locomotive, under its own power, chugged its way up the inclined plane.

Rebecca and her children sold the Blockley property in 1849 for $4,000. Today the land is located somewhere near Bryn Mawr Avenue and Wynnefield Avenue in West Philadelphia.

When he married, Thomas was firmly established as a carpenter/builder. Thomas Sav- ery’s 1781-1782 account book is archived at the Winterthur Museum. Here is an entry for work done on behalf of Jonathan Dawes.

The Quaker Jonathan Dawes 1737-1801 was in business with his brothers Abijah and Rumford. They owned ships and metal working mills and were merchants with a store on Water Street, selling imported goods such as rum, sugar and molasses.

Two houses built by Thomas Savery have made the long run.

There are five 3.5 story Greek Revival residences located at 309 through 317 Spruce Street. In 1815, Thomas built 309 and 311. Each unit was restored around 1963.

The buildings are listed in the Society Hill Historic District of the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places.

309 Spruce last sold in 2015 for $1,125,000.

Two houses built by Thomas Savery in 1815. 309 Spruce to the right; 311 to the left.

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At his death in 1819, Thomas was most remembered for his selfless acts during the 1793 yellow fever epidemic. He and his fellow Committee of Safety members worked tirelessly to alleviate the suffering of their fellow citizens during this terrible time. He was an elder of the Arch Street Meeting, a founding member of the Harmony Fire Engine Company and an early member of the Anti-Slavery Society of Pennsylvania. Closer to home, in 1798 Thomas Savery was an executor for the will of his next door neighbor on North Fifth Street, the baker Henry Ritter.

2-16-1819 Philadelphia Gazette

Poulson’s American Daily Advertiser published an article memorializing Thomas, with specific mention of his role in the 1793 yellow fever epidemic. Thomas was a man revered by his community.

Children of Thomas and Rebecca Savery

Burial records for the first two children of Thomas and Rebecca Savery are recorded by the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. William, Mary, Thomas and Elisabeth lived to adulthood. Sarah died early of consumption.

May 31, 1793, stillborn child of Thomas Savery April 19, 1795, an infant child Savery, father Thomas Savery William Savery 1798-1858 Mary Savery 1800-1869 Thomas Savery 1802-1860 Elisabeth Savery 1806-1860 Sarah Savery 1810-1832

The boys married and went into the lumber business. Mary married Thomas F. Scatter- good. The Scattergood-Savery signature quilts tell the stories of Rebecca’s children and the family of her brother John Head Scattergood.

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The Savery Businesswomen

Rebecca and her daughter Elisabeth kept house at 20 North Fifth Street. They had a good income stream from ground rents and other real estate (see a list in the Endnotes).

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania houses their receipt book (Am.971203) which is dated December 20, 1832 to July 7, 1855. The book is water damaged and half the pages are missing, but here is a page that shows Rebecca and Elisabeth’s signatures. Thomas F. Scat- tergood is Rebecca’s nephew/son-in-law. N.C. Bailleul is on the Medallion Quilt.

When Thomas Savery died in 1819, Elisabeth’s siblings granted her sole ownership of the house on Fifth Street and two properties around the corner on Commerce Street. Both Re- becca and Elisabeth bought and sold ground rents. Rebecca still had an interest in properties inherited from her maternal grandparents. Rebecca’s will, written in 1841, lists three mortgages, possibly properties developed by her son-in-law Thomas F. Scattergood.

When Rebecca’s father John Scattergood died in 1776 he owned the two lots on which the tan-yard was sited and the lot with his residence on North Front Street. Rebecca’s brother, John Head Scattergood, per the prevailing inheritance laws, received a double share of his father’s estate. In 1796, after young John came of age, he purchased from Rebecca her one-third share for 733 pounds (Deed D 55/257).

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Over the years, Rebecca received bequests from her relatives.

From Grandfather John Head (W/215), Year 1792

1,400 pounds and a house/lot on the south side of Mulberry Street (probably old address 58 Arch Street/now 228 Arch Street).

From Grandmother Rebecca Watson Scattergood (Y/308), Year 1800

50 pounds. One-third part of my wearing apparel, one third part of my china and drink- ing glasses (not hereinbefore disposed of) also two silver spoons marked J&R, my mahogany tea table, one water plate and one pewter dish…It is not for want of love for my deceased son John Scattergood that I have not been more liberal to his children, but on account of his falling heir at law to my late loving Husband.

From Uncle Thomas Scattergood (5/249), Year 1814

100 pounds.

From Mother Elizabeth Head Scattergood Baker (11/631), Year 1836

One-third share of rents or sale price of 9 South Second Street, Philadelphia (shared with sisters Elizabeth Brooks and Margaret Betts).

A bed bolster and pillows and a high post bedstead, my purple and white bed and win- dow curtains, and the bed quilt belonging to them. Also my mahogany high chest of drawers and the parlour looking glass. My plate, my best fine sheets, pillow cases and table linen, and three bed spreads to be equally divided between my said daughters Re- becca, Elizabeth and Margaret. One-fifth of the residue - divided between Rebecca Savery, Elizabeth Brooks and Margaret Betts; granddaughters Margaret and Rebecca daughters of son John Head Scattergood; granddaughter Margaret, daughter of deceased son Henry Baker.

Rebecca’s own will (34/127) and estate papers reveal a bit of her life. She wrote her will in 1841, fourteen years before her death. She left specific legacies to Rebecca S. Barr and Eliza Carver, both of whom are included on the signature quilts. Her friends David and Samuel Cope, Quaker ministers, were witnesses. Furniture was divided among her children. Mary and Elisabeth were to divide their mother’s wearing apparel. A white Marseille bed quilt is mentioned. It took a while to settle some real estate holdings and the estate finally closed in 1860.

After Rebecca’s death, Elizabeth sold 20 North Fifth Street and the Commerce Street properties and moved to Chester County. She died in 1860. The inventory of her personal property includes quilting frames. At last, a hint of tangible things to come!

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The Quaker Ministers/Tanners

Rebecca Savery’s uncle Thomas Scattergood and Rebecca’s brother-in-law William Savery are well-known Quaker ministers. Both were tanners and they were neighbors. Their religious lives are well documented, but where did they hang their hats and how did their tan- yards fare?

The Savery and Scattergood tan-yards were located by Pegg’s Run in the Northern Lib- erties.

William Savery’s tan-yard

Pegg’s Run

Scattergood residences and tan-yard

William Savery residence Cable Lane

Northern Monthly Meeting House, Keys Alley

North Second St. North Front St.

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About 1762, 14 year old Thomas Scattergood 1748- 1814 left his home in Burlington, NJ for Philadelphia to learn a trade. After a short stint in the accounting house of a merchant, Thomas was apprenticed to a hatter. Around 1767, half way through his training, the hatter died. Thomas’s brother John had purchased the tan-yard on Pegg’s Run in 1763, so Thomas joined in and learned the tannery business.

Thomas married first Elizabeth Bacon in 1772 and second Sarah Hoskins in 1783. Starting in 1778, Thomas traveled through America as an itinerant Quaker minister. He spent the years 1794-1800 in Great Britain. Here he visited a mental hospital in York, founded by a fellow Quaker, where treatment was based on care and compassion. Back home in Philadelphia he proposed the establishment of a like facility which became the current Friends Hospital in Philadelphia. Thomas died three years before the hospital opened, but his son Joseph was one of the original managers of the hospital.

Thomas has been described as a melancholy sort. A dip into his Memoirs confirms this. Most attribute his “earthly state of mingled weeping and rejoicing” to the death of his father, when Thomas was just a child, and the death of his first wife. I think the early, problematic death of his brother John in 1776 may have had a further impact on his life.

Thomas was 30 when his brother John died and he assumed responsibility for the tan- yard. Thomas’s ministry took him away from home for extended periods. Likely he had a business partner or leased the tannery during his travels.

The tanner John Haworth 1745-1808 was associated with the Scattergood tan-yard in the early 1790s when Thomas was traveling in Europe. Haworth offered this unlikely combination of leather, chocolate and mustard.

When Thomas’s nephew John Head Scattergood 1774-1842 was old enough, surely Thomas took him on as an apprentice.

Legally, the tan-yard land was owned by the descendants of Thomas’s brother John. In 1796, John Head Scattergood came of age, bought out the share inherited by his sister Rebecca Savery, and took his birth-right place at the tan-yard.

11-2-1793 Federal Gazette

Around 1799, while Thomas Scattergood was traveling in Great Britain, young John needed an infusion of cash. He borrowed a good amount of money from his step-father Samuel Baker and handed over the deed to the tan-yard as collateral. This probably would have worked out OK in the end but for Samuel Baker going into bankruptcy a few years later. The tan-yard was seized by Baker’s creditors and advertised for liquidation. Back from his travels in Europe, Thomas got wind of this and in 1806 had to, in effect, buy back his own tan-yard.

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Thomas died of typhoid fever in 1814. It is said that 2,000 people attended his funeral. After Thomas’s death, his son Joseph 1774-1824 continued on with the tan-yard as did his son Thomas 1802-1883. In 1841, the grandson Thomas sold the tan-yard to John Gamble, a wealthy morocco and leather manufacturer.

Thomas Scattergood once asked William Savery why his ministry seemed “to gather” more than his own. William Savery is said to have replied, “because I tell them of the wonders of yielding to the influence of love, and thou threatens them with the terrors of eternal torment if they do not yield.” (Taylor, p. 453)

William Savery 1750-1804 has his own Wikipedia page, but you can’t beat the very readable 1925 biography Life of William Savery of Philadelphia 1750-1804 written by Francis R. Taylor. Taylor is a son of Rebecca Savery’s granddaughter Elizabeth Savery b. 1852 and Thomas B. Tay- lor.

Born in Philadelphia, William was apprenticed to a tanner in Chester County when he was 14. In 1771, he returned to Philadelphia, where, according to himself, he spent the next six or seven years as a “wayward” youth. The years 1777/1778 were pivotal for William. The Revolutionary War was on. William purchased a tan-yard on the east side of Germantown Road by its juncture with North Front Street and near the Cohocksink Creek. He married Sarah Evans. And William had a profound spiritual conversion after attending a meeting at the Merion Friends Meeting House. The biographer Taylor surmises this came about after Savery attended the funeral of John Roberts, who along with fellow Quaker Abraham Carlisle, was hanged in Philadelphia for treason after a highly- charged, politically-motivated trial.

William’s ownership of his first tan-yard lasted two years. William bought the property in June 1777 and a few months later the British invaded his neighborhood, flooding the meadows of Cohocksink Creek and guarding the bridges providing passage to Philadelphia--all of this right next to William’s tan-yard.

William Savery’s first tan-yard, just above the meadows of Cohocksink Creek, east of the Germantown Road

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William and his friend Thomas Eddy 1758-1827 had a bird’s eye view of the battle of Germantown on October 4, 1777. Eddy reports: I rode out with William Savary to that place, before the battle was entirely over, and had a view, a mournful view, of the killed and wounded on the ground. When we arrived, the Americans had retreated, and the British army had ad- vanced as far as Chestnut Hill.

In any event, William sold at a loss and relocated to a tan-yard on Pegg’s Run (Coho- quinoque Creek), just across the stream from the tannery of his friend and fellow tanner/Quaker minister Thomas Scattergood. (In 1791, William’s brother Thomas will marry Thomas Scatter- good’s niece Rebecca Scattergood.)

William leased the tan-yard, north of Pegg’s Run and west of North Front Street, from his friend and fellow Quaker minister Samuel Emlen 1730-1799. Samuel had recently inherited this yard from his father, the tanner Joshua Emlen 1701-1776. At some point, William negotiated a life-time lease at the rate of $60 per year. When Samuel Emlen died in 1799 his will contained this generous bequest: “to William Savery the amount of two years rent of the tan yard he occupies.”

In 1785, William purchased a dwelling at 14 Cable Lane/New Market Street, an easy walk to the tan-yard and in close proximity to the Northern District Meeting House.

In 1781, 31 year old William was acknowledged as a Quaker Minister and his religious visits took him throughout America. William, his friend/landlord Samuel Emlen and others traveled to England in May 1796. William returned home October 1798 after visiting Germany, France, Netherlands, Scotland and Ireland. In Britain, William had an audience with King George III and his wife Charlotte.

William had a succession of apprentices who manned the shop while he traveled. There is one known business partner, tanner Christian Rosine 1746-1796, who unfortunately died two months after William sailed to Britain. Rosine’s will stipulated his “stock in trade be turned into cash according to agreement between me and my partner William Savery.” By the time William returned to Philadelphia, his tan-yard was in disarray.

William’s health failed after he returned from abroad. Numerous eulogies were written at his death. The closest to home was penned by his brother Thomas Savery.

June 18th,1804: Went a-riding with brother William about three or four miles, but he very low; taken with a chill in afternoon, and a fever succeeded which continued till mid-night on the 18th; and the 19th about 6 o’clock A.M he terminated his short but useful life in the 54th year of his age, much lamented by his connections and numerous friends. In years past he sought diligently the just man’s path, which was shown him and in which he was mostly enabled to walk. He was a lover of mercy and true charity and walked humbly to the end of his days, which terminated in a becoming resignation to his Heavenly Mas- ter’s will, in whose favor he died peacefully, without much pain of body, and is no doubt entered into that rest where all sighing and sorrow is at an end. ______

Elizabeth Drinker 1735-1807, the famous Philadelphia diarist, refers to Savery and Emlen as Billy and Sammy. That certainly lightens up the mood! In 1781, Thomas Scattergood desired to visit Quaker meetings in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, but he was without transportation--his only horse provided power for the bark mill at his tan-yard. Elizabeth’s husband Henry Drinker kindly lent Thomas a horse for his journey.

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William Savery’s life-time lease was honored by William Sansom when the Emlen family sold him the land in 1802. Sansom subdivided the property and in 1805, a year after William’s death, he sold the tannery lot to tanner John Ashburner 1758-1838. The property stayed in the Ashburner family until the tan-yard lot itself was subdivided into city lots which were sold circa 1845, bringing to a close the 100 year run of this tan-yard.

Pegg’s Run

Pegg’s Run is an intriguing place. John F. Watson devoted an entire chapter to Pegg’s Run in his Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. The first 1830 edition contained a depic- tion of Pegg’s Run that was replaced in succeeding editions by this print. Are these tan-yard vats?

View the entire print here: http://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/zoom/44003

More recently, Pegg’s Run caught the attention of the archaeologists at the Cultural Re- source Department of the engineering firm AECOM.

Before wielding their shovels on an I-95 project, the archaeologists did some preliminary digging through Philadelphia’s historic deeds and investigated the archives of the Library Com- pany of Philadelphia. They turned up two gems--the deed that identifies William Savery as les- see of the tan-yard near Pegg’s Run and John F. Watson’s original sketch of Pegg’s Run which depicts buildings at the tan-yard.

View Watson’s drawing and read about the archaeological dig right next to William’s tan- yard in Volume 3 of the River Chronicles found here https://diggingi95.com/

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William Sansom 1763-1840, Quaker real estate developer and investor who honored William Savery’s life-time lease, is the brother of artist Joseph Sansom 1767-1826 who made the silhouette of William Sav- ery.

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Rebecca Scattergood Savery’s Death and Legacy

Rebecca Savery died August 25, 1855 and was buried in the Friends Burying Ground at Arch and Fourth Streets.

Died, on the 25th of the Eighth month, at her residence in this city, REBECCA SAVERY; a member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, in the 86th year of her age. This dear Friend, during the last few years of her life, was confined to her house by indisposition, attended at times with intense bodily suffering which she was enabled to endure with much patience and resignation. She always evinced great care and consideration for the happiness and well being of those around her, which added to her benevolent and Christian disposition, gained for her the affection and esteem of those who knew her. Near the close of her long and useful life, she was very desirous of being taken home to those mansions of peace and rest, prepared for all who love the appearing of their Di- vine Lord and Master. The Friend, Volume 28 (1855), page 416

A long life of 86 years--daughter, sister, wife, mother, widow. A life that might have slipped into obscurity except for the Scattergood-Savery quilts. This is what those women at 20 North Fifth Street were up to!

American Folk Art Museum International Quilt Museum International Quilt Museum (1844) (1848) (1849)

Philadelphia Museum of Art American Folk Art Museum Winterthur Museum (1839) (1835-1845) (1827)

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The Savery-Scattergood Quilts

In the late 1980s, Mimi Sherman had the great pleasure of identifying and documenting six quilts associated with the Savery/Cresson/Scattergood families. Her 1989 article A Fabric of One Family - A Saga of Discovery can be read on-line.

https://issuu.com/american_folk_art_museum/docs/clarion_14_2_spr1989/57

The sunburst quilts are marvelous works of art, but it was the signature quilts that cap- tured my attention. Who are all these people and what are their stories?

Ann-Marie Reilly of the American Folk Art Museum in New York City and Jamie Swartz of the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska, were kind enough to send me the names on the quilts.

The families on these signature quilts were of “the people known as Quakers” which tipped the identification process into the realm of the possible. Quaker records provide cradle to grave information about their members. These records are readily available at Ancestry.com. The marriage certificates were most helpful in gathering together family and friends.

The Friendship Quilt at the American Folk Art Museum is a celebration of the Cresson and Savery families. A Savery son married a Cresson daughter and the two families are gathered together on this 1844 quilt.

The Star Quilt at the International Quilt Museum is a descendant tree in disguise. The quilt focuses on the descendants of Rebecca Scat- tergood Savery and her brother John Head Scattergood as they were in 1844.

The Medallion Quilt at the International Quilt Museum was made about 1849 and includes a few family members inadvertently left off of the 1844 Star Quilt. But overall, this quilt can be viewed as a memorial quilt--it includes the names of children who died early and the deceased Savery and Scattergood patriarchs.

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A Celebration of Two Families Connected by Marriage and Friendship The Cresson and Savery Families Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 1844

The Friendship Quilt at the American Folk Art Mu- seum is a celebration of the Cresson and Savery families. Elizabeth Hooton (Cresson) Savery, located in the exact center of this quilt, provides the connection. As you face the quilt, Elizabeth’s Cresson family fans out and downward to the left and her Savery in-laws fan to the right. The top two rows are dotted with women related in some way to either family. The bottom row includes women from a Cope family.

Directly above Elizabeth H. Savery is her father John H. Cresson. Perhaps it was her father’s im- pending death that motivated the creation of this quilt. Or maybe it was the recent marriage of a Cresson brother or the births of two Cresson nephews.

The Folk Art Museum kindly provided a chart for this quilt. So who are all these people? Surely one could pluck them off the quilt, whisk them back to 1844 Philadelphia, and figure out who they are and how they’re connected. The names in bold letters are the names on the quilt.

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The Family of John H. Cresson and Rachel Walter

John H. Cresson 1779-1845 + Rachel Cresson Aged 65 1779-1863, nee Walter

John Head Cresson is a son of James Cresson and Sarah Hooton. John and his brothers Ben- jamin, James and Joseph imported earthenware, chinaware, queensware, etc. to sell wholesale from their store on Market Street near Sixth. By 1830, the brothers had accumulated enough money to retire and go into other ventures. At the time of his death, John was the secre- tary/treasurer (and an original stockholder) of the Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad Com- pany, a lucrative and long-running enterprise that moved coal through interior Pennsylvania.

In the expectation that he was soon to leave this mortal realm (he was dying of an “enlargement of the heart”), John H. Cresson executed his will July 1, 1844. He amply provided for his wife and six children. A codicil is dated January 3, 1845. John died January 12, 1845, 66 years old. The Cresson family lived on North Sixth Street between Spring Garden Street and Coates/now Fairmount Avenue.

Rachel Walter is a daughter of Thomas Walter and Rebecca Pennell. Rachel married John Cresson in 1801. She gave birth to 13 children.

Rachel lived to age 84. Her will provided for her children, the Savery grandchildren of her deceased daughter Elizabeth, a bequest to her sister Phebe DePrefontaine and security for her grandniece Mary Ann Rowen. All of her books were to be divided among her children. Her as- sets included 56 shares of the Mine Hill & Schuylkill Haven RR Co. stock. William Neal was on hand to take an inventory of her personal property. At her death, Rachel was living at 502 Mar- shall Street with her daughter Sara and Mary Ann Rowen.

E. H. Savery 1844 1803-1851, nee Cresson Elizabeth Hooton Cresson married William Savery in 1828. She is thought to be the architect of this quilt. Elizabeth’s star is located in the center of the quilt and provides the connection between the Cresson and Savery families.

Beyond her roles as daughter, wife, mother, and quilter, not much is known about her life. A sampler worked by Elizabeth dated 1819 is archived in the Haverford College Quaker Collection. The original of her 1828 marriage certificate is archived at the Winterthur Museum. A manuscript recipe book is found at the Bobst Library at NYU. Elizabeth died December 20, 1851, age 43, from what was probably ovarian cancer (“disease of the right ovarium”). When her husband William died he passed on to their children her personal property which included 10 shares of Mine Hill & Schuylkill Haven RR Co. stock.

The Friend, Vol. 25, 1852

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The Family of John H. Cresson and Rachel Walter

William Cresson 1810-1874 William Cresson will marry Ann R. Leedom, a daughter of Jonathan Leedom and Sarah Jones, in 1852. William was blind from a childhood illness.

Walter Cresson 1815-1893 + Alice H. Cresson nee Hannum Walter Cresson married Alice Hannum May 29, 1844. In 1842 Walter had left the Friends for a protestant church, so we miss out on the informative Quaker marriage certificate list of witnesses.

Walter and his brother William went into the hardware business together. Their lasting legacy is the Cresson handsaw, today a collector’s item.

Alice is a daughter of Joseph Hannum and Ann Fairlamb. The Findagrave memorial for Walter and Alice Cresson includes a photograph of the couple.

Mary W. Dixon 1817-1888, nee Cresson + John W. Dixon William C. Dixon 1840 I. H. Cresson Dixon John H. Cresson Dixon born July 4, 1844

Sarah H. Cresson 1819-1897 Sarah Hooton Cresson did not marry. In the 1880 census, Sarah, Mary Ann Rowen and the widow Mary W. Dixon are living with one of Mary Dixon’s sons.

Sarah died in 1897, a woman of means. Her will names her living siblings and her nieces and nephews who received generous bequests. Among other stocks, she held a good amount of the Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad stock. Missing from her probate file is the memorandum she updated from time to time detailing which possessions would go to which niece or nephew.

John Cresson 1821-1901 + Alice J. Cresson, nee Leedom Jonathan L. Cresson March 23, 1844 John Cresson married Alice Leedom (daughter of Jonathan Leedom and Sarah Jones) in 1843. Alice and Ann, wife of William Cresson, are sisters. For some years John was superintendent of the Philadelphia city gas works.

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The Cresson and William and Thomas Savery families lived on 6th and 7th Streets between Spring Garden Street on the south and Coates/now Fairmount Avenue to the north. Probably unknown to them back in 1844, Edgar Allen Poe was a neighbor. Poe rented a house at 234 N 7th/now 532 N 7th, today a National Historic Site.

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Having thought about his will for a few months, John H. Cresson added a codicil dated January 3, 1845. William Neal was a witness.

John H. Cresson made a bequest to Charlotte Stephens, a faithful coloured domestic of my family, the Sum of Twenty Dollars as a memento of my regards for her attention and services.

Mary Ann Rowen 1799-1880 John H. Cresson’s next bequest reads: I give and bequeath to Mary Ann Rowen, a niece of my wife, and who has long been an intimate of my family, the sum of One Hundred Dollars. Rachel Cresson’s sister Mary Walter married John Rowen. John died in the 1799 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia. Their daughter Mary Ann Rowen never married. She lived with the Cresson family since at least 1814. She seems to have shown up at all the family weddings!

Phebe DePrefontaine 1784-1862 The third bequest reads: to my sister in law Phebe DePrefontaine the sum of Fifty Dollars. Phebe DePrefontaine nee Walter is a sister of Rachel Cresson. Phebe married Benjamin De- Prefontaine in 1814. Benjamin died in 1828 leaving Phebe with three children.

Ann C. Hooton 1769-1850 Ann Cripps Hooton is related to John H. Cresson. John H. Cresson’s parents are James Cres- son and Sarah Hooton, daughter of Benjamin Hooton, the hatter.

Benjamin Hooton, the hatter, died in 1792. Hooton’s will names a set of grandchildren, two of whom were Ann Cripps Hooton and Susanna Hooton. It is not clear which Hooton son is their father. Benjamin Hooton made a special bequest to Ann in the amount of 150 pounds.

Anna C. Hooton did not marry. She lived for a time at 58 Arch Street with the widow Elizabeth Baker (mother of Rebecca Savery). Ann, along with Mary Ann Rowen, shows up at most of the Cresson and Savery marriages. In the 1840s, Ann moved to her sister Susan Barton’s home in the Frankford section of Philadelphia where she died in 1850. Anna’s will provided for her sister Susan and her Barton nieces and nephews. Anne left a building she owned at 66 Arch Street, Philadelphia; as well as 49 shares of the Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad stock.

Susan Morton 1815±-1900 Susan Morton nee Haines is related by marriage to Rachel Cresson. Rachel’s sister Jamima Walter married James Morton in 1803. Their son Samuel Morton 1804-1882 married Susan Haines in 1831. Susan was born in New Jersey, daughter of Samuel Haines and Mary Wisham. One of Mary’s brothers received the singular named Habakkuk Eayres Wisham.

Samuel Morton took his bride home to the family pile, “The Grange,” located between the six and seven mile post on the Old York Road, north of downtown Philadelphia. Susan’s sister Mary Ann Haines Engle lived nearby.

Susan Morton’s lasting legacy is the 800 pound bell she gave to the Milestone Methodist Epis- copal Church in 1893, in memory of her husband. The bell was moved to a new church building in 1924 and this building was eventually sold to the United Korean Church of Philadelphia. As far as I know, the bell is still in place.

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Mary F. Hannum 1815-1889 Mary Fairlamb Hannum is a sister of Alice Hannum married to Walter Cresson. Mary did not marry. For the most part, she lived with her family in Concord, Delaware County. Her will bene- fited her Cresson nieces.

William S.T. Neal I couldn’t find anyone with this exact name. That said, there is a William Neal 1793-1881 who married Sarah Ann Pennell, a daughter of Rachel Cresson’s mother’s brother, Jonathan Pen- nell. Witnesses at the Pennell/Neal 1824 marriage included Mary Ann Rowen, John and Rachel Cresson, and Thomas Savery. The Neals attended the 1820 marriage of William Savery and Elizabeth H. Cresson. So clearly there is a Neal connected to the Cresson/Savery families.

William Neal witnessed the codicil of John H. Cresson’s will and he wrote up the inventory when Rachel Cresson died in 1863. William Neal lived at 536 North 7th, was a member of the Phila- delphia Monthly Meeting, and was quite well off. This William Neal never used a middle initial in deeds, city directories, Quaker records, his will, etc. Anyway, it is curious to find a male who is not directly related to the main families placed in the center of the quilt.

William Neal’s wife, Sarah Ann, was a plucky lass. In March 1834 she was aboard the steamboat “William Penn” when it burst into flames just below Philadelphia. There were about 120 passengers, including a dozen or so women and a few children. The burning steamboat was run aground and the passengers jumped overboard and waded 200 feet to shore, through deep water and soft mud.

Louisa E. Wight There is a person born Emily Louisa Wight 1826-1918 who went by the name E. Louisa, Louisa, and, infrequently, Emily. If this person and the name on the quilt are one and the same, here is the family connection.

Louisa is related to Rachel Cresson. Rachel Cresson’s sister Mary Walter married first John Rowen (Mary Ann Rowen is their child). Mary married second Maris Worrell. A child from this second marriage is Rebecca Worrell who married Jabez Wight. Louisa is one of the Wight’s ten children.

In the summer of 1844, the Wight family lived in Erie County, Pennsylvania, located in the northwest corner of the state. Apparently Louisa was present when this quilt was made. She stuck around Philadelphia long enough to catch the eye of the widower Henry Oakes (20 years her senior). In 1849, they married in Philadelphia and moved to Connecticut. Louisa died at age 90 and is buried with her Wight family in the Erie Cemetery.

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The Family of Rebecca Savery nee Scattergood

Rebecca Savery Aged 74 1770-1855, nee Scattergood Rebecca Scattergood is the daughter of John Scattergood 1742-1776 tanner of the Northern Liberties and Elizabeth Head 1749-1836. Rebecca married Thomas Savery in 1791 and the couple set up housekeeping at 20 North Fifth Street, Philadelphia. Thomas was a carpenter/builder by profession and a very engaged citizen of Philadelphia. Thomas died in 1819.

William Savery 1798-1858 + E.H. Savery 1808-1851, nee Cresson Thomas Savery 1829 John C. Savery 1830 William Savery 1832 Rebecca W. Savery 1836 (this quilt was passed on to Rebecca)

Mary Scattergood 1800-1869, nee Savery. Mary married her first cousin, son of her mother’s brother John Head Scattergood. + Thomas F. Scattergood 1795-1876 Sarah S. Scattergood 1836 Thomas F. Scattergood 1840

Thomas Savery 1802-1860 + Hannah H. Savery 1810-1890, nee Webb Sarah Savery 1839

Elisabeth Savery 1806-1860 ______

William Savery and his brother Thomas were in business together as lumber merchants in Philadelphia. William and Elizabeth lived at old address 269 North 7th Street and were members of the Northern District Monthly Meeting.

Mary Savery’s 1822 marriage to her first cousin resulted in their dismissal from the Quakers. Thomas F. Scattergood was a carpenter/house builder. The couple lived at old address 79 North 5th Street. In 1860, Thomas purchased a house and 54 acres in West Bradford, Chester County.

Thomas Savery first married Rebecca W. Cresson, daughter of John and Rachel Cresson and sister of Elizabeth H. Savery. Rebecca died of tuberculosis four months after their marriage. Nine years later, Thomas married Hannah. In Philadelphia, the couple lived at old address 289 North 6th Street and were members of the Northern District MM. In 1854 Thomas purchased a farm in Pennsbury, Chester County. He was a member of the building committee of the West- town Boarding School and clerk at the Friends Monthly Meeting in Philadelphia and Kennett Monthly Meeting.

Elisabeth Savery did not marry and lived at home. She and her mother attended the Arch Street Monthly Meeting. Elisabeth was the bookkeeper for properties owned by herself and her mother--real estate inherited from her father Thomas Savery and properties inherited from Re- becca’s mother. Elisabeth owned some ground rents in her own right. After her mother’s death, Elisabeth moved to Pennsbury, Chester County. When Elisabeth died, her inventory included 66 shares of the Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven RR stock. Other notable items include a silk quilt, two sewing chairs and quilting frames.

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Savery Relatives and Friends

Margaretta Woodward 1831-1901

Margaretta Woodward is related by marriage to Hannah H. Savery nee Webb. Margaretta Paschall Woodward is a daughter of Tho- mas Stalker Woodward and Mary Bently Worth. Mary Bently Worth’s sister is Margaretta P. Worth who married Stephen A. Webb, brother of Hannah H. Savery.

In 1850 Margaretta married Samuel Butler. The couple raised a family in Uwchlan, Chester County. Mr. Butler was a farmer and politician and served at one time as the treasurer for the state of Pennsylvania.

Here is Margaretta’s photo published with her obituary in The Times (Philadelphia, PA) 4-28-1901

In 1869, Margaretta’s youngest sister Sara born 1841 will marry Thomas F. Scattergood born 1840.

Margaretta P. Webb 1809-1881 Margaretta P. Webb nee Worth is married to Stephen A. Webb, Hannah H. Savery’s brother. When Margaretta married in 1838, the siblings Elisabeth and Thomas Savery attended as well as Stephen’s sister Hannah H. Savery. In 1844 when the quilt was created, Margaretta and Stephen were living on the Webb homestead in Pennsbury, Chester County.

Mary Ann Webb 1820-1888 Mary Ann Webb is the sister of Hannah H. Savery. Mary Ann entered the Westtown School in 1836. In 1847 Mary Ann married Nicholas Newlin and they raised three children in Delaware County, then moved to Chester County when Nicholas retired. In 1872, Mary Ann was granted a divorce on the grounds of “cruel treatment.” Mary Ann’s 1885 will provided for her son and her Savery nieces and nephews.

The Case “Newlin’s Estate” as recorded in Pennsylvania Court Reports, Volume 7, Page 648, tells the sad story of the end of Mary Ann’s life. Her will was contested--there were questions about competence and multiple wills. The court findings tell us her only daughter Mary died at age 17; her son Levis died in an insane asylum; and her son William was on his death bed when she wrote her will in 1885. Mary Ann had been divorced from her husband who “died a violent death.” Nicholas Newlin’s body was found November 1880 floating in the water near West Chester. Nicholas was known to be a “man of unsteady habits.”

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Mary L. Betts 1825-1901 Rebecca Savery Betts 1829-1904 The Betts sisters are the daughters of Rebecca Savery’s half sister Margaret Baker Betts. Re- becca Savery’s father died in 1776. Her mother Elizabeth Scattergood nee Head married second Samuel Baker in 1777. A daughter of this marriage, Margaret Baker, married Thomas Betts in 1816. Among the witnesses to this marriage were Thomas and Rebecca Savery, Thomas Savery, Jr. and Ann C. Hooton.

The Betts sisters grew up on their father’s farm in Makefield, Bucks County. Their mother died in 1843, a year before the creation of this quilt.

Mary L. Betts attended the Westtown School, enrolling in 1840. Mary married Thomas Smith in 1856 at her father’s home in Makefield. The siblings Elisabeth and Thomas Savery traveled 60 miles from Pennsbury to witness the marriage. Thomas Smith was a successful farmer. After his death, Mary lived for a time with a son in Denver, Colorado, from where she traveled to visit her sister Rebecca who lived in Kansas.

When this quilt was made in 1844, Rebecca Savery Betts probably didn’t imagine herself as a pioneer on the prairies. Rebecca married Thomas Elwood Smith in 1853. The couple met in Kennett Square when Rebecca was attending the Eaton Institute for Girls and Elwood was enrolled in Joseph B. Phillips’ school.

Some restless, Quaker-motivated, pioneering spirit spurred Elwood, Edwin Smith, and Dr. Jo- seph H. Trego (probably all cousins) to the fledgling territory of Kansas in 1857, where they became the founding fathers of Mound City in Linn County. The three men built a mill and then constructed houses. In 1858 they went back home to fetch their wives and kids. Years of pioneering hardship, political unrest, drought and the Civil War marked their lives. Elwood and Re- becca earned an ever-lasting gratitude from their fellow citizens:

During the fearful and trying days which brought to Kansas her liberty and free state- hood, none performed a more prominent part of all her patriotic sons and daughters, than did Elwood Smith and his wife Rebecca. Their simple Quaker home was a refuge then for the oppressed and no place was more widely known and more dearly cherished than was their hearthstone where every lover of freedom received a welcome. From old Wyandotte and Lawrence to Ft. Scott their names were a household word. The poor always applied to them and were never turned away. They never grew rich, but their la- bors have been rewarded by enough of this world’s goods to make their last days comfortable.

A two column newspaper write-up at the time of Rebecca’s death reveals she was born on Au- gust 5, 1829 at “Arch Street, home of her maternal grandmother.” That would be 58 Arch, Phila- delphia, home of Elizabeth Baker, Rebecca Savery’s mother.

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Here is a great photo (taken from an ambrotype) of Rebecca and Elwood’s home (far right) on “Squally Ridge” in Mound City in 1858. Rebecca and Elwood had ten children; the Tregos had seven daughters. So that leaves two children for Edwin Smith.

Caption: The homes (left to right) of Edwin Smith, J.H. Trego, and T. Ellwood Smith, as they appeared in 1858. The high ground on which they stood was later known as “Squally Ridge” because at one time 19 children lived there.

Rebecca Savery Barr In 1841, Rebecca Savery drew up her will. She made this special provision: I give and bequest unto my said Executors in trust, the sum of a hundred dollars to be placed at interest and in case Rebecca S. Barr shall survive me and attain the age of twenty one years the same together with the interest received to be paid to the said Rebecca S. Barr. Rebecca Savery’s estate papers show a payment of $100 made to Rebecca S. Jones, formerly Barr.

Working on the hypothesis that Rebecca Savery Barr of the quilt and this Rebecca S. Barr are one and the same, here is what I know of Rebecca.

The Rebecca Savery household at 20 North Fifth Street, Philadelphia, in the 1850 census includes: Rebecca and her daughter Elisabeth; Eliza Carver, 45, born PA; and Rebecca S. Barr, 24, born PA.

Also, the 1850 household for Rebecca Savery’s daughter Mary and her husband Thomas Scat- tergood includes Rachel Barr, 25, born PA. Clues suggest the Barr girls are sisters.

Rebecca S. Barr married Edward E. Jones around 1852, raised a family and died in 1907. Her obituary and death certificate identify her parents as the late William Barr and Jane Dill of Lower Merion. There are no references to this Rebecca’s full middle name and I haven’t found a blood or marriage link between the Barrs and the Saverys or Cressons.

The Barr and Dill women are more fully listed on the Star Quilt at the International Quilt Mu- seum. Eliza Carver also appears on the Star Quilt.

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Savery Relatives and Friends

Annie N. Collins Ann N. Collins 1790-1867, nee Newbold, married into the family of the printer Isaac Collins. In 1844, Annie was widowed and living at 112 Arch Street with her grown daughters Mary Anna and Emily. It is interesting to note that Annie lives down the street from Mary Ann Cope of this quilt and next door to Mary Brown of the Star Quilt. These ladies probably packed up their scis- sors and thimbles, put on their bonnets and walked a few blocks to the Savery house on 5th Street for a quilting session.

Ann is a daughter of Barzillai Newbold and Euphemia Reading. Ann married first Stacy Budd Bispham and second William A. Collins 1782-1843, son of Isaac Collins and Rachel Budd Collins. Presumably William worked with his brothers as successors to their father’s printing business. Early Philadelphia directories list William as a bookseller.

The patriarch of this Collins family is Isaac Collins 1746-1817, printer, publisher and bookseller in New Jersey (his house still stands in Burlington), New York City and Philadelphia. At his 1771 marriage to Rachel Budd, witnesses included Rebecca Scattergood (grandmother of Re- becca Savery), her son Thomas Scattergood (the tanner/Quaker Minister) and daughter-in-law Elizabeth Scattergood (mother of Rebecca Savery), and William Savery, either the chairmaker/father-in-law of Rebecca Savery or his son William, tanner/Quaker Minister. Evidently, the Collins are old friends of the Saverys and Scattergoods.

Sarah Wynn I couldn’t find anyone by the name of Sarah Wynn who was related to the Cressons, Saverys or Copes. One can loosely deduce by her position on the quilt that she is young and probably associated with the Savery family. Here is a Sarah Wynn who fits the bill.

This starts with Wynnstay, one of the oldest extant houses in Philadelphia, built 1689 for Dr. Thomas Wynne, William Penn’s personal physician, so says Wikipedia. Wynnstay was located on the Old Lancaster Road in Blockley, near the Montgomery County border. Today the address is 5125 Woodbine Avenue, West Philadelphia.

After the death of the third Thomas Wynn 1734-1782, his widow Margaret nee Coulton married Samuel Claphamson, a cabinetmaker of some fame. Claphamson sold off some of the Wynn- stay property. It is from Claphamson that Thomas Savery (Rebecca Savery’s husband) purchased 23 acres and a dwelling in 1799. By the summer of 1844, the Savery property included a large dwelling, tenant house, milkhouse, barns and fruit trees. A pleasant setting for a quilting bee?

At some point, an additional dwelling had been built near the homestead on the Wynnstay estate and it was here the fifth Thomas Wynn 1787-1862 lived with his wife Hannah C. Sharp. Among their children was Sarah Sharp Wynn.

Sarah Wynn 1832-1921 lived in her father’s house her entire life, almost 90 years. Her address started off as Near the Sixth Milestone on the Old Lancaster Road in Blockley and ended up 2431 54th Street, West Philadelphia. What changes she must have seen! And what a good bit of change she made selling lots.

Sarah Wynn’s family and the Saverys were at least summer-time neighbors out in Blockley. Rebecca Savery’s youngest daughter Sara died January 24, 1832. Sarah Wynn was born De- cember 19, 1832. Is there a poignant connection here?

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The Cope Family

Gilbert Cope (1840-1928), genealogist and historian, is the compiler of A record of the Cope family. As established in America, by Oliver Cope, who came from England to Pennsylvania, about 1682, with the residences, dates of births, deaths and marriages of his descendants as far as ascertained, published in 1861. Elisabeth Savery played a part in sparking Cope’s interest in genealogy. Cope tells the story:

In the year 1856, as a boy of 16, I accompanied an older brother on a visit to the family of Thomas Savery, near Parkerville, Chester County, PA., where we took tea. During the conversation around the table Elizabeth Savery, a maiden sister of the host, re- marked that she had recently visited Morris Cope (No. 123) and he had shown her some account of the Cope Family which he had collected; and she thought it very nice to have an account of one’s family. The subject was new to me, but it produced sufficient im- pression that when, several months later, a distant relative and descendant of the Copes wrote to my father asking for the family history, I recalled the remarks of Elizabeth Sav- ery. My father addressed a note to Morris Cope and the latter forwarded his brief account, which covered about a sheet of foolscap paper. Before forwarding this to the in- quirer, Minshall Painter (No. 395), I copied it and thereby caught the disease which has never left me.

There are two branches of Copes that come into this quilt. One branch, the country cousins, lived outside of Philadelphia and engaged in agrarian and Quaker ministerial pursuits. The city cousins lived in Philadelphia and were into shipping and merchant activities. The Saverys and Cressons were acquainted with both branches.

This is the small branch of the Cope country cousins with ties to this Friendship Quilt. Abiah Cope 1759-1826 married Jane Morris in 1785 and settled in Chester County. Their children are:

David Cope 1787-1864, married Debby Phillips 1826 Samuel Cope 1789-1871, married 1st Mary Ann Pusey 1821; 2nd Ann Williams 1835 Abiah Cope 1791-1868, married Mary Hannum 1836 Deborah Cope 1793-1795 Morris Cope 1800-1892, married Ann Swayne 1829

The Cope brothers earned their living farming but David, Samuel and Morris were also well known Quaker ministers.

David and Samuel Cope witnessed Rebecca Savery’s will in 1841. Elisabeth Savery was obvi- ously on visiting terms with Morris Cope. In addition, Elisabeth left a $500 bequest to David Cope as well as bequests to his daughters Jane M. Cope, Debbie E. Cope, Elizabeth Cope, and Caroline Cope (each to receive two books from Elisabeth’s library). Thomas F. Scattergood left a bequest to “my aged friend Samuel Cope an Esteemed Minister of Bradford Monthly Meeting I give the sum of five hundred dollars.”

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The Cope Family

Mary H. Cope 1800-1878 Mary Hannum is the daughter of John Hannum and Sarah Jackson. She married Abiah Cope b. 1791 in 1836. The couple lived in West Marlborough, Chester County. Abiah farmed for a living and the couple raised two boys.

This Mary Hannum is a distant cousin of the other two Hannum sisters on the quilt.

Jane M. Cope 1827-1914 Debby E. Cope 1833-1901 The sisters Jane M. Cope and Debby E. Cope are the daughters of David Cope and Debby Phil- lips. In 1844, the sisters lived with their family in Whiteland, Chester County. In the fall of 1844 Jane enrolled at Easttown School and Debby would enroll in 1849.

When their father died in 1864, Jane and Debby went to live with their uncle Morris Cope in West Marlborough, Chester County. The sisters did not marry. Jane kept a pretty low profile.

Debby was a teacher, Quaker minister and a poet. As a young woman she taught school. A few of the poems she wrote are presented in The Poets and Poetry of Chester County, PA by George Johnson, 1890. In 1904, a small booklet entitled Memorial of Debbie E. Cope was published by the Friends and it recounts her life and devotion to the Quaker faith. She bought property and made investments which she left in her will for the care of her sisters Jane and Caroline.

Deborah J. Baldwin 1827-1900 Caroline Baldwin 1829-1857 The Baldwin sisters are related by a convoluted path to the Copes on this quilt. Abiah Cope 1759-1826 had a sister Charity who married Caleb Baldwin. Charity and Caleb Baldwin had a son Jonathan Cope Baldwin who is the father of these girls.

Deborah J. Baldwin enrolled in the Westtown School in 1842. Deborah never married and lived on the Baldwin homestead “Fruit Hill” in East Caln, Chester County. Deborah and her sister Charity would become co-owners of their father’s farm. The Friend published Deborah’s obituary.

A member, elder and overseer of Downington Particular and Uwchlan Monthly Meeting of Friends. This dear Friend was firmly attached to the Christian principles and testimonies of our beloved religious Society, and often expressed her concern for the support of these on their original foundation. Her end came suddenly, yet we believe she had long been making preparation for the solemn change, and that her redeemed spirit is forever at rest.

Caroline Baldwin married John Cope in 1853. People on this quilt witnessing her marriage were her sister Deborah Baldwin, John C. Savery, Rebecca W. Savery, Debby E. Cope and Jane M. Cope. John Cope is a brother of Gilbert Cope 1840-1928 the genealogist/historian.

Caroline had one child, Lucy, born 1854 Caroline’s life was cut short at age 27. She died Feb- ruary 10, 1857. Young Lucy went to live at the Baldwin homestead.

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The Cope Family

Mary Ann Cope A number of women with this name turn up. One is a child, related to the country cousins, and the other is an adult, related to the city cousins. I vote for the adult, but here is information on both.

Mary Ann Cope 1839-1911 is the only female child of Samuel Cope 1789-1871. In 1844, Mary Ann was five years old, living with her family in East Bradford, Chester County. In 1881, after the death of her parents, Mary Ann married Joseph Scattergood 1839-1890 (grandson of Tho- mas Scattergood the tanner/Quaker Minister). Hannah H. Savery and Debby E. Cope were among the witnesses to this marriage.

The city cousins of the Cope family started with young Thomas P. Cope 1768-1854 who left Lancaster, Pa. and headed for the bright lights of Philadelphia in 1786. Not far behind were his brothers Israel Cope 1770-1855 and Jasper Cope 1775-1856.

Thomas P. Cope had various successes and failures in business up until 1821 when he established a hugely successful packet line of ships that provided regular freight, passenger and mail service between Philadelphia and Liverpool. Exported on the ships were cotton, grain, bark and rosin. Imported were textiles, hardware and pottery. The brothers Israel and Jasper were merchants, with their lucrative dry goods firm located on Market Street above Fourth.

Thomas P. Cope attended the 1791 wedding of Thomas Savery and Rebecca Scattergood, so here is an early connection between these families.

Mary Ann Cope 1803-1884 is a daughter of the brother Israel Cope and Margaret Cooper. In 1844, Mary Ann was 41, single, and living in her father’s home at 186 Arch Street. Next door lived Mary Brown of the Star Quilt and Annie Collins lived down the street.

In 1854, after her father’s death, Mary Ann married the widower Stephen P. Morris 1800-1865, founder of the Pascal Iron Works in Philadelphia. The Haverford College Quaker & Special Col- lections has a few courtship letters between Mary Ann and Stephen.

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A Celebration of the Scattergood Siblings Rebecca Scattergood Savery and John Head Scattergood Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 1844

The Star Quilt at the International Quilt Mu- seum focuses on the descendants of the siblings Rebecca Savery and John Head Scattergood. In effect, it’s a descendant tree with a healthy dose of relatives and friends thrown in for good measure! This quilt was probably created in conjunction with the Friendship Quilt.

Rebecca and John are the only children of the tanner/currier John Scattergood 1742- 1776 and Elizabeth Head 1749-1836 who lived to adulthood. There may have been two other children who died early: Mary born 1768 died age 10 and Elizabeth born 1772 died at nine months.

The International Quilt Museum kindly provided a list of 88 names (bold type). Re- becca Savery is repeated eight times.

Rebecca Scattergood 1770-1855

Rebecca Scattergood married Thomas Savery in 1791. Their first two children died as infants, then along came William, Mary, Thomas, Elisabeth and Sarah. Rebecca’s husband died in 1819. Sarah died in 1832 from tuberculosis. Rebecca lived at 20 North Fifth Street, Philadelphia, until her death in 1855. The daughter Mary married her first cousin Thomas F. Scattergood, adding a tighter connection to the families.

John Head Scattergood 1774-1842

John Head Scattergood married first Sarah Forman in 1794. Sarah was born about 1771 and died about August 29, 1795, a few days after the birth of her first child Thomas Forman Scattergood 1795-1876.

John’s second wife was Catharine Hepburn (also known as Kitty and Christianna) 1777±-1863±. John’s will (Bucks Co. 12/192) identifies his wife as Catharine. Children cited in the will are Thomas F., Samuel B., John H. , Margaret H., Rebecca S. and Absa- lom B., all of whom are listed on this quilt.

When he came of age, John worked with his Uncle Thomas Scattergood 1784-1814, tanner/Quaker minister, at the family tannery in the Northern Liberties section of Phila- delphia. Around 1830, John moved to Upper Makefield, Bucks County, where he purchased a house and two acres in 1837 (Bucks Co. Deed 61/450).

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The Family of Rebecca Savery nee Scattergood

Rebecca Savery Aged 74 1770-1855, nee Scattergood, widow of Thomas Savery 1751-1819. Rebecca’s name appears eight times on the quilt. Rebecca’s children on this quilt are William, Mary, Thomas, and Elisabeth. Re- becca’s youngest daughter Sarah 1810-1832 died of tuberculosis.

William Savery 1798-1858 + Elizabeth Hooton Savery 1808-1851, nee Cresson. Also Elizabeth H. Savery. Thomas Savery 1829 John C. Savery 1830 William Savery, Jr. 1832 Rebecca W. Savery 1836

Mary Scattergood 1800-1869, nee Savery. Mary married her first cousin, son of her mother’s brother John Head Scattergood. + Thomas F. Scattergood 1795-1876 Sarah Scattergood 1836 Thomas F. Scattergood, Jr. 1840 (this name appears twice on the quilt)

Thomas Savery 1802-1860 + Hannah H. Savery 1810-1890, nee Webb Stephen W. Savery 1835 Thomas H. Savery 1837 Sarah Savery 1839 Edward Savery 1841 William H. Savery April 6, 1844

Elisabeth Savery 1806-1860. Elisabeth did not marry.

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See the Friendship Quilt for a bit about the four Savery children. The boys of Thomas and Han- nah listed here were omitted on the Friendship Quilt.

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The Family of John Head Scattergood

John H. Scattergood John Head Scattergood 1774-1842, brother of Rebecca Savery, married first Sarah Forman in 1794. Sarah was born about 1771 and died about August 29, 1795, a few days after the birth of her first child Thomas Forman Scattergood 1795-1876.

John’s second wife was Catharine Hepburn (also known as Kitty and Christianna) 1771±-1863±. John’s will (Bucks Co. 12/192) identifies his wife as Catharine. Children cited in the will are Thomas F., Samuel B., John H. , Margaret H., Rebecca S. and Absalom B., all of whom are listed on the Star Quilt. See the Endnotes for other sources.

When he came of age, John worked with his Uncle Thomas Scattergood 1784-1814, tanner/Quaker minister, at the family tannery in the Northern Liber- ties section of Philadelphia. Around 1830, John moved to Upper Makefield, Bucks County, where he purchased a house and two acres in 1837 (Bucks Co. Deed 61/450).

3-17-1796 Philadelphia Gazette

Christianna Scattergood Generally known as Catharine or Kitty, Christianna Scattergood 1777±-1863±, nee Hepburn is a daughter of John Hepburn abt 1741-1796 and his wife Rachel unknown of Windsor Township, Middlesex County, NJ. John Scattergood and Catharine were married in the fall of 1796. John was censured by the Quakers for marrying out, as he was at his first marriage.

The name Christian Scattergood and her siblings appear on a document dividing their father John Hepburn’s property after his death (see Endnotes). The name Christianna appears on this quilt, the Medallion Quilt, and the 1816 marriage certificate of Margaret Baker (Rebecca Sav- ery’s half sister) and Thomas Betts. In any event, Catharine is found in the 1850 and 1860 Up- per Makefield census records living with her daughter Margaret Cadwallader then her grandson Charles Cadwallader. After her death, her children sold the house in Upper Makefield.

The first child of John Head Scattergood married his first cousin Mary Savery.

Thomas F. Scattergood 1795-1876 + Mary Savery 1800-1869 Sarah Scattergood 1836 Thomas F. Scattergood, Jr. 1840 (this name appears twice on the quilt)

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The Family of John H. Scattergood

Samuel B. Scattergood 1796-1864 + Charlotte Scattergood 1798-1890, nee probably Reading/Redding William S. Scattergood 1825 Redding Scattergood 1832, aka Joseph R. Scattergood

John H. Scattergood, Jr. 1802-1861 + Hannah B. Scattergood 1804-1849, nee McGowan Ann L. Scattergood 1828 (married Henry Earely) Thomas F. Scattergood 1834

Margaret B. Cadwallader 1811-1880, nee Scattergood + Cyrus Cadwallader 1802-1882 Edward H. Cadwallader 1831 Thomas B. Cadwallader 1836 Mary Elizabeth Cadwallader 1838 Timothy Cadwallader 1841 Augustus Cadwallader May 29, 1844

Rebecca S. VanHorn 1820-1895, nee Scattergood + Moses VanHorn 1812-1885 Richard H. VanHorn born January 29, 1844

Absalom B. Scattergood 1822-1893 + Rachel Scattergood 1818-1871, nee King

Three young children are missing but they turn up on the Me- dallion Quilt. For a full accounting of this branch of the Scat- tergood family, see the descendant tree in the Endnotes.

Thomas F. Scattergood’s 1876 will provided for his relatives: Rebecca Van Horn $1,000; Absalom B. Scattergood $60/annum; Redding Scattergood $60/annum; Thomas F. Scattergood b. 1834 $1,000 and his sister Ann L. Scattergood (Earley) $500.

Samuel B. Scattergood lived in Trenton, New Jersey. He started off as a shoemaker. By 1832 he was a Constable. He held other public service positions: coroner, overseer of the poor, street commissioner. By 1851 he became the innkeeper of the Mercer County Hotel in Trenton and in 1855 took on the Railroad Hotel in Hightstown.

John H. Scattergood, Jr. lived in Mount Holly, New Jersey, and was a shoemaker by trade with a Boot and Shoe Store on High Street. His daughter Ann and her husband William Earley went into the hotel business with uncle Samuel Scattergood. Their son William Earley, continued on in the hotel profession.

Margaret and Rebecca married Bucks County, Pennsylvania men. Moses VanHorn and Cyrus Cadwallader each maintained prosperous 100 acre farms.

Absalom B. Scattergood lived in Mount Holly, New Jersey, where he was a master carpenter/cooper. He manufactured lye and meat tubs and tanks. Absalom and his son John K. served in the Civil War.

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Savery Relatives

Thomas Savery 1802-1860 married Hannah H. Webb. Two of Hannah’s siblings are included on this quilt: her brother Stephen and his wife Margaretta and Hannah’s sister Mary Ann.

Stephen A. Webb 1815-1884 + Margaretta P. Webb 1809-1881, nee Worth

Mary Ann Webb 1820-1888

After Rebecca Savery’s father John Scattergood died, her mother Elizabeth Head married Samuel Baker. The Bakers had four children: Henry, Samuel, Elizabeth and Margaret. Marga- ret Baker married Tomas Betts and they are listed on this quilt with some of their children. Mar- garet had recently died. The Betts lived in Bucks County where Thomas was a prosperous farmer. Read the Friendship Quilt for the adventure of Rebecca S. Betts!

Thomas Betts 1784-1878 + Margaret Head Betts 1778-1843, nee Baker Elizabeth R. Betts 1821-1908 Mary L. Betts 1825-1901 Rebecca S. Betts 1829-1904

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Ann C. Hooton 1769-1850 Ann is related to the John H. Cresson (father of Elizabeth H. Savery) family. Ann was the maiden auntie who showed up at all weddings and quilting bees. In 1844, about the time this quilt was made, she was living with her sister Susan Bar- ton, nee Hooton 1777-1860, widow of David Barton died 1830. Perhaps Susan is the Susan Bartin on the list of names for this quilt. See the Friendship Quilt for more about Ann.

Mary Ann Rowen 1799-1880 Mary Ann, a daughter of Mary Walter (aunt of Elizabeth H. Savery) and John Rowen, was or- phaned early and lived with the John H. Cresson family. If there was a Cresson or Savery wedding or quilting bee, Mary Ann was there. See the Friendship Quilt for more about Mary Ann.

Mary Brown 1823-1887 In 1844, Mary Brown lived at 110 Arch Street with her family. She is related to the Saverys in this way:

Mary’s parents are Jeremiah Brown and Elizabeth Stewardson; Elizabeth is a daughter of Tho- mas Stewardson and Anna Head; Anna is a half sister of Rebecca Savery’s mother Elizabeth Head Scattergood/Baker. Jeremiah Brown and his brothers David S. and Moses were among the first dry goods merchants in Philadelphia and they all accumulated a good amount of wealth.

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Friends and Acquaintances

In 1849, Mary Bown married Dr. Henry Hartshorne 1823-1897. At her wedding, John C. Savery and Elisabeth Savery were among the witnesses. Dr. Hartshorne was a physician, teacher and writer. A biographical sketch of Dr. Hartshorne describes Mary as a lady of great refinement and culture, but of feeble physical health. Henry attended to her in every way and she lived to age 64 when she died of heart disease. In 1858, Henry and Mary traveled to Europe and win- tered in Egypt. Their child Anna Cope Hartshorne founded a women’s college in Tokyo, Japan.

Eliza Carver When Rebecca Savery wrote her will in 1841 she made this bequest: I give and bequeath to Eliza Carver in case she continues to live with me up to the time of my decease and not other- wise the sum of a hundred dollars. In the 1850 census, Eliza Carver, age 45, is living in the Re- becca Savery household. Rebecca’s probate records show Eliza received her $100 legacy plus $10.50 in wages Estate records for Rebecca’s daughter Elisabeth Savery show that Eliza cared for Elisabeth during her last illness. Elisabeth left Eliza a yearly income of $160. Mimi Sherman found a clue to Eliza’s identity: I was reading over private papers still retained by one of the families. Suddenly, there it was. Someone, years ago, had added some explanatory notes to a letter written by Thomas Savery to his wife, Hannah. "Eliza Carver," it read, "the black lady who took care of Rebecca Savery."

Susan Oldden 1813-1891 Susan’s husband Burling Oldden 1813-1895 was a bookbinder. The Oldden memorial at Fin- dagrave has photos of Susan and Burling. Burling Oldden’s grandfather John Oldden and Tho- mas Savery (Rebecca’s husband) were founding members of the Quaker Harmony Fire De- partment and early members of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society.

Margaret Roney 1768-1852 In the 1850 Philadelphia census, Miss Margaret Roney is living in the Oldden household at 172 South Second St. Margaret belonged to the Scots Presbyterian Church. When she died in 1852 her funeral was held at the Oldden’s. 172 So. 2nd was a busy building. Mr. Oldden had his bookbinding business. Susan Oldden’s mother Mary Sturgis kept a shop selling dolls, toys and fancy goods. Mrs. Keziah Stanger (wife of Christian Stanger boot and shoe dealer) and her sister Mary Ashcraft presented the newest of hats and bonnets each season from their millinery shop.

Margaret is the oldest person of the three quilts. She inches out Ann C. Hooton born 1769 and Rebecca Savery born 1770. She is probably of the Philadelphia Roney boot and shoemaking family, but clues are sparse.

Sarah Lloyd 1807-1895 Sarah Lloyd (or Loyd) is a daughter of Thomas Loyd 1765-1840 and Sarah Smith 1770-1840. Mr. Loyd changed his name to use one L to differential himself from others in the Lloyd family. He was a prominent Philadelphia merchant, maybe selling flour; but whatever he sold he accumulated enough money to leave his children in comfortable circumstances.

In 1844, Sarah was living at home on Filbert Street with her unmarried sisters Susan and Mary Ann. The Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections has diaries for the three sisters.

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Sarah’s brother Thomas Loyd 1805-1876 married Mary P. Cresson, daughter of Benjamin Cres- son (brother of John H. Cresson of the Friendship Quilt) and a cousin of Elizabeth H. Savery. It was like old home day at this 1836 wedding: witnesses were Ann C. Hooton, Mary Ann Rowan, Thomas and Hannah H. Savery, Elizabeth H. Savery and Elisabeth Savery.

Here is a small complication. Thomas Lloyd and Mary Cresson’s first child is Sarah Lloyd 1839- 1918. In 1844, this child would have been five years old. I think the person on this quilt was probably the older Sarah Loyd, a contemporary of Rebecca Savery’s children.

Elizabeth Martin There are numerous Elizabeth Martins in Philadelphia and Chester Counties. The Elizabeth I have settled on was a Quaker; her father was a wealthy Philadelphia merchant. In 1844 she was 20 years old, lived at home with her family, and lived in close proximity to the Saverys. When Elizabeth Martin’s parents married in 1813, the only familiar name at their wedding was Thomas Scattergood, Rebecca Savery’s uncle.

Elizabeth Martin 1824-1907 is a daughter of James Martin 1788-1866 and Mary Willis 1791- 1864. The Martins lived on Vine Street near Fifth. For 50 years, Elizabeth’s father, under the name Thomas & Martin, was one of the “old time, best esteemed merchants in Philadelphia” so reports a fond tribute to him at his death. The firm was among the first wholesale dry goods merchants in Philadelphia, as were Mary Brown’s father Jeremiah Brown and Sarah Loyd’s father’s family. Elizabeth never married, lived to 83, and left her wealth to nieces and nephews.

Jacob R. Taylor 1819-1880 In 1844, Jacob R. Taylor, druggist by profession, and his older brother George W. Taylor 1803- 1891 lived at the corner of Broad and Spruce Street in Philadelphia, above Jacob’s drug store. George was the publishing agent for the Friends Bible and Tract Association and The Friend, a weekly religious and literary journal. A few years later, George became a vocal advocate and merchant for dry goods and groceries produced by free labor, not by slave labor. Anyway, it’s curious why the eligible bachelor Jacob R. Taylor is on this quilt. Another connection is Jacob and two siblings and a Savery contingent all attended the 1842 second marriage of Hannah H. Savery’s father Stephen Webb.

A third Taylor brother, Thomas B. Taylor, had a child Thomas B. Taylor 1852-1911 who married Elizabeth Savery 1852-1936, daughter of Thomas Savery and Hannah H. Webb.

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The Barr and Dill Women

In 1841, Rebecca Savery drew up her will. She made this special provision: I give and bequest unto my said Executors in trust, the sum of a hundred dollars to be placed at interest and in case Rebecca S. Barr shall survive me and attain the age of twenty one years the same together with the interest received to be paid to the said Rebecca S. Barr. Rebecca Savery’s estate papers show a payment of $100 to Rebecca S. Jones, formerly Barr.

Working on the hypothesis that Rebecca Savery Barr of the quilt and Rebecca S. Barr are one and the same, here are the highlights of some other connections:

In the 1850 census, Rebecca S. Barr is living in the Rebecca Savery household and Rachel Barr is living with Mary and Thomas F. Scattergood.

Rebecca S. Barr married Edward E. Jones around 1852. Her obituary and death certificate identify her parents as the late William Barr and Jane Dill of Lower Merion.

According to Thomas F. Scattergood’s will, his friend Henry McMahon (who married the Barr sisters) named a child Thomas F. Scattergood McMahon b. 1850. Thomas left his namesake $500.

Ann Dill 1775-1851 (Lot 50, Grave 2, Lower Merion Baptist Graveyard, Montgomery Co, PA)

Jane Barr 1796-1879, nee Dill (Lot 50, Grave 4, Lower Merion Baptist Graveyard, Mont- gomery Co, PA)

Sarah Dill 1817-1891 (death certificate: “buried in Lower Merion”)

Annette D. Barr 1821-1850 - married Henry L. McMahon

Rachel Barr 1823-1883 - married Henry L. McMahon after her sister Annette died

Rebecca Savery Barr 1826-1907 - married Edward E. Jones

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The Cope Family

The Copes seem to be related to the Saverys and Scattergoods by friendship, not blood or marriage. Here are more of the country cousin Copes, most from a different branch of the Cope tree than those on the Friendship Quilt.

The Copes on this quilt are the children of the Cope brothers Samuel, Abiah and Jonathan. For the most part they lived in Chester County, PA.

Children of Samuel Cope and Elizabeth Blackford

Charity Kersey 1796-1872, nee Cope, married Joseph Kersey

Rachel Powell 1799-1876, nee Cope married James Powell (who is on the Me- dallion quilt) Ann Elizabeth Powell 1822 (child of Rachel Cope and James Powell)

Child of Abiah Cope and Jane Morris

Samuel Cope 1789-1871 * + Ann Cope 1805-1884, nee Williams

Children of Jonathan Cope and Zillah Darlington

Susan Cope 1798-1846

John Cope 1801-1884 ** + Hannah Cope 1803-1882, nee Hayes

Margaret Cope 1804-1848

Caleb B. Cope 1805-1879 +Hannah Cope 1812-1894, nee Sharpless

Deborah Hatton 1808-1868, nee Cope (married Thomas Hatton)

Jonathan Cope 1810-1872 + Gulielma Maria Cope 1813-1854, nee Thomas

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* Samuel Cope and his brother David, both Quaker ministers, witnessed Rebecca Savery’s 1841 will.

** John and Hannah Cope named a child Thomas Savery Cope, born 1831.

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The Medallion Quilt at the International Quilt Mu- seum includes 42 names (bold type). The focus of this quilt is Mary Savery and her husband Thomas F. Scattergood. The quilt includes the names of their first three children who died early. Thomas and Mary’s deceased fathers are listed. Three grandchildren of John H. Scattergood, left off the Star Quilt, are included on this Medallion quilt, making the Scattergood family complete as of 1844.

Perhaps Mary Savery Scattergood was the architect of this quilt. Mary’s male Savery siblings have gotten a lot of press, whereas Mary and Thomas have slipped through the cracks. Tho- mas and Mary’s story goes like this.

Thomas F. Scattergood and Mary Savery are first cousins, children of the siblings Rebecca Scattergood Savery and John Head Scattergood.

On February 12, 1822, Mary and Thomas were married by Rev. Philip F. Mayer, pastor of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Philadelphia. It was soon reported in the Quaker records that “Mary Scattergood, late Savery, has accomplished her marriage with her first cousin, by the assistance of an hireling minister, and without the consent of her mother.” Mary and Thomas were dismissed from the Friends. Mary never pursued reinstatement. In 1866, Thomas acknowledged “his error in having called upon a hireling minister in accomplishing his marriage (with his first cousin) many years ago” and was taken back into the fold.

Thomas and Mary lived on Arch (aka Mulberry) Street until Thomas bought a large lot of land on the east side of Fifth Street between Race and Vine in 1830. He built three two-story brick houses. Thomas and Mary lived in one and rented out the other two. The buildings would stay in the family until 1925. Mary personally owned a building at 636 Arch street as well as stocks and bonds.

Their first three children died early and are memorialized on this quilt. The first-born child Re- becca died at eight and a boy Thomas at four, both of scarlatina. A male child, Savery, lived only nine months. Though non-members, the children were laid to rest in Quaker burial grounds.

Thomas was a house carpenter/builder by profession. Today he might be known as a real estate developer. In the 1860 census, he occupation is gentleman, a sure sign he had accumulated enough wealth to retire. He retained income-producing properties on Poplar, Parrish, Olive and North America Streets which he passed on to his children. Thomas owned the building at 234 Arch Street that his father, John Head Scattergood, had inherited from his grand-

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father John Head. 234 Arch stands today (across the street from the Betsy Ross House) and is on the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places.

In 1860, Thomas purchased a house and 58 acres near Marshallton, West Bradford Township, Chester County. Thomas, Jr. left Philadelphia and took up farming here.

Mary died January 7, 1869 and is buried at the Bradford Friends Burying Ground. Thomas and his daughter Sarah joined Thomas, Jr. at the farm in Marshallton. Thomas died March 16, 1876 and is buried alongside Mary.

Thomas F. Scattergood’s will expresses great concern for his two children and his half siblings and their children.

Sarah S. Scattergood 1836-1895 did not marry. Thomas, Jr. 1840-1909 married, had children, and continued on with the farm near Marshallton.

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Rebecca Savery 1770-1855, nee Scattergood, widow of Thomas Savery, Sr. 1751-1819 Rebecca Scattergood married Thomas Savery in 1791. Their first two children died as infants, then along came William, Mary, Thomas, Elisabeth and Sarah. Sarah died in 1832 from tuberculosis. Rebecca and her children lived in downtown Philadelphia.

William Savery 1798-1858 + Elizabeth Savery 1808-1851, nee Cresson John Savery 1830 William Savery 1832 Rebecca W. Savery 1836

Mary Scattergood 1800-1869, nee Savery. Mary married her first cousin, son of her mother’s brother John Head Scattergood. + Thomas F. Scattergood, Sr. 1795-1876 Rebecca S. Scattergood 1823-1831 - died of scarlatina Savery Scattergood 1827-1828 - died of convulsions Thomas F. Scattergood 1830-1834 - died of scarlatina Sarah S. Scattergood 1836 Thomas F. Scattergood, Jr. 1840

Thomas Savery, Jr. 1802-1860 + Hannah Savery 1810-1890, nee Webb Stephen Savery 1835 Thomas H. Savery 1837 Sarah Savery 1839 Edward Savery 1841 Mary Savery 1846 Charles Savery January 6,1849 (died 1854 scarlet fever)

Elisabeth Savery 1806-1860. Elisabeth did not marry.

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1850 Philadelphia City Directory

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When he came of age, John worked with his Uncle Thomas Scattergood 1784-1814, tanner/Quaker minister, at the family tannery in the Northern Liberties section of Philadelphia. Around 1830, John moved to Upper Makefield, Bucks County, where he purchased a house and two acres in 1837 (Bucks Co. Deed 61/450).

The name Christian Scattergood and her siblings appear on a document dividing the property of their deceased father John Hepburn (see Endnotes). The name Christianna appears on this quilt, the Star Quilt, and the 1816 marriage certificate for Margaret Baker (Rebecca Savery’s half sister) and Thomas Betts. In any event, Catharine is found in the 1850 and 1860 Upper Makefield census records, living with her daughter Margaret Cadwallader then her grandson Charles Cadwallader. After her death, her children sold the house in Upper Makefield.

The children and grandchildren of John H. Scattergood 1774-1842 are on the Star Quilt, except for Charles Cadwallader, John K. Scattergood and John H. Scattergood. Their inclusion on this quilt completes their families as of 1844.

Margaret Cadwallader 1811-1880, nee Scattergood Charles H. Cadwallader 1833 (son of Margaret)

John K. Scattergood June 1844 (John is the first child of Absalom Scattergood)

John H. Scattergood 1835 (John is the third child of Samuel B. Scattergood) ______

Repeated names on the Medallion Quilt:

Thomas F. Scattergood Thomas F. Scattergood Sarah Scattergood Mary Scattergood

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After Rebecca Savery’s father died, her mother married Samuel Baker. The Bakers had four children: Henry, Samuel, Elizabeth (married John Brooks) and Margaret. Margaret married Thomas Betts. Margaret died in 1843. Thomas Betts and his daughter Mary are included on this quilt.

Thomas Betts 1784-1878 Mary L. Betts 1825-1901 - daughter of Thomas

Elizabeth Brooke This name might be Elizabeth Brooks 1784-1855, nee Baker, half sister of Rebecca Savery. Elizabeth married John Brooks and the couple lived in downtown Philadelphia. John was the bookkeeper/head teller of the Bank of North America. Not surprisingly, stock certificates of this bank are found in the estates of the Savery family. In 1849, Elizabeth is the last living sibling of Rebecca Savery.

Sophia Throne The name Sophia Throne popped up in a search of the 1850 Philadelphia census. She was born in Germany in 1831 and is listed as a servant in the household of Isaac and Caroline Jeanes at 11 North 7th Street. Isaac was a wealthy fruit importer who worked with Samuel S. Scattergood, a New Jersey cousin of some sort of these Scattergoods.

It is interesting to note the siblings William and Thomas Savery and Mary Scattergood each had young women, born in Germany, in their households in 1850 and 1860, presumably “servants.”

Margaret Robinson There are several Margaret Robinsons in the Philadelphia area. I keep coming back to one woman; probably because she is interesting. The Savery and Scattergood girls born 1836/1839 could have attended her school.

Margaret Robinson 1806-1900, daughter of William P. Robinson and Mary Pearsall of New York City, was an 1842 graduate of the Albany Female Academy (still in existence). In 1845, Marga- ret came to Philadelphia with her sister Mary Robinson and her niece Margaret Robinson and established Miss Margaret Robinson’s Academy for Young Ladies. The school was located on the corner of 7th and Race. The school was within walking distance of the Thomas F. Scatter- good residence on North 5th Street and his child Sarah was 14 in 1849.

Some of Margaret’s poetry was published in The Friend. The Friend ran her obituary: At Ger- mantown Margaret Robinson 94, formerly conducted a school which was very popular with Friends of both branches. She was much esteemed by her pupils.

Margaret and her sister Mary never married. After their deaths, the niece Margaret, finally liber- ated, married at age 60.

Nancy Ettensperger - April 2020 Medallion Quilt - International Quilt Museum - Page 5 Ancestors & Others There is another Margaret Robinson 1819-1865. As reported in The Friend, Margaret Robin- son, daughter of the late George and Elizabeth Robinson of Philadelphia died March 28, 1865 in Wilmington, Delaware. Margaret was born 1819 in Philadelphia and grew up on Fourth Street above Noble. Her father was a currier. He died in 1831 and was remembered as an “esteemed member of the Society of Friends, respected by all.” Quaker records seem to indicate she moved to Delaware in 1835. But maybe she came back to Philadelphia to visit her quilting friends?

Elizabeth L. Cole I found two Elizabeth Coles, but neither really fits.

James Powell 1792-1876 James Powell’s wife Rachel (nee Cope) and daughter Ann Elizabeth are included on the Star Quilt. James Powell’s memorial at Findagrave tells the story of his life. Powell was a carpenter/builder in Chester County. He was one of the contractors for the Chester County Court- house built in 1846.

Mary Bailleu Nicholas C. ___ Nicholas C. Bailleue (or Bailleul) and his wife Mary were next door neighbors to Thomas F. Scattergood 1795-1876 in the 1840s. Nicholas was a painter by trade. Did he work with Tho- mas F. Scattergood in the house construction business? His name turns up in Rebecca and Elisabeth Savery’s account book.

On a trip to visit relatives in Parish of the Forest on the Island of Guernsey, Nicholas fell ill and wrote his will. He has quite a few relatives for anyone looking for Bailleue ancestors (Philadel- phia Will 37/17). He made it home and died September 1, 1855.

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Endnotes

• John Scattergood Inventory

• Rebecca Scattergood & Thomas Savery Marriage Certificate

• Deeds - Scattergood Complex at North Front Street, Margaretta Street & Pegg’s Run

• 1790-1850 Census Records

• Rebecca & Elisabeth Savery Real Estate

• A Cresson-Scattergood-Savery Connection - Watson Family

• Descendant Tree - New Jersey Scattergoods

• Endnotes for Rebecca Scattergood Savery

• Endnotes for the Quaker Ministers/Tanners Thomas Scattergood and William Savery

• Endnotes for the Savery/Scattergood/Cresson Quilts

• End Page - What Would Rebecca Think!

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Deeds - Scattergood Complex at North Front Street, Margaretta Street & Pegg’s Run

The pre 1855± addresses for the residences and tan-yard shifted over time, but were generally, south to north, even numbers 270 through 280 North Front Street. Post 1855 the numbers are 428 through 438 North Front Street and 113 Margaretta St.

Deed Lot Date of Grantor Grantee Description # Deed

H 20/469 103 12-4-1763 John Elliot, John Scattergood, Building improvements, Roll 29/523.tif 104 tanner tanner, of Burlington, tan yards, tan vats & NJ utensils. 40’ on Margaretta St, to Pegg’s Run. Survey Book A50/80

D 16/335 10-22-1766 Manuel & John John Scattergood, A lot extending from Roll 41/473.tif Eyres, tanner Queen Street to a shipwrights Delaware River landing, Kensington

D 19/67 100 10-22-1770 Thos & Richard Thomas Scattergood, W side of N. Front St. Roll 42/652.tif Penn, tanner Survey Book C197/167 Proprietaries

I 8/235 101 April 1770 Anthony Thomas Scattergood, W side of N. Front St. Roll 32/417.tif Woodcock, tanner Survey Book D7/277 yeoman

Owned by 102 between Anthony Rebecca Scattergood Corner N. Front & Rebecca per 1763 & Woodcock Pegg’s Run, by Poole’s her will and 1770 Bridge. Survey Book surveys. D13/285

D 75/110 April 1799 John H. Samuel Baker, John H. Scattergood Roll 62A/197.tif Scattergood, shopkeeper mortgages the tan-yard currier & tanner & Kitty his wife

EF 21/455 March Evans, Thomas Scattergood, Thomas buys back the Roll 73/269.tif 1806 Robertson & tanner & currier tan-yard Cook, assignees

EF 24/619 105 1807 Thomas Frances, Thomas Scattergood, 20’ on Margaretta, to Roll 75/67.tif skinner tanner & currier Pegg’s Run, abuts lot 104

Scattergood Northern Liberties warrants and surveys found here: http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/rg17.htm#WarrantApplications The surveys noted above are found in Copied Surveys, 1681-1912 (series #17.114)

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Census Records - Philadelphia, PA - ancestry.com

1790 - East side of South 2nd St

Samuel Baker, shopkeeper Mary Savery, widow 1 male over 16 2 males over 16 (Thomas) 2 males under 16 2 males under 16

4 females (Rebecca) 4 females

1800 - North Ward Burial records for the first two children Thomas Savery, (indexed Javery) of Thomas and Rebecca Savery are 1 male under 10 William recorded by the Philadelphia Monthly 1 male 26-44 Thomas, Sr. Meeting. 1 female under 10 Mary 1 female 10-15 unknown May 31, 1793, stillborn child of 1 female 16-25 unknown Thomas Savery 1 female 26-44 Rebecca April 19, 1795, an infant child Savery, 1810 - North Ward father Thomas Savery Thomas Savery, house carpenter 1 male under 10 Thomas, Jr. William Savery 1798-1858 1 male 10-15 William 1 male over 45 Thomas, Sr. Mary Savery 1800-1869 2 female under 10 Elisabeth, Sarah 2 female 10-15 Mary, unknown 1 female 16-25 unknown Thomas Savery 1802-1860 1 female 26-44 Rebecca Elisabeth Savery 1806-1860 1820 - North Ward Rebecca Savery (indexed Sarvey) Sarah Savery 1810-1832 2 males 16-25 William & Thomas, Jr. 2 females 10-15 Sarah & Elisabeth 1 female 16-25 Mary 1 female 26-44 unknown 1 female over 45 Rebecca

1830 - High Street Ward Thomas Savery 1 male 20-29 Thomas, Jr.

1 female under 5 unknown 3 females 20-29 Sarah, Elisabeth, unknown 1 female 50-59 Rebecca

1840 - Philadelphia High Street Ward Rebecca S. Barr was born 1826. Rebecca Savery (indexed Lavesey) Perhaps she is one of the unknown 1 female 10-14 unknown females. 2 females 15-19 unknown 1 female 20-29 Elisabeth is 34 1 female 60-69 Rebecca

1850 - Philadelphia High Street Ward Rebecca Savery, 80, $10,000 RE Eliza Savery, 35 Elisabeth is 44 Eliza Carver, 45 Rebecca S. Barr, 24

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Rebecca & Elisabeth Savery Real Estate - From Wills, Deeds & Account Book

20 North 5th St - primary residence Residence of Rebecca and Elisabeth Savery. Title transferred from her siblings to Elizabeth after their father’s death in 1819

Old Lancaster Road, Blockley - 23 A, house, tenant house, barns, milkhouse. Owned by Savery the country place siblings after their father’s death. The house was located near Monument Road and is marked on this 1849 map https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A6171

58 Arch/Mulberry St Rebecca Savery inherited from her grandfather John Head. Rebecca’s mother Elizabeth Baker lived here until her death in 1836

1/3 part of house at 9 South 2nd St In trust for the benefit of Rebecca Savery and her half sisters Elizabeth Brooks and Margaret Betts lot on S side of Commerce St Title transferred from her siblings to Elisabeth after their father’s (formerly South Street/South death in 1819 Alley) lot on N side of Commerce St Title transferred from her siblings to Elisabeth after their father’s (formerly South Street/South death in 1819 Alley)

½ part of 213 North 4th Street ground rent or whole property?

Ground Rents Lot E side of Charlotte/N side Franklin Parrish Street W side of 5th 10th St in Spring Garden near 7th Street Spruce St.

In 1841 Rebecca Savery held mortgages on 3S brick house on Wood St 3S brick house and lot 10th St 3S brick house on 8th St

In Savery Account Book 61 Spruce Street 156 Arch Street 44 and 46 South 8th Street

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The Cresson-Scattergood-Savery Connection

Caleb Cresson and Rebecca Watson Scattergood referred to each other as cousins. How did that come about? Seemingly their ancestors Anna Watson and John Watson are related, based solely on the witnesses at their marriages. Are Anna and John Watson siblings? Who are their parents? Elizabeth H. Cresson and William Savery married in 1828; they are distant cousins. ______Diary of Caleb Cresson 1791-1792 by Charles Caleb Cresson, 1877 Rebecca Watson Scattergood Will 1793, Y:308, image 162 Page 14: “Went to visit Cousin Rebecca Scattergood, who is ill” “loving cousin Caleb Cresson of Philadelphia” appointed an executor Page 38: “....my beloved friend and Cousin Thomas Scattergood”

Solomon Cresson 1674-1746 +1702 Anna Watson 1678-1744 Abigail (Shute) Hood ?-1750 +Feb 1705 John Watson ?-1729

James Cresson 1709-1746 John Cresson 1715-1771 Rebecca Watson 1720-1800 +1738 Sarah Emlen +1736 Rebecca Briant +1737 Joseph Scattergood 1714-1754

Caleb Cresson 1742-1816 James Cresson 1740-1799 John Scattergood 1742-1776 Thomas Scattergood 1746-1814 +1767 Sarah Hopkins +1772 Sarah Hooton +1767 Elizabeth Head +1772 Annabella Elliott +1795 Jane Cox Evens John H. Cresson 1779-1845 Rebecca Scattergood 1770-1855 +1801 Rachel Walter +1791 Thomas Savery

Elizabeth H. Cresson 1808-1851 William Savery 1798-1858

Anna Watson, quilt maker, married Solomon Cresson, turner and chairmaker, in 1703. Parents are not listed on the marriage certificate. Witnesses in the column directly under the bride and groom are their nearest relatives: • John Watson (presumptive brother of Anna Watson) • Rachel Cresson (Solomon’s sister? who will marry Henry Sluyter in June 1705) • The others are Cresson related people: James Delplaine, Caspar Hoodt, Arnold Cassel, Tho: Griffith, Sarah Hoodt, Elizabeth Hoodt, Daniel Hoodt

Abigail Hood, widow (nee Shute), married John Watson, sawyer, in 1705. Parents are not listed on the marriage certificate. Witnesses in the column directly under the bride and groom are their nearest relatives: • Thomas Shute (brother of Abigail Shute/Hood/Watson. Thomas Shute’s 1st wife Elizabeth Hood is probably sister of John Hood, Abigail’s 1st husband) • Solomon Cresson • Anna Cresson (nee Watson) • Elizabeth Shute (nee Powell, 2nd wife of Thomas Shute) • William Powell, Sr. & Jr. (Thomas Shute married Elizabeth Powell in 1696, presumably the daughter and sister of Powell Sr & Jr) • Rachel Cresson (Solomon’s sister? who will marry Henry Sluyter in June 1705)

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Children of John Head Scattergood 1774-1842 With Details for Samuel, John and Absalom Who Lived in New Jersey

1 John Head Scattergood b: 1774 d: 1842 .. +Sarah Forman b: 1771 m: 1794 d: 1795

..... 2 Thomas Forman Scattergood b: 1795 d: 1876 ...... +Mary Savery b: 1800 m: 1822 d: 1869

*2nd Wife of John Head Scattergood: .. +Catharine Hepburn b: Abt. 1771 m: 1796 d: Abt. 1863

..... 2 Samuel B. Scattergood b: 1796 d: 5-23-1864 in E. Windsor, NJ Burial: Mercer Cem, Trenton, NJ ...... +Charlotte Redding/Reading/or unknown b: 1798 m: Abt. 1823 d: 6-21-1890 in E. Windsor, NJ Burial: Mercer Cem, Trenton, NJ 2nd husband of Charlotte: widower Robert A. Ayres 1789-1870 m: 3-21-1865 in Trenton, NJ

…………3.Elmyra Porter Scattergood b: 1823 d: 2-26-1836 in NJ

...... 3 William S. Scattergood b: 1825 in NJ d: 1-21-1858 in Hightstown, NJ Burial: Mercer Cem, Trenton, NJ

...... 3 Joseph Redding Scattergood b: 4-21-1832 in NJ d: 12-28-1913 in Old Men's Home, Philadelphia, PA Burial: Mt. Moriah Cem, Philadelphia, PA

...... 3 John Scattergood b: 1834 in NJ d: 1856 in NJ Burial: Mercer Cem, Trenton, NJ

..... 2 John H. Scattergood, Jr. b: 1802 in PA d: 11-29-1861 in Hightstown, NJ Burial: Mount Holly Cem, Mount Holly, NJ ...... +Hannah B. McGowan b: 1804 m: 11-24-1825 in Trenton, NJ d: 10-8-1849 in Trenton, NJ Burial: Mount Holly Cem, Mount Holly, NJ

...... 3 Ann L. Scattergood b: 1828 in NJ d: 6-10-1891 in Trenton House, Trenton, NJ Burial: Greenwood Cem, Hamilton, NJ ...... +Henry Earley b: 1823 in NJ m: 11-9-1845 in Mt. Holly, NJ d: 3-5-1888 in Trenton, NJ Burial: Greenwood Cem, Hamilton, NJ

...... 4 William H. Earley b: 1846 in Mt. Holly, NJ d: 9-3-1926 in Trenton, NJ Burial: Greenwood Cem, Hamilton, NJ ...... +Ada L.

...... 4 Mary Earley b: 1848 d: 4-7-1852 in Trenton, NJ - funeral held at Samuel B. Scattergood

...... 3 Catharine Scattergood b: 1829 d: 12-17-1832 Burial: Mount Holly, NJ

...... 3 Thomas F. Scattergood b: 1834 in NJ d: 12-21-1900 in Poor Farm, Connersville, Indiana Burial: City Cemetery, Connersville, Indiana ...... +Annie Eliza Rinear b: 1834 m: 1860 d: 10-13-1895 Burial: Mount Peace Cem, Philadelphia, PA Thomas divorced Annie 1888 in California

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...... 4 Frank R. Scattergood b: 1860 d: 1-25-1943 in Philadelphia, PA Burial: Cremated ...... +1st Sarah K. LeTourneau. 2nd Minnie Bertha Gudbrandson

...... 4 Lizzie P. Scattergood b: 1864 d: 4-18-1884 in Philadelphia, PA Burial: Mount Peace Cem, Philadelphia, PA

...... 4 Annie E. Scattergood b: 1867 d: 5-26-1939 Burial: Mount Peace Cem, Philadelphia, PA ...... +William Crowell

...... 4 Joseph Edwin Scattergood b: 1869 d: 10-2-1950 in Philadelphia, PA Burial: St. Denis Cem, Havertown, PA ...... +Regina Byrne

...... 4 Edgar Maurice Scattergood b: 1875 d: 4-2-1947 Burial: Oaklands Cem, West Chester, PA ...... +Sara Carpenter Worth

...... *2nd Wife of Thomas F. Scattergood: ...... +Jennie Fanning m: 7-10-1890 in Missoula, Montana Divorce: 9-1890

..... *2nd Wife of John H. Scattergood, Jr.: ...... +Elizabeth C. Norris b: 1800 in NJ m: 10-4-1857 in Philadelphia, PA d: 1-17-1890 in Camden, NJ Burial: Cattrell Burying Grnd, Deptford, NJ

..... 2 Margaret B. Scattergood b: 6-28-1811 d: 4-22-1880 ...... +Cyrus Cadwallader b: 8-1-1802 m: 11-29-1829 d: 1-30-1882 ...... 3 Edward H. Cadwallader b: 8-30-1831 d: 10-18-1905 ...... 3 Charles H. Cadwallader b: 8-10-1833 d: 12-6-1896 ...... 3 Thomas B. Cadwallader b: 1-14-1836 d: 6-5-1913 ...... 3 Mary Elizabeth Cadwallader b: 8-19-1838 d: 5-27-1893 ...... 3 Timothy Cadwallader b: 8-16-1841 d: 10-24-1924 ...... 3 Augustus Cadwallader b: 5-29-1844 d: 8-5-1915 ...... 3 Catherine S. Cadwallader b: 11-28-1847 d: 1-27-1931

..... 2 Rebecca S. Scattergood b: 1820 d: 1895 ...... +Moses VanHorn b: 1812 d: 1885 ...... 3 Richard H. VanHorn b: 1-29-1844 d: 10-19-1906 ...... 3 Mary Anna VanHorn b: 6-13-1846 d: 10-26-1904 ...... 3 Samuel Scattergood VanHorn b: 10-27-1848 d: 1912 ...... 3 William T. VanHorn b: 7-14-1851 d: 4-6-1918 ...... 3 George F. VanHorn b: 2-9-1854 d: 1927 ...... 3 Catherine S. VanHorn b: 2-9-1854 d: 1934 ...... 3 Hannah E. VanHorn b: 4-10-1857 d: 12-3-1917 ...... 3 Benjamin F. VanHorn b: 7-13-1860 d: 1905 ...... 3 Emma L. VanHorn b: 5-11-1863 d: 5-30-1874

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..... 2 Absalom B. Scattergood b: 1822 d: 2-11-1893 in Mount Holly, NJ Burial: Mount Holly Cem, Mount Holly, NJ ...... +Rachel King b: 1818 m: 8-6-1843 d: 1-29-1871 Burial: Mount Holly Cem, Mount Holly, NJ ………..2nd wife may be Mary Wilson b: 10-9-1821 m: 1871 d: 1-1-1899

...... 3 John K. Scattergood b: 1844 d: 12-5-1919 Burial: Mount Holly Cem, Mount Holly, NJ ...... +Sallie H. Rinear b: 1846 m: 9-4-1865 in Attleboro, Bucks Co, PA d: 2-25-1870

...... 4 Charles Rinear Scattergood b: 11-20-1866 d: Bet. 1940 - 1948 in New Jersey

...... *2nd Wife of John K. Scattergood: ...... +Anna L. Stackhouse b: 1847 m: 9-22-1870 in Farmingdale, NJ d: 1-5-1935 in Trenton, NJ Burial: Mount Holly, NJ

...... 4 John Frank Scattergood b: 6-11-1872 d: 2-17-1942 Burial: Mount Holly Cem, Mount Holly, NJ ...... +Lurana S. Reynolds b: 1870 m: 6-14-1893 d: 1956 Burial: Mount Holly Cem, Mount Holly, NJ

...... 3 James H. Scattergood b: 10-19-1848 d: 11-24-1852

...... 3 Kate L. Scattergood b: 10-9-1858 d: 10-2-1919 Burial: Woodlane Cem, Mount Holly, NJ ...... +William Craig Parker b: 10-15-1859 m: 1-20-1880 in Mt. Holly d: 1-24-1888 Burial: Woodlane Cem, Mount Holly, NJ

...... 4 Marietta P. Parker b: 1880 ...... +Thomas F. Bedle m: 1-25-1899

...... 3 William B. Scattergood b: 11-27-1854 d: 6-29-1899 in Georgia ...... +Ellie H. Moore m: 12-31-1874 in Camden, NJ

...... 4 Charles M. Scattergood b: 1876 ...... 4 Nellie H. Scattergood b: 1880 ...... 4 Lillian L. Scattergood b: 1894 ...... 4 William B. Scattergood b: 1897

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Endnotes for Rebecca Scattergood Savery

Rebecca Savery Scattergood 1839 Sunburst Quilt details - Wikimedia.org

Read about the Hansell Family and the Inclined Plane in Blockley http://ancestorsandothers.net/index.htm

Piecing together the Shute/Hood/Watson/How Families

Genealogy of Dunwoody and Hood Families by Gilbert Cope, 1899

Howe Genealogies by Daniel W. Howe, 1929

John Watson died 1729 - Will Philadelphia E/122. Children Rebecca and William.

William Watson died 1848 - PA Wills & Probate, indexed “William Wattson” March 1748. Wife Mary; children Anna, Rebecca, John and their aunt Rebecca Scattergood.

Abigail Morton died 1750 - Will Philadelphia J/315. Children John Hood, Elizabeth Custard, Rebecca Scattergood; nieces Ann Watson, Eliza Custard.

John Hood died 1786 - Will Philadelphia T/349. Child William; grandchildren John, Thomas, Jonathan, Sarah.

Samuel How/Howe d.1782, Anna Watson How/Howe d. 1784, John Watson d. 1782 will abstracts in New Jersey Historical Society, Calendar of New Jersey wills, administrations, etc..

Rebecca Watson d. 1809 inventory - NJ Wills & Probate, Misc. Old Records File w1, 1807-1818

The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 23 “Ship Register for the Port of Philadelphia,” page 502 - Joseph Scattergood, master of the Brigg Katharine and Mary. Owners John Fisher, Joseph Noble and William Callender, all of Philadelphia.

The Scattergood family hasn’t been featured in published genealogies. But, if you are searching for Quakers in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, this is always the place to start: Horatio C. Snyder’s extensive work at http://www.pennock.ws/surnames/fam/fam23355.html Then it’s on to wills, deeds, Quaker records, etc.

The Friend: Vol 30, page 212, “Biographical Sketch of Thomas Scattergood, The Second” in which we learn Joseph Scattergood sailed the high seas with Thomas Chalkley. Vol. 22, page 396 Henry Drinker lends his horse.

Founders of New Jersey: Brief Biographies by Descendants, 2006 - about the first Scattergood to America in 1677

New Jersey State Archives, Early Land Records - deeds in which John Scattergood, tanner and currier, sells his father’s property: to Caleb Carr, 1764, T(WJ):181-184 to John Maris, 1764, T(WJ):231-235 to Samuel Allinson, 1764, U(WJ):462-465

Colonial Days and Dames, Anne Wharton, 1895, page 71 - the story of John Head’s “contribution” to the Revolutionary War

John Head d. 1792 Will Philadelphia W/215

John Scattergood d. 1776 inventory - PA Wills & Probate, Case #52

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William Savery 1721-1787 - William Savery’s chairs, tables, bureaus are all over the internet. The Winterthur OnLine Catalogue has photos of his work.

Thomas Savery d. 1819 probate, PA Wills & Probate, Case 45, Administration Files 317-328, 1819

U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 at Ancestry.com Membership Lists, Birth/Death/Burial Records, Minutes and, most importantly, Marriage Certificates.

Deeds Philadelphia Deeds ($) http://phila-records.com/historic-records/web/ Bucks and Chester Counties - FamilySearch

Philadelphia City Directories at Archive.org

Philadelphia street maps and more - https://www.philageohistory.org/geohistory/

Wills and Probate Records Philadelphia Co, Bucks Co and Chester Co - most available at Ancestry.com & FamilySearch

Philadelphia County (PA) Registry of Wills 1682-1924 at FamilySearch

Indexes for Chester County estate records at Chester County Archives, https://www.chesco.org/192/Archives-Records

Rebecca Savery d 1855 - Ancestry, PA Wills & Probate, Wills 300-349, 1855, #312 images 140-151 William Savery d 1858 - FamilySearch, Philadelphia Wills 40/306, image 625 Thomas F. Scattergood d 1869 - Chester County Archives, File 18031, will and inventory Thomas Savery, Jr. d 1860 - Chester County Archives, File 13732, no will, inventory Elisabeth Savery d 1860 - Chester County Archives, File 13767, will and inventory

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Endnotes for the Quaker Ministers/Tanners Thomas Scattergood and William Savery

1-29-1794 Dunlap and Claypool’s American Daily Advertiser Extra - William Savery, Thomas Scattergood and their fellow tanners advertise for bark

John Meredith left behind a paper trail and trade cards housed in various archives.

John Haworth ran the Scattergood tan-yard when Thomas was traveling. Perhaps he was a business partner?

William Hopkins purchased and subdivided the land of William Savery’s first tan-yard.

After William Savery’s death, John Ashburner purchased the tan-yard Savery had rented.

Samuel Noble sent a pair of specially tanned soles to Benjamin Franklin.

The best summation of Thomas Scattergood’s life: http://www.quakersintheworld.org/quakers-in-action/145/Thomas-Scattergood

Portrait of Thomas Scattergood reportedly drawn by his son-in-law Stephen Pike 1786-1826

Wills: Thomas Scattergood, 1814, 5/249. William Savery, 1803, 1/224. Christian Rosine, 1797, X/481.

Silhouette of William Savery found in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 88, No. 4 (Oct., 1964) “Joseph Sansom, Philadelphia Silhouettist”

William Savery purchase/sale of Germantown Road tan-yard Zeigler & Keiter to Savery, June 1777, Deed D 12/497 Savery to Scholfield, 1779, Deed D 12/498

Knight & Warder to Savery, 1784, Deed D 9/93, purchase house and lot on Cable/New Market St.

Samuel Emlen Will Y/139, 1798: “To William Savery the amount of two years rent of the tan yard he occupies.”

Emlen Jr. to Sansom, 1802, Deed EF 8/74 “a certain tan yard situated at the southwest corner of Noble and New Market now under a lease for life to William Savery, $60 annual rent.”

Sansom to Ashburner, 1805, Deed EF 18/639, sale of tan-yard lot

Thomas Savery’s eulogy for his brother from A Genealogical and Biographical Record of the Savery Families by Alfred William Savary, page 173. (Savary cites the “Journal of Thomas Savery” but I can’t find the journal’s location.)

Journal of the Life and Gospel Labours of David Sands, by David Sands, 1848, page 228: By a letter received this week, I understand William Savery has been ill, owing to his great exertion in his tanyard, which he found in great disorder when he returned from Europe. He had been confined, but was then getting better.

The Life of Thomas Eddy by Samuel L. Knapp, 1836, page 32.

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Endnotes for the Savery/Scattergood/Cresson Quilts

The Savery and Cresson families turn up here and there in old genealogy books available at Google Books or Archive.org. Genealogy references to the Scattergoods are spotty. The family of Rebecca Scattergood Savery’s brother John Head Scattergood doesn’t seem to have been gathered together in any publication. But that’s OK; their names have been on the Star Quilt for the last 176 years.

John H. Cresson - Ancestry, PA Wills & Probate, Wills 1-49, 1845, Folder 14

John Head Scattergood’s will dated 1-31-1839 provides the names of his children - Bucks County Wills 12/192 (image 126): Wife Catharine. Children Thomas F. Scattergood, Samuel B. Scattergood, John H. Scattergood, Margaret H. Scattergood, Rebecca S. Scattergood and Absalom B. Scattergood.

Two other sources list the names of John Head Scattergood’s children. 1) An 1846 deed transferring ownership of 234 Arch St, Philadelphia from Catharine Scattergood, the children and others to solely Thomas F. Scattergood (Philadelphia Deed AWM 22/325, Roll 242, image 93). 2) In 1864, after Catharine died, the heirs of John H. Scattergood sold the Upper Makefield property (Bucks County Deed 126/61).

A Genealogical and Personal History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania by William Watts Hart Davis, 1905, 3 volumes at Hathi-Trust. Information on the VanHorn family as well as this footnote, Vol 3, Page 97. Note that Thomas Scattergood the noted minister was John Scattergood’s uncle. John Scattergood (a descendant of Thomas Scattergood of Burlington county, New Jersey, a noted minister among Friends) was born 6 mo. 14, 1774. He married 5 mos. 4, 1794, Sarah Forman, and second Catharine Hepburn, who was the mother of Mrs. Rebecca (Scattergood) Van Horn. John Scattergood died 1 mos. 12, 1842.

A Genealogical History of the Family of Montgomery by Thomas Harrison Montgomery, 1863. Elizabeth Montgomery 1712-1774 married James Hepburn 1712-1789; their child John Hepburn died 1796 is the father of Catharine/Christianna Hepburn. See footnote 5, page 86: Catharine, married Mr. Scattergood.

The two foregoing footnotes led to the Middlesex County, NJ Probate Records File #10446 John Hepburn died 1796. A division of land written into the Middlesex County Orphan’s Court Minutes, Volume 1, pages 318-326 (images 175-179), transferred John Hepburn’s property to his heirs: James Hepburn Rebecca Murrell (married Harding Murrell) Sarah Hepburn (reportedly married Isaac Holloway) Nancy Hugg (married 2nd Judge James Hopkins) Christian Scattergood Stacy Hepburn John Hepburn Charles Hepburn Robert Hepburn heirs of Elizabeth Anderson heirs of Lucie English

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Cadwallader family - https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/surnames.frees/33/mb.ashx

Colonial Families of Philadelphia by John Woolf Jordan Volume 1 - Savery, Baker, Brooks, Betts, Wynn Volume 2 - Cresson

The American Genealogist: A Monthly Magazine of Genealogy and Local History, Vol 1, No. 12, edited by Thomas Allen Glenn, 1899 Walter, Cresson, DePrefontaine, Morton, Rowen, Savery

The Head Family by John Harris Watts, 1963, view at Hathi-Trust

A Genealogical and Biographical Record of the Savery Family by A. W. Savary and Lydia A. Savary, 1893

A Genealogy and Brief Biography of the Savery Family of Philadelphia by Addison Hutton Savery and Francis Richards Taylor, 1911. View at FamilySearch Books Includes photographs of John C. Savery 1830-1888, William Savery 1832-1896, Stephen W. Savery 1835-1905, Thomas H. Savery 1837-1910, Edward Savery 1841-1910, and Thomas F. Scattergood, Jr. 1840-1909.

History and Genealogy of the Harlan family by Alpheus Harlan, 1914 Harland and Webb

The Wights: A Record of Thomas Wight of Dedham and Medfield and of His Descendants, 1635-1890 by William Ward Wight, 1890

History of Chester County, Pennsylvania by J. Smith Futhey and Gilbert Cope, 1881 - drawing of Thomas F. Scattergood farm

Sally Ann Neal Survives the “William Penn" http://delawarecountyhistory.com/ Chester City Booklets - Recollections of Chester from 1834 to 1850 by Darlington

Oak Lane, Olney and Logan by Old York Road Historical Society, 2011 - Susan Morton’s church bell

The Friend, a Religious and Literary Journal. Volumes 1 through 95 (some volumes missing) 1827-1922. Marriages, obituaries, articles, poems, and more. View at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005972943 Volume 51, page 458 - about the Cresson brothers

Brief History of Westtown Boarding School : with a general catalogue of officers, students, etc., 1872

Autobiography and Writings of George W. Taylor by George W. Taylor, 1891

Reminiscences of Isaac and Rachel (Budd) Collins by John Collins, 1892

The American Historical Register and Monthly Gazette of the Historic, Military and Patriotic-hereditary Societies of the United States of America, Volume 4, 1896, Page 665. Clues for the Barr/Dill women.

In 2017 the Star Quilt was exhibited at the Taft Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio. Snips from photos posted on the internet by the Taft Museum and Taryn Faulkner of https://reproquiltlover.com/

The Quilt Connection Vol. 1-10, 1989, “With an Eye to History” by Mimi Sherman - Eliza Carver identified.

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The United States Biographical Dictionary: Kansas Volume, 1879 Biography of Thomas Elwood Smith

Kansas Historical Quarterly for 1951 https://archive.org/details/kansashistorical19kansrich/page/286/mode/2up The Letters of Joseph H. Trego 1857-1864, edited by Edgar Langsdorf Photograph of “Squally Ridge,” homestead of Rebecca Betts Smith

Tributes to Rebecca and Elwood were published in the Linn County Clarion (Mound, Kansas). View at Newspapers.com Tribute to Elwood and Rebecca Smith, 12-2-1892 Tribute to Elwood Smith at his death, 12-10-1897 Tribute to Rebecca Smith at her death 12-9-1904

A Record of the Cope Family by Gilbert Cope, 1861 The newspaper article relating the story of Gilbert Cope meeting Elisabeth Savery is pasted onto the back pages of this copy from the Boston Public Library. https://archive.org/details/recordofcopefami1861cope

Information on the Cope brothers, Quaker ministers. David and Samuel witnessed Rebecca Savery’s will. Cope, David, 1787-1864 Cope, Morris, 1800-1892 Cope, Samuel, 1789-1871

Cope Family Papers at the Pennsylvania Historical Society (the wealthy city Copes) Collection 1486, Finding Aid pdf version

Courtship letters between Stephen P. Morris and Mary Ann Cope archived here http://triarchive.brynmawr.edu/repositories/5/archival_objects/34237

Archives - Brynmawr, Haverford and Swarthmore http://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/ Addison Hutton Papers Identifier: HC.MC-1122 Also two framed photographs of John and Rachel Cresson, great-grandparents of Mary Hutton Biddle and Thomas and Sarah Garrett, great-grandparents of James Biddle, Mary Hutton's husband, and two framed samplers stitched by Elizabeth Cresson in 1819 and Rebecca Savery (Hutton) in 1836.

Winterthur Museum http://findingaid.winterthur.org/html/HTML_Finding_Aids/COL0500.htm A small collection of Savery family material, including three original marriage certificates, which are too fragile to reproduce. John Scattergood and Elizabeth Head Thomas Savery and Rebecca Scattergood William Savery and Elizabeth H. Cresson

Bobst Library, New York University https://www.manuscriptcookbookssurvey.org/collection/Detail/manuscripts/201 E.H. Savery’s Receipt Book

Quaker Meeting Houses in Pennsylvania https://sites.rootsweb.com/~paxson/graphics-pax/mtghse.html

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What Would Rebecca Think!

1844 - 2013

Inspired by the Friendship Quilt at the American Folk Art Museum, the fashion designers threeASFOUR created this laser-cut patent leather dress. Photo by Gavin Ashworth.

https://fashionandfolkart.tumblr.com/tagged/threeASFOUR

Folk Couture: A Fashion Exhibition at the American Folk Art ... ir.stonybrook.edu › handle › Carreno_grad.sunysb_0771E_12317.pd

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