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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! Nancy Ettensperger - April 2020 Rebecca Scattergood Savery - Page 1 Ancestors & Others 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? _______________ 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. Nancy Ettensperger - April 2020 Rebecca Scattergood Savery - Page 2 Ancestors & Others 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 Nancy Ettensperger - April 2020 Rebecca Scattergood Savery - Page 3 Ancestors & Others 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 Nancy Ettensperger - April 2020 Rebecca Scattergood Savery - Page 4 Ancestors & Others 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 ac- counting for the estate of her deceased brother which included 582 pounds for boarding, cloth- ing 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. Nancy Ettensperger - April 2020 Rebecca Scattergood Savery - Page 5 Ancestors & Others 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