l'lymontl1 Met:ting to the right EARLY MALTBY WITH SOIVIE ROADES HISTORY A:'.'JD THAT OF THE MAULSBY FAMILY IN AMERICA DESCENDANTS OF vVILLIAM AND l\1ARY MALTBY EMiGRANTS FROM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, ENGLAND ELLA K. BARNARD BALTIMORE 1909 PRESS OF (lllJl' (!!nrttllluu Jlrtutiug arn. CARLISLE, PA. COPYRIGHT, r909, BY ELLA KENT BARNARD. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Preface - i Sources of Information iii Letters from Wm. P. Maulsby and others. Chapter I. Early Maltby History - - 13 Spelling of name. Domesday record. Pedigrees. Arms. Inquisitions. Freemen. Wills. Parish rec­ ords. Other Branches of Maltby family Chapter II. William and Mary Maltby - 33 Authentic history. Our English Home. The Emi­ grant. Eastwood. Records. Spring Mill. The Bub­ bling Springs. Plymouth Meeting and School. The Village. The Williams School. The Hannah Wil­ liams School. Deeds. In the Revolution. General History. As Emigrants. The ways by which they went. The Revolution. Family Traits. As Aboli­ tionists. Chapter III. Genealogy of the Maltby or Maulsby family in America 66 Chapter IV. John and Mary Maultsby 68 The Schuylkill Ferry. The Will of Aquila Rose. Fam­ ily of John Maultsby. Chapter V. William and Rose Malsby - - 79 Limerick Home. The Newberry Settlement. Estab­ lishment of Newberry Meeting. Friends' Records. The Newberry Meeting House. Warrington Meeting. Westward .Migration. Coming of Nantucket Friends. Final move of John and Lydia Maulsby. Settlement in 1Vayne Co., Indiana. Mau]sbySettlementin Iowa. The Johns Estate. Descendants of John and Lydia Maulsby. Williams History. Barnard Ancestry. David and Margaret Maulsby. The Hussey Family. Wil­ liam Maulsby 3d and Ann his wife. Biography of Captain Thomas A. Maulsby. Chapter V (cont. ) . Merchant and Elizabeth Maulsby - 136 Will, Inventory, Children of Merchant and Elizabeth, and descendants. Deeds. The Rising Sun Inn. Studio of Thomas Hovenden. Marriage certificate of Sarah Maulsby. Farming in Harford Co., Md. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Chapter VI. David and Mary Laugharne Malsby - - 159 Purchase of Moreland Manor farm. Marriage of David and Mary Malsby. Seal and Crest. Elizabeth Drinker's Journal. Old Work Table or Desk. Deeds and Mortgages. Mary Laugharne. Story of Martin F. Conway. Story of Frances Ann Conway. Story of Jefferson Conway. Churchman the Agent. Letter of George Washington. Letter of Henry Sitler. Let­ ters from Columbus Smith. Letter of Mary Shoe­ maker. Tomb in Boulston Churchyard. Descendants. Chapter VII. Children of David and Mary Laugharne Malsby - 193 Mary Maulsby Hicks. Minutes of Gunpowder Month- ly Meeting. Mary Hicks Gray's Will. First Rec- ords of Baltimore town and Jones Town. Hicks Fam- ily. David Maulsby, Jr. Friends' Records. Will. John Laugharne Maulsby. Memorial. Friends' Rec­ ords. Meeting for Sufferings. Tamar and James Parr. Friends' Records. Early Parr Records. Eliz-­ abeth Drinker's Journal. Wheeler Malsby. Will. Frances and Samuel McConnell. Marriage Certificate. Angelina and James Orr. Friends' Records. Chapter VIII. Grandchildren of David and Mary Laugh- arne Maulsby 234 CHILDREN OF JAMES AND MARY HICKS. Certificate of Israel J. Graham. Will of Ann Wilson. Friends' Records. Removal to Warrington of Samuel and Jane Cook. Jesse W. Cook, M. D., and family. Ma- ria Jane Kent and family. Biography of Samuel C. Kent. Mary Ann Griest and family. Battle of Gettysburg. George Cook and family. Lafayette entertained by "Aunt Bashaby". Biography of James H. Johnson. Family of Tamar Sitler. Elizabeth and Francis Humphreys. Family of Henry W. and Ann Cook. Chapter IX. Grandchildren of David and Mary Laugh- arne Maulsby - 269 CHILDREN OF DAVID AND SARAH MAULSBY. Morris Maulsby and family. David Lee Maulsby. O'Laugh- len family. Biography of Frances Ann Maulsby. Bi­ ography of Brian Jefferson Conway. Biography of Martin F. Conway. Annals of Kansas. William Oscar Conway. Margery Ann Martenet. Mary Frances Grahame. 4 TABLE OF CON'IEN'IS PAGE Chapter X. Grandchildren of David and Mary Laugh- arne Maulsby - 282 CHILDREN OF JOHN AND MARY STARR MAULSBY. Deer Creek Friends' Records. David Malsby. Certificate of Removal to Indiana. Incident related by Abel Mills. Descendants. Chapter XI. Grandchildren of David and Mary Laugh- arne Maulsby - 286 CHILDERN OF TAMAR AND JAMES PARR. Parrs as Potters. Biography of Israel M. Parr. The Balti­ more Riot. Chapter XII. Grandchildren of David and Mary Laugh- arne Malsby - 295 CHILDREN OF FRANCES AND SAMUEL McCONNELL. Whitaker's Invitation. Marriage Certificate of Mary and Isaac Whitaker. Descendants: James McCon- nell. Biography of Hester McConnell. Bible Rec­ ords. History of Little Falls Meeting. Story of Rev­ olutionary Days. Signatures to Marriage Certificates. Chapter XIII. Roades History. Rodes Pedigrees. Sir John Rodes, Knt. - 305 William Rodes, Barlborough. Francis Rodes, Justice. Sir Thomas Wentworth. Great Houghton. Sir John Rodes, Baronet. Gilbert Rodes. Pedigrees. John Roades, of Ripley. Sufferings of Friends. Dissenters' Records. Sturton. Friends' Records. Emigration to America. A Member of the Council. Deeds. Will. Inventory. Descendants. Hon. Samuel Rhoads. Letter from Heanor. Chapter XIV. Appendix 349 Maltby the Surname. Domesday Record. Notes on Domesday Record. Deeds to David William. Malt- by Family, compiled by Prof. Blake. Williams Fam- ily. John Barnard. Capt. Thomas A. Maulsby. 5 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Plymouth Meeting. (Frontispiece) PAGE Half Tone. Photograph presented by Helen Corson Hovenden. Maltby Arms 17 Zinc Etching. Pen drawing by E. K. B. In Orston Village opposite 34 Half Tone. Photograph presented by C. W. Maltby. St. Mary's Church, Orston " 34 Half Tone. Photograph presented by C. W. Maltby. Chestnut House, Orston " 36 Half Tone. Ph<ftograph presented by C. W. Maltby. Chesterfield Meeting House. Interior " 38 Half Tone. Photographed by Gilbert Cope, 1908. Chesterfield Meeting House. Front View " 38 Half Tone. Photographed by Gilbert Cope, 1908. Spring Mill. Front View " 46 Half Tone. Photograph presented by Robert T. Potts. Spring Mill. Back View " 46 Half Tone. Photograph presented by Robert T. Potts. Spring Mill Residence " 48 Half Tone. Photographed and presented by Helen C. Hovenden. Money Scales of John Williams '' 53 Zinc Etching. Pen drawing by E. K. B. Deed of John Maultsby - " 68 Half Tone. Plate through courtesy of Cora M. Payne. Chair of Joseph Kent 78 Zinc Etching. Lost Creek School House " 98 Half Tone. Plate through courtesy of Cora M. Payne. Lost Creek Burying Ground " 100 Half Tone. Plate through courtesy of Cora M. Payne. General Israel David Maulsby (silhouette) " 116 Drawing after original owned by Charlotte Emily Banks. 6 LIST OF ILLUS'l.RA'JIONS PAGE Captain Thomas A. Maulsby " 132 Half Tone Vignette. Marriage Certificate of Merchant Maulsby " 136 Half Tone. Photograph presented by Richard Dallam. Caln and Radnor Meeting Houses - '' 140 Half Tones. Plates through courtesy of Truman Coates, M. D. Crest of Mary Laugharne " 165 Zinc Etching. Work Table or Desk of Mary Laugharne - " 169 Zinc Etching. Pen drawing by E. K. B. Laugharne and Wheeler Family Tree " 184 Half Tone. Photographed from original. Fallston Meeting House - " 194 Half Tone. After drawing by Benjamin Ferris. Candle Stand of Maria Jane Kent - 248 Zinc Etching. "Aunt Bashaby's" Tea Pot 262 Zinc Etching. Mary Lee Maulsby 270 Silhouette. From original owned by L. L. Toft. Rodes Arms 311 Zinc Etching. Pen drawing by E. K. B. AUTOGRAPHS.-Signature of Col. Wm. P. Maulsby, 2; Dr. George Maulsby, 4; John Roades, 43; Adam Roades, 43; Mary Maulsby, 43; Major John I. Yellott, 119; E. N. R. McLean, 124; Capt. Thomas A. Maulsby, 129; Morrice Maulsby, 140; Hannah Maulsby, 143: Helen C. Hovenden, 151; David Malsby, 163; Mary Malsby, 163; James Hicks, 203; David Maulsby, 213; Samuel Cook; 243; Jane Cook, 243; Joseph Kent, 249; Maria J. Kent, 249; David Parr, 287; Elisha Parr, 288; Sir John Rodes, 320. 7 TO THE MEMORY OF MY GRANDMOTHER MARIA J. KENT Around whose "radiant fireplace" "We sped the time with stories old" PREFACE HE Maltby or Maulsby history is the result of long years of research. At first in carefully picked steps T generation after generation backward, and then by leaps and bounds to that grand old record, the Domesday Book. Owing to our Quaker ancestry and the careful preserva­ tion of the Quaker records, this for 230 years was a compar­ atively easy matter, and William Maltby, the convert to Quakerism, was soon located in Nottinghamshire, England, in the little village of Orston, where some of the family still live, and from which C. W. Maltby writes: "My father, Thomas Maltby, died March 8, 1881, aged 101 years and 101 days." Before 1676 we have not attempted a connected history, although it could doubtless be traced much further by the aid of the long list of Maltby wills, going back many years be­ fore the sailing of Columbus, and by other records that carry us back to the Domesday Book, with which "Malteby" our history will begin. We look backward with pride, and justly, to the early Quaker settlement of Pennsylvania, but are apt to forget or scarcely realize the great changes that have taken place dur­ ing these years. That our Quaker ancestors suffered many privations and dwelt in rude abodes, that school houses were of later origin, and that education was within the reach of very few, comparatively speaking, is hard to realize. They truly lived "The Simple Life." Our history takes us back to still ruder conditions in England. Even into the history of the 'old ''Manor house,'' whose name seems to carry a certain glamor of distinction with it, it is not wise to examine too closely, or the wooden (i) THE MAULSBY FAMILY structure of one or two rooms, with dirt floor and thatched roof with opening for the escape of smoke, would dispel many of the illusions to which we cling. Our modern society is all too prone to judge a man by his possessions, and his ability to gain more, and so value him, overlooking the things of greater worth.