Ellen Stackhouse

  General Notes:

The passenger List from the "Lamb" in 1682.
The Lamb October 22, 1682, John Tench, master, one of Penn's fleet Ellen Cowgill and children John, Ralph, Edmund, Jane and Jennet
Thomas Croasdale, wife Agnes and children: William, John , Elizabeth, Mary, Bridget and Alice
James Dilworth, wife Ann Waln, son Stephen Cuthbert and Mary
Rudd Hayhurst and Children: Elizabeth, William, Margery, John, Cuthbert and Alice Charles Lee Stephen Sands
Robert and Alice Heaton and children: Grace, Robert, James, Agnes and Ephraim Thomas and Margery Stackhouse and nephews: John and Thomas
Nicholas and Jane Turner Waln and children: Jane, Richard and Margaret
Thomas and Alice Hayhurst Wigglesworth

  Research Notes:

McCracken in The Welcome Claimants discusses the "Settle Certificate," a certificate of removal issued 7th of 4th mo. 1682 by Settle Monthly Meeting in Yorkshire for a group about to leave for America. The original of this document cannot be located. It covered seven families in eight households, these being largely related to each other (McCracken, p. 22), a common occurrence as we have seen among Quakers living in close proximity. Retranscriptions of the document contain discrepancies as to which individuals were covered by it. One of the families named in the certificate was the Cowgills, headed by the widow Ellen Cowgill and including her children, names and number not specified. The widow Cowgill was perhaps a sister of Thomas Stackhouse, another person named on the certificate. One version of the certificate was printed by Dr. John W. Jordan, Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, 1911 1:297), probably based on a transcription of the Middletown, Bucks Co., Monthly Meeting records. McCracken discusses the reasons the Cowgills and other families were thought to have come on the Welcome. Jordan, although a supporter of the Cowgills’ Welcome passage, "nevertheless pointed out that the widow’s eldest son Ralph had come as a servant on the Friends’ Adventure" (McCracken, p. 24). "Ralph’s passage on this ship was doubtless arranged by his master, Randulph Blackshaw, who with his family, came on the Submission." McCracken reaches the "inescapable" conclusion that the Settle Friends crossed the Atlantic on the Lamb, not only because it sailed from a northern port, but because, as research has shown, the English Port Books show that four of the families named in the Settle certificate had loaded merchandise on the Lamb.

Ellen married Ralph Cowgill in 1656 in England. (Ralph Cowgill was born about 1635 and died about 1682 in England.)