Helena Mercer
Sex: FAKA: Helen A. Helen Mercer Merces
Individual Information
Birth: 1634 - Colross, Fife, Scotland 3 Baptism: Death: 19 Aug 1688 - Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania, British North America 1 2 4 Burial: After 20 Aug 1688 - Mulberry St. Friends Burying Ground in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British North America 2 5 Cause of Death:
Events• Conflicting birth information suggests Abt 1634 in London, England. 2• She immigrated in 1644 to Bremen, Germany. 6 from Scotland or England• Appointed 5 Dec 1686 to a position in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 7 By husband James, sole executrix of his Will.• Conflicting birth information suggests Abt 1635 in Scotland. 1
Parents
Father: Balthasar Mercer (Abt 1600-1650) 6 Mother: Elizabeth Kennedy, "of noble lineage" (Abt 1600-1660) 6
Spouses and Children
1. *James C. Claypoole (8 Oct 1634 - 6 Aug 1687) 8 9 10 Marriage: 12 Dec 1657 - Bremen, , Germany 4 11 12 Children: 1. John Claypoole (1658-1700) 2. Mary Claypoole (1660-1726) 3. Helena Claypoole (1662-1691) 13 4. James Claypoole, Jr. (1664-1706) 5. Priscilla Claypoole (1666-1698) 6. Nathaniel Claypoole (1668- ) 14 7. Josiah Claypoole (1669-1670) 2 15 8. Samuel Claypoole (1670-1680) 9. Nathaniel Claypoole (1672-Bef 1726) 10. Claypoole (1673-1673) 11. George Claypoole (1674-1730) 13 12. Joseph Claypoole (1676-1676) 2 5 13. Joseph C. Claypoole (1677-1744) 16 17 14. Elizabeth Claypoole (1678-1678)
Notes
Birth Notes:
General:
proven HelenaMarriage Notes (James C. Claypoole)
proven Mercer 1 2 18 19
by Cornelius Lelius, a Calvin Minister
Sources
1 Milton Rubincam, "The Identity of Helena Merces' (Mercer), Wife of James Claypoole (1634-1687), of Philadelphia" (American Genealogist, April 1942).
2 Robert Edward Avery, GEDCOM of Robert E. Avery (imported 08/14/1998).
3
johnny santmyer <jlsant448@aol.com>, SANTMYER/BROUGHTON
(World Family Tree, ancestry.com, Nov 7 2001
).
4 Robert Wilson COLEMAN, GEDCOM File H5096 (ancestry.com, World Family Tree, 23 Nov 1997). imported on 08/08/1998
5 LDS Submissions, "Ancestral File", Url: www.familysearch.org/Search/af (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, UT), af/ancestral_file_frame.asp?recid=9541750.
6 Milton Rubincam, "The Identity of Helena Merces' (Mercer), Wife of James Claypoole (1634-1687), of Philadelphia" (American Genealogist, April 1942), p. 204.
7 Sandra Ferguson <ferg@intelos.net>, July 12, 2001, to PA-OLD-CHESTER-L@rootsweb.com re: claypoole family.
8
The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine (1965-), p. 24(?). The third ship to arrive in the Delaware in October, the Concord, is reported by its best known passenger, James Claypoole, to have carried a crew of forty, mounted twenty-six guns, was 132 feet long and 32 feet broad. Claypoole also said it was "about 500 tunns" burthen and could transport 140 passengers in comfort. When ready to sail from Gravesend it had been victualled for 120 passengers, a number of whom - "the friends from Crevilt" - had been late in arriving at London. When they did finally come on board, they found "many convenient Cabins made and private rooms for familys and 14 Excellent Oxen killed and 30 Tunn beer & abundance of bread and water already stowed away."
Claypoole and his family went on board at Gravesend 24 5m (July) 1683, but the last sight of England was not until about three weeks later. After a "very comfortable passage" of 49 days, land was once more sighted, and on 1 8m (October), some of the passengers, including Claypoole, went ashore for the first time, possibly at Lewes. Philadelphia, however, was not reached until a week later. Some of the German passengers gave their date of arrival as 6 October, Claypoole his arrival as "8th or 10th" October.
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9 National Cyclopaedia of American Biography.(1921), p. 449.
10
Email, Melissa Watson <mhawk1901@yahoo.com> 28 Dec 2000 "James C. Claypoole". ... And King Malcolm II of Scotland is my 28x/Great Grandfather on my maternal side of my family (Malcolm II./Scot.; Princess Bethoc (Beatrix)/Scot.; King Duncan I/Scot.; King Malcolm III (Canmore)/Scot.; Princess Matilda (Maude/Edith/Canmore)/Scot.; Matilda Empress/Dowager/Eng.; King Henry II/Eng (Plantagenet); King John/Eng (Plant.); King Henry III/Eng (Plant.); King Edward I./Eng (Plant.); Princess Elizabeth Plantagenet; William De Bohun; Elizabeth De Bohun; Elizabeth Fitz-Alan; Elizabeth Goushill; Henry Wingfield; Robert Wingfield (SR); Robert Wingfield (JR); Dorothy Wingfield; John Claypoole; James C. Claypoole; Joseph C. Claypoole; James Claypoole (SR); James Claypoole (JR); Samuel Claypoole (SR); John Claypoole; Robert C. Claypoole; Howard M. Claypoole; Marybelle Claypoole; Mary Virginia Hawk, Melissa Buchanan Watson...me).
I find these facts extremely interesting and historical in nature also. This is the kind of stuff all we genealogists DREAM of finding and for me it is FACT.
11 Milton Rubincam, "The Identity of Helena Merces' (Mercer), Wife of James Claypoole (1634-1687), of Philadelphia" (American Genealogist, April 1942), p. 202.
12 James Claypoole, published letterbook and other correspondence or papers.
13 Sandra Ferguson <ferg@intelos.net>, May 22, 2001, to PA-OLD-CHESTER-L@rootsweb.com, re: James Claypoole.
14 Rebecca Irwin Graff, Genealogy of The Claypoole Family of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Penn., 1893), p. 52.
15 Ibid, p. 51.
16 Ibid, p. 62.
17 Email, Melissa Watson <mhawk1901@yahoo.com> 28 Dec 2000 "Jospeh C. Clayploole".
18 Milton Rubincam, "The Identity of Helena Merces' (Mercer), Wife of James Claypoole (1634-1687), of Philadelphia" (American Genealogist, April 1942), p. 206.
19 James Claypoole, published letterbook and other correspondence or papers, Memorandum of Marriage.
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