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Notes for CHARLES PLUMLY:
A chart received from the Genealogical Library,
Salt Lake, City, Utah, gives
Charles Plumly, Parish of Priddy, County of
Somerset, as having married 12
month 11 day 1665 Margery Page of Somersetshire,
Butcomb, County, and James
Plumly, George Plumly and John Plumly as brothers
of Charles.
This supports the twentieth century tradition
prevalent in the
Greenville, County, S.C. Plumblee family that
indeed these were the four
brothers who came over together.
On October, 31 1682 Charles and ( Margery Page )
Plumly purchased of
Samuel Allen, also a resident of Somersetshire, one
hundred acres of land
which had been surveyed to said Allen, on Neshaminy
Creek in Bristol township,
Bucks, County, Pennsylvania and 100 acres which had
not yet been surveyed or
located. Soon after this date, Charles and Margery(
Page) Plumly came to
Pennsylvania and presumably located on their Bucks,
County plantation, where
Charles Plumly died in 1683, August 13, 1684
Margery (Page) Plumly married
Henry Paxton from Bycot House, County of Oxford,
who had come to Pennsylvania
in the ship Samuel in 1682, and settled in Bucks,
County where he became a
large landholder and prominent on county and
provincial affairs. Two hundred
and fifty acres of land on the Neshaminy Creek were
Patented to the widow
Plumly after her husband death, in a right of
purchase by him of which we have
no record. Part of this land was later owned by her
eldest son William
Plumly. She had no children by Henry Paxton, and
the latter having no
surviving children left some of his large estate to
his second wife's
children.
To this writer it appears that the Jordon reference
just cited indicates
that soon after the purchase of the 100 acres of
land from Samuel Allen on
October, 31,1682 occurred before leaving England,
and that soon thereafter the
Plumly family came to Pennsylvania and located on
the Bucks, Co. Plantation.
No error is found in the purchase nor in date of
deed.
The formerly mentioned deed from Allen to Charles
E. Plumly reads in
part: To all people whom these presents shall come,
Samuel Allen late of
Chue, Mayne in ye County of Somerset within ye
kingdom of England, and now of
Neshaminy Creek in ye province of Pennsylvania in
America sendeth greeting.
Know ye that ye said Samuel Allen ye six pounds of
current English money to
him in hand paid of Charles Plumly now of Neshaminy
Creek, Planter, at or
before sealing ...100 acres of land to be taken up
and surveyed-fourth of that
land of Samuel Allen... adjoining land of James
Boyden... at or near
creek...all and every ye ways, and water easements
privileges woods, and
underwood advantage, and appurtenances to ye said
100 acres of land... heir,
and assigns.... Paying ye yearly sum of one
shilling of current English money
unto William Penn, Esq, sole proprietary of ye said
Province of Pennsylvania
his heirs or assigns or his or their agents,
Commissioners or servants.
30th day of October Anno Domini 1682
Samuel Allen (seal)
Witness Joseph Stone, Benjamin Weeks, Tho
Revell
Recorded 3rd day of October Anno Domini 1707
The deed clearly shows that both Samuel Allen, and
Charles Plumly were in
fact in Pennsylvania when the land was bought. Note
that it was nearly twenty
five years before the deed was recorded, and
probably about twenty four after
the death of Charles Plumly. Appurtenances
indicates a possibility that some
kind of cabin for human habitation might have been
on the land at the time of
sale.
Of the three brothers of Charles, Just mentioned
James, George,
and John, and Thomas, son of George, Information is
skimpy. The Genealogical
Society of Utah Chart previously mentioned makes
these statements.
1. James Plumly suffered persecution for his
religious faith in 1672;
1680-,and 2- Purchased land in Pennsylvania which
he sold in 1704- probably
married in England.
2. George Plumly of Hammer Friends meeting suffered
persecution in 1670.
3.John Plumly of Hammer Friends meeting suffered
persecution
1670-1680-1681.
The children of Charles and Margery (Page) Plumly
are considered here in
order of their ages. One child, James died in
infancy, but the next one born
was also given the name James indicating their
desire to perpetuate the name.
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