"William Attemore (Attmore) Papers", Southern Historical Collection of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Unfortunately the original Stubbs family genealogy document in this collection has been lost or misfiled and is not available at this time (2006, J.C.S). William Attmores' Journal of a tour to North Carolina in 1787 survive. This version was published in the Colorado Genealogist, Vol. XXVI, July 1965, No. 3. The article was compiled by Roger Avery Stubbs (R.A.S.) who obtained the information from Caroline C. of Charlotte, NC. William Attmore was the son of Mary Stubbs daughter of Thomas Stubbs and Mary Minor. His father was William Penn Attmore. The Attmores remained in the Philadelphia area. 'Mary was the family historian' (R.A.S.)
William Attmore was born in 1750. He married Sarah Sitgreaves. He was a merchant at Philadelphia and Newbern, NC. His memoirs of 1792 are the earliest Stubbs genealogy for this line.
Attmore Papers
“The first of this family I have had any record of was from the
information my mother gave, who understood that my grandfather used to say my
great great grandfather was a Captain of Horse in the Royal Army, in the war
betwixt King Charles I and the Parliament.
My great grandfather, Daniel Stubbs, lived also in England.
My grandfather, Thomas Stubbs, I well remember.
He lived sometime in Chester Co. In the then Province of Pennsylvania, in
the forks of the Brandywine Creek; afterwards removed to the south side of the
south fork of Brandywine, in Newlin Township, and finally removed to Concord
Township. There he died.
He was born in Worcestershire, in England, within 12 miles of the city
of Worcester, between Malvern Hill and Clauslawn [Corse
Lawn].
Those are 12 miles apart, alittle way from Severn River.
He was about 20 or 21 years old when he came over to America.
He took shipping at Bristol at a time when there was a cessation of arms
in Queen Anne's Wars, in the ship Bristol Merchant, of sixteen guns mounted and
had others not mounted. He had
hired to work at Bristol about a year.
After he had been in Pennsylvania about six years, he married Mary Minor
at Goshen in Chester County, about the year 1718, at Friend's Meeting House
there.
It appears my Grandfather was born in the south west corner of
Worcestershire, where there is a nook of land partly surrounded by
Gloucestershire. There Malvern
Hills, Cosse Court and Cosse Wood are laid down.
His eldest brother was named David.
He (Thomas Stubbs) had in 13 years, nine children born, whose posterity
in September 1792 were as annexed to their names.
1st Esther -
she has had
10;
now living 6
2d. Daniel: born 20th or 22nd of
7th Mo. 1722
14
do.
12
3d. Mary (born about 1 3/4 years after 1724)
3
2
4th Elizabeth
6
6
5th Anne (an Old Maid)
6th Thomas
5
2
7
7th John
14
13 10
8th Sarah
9th Joseph
1
9 children who had - 45 more; inc. 41 more and 17 more.
NIEST
Of the family of Niest, my great great grandfather, I know less than of
any other branch of our family.
The mother of my grandfather Stubbs was Mary Niest, and perhaps of
Worcestershire, or that neighborhood, where he came from.
MINOR
It appears that my great great grandfather ______Minor, was settled in Ireland. His son Thomas, who came from thence, seemed to be
(from his dialect) a native of that country.
My great Grandfather, John Minor (brother of Thomas) lived there, as did
his wife Esther Ubrum or (Utrum?) the mother of my grandmother Stubbs.
RICHARD
UBRUM (UTRUM)
My great great grandfather, Richard Ubrum (Utrum) was a native of
England and had removed to Ireland, as I have understood, previous to the wars
between King James and King William in that country. He was totally ruined there
about the year 1690, by the continued depredations of the Rapparees. (From
records of William Attmore). I do
not know of any children that he had besides my great grandmother, Esther,
(married to John Minor) and Mary, married to Christopher Thompson in Cork, and
removed to Philadelphia.
My grandmother, Mary Minor, or Stubbs, came to Pennsylvania with the
family of Benjamin Ford and lived sometime with his father and afterwards
sometime with John Hopes. She came
from the south part of Ireland, and took shipping at Cork. She staid six weeks at the house of Joseph Pike in Cork,
waiting for passage. She came from
Limerick.