Silas Bradshaw Crispin (1655-1711)

 

Silas Bradshaw Crispin (1655-1711)

One of my maternal 8^th great grandfathers, Silas, was born in 1655 in Kingston on Hull, Yorkshire, England to William Crispin and Rebecca Penn Bradshaw. Silas had two brothers and two sisters.

In about 1681, William Crispin, Silas’s father was appointed to a Commission by Founder William Penn to come to America to establish the Colony and carry out Penn’s plans for the great city of Philadelphia. William Penn also appointed William Crispin as Chief Justice of the new Colony and Surveyor General of the Providence of Pennsylvania. It is said that William Crispin sailed on the ship “Amity” when the ship got close to the Delaware, it was blow off course to the West Indies and put into Barbados where it is said that William Crispin died.

Silas arrived in Pennsylvania in 1682 sailing with Thomas Holme and his family after his father’s death.  On the ship was Thomas’s daughter, Hester, Silas and Hester got to know each other on the long voyage. In 1683, Silas married Hester Holme, one of my maternal 8^th  great grandmothers and they settled on a 500-acre track on Pennypack Creek near Philadelphia that was given to Silas by William Penn. It is said that Silas and Hester had their first child in an Indian wigwam belonging to the Chief of the Tammany Tribe.

Between the age of 23 and 35, Hester gave birth to eight children, the last baby, Susanne, was born on April 14, 1696. Hester died on April 16, 1696; baby Susanne died the same year, not sure of the exact day.

Silas Crispin, Gentleman of Dublin Township, Pennsylvania was a member of the Free Society of Traders, a joint stock company founded by a small group of English Quakers in 1681.

Silas’s spent most if his time caring for his large estate and being the Executor of his father in laws Will in 1695. One year after Hester’s death, Silas married his second wife Mary who was a widow and mother of two young sons, Mary was 14 years younger than Silas. The couple had six children.

Graham Horn / Plantation of young oaks

Silas died May 31, 1711, in Dublin at age 56 and was buried in the Old Crispin Cemetery  also known as the Holme-Crispin Cemetery.

 

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