Person:George Maris (6)

George Maris, Jr.
  1. Robert Maris1621/22 -
  2. Anne Maris1623/24 -
  3. Richard Maris1625/26 -
  4. Francis Maris1628 - 1671
  5. Richard Maris1630 - 1685/86
  6. Elizabeth Maris1630/31 -
  7. George Maris, Jr.1632 - 1703
  8. Mary Maris1637 -
  • HGeorge Maris, Jr.1632 - 1703
  • WAlice UnknownAbt 1638 - 1699
m. Abt 1659
  1. Alice Maris1660 - 1726
  2. George Maris1662 - Abt 1753
  3. Elizabeth Maris1665 - 1705
  4. Ann Maris1667 -
  5. John Maris1669 - 1747/48
  6. Richard Maris1672 - 1745
  7. Susannah Maris1675 -
Facts and Events
Name[6] George Maris, Jr.
Gender Male
Birth? 2 Dec 1632 Inkberrow, Worcestershire, England
Christening? 2 Dec 1632 Grafton Flyford, Worcestershire, England
Marriage Abt 1659 Worcestershire, Englandto Alice Unknown
Emigration[1][3] 23 May 1683 Bristol, Gloucestershire, Englandloaded items on the Bristol Comfort
Other From 25 Jul 1683 to 1 Oct 1683 traveled from England to America on the Bristol Comfort
with Alice Unknown
Death[4] 15 Jan 1703 Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
Alt Death? 15 Jan 1705 Springfield, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States"1704/5"
Burial[5] Chester Friends Cemetery|Delaware County, Pennsylvania
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On 23 May 1683, George Morris [or Maris] loaded a number of different items (including 90 lbs. of shoes) on the Bristol Comfort, a 200-ton English-owned vessel built by the Dutch. It had arrived in Bristol the previous April with a load of tobacco from Virginia. On 25 July, the ship set sail from “Kingroad” (the King's Roadstead) and arrived on the Delaware River on 28 September and at Upland, Pennsylvania, on 1 October. It was the second ship to enter Delaware Bay at the end of September and the first of five ships said (in a letter by William Penn) to have arrived in October.[3]

One of the Justices holding court for Chester County, 1684-93. (Implying he was already a person of some importance before he ever arrived in America.)

Member of the Pennsylvania Assembly, 1684-93.

Imprisoned for eight months by the Assizes for not conforming to the established church (i.e., for being a Quaker).


SOURCES:
1. Smith, Harris, Collateral Ancestry B8 F 25 Emmigrated 1683 p. 187
2. Book No, W625 from Inst. of Am. Genealogy
3. Main Archive Record

References
  1. Maris, George L., and Annie M. Pinkerton Maris. The Maris family in the United States: a record of the descendants of George and Alice Maris, 1683-1885. (West Chester, Pennsylvania: F.S. Hickman, 1885)
    pp. xii, 1.

    Came from England with wife and six children and settled at "Home House" in Springfield Twp, Chester County (now Delaware County), Pennsylvania.

  2.   Maris, in Futhey, John Smith, and Gilbert Cope. History of Chester County, Pennsylvania: With Genealogical and Biographical Sketches. (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1881)
    pg 649.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Balderston, Marion. Pennsylvania's 1683 Ships and Some of Their Passengers. Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1965)
    24 (2): 84.

    Loaded on the Bristol Comfort “23 [May] George Morris (Maris): 10 doz. dressed calf skins; 1 qtr. malt; 3½ qtrs. wheat; 3 bushels oatmeal; 90 lbs. shoes; ½ cwt. pewter; cwt. brass manufactured; 2 flitches bacon; 20 cwt. wrought iron; 6 doz. woolen stockings; 10 cwt. cheese; 1 bbl. beer; 3 doz. plain sheepskin gloves; 1½ firkins butter; 33 yds. flannel; 11 pcs. English earthware; 1/15 hhd. aquavita; 2¼ cwt. lead shot; ¼ cwt. gunpowder; 20 ells English linen; 10 parcels several wares value £18 10s.”

    See also note 54. The author cites, “The ship's loadings are from Bristol port book E 190/1146/1, PRO.”

  4. U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 [database]. (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, 2014).
  5. Find A Grave.
  6. Ancestry.com. U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc)
    Place: Pennsylvania; Year: 1683; Page Number: 47.