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Facts and Events
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On 3 Oct 1693, boys imported from Scotland by Maurice Trent, merchant of Philadelphia, were arraigned before the court in Quarter Sessions in Chester Co., PA to have their ages and terms of indenture determined. All were to be free at age 21. The names were: Alexander Ross, Daniel MackDaniel (McDaniel), George Leacy, Alex Mecany, Magnis Simson, James Canide (Canaday?), and James Driver.
It has been said that many of the boys imported on the Trent's ships were kidnapped (as in the Robert Louis Stephenson novel). This James Driver was born circa 1679 in Scotland (?)
Another James Driver arrived in America in 1773.
Permanent entry number: 1203176
Publication code: 1217.7 Page number: 49
Source publication: COLDHAM, PETER WILSON. Bonded Passengers to America. 9 vols. in 3. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983. Vol. 7. Norfolk Circuit, 1663-1775: Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk. 57p.
from Bill Hilton
Most of the information I have on the Drivers came from a second cousin who has now died. About ten years ago I met him when I started researching my roots. He gave me the outline of the Drivers and supposedly gathered some of it from a visit he made to England and Scotland and Ireland back in the 70s. He was very secretive about his work so I have no documentation of any of this. He has since died and his survivors are very non-communicative about the family history. I don't know of any family pictures from the Driver line. My 83 year old father and his 85 year old sister talk often of their Grandma Lucy who was the great grand daughter of Lucy Hobbs and grand daughter of Denton. Lucy's husband George Francis Hilton died at a young age and Grandma Lucy struggled to raise her two sons on the family's farm. I gather from them that the family was entirely too poor to afford what would have been a luxury to them like a photograph.
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