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Forward Gally

The following lists the names of passengers aboard "Forward Gally", departed London, bound for Maryland and Virginia, May 1737:

From Hertford:
  1  John Basten
  2  Thos. Haines
  3  Hen. Johnson

From Essex:
  4  Wm. Fuller
  5  John Cropwell
  6  Sarah Butcher
  7  Mary Middleton
  8  John Drain
  9  John Reynolds
 10  Hen. Richardson
 11  John Austin
 12  Geo. Hart
 13  Wm. Lawrence
 14  Wm. Grainger
 15  Joh'tn Hudson
 16  Wm. Brian
 17  Wm. Harwood

from Sussex:
 18  Tho's Piggott
 19  Wm. Wood
 20  Eliz. Walter
 21  Wm. Elliot
 22  John Reeder
 23  Tho. Wells
 24  John Stedman, the elder
 25  Christopher Stedman
 26  John Stedman, the younger
 27  Wm. Greenaway
 28  David Keefe
 29  John Call

From Surry:
 30  Thos. Wall
 31  Sarah Laws
 32  John Mayhe (Wayne?)
 33  John Withers
 34  Rich'd. Casey (Cafey?)
 35  Henry Bull
 36  Mary Sheppard
 37  Rich'd. Mathews
 38  Richard Pell
 39  James King
 40  Rich'd. Keeble
 41  Rich'd. Southerton
 42  Edw'd. Thompson
 43  Grace Tidmarsh
 44  Wm. Jordan
 45  Edw'd. Vernon
 46  John Coleman
 47  Wm. Bourne
 48  John Careless
 49  Wm. Penny
 50  John Winckworth
 51  Thos. Wall
 52  Rich'd. Yates
 53  Wm. Yates
 54  Eliza Yates

From Kent:
 55  James English
 56  Tho's. Daniel
 57  James Eager
 58  John Allen
 59  Wm. Huggins
 60  Wm. Shields
 61  Wm. Potter
 62  Wm. Perry
 63  John Peters
 64  Rich'd. Barrows
 65  John Hermes
 66  Tho's. File (Tule?)(Tile?)

From Bucks:
 67  Matthew Sheriff
 68  Jonas Smith
 69  Eliza Rigby

Passenger numbers added for ease in referencing.


Correspondence 06/14/2005 passenger PELL
A reference is made to a Richard Pell in a short history written by
Nathan Morris Pell (a great grandson of John Pell and Nancy Harrison)
that Richard Pell came to Virginia before the American Revolution,
fleeing an act displeasing to the throne.  And that Richard had 3 sons,
William, John and______. (This would be Richard (Jr) who married
Elizabeth Fairfax).**
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One of the most interesting backgrounds of the families in Surry
County, North Carolina belongs to the Pell family, although the known
origin begins really in the early 1700's and includes only one known
ancestor from England.  That one ancestor from England was a small boy
named Richard Pell, who was quite literally shipped to Virginia when he
was barely ten years old.

The story about this small boy came to the writer (Luther N. Byrd) from
James (Jim) Anderson, who lived in the Claudeville area of Patrick
County, Virginia, until he was more than 95 years old.  This writer
knew Jim Anderson well in his later years and found that Mr. Anderson's
memory was one of the best he ever knew.  Long years of research in
Bible Records, County records and cemetery records, never once proved
Jim Anderson's old time memories false.

The story of young Richard Pell’s coming to America tells of a group of
boys playing an old time ball game on the estate where the family lived
about the year 1735 and the ball was accidentally knocked over into the
hog lot.  Young Richard Pell was the only boy who had the nerve to go
after that ball, and an old sow with a gang of pigs charged him.  The
young boy picked up a rock and threw it at the sow, and accidentally
struck and killed a baby pig.  English laws of that long ago period
were very strict and the small boy was immediately arrested and charged
with (pig murder) for killing the pig.  The child was taken from the
family and was shipped to Virginia as a ebound boyi (bound boy) until he reached 21
years of age.  While serving as an apprentice or bound boy, young Pell
was trained as an iron worker and became highly skilled in that line.

At age 21 he was freed, married (wife unknown) and took up free land.
One son of that boy who killed the pig was Henry Pell, who was born in
1765 in Virginia and died before 1861 in Surry [Stokes] County, North
Carolina.  That Henry Pell, was the GRANDFATHER of Jim Anderson.  Henry
Pell told his Anderson grandson of the pig murder.

The above information published in book in public library in Mount
Airy, North Carolina and submitted by Mr. Luther N. Byrd, June 9, 1943,
Professor of History at Elon College, Elon, North Carolina.

Source:  This information was provided to me by Edna Pell, author of
The Descendants of William Pell, Sr. of Kent County, Maryland 1968.  It
should be noted that the above information does not appear in this
book, rather, it appears in a volume of correspondence Edna Pell loaned
to me.[Claudia Pell Salvatore]
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To add credence to this tale is the record below (discovered at the
PRO in London, England in 2001)

"of the court case brought against Richard Pell and two others, though
it should be noted that the boys were charged with STEALING a pig."
jryden@charter.net

It appears that all of the passengers were of the involuntary kind - they had been prisoners, shipped at the Crown expense.
The above is from the Public Records Office, reference T 53/39. (London).

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