James Crispin and Unknown

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Husband James Crispin ¹

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         Father: Capt. William Crispin (Abt 1610-Abt 1682) 2 3
         Mother: Jane Chudleigh (      -      ) 3

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Children

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1 M Arthur Smith Crispin ¹

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2 F Prudence Crispin ¹

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         Spouse: [Unk] Smith (      -      ) 1

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3 M James Crispin ¹

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4 M Richard Crispin ¹

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5 F Elizabeth Crispin ¹

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         Spouse: [Unk] Harris (      -      ) 1

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6 M Joseph Crispin ¹

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7 M Michael Crispin ¹

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General Notes: Husband - James Crispin

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He removed from Kinsale to the island of St. Christopher in the West Indies. He appears to have eventually obtained the whole of the three thousand acres granted by William Penn to the children William Crispin and his last wife; by the law of Pa. he was entitled as eldest brother to two shares of it, each of his brothers and sisters having one share. In an account of the disposition of this land among the Penn Papers in the possession of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania it is stated that his surviving brother and sisters, Benjamin, Jane, Elizabeth and Amy, by deed of May 10, 1702, sold their rights to James, who died intestate, seized of the three thousand acres, leaving issue. James Crispin's children were clearly considered the heirs of the whole three thousand acres, for about 1731 they all sold their shares, aggregating this amount, to persons living in Pennsylvania, and their right was unquestioned until 1752, when a controversy arose about one of these sales, during which Thomas Penn wrote that he had in his possession the deed of 1698, which had on the back a conveyance, dated July 30, 1702, from Benjamin, Jane, Elizabeth, and Amy to Captain Arthur Smith, and that this appeared to be the original conveyance, and they therefore had not conveyed to their brother James. But if, as is surmised, James Crispin had married a daughter (and possibly heiress) of Captain Arthur Smith, his possession of his brother's and sisters' rights would thus be explained. (The deed of November 22, 1698, with the conveyance of 1702 on the back, was later in possession of Mr. Daniel Sutter, of Mount Holly, New Jersey. A number of papers relating to this matter are in the Penn mss., volume of land grants (1681-1806), pages 217, 218, 219, 221, 223, 227, and 231, in possession of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania).

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 358.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 357.

3 Frederic A. Godcharles, LL.D., Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography, Vol. 19 (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1931), Pg 346.