The last to arrive was the Submission out of Liverpool and Bristol.
Fortunately a copy of the ship's log has been preserved. For
genealogical purposes the most important part of the log is the list
of 37 passengers. Among them were:
James Clayton 50 blacksmith from Middlewich in Cheshire Co.
Jane Clayton 49
James Clayton 16
Sarah Clayton 14
John Clayton 11
Mary Clayton 8
Joshua Clayton 5
Lydia Clayton 5
The list of passengers of the Submission includes at least one family found on the rolls of the Cheshire Monthly Meeting--the Blackshaws. The birth of Abraham Blackshaw was recorded in 1672, and the log of the Submission records his death at sea on the trip to America. (The Blackshaws were later to have some association with the Claytons in Kent Co. DE.)
The Submission departed England on Sept. 6, 1682 and arrived at Choptank MD on Oct.21. This port, on the Choptank river is only a few miles from Kent Co. DE. The ship was supposed to go up the Delaware, but instead entered Chesapeake Bay and landed on the Eastern Shore at Choptank. It was a year later that one of the passengers, Randle Blackshaw, arrived at Appoquinimink on the road to New Castle. From there he, his family, and likely the whole party continued north. Phineas Pemberton records their presence in Bucks County in 1684.
(This material can be found in Sheppard's Passengers and Ships, Vol 1 of the Welcome Society and in Vol 9 of the Pa Magazine, p. 231.)
There are actually several accounts of the passenger list of the Submission. In the publications of the Genealogical Society includes Joseph Clayton, aged 5 and omits Joseph Jones. There is obviously confusion in the various accounts as to the idendity of a Joseph Clayton, who seems to have settled in Bucks Co. Some believe that Joseph Clayton was born on the journey overland to Bucks County.
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