We are researching Mary Groom, wife of John Rogers. Thomas and Peter Groom, brothers of each other, have been suggested as her relatives, perhaps her brothers, or uncles, or father. Peter Groom witnessed the marriage of Mary Groom to John Rogers.
1685 On 16 of month 7, at the house of John Hart on peequesy (alias Bybury Creek), John Rogers of West Jersey, near ye Falls of ye River Delaware, husbandman, married Mary Groom of Southampton on peequesy creek in ye county of Philadelphia. Witnessed by Peter Groom, Jo Rush, Sam Ellis, Walter Forrest, Nath Harding, Tho Bingley, Caleb Gilbert, Jo Hart, Mary Ellis, Susanna Rush, Susanna Hart, Ann Sessions, Mary Weber, and Jane Rush. [1] On 29th of 7th month, the marriage of John Rogers, of Jersie, and Mary Groom was reported in the Abbington Men's monthly meeting book, page 6, "signified by their marriage certificate." [2].
Research Notes:
A biosketch of the Groome family reports [3]:
The Groome family is an old one in Bucks county, the first settlers here being Peter and Thomas Groome, brothers. Peter purchased two hundred acres of land of Penn in Southampton in 1683, but sold it in 1690 and removed to New Jersey. Thomas Groome in 1704 purchased 550 acres on the Delaware, in Bristol township, which he sold four years later, and settled in Byberry Philadelphia county. William Groome, supposed to be the son of Thomas, settled in Southampton in 1718 on 112 acres purchased that year, upon which he later erected a grist mill. He died there in 1736, leaving a widow Margaret, and seven children, four of whom grew to maturity viz Thomas Mary Anne who married Garret Vansant in 1739 and William, who married Rachel Walton in 1747.
"Southampton, PA is a namesake of Southampton, [Hampshire] England, the seaport from which adventurous followers of William Penn sailed to the Province of Pennsylvania. By 1685, Southampton was recognized by the Provincial Council as a township, and the lands within its borders had been allocated to thirteen original purchasers: John Luff, John Martin, Robert Pressmore, Richard Wood, John Jones, Mark Betres, John Swift, Enoch Flowers, Joseph Jones, Thomas Groom, Robert Marsh, Thomas Hould and John Gilbert, whose tracts were delineated on a Map of the Improved Part of the Province of Pennsylvania drafted by Thomas Holme, Penn's Surveyor General." [4] [5] [Map, 1681 Thomas Holme map excerpt of Thomas Groome land on SE corner of Moreland.] The map shows lands of John Hart and of Thomas Groom on Potquessin Creek, consistent with the place of Mary Groom at her marriage. The map shows nearby land of Samuel Ellis, John Rush (not shown on the excerpt in the footnote), Bingley, and Gilbert, all witnesses at the wedding of Mary Groom, near to that of John Hart.
1677 William Groom was one of three servants arriving in America with the family of Edward Bradway from the parish of Paull Shadwwell, London. [6]
1683 Peter Groom warranted 200 acres of land in Bucks County. Warrant dated August 26. [7] [8]
1683 Thomas Grooms warranted 200 acres in Philadelphia County. Warrant dated 21 of month 10. [9]
c 1691 The Quaker meeting at Byberry was divided by the influence of George Keith. "Those who remained at the old meeting were John Hart, John Rush. Nathaniel Walton, and Richard Collett, with their families, and some others by the name of Johnson, Jackson, and Foster. Those who seceded are mentioned as Giles Knight, John Carver, Daniel Walton, Thomas Walton, William Walton, Henry English, Thomas Knight, John Gilbert, William Hibbs, John Brock, Thomas Groome, and others." [10]
1692 Thomas Groom signed, at Philadelphia, a testimony against George Keith, a Quaker dissenter. [11]
1692 Power of Attorney. Peter Groom, Bucks Co. husbandman appoints his brother Thomas Groom of Byberry, Philadelphia County, carpenter, to be his lawful attorney.
1694 March 30. Peter Groome to Thomas Duggles, both of Burlington Co., yeomen, for a plantation of 100 acres in Mansfield Township, bought of Widow Sarah Scholey. [12]
1696 Nov. 9. Do. John Bainbridge of Maidenhead, Burlington Co., to Peter Groome of Assinpinck, East Jersey, for 200 acres, adjoining William Watson, on Assinpinck R., as sold to grantor by John Reid of Hortencie Feb. 22, 1693-4. [13]
1696-7 On February 9, Deed, Thomas Duggles of Burlington County, yeoman, to Abraham Browne, late of Freehold, Monmouth County, now of Burlington County, yeoman, for a plantation of 310 acres in Mansfield Township, running over into Chesterfield Township, 200 a. thereof bought of John Curtis April 17, 1689, 100 a. of Peter Groome March 30, 1694, and 10 a. of Eliakim Higgins November 25, 1689. [14]
1697 Soon after 1697, Thomas Groom settled in the upper end of the township [Byberry]. [15]
1695-1740 Thomas Groom was named as a collector in Byberry. [16]
1704 Thomas Groom purchased five hundred and fifty acres on the Delaware, in Bristol township, which he sold four years later, and settled in Byberry, Philadelphia county.
1707 Thomas Groom, Philadelphia County, a parcel of land lying at the corner of the land of Robert Turner and adjoining land of Edward Pennington and land of Griffith Jones - sold to Barnard Christian, Bergen County, East Jersey, yeoman, for £290. Ackn: 29 Sep 1707. Rec: 29 Sep 1707.
1707 Thomas Groome was named overseer at the Byberry meeting. Dated 23 of month 12. [17]
1707 Thomas Groom sold a parcel of land to Bernard Christian for £290 on 29 Sep 1707 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [18]
1709 Elizabeth, wife of Peter Groome was named as a daughter in the will of Thomas Wood. [19]
1709-10 On 15 of month 12, Tho. Groome and others witnessed the marriage of Samuel Walton, of Byberey Twp, and Marcy Waterman, both of Philadelphia County. [20]
1713 Thomas Groom, William Marshal, and Thomas Kembal, all of Philadelphia, warranted 2500 acres of land in Bucks County in the tract called the Great Swamp. Warrant dated August 28. [21] [22]
1716 A paper of condemnation of William Groom was to be read at the Byberry meeting. [23]
1716 James Cooper, grantee, witnessed by Mary Groom, for land bought of her father, Thomas Groom and Elizabeth, his wife. [24]
1721 Thomas Groom contributed to the collections for the poor in Byberry. [25]
1723 On 29 of month 2, Thomas Groom was named to be overseer at Byberry. [26]
1729/30 On 23 of month 12, Thomas Groom was named to be overseer at Byberry. [27]
1736 Will of Thomas Groom, original No. 20, at Philadelphia, Will Book F, page 22, dated October 1, 1736, probated December 29, 1736 (witnessed by Samuel Cooper) names his daughter, Mary Cooper, executrix. Her will is at Philadelphia, No. 184, recorded in Book P, page 290. [28]
[1] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Pennsylvania, Montgomery, Abington Monthly Meeting, Marriages, 1685-1721, 38, marriage certificate, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[2] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Pennsylvania, Montgomery, Abington Monthly Meeting, Mens meeting, 1682-1746, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[3] William W. H. Davis, with Warren S. Ely and John W. Jordan, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 2nd ed., Vol. III (1905), 543, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[4] Thomas Holme, Surveyor for William Penn, Map of the Improved Part of the Province of Pennsylvania (1687), [LibraryOfCongress], [LibraryOfCongress Catalog].
[5] Wikipedia article about Southampton,_Pennsylvania, content subject to change, [Wikipedia].
[6] Quaker Meeting Records, Falls Monthly Meeting Bucks County, PA, Minutes, 1731-1767, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[7] Pennsylvania Records of the Land Office, RG-17, Old Rights index, Bucks County, 1682-1740, (series #17.78), page 24, item 20, [PAHistoricalMuseum].
[8] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, D68-179, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[9] William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume 3 (Old Rights, Proprietary Rights, Virginia Entries, Soldiers Entitled to Donation Lands) (1894), 711, [InternetArchive].
[10] Joseph C. Martindale., A history of the townships of Byberry and Moreland, in Philadelphia, Pa () 43, [HathiTrust].
[11] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Minutes, 1679-1703, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[12] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 21. (Patents and Deeds, 1664-1703) (1899), 492, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[13] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 21. (Patents and Deeds, 1664-1703) (1899), 143, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[14] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 21. (Patents and Deeds, 1664-1703) (1899), 492, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[15] The Committee of Publication, Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Volume 2 (Philadelphia: Carey, Lee, & Carey, 1827), 177, [GoogleBooks].
[16] The Committee of Publication, Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Volume 2 (Philadelphia: Carey, Lee, & Carey, 1827), 179, [GoogleBooks].
[17] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Pennsylvania, Montgomery, Abington Monthly Meeting, Mens meeting, 1682-1746, [AncestryImage].
[18] William W. H. Davis, with Warren S. Ely and John W. Jordan, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 2nd ed., Vol. III (1905), 93, right column, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[19] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 23. (Wills and Administrations 1, 1670-1730) (1901), 520, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[20] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Pennsylvania, Montgomery, Abington Monthly Meeting, Marriages, 1685-1721, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[21] Pennsylvania Records of the Land Office, RG-17, Old Rights index, Bucks County, 1682-1740, (series #17.78), page 24, item 6, [PAHistoricalMuseum].
[22] Pennsylvania Archives Land Office Survey, D68-161, [PASurveyBookLinks].
[23] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Pennsylvania, Montgomery, Abington Monthly Meeting, Mens meeting, 1682-1746, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[24] Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association 16 (1917), 194, citing deed H 17, page 152, [GoogleBooks].
[25] The Committee of Publication, Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Volume 2 (Philadelphia: Carey, Lee, & Carey, 1827), 186, [GoogleBooks].
[26] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Pennsylvania, Montgomery, Abington Monthly Meeting, Mens meeting, 1682-1746, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[27] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Pennsylvania, Montgomery, Abington Monthly Meeting, Mens meeting, 1682-1746, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[28] Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association 16 (1917), 196, [GoogleBooks].