Talk:Hovenden House, Barn and Abolition Hall

Thanks for the video link

Smallbones. Thanks for adding the link to the recent video. You'll note that I removed the image from the video template. With the visual clutter, I was working on this article for more than an hour before noticing the video link. Stripping it of the image and placing it on the left side makes it much more prominent. I hope you agree. Best, == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 15:38, 10 December 2016 (UTC)

Genealogical errors

Cora M. Payne published a genealogical history of the Maulsby family in 1902: Cora M. Payne, Genealogy of the Maulsby Family for Five Generations (Des Moines, IA: George A. Miller Press, 1902). Ella K. Barnard noted major errors in Payne's book, and published her own genealogical history in 1909: Ella K. Ballard, Early Maltby, with Some Roades History, and That of the Maulsby Family in America (Baltimore: Ella K. Barnard, 1909).[1] Importantly, Barnard backed up her corrections with documentary evidence, and had the assistance of Helen Corson Hovenden (Samuel Maulsby's granddaughter and Thomas Hovenden's widow). Payne's two most blatant errors concern the names of the first Maulsbys to settle in Pennsylvania, and when they arrived.

FACT: Merchant Maulsby (7 January 1697/98 – 1 December 1785), the son of William and Mary Roades Maulsby, was born at sea aboard the Bristol Merchant, and named for the ship.

William Maulsby died at age 31, 14 November 1699, at Philadelphia, leaving Mary a widow with 6 children including an infant, David (b. 20 March 1699). Payne misidentifies Mary's 9-year-old son, John (1690–1758), as her husband. Payne also claims that William Penn arrived with the Maulsbys aboard the Bristol Merchant. As Barnard notes: Penn made his return to the colony aboard the Canterbury, which arrived at Philadelphia in December 1699. This would have been more than a year after the Maulsbys' arrival, and the month after William Maulsby's death.

Payne's errors – especially, the Maulsbys' arrival with William Penn – have been repeated in numerous books. This cautionary note is posted for good faith editors who may unwittingly repeat those errors. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 05:07, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

Mary Roades Maulsby (1662–c.1710), widow, of Philadelphia, married David William, miller, of Whitemarsh Township, 30 January 1705. William (later Williams) built the grist mill at Spring Mill (c. 1704, burned and demolished 1967), and operated a ferry across the Schuylkill River. He was a widower with 5 children. They had a son together, Joseph William, born the year following their wedding. — Ella K. Barnard, Early Maltby, with Some Roades History, and That of the Maulsby Family in America (Baltimore: Ella K. Barnard, 1909), pp. 43-46. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 14:13, 16 September 2017 (UTC)

Barnard included an interesting item – probably supplied by Helen Corson Hovenden – about the small porch on the north side of Abolition Hall:

"Formerly there were two small porches over the doors of the Meeting-house. When taken away to build the present porch, one was placed by Thomas Hovenden over his studio door, and George Corson (son of Elias H. Corson) took the other, placing it over a door at his home, that they might be preserved." — Barnard, p. 60. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 17:55, 16 September 2017 (UTC)