Mary Royale/Royall^{[1, 2, 3]}

1686 - 1749  (63 years)

• Name	Mary Royale/Royall
  Born	1686	Glasgow City, Scotland
  Gender	Female
  Died	1749	Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania
  	a year later Jeremiah went on to marry 2nd wife.
  Buried	Brick Meeting House, Calvert, Cecil County, Maryland
  Person ID	I11695	My Reynolds Line
  Last Modified	11 Mar 2023

  
  

  Family 1	William Coles,   b. Abt 1684,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	9 May 1705	Pennsylvania
  Children	+ 1. Mary Coles,   b. 4 Mar 1708, Nottingham, Chester, Pennsylvania ,   d. 27 Feb 1777, West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania  (Age 68 years)   2. William Coles,   b. 9 Jul 1705, Pennsylvania ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	13 Mar 2023
  Family ID	F3633	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Jeremiah Brown,   b. 1687, Marcus Hook, Delaware County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 6 Mar 1767, Chester County, Pennsylvania  (Age 80 years)
  Married	abt. 1710/1711	probably Chester County, Pennsylvania
  Children	+ 1. Isaac Brown,   b. 20 Aug 1720, West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 23 Jan 1781, Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania  (Age 60 years)   2. Patience Brown,   b. 25 May 1712, Nottingham, Chester County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 23 May 1783, Orange County, North Carolina  (Age 70 years)   3. Jeremiah Brown, Jr.,   b. 2 Feb 1714, West Nottingham, Chester County, Pennnsylvania ,   d. 29 Nov 1762, Pennsylvania  (Age 48 years)   4. Joshua Brown,   b. 5 Mar 1717, Chester County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 15 Oct 1798, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania  (Age 81 years)
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2023
  Family ID	F7618	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents

  Quaker marriage intention royal-brown.jpg

  
  

  Histories

  Browns of Nottingham Pennsylvania Bowns of Nottingham, Penna.pdf

  
  

• Notes

  from findagrave She was a widow 'Coal/e" at time of marriage to Jeremiah on 02mon/Apr 12/1711. Her first husband is "William Coles" The Will of William Coale, dated 11mo/Jan 31, 1710, Chester Will Bk C, pg 210, leaves his entire estate to wife Mary, and at her death to be divided between their 2 children, William and Mary Coale....please see record attached. The area in which they lived changed boundries for counties and states during her life time. I added a map from 1715, please note red dot. "West Nottingham was established about 1710, held at the houses of the members initially, with a preparative meeting being set up about 1730. The land on which the meetinghouse sits was donated by James King and William Harris. The current meeting house was built in 1811 and became known as ?Little? Brick?. The Nottingham meetings were both originally under Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, but were joined to Nottingham Quarter when the Cecil county meetings were transferred to Baltimore Yearly Meeting in 1819. After the settlement of the Mason-Dixon Line/boundary, only 1,300 acres of the original Nottingham Lots remained in Chester County and the other 16,700 acres became part of Cecil County, Maryland. East and West Nottingham remained in Chester County, PA, however East Nottingham / Brick Meeting House (1st built from logs in 1709 and of brick in 1724 on Nottingham Lot #30) was just 4 miles south of the boundary, and fell under Cecil County, Maryland". Burial records are taken from Nottingham MM records, also posted. The following was shared by Claudia Davenport-Sullivan (47345651): I've done some research on Mary Royle and the brothers Wm, James + Maurice Trent, who were prominent merchants from Inverness, Scotland and actively involved with selling child servants shipped from Scotland without indentures. Caleb Pusey (abt 1650-1727) bought the indentures of many of these children, one was Mary Royle in 1697. It appears that Mary Royle was among those children that earlier included Alexander Ross (1682-1748) and they were brought to the colonies by Maurice Trent and then sold to Caleb Pusey by William Trent. In 1697 Mary Royle to serve 5 yrs; in 1693 Alexander Ross to serve until age 21 [I have extensive research on Alexander Ross as he was a pioneer of Shenandoah Valley and received a grant for 40,000 acres from Lord Fairfax in 1730; he was 11 years of age when brought by the Trents to the colonies in 1693 and his indenture was sold to Caleb Pusey where he learned a trade at Pusey's mill on Chester Creek, Chester Co] Between 1693 and 1697, Maurice Trent appeared in the courts of Chester and Bucks counties in with at least 112 Scottish child servants without indentures, both male and female. At the end of Mary Royle's 5 year indenture, about 1702/03, she married William Coale and had two children before his death about Apr 1710 in Nottingham. He mentions in his Will #167 [PA Will Bk C, pg 210] his wife Mary and children William (b. 5mo/Jul 9, 1705) and Mary Coale (b. 3mo/May 4, 1708). Mary (Royle) Coale then married 2nd Jeremiah Brown (1687-1767) and had 4 more children, Patience, Jeremiah, Joshua and Isaac Brown. Mary died about 1748 as Jeremiah Brown then married Mary Winter on 5mo/Jul 20, 1749 at Nottingham Mtg. The marriage record is extant and the witness list shows his son Isaac + Lydia (Slater) Brown and his step-daughter Mary (Coale) and husband Henry Reynolds, among others. Jeremiah Brown Senr and 2nd wife Mary (Winter) had one son Stephen. His death is recorded by Nottingham Mtg wherein it states: ?Stephen Brown, son of Jeremiah Brown Senr and half-brother to Jeremiah Brown Junr departed this life the 24 of the 11th month 1754.? This provides evidence that Jeremiah Junr and Stephen did not share the same mother. Jeremiah Brown died on 7 Mar 1767 at West Nottingham and left his will dated 21 Dec 1762 [Chester Will Bk D, Vol 4, pg 645]. He names the 4 children had by his first wife Mary (Royle) - Patience (Brown) Hadley, Joshua and Isaac - and heirs of his deceased son Jeremiah Brown Junr. Mary (Winter) Brown died on 19 Nov 1769 at West Nottingham and left her will dated 9 Nov 1769 wherein she mentions her "beloved step-grandson Stephen, son of Isaac Brown". This provides further evidence that she is not one and the same as his first wife Mary (Royle) Coale in that she further devised "To Mary, wife of Henry Reynolds, a case of drawers which was her mothers." The above daughter is Mary Coale, b. 1708; she married Jacob Haines on 2mo/Apr 22, 1725 and they had 8 children before Jacob died in 1742 [Chester Will Bk B, pg 116]. Mary, now Haines, married Henry Reynolds in Jun 1743 and had 5 more sons. Henry Reynolds died 17 Dec 1779. I have some more research to do regarding Henry Reynolds as it appears he was married 3 times - Hannah Brown in 1717; Ann Worley in 1733; then Mary Coale in 1743, the daughter of Mary Royle. An interesting connection here is that Henry Reynold?s 2nd wife Ann (Worley) Howell, was the granddaughter of Anne (Stone) Worley (1645-1726). Ann (Stone) Worley was the 2nd wife of Caleb Pusey (1650-1727) ? the same man that purchased Mary Royle?s indenture in 1697 as well as many of these ?stolen? Scottish children. It would appear that Caleb Pusey cared for these children and helped them to attain a better future in a strange land after being taken from their homelands.

  
  

• Sources

  [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/181900834/mary-brown. [S99] Quaker Records, https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1100007867:2189. Name [Mary Royale ] [Mary Royle ] Mary Coale Event Type Marriage Intention (Marriage) Marriage Place Delaware, Pennsylvania Residence Date [null] 12 Jul 1710 Residence Date on Image 12 1710 Fifth Residence Place Delaware, Pennsylvania Spouse Jeremiah Brown Monthly Meeting Concord Monthly Meeting Yearly Meeting Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Meeting State Pennsylvania Meeting County Delaware Quaker marriage intention-Mary Coles-Jeremiah Brown [S211] State Select Marriages, https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/158446:7836. Name: Jeremiah Brown Gender: Male Birth Year: 1687 Spouse Name: Mary Royale Spouse Birth Place: SC Marriage Year: 1710 Number Pages: 1 [S127] Geni, https://www.geni.com/people/Prudence-Clayton/6000000000658159379. Jeremiah Brown Birthdate: September 1687 (79) Birthplace: Marcus Hook, Chester County, Province of Pennsylvania Death: March 06, 1767 (79) Rising Sun, Cecil County, Province of Maryland Son of James Browne and Honour Browne(nee Clayton) Husband of Mary Browne (nee Royall) Father of Patience Hadley; Jeremiah Brown; Joshua Brown; Isaac Brown and Stephen Brown Brother of James Brown; WIlliam Brown; Clayton Browne; Ann McKay; Margery Piggott; Daniel Browne; Mary Butterworth and Joshua Brown « less [S40] Will, https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/8741:4895?tid=&pid=&queryId=e72cacd1a02a3540a0d1059e82c5097a&_phsrc=KEL2&_phstart=successSource. Name: Margary Brown Description: Daughter Date: 15 Nov 1715 Prove date: 1 Jan 1715 Book Page: A:30 Remarks: James Brown of Nottingham. 11/15/1715. 1/1/1715/6. A. 30. To sons William Brown, Jeremiah Brown and daughter Margary Pigot, to grandchild James, son of William, Patience and Jeremiah, children of Jeremiah, and Margary Pigot daughter of Margary and John Pigot £5 each when 21. To son Daniel the lott of land between Dorsons and Robert Williams containing 500 acres. To daughter Mary Brown £20 at 20. To wife Honor and son James all my estate paying the above legacies also executors. Nothing to be done or disposed of without the consent of Mercer Brown and son Jeremiah Brown. Witnesses: James Wright, Wm. Howell and John Bruss.