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"ROBERT AND ELIZABETH" PASSENGER LIST 1698 [Foulke Family]
Thomas ab Evan, son of Evan ab Evan and his first cousin, William ap John,
left Bala, Merioneth, Wales, in late 1697, preceding the larger group of
emigrants to Philadelphia in order to buy a tract of land from William Penn
for a new (second) Welsh settlement in Pennsylvania. The rest of the Welsh
Company immigrants sailed from Liverpool on 18 April 1698 on the ship Robert
& Elizabeth, Robert Haydock of Liverpool, owner, Ralph Williams, master. It
stopped at Dublin, Ireland, departing there 1 May 1698, reaching
Philadelphia eleven weeks later on 17 (Smith's History of Pennsylvania say
the 7th) July 1698. . . During the voyage, 45 of the passengers, and 3 of the
crew, died of a form of dysentery (the bloody flux). The Robert and
Elizabeth was to have transported 145 people. Howard M. Jenkins in
Historical Collections Relating to Gwynedd believes that some of the total
compliment of passengers may have been servants, hence not noted anywhere.
[10/14/2002: It appears that the passenger list for the voyage no longer
exists, and following is a beginning attempt to recreate it. Please let me
know corrections or additions:
Included in the list of passengers:
Edward ap Foulke (from Coed-y-foel)
Eleanor v Hugh (wife of Edward ap Foulke)
Their children:
Grace Foulke
Thomas Foulke
Gwen Foulke
Hugh Foulke
Jane Foulke
Catherine Foulke
Margaret Foulke
Evan Foulke
Cadwallader Foulke

"But in process of time i had an inclination to remove thence with my family to the Province of Pennsylvania, and in order thereto we set out on the 3rd day of the Second Month (April) 1698, and came in two days to Liverpool, where with divers others who intended to go the voyage, we took shipping the 17th of the same month on Board the Robert and Elizabeth and the next day set sail for Ireland, where we arrived and stayed until the first of third month (May) and then sailed again for Pennsylvania. We were about eleven weeks at sea and the sore distemper of the Bloody Flux broke out in the vessel, of which died forty-five persons in our passage. The distemper was so mortal that two or three Corps were cast overboard every day while it continued. But through the favor of Divine Providence, I, with my wife and nine children escaped that sore mortality and arrived safe at Philadelphia about the 17th of 5th Month (July) where we were kindly received and entertained by our friends and old acquaintances until I purchased a tract of about 700 acres of Land about 16 miles from Philadelphia, on a part of which I settled, and divers others of our company who came over sea together settled near me about the same time, which was the beginning of November, 1698, aforesaid, and the township was named Gwynedd or North Wales.

This account was written the 14th of the 11th Month (January) 1702, in British (or Welsh) by Edward Foulke [ID0168] and translated (in 1810) by Samuel Foulke." ID0147

Note: About an 11 week journey - many people suffered from distemper of bloody flux - 45 died, but none of the Foulke family

"He came to America, arriving here on July 17, 1698, after spending eleven weeks on the ocean. During the voyage across, two or three died each day, but Mr. Foulke and his wife and nine children were all spared."

"...Edward Foulke, who emigrated from Wales in 1698 and settled in Gwynedd, now Montgomery County, Pennsylvania... in progress of time I had an inclination to remove with my family to the Province of Pennsylvania: and in order thereto we set out on the 3d day of the 32d-month, A.D. 1698, and came in two days to Liverpool, where with divers others, who intended to go the voyage, we took shipping, the 17th of the same month on board the 'Robert and Elizabeth,' and the next day set sail for Ireland, where we arrived, and stayed until the 1st of the 3d month, May, and then sailed again for Pennsylvania, and were about eleven weeks at sea....arrived safe at Philadelphia, the 17th day of the 5th-month, July, where we were kindly received and hospitably entertained by our friends and old acquaintances."

2.  Edward Foulke - 1698 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Publication Code:  2606.12
Source:  GLENN, THOMAS ALLEN. Welsh Founders of Pennsylvania. Baltimore: Clearfield Co., 2000.
Volume I. 233p, pages 8, 142, and 168.
Volume II. 113p, page 39.
(Bk2909 - S8, )

3.  Edward Foulke - 1698 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Publication Code:  983
Source:  BROWNING, CHARLES H. Welsh Settlement of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: William J. Campbell, 1912. 631p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1967, pages 300, 302, and 596.
Page 302:  Family Members:  Wife Ellin Hughs
(Bk2912 - S12,)

Edward Foulke, the first of the name in Pennsylvania, and among the

earliest settlers in Richland, was born in North Wales, Great Britain, July

13, 1651. He was the son of Thomas Foulke, who descended through twelve

generation from Lord Penllyn, married Eleanor, daughter of Hugh Cadwallader,

and had nine children, Thomas, Hugh, Cadwallader, Evan, Gwently, Grace, Jane,

Catharine and Margaret. He came to America with his family in 1698, landing at

Philadelphia July 17th. He bought 700 acres in Gwynedd township, Montgomery

county, where he settled the following November, with a number of other

immigrants who came about the same time. [His second son, Hugh, born 1685, on

his marriage in 1713] removed to Richland and settled in the neighborhood of

Quakertown. Numerous descendants of Edward Foulke are living in this and

adjoining counties and states, among which is [the late Benjamin G.*] Foulke,

of Quakertown. The family has always been one of consideration and influence,

and several of its members have occupied responsible positions of public

trust. Thomas Foulke, son of the first Edward, died in 1786, at the age of

63, and his daughter Jane [the widow of Thomas, died June*] 1822, at the age

of 93. The Foulkes are members of the society of Friends. [See Foulke Family,

vol. iii*]