All,

Several references occur in the material below to a SAMUEL VAUS who was an agent in London, England to William Penn (of Pennsylvania fame) in the early 1700s. Anyone recognize this SAMUEL VAUS as part of thier family? (My connection to VAUS is a 1594 marriage between Catherine Vans (Vaus) and William HOUSTON in Whithorn Parish, Wigtownshire, Scotland.

Jim Houston

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I. Source: "The Papers of William Penn", Volume Three 1685—1700

Page 477-478
"143—
Lease from Thomas Dongan
[12 January 1697]


This Indenture made the Twelfth day of January Anno Domini 1696 And in the Eighth Yeare of the reigne of our Sovereigne Lord William the Third King of England 1 Between Thomas Dongan late Governor of New Yorke and now of London Esqr2 of the one part and William Penn Governr of the Province of Pensilvania in America of the other part Witnesseth that the said Thomas Dongan for and in consideration of the Summ of One hundred pounds of lawfull money of England to him in hand paid by the said William Penn the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged Hath demised and granted And by these presents doth demise and grant unto the said William Penn All that Tract of Land lyeing upon on both sides the River commonly called or knowne by the name of the Sasquehanah River and the Lakes3 adjacent in or neare the Province of Pensilvania in America begining at the Fountaines or head of the said river 4 and runing as farr as and into the Bay of Chesapeake with all Isles Islands Mines Mineralls Woods, Fishings, hawkings huntings Fowlings and all other Royalties profitts comodityes and hereditaments unto the same belonging which the said Thomas Dongan lately purchased of or had given him5 by the Seinneca Sasquehanah Indians6 And alsoe all the Lands hereditaments Isles Islands rivers Royaltyes Mines Mineralls Lakes waters profitts priviledges and appurtenances whatsoever lyeing on both sides the Sasquehanah river and neare adjoyning therto which he the said Thomas Dongan did at any time purchase or which were at any time given unto him by the said Indians or any of them To have and to hold unto the said William Penn his Execrs Adminrs and Assignes from the day of the date hereof for and unto the end and Terme of One Thousand Yeares Paying unto the said Thomas Dongan his Execrs and Adminrs yearly and every yeare on the Feast day of St. Michaell the Arch Angell the rent of a pepper Corne7 if the same shall {be} lawfully demanded, To the intent and purpose that by force and vertue of these presents and of the statute for transferring of uses into possession8 the said William Penn may be in the actuall possession of the premisses and may be thereby the better enabled to accept and take a grant release or other Conveyance of the revercion and inheritance thereof To the use of himselfe his heires and Assignes forever.9 In Witnesse whereof the said parties have to these present Indentures as Duplicates to the other Indentures of the same contents and date herewith Interchangeably sett their hands & Seales {dated} the day and yeare first above written

Thomas Dongan

Sealed & delivered being first stampt according to Act of Parliamt in the presence of

Samuel Vaus
Fr Harding
Wm Springett"

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Page 479

"10. Samuel Vaus (b. 1648), or Vaux, the son of an early London Quaker, was WP's London agent in the early 1700s. PMHB, 78:150-51; PWP, vol. 4; Digests of Quaker Records, London and Middx., GSP."

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"The Papers of William Penn. Vol. 4, 1701-1718"

Page 147

"13. Samuel Vaus (b. 1648), or Vaux, the son of an early London Quaker, was WP's London factor until 1705 (PMHB, 78:151; Digests of Quaker Records, London and Middx., GSP). Robert Egerton was WP's agent in Barbados, but WP ordered Logan to use Edward Singleton from this time on (see text at n. 45, below)."

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Page 213

"6. WP's language here suggests a conscientious scruple, but Quakers in general seem to have had no objection to insurance, and WP was not troubled by the idea that Vaus, another Quaker, might insure the vessel."

"11. In his letter of 1 Dec. 1702, Logan had relayed a report that Samuel Vaus was "borrowing" WP's tobacco for shipment to Hamburg. Micro. 10:634."

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page 284-285

"22. 5m


Tell my Cos Markham I have his,42 & take it very kindly from him; Its a good generall (& of some, a perticular) Vew, that is instructing. He has good sence, & I see it does not leave him. I am sorry he is not in his place. Herewith comes a fresh commission, as also a blanck Commission for an atturney Generall for I would have that virulent fellow43 out of all places in my Govermt and dispise his frowardness, Since in vain I have so long suffer'd it. His Carriage about Capt Dun44 is sufficient & his disputeing of my Commission to my Cosin Markham: I must say I take ill the Govrs not writeing; tis hardly Credible wth those that ask me of his Frds, and more, they think it unpardonable. my Cosin is very just to him in a discreet character, & so he is to thee also. pray consult him sometimes, & tell Colonel Evans, I would have him do so too; & in honour to him, have offerd him to be of the Councll. I shall write no more to him {(Ev)} haveing writt already twice,45 till I hear from him. This business of the disunion Sticks with me Still. I fear twill lead to a worse thing, unless we had adjusted the matter here. wt will the Queen think after all my memorials to preserve the Govermt without a seame, to finde, & that on our Side, it is torn into. O the weakness of men! Use the utmost of thy address with the wise, the honest & the weake to accommodate things, & dont lett them make use of a charter agst me, now I keep the Govermt, at unspeable charge, & att evidence, that I only graunted in the extent it has, agst our Enimys when they & I feared I should loose it. This thought, one would immagin, well layd before them, should prevaile wth them. I doubt not but I could have made disunion one branch of my Bargain to have kept the rest, had they gon into an union for the present.

But—

Here is a long lettr of J. Mump. to Ch: Lawton, inclosed in a less, design'd for the vew of Ld Clarendon 47 who show'd it me {(& was the reason of his retrenchmt at last)} but not a word of me in it; as well as your newsmonger;

not a very respectfull omission, after my Civilitys, & tenderness. the last might have Sayd somthing that had lookt thankfull to me for the Care I had over them in sending over a Goverr to them. according to the Poet, If Tom such praises have—nor has he sayd any thing of my son by way of distinction, either in respect, or to denote him my Son, wch I have endeavour'd to Supply, by the word young in this print. for from the imperfect mention of Colonel Evans's goeing over Goverr; those two (or one of them) the Post boy & flying Post,48 gave occsion49 to the Nations to think the Queen had solely made him, & I lost my Govermt. but the Postman50 handsomely Corrected it. and people might have thought without young, It had been so indeed, & that I was gone with him, a blanck, He being Call'd Goverr but I have added Lt to prevent such a Construction. I have no other letters yet from thee than wt I have mentioned. I hope by the Virginia Fleet you will all make us amends. those news papers, will come to you.

Be punctuall in my son aubreys business51 to keep thy Credit with my poor Girll. tell my son all were well at worm. tother day.

I inclose a lettr from Ld Clarend. to his Son the Neighbour Govr52 about Samll Bonos;53 that if he is not yet at liberty, will, I hope, procure it. But I admire at his permissions if not proceedings at this time of day, when the Queen & Ministry show so moderate a Side towards dissenters here; & on complaint in this affaire would be very ready to resent & reprimand Such a differing Conduct. Send it to him by a discreet Frd if needfull.

I think to chide S. Vaus for his unnacctble Silence to thee abt so many accts between you. Nothing yet come Since I begun this, now 11 days agoe. the ships are ready to Saile, & the winde at North, so that I conclude with my Kinde love to all the deserveing, & dear love to my Childe (who, I hope, Studys, at least reads & takes notice of some of my excellent (as well as thy) Historys, & wt relates to Govermt). I close


Thy Loveing Frd
Wm Penn "

ALS. Logan Papers, HSP. (Micro. 11:273.)

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page 761-763

Indenture of Release
Source: Penn-Gaskell-Skillern Papers, HSP. (Not filmed.)

Date: 4 May 1703.

Parties: (1) William Penn, Jr., and Mary Jones Penn; (2) WP and Hannah Penn; (3) William Aubrey and Laetitia Penn Aubrey; (4) Herbert Springett; (5) Nathaniel Wade, esq., and Charles Harford the younger, mercer, both of Bristol; and Michael Jones and Samuel Vaus, London merchants; (6) Daniel Phillips, doctor, and Anthony Neate, haberdasher, both of London, and Margaret Lowther, widow of Anthony Lowther.
Summary: I. William Penn, Jr., unhappy over his marriage settlement (see doc. 209A) agrees with Hannah Penn, who has lands in Ibaune and Barryroe, co. Cork, to accept her lands in return for an equivalent amount of land from him.


II. Thus William Penn, Jr., for 5s from WP, and in order to settle jointures on Hannah Penn and Mary Jones Penn, grants to WP lands he has leased to him on 3 May 1703 (not found), in or near barony of Imokilly, co. Cork, Munster, Ire., as follows: Shannagarry, Kilmaghen, Killkeagh, Ballynamony, Ballygannybegg, Ballingogannigg, Ballingarrane, Ballylongan, Ballingarrane, Ruskemore, Ruskaghbegg, Ballylinnanee, and Ballymallobegg (Robert Foulke, tenant); Barries quarter, Ballelowrace, and Ballyroe (Samuel Rowle, tenant); Killgillhen, Knocknegeiragh, and Knocknegappule (Francis Smith, tenant); Inch, Doonepower, and Ballynatra (John Bowles, tenant, deceased); Lisshally, Ballinicoll, Ballyshane, Mucky, and Tullyplenebegg (Thomas Wallis, tenant); Lisally (Thomas Bent, tenant); Kilbrie, Sheanless, Carrigtoghir, Teadbegg, Ballyvillin, and Ballinevohir (John Bowles, tenant, deceased); Ballyronahane, Ballybraher, Coolenodigg, Garrigkilter, and Rathcully (Barry Frankland, tenant); Ballyhonick, and Ballyline (Katherine Dawkins, tenant); Garrymoore (John Bredsford, tenant); Old Meupre [Clonemane?] (Robert Fitzgerald, tenant); Kilderrig (James French, tenant); Curroghticloghy, Ballycarrowny, Condon's acres, and Acredoan (William Wakeham, tenant); Fenore and Knocknagihy (William Wakeham, tenant); Ballyvillin and Seskens Fowrie (William Wakeham, tenant); and lands in tenure of William Penn, Jr., or where he or any other persons in trust for him have any estate within Imokilly, along with houses, stables, mines, quarries, etc.

III. All the lands mentioned of John Bowles, Thomas Wallis, Barry Frankland, Catherine Dawkins, and James French are to be conveyed to Wade, Harford, Jones, and Vaus in trust for WP and after his death to Hannah Penn.

IV. All the lands of Francis Smith and John Bresford, along with some of William Wakeman's lands (Curroghticloghy, Ballycarrowny, Condon's acres, and Acredoan) are to be conveyed to Wade, Harford, Jones, and Vaus in trust for William Penn, Jr., and after his death to Mary Penn, which lands are for her jointure, along with certain lands in Sussex limited to her life by a seven-part indenture of 4 May 1703 (not found) between (1) William Penn, Jr., and Mary Penn; (2) WP and Hannah Penn; (3) William and Laetitia Aubrey; (4) John Page; (5) Nathaniel Wade, Charles Harford, Michael Jones, and Samuel Vaus; (6) Daniel Wharley, Samuel Waldenfield, and Henry Gouldney; (7) Daniel Phillips, Anthony Neate, and Sir Robert Fagg, bart., for the jointure of Mary Jones Penn.

V. The remainder of the above-listed lands are conveyed to Wade, Harford, Jones, and Vaus in trust for WP and after his death for William Penn, Jr., and after his death to Hannah Penn, and after her death to Mary Jones Penn, and after her death to the male heirs of her marriage to William Penn, Jr. If they have no male heirs, then the lands will revert to the use of WP's male heirs.

VI. The lands limited as jointure to Mary Jones Penn are to go after the deaths of her and William Penn, Jr., to their female heirs; if none, then to the heirs of William Penn, Jr.

VII. There are also provisoes for raising money from lands in Ibaune and Barryroe for the children of William Penn, Jr.

VIII. If Hannah Penn survives WP, the lands given her in jointure should not exceed yearly value of £300. If they do, the
overplus is to go to the person or persons who have the right to the remainder of her lands at her death.

IX. The quitrents owed to the crown on the jointures of Mary and Hannah are to come from other lands.

X. William Penn, Jr., after Mary Jones Penn's death, can provide lands to the yearly value of £300 in trust to any future wife, out of lands given to Hannah Penn for her jointure.

XI. WP has paid William Aubrey £2000 as a marriage portion for Laetitia. (Actually WP has merely agreed that Laetitia's Pennsylvania lands be sold and he would make up the difference if the sale price did not reach £2000; see doc. 209B). This effectively replaces the proviso in doc. 209A whereby Herbert Springett, Ambrose Galloway, and Joseph Pike were to raise £3000 for Laetitia Penn as trustees for certain Irish lands. This indenture therefore witnesses that the Aubreys release Springett, Galloway, and Pike from having to raise the £3000.

Witnesses: Richard Jones, Peter Rice, John Page.