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From: "Cathy Berger" <>
Subject: Re: [NewCastle] More on Stalcop
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 16:28:54 -0500
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Earl Jones wrote a number of volumes on the Stalcup family and I'm sure you
could find your family there. I have only volume 1 and the index. Send me
again who you are looking for and I'll check it out.

Cathy
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From: "Debbie" <>
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Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 12:26 PM
Subject: [NewCastle] More on Stalcop


> Wonder if the "eldest son named Auchin" :
>
> John ANDERSON - alias STALCUP. 29 Aug 1679. 20 Jul 1686. A:79
> Wife Christina Carlos; son in law Lucas STIDDOM; eldest son named
> Auchin; children viz: Charlos, John, Peter, Mary, Jonas.
>
> is the same as the son Andrew mentioned below having been left one of
> the two remaining plots of his father's land.
>
> Immanuel (Emanuel) Church, New Castle:
>
> Marriage: Philip Vn. Luvenigh of town of New Castle, saddler, Mary
> Stallcop of New Castle County; surety, John Gilbert of New Castle,
> saddler. wit: Richard McWilliam. May 9, 1750.
>
> Marriage: Israel Stalcop and Agnus Means, November 21, 1758.
>
> Baptism: Ann, daughter of Israel and Agnus Stalcop, February 18, 1760,
> aged 1 day
>
> Banns: Ambrose Lunden and Bridget Stalcope of White Clay Creek, January
> 6, 1714-15.
>
> Banns: John Stalcup and Caty Philzgerald (Fitzgerald?), April, 1769.
>
> "In 1671, two Swedes, Johan Andersson Stalcop and Dr. Tymen Stidham, had
> owned between them all the land from the Christina River to the
> Brandywine, and from the neighborhood of The Rocks [where the Swedes
> landed near the mouth of the Brandywine in 1638] to Rattlesnake Run
> [behind current Trolley Square]. Stalcop's land extended North from the
> Christina; Stidham's south from the Brandywine. Across the Brandywine
> was the land of Jacob Vandever, a Dutch settler; across the Christina
> was Long Hook, owned by Jean Paul Jacquett, and east of Jacquett's land,
> that of Peter Alrichs...
>
> Stalcop, who died before 1685, had granted half of his land to Samuel
> Peterson and Lars Cornelison. He willed the remainder in two plots, one
> each to is wife and son Andrew. Peterson kept his land; Cornelison sold
> his to Matthias de Foss, who sold it to Charles Pickering. The
> Pickering tract became the glebe of Old Swedes Church by gift of John
> Stalcop, Jr. Later, Peterson's son sold the Peterson land to Andrew
> Justison.
>
> Tour, Rt. 13, from DE/PA border south: "at 5.8 miles, the highway
> crosses Shellpot Creek, a tributary of the Brandywine Creek. The name
> is a corruption from the Swedish Skoldpadde Fallet (Turtle Falls). The
> first gristmill was erected here soon after 1662 by John Stalcop, aided
> by other Swedes and Dutchmen. Mills flourished on the stream well into
> the 18th century. William Penn, writing in 1683, included the lower
> reaches of "Skilpot" Creek with the Christina, Brandywine, and
> Schuylkill as each having "room enough to lay up the Royal Navy of
> England"."
>
> "Among the artist-joiners of that [18th] century...Israel Stalcop
> descendant if John (Johan) Anderssen Stalcop, who in the 17th century
> owned half of the present Wilmington."
>
> Wilmington Reminiscences..., published 1851:
>
> "Opposite the Almhouse was the estate of Hannah Stalcup, the descendent
> of a wealthy Swede. She was long deranged and confined to her own
> house, but at times would make her escape, to the terror of the
> children. Though mischievous, she was inoffensive compared with Tamar
> Way. Her [Hannah] paternal inheritence was valuable, and it was
> supposed that riches caused her insanity, which continued to her death.
> A part of her property is now owned by Rev. S. M. Gailey, a Presbyterian
> clergyman, who has a respectable classical school there, and calls his
> school Mantua."
>
>


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