Jacob Classen Young

 

Jacob Classen Young -- Dutch WIC 1648 or earlier. Denization 1661 Maryland; Naturalization 1671 Maryland; owned "Youngs Neck" (1658-1663); "Clayfall" (1667-1696), both in Cecil Co., MD, and a large tract pat. 1675, between St. George's Creek and the Dragon Swamp in "the Appoquinimink" New Castle County, Delaware --which probably had been located in (now) Red Lion Hundred.

 

Indian Trader. Friend of Dutch governor Willem Beekman. Business partner of Francis Wright, associate of Augustine Herman and of Henry Coursey. In 1666, Wright willed one-half of his plantation, "Clayfall" to "Jacob Clawson de Young, late of this Province."

 

• Married to Anna Unknown. Known children include
  1. Jacob ca 1665
  2. Mary ca 1670
  3. Joseph 1675/1680-1732

 

• May (or may not) have been married to a Susquehonnock indian wife --in 1682, during his trial in Maryland, he was accused: "did Contract Marriage and take to Wife an Indian Woman of the Susquehannah Nation, by whom the said Iacob had Several Children, one or more of which is now amongst the Indians"). But NOTE that Jacob Young denied this charge: "doth utterly deny he ever Contracted Marriage or took to Wife an Indian Woman of the Susquehannah Nations, and doth utterly Deny he ever had a Child or Children by any Such Susquehannah Wife." See Jacob Young Impeachment, below.

 

 

Jacob Clawson Young was in New Netherland, working for the West Indies Company, before November 1648, when he signed a declaration concerning the destruction of the Dutch trading post near the Delaware River at Mastemacker's Hoeck along the Schuylkill River (which was near the path leading to the Minquas). Sven Schute "lieutenant of the Swedes" and a crew of Swedish workers, on orders of the Swedish Governor, Johann Printz, tore down a newly-constructed trading post that the Dutch had built on land they had recently purchased from the local Indians. Attestants in this document, dated 5 November 1648, who declared they were "servants of the aforesaid Company" [the Dutch WIC] were: Adriaen van Tiwenhoven, Alexander Boyer, David Davitsen, Symon Root (mark), Jacob Claesz (mark), Antoni Pietersz (mark), and Johannes Markus (mark).

[New York Historical Manuscripts Volumes XVIII-XIX: Delaware Papers 1648-1664 (Dutch), Gehring, p. 5]

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Jacob Clawson Young made a trip to Holland in 1659-1660:

On 23 April, 1660, Willem Beekman, then director of the Dutch settlement at Ft. Altena (on the Delaware), made a written report to Peter Stuyvesant in New Amsterdam. Concerning the orphan, Amstels-hoop, Beeckman writes,

 

 

"On the 16th inst. Sergeant Andries Lourens returned from Maryland, he has met only a few fugitives, who were still free; upon showing your Noble Worship's pass, he brought away only one Jan Tomissen with his wife and child, whose property came back in Karman's yacht and fell into the hands of Mr. D'Hinojossa, who had it valued and would not surrender it, before I have not receipted for it on behalf of your Noble Worship. The said carpenter Jan Tomissen will not go to the Manhattans without his tools and property, but would rather go back to the English, as he has had there the use of the tools of one Jan Barentsen, who was killed by the savages and whose wife died at Colonel Utie's or at my friend Jacop's. Their child was also brought hither by the Sergeant, on which account I wrote at the request of the sister of Jan Barens, the wife of a soldier here, expressly to Jacob Claesen (alias my friend). This child has yet due him there 821 pounds of tobacco and 200 lbs by the said Jan Tomissen; some trifles brought along by the Sergeant were entered upon the list and provisionally delivered together with the child to our soldier's wife. Jacob Claesen took over to Holland besides these, according to the letter of his partner, Frank Wryght, two silver key-chains and two or three silver knife-handles belonging to the child. This child was born at the departure of Mr. Alrichs in the ship Prins Maurits and was at the request of the Lords Burgomasters christened Amsteloop. [sic] Your honor will please issue an order, whether it is to be turned over to the Orphan-Masters at N. Amstel or elsewhere." [PA Arch. 2, Vol. VII "Papers Relating to the Dutch and Swedish Settlements on the Delaware River" pp. 633-4]

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Jacob Clawson was an Indian trader and a partner of Francis Wright. He first lived in the Dutch colony on the Delaware before moving to Maryland. Noted as "friend" of Willem Beeckman. Wright lived on the Northeast River near Principio, at Carpenter's Point Neck, at the head of the Chesapeake, near (now) Perryville, Maryland. See map at http://www.mdslavery.net/html/mapped_images/ced5.html --where Carpenters Point is that point of land between Northeast River and Principio Creek.

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Land in Cecil County, Maryland (his own grant):

 

 

On 23 August 1658, "Youngs Neck" (which became Ordinary Point) was surveyed for Jacob Young. This 50 acres would probably be for transporting (only) himself to Maryland, since 50 acres were earned per person transported (need transportation record, if one exists).

 

 

"Youngs Neck" lay between the Sassafras and the Bohemia Rovers, on the "north side of Bohemia Back Creek" where a boat landing was made. A cart road known later as Jacob Young's cart road" led from here, "west of the old Elk River road, past (now) Chesapeake City, Maryland, to St Georges (in Delaware). See map: http://www.mdslavery.net/html/mapped_images/ced2.html. This adjoined Augustine Herman's 4,100 acre tract, "Three Bohemia Sisters." Later patents in this area referenced "Jacob Young's cart road" which was by "the old landing place of Jacob Young." See, e.g. Joseph Wood's "Francina" in Cecil County Circuit Court, Land Survey, Subdivision, and Condominium Plats, MSA S1194-319, Patented Certificate 307, dated 1749/09/11. "Youngs Neck", later taken up by Francis Smith formerly of New Amstel, was sold to John Browne, mariner from New England, who sold the same to Marcus Severson, a Swede, 1 Feb. 1663. In 1676, the land was held to have escheated. MA, 51, 479-80.

 

 

Youngs Neck, 50 Acres; Certificate Developer/Owner: Young, Jacob 1658 Patent Record Q, p. 265 MSA S 1586-3787

Youngs Neck, 50 Acres; Patent Developer/Owner: Young, Jacob 1658 Patent Record Q, p. 266 MSA S 1586-3788

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In 1660 Jacob Clawson went to Holland on business, and as a favor to Willem Beeckman, took with him some personal effects belonging to the Dutch orphan, Nieuw-Amstels Hoop, the son of Jan Barentsen and Grietje Elderts formerly of the New Amstel colony, both of whom had died in Maryland. [PA Arch. 2, Vol. VII pp. 633-4].

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In May 1661, Jacob Young was licensed in Maryland to trade with the Indians and was employed by the province as an intermediary with the Indians. The seventh clause of the 1661 treaty between the Lord Proprietary of Maryland and the Susquehannough Indians at Spesutia May 16, 1661, reads: "That for prevention of mischief that too often happens by misunderstanding and not distinguishing Sasquesahannough from other Indians, the Sasquesahannoughs shall not come ordinarily to any other howse but the howse of Captaine Thomas Stockett or of Jacob Clauson from whence they shall have tickets if they have occasion to come further among the English plantations " [MSA Volume 3, Page 421 "Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1636-1667"]

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Jacob Clawson was granted Denization in Maryland, July 30, 1661.

MSA Volume 3, Page 430.

Caecilius Absolute Lord and Proprietary of the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon Lord Barron of Baltemore &c To all persons to whome theis prsents shall come Greeting in our lord God Everlasting Whereas Jacob Clauson late of New Amstell and Subject of the States of Holland haueing of long tyme liued within this our Province of Maryland hath besought us to grante him the said Jacob Clauson leaue here to Inhabite and as a free Dennizen freedome land to him and his heires to purchase Knowe yee that wee willing to giue due Encouragemt to the Subjects of those States Doe hereby Declare him the said Jacob Clauson to be a free Dennizen of this our Province of Maryland And Doe further for us our heires and Successors straightly enjoyne constitute ordeine and Command that the said Jacob Clauson be in all thinges held treated reputed and esteemed as one of the faythfull people of us our heires and Successors borne within this our Province of Maryland And likewise any lands tenements Revenues Services and other hereditamts whatsoever within our said Province of Maryland may inherrite or otherwise purchase receive take haue hould buy and possesse and them may occupye and Enjoye give Sell alyen and bequeathe as likewise all Libertyes franchises and priviledges of this our Province of Maryland freely quietly and peaceably haue and possesse occupye and Enjoye as our faythfull people borne or to be borne within our said Province of Maryland without the Lett molestacon vexacon trouble or greivance of us our heires and Successors any Custome to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding Giuen at Saint Marys under the Create Seale of our said Province of Maryland this thirtyth day of July in the thirtyth yeare of our dominion over the said Province of Maryland Annoq domini One thousand Six hundred Sixty one Wittness our Deare Brother Philip Caluert Esqr our Leivetennant of our said Province of Maryland.

Idem to Jacob Micheelson.

Idem to Cornelius Comages

Idem to Michaell Vandernorte [[VanderVOORT]]

Idem mutatis mutandis to John Jarboe Subject of the Crowne of france

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Jacob Clawson was Naturalized in Maryland in the Spring of 1671. The Naturalization of Jacob Clawson Young states that he was born in Holland

MSA Vol. 2, pp. 282-283, Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, April 1666-June 1676: Assembly Proceedings, March — April 1671

Liber W H&L

The humble Peticon of Alexander Dhyniossa of Fosters Island in the County of Talbott and Margretta his wife Alexander Johannes Peter Maria Iohanna Christina and Barbara Sonns and daughters of the said Alexander and Margaretta, Mathew Cartwright of St Maryes County Thomas Turner of Ann Arundell County Mathias Peterson and Peter his sonne of Talbott County lacob Clause de young of Baltemore County Hans lacob De Ring of the same County Rutgertson Garrets of the same County Iohn Lederer of Calvert County Iohn Elexon of Kent County Peter mills of St Maries County Marke Cordea of St Maries County Nicholas fountaine of Somersett County Anthony Demouderer of Ann Arundell County and Andrew Toulson of Baltemore County all Inhabitants in this Prouince

Humbly Shew

Vnto your Lordship That your Peticoners Alexander Dhyniossa and Margeretta his wife Alexander, lohannes, Peter, Maria, lohanna, Christina, and Barbara, Sonns and daughters of the said Alexander and Margaretta were all borne in Holland vnder the Dominion of the States Generall of the vnited Prouinces Mathew Cartwright was borne att Middlebourgh in the Prouince of Zealand vnder the Dominion of the said States Generall Thomas Turner there alsoe Mathias Peterson and Peter his sonne in holland likewise lacob Clause Deyong in Holland aforesaid Hans lacob De Ring in holland aforesaid Rutgertson Garrets att Amerfoord in holland aforesaid Iohn Lederer vnder the Dominion of the Emperor of Germany Iohn Elexon vnder the Dominion of the king of Swedeland Peter Mills in Holland aforesaid Marke Cordea in Normandy in france Nicholas ffountaine in france alsoe Anthony Demouderer in ffrance likewise And Andrew Toulson in Swedeland aforesaid And your peticoners being now Removed into this Prouince haue for long time therein Inhabitted being invited to come and dwell within this Prouince... [further text follows --see http://aomol.net/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/000001/000002/html/am2--282.html]

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In 1672, Jacob Clawson Young erected a mill at Perry Point, which is the first point south and east of where the Susquahannah River opens into the Chaeapeake Bay. At the time, the provincial government was encouraging the development of mills in their province, and had provided for land grants to be taken (under review of a jury) out of existing lands grants for the purpose of erecting such mills. Jacob Clawson Young obtained ten acres of a tract belonging to Mary Bateman, Orphan of Jonathan [John?] Bateman, then in possession of Richard Perry. See MSA Vol. 51, pp. 86-87

 

 

In November 1675, Jacob Young obtained a patent from the Duke of York for 1280 acres of land on the north side of St Georges Creek, at Dragon Swamp, in New Castle County, Delaware. He later willed this tract to his three children equally; his two sons, Jacob and Joseph sold part of it around 1700. [[Need other NCC land records books to see what happened to Mary's share. (Mary married Benoni Clarke)]].

 

 

A Confirmation granted unto Jacob Young for land in Delaware River.

Edmund Andros, Esq. Whereas there is a certaine parcell of land scituate and being on the west side of Delaware river the which by vertue of a warrant hath been layed out for Jacob Young the said land lying on the North side of St. Georges creeke, begining at a corner white Oake, standing at the creek side, upon the first neck of fast land on that side, runing North in breadth two hundred and sixty perches to a markt Spanish Oake, standing by a swamp side, called Dragon Swampe, from the said Spanish Oake west, two hundred and sixty perches to a small red Oake, standing by a Path side from the said tree, sixty perches, to a markt white Oake, standing by the said Dragon Swamp, west along the said Swamp, three hundred and eighty perches to a corner markt White Oake, south three hundred and twenty perches with a line of markt trees, to a corner markt Spanish Oake, standing by a swamp side, which extendeth itself out of St. Georges Creeke East along the said Creeke to the first markt White Oake, containing and layd out for One thousand two hundred and eighty acres of land, with the marshes thereunto belonging and adjoyning, as by the return of the Survey under the hand of Capt. Edmund Cantwell, the Surveyor, doth and may appeare. Now for a confirmation unto him the said Jacob Young, in his possession and enjoyment of the premises.

The patent is dated the fifth day of November 1675. The Quitt rent is 12 bushells and 3 pecks of good winter wheate yearly. Fo. 40. [Original Land Titles in Delaware Commonly Known as the Duke of York Record, p. 162]

 

 

New Castle DE Land Records 1673-1710

 

 

On 11 Nov 1676 George Moore of New Castle on Delaware for valuable consideration granted to James Crafford of St. George's Creek, all interest in a patent for 200 acres on the south side of St. George Creek opposite to Mr. JACOB YOUNG'S plantation being the boundaries mentioned on Patent from Governor Edmund Andros dated 5 Nov 1675. Signed George Moore. Delivered in the presence of Johannus De Haes & Ephraim Herman.

 

 

Deed. On 2 Feb 1679/80 Thomas Spry of new Castle, chirurgeon to JACOB YOUNG of St. George's Creek, planter. Thomas Spry for valuable consideration granted to JACOB YOUNG a tract of land containing 160 acres called Doctors Commons on the south side of St. George's Creek bounded by land of Mrs. Anne Whale & Doctors Swamp. Signed Thomas Spry. Delivered in the presence of George Moore & Samuel Land.

 

 

Deed. On 16 Feb 1686/7. JACOB YOUNG, late of St. George's Creek to Hendrick Vandenburgh of the town of New Castle. JACOB YOUNG for 30lbs granted to Hendrick Vandenburgh a tract of land called Doctors Commons on the south side of St. George's Creek bounded by the Creek, land of Mrs. Ann Whales & the swamp containing 160 acres which was formerly purchased by JACOB YOUNG from Thomas Spry, of the town of New Castle, chirurgeon by deed dated 2 Feb 1679/80. Signed JACOB YOUNG. Delivered in the presence of Mary White, John Roe & John White. Recorded 15 Mar 1686/7.

 

 

Deed. On 11 Mar 1688/9. Henry Vandenburgh of the town of New Castle, merchant to Robert Ashton of St. George's Creek, yeoman. Henry Vandenburgh for 30lbs granted Robert Ashton a tract of land called Doctor's Common lying on the south side of St. George's Creek, bounded by the creek, land formerly of Ann Whale now in actual possession of Robert Ashton & Company & Doctor's Swamp containing 160 acres being the land that Thomas Spry on 2 Feb 1678/9 granted to JACOB YOUNG & by JACOB YOUNG by deed dated 16 Feb 1686/7 granted to Henry Vandenburgh as recorded in New Castle Book B Page 4 & 5. To better secure said land to Robert Ashton, Hannah Vandenburgh, wife of Henry Vandenburgh does voluntarily acknowledge the above to Robert Ashton. Signed Hendrick Vandenburgh & Anna Vandenburgh. Delivered in the presence of Wm. Stockdale, Jonas Askin. Recorded 15 Mar 1688/9.

 

 

[[later]]

339. deed. 17 Aug. 1734. Andrew Jubart of Red Lion Hun. in Co. of New Castle, weaver, for the sum of 95 pounds, sold unto Egbord Egbordson of same place, yeoman, part of a tract of land containing 80 acres, situate in sd Hun. & Co. It bounds the lands of Peter Leforgos and Peter Anderson. This is whereas Edmond Andros by his Patent dated 5 Nov 1675 did grant unto Joseph [[sic = JACOB]] Young of sd Co. a parcel of land bounding St. Georges and Dragon Creeks, containing 1,280 acres. Sd Jacob. (named) Young dyed leaving two sons, Jacob & Joseph, who by their deeds dated 20 Aug 1706 and 10 Nov 1700 conveyed unto Charles Anderson and John Cox sd land. Sd Anderson & sd Cox by their Deed dated 20 July 1708 did confirm unto Joseph Neale of Salom in New England the uppermost part of sd land, containing 437 acres. Then sd. Neale dyed leaving one son, Joseph Neale, who buy his indenture dated 18 May 1714 did grant unto David Stout of Freehold in Prov. of East New Jersey, 330 acres of sd. land. Then sd Stout by his indenture dated 13 April 1715 granted unto Francis King of Appoquinimink in afsd Co. sd 330 acres. Then sd. King by indenture dated 13 May 1718 did confirm unto Peter Jubart, Maudlin Jubart, Andrew Jubart and Abraham Jubart sd 330 acres. Whereas afsd Andrew Jubart became seized of sd land as the sole survivor and heir. Signed: Andrew Jubart (mark). Wit: Enoch Cornwall, Thos Noxon. (K1-250) [p. 86, New Castle County Land Records, 1728-1731 & 1734-1738 by Carol Garrett]

 

 

[[John Cox willed his share (234 a) to his sons Charles, John & Augustine Cox. John Cox will dd. 3 Dec. 1713. John Cox will dd. 15 Jan. 1731, wf Rebecca & Gabriel Cox, execs. Rebecca rmd Edmond Shaw. Sold to William Goforth on 21 Jan. 1734 (K1-304) --Goforth sold 135 acres to Michael DuShane of St Georges Hd. in May 1736 (L1-12) pp. 98, 129, New Castle County Land Records, 1728-1731 & 1734-1738 by Carol Garrett]]

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Jacob Young had an estate on the Delaware and a trading post at the head of Chesapeake Bay. He was employed by Baltimore and paid taxes to Penn. He was one of the largest taxpayers in the jurisdiction of New Castle Court as of 9 Nov., 1677. Out of a total of 307 tithables, Young was listed by the court for five: himself, three slaves, and a servant. Records of the Court at New Castle, 1676—1681, Liber A, pp. 195, 197, 199 (MS. photostats) HSP. In 1683 he paid taxes of 18 shillings, 10 pence on 1,000 acres of land and three tithable persons. Ibid., p.350 (Book C, p. 145).

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Jacob Young had land on Carpenters Point Neck in Cecil County, Maryland --not far from Perry Point, at the top of the Chesapeake. On the 10th of June, 1687, George Talbot devised to Jacob Young a tract called "Clayfall" which had "Iron work of a Swede's mill" and two hundred young apple trees. It was located at the falls of (now) Principio Creek at "Piny Creek" which is Mill Creek, somewhat above Principio Furnace where Whittaker's Iron Works later was. If one looks at the oldest maps of Maryland, it will be noticed that these tracts were not far away from one of the largest villages of the Susquehannock Indians. Francis Wright had been the previous owner, having a grant from the Lord Proprietary dated the 19th of September, 1659, for 500 acres of land called Clayfall, "lying at the head of Chesapeake Bay, on the N. side of the said bay. &c. formerly laid out for Francis Clay..."

Francis Wright's will was dated the 25th of July, 1660, in which he willed half of "Clayfall" to his brother Raphael in England, and the other half to Jacob Young:

 

 

(abstract)

Wright, Francis, Baltimore Co., 25th July, 1666; 25th Mch., 1667.

To Jacob Clawson de Yong, late of Md., Lewis Stockett, Francis Stockett, Edmund Cantwell, and William Gyles, personalty. To younger brother Raphael Wright of Boville, Wales, "Clayfall;" in event of death of said Raphael, estate afsd. to pass to brother Thomas Wright and hrs. Ex. not named. Test: Geo. Wells, J. Waterton. 1. 298.

[Baldwin, Maryland Calendar of Wills, Vol. 1 (1635-1685)]

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1678 - Jacob Young and Augustine Herman - Authority to Deal With Indians

Thomas Motley [[sic = Nutley]], Chief Governor of the Province of Maryland, to Augustine Harman and Jacob Young, gents, in response to complaints of the area inhabitants of injuries, abuses and the loss of hogs, horses and cattle at the hands of the Delaware Indians, do authorize Augustine Harman and Jacob Young to treat with the Indians. An account of the proceeding should be transmitted to Thomas Motley with all expidition possible. made 14 Jun 1678. Recorded by Swithime Welles, Clerk. [reproduced (transcr.) in Abstracts of Cecil County Land Records 1673-1751 (Brown), pp. 8-9. This is undoubtedly also in Maryland State Archives]

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Young's longtime friendship with the Susquehannocks raised suspicions among some of his neighbors. In 1680 rumors appeared that Young had hired Indians to kill Christians. His wife testified in his behalf in the court in New Castle:

 

 

Anna Joung in the Behalfe of

hur husband Jacob Joung pltf

John Taylor of Appoquen : Def~d

In an action of defamation for saying that Jacob Joung dians to kill Christians.

The def makeing Reply to ye Court saying that what hee had sayed was only by hearsay of John Arnold etc: Ordered that ye def shall publicqly acknowledge his fault; wch the def in open Court did saying, hee noe otherwayes but that Jacob Joung is an honest man and noe wayes guilty of any such Crime; The Court ordered deft to pay Costs of suite.

[Records of the Court at New Castle, 1676—1681, Minutes, 3 Nov., 1680, ibid., Liber B, p. 271]

 

Young was instrumental in the Maryland colony's successful treating with the Indians. In addition to serving along with Augustine Herman in 1678, twice he was sent with Henry Coursey to Albany on diplomatic missions to make treaty with the Indians. Coursey had selected Young as his interpretor, saying "without whome I can doe nothing, and what truth is to bee had is from him and no one else." But this service was not favorably rewarded by Maryland: In 1682, during the treaty proceedings, Coursey urged the Iroquois to declare whether "some Christian bath stirred you up to make war upon the Piscatavay Indians." Albany's interpreters relayed the Oneidas' answer that Young had been "a great leader and captain" in their recent war and "a great occasion" of the Iroquois attacks. [MSA 5:247; Treaty minutes, 4 Aug., 1682, N. Y. Gov. Docs. 3: pp. 326—328.]. Recalling that Young had previously opposed the diplomatic "extermination" of the Susquehannocks, on returning to Maryland, Coursey informed Lord Baltimore that Young had been inciting the Indians. Baltimore had Young imprisoned, and called a special session of the Maryland Assembly to try him for high treason. [Minutes, 30 Aug. and 10 Sept., 1682, Md. Arch. (Council) 17: pp. 113, 115; Baltimore's speech to the Assembly, 26 Oct., 1682, Md. Arch. (Upper House) 7: pp. 333—335]. After a time, Young petitioned to be released from jail, but before that petition could be decided, George Oldfield, then of Chester County, Pennsylvania, brought a communique from Lasse Cock at the Schuylkill in Pennsylvania, relaying a message from the Susquehannocks who said "that whatever could be Alledged against Jacob Young touching any thing concerning the Indian Affairs was all false, that the said Young had always kept off them, the Susquehannocks, from doing more Mischief than they did, or else they would have killed many hundreds more in Maryland than they did, but that they were Stopped through his Means. And the Indians further [said] . . . that in case the Life of the said Jacob Young be taken away, that they would have 500 lives more for him out of Maryland." [George Oldfield to the General Assembly, 2 Nov., 1682, Md. Arch. (Upper House) 7: p. 398; minutes, 17 Nov., 1682, ibid. 7: p. 399]. The Assembly decided that Young was too dangerous to release, and he remained in jail in the winter. At one point, Young petitioned to be allowed to transport himself out of Maryland, to Europe, and the assembly agreed, but this appears not to have happened. [MSA Vol. 7, pp 596-598]. After over year in prison, he was tried and found guilty on a lesser charge, and on 31 Oct., 1683, he was finally freed on technicalities. [ibid., p. 500] A week later, when the assembly had resolved disagreements over his fees during trial and imprisonment, he was released on 6 November, 1683, when the Lower House agreed to pay costs amounting to 13,640 pounds of tobacco. Ibid., pp. 518—519].

Garret van Sweringen, who two decades earlier had been commissary at New Amstel, was a witness for the prosecution.

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Young obtained his deed to "Clayfall" from George Talbot, then Proprietor of Maryland. In the deed to Jacob Young, dated the 10th of June, 1687, it was recited that Francis Wright died possessed of 250 acres of land in a tract called Clayfall, and leaving no lawful heirs after him [[he had a brother in England]], nor having made any written testament [[incorrect!!]] before his decease, the same became escheatable to the Lord Proprietary, and that the Lord Proprietary by patent dated the llth of June, 1680, and also by a patent of confirmation of the 21st of March, 1683, had granted to the said Talbot all that tract of land called Susquehanuah, alias New Connought Manor, saving to all persons who had former patents of any land within the natural bounds of the said manor the full benefit of their respective patents, they paying to the said Talbot the rent of, &c. by which grant the escheat of the said 250 acres in Clayfall aforesaid, became, the right of the said Talbot; and that the said Talbot, in consideration of, &c. granted, &c. to the said Jacob Young, his heirs and assigns, for ever, all his right, &c. in and to the said 250 acres of land, and the escheat thereof, upon account of the want of heirs or assigns deriving title to the same from the said Francis Wright, deceased.

See Brantly, _Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Maryland_ p. 45 et sup., in which the above is recited.

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Jacob Clawson Young had three children to whom he left equal shares of his Delaware property. His children may all have been Anna's, or not. His daughter, Mary, presumably the oldest, was charged with the care of Joseph, presumably the youngest, who was still underage when the will was written on 22 February, 1696. Joseph inherited the "Clayfall" plantation. Another child not named in the abstract was therein noted. Young's son-in-law, Benoni Clarke, husband of his daughter Mary, was the admin --the wife, Anna, presumably having died between 1680 and 1696.

 

 

Will abstract:

Young, Jacob, Cecil Co., 22nd Feb. 1696; ___ ___ ___.

To 3 child., vis. Joseph and Mary and one unnamed, 1280 A., "St. George's" on St. George's Ck. equally.

" son Joseph, plantation.

" 3 children afsd., personalty; dau Mary to look after son Joseph.

Adms. on this estate granted to Benony Clarke, m. dau. of Jacob Young.

Test: Rich'd Askew, Francis Cheetam, Geo. Moore. 7. 277.

[Maryland Calendar of Wills (Baldwin)]

 

 

Admin [in Cecil County, Maryland]:

Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative Court of Maryland, by V. L. Skinner, Maryland, p. 196.

Mr. John Thomson (CE) exhibited:

Benoni Clarke (CE) who married Mary daughter of Jacob Young was granted administration on his estate. Said Clarke was granted LoA in PA. Securities John Sequence, Thomas Whitten.

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Will abstract also appears in A Calendar of Delaware Wills, New Castle County, 1682-1800, p. 11:

Jacob Young. Sisill Co., Md. Feb. 22, 1696. Mch 20, 1696. B. 66.

Three children; son, Joseph; dau Mary; Bonomy Clark intermarried to dau of said Jacob Young. Exc. dau., Mary.

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The son, Joseph Young, married Araminta (de) Coursey, widow of Ephraim Augustine (of Casparus) Herman, a grandson of Augustine Herman amd his secomd wife, Anna Reyniers. Araminta Coursey was a daughter of Henry Coursey and Elizabeth Desmyniers --this Henry being the son of Col. Henry Coursey, who held many provincial offices including Secretary of Maryland in 1660-1661, member of the Governor's Council from 1660 to 1670 and from 1676 to 1684, and Chief Justice of the Maryland Provincial Court 1684-1685. Joseph Young and Araminta Coursey had no children. She remarried William Alexander of Head of Elk, John Mackey, and George Catto.

Mary (Young) Clarke and Jacob Young, Jr. left heirs.

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For names of descendents including children of the two sons, and spouse names, see pp. 45-50 (and further), part of "Russell's Lessee vs. Baker" in Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Maryland and in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland (Vol. V), ann. William Theophilus Brantly (1883, Baltimore), accessible online at http://books.google.com/books?id=vzU4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA45&

--which presents a record of the "Clayfall" property and its owners. Part of the brief includes:

 

 

"the said land called Clayfall, under the title of the devisees of the said Joseph Young, and under the deed to the said Vestry; and that the said Jacob Young was in possession of a moiety of Clayfall aforesaid, at the time of the conviction and attainder of the said Talbot; and that after the said deed from the said Talbot to the said Jacob Young, he the said Jacob did possess the said tract of land, claiming a right to the whole thereof, until his death; and that the said Joseph, his son, after the death of Jacob, and in virtue of the said will, entered upon, and was in possession of the said tract claiming the whole thereof until his death; and that the said sons of the said Joseph, in virtue of his will, respectively entered upon and were in possession of the parts devised to them of the said tract called Clayfall, after the death of the said Joseph, by them-selves and their alienees, claiming the whole of the said tract, until the year 1780. The defendant further offered in evidence, copies or extracts from the debt books of Cecil County, and the rents rolls, remaining in the land office, duly authenticated. By the rent roll, in 1737, it is stated, that Clayfull, 509 acres, was surveyed for Francis Clay, and possessed by Samuel Young. By the debt books in 1737, it is stated, that part of Clayfall, 250 acres, was charged to Jacob Young, and another part, 250 acres, charged to Joseph Young. In 1739 the whole is charged to Samuel Young. In 1749, 100 acres were charged to the Vestry of St. Mary Ann's Parish; 200 acres to Amos Fogg; 100 acres to Thomas Foster, and 100 acres to Joseph Young. In 1754 and 1755 the same charges. In 1758, the same, except that Henry Baker was charged with the parts before charged to Fogg and Foster. In 1761, 100 acres charged to Henry Baker; 300 acres to Amos Fogg, John Douglass, and John Clark, and 100 acres to the Vestry of St. Mary Aim's Parish. In 1767, the same charges. In a book, without date, 400 acres were charged to Jeremiah Baker, and 100 acres to the Vestry, &c.

Whereupon, the defendant by his counsel prayed the Court for their opinion and direction to the jury, that the Lord Proprietary, and Jacob Young, on and after the conviction of the said George Talbot in 1686, were tenants in common of the tract of land called Clayfall; and if the jury find that the Lord Proprietary was in the then Province (now State) of Maryland, at the time of the said conviction, and for two years thereafter, and at the time of the deed from the said Talbot to Young in 1687; and if they are of opinion that Jacob Young entered upon and claimed the whole of the said land adverse to the right of the Lord Proprietary, until his death in 1696, and that he devised the said land to his son Joseph, and that his son Joseph, in virtue of the said will, entered on the said land, claiming the whole thereof adverse to his co-tenant, the Lord Proprietary, and continued such possession until his death in 1732; and it they further find, that the said Joseph died in possession of the said land, claiming the whole, and devising the whole as his own proper estate to his five sons, and that his said five sons, in virtue of his said devise, entered upon and possessed the said land, claiming the whole thereof adverse to the title of the Lord Proprietary, and as their own proper estate, and continued the said possession by themselves, or their alienees claiming the same adverse to the title of the Lord Proprietary, and as their own proper estate, and continued the possession thereof down to the year 1780, notwithstanding the lease to Samuel Thomas; and if they further find that the said Lord Proprietary, by his agents and officers, accepted from the devisees and alienees of the said Joseph Young, and his sons, quit-rents for the whole of the said land, from the year 1733 until the year 1767, and that Jacob Young and Joseph Young, and those claiming under them, had the uninterrupted possession of the said land, and the receipt of the rents and profits thereof, claiming the whole of the same as their own, from the year 1687 to the year 1780, that then the plaintiff is not entitled to recover. [Pp. 48-50, Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of Maryland and in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland, by William Theophilus Brantly]

But note that the 1732 death date of Joseph Young (son of Jacob Clawson Young) given in the above is undoubtedly incorrect, and is probably a transcription error. Joseph Young died in 1737, after which it is demonstrated in rent rolls and debt books that his sons were in possession of the land.

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1682-1683

Text of Jacob Young's Impeachment [trial], his answer, and sentence.

MSA Volume 7, pp. 370-372

U.H. Journal 1659-98

[7 October 1682]

Articles of Impeachment Exhibited to the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary in his Upper house of Assembly, by the Delegates & Deputies of the Lower house of the Same Assembly against Iacob Young of Cecil County Planter.

 

 

We the Delegates and Deputies of the Lower house of Assembly Seriously Considering the many Evils and Mischiefs which this Province hath of late years Suffered; for Speedy Redress thereof, and for taking away the Chief Cause thereof, and for preventing of the like to come for the Safety of the said Lord Proprietary and the Good People of this Province Do hereby Shew and declare against the said Iacob Young the Crimes enormities & other Offences in the Articles following Comprised, and him the said Iacob Young of the said Crimes enormities and Offences we do accuse and Impeach that is to Say

 

 

first That the said Jacob not regarding nor weighing the due Obedience which he as one of the People of this Province ought to his Lordship the Lord Proprietary of this Province, and to the Peace and Government thereof hath endeavoured to Alienate his Affection from the said Lord Proprietary and his Government, and the better to Affect the same did Contract Marriage and take to Wife an Indian Woman of the Susquehannah Nation, by whom the said Iacob had Several Children, one or more of which is now amongst the Indians, and thereby he the said Iacob is more nearly Concerned for those Indians even against his Majesties Subjects the good Christian People of this Province--

 

 

2dly That the said Iacob hath so farr espoused the Jnterest of the Susquehannah and other Northern Indians that in the year of Lord 1675 and Severall years Since, at Cecil County aforesaid and Several other parts of this Province, even when they the said Indians were Enimys, and in open Hostility with this Province, he the said Iacob did aid, Succour and Assist the said Susquehannahs and other Northern Indians not only against the Pisscattaway Indians then in Amity and friendship with his Lordship and the good people of this Province, but against the said Lord Proprietary and his Majesties Subjects the good People of this Province Likewise --

 

 

3dIy That the said Iacob to Shew forth his Affection and kindness to those Susquehannah Indians hath oft times, in the years and at the places aforesaid given out in Speeches and Declared that the Susquehannahs are an innocent and harmless People and hath not only Palliated and Excused the Spoiles and rapines by the said Indians in this Province Committed, but hath even Iustified the Murders perpretrated by them in this Province, thereby throwing the Guilt of the Blood Spilt in this Province upon his Majesties Subjects the good People thereof --

 

 

4thIy That whereas the said Iacob at Several times and more especialy in the years 1677 and 1681 hath been employed by his Lordship the Lord Proprietary as an Interpreter Between the said Lord Proprietary and the Northern Indians and then had Instructions to propose and Demand a Peace as well for the Piscattaway Indians Our near Neighbours and friends as for his Majesties Subjects in this Province, and to Oblige him to Fidelity therein had and received Several great Sums of Tobacco as Gratuitys for the same; yet the said Iacob ingratefully and unfaithfully endeavouring to keep on foot the Animositys between the said Northern Indians and the said Pisscattaway Indians Our Neighbours and friends, instead of Offering any Mediation on behalf of the said Piscattaways according to his Instructions did utterly refuse to offer the same upon pretence that he himself knew well that no Such Motion would be Admitted by the said Northern Indians whereas in truth the said Northern Indians would gladly have Accepted and Complyed with any Such Motion had the Same been made, but the said Iacob being so nearly Concerned with the said Northern Indians as aforesaid, as much as in him lay Obstructed the said Peace between them, only to make a private Advantage to himself of their Spoils and Robberies Committed upon his Majesties Subjects in this Province

 

5th The said Iacob in further Declaration of his close adherence to the said Susquehannah and other Northern Indians in Carrying on an Offensive Warr agtthe said Pisscattaway Indians upon no other Account then that the said Pissattaways would not Assist the Susquehannahs in a late Warr by them made against the Lord Proprietary in this Province did within the Years aforesaid, and in the Province aforesaid make it his Business to move and Stirr up the Susquehannahs and other Northern Indians to make Warr upon the said Passcattaway Indians and in Order thereunto did take upon him to travell to Several parties of the said Susquehannahs and other Northern Indians then Scattered into Several parts of this Province and Virginia, and to rally them together Encouraging them with force and Arms and in a Hostile manner to invade this Province, and to that end did Supply the said Susquehannahs and other Northern Indians with Corn and other Provisions --

 

 

6th That the said Jacob further to Evidence his Nearness and Alliance with the said Susquehannah and other Northern Indians, and his Malice to this Province hath Since his Imprisonment Published and Declared that he the said Iacob hath Such an influence over the said Susquehannahs and other Northern Indians that he the said Iacob can make the said Indians do what he please, and that he the Said Iacob Since his Imprisonment being put in Irons, hath given out threatning Speeches that he the said Iacob "would be revenged of those that putt those Irons on him And that they should pay Dearly for it -- All which the Delegates and Deputies aforesaid are ready to Averr, and Saving to themselves the Liberty of Exhibiting at any time hereafter any other Accusation or Impeachment against the said Iacob Young and also of replying to the Answer which he the said Iacob shall make to any of the Articles aforesaid, and of Offering further proofe of the Premisses or any of them as Cause shall require, do pray that the said Jacob Young may be putt to Answer to all and every of the Premisses, and that such Proceedings, and Examination, tryall, Iudgement, and Examplary Punishment may be thereupon had and Executed as is agreeable to Law and Justice

October the 7th: 1682 Signed pr Order of the Committee

C Boteler Cl.

 

 

MSA Vol. 7. pp. 386-392

Jacob Young's answer

The Humble Answer and Plea of Jacob Young of Cecill County Planter to the Declaration and Impeachment made against him before the Lord Proprietary of this Province in his Upper house of Assembly by the Delegates and Deputies of the Lower house of the same Assembly --

 

 

The said Iacob Young being Accused and Impeached before Your Honours of the Many Misdemeanors, Offences and Crimes wherewith he is Charged by the Delegates and Deputies of this Present Assembly and which are Comprized in the Articles preferred against him; doth find in himself a Deep and hearty Sorrow that soe great and So worthy a Body should have him Suspected of those things which are Objected against him; Whereas had they known the very Truth of those particulars whereof they as yet have not had the Meanes to be rightly informed, he is well assured in their own true Iudgments they would have forborne to have Charged him therewith, But the Integrity of his own heart and Conscience being the most able and impartial Witnesses, not Accusing him of the least thought of doing any Evil or Mischief to his Lordship or the Good People of this Province, doth raise his Spirits again to make his Iust Defence before his Lordship and Your Honours, of whose Wisdom Iustice and Honour he is so well Assured, that he doth with Confidence and yet with all Humbleness Submitt himself to your Examination and Iudgments, And the said Jacob Young Saving to himself the usuall Benefit of not being prejudiced by any words or want of form in his Answer but that he may be Admitted to make further Explanation and proof as there shall be Occasion, doth make these Severall and Distinct Answers following in the Same Order they are laid down unto him --

 

Ist The said Jacob Young utterly denyeth that he ever Alienated or at any time Endeavoured to Alienate his Affection from the Lord Proprietary of this Province and his Government, and doth utterly deny he ever Contracted Marriage or took to Wife an Indian Woman of the Susquehannah Nations, and doth utterly Deny he ever had a Child or Children by any Such Susquehannah Wife, nor was ever at any time Concerned for the said Susquehannah Nation or any other Indian Nation whatsoever, against his Majesties Subjects the good People of this Province --

 

 

2d That the said Iacob Young in the Year 1675 did not live and Inhabit in Cecil County nor in any Places within this Province, but did then live & inhabit in Delaware untill August 1676 about which time the said Jacob Young rece'd a writing Dated the 14th Augt 1676 in these Words foll. (Suffer the bearer hereof Jacob Young the Interpreter together with the Embassadors of the Susquehannah Nation to pass freely to St Maries in this Province of Maryland, and from thence Safely to return to Newcastle &c: and Subscribed by his honour the Chancellor with other papers written to the same purpose, here ready to be produced of the same Date, That the said Young 29th November 1676 received one other writing under the hand of his honour the Chancellor in these Words (Jacob Young I have received Yours dated the 16th Instant and have Communicated it to the Goverr and Council and by their Command I herewith Send you a third Safe Conduct for yourself and the Susquehannah Indians to Continue for four Months least the hard Weather might hinder you or them from Coming Down sooner, and force us and them to Send too often to one the Other without Effectuall treating which may Begett Iealousies on their part &t) in which Letter is likewise inserted that the said Young is to perswade them to stay within the Bounds of the Province, and that he Should perswade the Susquehannah Indians that were gone to the Delaware Indians to return &t as by the said Letter here ready to be produced it doth more largely Appear That the said Young received two Commissions to the Same effect about the same time here ready to be produced; Pursuant to which Orders Letters and Commissions the Said Young with great Hazard of his Life Sought out the said Susquehannah Indians and found them; thinking therein he had Served the Lord Proprietary and the People of this Province; and that at that time the Bay was frozen so that the said Young and Indians could not Come down to St Maries according to the Direction & Orders aforesaid, and at that time and no other the said Young did Succour and Assist the Susquehannah Indians, who destroyed about 20 or 30 Barrells of Corn besides Meat That the said Young hath likewise Orders and Instructions under the hand and Seal of Coll Coursey bearing Date the 12th of March 1677 Ordering him the said Young to find out and Endeavour to Speak with the Sinniquo Indians &t as by the Same here ready to be produced it doth more at large appear pursuant to which Instructions the said Young did find out and Speak with the said Siniquo Indians, but not without great Hazard of his Life, and whereas by one other Commission bearing Date the 14th Day of Iune 1678 the said Jacob Young was Ordered that as soon as he should be Informed that the Sinniquo Indians were Come to the old Susquehannah Fort he should repair to them and know from them what their designs tended to, and to endeavour what in him lay to divert them from all manner of Hostility to be used against the Pisscattaway Indians, (if any Such intents they had) by making them Sensible that they were friends to the good People of this Province, whom the People of this Province were Bound to protect &t as by the said Commission here ready to be produced it doth more fully and at large appear; And whereas by one other Order of Council bearing Date 29th Day of Iune 1680 the said Iacob Young was Authorized and Empowered at what time he shall be certainly informed the Sinniquo Indians are upon their March to lye in wait for them at or near the house of Mr Anthony Demondidier or Elsewhere in their road, and endeavour to Speak with the said Indians, and lett them know that his Lordship the Lord Proprietary of this Province is very desirous to speak with Some of their great Men, and to have Some Conference with them touching their last League, and to renew and Confirm the same &t as by the said Order here ready to be produced it doth fully and at large Appear; which said Order as well as all the before Mentioned Commissions Orders and Directions the said Jacob Young Justly faithfully and honestly performed to his best skill knowledge and understanding, many times with great Hazard of his Life to the intent only to Serve Secure and preserve the Lord Proprietary and the Good People of this Province And the said Jacob Young doth Averr that the before Mentioned Letters, Commissions and Orders, together with a Strong Inclination and desire to Serve the Lord Proprietary and the good people of this Province, were the only Inducements that Invited the said Iacob Young to Come from his Habitation in Delaware into this Province in the year 1676 and Since to Inhabit and Dwell in this Province: and doth utterly Deny that he did ever Espouse the Interest of the Susquehannahs or Northern Indians or any other Indians whatsoever at any time whatsoever in this Province or else where or did Encourage or ever Countenance the said Indians to go to Warr or live in Hostility with the said Pisscattaway Indians, or the good People of this Province, or did ever Succour assist or Entertain the said Indians in any other Manner than is herein before Sett forth without which Entertainment he could not have Effectually Performed the said Orders and Commissions aforesaid --

 

 

3d The said Iacob Young doth Averr and will Sollemnly Swear that Since the Treaty in the Year 1676 the said Iacob Young doth not know nor hath ever heard any Intelligence That the said Susquehannahs have ever done or Committed any Roberies or Murders within this Province, Denys he ever threw the Guilt of the Blood Spilt within this Province upon his Majestys Subjects; but hath been so great an Enemy, and hater of their said Murders and Robberies, that he Caused an Indian to be killed Lately in Delaware, for a Murder by the said Indian Committed on two Servants at Hanstrieks Mill Twenty Years Since which he can prove by the Oaths of Severall persons now Living in Delaware --

 

 

4th The said Iacob doth Averr and will Sollemnly Swear that in the years 1677: & 1681 and at all other times he faithfully Justly and honestly pursuant to his Orders Commissions and Instructions did always propose and Demand of the Northern Indians, and all other Indians whatsoever, a peace as well for the Pisscattaway and other Neighbour Indians as for his Majesties Subjects within this Province, and doth deny he did ever endeavour to keep on foot the Animosities between the Northern Indians and the Pisscattaway Indians Our Neighbours and friends, nor did refuse to Offer a Mediation as well for the said Indians as the People of this Province, nor did ever Obstruct the Making of a Peace, nor ever make to himself any private Advantage of the Spoiles and Roberries Committed by any Indian or Indians whatsoever in this Province or any other place or places whatsoever nor can the Same be proved by any Christian or Indian whatsoever, nor can the Treachery or perfidiousness of the faithless Indians in breaking their Articles of Peace be Justly charged as a Crime to the said Iacob Young --

 

 

5th The said Iacob Young doth Utterly deny that he did ever adhere to the said Susquehannah or other Northern Indians in Carrying on an Offensive Warr against the Pisscattaway Indians, because they refused to Assist the Susquehannah Indians in the Warr against the Lord Proprietary of this Province, nor did ever Stirr up the said Indians to make Warr against the Pisscattaway Indians, nor ever travell to Severall parties of the said Indians then Scattered in Several parts of this Province and Virginia to rally them together Encouraging them in hostile manner to invade this Province, nor did Supply them with Corn and Provisions in any other manner then as herein before is Sett forth pursuant to the Orders and Commissions to the said Jacob Young directed as aforesaid, which was done by the said Young with an earnest desire to make a peace and not a Warr --

 

 

6th The said Iacob doth not remember that he said any Such Words as that he could make the Susquehannahs or Northern Indians do what he pleased, nor in truth can he, but if any Such words were Spoken by him it was Occasioned by the evill Effects of Drink, and when he was not in his right Mind. -- And as to the said words he is charged with Since his Imprisonment which are that he would be revenged upon those that putt those Irons upon him, he saith his intent was to take Such Course as the Law will permitt Prisoners to have against the Merciless cruelty of Officers and Iaylors he knowing himself Innocent of Felony and Treason, and there being no Overt Act by him Committed, the said Words will not make him Guilty of either; This being the plain clear and Evident truth of all these things which are Contained & particularly Expressed in the Charge, he humbly referreth it to the Iudgment of Your Lordship Jn Your Upper house of Assembly how full of Danger and Prejudice it is to give too ready an Eare and too Easy a belief unto Reports or Testimony without Oath, which are not of weight enough to Condemn any: He humbly acknowledged that in his Drink he might talk without the Bounds of reason yet hopeth Your Honours in Your Iustice upon which with Confidence he putts himself will acquitt him of and from those Misdemeanors wherewith he is Charged, and he hopeth and will Dayly pray that for the future he shall by Gods Grace so watch over his Actions that he shall not give Offence to any --

 

And Lastly the said Iacob Young humbly desires Your Lordship and this Honourable Assembly well to Consider (that since the Year 1676 at which time he was Sent for by Coll Coursey and Coll Chew &c: to come into this Province from Delaware to gather together the Susquehannah Indians, and to encourage them to live in this Province and likewise to procure the return of those Indians that were gone to Delaware how many Orders and Commissions as well for treating and making peace with the Sinniquo as the Susquehannah Indians he hath justly and faithfully Executed & performed without having the least Spott Blemish or Aspersion cast upon him, which said Commissions and Orders could not be Agitated without being friendly to and entertaining the Said Indians, which Entertainments cannot be Accounted as a Crime, which being Considered he hopes neither the false Aspersions of the perfidious and faithless Indians his Enemys, nor the Causeless fears of the weake and Naked and therfore timerous People Shall Cause one Drop of Innocent Blood to be Spilt, or can procure the ruin of him who with all Alacrity and Cheerfullness hath so oft cast himself Naked amongst Multitudes of Armed Merciless and faithless Indians with Great hazard of his Life, meerly to procure the peace Safety and Wellfare of this Province, which for the future he shall again be always willing to do, And prays to be Discharged from this hard Imprisonment

 

 

The further Answer and Plea of Iacob Young to the Additionall Charge

The said Iacob Young doth Averr that upon the 10th Day of August 1680 the time in the Charge Mentioned, he the said Young was at New York; and did not return untill the first Tuesday in September following about which time he had News brought to Delaware that the Onneide Indians were then upon the falls of Susquehannah River, and had been within this Province about one Month, & had killed Hogs and Cattle, upon which he Applyed himself to Captain Iohnson who immediately went and informed Coll: Wells at Court, and thereupon Coll Wells Came from Court to the said Iacob to Spesuty Island, before whose coming the said Iacob Young had Sent One Evans Salisbury with a present of two Matchcoats to the said Indians, then at the falls of Susquehannah aforesaid, to desire the said Indians to come down to Speak with Our Great Men, Vizt Coll: Wells and Captain Johnson and Ordered the Messenger if they refused, or were fearfull to come down upon delivery of the present, then to tender Body for Body for their Safe return, upon which the Messenger returned with three Indians that Coll Wells then Ordered the said Iacob Young to Speak to them and Ask them why they went through the Country and bid him tell them the English might do them hurt, and did likewise Order the said Jacob to desire them to go home, and fetch Some great Men to treat with Our Governor whither they might have priviledge to go through the Country or not, That about Two days after the said Coll Wells gave the said Onneide Indians a pass to go through the Country who by Virtue of that Pass went to Choptank, and about a Month after the said Indians came again from Choptank to the house of the said Iacob, and Complained that the English would not lett them go down further, and therefore the said Indians threatned the said Youngs People and drew drink against their Wills and made themselves Drunk, and there were then Seven Indians, that the said Onneide Indians went then to Delaware, and from thence to the Eastern Shore, and about Duck Creeck they killed two Delaware Indians, and then returned to their own Country. That at that time the said Iacob Young had not above five yards of Duffells in his house, and did then live at Delaware, and never came but when he was twice Sent for into this Province all which he can prove by Sufficient Witnesses, And the said Iacob Young doth utterly deny that he had about that time any other Conference whatsoever, or that he had any other Discourse in Cecil County or else where with any Troop of Oneide Indians then is herein before Sett forth, and doth utterly deny that he with open words or Deeds did ever move or instigate the said Onneide Indians or any other Indians to fetch an Army of the said Onneide Indians, and with the said Army to return to the said Iacobs, and doth utterly deny that he at any time Said, or ever had any thought to Say, that he would be ready in Arms to Assist the said Onneide Indians in Invading this Province in order to destroy the Pisscattaway Indians Neighbours and friends with this Province; And doth utterly deny he did ever give or present unto the said Onneide Indians a Roll of Duffells, or any other Duffells or present whatsoever, than what is herein before sett forth and Declared, but was then as he hath ever been ready and willing faithfully and honestly to Serve the Lord Proprietary and the good People of this Province to his uttermost against those perfidious and faithless Indians, as he shall ever be with his Life and fortune, The said Indians having Damnified him to the Value of One hundred thousand pounds of Tobacco And humbly prays that he may not be utterly ruined, but be discharged from his hard Imprisonment. And he shall always pray for Your Lordship & the Members of this Honourable Assembly

Jacob Young

 

 

MSA Volume 7, pp. 475-476

Friday 19th October 1683

The house mett again upon further Consultation of Jacob Young and present the Same Persons that Sat upon his Tryall, and this Message thereupon sent to the Lower house by Major Thomas Trueman Vizt

Upper house Journal 19th October 1683

This house have Seriously Considered of the Tryall of Jacob Young and of the Evidences that have been Examined against him and all other Circumstances relating to the Same, Do find these things following very Clearly proved against him the said Jacob,

 

 

That in the Year of Our Lord 1677 when Coll Henry Coursey was Empowered by Commission from the Honourable Thomas Notely Esqr Deputy Governor of this Province and the rest of the Council to go to Fort Albany and so Negotiate a Peace with the Northern Indians and us his Majesties Subjects in this Province and for the Pisscataway Indians at which time he the said Coll Coursey took along with him the said Jacob Young as Interpreter and when the said Coll Coursey after his coming to Albany told the said Jacob that his Commission was to Conclude a peace (if Possible) for the Good of this Province and also for the Pisscattaway Indians; That the said Jacob made Answer; That if he had known so much before he came thither that the Susquehannahs had not to have been Included in that Peace he had rather have given 20000ll Tobacco than have Come with him, proved by the Oath of Coll Coursey, and that in the Year 1682 when the Northern Indians Came and Besieged the Pisscattaway Fort Coll: Henry Coursey and Coll William Stevens were sent as Agents to the Northern Indians at which time Jacob went as Interpreter and the said Jacob being required by the Agents to ask the Northern Indians why they came down to Warr with the Pisscattaways Contrary to Articles of Peace Concluded with them in theyear 1677 wherein the Pisscattaways were Included at which the said Jacob said Nothing for some small time But after made Answer that if he had thought he should have spoke of any such thing to the Northern Indians he would rather have given 10000ll of Tobacco than have come to Interprett upon that Account -- proved by the Oaths of Coll Coursey and Coll Stevens --

 

 

And Since his Imprisonment the said Jacob hath Utterred these words That those that Caused those Irons to be putt upon his Legs should pay Dearly for it when he was at liberty proved by the Oath of John Higdon and moreover the said Jacob spoke that the Susquehannahs were an Innocent People and that he could make them and the said Northern Indians do what he pleased; proved by the Oath of Joshua Doyne These Matters foregoing proved by Christian Evidences, Besides the many things proved before Coll: Coursey and Coll LLoyd in the last Agency at Fort Albany by the Indians and We his Majesties Subjects being very Sensible that for Several Years last past The said Northern Indians mixt with the Susquehannahs made Divers Incursions into this Province and Committed many Murders & Robberies in it, And this house having Seriously Considered of the great Influence the said Jacob hath upon the Susquehannahs and Senniquo Indians and what a Dangerous person he is to this Government desires that the Lower house will reassume the Debate touching him the said Jacob and Join with this house in Voting that the said Jacob may be Imprisoned during Pleasure of the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary and both houses of Assembly.