• General Notes

  [Chapman.FTW]
  
  he late Reverend J. S. Purvis, formerly Archivist of the York Diocese,
  has written:
  "It is shown beyond doubt by the records of the York Diocesan Registry
  that this Thomas Anderson had a wife Elizabeth and that they were both
  Dissenters.  Thomas is entered as early as 1667 as refusing to pay his
  assessment or attend church; and he and his wife Elizabeth are entered
  together for the same offense from 1673 through 1680. Elizabeth alone is
  entered in 1683, suggesting that Thomas had died that year.  Since
  neither name is entered thereafter it is assumed that both had died.
  The evidence that Thomas Anderson had become a Dissenter of some sort by
  1667 reduces the chance that his children were baptized, married, or
  buried at the parish church."
  
  A study of later records does reveal, however, that his daughter
  Elizabeth Anderson was baptized in the parish church in 1675.  From the
  Yorkshire Quarterly Meeting of the Society of Friends, we find that
  Thomas Anderson was not only a Dissenter, but a Quaker.  These records
  further show that he was married to Elizabeth Fox of Bonwicke, a town
  affiliated with the Hull Meeting, on March 10, 1671.  The records
  further show that he died on May 6, 1683.
  
  In The Annals of Newberry, John Abney Chapman describes on page 598 an
  Ancient Family Bible.  The Bible, a King James or Authorized Version,
  was printed in 1613, only two years after the first edition, by the same
  printer of the original edition, Robert Barker of London.  In it are
  written these words: "THOMAS ANDERSON IS THE OWNER OF THIS BOOKE 1664".
  Further family records written in this Bible give a record up to 1840,
  and through it we can trace the family line through Thomas and Elizabeth
  Fox Anderson to Elizabeth Anderson, who married Marmaduke Jackson and
  became the mother of Sarah Jackson.  Sarah Jackson, as we stated
  earlier, became the wife of Giles Chapman.
  
  It is thrilling to know that there is in existence today and in fairly
  good condition this Chapman Family Bible which is now over three hundred
  and sixty years old.  One can only imagine the stories it could tell of
  the persecution of the Quakers in England, the voyage to America in the
  hold of a wooden sailing ship, and the journeys overland through
  undeveloped country to Virginia and then to South Carolina.  From
  Newberry, the Bible traveled with Lewis and Rhoda Chapman to Indiana,
  and with their descendants through Illinois to Missouri.  When located
  in 1973, it was in Pueblo, Colorado.
  
  SOURCE: Giles Chapman of Bridlington and His Descendants, by Jesse Pugh
  Chapman, Jr. 1976, pages v - vi.

Details of Thomas' family with Elizabeth Fox