The following individuals are reported in the June 17, 1778 edition of the
Pennsylvania Packet as having joined the British Army and were therefore
proclaimed traitors to the United States . Some, but not all, had Quaker
ancestry or were Quakers themselves.
James Inglis, trader;
Robert Coupar, trader;
Carpenter Wharton, late Commissary;
John Chevalier, merchant;
James Club, mariner;
Benjamin Towne, printer;
James Smither, engraver,
Joel Evans, merchant;
Anthony Yeldall, surgeon;
William Morris, mariner, late constable;
John Cunningham, innkeeper;
William Taylor, silversmith;
Frederick Verner, yeoman;
Arthur Thomas, junior, hatter;
Samuel Garrigues, junior, trader;
Joseph Stansbury, dealer in earthen ware;
John Bray, school master, late constable;
Ross Curry, gentleman, late Lieutenant in the service of the American States;
John Johnston, coach maker;
John Airey, late of the post office;
John Hales, stable keeper;
Dunnin Irwin, trader;
John Pike, dancing master;
John Palmer, mason;
James Craig, rope maker and merchant;
John Henderson, mariner;
James Fisher, trader;
Hugh Henry, peruke maker;
Jacob Mayer, peruke maker;
Isaac Wharton, merchant;
Benjamin Gibbs, merchant;
James Gregson,
Thomas Bramball, button makers;
Samuel Jeffreys, watch maker;
Michael Conner, merchant;
Robert Loosley, shoemaker;
Henry Jouken, trader;
Henry Welsling, shoemaker;
Robert Dove, leather cutter;
all now or late of the city of Philadelphia:
William Williams, ship wright;
Lawrence Fagan, tavern keeper;
John Brown, distiller;
William Taylor, ship wright;
all now or late of the Northern Liberties township:
David Gregory, mariner;
John Tolly, mariner;
David Thompson,
Charles Moran, shipwrights;
all now or late of the district of Southwark:
John Buckingham, labourer;
now or late of the township of Passyunk;
Joseph Bolton, joiner;
John Butcher, husbandman;
both now or late of the township of Blockley;
Peter Saur, printer;
now or late of Germantown township;
Stephen Styer, yeoman;
now or late of the township of Whitpain;
all now or late of the county of Philadelphia:
Joel Bryan, husbandman;
now or late of the township of Haycock;
George Burns, weaver;
Joseph Dean, labourer;
Isaac Mitchener, labourer;
John Rodgers, labourer;
all now or late of the township of Plumstead;
Hugh Linden, school master;
Robert Coley, junior, saddler;
William Fell, weaver;
Jon Hill, limeburner;
Dennis Easton, labourer;
all now or late of the township of Buckingham:
Henry Dennis, shipwright;
John Dennis, wheelwright;
John Howell, labourer;
Mordecai Balderstone, weaver;
Uriah Lindy, labourer;
William Brown, cooper;
Jeremiah Hendrickson, labourer;
James McMullen, labourer;
Thomas Featherby, miller;
William Skelton, labourer;
Levy Kennett, labourer;
John Cable labourer;
Ephraim Williams,
labourer; all now or late of the township of Solebury:
Joseph Canby, labourer;
Thomas Canby, blacksmith;
Samuel Burrowes, labourer;
John Harvey, labourer;
George Boatman, labourer;
all now or late of the township of Upper Makefield:
Peter Price, labourer;
now or late of the township of Middletown;
Thomas Martin, cooper;
John Stackhouse,
Benjamin Brown,
Joseph Doble,
James Gilmore,
Henry Hill, husbandmen;
all now or late of the township of Falls:
Alexander Rickey, labourer;
now or late of the township of Lower Makefield;
Andrew DeNormandie, practitioner in medicine;
Benjamin Brown, carpenter;
William DeNormandie, labourer;
John Gosling, shoemaker;
Arthur Campbell, labourer;
John Stackhouse, husbandman;
John Poor,
John Elwood,
William Davis, watermen;
all now or late of the township of Bristol:
Joseph Swift, gentleman, lieutenant in the King's army;
now or late of the township of Bensalem;
Samuel Chapman,
Amos Chapman, husbandmen;
Abraham Chapman, cooper;
David Chapman, miller;
Abraham Clark, taylor;
all now or late of the township of Wrightstown;
all now or late of the county of Bucks:
John Briggs, husbandman,
now or late of the township of Willistown;
George Davis, husbandman,
now or late of the township of Springfield;
John Taylor, tavern keeper;
John Moulder, waterman;
John Talbot, wheelwright;
Thomas Bartow, sawyer;
all now or late of the township of Chichester:
Jesse Bean, joiner;
Jacob Tregoe, blacksmith;
Caleb Haines, weaver;
Joshua Thomson, taylor;
all now or late of the township of Goshen:
Jacob Buffington, carpenter;
William Stroud, saddler;
both now or late of the township of West Bradford;
Joseph Malin, wheelwright,
Elisha Malin, joiner,
both now or late of the township of East Whiteland;
Edward Griffel, labourer,
John Willson, taylor,
both now or late of the township of Thornbury;
William Millson, taylor;
Isaac Bullock, labourer;
Benjamin James, cooper;
John Burnet, junior, labourer;
all now or late of the township of Concord:
Samuel Hart, labourer,
Abiah Park, mason;
both now or late of the township of East Bradford;
Jacob Cypher, miller,
now or late of the township of Tredyffrin;
Samuel Bell, carpenter,
now or late of the township of Easttown;
William Maddock, tavern keeper;
William Dunn, labourer;
Joseph Edwards, mason;
George Dunn, taylor;
Malin Dunn, taylor;
James Malin, labourer;
Gideon Vernon, husbandman;
all now or late of the township of Providence:
Christopher Wilson, husbandman,
John Taylor, glasier,
both now or late of the township of Ridley;
Benjamin Miller, saddler,
now or late of the township of East Caln;
Joshua Proctor, labourer,
now or late of the township of Newtown;
Aaron Ashbridge, waterman;
Joseph Gill, maltster;
Elias Vernon, taylor;
all now late of the township of Chester:
Daniel Register, carpenter,
now or late of the township of Edgemont:
John Suplee,
William Caldwell,
James Hartner, husbandman;
John Musgrove, trader,
William Andrews, fuller;
all now or late of the township of Darby:
William Smith, of Tinicum Island,
William Anderson, labourer;
both now or late of the township of Ridley;
Henry Essinger, junior,
Hugh O'Cain,
William Kennedy,
Darby O'Cain,
James McClarin, labourers;
Isaiah Worrell, miller;
all now or late of the township of Springfield:
Isaac Burk,
Abraham Falkenton,
Thomas Burns,
William Clark,
George Good, labourers;
William Henry, taylor;
all now or late of the township of Providence:
George Dunn,
David Maris, taylors;
William Bell, labourer;
all now or late of the township of Newtown:
Robert Kissack, weaver;
James Brown, wheelwright;
James Gorman,
Enoch Gorman, cordwainers;
Michael Crickley, labourer;
all now or late of the township of Haverford;
all now or late of the county of Chester:
John Spering, shoemaker,
now or late of the township of Eastman;
John Stackhouse,
Moses Morgan,
Moses Wood,
Abraham Long,
Robert Stackhouse,
Peter Snyder,
John Rymel,
John Ink,
David Young,
John Vaughan,
Laurence Marr,
Peter Hardy, husbandman;
all now or late of the township of Mount Bethel:
James Lawson,
Edward McMichael, husbandman;
both now or late of the township of Lower Smithfield;
James Allen, Esquire,
now or late of Northampton village;
all now or late of the county of Northampton:
William Willis, miller,
Richard Willis, gunsmith;
both now or late of the county of York:
John Wilson, wheelwright and husbandman,
Andrew Fursuer, labourer;
both now or late of the township of Allen;
Lawrence Kilby, cooper;
William Curlan, labourer;
John McCart, distiller and labourer;
Francis Irwin, carter;
all now or late of the township of East Pennsborough;
all now or late of the county of Cumberland:
George Croghan,
Alexander McKee, formerly Indian traders;
Simon Girty, Indian interpreter;
James Girty, labourer;
Matthew Elliott, Indian trader;
all now or late of the county of Westmoreland;