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Research in Other Countries => United States of America => Topic started by: Forfarian on Tuesday 02 August 16 19:53 BST (UK)
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Peter Storry (or variants) of Badallan was born in the parish of Shotts, County of Lanark, Scotland on 28 March 1727, son of Andrew Storry of Wester Braco and Paperthills and his wife Mary Clark. In Scottish documents dated between 1750 and 1766 he is described as Peter Storry of Wester Braco and Wester Moffat, and of Newcastle on Delaware, Pennsylvania, physician.
Has anyone come across Peter Storry in Pennsylvania? I'd be interested in any information about Peter and/or his descendants, if any.
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I haven't found anything yet.
You are trying to find out what happened to him after 1766, correct? (Rather than trying to find out what he was doing in America during 1750-1766.) ;)
Were there any first names that were handed down in the family, please? Just looking for little clues. Also, what occupations might his father and any siblings have had, please? :)
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Not much information included, but a possibility?
1798 US Direct Tax Lists, Pennsylvania
August 20, 1805
Taxes received by John Smith, Marshal
"Out Past? Eastern Northern Liberties"
Peter Story - 414 - 53 95
[95 is the amount of money. Not sure what the other figures are.]
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Tax & Exoneration, PA 1768-1801
Quemahoning, Bedford, PA - 1785?
Nonresidenters(?)
Peter Storey 18:4
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Thanks for your replies, Lisa.
I am interested in anything about him after he arrived in North America.
The less common names that were in the Stor(r)i/e(y) family are Andrew and Claud(e), sometimes spelled Glaud(e) and frequently mistranscribed as Cland(e) or Gland(e). Of the common ones, Alexander and James were rare before 1800, but there were some Johns and Williams. The women's names included Mary, Margaret, Bethea and Katherine, and no known daughters were named Jean/Jane, Isabella or Agnes.
The family were small landowners and farmers, though some of them became physicians or surgeons.
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Thank you for the additional information. Perhaps it is due to the early time frame, but I'm just not finding anything yet. :-\
As it is late here, I better continue tomorrow (after work).
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One for around the time period
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V26Q-NP4
Pennsylvania Marriages
Name Peter Story
Spouse's Name Elizabeth Stone
Event Date 21 Apr 1761
Event Place Christ Church, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Thank you, Willsy.
I have noted that marriage, but in the absence of any other information I have not been confident enough to say that this is 'my' Peter Stor(r)i/e(y).
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Am with you there!
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Nothing really to add to willsy's find, but this is the typed record from Christ Church:
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01i88/
It states the minister was Reverend Mr Sturgeon and Peter Story's name, according to this record, was Stoy.
I don't know if there is a way to see the actual image (in case it has additional information), but perhaps you've already checked this site:
http://christchurchphila.pastperfectonline.com/
http://www.christchurchphila.org/Historic-Christ-Church/Church/58/
Would Peter Storry have been a member of the Church of England?
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An online tree has a Peter Stoy marrying an Elizabeth Stone, 21 April 1761, Philadelphia. According to this tree, Peter was born c1732 in Pennsylvania and his father, Petter Stey, was born in 1702 in Germany.
They did not include any images, so it is difficult to say if their records are correct. (No offense meant to the owner of the tree.)
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I don't know if there is a way to see the actual image (in case it has additional information), but perhaps you've already checked this site:
http://christchurchphila.pastperfectonline.com/
http://www.christchurchphila.org/Historic-Christ-Church/Church/58/
Thank you, I'll take a look at that
Would Peter Storry have been a member of the Church of England?
He could not have been a member of it in his youth, as the Church of England has never had any congregations in Scotland. There is a small, but I think rather unlikely, possibility that he was brought up as a member of the Episcopal church rather than of a Presbyterian denomination, in which case the CofE would have been a natural choice for him. More likely he was brought up as a Presbyterian but switched to the C of E in America, either because he preferred Anglicanism, or (unlikely, I think) because there was no suitable or convenient Presbyterian church. Or it may be that this is completely different person altogether.
Edit: having looked at those Christ Church web sites, I think it must be someone entirely different. The parish registers list several people name Stoy, but no-one named Story.
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More information about Peter Storry has come to light. I had already found a sasine dated 1759 in which Peter's brother William, acting on his own behalf and on behalf of Peter, became the legal owner of the lands of Badallan bequeathed to them jointly by their father Andrew Storry.
I have now found a sasine dated 7 June 1765 whereby William became the owner of Peter's share. He had a disposition granted by the now deceased Peter Storry of the County of Newcastle on Delaware in the Province of Pennsylvania in North America, physician, his brother german, whereby Peter 'sold, annailzied and disponed' to William his share of Badallan.
So Peter Storry must have died in or shortly before 1765.
The interesting point, for me, is whether the 'disposition' was a will, or whether Peter had decided that as his future was in Pennsylvania there was no point in him owning a half share in Badallan, and had actually parted with it for cash. (The word 'sold' does appear from time to time in records that are obviously wills, so its presence does not guarantee that it was a sale for cash.)
Are there any sources for wills in the 1760s in Pennsylvania?
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Are there any sources for wills in the 1760s in Pennsylvania?
Revisiting this rather old thread.