From Myers, Albert Cook, Immigration of
the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750. 1902, 1994, xxii+ 177 pp.
1902. Reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1969 .Page
238-240. G F Library
"His Autobiography About all that is known of James Logan's early life is contained in his autobiography, which, as it has never been published--so far as I can learn--is here printed in its entirety:
Ancestry My Father was born in E Lothain in Scotland: was educated for the Clergy, & was a Chaplain for some time; but turning Quaker, he was obliged to go to Ireland & to teach a Latin School there--He had several children,1 of whom none are now living, nor have been, more than these 50 years past, saving my Br Wm who took his degree of Doctor of Physick in Holland--and is now the chief Physician in Bristol--and myself--My Mother was Isabel Hume Daught of James Hume--a younger Brother of the House of St Leonards, of the Shire of Mers (as I think) in the South of Scotland. He was Manager of the Estate of the Earl of Murray--who owed, but never paid him ú1500 Sterl. tho the said Earl lodged for some years in his House in the Shire of Fife--My Grandmother, before she married, was Bethia Dundas,2 Sister of the Laird of Dundas, of Didiston, about 8 miles west of Edinburgh a fine seat, and the Earl of Murray assisted my Grandfather in carrying off my Grandmother--She was nearly related to the Earl of Panmat [Panmure] &c.
Education and Apprenticeship The Family Flees to Scotland, 1689
His Father Teaches Friends' School at Bristol
Having learned Latin, Greek, and some Hebrew, before I was 13 years
of age--in my 14th I was put Apprentice to a Linnen Draper--one as considerable
with his Partner as any in Dublin. But the Prince of Orange, landing before
I was bound (tho' I served my Master 6 months) in the winter 1688, I went
down to my Parents--and the wars in Ireland coming on, In the Spring I
went over to Edinburgh with my Mother--after which my Father soon followed,
who being out of employment--repair'd to London, & was there gladly
receiv'd by our friends--Deputies to the Genl Meeting from Bristol in that
City--as their schoolmaster3--for the
good scholar, and an apt schoolmaster to instruct youth in Latin, &c., is a present out of employment, and, upon some discourse of it among Friends at London, is in some expectation that he may be serviceable to Friends' children at Bristol. upon consideration of which this meeting is desirous to promote it, in hopes it may be serviceable to our youth." In 9 Mo. following the treasurer was desired to hand Patrick Logan "ú50, and to pay Jno. Harwood's note of carpenter's work for the said school."--William Tanner, Three Lectures on the Early History of the Society of Friends in Bristol and Somersetshire, London, 1858, p. 124.
1 At Ulster Province Meeting, 2 Mo. 13, 1695, "Some Books being brought To Pattk Loagan Sent him from George Keeth & friends being Sensiblee of ye hurt which ensued if ye Said Books Should be received amongst any professing Truth have Therefore Concluded ye Said Books Shall be viewed and Presed [perused] by Some Sencible friends and ye Errours noated in ye margent and Then Sent back To George Keeth To London for prevention of his Sending any more Such factious Books and That a Letter be also Sent with ye Said Books on behalfe of ye Province Meeting To George Keeth."
Engages in Shipping, 1697 But to return;
After the Peace, having first agreed in Bristol, to go over with another
Factor to Jamaica, I went over to Ireland to see my Parents1: and
having told them my intention of going over to that Island, my Mother was
so averse to it, that she affirmed she would much rather see me dead--On
this I was obliged to change my measures, & began with a cargo, from
Dublin, to enter on a trade between that place and Bristol, which I followed
for about 8 months.
Becomes Penn's Secretary, 1690 [sic]
When in the spring of 1699, our old Proprietor [William Penn] sent
for me, and made me hisproposals to come over to Penna as his Secretary,
and desired me to take time & advice upon it--Some of my Friends advised
me to accept, & some others as strenuously against it; but in some
few days I went over to Bath--with my frd Ed Hackel, & accepted of
it.
Comes to Pennsylvania In 8or 1699,
being then at Sea, in our voyage hither--I was 25 ys. of age--The Proprietor
continued here 2 years wanting about 5 weeks, and left me in more offices
that I was fit to undertake & got thro'. But had I left his whole business--at
the time of his departure, I might--considering my singular good fortune--or
the kind Providence that has ever attended me--for which I can never be
sufficiently grateful, I might I say with great ease have doubled my present
fortune--& equaled what the Propts son Thos charged me with having--according
to an information he had recd viz:--ú60,000 but I am fully content with
what I have tho' not half so much--The old Proprietor was willing to give
me what I would ask, for my ten years service, & considering his melancholy
circumstances in 1711 I set it at ú100 a year curcy for all manner of services
whatsoever, But told him I would stay in his service no more than 2 years--But
he was seized with an apoplectic fit in less than 1 year which tied me
down to his business, vastly it proved to my loss--as my Letters designed
at first for our Proprietor Thos Penn fully demonstrate--2
Public Life Penn brought Logan to Pennsylvania on his second coming, in the Canterbury, in 1699, and immediately plunged him into the affairs of the
1 William Penn wrote to James Logan from London, 4 Mo. 21, 1702: "Of thy Family.--Thou hast heard of the death of thy father and marriage
of thy mother with one not a Friend; an exercise W. Ed [William Edmundson] &c told me so at our Yearly Meeting."--Penn and Logan Correspondence,
I., 117.
2 From a copy (No. 108) in the Smith MSS., Vol. 1, 1678-1743 (F. 7287 1/2), Ridgeway Branch, Philadelphia Library Company.
The remainder of this text is a discussion of James Logan's role in
Penna
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