John Archdale (1642 - 1717)

Born 5 Mar 1642 in Buckinghamshire, England

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Died 4 Jul 1717 at age 75 in Binfield, Berkshire, England

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John Archdale is Notable.

John was a Friend (Quaker)

John Archdale was born in 1642 in Buckinghamshire, England. He was the son of Thomas Archdale, High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, and Mary Nevill.

John Archdale first travelled to America in 1664 when his brother-in-law Ferdinando Gorges, one of the heirs to the proprietorship of Maine, asked John to settle the government of Maine on a sure foundation under authority of his charter. John Archdale returned to England in 1665.^[1]

John Archdale appears to have married twice. His first wife Elizabeth died before 1673. They had at least one child. Their daughter Ann Archdale married Emmanuel Low in 1688 and the marriage certificate names Ann's parents as "John Archdale and Elizabeth his deceased wife".^[2]

John Archdale married Ann Dobson Cary, a widow, in 1673. Ann's son by her previous marriage, Thomas Cary, was later deputy governor of North Carolina and the leader of Cary's Rebellion.^[1] John and Ann had four children.

John Archdale became a Quaker after 1674 and was a member of the Upperside Monthly Meeting, Buckinghamshire. He was mentioned in the Minute Book of the Monthly Meeting of Upperside in 1681-2 and 1688 and also witnessed marriages around those dates.^[3]

John Archdale purchased a proprietorship in Carolina. In 1681 he appointed Daniel Akehurst to the North Carolina council as proprietor's deputy.^[4] In 1683 he arrived in Carolina as collector of quitrents. He was acting governor when Seth Sothel was out of the colony. He returned to England by 1686.^[1]

In July 1694, Thomas Smith, governor of the southern part of Carolina, requested that the proprietors send out a new governor with full powers to deal with the unrest and dissension among the colonists. The proprietors commissioned Archdale governor of both halves of Carolina, and he made a tour of the English colonies on his way to assume the government of the proprietary. He landed in Maine early in 1695 and traveled south, visiting every colony en route to Charleston, which he reached in August 1695. In 1696 Archdale's son, Thomas, sold the Berkeley of Stratton share in the proprietary of Carolina to Joseph Blake, and Archdale returned to England.^[1]

John Archdale was elected a Member of Parliament (MP) for High Wycombe in 1698, though he was unable to take his seat, because it would have involved taking an oath, which was against Friends' principles.^[3]

John Archdale published the book "A New Description of the Fertile and Pleasant Province of Carolina, with a Brief Account of its Discovery, Settling, and Government, up to this Time, with several Remarkable Passages during My Time" (aka Descriptions of Carolina) in 1707.

John Archdale died in 1717 and was buried on 4 July 1717.^[5]

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1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, 6 volumes, edited by William S. Powell. University of North Carolina Press. John Archdale. Reproduced on NCPedia https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/archdale-john
2. ↑ "England Marriages, 1538–1973 ," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NJZ1-993 : 10 February 2018), Emmanuel Low and Ann Archdale, 12 Jul 1688; citing Chepping Wiccomb, Bucks, England, reference v 168 p 122, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 583,993. Image https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-8964-XZBP?i=188
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} "Minute Book of the Monthly Meeting of Upperside, Buckinghamshire 1669-1690". Available from the Buckinghamshire Record Society. http://www.bucksrecsoc.org.uk/BRS-VOLUMES/brs-vol-01.pdf
4. ↑ Southern Quakers and slavery: a study in institutional history. Weeks, Stephen Beauregard, 1865-1918. The Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/southernquakerss00week
5. ↑ History of Parliament. ARCHDALE, John (1642-1717), of Temple Wycombe, Bucks. http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1690-1715/member/archdale-john-1642-1717

See also:

• John Archdale & Anne Cary family. thePeerage.com. http://www.thepeerage.com/p26308.htm#i263078. Citing Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh. Burke's Irish Family Records. London, U.K.: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976.
• Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, 6 volumes, edited by William S. Powell. University of North Carolina Press. John Archdale. Reproduced on NCPedia https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/archdale-john
• John Archdale, Governor: 1683-1686; 1694-1696 by Dennis F. Daniels. https://www.ncpedia.org/archdale-john
• The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1690-1715, ed. D. Hayton, E. Cruickshanks, S. Handley, 2002. ARCHDALE, John (1642-1717), of Temple Wycombe, Bucks. http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1690-1715/member/archdale-john-1642-1717
• Wikipedia contributors, "John Archdale," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Archdale (accessed October 25, 2019).
• Wikidata: Item Q6219302, en:Wikipedia