Grimshaw, Early Immigrants to New York City from Yorkshire
(Note: Webpage in preparation)
Isaac Grimshaw was born in about 1772 in England. He and Hannah Worrall were married in 1794 in Bradfield, Yorkshire, and immigrated to the U.S., arriving in Philadelphia on the ship Sally on March 22, 1805. By 1807 they were living in New York City, where Isaac was a school teacher for several years. Isaac appeared in local newspapers as a point of contact for a clothes-washing machine invention and for the sale of land tracts in 1807 and 1816, respectively. The 1810 U.S. Census found five men and two women living in Isaac Grimshaw's household.
Isaac was listed in the newspaper in 1817 as an "insolvent", and a subsequent notice indicated he had been in jail for at least 60 days and asked for anyone to show cause why, by March 6, his estate should not be "assigned" due to insolvency. Apparently the family left New York and moved westward in about that same year.
Isaac and Hannah (Worrall) Grimshaw by Philip Brown
Record of Marriage in Bradfield, Yorkshire
Grimshaw Immigration Records of Isaac Grimshaw Entry into the U.S.
Images of Isaac Grimshaw Entries in the 1810 U.S. Census
New York Newspaper Records of Isaac Grimshaw, 1807 to 1817
 | Webpage Credits |
Thanks go to Philip Brown for posting a very useful message on Isaac and Hannah (Worrall) Grimshaw.
| Isaac and Hannah (Worrall) Grimshaw by Philip Brown |
From Grimshaw Immigrant Indications
Philip Brown posted the following message on the Grimshaw Family Genealogy Forum in May 1998:
Isaac GRIMSHAW:1770-;WRY,YKS,ENG>NYC, USA
Isaac Grimshaw was born about 1770 in England and married about 1794 in the West Riding of Yorkshire to Hannah WORRALL. Hannah was born 1774 at Ughill, WRY, YKS, ENG to Henry WORRALL and Sarah BURDEKIN.
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Isaac and Hannah Grimshaw had at least one child: Thomas Burdekin GRIMSHAW about 1795. The family immigrated to New York City, NY about 1805, where Isaac was a school teacher for some years.
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Family memories say that they moved West about 1817, and here we have lost their trace.
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I have lots to share on the Worrall side of this line and would like to find descendants to pass on this information.
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Please click on my name to get my e-dress and let's share some stories.
| Record of Marriage in Bradfield, Yorkshire |
The following record of Isaac and Hannah Grimshaw's marriage was found on FamilySearch.
| Grimshaw Immigration Records of Isaac Grimshaw Entry into the U.S. |
Isaac and Hannah Grimshaw apparently immigrated through the Philadelphia port
in 1805, but settled in New York City. The evidence for this can be found on the
companion webpage on Grimshaw Immigrations;
the two records are reproduced (with minor modifications) below:
Tepper, Michael, general editor, and Elizabeth P. Bentley, transcriber, 1986
Isaac was recorded in Tepper and Bentley1 as arriving at the Port of Philadelphia based on lists of baggage kept by the Port. The record indicates that Isaac arrived on the ship "Sally" on March 22, 1805 (Tepper, 1986, p. 278):
GRIMSHAW, Isaac Sally 22 Mar 1805
The authors make several observations on the Philadelphia baggage list records, their origin, and their uniqueness (Tepper, 1986, p. vii-xiv):
Until the year 1820 federal records of immigration were virtually non-existent, with the curious exception of the "baggage lists" which were maintained by officials of the port of Philadelphia from 1800 to 1820. A small number of records developed at other levels of government or outside of public authority are known to exist for portions of the 1800-1820 period…. Of all the known records of immigration for this period, however, only the Philadelphia baggage lists exist in any significant quantity or make any claim to continuity.
Although they are sometimes confused with Customs Passenger Lists (lists of passengers kept at various ports of entry after 1820 as a result of legislation approved in March 1819 regulating conditions on passenger vessels), baggage lists are an entirely different type of passenger record, owing their origin in fact to an earlier and rather unlikely piece of legislation, the Act to Regulate the Collection of Duties on Imports and Tonnage, approved 2 March 1799….
Unlike Customs Passenger lists, which are an outgrowth of legislation framed for the purpose of placing controls on immigration, baggage lists originated from an act that had no bearing on immigration other than the benign intention to exempt in-coming passengers from paying duty on their personal belongings. Section 23, the comparatively obscure but key section of the act of 2 March 1799, instructed ships’ captains to draw up cargo manifests with the names of passengers carrying baggage, directing them to
have on board a manifest, or manifests, in writing, signed by such master or other person…together with the name or names of the several passengers on board the said ship or vessel, distinguishing whether cabin or steerage passengers, or both, with their baggage, specifying the number and description of packages belonging to each respectively.
Having briefly considered the statutory basis for the creation of the baggage lists, it must now be confessed that Philadelphia was virtually alone in complying with the law, for with the exception of a small number of baggage lists found among the records of the New Orleans customs district – spotty lists for 1813 and 1815 – and the district of Alexandria, Virginia (more haphazard even than New Orleans), no other port of entry on the Atlantic or the Gulf appears to have maintained the specific type of records called for in section 23 of the lengthy and complex act of 2 March 1799. Nor was Philadelphia’s compliance with the law random or equivocal, judging by the fact that port officials collected baggage lists from as many as twenty ships in the somewhat early period of October to December 1799, and thereafter collected lists from an average of 238 ships per year for the twenty years from January 1800 to December 1819….
Whatever the reasons for their existence, the Philadelphia baggage lists are not only unique but also very singular in character… Typically no more than a handful of passengers are named in each list, although longer lists of fifteen or twenty passengers are found, and there are even a few manifests containing as many as two hundred names. Nevertheless, with approximately 40,000 passengers recorded in the 4,767 ship lists for the twenty years from 1800 through 1819, an average of between eight and nine passengers per list gives perhaps a better idea of their range….
Another entry on the same companion webpage on "Grimshaw Immigrations" is as follows.
16. Isaac Grimshaw, 1812, New YorkScott, Kenneth, compiler, 1979
According to Scott2 (p. 123), Isaac Grimshaw registered as a British alien during the War of 1812. His entry appears as follows:
Grimshaw, Isaac, age 40, 7 years in U.S., wife & 2 children, NYC, teacher, applied 3 or 4 years ago (28 Sept. – 3 Oct. 1812); 5 ft. 9 in., age 41, brown complex., dark hair, grey eyes, White St., teacher (Navy)
This record indicates that Isaac entered the U.S. in about 1805. He was married, had two children, and lived on White Street in New York City. He was 41 years old and worked as a school teacher. The term "Navy" indicates that his record was taken in New York City by the U.S. Navy.
| Images of Isaac Grimshaw Entries in the 1810 U.S. Census |
The 1810 U.S. Census found Isaac and his family living in New York Township of New York County, New York. The image is shown below, with the number of male and female members of the household. The age categories for males and females are as follows: less than 10 years old, 10 to 15, 16 to 25, 26 to 44, and 45 or older. Two additional columns are for "All Other Free Persons" and "Slaves".
The following images show that there were five males living in Isaac Grimshaw's household, two between 26 and 44 (one of them probably Isaac, who would have been about 38), two between 10 and 16 and one less than 10 years old in the household. There were also two females, one between 26 and 44 and the other less than 10 years old.
Description of the 1810 U.S. Census
The following description of the census is provided on the Ancestry.com website.
Description
This database details those persons enumerated in the 1810 United States Federal Census, the Third Census of the United States. In addition, the names of those listed on the population schedule are linked to the actual images of the 1810 Federal Census, copied from the National Archives and Records Administration microfilm, M252, 71 rolls. (If you do not initially find the name on the page that you are linked to, try a few pages forward or backward, as sometimes different pages had the same page number.)
Enumerators of the 1810 census were asked to include the following categories in the census: name of head of household, number of free white males and females in age categories: 0 to 10, 10 to 16, 16 to 26, 26 to 45, 45 and older; number of other free persons except Indians not taxed; number of slaves; and town or district and county of residence. The categories allowed Congress to determine persons residing in the United States for collection of taxes and the appropriation of seats in the House of Representatives. Most entries are arranged in the order of visitation, but some have been rearranged to appear in alphabetical order by initial letter of the surname. Manufacturing schedules are scattered among the 1810 population schedules. This database is certain to prove useful for those seeking early American ancestors.
Additional Information
The United States was the first country to call for a regularly held census. The Constitution required that a census of all "Persons...excluding Indians not taxed" be performed to determine the collection of taxes and the appropriation of seats in the House of Representatives. The first nine censuses from 1790-1870 were organized under the United States Federal Court system. Each district was assigned a U.S. marshal who hired other marshals to administer the census. Governors were responsible for enumeration in territories.
The official enumeration day of the 1810 census was 6 August 1810. All questions asked were supposed to refer to that date. The enumeration was to be completed within nine months, but the due date was extended by law to ten months. Schedules exist for 17 states and District of Columbia, Georgia territory, Mississippi territory, Louisiana territory, Orleans, Michigan territory, and Illinois territory. There was, however, a district wide loss for District of Columbia, Georgia, Indiana Territory, Mississippi Territory, Louisiana Territory (MO), New Jersey and Tennessee. Partial losses included Illinois Territory, which had only two counties (Randolph is extant, St. Clair is lost.), and OH, all lost except Washington County. Some of the schedules for these states have been re-created using tax lists and other records.
Taken from Chapter 5: Research in Census Records, The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy by Loretto Dennis Szucs; edited by Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking (Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry Incorporated, 1997).
William Dollarhide, The Census Book: A Genealogist's Guide to Federal Census Facts, Schedules and Indexes, Heritage Quest: Bountiful, UT, 2000.
Source Information:
Jackson, Ronald V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp. 1810 United States Federal Census. [database on-line] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 1999-. Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the 1810 U.S. Federal Decennial Census.1810 United States Federal Census. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001. Data imaged from National Archives and Records Administration. 1810 Federal Population Census. M252, 71 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration.
| New York Newspaper Records of Isaac Grimshaw, 1807 to 1817 |
Source: HeritageQuest.com
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Headline: List of Insolvents
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| Isaac Grimshaw, Author of "Tables and Explanations3" |
Posted: December 28, 2005 10:37 am
Hannah Worrall was the sister of Henry Worrall of Ughill and New York. She married Isaac Grimshaw in 1794 at Bradfield. They emigrated to the USA in 1805 staying first at New York, then moving for a short time to Philadelphia, before returning to New York around 1812. They were still there in 1820. In the USA, Isaac Grimshaw became a teacher. They clearly stayed in touch with Henry Worrall, but apart from that we knew little about what they did in the USA.
The following just turned up in the records of Cambridge University Library (UK), and I am told that a copy is also in the University of Connecticut at Storrs:
Book
"Tables and Explanations necessary to be got by Heart by every Pupil studying Arithmetic" written by Isaac Grimshaw, New York, 1815.
Publishing History
1815 New York Richard Scott
1825 Windsor VT S. Ide
1836 Claremont NH Claremont Manufacturing Company
1849 Claremont NH Claremont Manufacturing Company
The 1849 edition apparently had 24 pages.
So Isaac Grimshaw must have been a teacher of mathematics in New York.
Cambridge University would not let me see their copy! I wonder what else Isaac Grimshaw might have published.
Nigel
Source: http://pse2help.15.forumer.com/index.php?showtopic=36
Source: http://pse2help.15.forumer.com/index.php?showtopic=36, with primary source indicated as: http://www.liveauctioneers.com
| References |
1Tepper, Michael, general editor, and Elizabeth P. Bentley, transcriber, 1986, Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Philadelphia, 1800-1819: Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Publishing Co., 913 p. [Filby No. 6466.4], p. 278
2Scott, Kenneth, compiler, 1979, British Aliens in the United States During the War of 1812: Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Publishing Co., 423 p. [Filby No. 8195], p. 123
3Grimshaw, Isaac, 1815, Tables and Explanations - Necessary to Be Got by Heart by Every Pupil Studying Arithmetic: New York, Richard Scott, ca 23 p.
Webpage posted April 2005. Upgraded August 2006 with addition of newspaper images and explanatory text. Upgraded November 2007 with addition of "Tables and Explanations" section.
