Background
John Fenwick, son of Sir William Fenwick, was described as of Bynfield, Berkshire, England.
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John Fenwick, son of Sir William Fenwick, was described as of Bynfield, Berkshire, England.
In 1640 he was a law student at Gray’s Inn, London; but soon afterward was an officer in Cromwell’s horse.
Fighting manfully for the Puritan cause, he was commissioned major (Johnson, “Memoir, ” p. 55). At the execution of Charles I, Major Fenwick, at the head of a squadron of cavalry, was present to preserve order. Originally an Independent in religion, the Cromwellian trooper later joined the Society of Friends.
It was to him, in trust for the Quaker merchant, Edward Byllinge, that, in March 1673/74, Lord John Berkeley made over his half of New Jersey. By arrangement with Sir George Carteret, partner of Berkeley, New Jersey was divided geographically, and the Friends secured the portion lying along the Delaware, henceforth known as West New Jersey.
At Salem he planted, in June 1675, the first Quaker settlement on the Delaware. Styling himself “Chief Proprietor, ” he planned an elaborate development.
Meanwhile another antagonist had arisen in Sir Edmund Andros, governor of New York, who had ordered Fenwick to desist from exercising authority at Salem.
The ex-Cromwellian resisted with spirit and was twice imprisoned by Andros. On one occasion when summoned by the Governor’s lieutenant, he bolted himself in his house and refused to go “without he was carried away either dead or alive, and if anyone dare to come to take him it was at their peril, and he would do their business” (New Jersey Archives, I, 190).
In spite of this un-Quakerlike defiance, he was compelled temporarily to submit. In 1680, however, James, Duke of York, surrendered his claims over West Jersey. In Fenwick’s will William Penn was named guardian of his three favorite grandsons.
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He was one of the group with whom originated the idea of a Quaker colony in America.
Though a Friend by conviction, it would seem that the spirit of “the World’s People” was not entirely dead in the ex-major for he became involved in contentions with other Friends interested in West Jersey. A misunderstanding with Byllinge was arbitrated by William Penn who, to the chagrin of Fenwick, adjudged one-tenth of the province to him and nine-tenths to Byllinge. A more serious quarrel resulted from the conduct of John Eldridge and Edmund Warner, Friends who had loaned Fenwick money for his colony. Them he accused of trying to defraud him of his rights as proprietor.
Fenwick was twice married. Thither Fenwick sailed in the ship Griffin with a party which included his three daughters, Elizabeth, Anna, and Priscilla, two sons-in-law, and five grandchildren.
His first wife, mother of his daughters, was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Walter Covert.
His second wife, Mary Burdett, did not accompany him to America.