William Moberley

• General Notes
  • "The first Moberley (now spelled Mobley) in America was William. He came direct from England with William Penn. He was descended from a baronet, Sir Edward Moberley in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. This Edward Moberley had three sons, one succeeded to the title and Estate and became Sir Edward Moberley. One son went into the Church and became a bishop, the third, William, bought a commission in the English Army. He went to India, amassed a fortune, returned and bought an estate near Sheffield. His son Edward purchased a large estate in Cheshire and was a country gentleman. William Mobley and a friend, Adam Varadore, disobeyed William's father (Edward) over planting some apple trees which resu;ted in a whipping of both boys, which caused the boys to run away from home. They boarded a ship owned by William Penn, the founder of the colony Pennsylvania. On board the ship, was beautiful Phoebe Lovejoy a Quakeress, and to her goes the credit of this much repeated statement, "The Mobleys have Quaker blood in their veins." On board ship, William and Phoebe fell in love, but kept it a secret. Upon reaching America they were married without the knowledge of Penn. Fearing his displeasure, not to speak of his anger against the young Moberley, they fled to the Indians and concealed themselves among them. This was not strange for the Indians behaved toward Penn and his people in the spirit of their Chirf's address to the colonists, "We will live in love with Penn and his children as long as the moon and the sun will shine." That promise was never broken. William was eighteen when he married. After two years in Pennsylvania they moved to Maryland to a place called Point Tobacco. William and his wife settled down in Maryland and raised eight sons; it is not known if they had any daughters. After the death of Phoebe, William returned to England for s short time. He was so changed his father thought he was an imposter. By pointing out the orchard and the very spot he was whipped he convinced his father that he was indeed his long absent son. William returned to Maryland and died there. He was the first of the Mobley ancestors to be born in the Old World and return to its mother earth in the new." (Source: "Heritage History of Chester County, South Carolina.")
    

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Source/Citation Heritage History of Chester County, South Carolina

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