Different Departure Info

Bristol

Different records indicate that Bristol is where the two month (or four month) trip to America originated for the Yarnall brothers. One source indicates a departure of the Bristol Comfort from Bristol on July 25th. A second source indicates May 26th (see red arrow below). Pause your cursor on the red arrow below. First Source A quote from page 84 of the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, 1650-1900s, Volume XXIV, about Pennsylvania's 1683 ship arrivals and some of their passengers. "The second ship to enter Delaware Bay the end of September was the Bristol Comfort, a Dutch-built but English-owned vessel of 200 tons. The previous April she had arrived at Bristol in old England from Virginia laden with tobacco from that place. On 25 Ju1y, a month after the last goods for Pennsylvania had been loaded, she set sail again from the "Kingroad" the King's Roadstead - at Bristol, arriving in the Delaware on 28 7m (September 28th) 1683, and at Upland 1 8m (October 1st) following." NOTE: 7m was September rather than 9m and 8m was October rather than 10m. Before the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, most countries used the Julian calendar and celebrated the new year on March 25. The Gregorian calendar established by Pope Gregory in 1582 changed this date to January 1. Quakers and genealogists continued to use the Julian calendar for years as they resisted the Pope's calendar edict.. Second source:

The map below shows where King Road is. It is near where the Avon River flows into the Severn River about 5 miles from the city of Bristol. The Yarnall boys could have walked the banks of the Severn or taken a canoe from Claines down the Severn to get to the area called King Road. I do not know how they traveled about 60 miles to reach the King Road area of the Severn. As the waterway widens it is called the Bridgewater Bay and the Bristol Channel leading to the Atlantic Ocean.

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