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Note: Aynhoe Parish, King's Sutton Hundred, Northamptonshire, England occupies an elevated site and is bounded on the north by King's Sutton and Newbottle; on the east by Croughton; and on the other points by Oxfordshire. It comprises 2255 acres, contains good quarries, and abounds in springs. From the time of William the conqueror the land was owned by the de Mandeville Family; then by Roger Fitz-Richard; then by Roger Fitz-Roger; also called John de Clarering who was succeeded in 1316 by his grandson, Ralph de Neville. Then the land was owned by the Arundel Family; and by Roland Shakerley. In 1615 and 1616 the land was purchased by Richard Cartwright, and much of the land still remains in the Cartwright Family, which still flourishes, though it has been necessary to sell some of the land to pay the high English taxes. The village of Aynhoe is pleasantly situated on an eminence about six miles west-south-west from Brackley and about the same distance southeast of Banbury. The original name is said to have been Avon-ho meaning well-head or fountain, deriving its name from a powerful spring called the town well which issues forth from below the rock upon which the village stands.
Richard and Margaret became members of the Society of Friends sometime during the period 1672-1676. The Quaker belief was heresy to the Church of England and to escape persecution, many families sought refuge in America.
Richard and his wife Margaret, with their children Richard, William, Thomas, Margaret and Mary, sailed from the Downs, England in the ship Amity April 23, 1682. They had a long and tedious voyage; Richard the father sickened and died and after his death, Joseph, the fifth son, was born mid-ocean. John, the eldest son, came to America two years previously and lived in a cave in Haines Bank, below Lumberton, NJ on the south bank of the Rancocas Creek. The family landed in Burlington, NJ in the fall of the year 1682.Aynhoe Parish, King's Sutton Hundred, Northamptonshire, England occupies an elevated site and is bounded on the north by King's Sutton and Newbottle; on the east by Croughton; and on the other points by Oxfordshire. It comprises 2255 acres, contains good quarries, and abounds in springs. From the time of William the conqueror the land was owned by the de Mandeville Family; then by Roger Fitz-Richard; then by Roger Fitz-Roger; also called John de Clarering who was succeeded in 1316 by his grandson, Ralph de Neville. Then the land was owned by the Arundel Family; and by Roland Shakerley. In 1615 and 1616 the land was purchased by Richard Cartwright, and much of the land still remains in the Cartwright Family, which still flourishes, though it has been necessary to sell some of the land to pay the high English taxes. The village of Aynhoe is pleasantly situated on an eminence about six miles west-south-west from Brackley and about the same distance southeast of Banbury. The original name is said to have been Avon-ho meaning well-head or fountain, deriving its name from a powerful spring called the town well which issues forth from below the rock upon which the village stands.
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