Isaac Grimshaw, Mathematical Tables

[Brasso]

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 cilantro 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

[RickB98310]

O yes...Isaac and his family are very interesting, eh?

Here's some of what's on the net:

"...12. Isaac Grimshaw, 1805, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Tepper, Michael, general editor, and Elizabeth P. Bentley, transcriber, 1986

The pattern of Grimshaw immigrations changed drastically starting with the next immigrant. After 1800, the immigrants came primarily through the ports of New York and Philadelphia, unlike the earlier ones who came principally to the "southern colonies."

Isaac is the first of three Grimshaws who are recorded in this reference 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 ..."

Source:

"...Grimshaw, Isaac.
Tables and explanations [microform] : necessary to be got by heart by every pupil studying arithmetic / by Isaac Grimshaw.
New-York : Richard Scott, 1815."

As indicated, the book is on microform.

Isaac in the 1810 Census:

"... Isaac Grimshaw of New York Township, New York County, New York

The following images show that there were five males, two between 26 and 44 (one of them probably Isaac), 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..."


An Isaac and others from the 1880 US Census:


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[RickB98310]

Well, here's a recent find about Isaac and Hannah's children...what was a speculation looks now to be true.

Maplewood Cemetery (Old Site), Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey