William Brinton John Beckingham Robert Pyle, Junr Robert Chalfan John Chalfan, Junr Jonathan Compton Magnus Simonson John Chalfan, Senr Thomas Codery Providence Scott Sawn Hollingsworth Joseph Gilpin Gyan Stevenson Samuel Painter, Senr Samuel Painter, Junr William Turner John Bennett

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Richard Webb John Weith Edmund Butcher Daniel Davies John ffred Thomas Chandler Swithin Chandler Joseph Robinson Sarah Green Henry Gunston Sam Scott, Junr free Men. John Harvey John House Total

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The taxables of 1753 were as follows : Edward Brinton, Esqr, John Chads, Wm Jones, Geo : Gilpin, JO Dilworth, Thomas Chandler, Isaac Harvey, Charles Turner, Wm Seal, Abram Darlington, John Jackson, John Bennit, Benja Way, Caleb Brinton, Amos Harvey, John Wilson, Daniel Guest, Samuel Painter, Robert Chamberlin, Jonathan Thatcher, Benjamin Ring, June, Jane Noset, Ralph Pyle, John Painter, William Smith, Thomas Gibson, John Chandler, Eliza Cathcart, Robert Hannum, Robert Chalfont, Robert Green, Benja. Ring, Isaac Smith, Robert Chalfont, Junr., James Brooks, Obadiah Bonsai!, Matthew Guy, Francis Simonson, John Shaw, William McMath, Andrew McCoy, John Chamberlin, Robert Mcfarson, Isaac Bullock, John Woodward, Neal Woodward. Inmates.—Joseph Dutton, Providence Scott, John Gibson, Edward Patridge, John Martin, John Newberry, William Baxter, Nathan Frame, Elias Neal, Peter Glancey, John Thatcher, Allen Cerson, Philip Philips, George Moor, Samuel Batten, Wm Richardson, James Durnal. Freemen.—John Plumer, Wm Warrick, Wm McMurry, Samuel Jennins, John Maxfield, John Henderson, John Bryan, Stephen Maddon, William White. LAND-OWNERS, 1774. Edward Brinton, Caleb Brinton, George Brinton, David Brinton, John Bennett, Obadiah Bonsell, Thomas Bullock, Win. Boid, Thomas Chandler, James Chandler, Robert Chandler, Abraham Darlington, Jr., Joseph Davis, Sr., Joseph Davis, Jr., Lydia Dilworth, Charles Dilworth, Joseph Dilworth, Robert Frame, Harry Gordon, Gideon Gilpin, Robert Green, Jane Gibbons, John Gordon, William Harvey, Amos House, Thomas Hannum, John Henderson, William Jones, Ben- jamin Miller, Robert McElhoe, William Mason, Robert Messer, John Nicklin, Samuel Painter, James Russell, Robert Rankin, Benjamin TOWNSHIPS AND BOROUGHS, ETC. - 163 Ring, Nathaniel Ring, James Smith, William Smith, Edward Simpson, Rachel Sail, James Stroud, John Thatcher, John Woodart, Rachel Warson, Nathan Yarnall, Elias Neals, Thomas Stroud, Thomas Jones, John Perry, James Dilworth, David Johnson, David May, Thomas McDaniel, Benjamin McDaniel, James Latimore, John McGlochlin, Robert Logan, James Newman, and Fras. Herberson. Lying immediately north of the Street road, and extending from Brandywine to the line of Westtown, was a tract of 1000 acres, laid out for William Cornthwet and Edward Atkinson, purchasers of 500 acres each from Penn, and who sold the same to John Cornwell and William Hudson, of Philadelphia. By a resurvey in 1701 there proved to be 1132 acres. John Davis, of Thornbury, purchased the eastern half of it in 1712, and by will dated March 3, 1719, divided it between three of his sons, Daniel, Abraham, and John, the first receiving 166 acres next the Street road, and the others 200 each. Of the remainder of the large tract, Samuel Painter purchased, in 1722, about 300 acres, much of which is still in the family name. John Collier obtained, about the same time, 245 acres north of Painter's, and Joseph Taylor, of Kennet, with an eye to a mill-seat, bought from Collier 26 acres at what is now Sager's mill. He devised it to his daughter, Sarah Jones, in 1744, and her husband and sons erected thereon grist- and saw-mills. Some of the Collier lands passed into the Carter family, and thence to the Forsythes. Abraham Davis, who owned 200 acres next the Westtown line, was succeeded by his eldest son, John, who in turn left one son, Amos. The latter, with Eleanor, his wife, conveyed the land to Joshua Sharpless, 4, 19, 1784. It was next divided between Joshua's sons, Benjamin and Isaac, the latter obtaining the farm late of his son Aaron, whose family still reside thereon. Benjamin left an only son, of the same name, who now holds his father's land, 120 acres, by bequest. His father built the barn in 1804, and the house in 1805, but the present owner, who began farming in 1856, has remodeled all the buildings, and made many improvements in accordance with this progressive age. A view of his residence is elsewhere given. Susanna Davis, a widow, lived alone in a log house on the site of the residence of the late Aaron Sharpless, and was murdered on the night of Jan. 3d, 1782. Joseph Dennis, of Vincent, offered a reward of ten pounds specie for the arrest of George Holt, an Englishman, who was accused of robbery and the murder, but it does not appear that he was caught. In 1688 a survey was made for Daniel Smith on 360 acres in Birmingham, which by resurvey proved to be 415 acres. It was sold by Sheriff Hoskins, April 25, 1702, to Richard Webb, to whom a patent was granted the same year. His widow, Elizabeth Webb, by deed of 10, 27, 1721, conveyed one acre thereof to William Brinton, of Birmingham, Joseph Taylor, of Kennet, Philip Taylor and Joseph Brinton, of Thornbury, John Bennett and Nicholas Fred, of Birmingham, trustees, for the use of the Society of Friends, and Birmingham meeting-house was built thereon. BRADFORD. Organized about 1705, Richard Buffington being constable for that year. He was succeeded by Robert Jefferis in 1706, and Abiah Taylor in 1707. In this, as in some other townships, the first settlers were not the first owners of the land, and the first surveys were made for persons who had purchased before leaving England, if indeed they ever came over. Prior to 1686 the surveyor's chain had probably not been stretched within its limits, and an unbroken wilderness existed where now may be seen some of the finest farms in the county ; even for several years after that date little was done towards reclaiming the forests and making the soil. produce food for civilized man. The Welsh tract had been laid out, and its western line afforded a base for further operations, as did also the surveys to the southward, in Birmingham. About the year 1686 surveys were made of nearly all the land south of the Strasburg road, but some of these were afterwards altered. It must be remembered that the Street road formed the southern limits of the township until within a few years. Commencing at this line, a tract of 1000 acres was laid out for Thomas Langhorn and company, extending from the Westtown line to Brandywine. Next, on the north, came Robert Whitton, 192 acres, and John Gardner, 244, both of whom sold to John Loftus, of Philadelphia. Adjoining the Goshen or Welsh line, a tract of 1500 acres was patented to Arthur Cook, of Philadelphia County. This extended from the Westtown line nearly as far as the north line of the borough of West Chester, the northwest corner being a few rods west of the old Black Horse tavern, and the southwest corner near Strode's mill. To the west of this, and north of Gardner's tract, three others were laid out parallel to the Welsh line, and with their northern end just crossing the east branch of the creek. That on the east side was for Samuel Noyes, of Wiltshire, about 250 acres ; 'the middle tract, 250 acres, for Thomas Martin, of Bedwin Magna, in Wiltshire, who came over in 1685 and settled in Middletown (now Delaware County). The third tract, 140 acres, was for John Martin, of Edgcott, in Berkshire, who also settled in Middletown. Another tract of 1000 acres for Langhorn and company included the greater part of the township lying west of the east branch of Brandywine. The company consisted of John Cornwell, 'William Hudson, Thomas Lang-horn, and Arthur Borradail, of whom the two latter settled in Bucks County, and the others in Philadelphia. The remainder of the land in the township was mostly surveyed in after-years as it was wanted for settlement, and some of that in the northern part, not being naturally of so good a quality, was left unimproved for a long time. Among the land-owners who became actual settlers Richard Buffington was probably the first. He was the ancestor of the numerous family of the name, and had settled at Upland (now Chester) before William Penn obtained a grant for Pennsylvania. In 1696 he purchased, in conjunction with William Vestal, 218 acres from the executors of John Loftus, and in 1701 they obtained the remainder of the Loftus tract, or 218 acres more, in two pieces ; and it appears they made a division by Vestal taking the last purchase. This land extended from the Brandywine, below the forks, nearly to Strode's mill. In 1708, Richard Buffington, purchased from Thomas Martin, of Middletown, 210 acres, extending northward from his 164 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. first purchase to the east branch of the creek ; and having sold 100 acres to Nathaniel Ring, he divided the remainder between his sons, Thomas and William, in 1721, reserving a life interest therein. In this division he gave each of his sons about equal frontage on both the main stream and branch, thus making two long, narrow, and irregular tracts. Between the large tract of Arthur Cook and that of Langhorn and company there was left a vacant piece, through which ran the Brandywine from the Strasburg road to Jefferis' Ford, and in 1702, Thomas Buffington obtained a warrant for 100 acres of this, " next his tract, whereon he is now seated, on Brandywine." In 1708 he purchased 54 acres adjoining of the Thomas Martin tract, and this, with that part of the 100 acres west of the creek, formed the greater part of the farm late of David Meconkey. Joseph Buffington was the first resident owner of 200 acres, in the forks of the creek, which he purchased in 1748, just after his father's death. A tract of 125 acres on the cast side of the creek, at the forks, now mostly included in the farm of George Little, was surveyed for Benjamin Mendenhall, of Concord, who made a partial conveyance thereof in 1699 to William Vestal. The latter settled thereon and built a house, but died soon after. His wife's name was Alice, and his children William, George, and a daughter, Sarah, who was drowned in a small pond of water in childhood, when they lived in Birmingham, 1696. The family continued to hold land in the township until 1729, after which they went South. Robert Jefferis, of Chichester, disposed of his land in that township in 1700, and the next year purchased from William Vestal 169 acres on Brandywine, the south line of which now forms a portion of the line between East Bradford and Birmingham. It is likely that he settled on the land in the same year, but at that time the township lines were not very well defined, nor had Bradford even received the name, and we find that in 1703 Robert Jefferis was appointed constable for Westtown, his next neighbor on the north, Richard Buffington, having held the office for three years previous. Tradition points to the residence of Charles Carter, on the road from Sager's mill to West Chester, as the site of Robert's dwelling. In 1712 he purchased the Noyes' tract of 256 acres, which now forms the principal part of the farms of John James, Paschall Hacker, and the late William Parker Foulke. In 1721 he purchased from William Buffington 189 acres, which connected the two former purchases. The Noyes' tract he conveyed to his sons, James and Robert, the Buffington tract to James and William, and the homestead to his son Benjamin ; so that he does not appear to have owned any land at the time of his death, which occurred about 1738. Abiah Taylor settled on the Brandywine in 1702, and built a mill on a branch of this stream which flowed by his dwelling, the site of which is still used for the same purpose. In 1724 he built a brick house on a mound by the run which empties into the Brandywine a little south of the Strasburg road. It has been frequently said that the bricks were brought from England, but this is not correct. They were made on the farm, from clay procured a short distance south of the house. The window sash were made of lead, and the lights were small. It is still standing, and is known throughout the neighborhood as " the old brick house." It can be readily seen from the Strasburg road as HOUSE BUILT BY ABIAH TAYLOR IN 1724. the traveler passes between the old Black Horse tavern and Cope's bridge over the Brandywine. It is on the creek road leading south from the Strasburg road. In its day it must have been considered one of the finest houses in the county. In 1706 he took up 200 acres on what has been called Taylor's Run, and this he gave to his daughter, Deborah Parke, and her children. Another tract of equal size he took up in 1715, and this passed to the family of his daughter, Alice Hoopes. This now forms the farms of Watson J. Ambler, Simeon Hoopes, and Benjamin Few. John Cope purchased, and in 1712 settled on, 200 acres of land on Taylor's Run, and next to the Goshen line. The valley through which this stream flows was named the " Vale of Avoca" by the late Dr. William Darlington. On the east side of the Brandywine, north of the Strasburg road, 500 acres were located in right of ten servants. A large part of it was purchased in 1761 by Abiah Taylor, grandson of the settler, and who built thereon in 1768 the substantial stone house now the residence of Robert L. Hayes. Edward Wanton, of Scituate, Mass., by deed of 5th month 9, 1700, became the owner of 800 acres, it being the northern part of the Cook tract. This was sold by his sons, Joseph, William, and John, Sept. 7, 1727, to Joseph Townsend, who became the first resident owner. In 1731, Henry Woodward married Mary Townsend, and to him her father had conveyed 200 acres at the northwest corner in 1730. Woodward built a stone house thereon in 1731, now the northern part of the residence of George B. Mellor, of which a view is elsewhere given. The land subsequently passed into the possession of Abel Boake and Joseph Peirce, who sold to Joseph Cope, whose son, of the same name, sold the western part of it to John Hannum, and he was succeeded by George B. Mellor. After the death of Joseph Cope on the remaining portion, in 1870, it also was purchased by John Hannum, who died thereon in 1871. The buildings were erected by Joseph Cope in 1849 and 1850, and a view of them is elsewhere given. Another portion of the Townsend tract, after remaining for two or three generations in the family, became, with some additions on the north, the property of Cheyney Jef- TOWNSHIPS AND BOROUGHS, ETC. - 165 feris in 1794. After his death it was purchased, in 1837, by John James, his son-in-law, and became the residence, and later the property, of his son, Edward James, to whom it still belongs. The buildings have been renewed by the present owner, who now lives adjoining West Chester. A view of the homestead will be found elsewhere. Nathaniel Ring, in 1710, bought 386 acres of the Cook tract, now forming the greater part of the farms of Edwin James, Torbert Ingram, Richard Strode, and the late Emmor Davis and Philip Paxson. Richard Woodward bought another part of the Cook tract east of Nathaniel Ring, and settled thereon. Between the two branches of Brandywine a large tract, called 1000 acres, was laid out for Thomas Langhorne and Arthur Borrodail. The western half was subsequently patented to Thomas Buffington in 1709, and the eastern half to John Borrodail, son of Arthur, in 1702. The latter sold to Thomas Worth, of Darby, who devised the land to three daughters of his son John, deceased, and they conveyed 150 acres at the south end to James Jefferis, who lived at the place now owned by Edward Holley. The remaining 350 acres they sold to their uncle, Thomas Worth, in 1738, and he settled upon it the next year, being the first resident owner. A large part of the Buffington tract above mentioned passed into the Carter family, and was held by them for many years, but it is now owned by the Worth family. Another 1000-acre tract, lying immediately north of the last, was surveyed for Daniel Smith, of Marlborough, England, and sold by Thomas Chalkley, agent for John Smith, a grandson, to Richard Woodward, of Thornbury, in 1724. This Richard was designated as of the " Forks," to distinguish him from the Richard on the east side of the creek. The first assessment to be found is that of 1715, viz. : BRADFORD RATE.

Richard Woodward George Stroud Richd Buffington William Vestall John Buffington William Buffington Obidiah (Abiah) Taylor William Baldwin Abel Whitaker Richd Buffington. Peter Colins William Marshall John Cope Thomas Buffington Edward Clayton Thomas Arnold. George Carter

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Robert Jeferes Abram Marshall ffree Men John Stroud Richard Moore John Buttler William Clark Non-resident Land Daniel Smith William Wonton John Corwell Jacob Taylor Total

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At a court held Nov. 30, 1731, a petition was presented, signed by George Strode, Joseph Townsend, James Jefferis, Abiah Taylor, Samuel Scott, Richard Buffington, Henry Woodward, James Tull, Isaac Vernon, Abraham Marshall, and fourteen others, asking for the division of the township and the defining of the boundaries according to a draught thereto annexed, whereupon, "It's Ordered that the sd Township of Bradford shall be divided into two Townships and the Eastern part thereof called East Bradford, shall be bounded as followeth, viz.: Beginning at the southwest corner of the land late of Richard Collett [Westtown], thence running by the same to the Welsh line, and by the said line to the northwest corner of a tract of land surveyed for John Smith, and from thence by a west line to the north branch of Brandywine creek, then down the same to the land late of Daniel Smith and Isaac Taylor ; thence along a line between the lands late of the said Daniel and Isaac to the northeast corner of Thomas Worth's land; thence akin a line between the land of the said Daniel Smith, Thomas Worth, and the land late of George Carter, to the northwest corner of the said Carter's land ; thence down the line between the land of the said George Carter, Thomas Buffington and William Rees, and the land of Abraham Marshall and William Marshall, to a corner of Isaac Norris' land ; then along a line between the land of the said Isaac Norris and William Marshall to the west branch of Brandywine creek; thence down the same to the fork of the said creek ; then down the main creek to the southwest corner of Samuel Painter's land; then along a line between the land of the said Painter and the land of Daniel Davis and James Townsend to the beginning. "And it is also ordered that the Western division of the sd Township of Bradford shall be bounded as is hereinafter mentioned, viz.: Begining at the southeast corner of the Society Tract, thence by the line of the same to the northern corner of the sd Tract, then by a Line to the south west corner of John Packer's Land and by the sd Packer's Land to the South East corner thereof and from thence East to the north Branch of Brandywine Creek and then by the Eastern division of the 5d Township of Bradford to the Township of Kennett and by the sd Kennett Township and the Line of the sd Society Tract to the place of Begining." Feb. 26, 1739-40, a petition was presented from a number of persons living on " a strip of land lying between the townships of Caln, Bradford, Goshen, and Whiteland," complaining that they suffered for want of the opening and repair of roads in their vicinity, which the neighboring supervisors refused to attend to. These persons were Thomas Prise, George Jefferis, Jacob Roile, John Bradley, John Lard, George Reger, John Beale, Robert Cole, Isaac Few, Richard Woodward, Joseph Bourgoin, Charles Wollerton, Boltis Miller, and Gusten Gorman. Jacob Vernon presented a petition of the same import respecting a piece of road between East Caln and West Bradford, and asking that the vacant land may be added to adjacent townships, or made into a township of itself. Twenty-four citizens of West Bradford remonstrated against any addition to their township, Feb. 24, 1740-1, claiming that it was definitely bounded before Cain or Fallowfield, but suggesting that the vacant land was sufficient to form another township. It was, however, subsequently ordered by the court "That all the vacant land lying to the east of the north branch of the Brandywine Creek, and between the townships of Caln, Goshen, and Whiteland, shall be added to the township of East Bradford, and that the vacancy between Caln and West Bradford, including Edward Brinton's land, be added to West Bradford township." Among the needs of the early inhabitants were bridges to cross the larger streams, especially at a time of high water caused by rains. Thus we read in the records of Bradford Meeting that in 1748 John Cope, who was expected to declare his intentions of marriage with Elizabeth Fisher before the meeting, did not appear, " which is thought to be occasioned by the great floods." The following document has been met with : "Whereas the Neighborhood as well as Travellers & Market people from some Distance, are under great Difficulty & sometimes danger for want of a Bridge upon the East Branch of Brandywine Creek, on the road Leading from Doerun by Joseph Martin's Tavern to Philadelphia, at the Ford Called Taylor's ford in East Bradford, Chester county, " Therefore, this is proposed as an Essay with Respect to it, to see what Encouragement can be had by way of Subscription where all persons who are Desirous or willing to promote ye Building a Bridge 166 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. at ye s'd place may subscribe according to their Good pleasure herein. It is Intended to have it made sufficiently strong and Planked over for men & horses to pass, &c., and Abiah Taylor & Nathan Coope are appointed to undertake ye work & have ye oversight of the same, and get ye Logs and other Timber Necessary prepared against Next Summer to have it Raised, and all persons that subscribes anything toward s'd Bridge, such of them that Chuse to pay their subscriptions in work at it, shall be allowed to work out the same at such work as they are capable of, they attending upon ye work when Requiset." The subscribers' names to this paper were William Reed, William Woodward, Jr., Francis Townsend, Thomas Jefferis, Benjamin Townsend, Ebenezer Worth, Stephen Harlan, William Johnson, John Buffington, William Stringfellow, James Woodward, James Bane, Joshua Webb, Thomas Hoopes, David Hoopes, Nathan Hoopes, Thomas Hoopes, Jr., Thomas Worth, James Kenney, Abiah Taylor, Samuel Coope, Joseph Parke, Joshua Hoopes, Nathan Coope, Evan Jones, John Townsend, Joseph Coope, Abraham Taylor, Jonathan Parke, Deborah Parke, Alexander Foreman, Charles Ryan, John Hoopes, George Simcock, Joseph Hawley, Abram Pyle, Thomas Stephens, Robert Nilson, Joseph Martin, Joseph Thornbury, William Cullipher, Thomas Johnson, James Masters, Nathan Jefferis, Abiah Parke, John Lawrence, Joseph Woodward, and John Coope. Francis Townsend, having a saw-mill, subscribed one hundred feet of plank, while all the rest gave money. All who are familliar with the locality will recognize the crossing as that occupied by the stone bridge at Edge T. Cope's. The above paper was not dated, but is supposed to have been written in 1767. Another paper, in the writing of Nathan Cope, gives an account of " work done at the Bridge," thus :                                                                   £ s. d. " To 3 Day's Drawing Logs a 15s. P Day -2 5 0 To 14i Days Carting a 10s. 11 Day - 7 5 0 To 6 Days Work a 3d. 19, Day - 0 18 0 To Dieting workmen at 4d. P Meal - 2 6 2 Total 12 14 2" Another paper, without date, gives the proposed dimensions of a bridge, doubtless the same, showing that there were to be two abutments, twenty-three feet wide at top, with four piers, making five spaces, to be covered with fifteen sleepers on each span, and white-oak plank three inches thick, etc. The present structure was built in 1807. A portion of the guard-wall containing the date-stone subsequently fell into the creek, and the stone being somewhat damaged, a new one was put in its place. One of the Parke family carried it home, and it lay for a long time at the foot of the door-steps. Anthony Taylor, who purchased the Parke farm and built an addition to the house, placed the stone in the gable-wall, where it now may be seen. On the west side of the Brandywine, a short distance below Cope's bridge, a large mass of rocks rises almost perpendicularly from the edge of the stream to the height of sixty or seventy feet, which have long been known as " Deborah's rocks." There is a legend connected with these rocks, the substance of which is that in the early days of the province, while the aborigines still largely possessed the land, an Indian maiden, in despair because her pale-faced lover, to whom she was devotedly attached, had deserted her, threw herself from the cliff into the stream and was drowned. Some years since this legend was taken up by one of our citizens and woven into a tale of deep and thrilling interest. It passed the rounds of the newspapers, and became fixed in the popular mind as a veritable narra- tive of actual occurrences. It is scarcely necessary to say to the intelligent reader that the story is without foundation, so far as is known to history. The name was given in honor of Deborah Taylor, whose husband, Samuel Taylor, in early times had owned the lands on which they are situated, and had devised to her a life estate therein ; and instead of these rocks receiving their name from the heroic sacrifice of a fair Indian maiden, it was really conferred upon them from the circumstance of their being included in Deborah Taylor's life estate. Bradford was probably named from Bradford, in Yorkshire, or the town of the same name on the Avon, in Wiltshire, England. East Bradford was reduced in size in 1856 by the cutting off of a portion of its southern end and attaching it to Birmingham, as mentioned in the notice of the latter township, and a portion of West Bradford was taken in the formation of the township of Pocopson in 1849. The line between East Bradford and West Bradford was changed somewhat in 1857, so as to make the Brandywine the line at or near Sugar's bridge, adding land of John Pollock to East Bradford. EAST BRADFORD TAXABLES, 1753. Thos Worth, Esqr, Eliza. Jefferies, George Carter, Evan Jones, Joseph Buffington, James Smith, Wm Bennit, Samuel Grubb, Francis Linfield, Robert Jefferies, Wm Jefferies, John Jones, John Carter, Samuel Painter, Daniel Davis, John Davis, Junr, Abram Davis, John Davis, Senr, John Davis, son of John, John Darlington, Thos Darlington, George Entrikin, George Stroud, Theophilus Canby, Wm Stroud, Jab Jefferies, Richd Woodward, Saml Taylor, Henry Woodward, Abel Boaks, Jacob Sharpless, John Townsend, Joseph Townsend, Sam' Cope, John Cope, Thos Jefferies, Wm Quaintance, Joseph Wray, John Newlin, Anthony Dougherty, Charles Woolerton, Joseph Burgoine, John Gray, Thus Price, Jacob Riley, Benj. Hawley,. George Regoe, George Jefferies, Isaac Few, Isaac Lowe, Richd Clark, Wm Atherton, Nathan Hoopes, Edward Seeds, Jos Pierce, John Broomer. Inmates.—Thomas Jefferies, John McCarty, John Stroud, John Wyor, Wm Stringfellow, Sam' Beaton, Thos Bailey, Robert Johnson, Richard Archer, John Fox. Freemen.—George Archer, Thos Hayes, Robert Porter, David Fling, Sam' Entrikin, Dan' Harry, George Miles, Bryan Miles, John Doyle, Henry Croff, Thos Lasley, James Cammel, John Ward, Solomon Hopkins, Nathl Jefferies. LAND-OWNERS, 1774. Abiah Taylor, Abrm. Taylor, Abel Boake, Amos Davis, Abigail Fling, Benj. Hawley, Chas. Ryan, Daniel Davis, Deborah Taylor, Emmor Jefferis, Enoch Gray, Geo. Cart' r, Geo. Dunavan, Geo. Entriken, Henry Woodward, Hannah Carter, Joseph Rhoades, Jas. Jefferis, Jos. Cope, John Taylor, Jos. Buffington, Jos. Parke, John Ha nnum, Jos. Temple, John Jones, James Wolerton, Joseph Wolerton, Joshua Hoops, Jas. Starr, John Townsend, Isaac Chapman, John Darlington, Joseph Underwood, Jas. Painter, Joseph Downing, Jacob Talbot, Mary Grubb, Jas. Robinson, John Underwood, Nathan Cope, Nathan Hoops, Nathl. Jefferis, Richd. Jones, Richd. Strode, Richd. Jefferis, Saml. Painter, Saml. Cope, Susanah Davis, Sand. Entriken, Thos. Speakman, Thos. Worth, Thos. Hall, Thos. Carter, Wm. Messer, Saml. Osborn, Joseph Hawley, and George Strode. WEST BRADFORD TAXABLES, 1753. George Ligget, Thomas Ligget, William Clark, William Milliken, Robert Cole, John Buffinton, Richard Woodward, Richard Buffinton, Elixander Mullen, Robert Wilson, Susannah Thornbry, Joseph Martin, Joseph Few, John Mathews, George Martin, John Woodward, James Millison, Henry Hastings, John Young, Thomas Sheward, Joseph Taylor, Edward Cleaton, John Cleaton, Joshua Cleaton, TOWNSHIPS AND BOROUGHS, ETC. - 167 Isaac Marshall, Thos. Edmons, James Carny, Robert Thornton, Samuel Thornton, Humphry Marshall, Rachel Marshall, Samuel Sellers, Hannah Marshall, John Battin, Isaac Vernon, James Tremble, William Woodward, Thomas Arnold, Thomas Buffington, Samuel Worth, Thomas Thornbury, James Hill, William Buffington, Stephen Harlan, James Marshall, John Buffington, Nath'l Buffington. Inmates.—William Kirgan, Andrew Michael, Randal McAllister, John Wilson, James Ramsey, Joseph Armstrong, John Shaw, William Clayton, James Weldon, William Baldwin, Morgan Edwards. Freemen.—James Shearard, George Martin, John Martin, James Buffington, James Cambell, Hugh Johnson, John Whippo, Henry Hastings, George Powell, Michael Ogollion, David Fling, Thomas McManus. LAND-OWNERS, 1774. Sarah Arnold, Ralph Ackison, Richd. Baker, John Batton, John Buffington, Jas. Brown, Joel Bally, Robt. Buffington, Wm. Buffington, James Bane, John Bane, John Batton, Jr., Jas. Bruce, Jona, Buffington, Richd. Buffington, John Chalfant, Joshua Clayton, Wm. Clayton, John Clark, Wm. Cooper, Jas. Chalfant, John Clayton, Geo. Currey, John Dowdle, Robt. Eastburn, Valentine Emerick, Wm. England, Thos. Ellis, Latham Engram, Abrm. Ford, Jas. Galbraith, Thos. Green, Joseph Green, Geo. Grosse, Joseph Hawley, Stephen Harlan, John Jordan, Geo. Jacobs, Danl. Leonard, Walter Lilley, Mary Lewis, Geo. Martin, Humphry Marshal, James Marshal, Martin Miller, Isaac Marshall, Jas. McElhaney, Joseph Martin, John Marshal, Jas. Milleson, Samuel Marshal, Abraham Pile, James Ramsey, Saml. Sellers, Jr., Sawl. Sellers, Thos. Shuart, Jas. Trimble, Richd. Townsend, Jos. Thornbury, Caleb Martin, Saml. Worth, John Woodward, Jos. Woodward, Sarah Woodward, Wm. Woodward, Wm. Woodward (carpenter), Robt. Woodward, Robt. Wilson, Jas. Woodward, John Young, Archibald Young, John Young, Jr. EAST BRANDYWINE AND WEST BRANDYWINE. The township of Brandywine was erected from the northern part of East Caln township in 1790, and extended northward to the southern line of Springton Manor. It received its name from the stream by the two branches of which it was bounded respectively on its east and west sides. It was divided into East Brandywine and West Brandywine in 1844. In 1853 a small part of the southern end of West Brandywine was taken in the formation of Valley township, and in 1859 the line between East Brandywine and West Brandywine was altered in a part of its course so as to include in West Brandywine a part of East Brandywine. In 1860 West Brandywine was enlarged on the north by a. considerable addition to it from the southeast corner of Honey-brook and the western part of Wallace. This addition included the Presbyterian church commonly known as Brandywine Manor, which theretofore had been in Honey-brook. The name" Brandywine Manor" being borne in common parlance by this church, and there being also a post-office of the same name, has given the inipression that there was a manor of that name. This, however, was not the case. There never was a manor created by William Penn or his heirs bearing the name of Brandywine. The church above referred to is situated upon lands which formed part of the manor of Springton. This manor embraced the greater part of what is now Wallace township, and also a part of the present township of West Brandywine, and perhaps of other townships. The church above referred to has been ecclesiastically known from the earliest period of its history to the present time as the " Forks of Brandywine," and being located on manor-land, it became popularly known as the " Manor church," to which Brandywine, from the name of the church, would naturally be added. It is commonly spoken of, even at the present day, by those residing in the vicinage, as the " Manor church." On the north line of the two townships a survey was made in 1714, for George Claypoole, of 1820 acres. South of this William Branson, of Philadelphia, held 1275 acres. In 1799 the number of taxables was 193. CALN, EAST CALN, AND WEST CALN. Caln township originally included the territory now embraced in Caln, East Caln, West Cain, East Brandywine, West Brandywine, and a part of Valley township, and the borough of Downingtown, and that part of Coatesville lying east of the west branch of Brandywine. It was named from the town of Caine, in Wiltshire, England, whence some of the early settlers came. In 1702, and about that time, surveys were made, extending from the Welsh tract (the western line of Whiteland) on the east to the west branch of Brandywine on the west, mostly confined to the valley. These surveys were afterwards extended northward and northwesterly. Joseph Cloud, Richard Cloud, and George Mendenhall, all of Caln, were indicted for an assault on Joseph Hickman, in his house, in Caln, April 6,1709. In 1714, Peter Taylor was constable for Caln, which shows an organization at that date. The assessment of 1715 here follows :

Aaron Mendenhall Thomas Moore Peter Taylor William Cloud Isaac Vernon Joseph Cloud John Mendenhall William fflemin James Swaffer William Taylor Non-resident Land John Baldwin

£ s. d. 0 3 6 0 4 2 0 2 6 0 2 6 0 3 6 0 3 6 0 4 0 0 2 6 0 2 6 0 0 10 0 5 0

John Parker Daniel Smith Philip Roman Anthony Morris Richard Webb ffree Men John Richards Thomas Efford Total

£ s. d. 0 4 2 0 8 4 0 1 5 0 3 11 0 4 7 0 4 0 0 4 0 3 4 11

Nov. 26, 1728, a petition to the following effect was presented to the court : " That your Petitioners Labouring under many difficulties by reason of the Largeness of the said Township, which was never yet Bounded but on the East Side Joyning Whiteland Town : That the Said Town Extends in Length above fourteen miles, and in breadth near fourteen miles, That the farthest Setlers back from the Great Road leading to Philadelphia, living so Remote from the Said Road Seldom have notice to come down to repair it, which often wants by reason its, so abused and cut with the Dutch Waggons which daily pass and Repass along the Said Road. " Inasmuch as the Said Township is large Enough to be Devided into Two, your Petitioners Humbly desire for the Ease of the said Township that it may be Decided and that the Bounds of ye Township of Caln may begin at the line of Whiteland on the South Side of the said Town of Caln and so Extend from the Said line Westerly along the Valley Mountain to the West BranCaln Gf Brandywine Creek, then up the Said Branch Northerly to the plantation of Joseph Darlington, then Easterly Along the Mountain Between ye plantation of Thomas Elderidg and the Indian Town to David Roberts, then to the Bounds of Uwchland. "That the Remaining part of the Town being Large Enough for a Non-residents Humbly Desired by your Petitioners it may be called Spefforth.* Wherefore your Petitioners Humbly Desire that you will * Another name—perhaps " Caffrove"—was inserted in the petition, but afterwards crossed off, and Spofforth, or Spofforth, written in the margin. 168 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. take this into your Consideration and to allow the Said Township of Cain to be Devided and Bounded as is before set forth, and yr Petirs will pray, &c.

" William Heald. Samuel Bishop. John Daveson. William Sinkler. Will. Nichols. William Dural. Richard Hughs. Thomas Vernon. Arthur White. William Gregory Edmund Gregory Thomas Dawson. Edward Thompson Thomas Eldridge Peter Whitaker Thomas Parke

Pierre Bizallion. David Evans. Thomas Moore. Peter Whitaker. Robert Miller. Joseph Griffiths. Jason Cloud. Aaron Mendenhall. Llewelin Parry. Edward Irwin James Bruce. Thomas Heald. Joseph Darlinton. Samuel McKinley. Thomas Ramsey."

This petition is indorsed " allowed," but there is no further evidence of a township called Spefforth, in lieu of which West Caln appears. The bounds given are rather indefinite, and did not include a large tract of 1820 acres on the north, which was subsequently added. The inhabitants of East Cain petitioned for a determination of their boundaries,* May 29, 1739, whereupon,— " It is ordered that the said Township of East Caln shall be bounded and limitted as folio weth viz Beginning at a post being the South East Corner of the land late of John Baldwin thence west along the said Baldwins south line three hundred and forty-nine aches to a black oak thence south ninty two Aches to a hickery thence south eighty-five Degrees west Two hundred pches to a Chesnut tree by the north branch of Brandewine Creek at a Corner of William Claytons land then up the same Branch Two hundred Aches to the line of the land late of George Ashton thence West by South by the same and by Abel Parkes Land Three hundred and forty ches to a corner thence west along the south end of Phineas Lewis and Phillip Romans Land Two hundred and seventy-six aches to a Corner thence South one hundred and Eight aches to a Black oak at a Corner of William Pimms land thence west along the south end of the said Pimms Patrick Miller and Robert Millers Lands seven hundred and twenty-one aches to a Corner then by ye Lands of Moses Coates Peter Bazalion and William Fleming West by South five hundred and ffifty aches to the west branch of Brandewine Creek then up the same on the several Courses thereof about fifteen hundred aches to a black oak at the north west Corner of Joseph Darlington's land then west one hundred and Eighty nine ches to the southwest Corner of George Claypooles land thence north three hundred and forty three ches to a black oak being ye northwest Corner of the said Claypooles land thence east by Springtown Manor twelve hundred and forty-eight pches to a post at a Corner of the said Manor and from thence east four hundred and twenty aches to the said north branch of Brandewine Creek then down ye same on the several Courses thereof about nine hundred aches to the north line of a Tract of land lately survey d to Thomas Moore thence cast about Hive hundred and eighty pches to the welsh line thence along the said line South twenty four Degrees east about five hundred and ten aches to the South east Corner of Lewellin Parrys land thence south sixty degrees west one hundred and forty three aches and South sixty five pches to the place of beginning." At a court held May 29, 1744, upon the petition of the inhabitants of West Caln,- " It is ordered that the sd Township of West Cain shall be bounded and Limited as followeth viz Beginning at a Black oak by the West Branch of Brandywine Creek at the northwest corner of Joseph Dar, lington's Land thence by the land late of George Claypoole West 189 prs to a post and north 343 ps to a Black oak at the northwest * One of the "stock" phrases in petitions for settling boundaries of townships was that while they remained uncertain "your petitioners are in great danger of being infested with profligate persons, who flee hither from the neighboring provinces." corner of the sd Claypole's land thence on a due west course to the division line of the Counties of Chester and Lancaster thence southward along the ad division line to the south side of a Tract of Land formerly surveyed to Thomas Clarke and from thence by a Straight Line to a white oak at the southwest corner of Hugh De Venny's Land thence along the lines between the Land of the sd De Venny and the land of Walter Guilkey & Wm Ferguson to the sd Hugh De Venny's southeast corner post thence along a line between the land of the said Wm Ferguson and Adam Leech and the land of Robert Sandford to the said Sandfords south West corner black oak and from thence along the southern boundaries of the Lands of the sd Robert Sandford, John Williams, Hugh Cowen & John Kinkead to a Black oak at the South East corner of the ad Kinkead's land from thence due east to the sd western branch of Brandywine Creek thence up the same to the first mentioned black oak. "And it is further ordered that the Plantations of Walter Guilkey, William Ferguson and Adam Leech and all other seats and improvements Lying on the Valley Mountain to the South of the Southern boundaries of the sd Township of West Caln shall belong to the Township of Sadbury in the sd County of Chester and are hereby Annexed to the same." East Caln was reduced in size in 1790 by the erection of Brandywine township, which was taken from its northern part in that year. It was again reduced in size in the formation of Valley township on the west in 1853. In 1859 it was still further reduced by the incorporation of the borough of Downingtown. In 1868 it was again divided, the part lying east of the east branch of the Brandywine retaining the name of East Caln, and the remainder, with the part of Valley township lying east of the borough of Coatesville, taking the original name of Caln. West Caln was slightly reduced in size in 1853, in the erection of Valley township on the southeast. From 1790 to 1853 East Cain was a long, narrow township, extending from the west branch of the Brandywine to the western line of West Whiteland, a distance of over nine miles. The greater part of the present townships of Caln and East Caln lie in the valley and contain beautiful farming-lands, while West Caln is more hilly. The committee, appointed by the court, who formed the new township of Caln, in 1868, recommended to the court that it be called Wawassan, but this was not satisfactory to the residents, and the name of Caln was given to it. This was deemed appropriate by reason of the new township embracing the heart of the old original township of Caln, and having within its limits a post-office and railroad station bearing that name. Among the early settlers and owners of land in East Caln were the names of Baldwin, Cloud, Moore, Parker, Taylor, and Vernon ; in Caln, the names of Aston, Hunt, Lewis, Miller, Pim, Parke, Roman, Coates, Bizallion, Musgrove, and Mendenhall ; in West Caln, the names of Sharpless, Swayne, Sinkler (St. Clair), Way, White, Weaver, and Dawson. Peter Bizallion was a French trader among the Indians for some time, but finally settled here. EAST CALN TAX ABLES, 1753. Roger Hunt, Martha Bizallian, Thomas Downing, Richard Downing, John Downing, Robert Miller, Thomas Pim, Richard Pim, Thomas Parke, Phinehas Lewis, Aaron Mendenhall, Joshua Baldwin, John Baldwin, Bartholomew Bird, Jason Cloud, Robert Valentine, Joshua Roman, James Mendenhall, Thomas Stalker, Thomas Coates, John Little, James Fleming, Peter Fleming, Agnes Harris, Andrew Cox, John Walker, John Mendenhall, Bryan McGee, William Littler, Charles Carroll, John Davison, James Moore, Thomas Pain, William Wright, Robert Mirick, John White, William Wilson, Guyan Moore, TOWNSHIPS AND BOROUGHS, ETC. - 169 John Wall, Mary Darlington, Robert Darlington, Sarah Irwin, James Cunningham, Robert Irwin, Theophilus Irwin, John Gillylan, Samuel Fisher, Thomas Fisher, James Jack, Andrew Hemphill, Samuel McKenly, Andrew Elliot, John Man, Peter Whitaker, John Whitaker, John Smith, Patrick Lockhart, Richard Buffinton, John McDermot, John Morgan, Thomas Green, Jr., Thomas Green, John Green, William Paterson, John Culberson, Joseph Eldridge, Thomas Evans, John Byars, Samuel Byars, John Barr, Moses Waite, John Long, William Brue, Richard Guest, John Brownlee, William Smart, James MeFarIon, Abel Whitaker, Alexander MeClane, John Maarlan, Hugh Stalker, Thomas Temple, Patrick Skelton, Alexander Nesbitt, Hugh Morgan. Inmates.—John Jones, James Packer, William Roberts, Isaac Thomson, John Chamberlin, Francis Fisher, William McLane, George Menagh, John Paterson Hills, George Phillip, John Scott, Owen Sulivan, Archibald Irwin, William Berry, David McCreary, James Doraugh, John McKee, Denis Moley, John Irwin, Thomas Awlcott. Freemen.—Andrew Knox, John Gaa, Robert Eaches, Jonathan Valentine, Matthew Taylor, James Gowdy, John Headen, Gilbert Anderson, Patrick Duffy, William Pearson, James Gibbons, James Koony, Roger O'Develin, Joseph Taylor, Moses Horen, Charles Read, James Campbell, Patrick McGowan, Jonathan Stalker, Joseph Cashin, Bryan McKune, Robert Ross, Joseph McMin, Stephen Brown, John. Cahoon, Hugh Ratchford, Joshua Hardin, George McFarlan. LAND-OWNERS, 1774. Joseph Downing, Joshua Baldwin, John Baldwin, Jason Cloud, William Barry, George Buchanan, Abiah Parke, Richard Cheyne, John Downing, Henry Barker, Richard Downing, Robert Valentine, Jonathan Parke, David Jenkins, William Baldwin, Jona. Hoops, William Roberts, Isaac Webb, James Sheward, Samuel Hunt, James Hood, Jona. Valentine, Anne Parke, Obed Lewis, John Hoops, Griffith Mendenhall, Robert Valentine, Jr., Curtis Lewis, Rachel Roman, Hannah Pym, Thomas Stalker, Warwick Miller, Esq., Thomas Coats, Isaac Coats, Moses Coats, Mary Hart, Alexander Fleman (Fleming), Joseph Fleman, Peter Fleman, James Thomson, Robert Elton, Andrew Cox, Thomas White, Joseph Arbuckle, James McKelby, Samuel Pickins, Samuel White, Andrew Culbertson, James Clark, John Carmichal, William Wilson, George Kennedy, Robert Wilson, John Walker, John Proudfoot, Mary Cox, Francis Zook, Samuel Thompson, Joshua Mendenhall, Adam Guthry, William Iddings, James Lockhart, Ludwick Liggett, Thomas Windle, Richard Buffington, James Guthry, Andrew Elliott, Joseph McKinley, Thomas Fisher, Robert Darlington, Samuel Rolliday, Arch. Irwin, William Wilson, William Long, John Gileylen, James Jack, Joseph Long, James Stanley, John Smith, Henry Lewis, Isaac Green, Isabel Irwin, Theophilus Irwin, Samuel Culbertson, Robert Lockhart, James Hanson, William Todd, John Culbertson, James McGlaughlin, William Johnston, John Sloan, Charles Jack, James Miller, Michael Miller. WEST CALN TAXABLES, 1753. John Miller, Esq., Thomas Clark, William Mathers, Hugh Gib, Jr., Robert Stanford, James Cooper, Evan Wilkinson, John Williams, John Davidson, James Wilson, William Martin, Oliver Crawford, William Thompson, Robert Withrow, Samuel Withrow, Joshua Swain, James Way, Caleb Swain, John Sinkler, William Sinkler, Nathaniel White, Evan Lewis, Joseph Bishop, Sr., William Brown, Thomas Sharp, Hugh Shearer, Hamilton Gamble, William McCown, Peter Bab, John Jack, Mary Doak, Henry Hunter, William Gregory, John Cambell, Samuel Love, Thomas and Alexander Rogers, John Robinson, William Dunn, Jr., Thomas Kelly, Robert Kelly, William Dunn, Sr., George Cambell, Elizabeth Davidson, Thomas Davidson, John Porter, Josias Cambell, James Cumens, James Gibs, Sr., Josias Wallis, Thomas Dawson, Abraham Dawson, Richard Hope, Samuel Henry, Samuel McKeece, Mathew Rogers, William finley, John forgus, Samuel Clyde, George Sinkler, John Boyd, Joseph Clark, James Gaby, William Hamilton, William Davidson, Francis Jonson, William Clingan, Thomas Brown, Joseph Bishop, Hugh Gibs, Sr., William Richardson, John Harper, Edward Magnor, James Guthre, John Love, James Jemison, Finley McCown, James Keys. Inmates.—Robert Orr, Isaac Santford, Hugh Martin, John McNabb, Joseph Harper, John fre, Samuel Wilson, George Campbell, George Bell, William Dickey, James Gilmor. Freemen.—William Fulton, Robert Dobson, John fullow, Gideon - 22 - Wilson, Robert Robinson, William Wallace, John Maflin, William Sinkler. LAND-OWNERS, 1774. Caleb Way, James Keys, William . Hunter, Nathaniel Maxwell, William Crawford, John Fleming, Joseph Gladney, Samuel Witherow, Robert Witherow, Edward Vernon, Gabriel Walker, George Harris, Samson Babb, John Edge, Samuel Denny, Mary Babb, John Jack, John Parkehill, John Long, William Neeley, William Kennedy, Thomas Boid; James Brown, Matthew Ferguson, Charles Campbell, Robert Gamble, Oliver Wallace, James Martin, Alexander Rogers, William Shearer, Joseph Bishop, David Lewis, Job .Sinkler, George Quaintance, Alexander Davidson, Thomas Wilson, Thomas Law, Michael Boldridge, Sarah Keys, Samuel Fisher, William McGloughlin, Richard Hope, Joseph Parke, John Stalker, Margaret Dawson, John Griffith, Francis Alexander, Robert McPherson, Alexander McPherson, John Cochran; Arthur O'Neale, Andrew Jack, John McCullough, James Douglass, Thomas Douglass, Samuel Atley, John Linsey, Joseph Gardner, Joseph Clark, Herman Stiles, Barbara Wagoner, Joint Marshall, Thomas Kennedy, Gilbert Gibbs, Benjamin Wallace, Francis Kincade, William Moore, William Bennett, William Davidson, William Crawford, James Pierce, James Clemson, Peter Whitaker, Joseph Ash, Mary Way, Robert Cortney, William Witherow, James Goudey, William Clingham (Clingan), Robert Robeson, Zaphaniah Davis, Robert Kelley; James Kelley, Richard Cox, Josiah Wallace, John Martin, John Wallace, Patrick Porter, William Henry, Francis Daneson, William Logan, and Joseph Bishop. CHARLESTOWN. Charlestown township and the stream of water which flows through it were named in honor of Charles Pickering, of Asmore, in the county of Chester, England, his first name—Charles--being given to the township, and his surname—Pickering to the creek. Charles Pickering was an Englishman who, it is said, crossed the ocean with William Penn, and wandered up the Schuylkill River in search of treasure. Supposing that he had discovered traces of silver on the banks of the stream which now bears his name, and believing that the neighboring hills contained large quantities of the precious metal, he returned to Philadelphia, and obtained from Penn a grant of a large tract of land bordering upon the stream. He subsequently dug u.p and sent to England a large quantity of the supposed precious metal for analysis. What the result was is not known, but it is supposed it was unfavorable, as the efforts at mining were abandoned. Traces of the excavations made in these mining operations are said to be still visible. In 1683, Pickering was tried for setting' up a private mint for the " Quoining of Spanish Bitts and Boston money," for which he was fined forty pounds, and directed to redeem all that had been issued. It does not appear that this was followed by any social condemnation, and the Council, on the 14th of 3d month, 1685, passed a resolution declaring that, in privileges and freedom, he stood in " Equal Capacity" with the other colonists. He was afterwards drowned while crossing the ocean, and his land in Chester County was divided between sixteen. of his friends, to whom he had, devised it. In the assessment of 1715 it appears as follows: THE LAND LATE OF CHARLES PICKERING—RATE.

David Lloyd 1600a Samuel Buckley 500 John Moore 340a Griffith Jones 340a Joseph Pidgeon 340a Tho : Tress 340a Joshua Carpenter 340a Sam. Carpenter 1620a William Sanders 340a

£. s. d. 0 6 8 0 2 1 0 1 5 0 1 5 0 1 5 0 1 5 0 1 5 0 4 7 0 1 5

Joseph Richards 340 Griffith Pritchet 340a John Jones 340a Henry fflower 340a Sam. Richardson Do Edward Shippen Do ffrancis Rawles

£ s. d. 0 1 5 0 1 5 0 1 5 0 1 5 0 1 5 0 1 5 0 1 5 1 11 9

170 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. In 1718, " Pickering's Lotts," 4640 acres, were included in the non-resident land of Whiteland assessment, and it is not till 1722 that we get the names of actual settlers in the " Charles Town Rate," with the valuation of their estates :

Francis Buckholder and his sons Samuel Richardson John Humphreys James Jones Philip Jones David Jones Llewelyn David Griffith Pritchard Mathias Martin Alexander Owen John Rees Manuel Jones Thomas John Stephen David

38 28 30 24 16 20 16 26 22 12 10 16 34 16

James Anderson Harry Griffith Lewis Martyn Non-resident Land. Cocks & Company 20,000 acres. London Tract John Moor Joshua Carpenter John Bud Sam. Buckley Pike's Land

18 15 20 1400 210 21 21 10 35 700

In this year Thomas John was constable, being the first in the township. The tax-rate was threepence in the pound. In 1724 we find also the names of William Moore, John David, David Giby, John Powell, David, James, and Philip John (instead of Jones), Thomas David, John, Joseph, and Jacob Buckwalder, Benjamin Villaur, John Evan, Griffith and Asariah Thomas, and John Jones. William Penn, in 1681, conveyed to his sister, Margaret Lowther, and her family, 10,000 acres of land, in right of which a tract called the " Manor of Bilton" was laid out on the west side of Schuylkill, and separated from the "Manor of Mount Joy" by the Valley Creek. In 1733 it was resurveyed, and found to contain 2850 acres, being the southeastern part of Charlestown township. In 1737, William Allen, Esq., of Philadelphia, became the owner of the manor, and in 1739 he sold it to John Parry, of Haver-ford. The land was then divided between the following persons : William John Adam, 500 acres ; Widow Matthias, 263 ; John Jones, 500 ; William Griffith, 174 ; Cadwalader Hugh, 176 ; Griffith Thomas, 235 ; Thomas James, George Rees and William Lloyd, 430 ; Thomas Howell, 366 ; Jenkin David, 200 ; and Katharine Rees, 151 acres. David Lloyd took up 950 acres on the west side of French Creek, at its mouth, in right of a warrant to John Henry Sproegle, in right of Benjohan Furly. The warrant was dated 11, 20, 1708, and the survey made 2, 6, 1712. He also took up 650 acres on the other side of the creek at the same time, in right of a warrant to Francis Cooke. The whole was patented to Lloyd in 1713, under the name of " Manavon," from the place of his birth in Wales. He never settled thereon, but in 1720 sold the 650 acres to Francis Buckwalter, and in 1731 James Starr bought 350 and Moses Coates 600 acres, the balance of the land at this point. These grantees of Lloyd were the first settlers at what is now Phoenixville. Moses Coates and John David, overseers of the poor, petitioned the Court 12, 28, 1737-8, complaining of the uncertain boundaries, and asking the confirmation of certain bounds according to a survey which they had obtained at their own charge, as follows : " Beginning at the west side of Schuylkil by the mouth of a small Branch Called Stony run thence South West by Joseph Pykes land about seven miles and a half to a Corner Chestnutt by a small Brook being the North West Corner of 1600 acres of land late of John Budds Thence by the same South East seven Rods to a Corner in the Line of the Welsh Tract thence by the same East by North Eight miles and one Rod to the Value Creek then Down the same Between Mount Joy on the South and Mount Sorrow on the North about one mile to Schuylkil then upon the several! Courses thereof to the place of Begining Containing by Computation Twelve Thousand nine hundred and fifty acres. Surveyed the seventh day of the Twelfth Month Anno Dom 1737-8. "by RICHARD JONES. "The above boundarys of the township of Charles Town was orderel to be Recorded the thirtieth Day of May 1738. "P. Jo: PARKER, Cler." The township was divided in the year 1826, and the eastern division, lying along the river, called Schuylkill township, the name Charlestown being retained by the western division. In 1827 the lines between the southwestern part of Charlestown and the townships of East and West Whiteland and Uwchlan were altered, the former survey having been defective or incorrectly reported. The early settlers of Charlestown were mostly Welsh, followed by some from Germany. CHARLESTOWN TAXABLES, 1753. Will : Moore, Esqr, Lewis Morgan, Daniel John, Lewis Martin, Griffeth John, Lluelin Martin, Emanuel Jones, Joseph Byers, Rees David, Wm Thomas, Thos Robert, Moses Coates, James Balla, David Humphrey, John Buckwalter, Aaron Coates, Jacob Mary, John Lyons, John James, Thus David, Hugh Frazer, Moses Coates, Junr, John David, David Davis, David John, Anthony Prichard, Dan' Goldsmith, James Williams, Thos Valentine, Jonathan Davis, John Thomas, John Griffeth, John Evans, Lluellin Davies, James John, Daniel Beaton, John Thomas, John Commins, David Davis, John Conaway, John Gallacher, John Criswell, William Grimes, Job Harry, Joseph Williams, Bastian Wagoner, Jonathan Coates, Joseph Starr, Evan Jenken, Jonathan Worrall, Thos Davis, David Davis, David Thomas, Peter Matthews, David Matthias, George Martin, Patrick Henderson, Llewellin Davis Smith, John Williams, David Rees, Daniel Shea, Jeremiah Pike. Freemen.—Alexander Balla, James Richason, John Richason, Thos Steegleets, Dominick Kelly, Farrell O'farcy, George Anderson, Samuel Starr. LAND-OWNERS, 1774. Patrick Anderson, Joseph Alexander, John Buckwalter, Frederick Bussard, John Buckwalter, William Bodley, Benjamin Boyers, Elias Brown, Anne Boyers, Daniel Buckwalter, Moses Coates, Jonathan Coates, Benjamin Coates, James Cloyd, Jacob Cauffman, Joseph Conrad, Alexander Campbell, John Coon, Christopher Coon, Llewellyn Davis, Jenkin Davis, David Davis, William Deweese, Israel Davis, Abner Evans, John Francis, Nicholas Foose, Valentine Foose, William Fussel, Frederick Geerhart, John Griffith, John Griffith (schoolmaster), William Graham, Nicholas Halderman, Christian Halderman, Samuel Harvey, John Humphrey, Jacob Hoomel, Nicholas Halderman, Jr., David John, Griffith Jones, David James, John Keiter, Benjamin Longstreth, George Late, Edwin Lane, William Moore, Esq., Alexander McAuley, George McKenny, James Martin, Joel Martin, Henry Miller, Isaac Morgan, Jacob Miller, Christian Mary, Anthony Pritchard, Jacob Pennypacker, Thomas Robinson, Daniel Rossiter, Thomas Roberts, John Richardson, Philip Rapp, Joseph Snarr, Joseph Starr, Jr., Joseph Smith, Joseph Showalter, Martin Shenbolk, Jacob Sturk, Amos Thomas, Andrew Turk, Benjamin Thomas, Richard Tompkins, James Thomas, John Varley, John Vergloth, David Williams, Thomas Williams, Sebastian Wagoner, James White, Christian Whitaker, Jonathan Wells, John Youngblood, Robert Kennedy, James McConell, Michael King, Jane Martin, Matthias Pennypacker, and Michael Holman. CHESTER. This was probably the first named of the townships in the county, and the town of the same name remained the county-seat for more than one hundred years thereafter. It is now a part of Delaware County. From the spread of families backward from the first settlements, the lists of taxables in the old townships will be of interest to our TOWNSHIPS AND BOROUGHS, ETC. - 171 present citizens. The assessment list for 1715 for Chester is here given : CHESTER RATE.

Jasper Yeates for his estate in Chester Tobias Hendrickson John Wright John Salkeld Francis Worley. Jacob Roman Thomas Bright Jeremiah Carter Thomas Baldwin William Coebourn Thomas Coebourn John Linvill James Streeter Hen Worley Caleb Pusey Jonas Sandelands John Wade Isaac Barton. Samuel Tomlinson Nicholas Fairlamb Evan Morgan John Hoskins John Baldwin James Barber John Scarlet Jacob Howell Joseph Coebourn David Lloyd William Heurtin

£ s. d. 0 12 6 0 5 4 0 5 2 0 7 2 0 7 2 0 4 8 0 1 0 0 4 2 0 3 2 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 2 6 0 15 6 0 5 6 0 10 0 0 3 7 0 1 0 0 1 6 0 4 2 0 3 0 0 6 0 0 4 6 0 1 3 0 2 8 0 4 6 0 19 6 0 13 4 0 3 0

John Rimington Robert Hodgson James Logan George Woodyer George Simpson John Tyler Joseph Richards John Scott Edward Dangger Thomas Weston. William Tidmarsh David Roberts Rd. Marsden ffree Men. Caleb Coupland William Lee John Price Henry Baker Nicholas Powell John Saul William Maultsby James Reece Albert Skere Thomas Lancaster Joseph Parker James Bond Total

£ s. d. 0 2 6 0 1 6 0 5 0 0 3 2 0 1 6 0 2 6 0 8 6 0 1 6 0 2 6 0 2 2 0 3 2 0 2 0 0 1 6 0 4 0 0 1 6 0 1 6 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 0 4 0 — 10 1 4

CHICHESTER. This name was given to Marcus Hook April 20, 1682, and the name was subsequently applied to the townships styled Upper and Lower Chichester, both now in Delaware County. In 1715 the taxables in the lower part were: Philip Roman, Jonah Roman, Robert Roman, John Rawson, Richard Bezer, Philip Pedrick, Anthony Baldwin, William Flower, Mordecai Howell, John Royley, Richard Edwards, William Clayton, William Hewes, William Hewes, Jr., John Hopton, Richard Crosby, John Boss. Freemen.—John Flower, Thomas Clayton, and Thomas Howell. Those in Upper Chichester were : Enoch Flower, William Chandler, Walter Marten, Henry Reynolds, Francis Reynolds, Ruth Chandler, George Leonard, Francis Routh, Matthew Wood, John Bezer, John Kingsman, Humphrey Scarlet, James Whitaker, Shadreck Scarlet, Thomas Linvill, Thomas Withers, Jeremiah Collett, John Chambers, Richard Weaver, Jeremiah Cloud. Freeman.—Richard Mashell. COATESVILLE. The borough of Coatesville was incorporated by the Court of Quarter Sessions of Chester County in 1867. It was taken wholly from Valley township, and is situated in the Great Valley, where it is crossed by the west branch of Brandywine, and embraces territory on both sides of that stream. A village long known as Midway, situated on the Pennsylvania Railroad west of the Brandywine, was included within its boundaries, and is now generally known in common parlance as West Coatesville. The village of Midway was just half-way between Philadelphia and Columbia, the original termini of the railroad, and hence its name. Coatesville was named in honor of the Coates family. Moses Coates, the ancestor of the family, with his wife Susanna, came from Ireland about 1717, and settled in Charlestown township, Chester County, whence some of their children removed to East Caln. William Fleming was a settler near Coatesville. His wife Mary was a sister of John and Thomas Moore, who settled at Downingtown. The Fleming family are now quite numerous. At an early period they owned a considerable quantity of land in the Great Valley, on both sides of the west branch of Brandywine. The noted marauder during the Revolutionary war, James Fitzpatrick, had one of his hiding-places at what was known as Hand's Pass, a gap in the North Valley Hill, a short distance west of Coatesville, near where the Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike leaves the valley. Coatesville is situated on the Pennsylvania and the Wilmington and Northern Railroads, and is the centre of a considerable iron manufacture. CONCORD. This township, according to the assessment of 1715, contained the following taxables: Nath. Newlin, Jur., Nicholas Pyle for ye mill, James Clamston, Nath. Newlin, Senr., Joseph Cloud, Henry Oburn, John Palmer, John Palmer, Jur., Godwin Walter, George Robinson, Jacob Pyle, Ralph Pyle, Henry Peirce, Matthias Carle, Ralph Evenson, James Heavrd, William Ammet, Thomas Smith, John Lee, Robert Chamberlin, Robert Chamberlin, Junr, Thomas West, William Hill, Morgan Jones, Thomas Durnall, George Lee, Daniel Evans, Joseph Nicklin, John Hanum, Benjm Mendenhall, John Mendenhall, John Newlin, Joseph Edwards, Thomas Broom, William fforde, ffrancis Pulin, John Pen-neck, James Chiffers, John Hackney, Christopher Penock. ffreemen.—Caleb Pearkins, Richard ffarr, Peter Poulston, John Pennock, John Engram, Henry Jones, Thomas Ealthan. This township is now in Delaware County. CONESTOGA. First mentioned in the assessment of 1718 : English Inhabitants.—Francis Warley, John Cartliedge, James Hendricks, James Letart, James Patterson, William Sherrel, John Hendricks, Collum Macquair, Thomas Baldwin, Thomas Gale, Alexander Beuse, John McDaniel, Richard Carter, John Linvill, Robert Wilkins, John ffarrer, John Grist, William Hughes, Peter Basillion, John Comb, Joseph Roe, Andrew Mason, Joseph Hickman, Daniel Cookson, Thomas Clark, William Clark, Stephen Atkinson, Morgan Jones, Edmund Cartliedge, collector. freemen.—John Harriss, David Preece, Robert Middleton, Richard Grice, Nathaniel Christopher, Thomas Perrin, Samuel Birchfield, William Ludford, Thomas Wilkin, James Davis, Evan Evans, Thomas Jones. Dutch Inhabitants.—Martin Kundig, Martin Milin, Christian Heer, John Haer, Wendall Bowman, Jacob Miller, Joseph Steman, Daniel Harmer, John Miller, John Funk, Henry Carpenture, Henry Hayne, Christopher ffranciscus, Peter Bellar, Benedictus Venrick, Daniel ffierre, John ffierre, Phillip ffierre, Isaac Lefevre, Richard Davis, Thomas ffalkner, John Milen, Hans Haure, John Taylor, Martyn Berr, Imanuel Heer, Henry Kundic & Son, Jacob Moyer, Hans Steff, Hans Keague, Jacob Griter, Jacob Highstetter, John Widwer, Andrew Koffman, Isaac Koffman, John Broakpather, Junr, John Broakpather, Jacob Broakpather, Peter Swaor, Abraham Heer, Melchior Arisman, Christian Hearse & Son, John Toup, Henry Berr, Michel Bowman, Hance Bugholder, Hance Neicomer, Melchior Prenamon, George Kendrick, John Natts, Jun*, Michael Shank, Junr, John Natts, Senr., Henry flunk, Benjamin Wilmer, Jacob Lundus, Hance Henry Neff, Michael Miller, ffelix Londus, Jacob Kundrick, Junr, John fframe, Charley Christopher, Woolrick Mowry, Stoffal Prenaman, Jacob Hoober, Christian Stone, Isaac ffrederick & Son, Jacob Kundrick, Jacob Lundus, Junr., Martyn Boyer, Hance Boyer, John Bowman, Benedictus Brockbill, Christian Shank, Michael Shank, Senr, John Shank, Rudey Moyer, Hance Brand, Hans Graff, Junr, Hans Graff, Senr, Peter Yorte, Torey Ebys, Hans Currick Moyer, Christian Shans, Hans Weaver, Woolrick Hource, Peter Leman. Non-resident Lands upon the River Pequea.—James Logan, 1000 acres; Rebecca Shaw, 300; Elizabeth Pace, 250; John Marlow, 250; Thomas Story, 1768; Abraham Dubois, 1000; Herman Ritzman, 1100; 172 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. Amos Strettle, 3380; Richard Robinson, 1000; William Bradford, 125; Coll John ffrench, 500; Jeremiah Langhorne, 350; John Bundile, 500 ; Coll John Evans, 1000. Conestoga became a part of Lancaster County in 1729. NORTH COVENTRY, SOUTH COVENTRY, AND EAST COVENTRY. The original township of Coventry doubtless received its name from Samuel Nutt, an early settler, who came from Coventry, in Warwickshire, England. The first list of settlers in these parts is from the assessment of 1718, as follows : THE RATE OF THE HIGHEST DISTRICT FROM SKOOL- KILL TO BRANDIWINE.

Israel Robinson John Sinclair John Rumford Thomas Miller Richard Duncley *Johannes Wolf Miller *Andro Secler *Mathias Ringer *Meulin Verner *Rodle ffrie Marcus Overhult *Jacob Stagger John Oburne Henry Castle Hubert Castle. *Johannes Kolb Henry Bonchells Jacob Bouchells Henry Parker

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Edward Snout *Abraham Lungeger John Rutter Garret Prompter Simon Meredith David Evans et James Pugh. William Phillips Owen Roberts John Blare Non-resident Lands James Logan, 1000a Jonathan Gwyn, 1000a David Powell, 1000a Thos. Callowhill, 500a

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In 1719, " Skoolk ill District" contained the same names (except Jacob Stagger), and also Philip Rogers, William Hiddings, Edward Thomas, Richard and John Persalls, and David Roberts. These assessments covered the northern part of the county, but in 1720 an attempt was made to divide the district as between Coventry and Nantmeal (see Nantmeal) ; and under the head of " Inhabitants upon Schoolkill above the French Creek" we find Peter Hose and others already given on page 41. In 1722 the district was called " Scoolkil," and there were twenty-seven taxables. In 1724 we first find the name of Coventry, and the following taxables: Samuell Nutt, Mordecay Lincoln, gorge Dandison, The Forge, Rd Dean, Israel Robinson, ffracis Huss, Henry Bell, John Sinkler, John Rumford, Thomas Miller, Richard Dunklin, Wolfe Miller, John Sickler, Frederick Long, Martyn Vrner, John Vrner, Henry Landes, John Meilin, Vbirick Langaker, Hans Swichhser, Jacob Overholt, Peter Hoofley, Hans Milin, Jacob Milin, Daniell Eaches, Marcus Overholt, Jacob Steger, Johannes Coff, Henry Castle, Johannes Hapert, Henry Buckholt, Jacob Bucholt, Margarett Parker, John Rutter. The name of Miller seems to have become Millard, or the first may not have been the correct spelling. Martin Urner obtained a patent, July 10, 1718, for a tract on Schuylkill, the most of which was sold by his executors, in 1759, to Jacob Switzer, who sold it to Martin Urner, nephew of the former, from whom it passed to Jonas Urner, who devised the homestead, of 264 acres, to Rudolph Stauffer in 1811. John Rumford obtained title to 200 acres on the river in 1715, and sold it in 1728 to Thomas Rees or Rice. Subsequent owners were Samuel Whitacre, John Banfield, Philip John, Thomas Godfrey, and Thomas Pratt. * Crossed off in the record. Hans George Shultz and Matthias Ringer obtained 500 acres, Jan. 20, 1718, which were afterwards divided between Matthias Ringer, Hans Wolfmiller, and Andrew Sickler. Wolfmiller sold his part, 169 acres, in 1749, to John Wells, to whose widow, Susanna, and children a patent was granted in 1761. Edmund and Samuel Wells, two of the children, became the owners in 1783. In 1826, Jonas Umstead -bought the property for $3869.78, and in 1830 it passed into possession of Abraham Wanger, whose son George succeeded him in 1861. James Pugh obtained a patent, Nov. 4, 1713, for 700 acres on French Creek, and on May 23, 1721, sold 300 acres thereof to Samuel Nutt, the iron-master, who had built a forge.on this or adjacent land. In 1841 the township was divided into North Coventry and South Coventry, and in 1844 East Coventry was formed by a division of North Coventry. In the latter year the line between South Coventry and East Vincent was established, as it was supposed to have been originally run. COVENTRY TAXABLES, 1753. John Luellin, John Souder, Martin Orner, Christian Browers, Marks Overholts, Andrew Huts, Stephen Smith, Elizabeth Engers, Nicolas Keller (miller), Samuel Overholts, John Mainshow, Michael Sink, George Titlo, Jacob Bach, John Stoner, on Schuylkill, Casper Engel, Uley Rynhart, Henry Brower, Andrew Mefferd, Mary Ash, Adam Ash, John Mace (?), Mary Grub, Abraham Grub, Joseph Burneston, John Willson, Samuel Himelry, Hugh Hugh, Peter Wanger, Lenard Funkrufe, John Grub, Jacob Morrin, Charles Rilles, Joseph Postler, Matthias Switzer, Benjamin Thomas, Michael Rees, Justis Linderman, George Craft, Samuel Crebill, Paul Ceiser, Michal Hulderman, Jacob Grofe, Peter Imsweiler, John Stoner, John Imhoofe, Adam Morria, John Owen, James Ingles, Albertes Arroin, John Paul and Jacob Longinacor (non-residents), Thomas Millard, Christian Barry, Jacob Thomas, Anna Nutt and Robert Grace (forge Comp.), James Erbuckle, Henry Bear, John Brower, John Wells, John Swaner, John Switzer, Christopher Holderman, Cartrout Shy, Henry Shinkell, " and John his inmate," Peter Engels, Wm. Martin, Mary Richard, Jacob Hok, Frederick Borten, Jacob Uptegrave, Richard Butler, James Born, Jacob Kerkeiser, Peter Hingels, Patrick Collings, Enoch Flower, Andrew Parks, Minicus Riddle, George Grimm. Freemen.—Peter Lookenbill, Richard Vorhan, Jacob Switzer, Christopher Hick, Rynard Cunsuhouser, John Kent, Vandel Tumfilsor, Henry Fisher, Stephen Bower, Daniel Pener, Henry Pener. LAND-OWNERS, 1774. James Arbuckle, Jacob Acker, John Acker, Peter Amole, Abraham Brower, Jacob Brower, Henry Brower, Henry Brower, Jr., Daniel Brower, Henry Banner, John Bowe, Henry Beer, Joseph Brooks, Daniel Beery, Peter Crumbaker, Adam Deam, Godfrey Dowenhauer, George Ditlow, John Davis, James English, Owen Evans, Conrad Grim, George Grouse, Anna Grubb, Abraham Grubb, Henry Grubb, John Highter, Rennard Gunsenhauser, Thomas Hockley, John High, Michael Halderman, Nicholas Herwick, Stopher Halderman, John Imhoff, Allan Jack, Jacob Kittingher, Jacob Keringer, Jacob Light, Jacob Longacre, Justus Linderman, Mary Keiser, Nicholas Keller, Nicholas Miller, Villdy Miller, Tobias Miller, Peter Mower, Martin Ornen, James Hockley & Potts, William Plaine, Christian Reiff, Robert Milhouse, Simon Meredy (Meredith), Abraham Moore, Jonathan Pugh, John Pugh, John Rinnard, Frederick Rinhard, Bastian Ruff, John Smith, Michael Swick, Abraham Sliver, Conrad Snither, Frederick Scholl, John Sowder, Ulrich Swither, John Switzer, Jacob Steger, John Varley, Martin. Wofe, Susanah Wells, Jacob Fetterling, Jonas Rodrough, Richard Custard, Jacob Thomas, Henry Schenkel, Eve Brower, Jacob Row, Jacob Livegood, Daniel Engle, Michael Smith, David Grubb, Frederick Huck, Rees John, Rudolph Sheneman, John Holsenberger, Ludwick Stophel, and Nicholas Munshower. DARBY. TAXABLES IN THE ASSESSMENT OF 1715.   John Bethell, Jobe Harvey, John Haycock, Edward Philpot, Benj., Cliff, John Test, Jos. Johnson (house & lot), John Sholers, Samuel   TOWNSHIPS AND BOROUGHS, ETC. - 173   Bradshaw, David Thomas, John Blunston; Senr, John Blunston, Jun, John Wood, Thomas Pulford, John Worth, Enoch Bonsall, Jacob Bonsall, Roger Bailey, Anthony Morgan, George Wood, Michell Blunston, Samuel Sellars, John Marshall, Samul Hood, John Thomas, Joshua ffearn, Thomas Bardshaw, Samuel Garrot, Wm. Garrot, Adam Roades, Thomas Lewis, Samuel Lewis, Abraham Lewis, Isaac Colier, Wm. Barnet, James Whitakers, Joseph Need, John Davis, Samuel Levis, Thomas Broom, Josiah Hibbert, John Hood, John Hallowell, William Smith, Thomas Hood, William Smith, Junr, Widdw Bartram, Richd Parker, Anthony Lee, Lewis Davis, Mathias Natcilus, Morton Mortonson, Charles Yokecam, Andrew Youran, Swan Boon, Hance Boon, Mathias Mortonson, William Northam, John Broom, Thomas Worth.   free Men.—Thomas Worth, John Parker, Willm Prest, John Wallis, Thomas Philips, ffrancis Youran, Thomas Edwards.   This township was one of the first settled in the county, but is now a part of Delaware County.   DONEGAL.   TAXABLES IN ASSESSMENT OF 1724.   James Le tort, James Mitchell, George Stewart, John Galbreath, Jonah Devenporte, David McClure, Alexr Hutchison, Ronald Chambers, John Alison, John Haris, Patrick Campbell, Thomas Willkens, Samuell Fulton, William Wilkens, Evin Evin, John Burt, John Gardner, Peter Allen, James Galbreath, John Mitchell, Robert Moody, Alexr McKeen, Joseph Woork, Ritchard Alison, Robert Bowhinan, James Cunnigham, Samuell Smith, James Rodey, Thomas Howard, Gordon Howard, Thomas Bailie, Willm Maybee, Willm Hay, Robert Mcfarlan, Hugh White, John Taylor, Ephram Moor, Robert Midltown, Hugh Mckeen, Willm Brams, James Smith, John Kar, Malcom Kar, John Davison, James Kyle, And, Cornish, Wm. Grant, Stephen Atkinson, Joseph Clapam, Edward Daugherty, James Patterson, John Mckerty.   Non-resident Land.—Jeramayi Longhorn, in bucks County; Peter Bazilon, in this County.   This township was organized in 1723, from a part of Conestoga, and David Jones appeared at court May 28th as constable. It is now a part of Lancaster County.   DOWNINGTOWN.   Downingtown was incorporated by decree of court May 12, 1859, and by an election held at the Swan Hotel on the 28th of that month Capt. James Lockhart was chosen first burgess. The borough limits embraced 760 acres, taken from the township of East Caln.   In 1702 surveys were made here in right of purchases made in England, viz. : for Joseph Cloud, 225 acres ; for Jeremiah Collett, 375 acres ; for Robert Vernon, 600 acres ; and for Daniel Smith, 1000 acres. The last tract was on the west side of the creek, its eastern line perhaps being where Downing Street is now laid. The other tracts were rectangular and lay directly east of this line, that of Cloud being mostly south of, while the Vernon tract extended farther north than, the borough limits. Joseph Hickman was perhaps the first resident owner of the Collett tract, which he sold to Thomas Moore. The latter, with his brother John, also purchased the Veron tract, but the whole 975 acres became the property of Thomas, who erected a mill on the east side of Brandywine as early as 1716. The Smith tract being divided by a north and south line, the eastern half became the property of George Aston, and subsequently, in 1739, of Roger Hunt, while the western half was purchased by Thomas Lindley, who sold in 1724 to Thomas Parke.   Thomas Moore died about 1736, after which the. prop erty was purchased by John Taylor, June 25, 1738, and sold by him to different persons. Thomas Downing bought 561 acres July 4, 1739, it being nearly all that lay north of the Philadelphia road. In 1752 a number of the citizens of this vicinity petitioned the commissioners for a bridge over the Brandywine, but with what success has not been discovered. In 1784 the place was generally called Milltown, but sometimes Downingstown. July 4, 1876, the citizens of Downingtown celebrated the centennial anniversary of independence by a public meeting, at which the history of the locality, prepared by Dr. John P. Edge, was read as a part of the ceremonies.   EASTTOWN.   Easttown township was erected about the year 1704. It is first mentioned on the court records by the appointment of William Thomas as its constable, on Dec. 27, 1704-5. It was doubtless so named on account of its position. Its territory was included in the original survey made for the Welsh, and was settled by them.   In the assessment of 1715 we thus find the   EASTTOWN RATE.

Edward Hugh Ellis Hughes Hugh Jones Morgan Hugh. Philip David Davd Davis and Joe. Harris. John David Evan Thomas Owen Hugh

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Richd Evans Thomas Edwards Non-resident Land William Sharlaw John Pugh Owen Humphery Total

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In 1800 the town of Glassley was laid out on the turnpike, near what is now Berwyn (late Reeseville), by Robert McClenachan. Beginning with the old Lancaster Road or High Street, we find, in succession, North, Turnpike, South and Pearl Streets. From the west end of the plot we pass from Green to Harrison, Franklin, Washington, Thompson, Wayne, and McClenachan Streets. The lots were 36 feet in front, and from 70 to 160 feet in depth. A large number were sold, but the owners neglected to improve, and for a long time the grounds were unfenced. The township is most noted as the home of the Wayne family, the founder of which, Anthony Wayne, first appears in the assessment of 1724.   EASTTOWN TAXABLES, 1753.   Thomas McCain, Isaac Wayn, Francis Wayn, Mark Morris, Nicholas John, Peter Eliot, John McCorcle, Ann Ellis, Isaac Minshall, John Marron, Benj. Junkin, Adam Trehorn, Thomas Hingham, John Steel, Humphry Wayn, Hugh Reed, Benj. Hugh, Edward William, Griffith James, Hugh Win, Jennis Davis, Humphry Ellis, Andrew Mcguyer, Thomas John, David John, Patrick McCarty, Isaac Worrel, Elizabeth Howell, Elick-sander Nuckle, Tho Crass, Richd McCaddin, Isaac Hughs, Nathaniel Clapole, Charles Colling, Anthony Wayn, Morris Matson.   Inmates.—Andrew Nelson, James Porter, Arthur Moore.   Freemen.—Samuel Davis, John Harthorn, Isaac Taylor, John Borland, Robert Car, Abraham Wayn, John Hampton, Daniel Cook, James Cook.   LAND-OWNERS, 1774.   Andrew Steel, Anthony Wayne, James Scott, Joseph Gilbert, Lewis Morris, John Morris, James Morris, Whitehead Wetherby, Samuel Vanleer, Thomas McKean, Robert Stephen, Robert McGoogin, David Rees, William Hunter, John Steel, Frederick Landes, Morris Morris, Benjamin Junkin, Thomas Tucker, Evan Evans, William Griffith,   174 - HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.   Philip Sheaff, Thomas Moore, Jonathan Moore, Martha Davis, William Melchior, Henry Fox, John Llewellyn, Michael Binger, Casper White, Abel Hammer, Thomas Williams, Peter Uble, John Butler, Griffith Williams, David Morgan, Margaret Bell, Nathan Lewis, Thomas Welch, Joseph Massey, Thomas Massey, Ann Ellis, Abraham Davis.   JULIUS F. A. SACHSE.   The name given by Mr. Sachse to his place of sixty acres is " Sachsenstein," so called after the old family-seat in Germany, near Erfurt, the ruins of which still exist. He erected his residence in 1872 as a summer retreat, but in 1877 made it his permanent residence. His place is situated in Easttown township, in the western part thereof, near the Leopard, and about one and a half miles from Berwyn Station on the Pennsylvania Railroad. It is located in a neighborhood around which cluster rich historic associations of the Revolutionary war, and is but a short distance from Paoli, the scene of the British massacre of Sept. 20, 1777. His residence is a most beautiful one, and its surroundings tasteful and elegant, showing the taste of its proprietor, who in horticulture is a mastermind. He is a merchant, doing business in Philadelphia, but gives much attention and time to his elegant homestead in constant improvements to its comfort and beauty. His land is in two tracts, one of forty-nine acres, the other of ten acres and six perches. The former was a part of' a five-thousand-acre tract sold by William Penn in England, before he first came to America (7th month 13, 1681 0. S.), to James Claypoole, and to whom he made a deed, 12th month 17, 1684, for ten hundred and fifty acres. Claypoole's executors sold part of it to Adam Roades, whose executors conveyed sixty-nine acres to Anthony Wayne; his estate conveyed same to Benjamin Weatherby, whose executors sold it to Andrew Steele, who conveyed fifty-one acres thereof to John Evans, from whom it descended to his brother, Thomas B., thence, by will, to Hannah M. E. Kaufman, of whose executors Mr. Sachse purchased forty-nine acres, April 1, 1875. The other tract came down through Lydia Ellis, Lydia Minshall, Thomas Henderson, Benjamin Weatherby, Mary Norris, John Dickinson, William Smith, David Jones (the famous Baptist preacher of Revolutionary memory), Horatio Gates Jones, Ann W. Haley, John P. Lewis, of whose executors Mr. Sachse bought it Aug. 26, 1872.   EDGMONT.   TAXABLES IN THE ASSESSMENT OF 1715.   John Worrall, Joseph Baker, Philip Yarnold, John Worrilaw, Ephir: Jackson, Joseph Pennell, John Broomell, David Register, William Hiddings, John Golding, Rebecca Powell, John Gregory, Thomas Vernon, Thomas Dawson, Joseph Baker, Simon Acres, Edward Thompson, Jacob Taylor, John Clues, Nathan Evans, John Holdston, Caleb Thompson, William Willis, Robert Williamson, Evan Howell, William Adams, Richd Pritchard, Evan Lewis.   free Men.—William Clues, John Hiddings, William fflond.   Non-resident Land.—Bostock's land, John Kingman.   This township is now a part of Delaware County.   ELK.   This township was formed from East Nottingham in 1857, and received the name of Elk at the suggestion of Charles Ramsey. It is bounded on the east by Big Elk Creek, and Little Elk flows through it. Lewisville, in this township, was named in honor of Lewis J. Jones, who was the first to build there. He was buried at Sharp's graveyard. His father, Nathan Jones, lived near, in the edge of Maryland.   FAGG'S MANOR.   About the year 1702 some surveys were made to the west of the London tract, as Londongrove was then called, for Letitia Penn and her brother William. This land, however, was so far beyond the regular settlements that nothing could be done towards selling it to actual settlers, and so it remained for many years. There were two tracts of 5000 acres each, although there is some evidence that Letitia's, which lay nearest to the London tract, contained at first 7175 acres. Her tract was called Fagg's Manor; in honor of Sir John Fagg, and the name has been handed down to the present time, being more particularly kept alive by the Presbyterian church, which is situated near the northwest corner of the manor.   After a time the land became exposed to the encroachments of irresponsible squatters, who destroyed the timber in order to raise a little grain, but made no great improvements. John Taylor notes in his memorandum-book that on the 3d of April, 1730, he " went and warned the Irish off Fagg's Manor." James Logan, as the attorney of Letitia Aubrey, appears to have had the oversight of her lands, and occasionly wrote to John Taylor concerning this tract. On the 16th of August, 1735, he wrote an order to the latter requesting him to survey in the manor for John Meas 200 acres, " more or less, as may best suit his conveniency (yet not exceeding 250), where he is now settling, to be held by him on his complyance with the terms of his said agreement with me, in behalf of the said Letitia."   The manor was resurveyed by warrant dated 5th of April, 1737, and a patent for the same signed by Thomas Penn on the 16th of May following. It was described as being near Marlborough township, in the county of Chester,—   Beginning at a white-oak at a corner of Wm. Penn's Manor [now the S. E. corner of W. Fallowfield] ; thence east 606 perches, part by vacant land and part by land of David Kennedy, to a post; thence South by vacant land 1400 perches to a marked tree, and West 606 perches to a white oak ; thence North by vacant lands, Israel Robinson's land, an I William Penn's Manor, 1400 perches to the beginning : containing 5000 acres and allowance of 6 per cent. for roads and highways.   There was a space nearly a mile and a quarter wide between this and the line of Londongrove, which at that time was mostly vacant. None of the old lines remain on our county map, except perhaps a part of the south line of Penn township.   The land in Fagg's Manor was divided among the settlers into many tracts, and the divisions numbered on a plan of the whole, but, with a few exceptions, the settlers did not pay for the land or get deeds for the same for several years after, and in the meanwhile the improvements passed from one owner to another, so that the deeds in many cases were not granted to the original settlers. Letitia Aubrey, by her will, dated July 20, 1744, devised her property in Pennsylvania to her nephew, William Penn (son of her brother William), and to his daughter, Christiana Gulielma Penn, after his death. This nephew, a grandson of the