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After Penn's purchase, in 1681, Dr. John Goodsonn, " chirurgeon to the Society of Free Traders," came from London to Chester, and prior to 1700 Dr. Joseph Richards was a real estate owner at the last named place. Succeeding Richards were Dr. Taylor, Alexan- der Gandonett, John Pascall, Paul Jackson, the first to receive a degree in the college in Phila- delphia, and Bernhard Van Leer, died Janu- ary 26, 1790, at one hundred and four years of age. From 1800 up to 1850 the number of physicians increased gradually.
MEDICAL SOCIETIES.
The Delaware County Medical society was formed May 2, 1850, through the efforts of Dr. Ellwood Harvey, Dr. George Martin, and other physicians.
Homæpathy was introduced into Delaware county in 1836 by Dr. Walter Williamson, and the Homeopathic Medical Society of Chester and Delaware counties was organized in 1858.
The Thompsonian Friendly Botanical so- ciety, of Delaware county, was organized in 1838, but its first meeting was its last.
REGISTERED PHYSICIANS, 1881-1893.
Physicians have increased rapidly in num- bers since 1880. Some idea may be formed of the state of the medical profession in the county from the following list of physicians and their places of residence, who have regis- tered at the court-house at Media, from July 20, 1881, to August 7, 1893 :
1881 .- L. Fussel, Edwin Fussel, A. E. Os- borne. and Trimble Pratt, Media ; W. T. Urie, A. P. Fields, D. W. Jefferis, and Wm. Bird, Chester ; Frances N. Baker, Media ; J. W. Eckfeldt, J. W. Trimble, Concord ; C. S. Heysham, Newtown ; W. H. Morrison, Lin- wood; M. F. Longstreth, Darby; G. R. Vernon, H. B. Knowles, and S. P. Bartleson, Clifton Heights ; Isaac Crowther. Upland ; R. H. Millner, Chester ; H. C. Bartleson, Forwood : F. L. Preston, Chester : W. P. Painter, Darby ; Samnel Trimble, Lima ; W. B. Ulrich, Chester ; B. S. Anderson, Marple ; F. C. Lawyer, Newtown: J. B. Weston, Sonth Chester ; C. A. Kish, Chester ; W. F. Campbell, Media ; J. C. Egbert, Radnor ; W. W. Johnson, P. C. O'Reilly. E. K. Mott, R. P. Mercer, and Samuel Starr. Chester ; Henderson Haywood, Birmingham ; S. C. Burland, licentiate of a Canadian college since 1877, Chester ; Hi born Darlington, Concord- ville ; H. H. Darlington, Concordville ; J. T. M. Cardesa, Claymont ; J. D. M. Cardesa, Claymont ; G. W. Roney, Chester ; F. F. Rowland. Media : David Rose, Chester ; F. M. Murray, Lenni ; Jacob Boon, Darby ; W. S. Ridgely, Chester : Joseph Rowland, Media ; William Calver, Booth's Corners: W. T. W. Dickeson, Media ; I. N. Kerlin, Elwyn ; W. B. Fish, Elwyn ; J. F. M. Forwood, Chester : C. L. Partridge, Ridley : J. H. Hornor, Thorn- ton ; C. C. Van A. Crawford, W. S. S. Gay, Vil- lage Green ; C. W. Perkins, Chester ; Ellwood Harvey, Chester : Andrew Lindsay, Radnor. 1882 .- F. H. Seidell, South Chester ; L. M. Bullock, Upland ; F. R, Graham, Chester : J. W. Phillips, Clifton Heights ; Stacy Jones. Darby.
1883 .- James Edwards, Springfield : Han- nah J. Price, Chester ; J. L. Forwood, Chester ; G. M. Fisher, South Chester ; J. G. Thomas, Newtown : C. W. De Lannoy, Chester ; H. C. Havois, Lansdowne ; Franklin Soper, Rid- ley Park ; Eliza E. Taylor (practiced since 1771), Albert Russel ( practiced since 1871), H. L. Smedley, Media.
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1884 .-- Leolf Reese, Glen Riddle ; Edmund Franciscus, Media ; W. E. Gallagher, Clifton Heights ; Joseph H. King ( Indian name Hoh- e-a-yum) practiced since 1869, F. J. Evans, Chester ; W. F. Lehman, Chester ; H. A. Stew- art, Moores.
1885 .- E. W. Bing, Chester ; D. P. Mad- dux, Chester ; Elwood Baker, Lansdowne ; J. L. Pyle, Glen Mills ; and Ellen E. Brown, Chester ; A. R. Morton, Morton ; G. E. Ab- bot, Wayne; W. S. Little, Media ; W. H. Hutt, Glen Mills; Frank Powel, Chester ; Chas. Carter, Wallingford.
1886-7 .- W.T. Maguire, Darby; WV. D. Ken- nedy, Clifton Heights ; C. L. Lashelle, Rock- dale ; M. P. Dickeson, Media ; S. W. Burns, Chester : J. B. Wood, --; H. C. Wood, Chatham ; Jacob Price, West Chester ; Isaac Massey, West Chester ; J. V. Fisher, Phila- delphia ; H. M. Downing, Chester county ; J. H. Fronfield, Media ; S. P. Nickle, Primos ; H. B. Brusstar, Lazaretto; S. A. M. Given, Clifton Heights.
1888 -H. B. Rockwell, jr., Clifton Heights; F. E. Johnston, Moores ; Walter Webb, Glen- olden ; F. F. Long, Ridley Park; F. E. In- gram, Philadelphia; G. M. Kuhry, Philadel- phia ; G. F. Baier, Norwood ; M. W. Gillmer, Ridley Park ; C. S. Mercer, Media ; Mary V. Mitchell, Media ; C. L. Pearson, Chester.
1889. - C. D. Smedley, Wayne ; M. W. Barr, Elwyn ; A. W. Wilmarth, Elwyn ; T. D. Clegg, Primos ; M. B. Miller, Media ; G. D. Cross, Chester ; A. A. Hoopman, Chester ; F. M. Eaton, Darby ; A. A. Bancroft, Chester ; S. R. Crothers, South Chester.
1890 .- M. M. Leahy, Philadelphia ; D. T. Laine, Media; G. M. Wells, Wayne; J. W. Trimble, Concord ; Fredrica E. Gladwin, Ches- ter ; Mary J. Cochran, Chester ; C. S. Kurtz, Linwood; O. B. Jones, jr., Morton; S. C. Webster, Media ; Milton Powell, Philadelphia; R. H. McNair, Lansdowne ; William Tonkin, Moores; J. E. Loughlin, Norwood.
1891 .- S. A. Beal, Media ; J. R. Johns, Chadds' Ford; W. G. Gardiner, Wayne; J. M. B.
Ward, Chester ; C. H. Wells, Ridley Park ; H. Von H. Stoever, Chester ; R. S. Maison, Chester ; W. K. Evans, Upland ; F. H. Evans, Chester; G. B. Tullidge, Fairview ; G. E. Gramm, Ardmore ; D. R. De Long, Morton ; William Allcutt, Linwood (practiced since 1871); E. R. De Long, Morton ; Alice Rogers, Media ; Walter Dunn, Clifton heights.
1892 .- D. M. Tindall, Morton ; E.S. Haines, Morton ; L. J. Blake, Elwyn ; P. N. Eckman, Philadelphia; D. C. Guthrie, Ridley Park ; W. J. Reinhard, Media : Rose D. Howe, Ches- ter ; Mary Brown, Swarthmore : V. C. Rob- erts, Upland ; A. L. Boughner, Pine Grove ; Jennie L. Adams, Ridley Park : F. J. Butter- worth, Lenni; F. F. Forwood, Thurlow ; C. M. Burk, Ridley Park ; A. J. Marston, Phila- delphia ; W. O. Smith, Philadelphia ; W. W. Strange, Mt. Rose.
1893 .- J. R. Garretson, Philadelphia ; D. W. Ogden, Philadelphia; W. H. Warrick, Philadelphia; W. W. Memminger, Upland ; W. H. Walling, Philadelphia : T. J. Bowes, Upland : G. C. Webster, J. C. Price, Ches- ter ; C. F. Alsentzer, South Chester ; A. F. Targett, Upland ; Maria C. Walsh, Norwood : F. R. Smith, Wilmington ; J. R. Smith, Wil- mington; W. H. Vallette, Media; T. O. Weatherley, South Chester ; H. P. Lorman, Wilmington.
CHAPTER XVI.
FINANCIAL - POSTAL - POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL
FINANCIAL ..
The financial prosperity of a county depends largely upon the condition of its banks. The banks of Delaware are substantial, prosperous institutions, and are managed upon sound and economic principles.
The first bank in the county was the old
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Delaware county bank at Chester, which was incorporated by act of Assembly of March 21, 1814. On March 14, 1864, it was changed from a State to a National bank, and as the Delaware County National bank has done business ever since. In 1832 an effort was made to obtain a charter for a bank to be known as the " Farmers' and Manufacturers' bank of Delaware county," but Governor Wolf vetoed the act of the legislature author- izing it.
One of the sections of the National banking act required all revenue officers and collectors to deposit their funds in the First National bank of the district in which their offices were located. This led to the establishment of the present First National bank of Chester, in which the revenue collections amounted to many thousand dollars in 1863. The First National was chartered in 1863, but was not regularly organized until May 15, 1864. In 1868 Broomall and Fairlamb established a banking house at Media.
The third chartered bank was the First National bank of Media, organized February 22, 1864. Twenty years now elapsed before another bank was organized, and the new- comer was called into existence at Chester on March 1, 1884, as the Chester National bank. The next bank in the county was the Charter National bank of Media, that was opened for business in April, 1887. The last bank or- ganized is the First National of Darby.
In connection with banking two large trust and deposit companies have been organized to meet the demands of the increasing volume of business in the county. The Delaware County Trust, Safe Deposit and Insurance Company, with offices at Chester and Media, was incorporated in 1885. The Media Title and Trust Company was incorporated January 15, 1891.
With six safe banks and two good trust and deposit companies the county affords the needed requirements for the transaction of all kinds of business.
POSTAL.
But very little information is obtainable of the early post routes and postoffices in the county. When the Federal postal service was instituted an office was established at Chester, but the first postmaster at that place of which we have any account was Aaron Cobourn, whose salary or emoluments for the year 1800 was eighty-five dollars and sixty-three cents. Among the first offices were Darby, Chester, and Marcus Hook, and but few offices were in the county until after the war of 1812. The establishment of cotton and woolen factories increased their numbers somewhat, but over two-thirds of the present postoffices have been established since the war.
In 1879 there were forty-one offices ; in 1881, fifty-one; in 1883, fifty-five; in 1885, fifty- seven; in 1888, sixty-five; in 1891, seventy- seven : in 1892, eighty : and in 1893, eighty- five.
The one letter carrier office in the county is Chester, where the free delivery system was secured by H. G. Ashmead, the historian, when acting as postmaster of that city. There . are four presidential postoffices, Chester and Media, second class ; and Thurlow and Wayne, third class. There are thirty-three money order offices, and of these Chester is an inter- national office.
POLITICAL.
It is not advisable from what little matter can be secured to enter into any account of the rise and progress of the political parties that have been or now are in existence in the county. Instead of giving county or town- ship election returns on State and local offices the popular vote for president, which has been secured as far back as 1832, is given :
POPULAR VOTE OF DELAWARE COUNTY AT PRESI- DENTIAL ELECTIONS FROM 1832 TO 1892.
1832. Democrat Andrew Jackson .. 955 Opposition . 1,423
1836. Democrat. Martin Van Buren, 1,030
Whig W'm. H. Harrison, 1, 224
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1840. Whig I'm. H. Harrison, 2,031
Democrat. Martin Van Buren, 1,335
Liberty James G. Birney . . O
1844. Democrat. . James K. Polk . . . 1,466
Whig Henry Clay. .. . 2,090 Liberty. James G. Birney . . I5
1848. Whig Zachary Taylor. . . 2, 194 Democrat. Lewis Cass ...... 1,547
Free Soil. Martin Van Buren, 84 1852. Democrat. Franklin Pierce .. 1,737 Whig Winfield Scott ... 2,083
Free Dem . John P. Hale. . . . 107
1856. Democrat. . James Buchanan .. 2,005
Republican . John C. Fremont, 1,590 American Millard Fillmore . 1,010
1860. Republican . Abraham Lincoln, 3, 181
Reading Ticket .. 1,534 Democrat.
Ind. Dem. . Steph. A. Douglas, 152
Cons't Union. . John Bell 288 1864. Republican ... Abraham Lincoln, 3,453 Democrat. . Geo. B. McClellan, 2,056
1868. Republican . Ulysses S. Grant, 4, 166
Democrat. Horatio Seymour, 2,616
1872. Republican ... Ulysses S. Grant, 4, 231 Dem.and Lib .. Horace Greeley .. 1, 166 Temperance .. James Black . . . 0
Democrat. .. . Charles O'Connor, O
1876. Republican .Ruth'f'rd B. Hays, 5,484 Democrat. Samuel J. Tilden, 3,250 Greenback. . Peter Cooper .. . . 0 Prohibition . . Green Clay Smith, 2
1880. Republican .. James A. Garfield, 7,008 Democrat. . W. S. Hancock .. 4,473 Greenback . . James B. Weaver, 2I Prohibition . Neal Dow. 17 1884. Republican . James G. Blaine .. 7,512
Democrat. . Grover Cleveland, 4,508 Greenback Benj. F. Butler . . 38
Prohibition
. John P. St. John,
177
1888. Republican
. Benj. Harrison .. 8,791 Grover Cleveland, 5,028
Democrat. .
Prohibition .. Clinton B. Fisk .. 346
Greenback .. Alson J. Streeter, 5
1892. Republican .. . Benj. Harrison .. 9,272 Democrat ..... Grover Cleveland, 5,520 Prohibition . . John Bidwell .. . 462
Populist . . James B. Weaver, If
HISTORICAL.
The earliest historians of the Dutch and Swedish settlements on the Delaware are Cam- panius and Acrelius. In the "New Sweden " of the former, and in the "History of New Sweden" by the latter, are given quite a lengthy account of the Swedish settlers in what is now Delaware county. Clay's " Annals of the Swedes on the Delaware" also throw considerable light upon some facts of early history.
In 1843 Sherman Day issued his " Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania," in which the description of Delaware county was quite full and interesting. In 1859 60 appeared a directory of Chester, containing a concise history of the borough, by William Whitehead. Twelve years later Dr. George Smith's "His- tory of Delaware county, Pennsylvania."
During the Centennial year considerable contributions were made to the history of the county. At Chester the Centennial oration, delivered by Isaac T. Coates, M.D., was after- ward printed in book form. Hon. William Ward read, on Independence day, a sketch of Chester from its first settlement, and Judge John M. Broomall read, before the Delaware County Institute of Science, a paper on the "History of Delaware county, Pennsylvania, for the Past Century." In this year appeared the first edition of Dr. Engle's "History of the Commonwealth," in which was H. G. Ash- mead's sketch of Delaware county.
In 1877 appeared "Chester and its Vicinity," by John Hill Martin, and in 1881 was issued Cope and Futhey's "History of Chester county, Pennsylvania," in which was much valuable information concerning the southern part of Delaware county, especially Chester city.
Between 1883 and 1890 Henry Graham Ashmead wrote three valuable works in con- nection with the history of the county. His first work was "History of Delaware county, Pennsylvania, "published in 1884 ; the second,
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· Historical Sketch of Chester, on Delaware," 1885 ; and third. "Chester. Pennsylvania, History of its Industrial Progress and Advan- tages for Large Manufactures."
The two large county histories of Smith and Ashmead, and the extensive history of Chester by Martin, demand more consideration than mere mention.
Dr. George Smith's " History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania," was written by him under the direction and appointment of the Delaware County Institute of Science, which had at first secured the services of Joseph Edwards to prepare a county history. Mr. Edwards died upon the very threshold of his work, and the task of completing the work was urged upon Dr. Smith, who finally con- sented, and produced the able and interesting work which bears his name. He treats chrono- logically of the history of the county, gives a notice of its geology and a catalogue of its minerals, plants, quadrupeds and birds, and records a large number of biographies of the early settlers and eminent men of Delaware county. The catalogue of quadrupeds and birds was prepared by John Cassin, the orni- thologist. Of the character and merits of his work we give the opinion of a succeeding his- torian, who says : " In 1862 he (Dr. Smith) published his 'History of Delaware County,' a volume which will stand as an enduring monument to the learning, accuracy and thor- oughness of its author, and so long as Ameri- can history continues to be a theme of inves- tigation and study, will be quoted and referred to as authority."
Henry Graham Ashmead's "History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania," issued from the press in 1884, was written to meet the de- mand awakened in the county through the Centennial celebrations, for a history wider in scope and richer in local event, than Dr. Smith's admirable volume. Mr. Ashmead's Centennial sketches drew attention to him as one capable to undertake the great and ex- haustive labor of preparing such a work. His
objects upon entering upon the labor were authenticity, exhaustiveness and impartiality, and he produced an interesting and valuable volume, that received the approbation of the intelligent public. In the preparation of some of the local history Mr. Ashmead was assisted by Austin N. Hungerford, a historical writer of ability and experience. Ashmead's work since its appearance has not only been re- ceived as an authority in Pennsylvania upon the history of Chester county, but has been accepted in other States as one of the stand- ards in reference to the early settlements upon the Delaware.
John Hill Martin's " Chester and its Vicin- ity," as its name suggests, is a local history, and is written in a pleasing and entertaining style. The work gives many important his- torical facts of general interest, and is remark- ably rich in genealogical sketches of the old families of Chester.
CHAPTER XVIL
SLAVES AND REDEMPTIONERS - EARLY IRON WORKS AND PAPER MILLS.
SLAVES.
The institution of human servitude was in- troduced by the Dutch and Swedes on the Delaware, but it did not flourish, and in 1677, only five years before Penn came, there was only one slave owner on the Delaware river northward from Upland, and that was James Sandelands, who had one slave. In 1688 the GermantownFriends protested against slavery, and as early as 1711 the assembly passed an act to prevent the further importation of negroes into the province, but this law was repealed by the English government.
The negro slaves in Chester county were brought from theWest Indies, being worth in 1750from £40to £100 Pennsylvania currency.
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The first slaves manumitted were in 1701, by Lydia Wade, widow of Robert Wade, andduring the Revolutionary war many of the whigs lib- erated their slaves. Toward the latter part of that struggle public opinion became so strong against slavery, that on March 1, 1780, a law was passed for its gradual abolition. Under this act all the slaves in Chester county were registered, and all children born of slaves after November 1, 1780, became free at twenty- eight years of age.
Slavery passed rapidly away from the ter- ritory of Delaware county. By the census of 1790 there were fifty slaves in the county, which had decreased to seven in 1800. In 1810 there was none ; in 1820, one was recorded, and in 1830 two were reported. In the latter year, how- ever, slavery became extinct in the county.
REDEMPTIONERS.
Under the system of redemptive servitude, the redemptioner, in order to reimburse the master or owner of a ship for his passage and board from England to this country, agreed that his services might be sold for a stipulated time. It had some advantages, and also was subject to many abuses. It gave a chance to many mechanics and worthy people to get to this country, while some speculated in the business. Many of the redemptioners received treatment no better than what was experienced by the slave. Trading in redemptioners became quite a business, and was continued as late as 1785 when it went down. James An- nesley, earl of Anglesey, was the most noted case of a redemptioner brought to Delaware county, and on the circumstances of his case several of the world's great novelists have founded celebrated romances.
EARLY IRON WORKS.
Thornbury, afterward known as Sacrum Forge, was erected at the present Glen Mills by John Taylor, prior to 1742. A slitting mill was afterward erected, and in 1836 the works were changed to the paper mills now known as
the Glen mills. The old forge at Rockdale, in Aston township, seems to have been among the earliest iron works of southeastern Pennsyl- vania, and was built previous to 1750. In 1809 the nail mill was erected, and twenty-one years later the works consisted of a nail-slit- ting and rolling mill, to which the iron ore and coal used in smelting was brought from Ches- ter and Marcus Hook, where it was unloaded from shallops. These iron works seem to have went down about 1830.
Edwards' forge and rolling mills were situ- ated above Glen mills, in Thornbury township. They were erected prior to 1778, by John Ed- wards, and went down about 1835, the rolling mill being washed away in the great flood of 1843.
The old Sable nail works, in Middletown township and opposite Rockdale forge, was built in 1809, by Capt. Henry Moore. The Thatcher tilt mill was built prior to 1811, above the present Wawa Station, and in 1810- II the Sycamore or Bishop rolling and slitting mills were erected in Upper Providence town- ship. At the latter named rolling mill, in 1812, was made the first successful use of anthracite coal as a fuel in the manufactures of this country. The Franklin iron works in Nether Providence township were in operation in 18II, and in 1813 Judah Dobson changed a saw mill to a rolling mill, in Middletown town- ship, which, tradition asserts, was a copper, and not a rolling mill.
EARLY PAPER MILLS.
The old Ivy paper mill, the second of its kind on the American continent, was built in Concord township, in 1729, by Thomas Will- cox, and descended from father to son through five successive generations. On three different occasions, far apart, its services were said to have been services of necessity to the Federal government.
Following the lead of the Ivy mills, a num- ber of paper mills were built in Delaware county. By the year 1800 it is said more
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paper was made in Delaware county than in all the other counties of the United States.
Two of the more prominent of the early paper mills were : Truman's, built in Upper Darby township, in 1778; and Lewis', in Nether Providence, in :826.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CENSUS STATISTICS- POPULATION, MAN- UFACTURES AND AGRICULTURE.
While numbersare not the progress measure of county life, yet their rapid increase indexes every great stride in the development of a county's commerce, manufactures and mate- rial resources ; and their marked decrease chronicles the decline of any important indus- try and every great drain by emigration. This progress or decay can be partly traced in the swelling and the ebbing of the tide of numbers, and what is the story that the census tells of the history of Delaware county? It shows an increase of population at the end of every decade since 1790, when the first Fed- eral census was taken. In the decade from 1790 to 1800 the large increase in numbers shows the size of the stream of immigration from the old world that was pouring into the county, while the scarcely visible increase in the next census period reveals the decline of immigration and tells the story of the retarded progress of agriculture and the crude state of the early manufacturing industries: In the three decades from 1820 to 1850 the remark- able increase of population tells the story of the influence of improved methods of farming and the successful inauguration of the cotton and woolen industries of the county. The four decades from 1850 to 1890 show a wonderful increase in numbers and stand as an index to the growth of the great manufacturing indus- tries of the country, yet the first of these de-
cades has such a small increase on its preced- ing, and nothing near the increase of its suc- ceeding decade, that it indicates some dis- turbing element, which was the late great civil war.
The following condensed and classified sta- tistics have been carefully compiled from the United States census reports :
STATISTICS OF POPULATION
TOTAL POPULATION.
Census.
White.
Colored.
Total.
1790
9,144
289
9,483
1800
12,157
645
12,809
1810.
13,912
822
14,734
1820
13,701
1,108
14,810
1830
16,062
1,258
17,323
1840
18,458
1,333
19,791
1850
23, 122
1,557
24.679
1860.
28,948
1,649
30,597
1870
36,659
2,744
39,403
1880.
51,487
4,613
56, 101
I 890.
67,684
6,965
74.683
In 1890 the native population was 31, 167 males, and 31,416 females ; and the foreign population numbered 6, 208 males, and 5,892 females.
MINOR CIVIL DIVISIONS, 1800, 1820, 1830 AND 1840.
Township or Borough. 1800.
1820.
1830.
1840.
Aston
664
753
1,070
1,469
Bethel.
237
324
367
386
Birmingham
511
315
584
605
Concord
920 1,032
1,002
1,057
Chester borough
657
848 1
1,790
Chester.
960
638
672
Darby borough.
1,980 1,004
1,085 1,267
Upper Darby
862
692
1,325
1,489
Edgmont .
509
640
758
713
Haverford.
605
786
1,039
Upper Chichester. .
385
413
431
475
Carried forward . 7,633 7.254
8,122 10,290
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Brought forward. 7,633 7,254
8,122 10,290
Lower Chichester. .. 522
502
465
666
Marple.
631
700
793
759
Middletown.
761
994
1,188
1,45I
Bethel
554
589
595
Nether Providence.
421
566
747
1,025
Newtown.
479
611
667
752
Radnor.
874 1,059
1,097
1,205
Ridley
742
893
1,038
1,075
Springfield.
521
576
700
860
Thornbury
508
537
610
675
Tinicum
272
182
166
I53
Totals
12,809 14,810 17,361 19.791
MINOR CIVIL DIVISIONS, 1850 AND 1860.
Township or Borough.
1850.
1860.
Aston
1,558
1,771
Bethel
426
5II
Birmingham
566
621
Concord
1,049
1,229
Chester borough.
1,667
4,631
Chester.
1,553
2,026
Upper Chichester.
531
555
Middletown
2,578
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