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the more authentic. His sketch of the family, however, which speaks of Crispins at the Norman Conquest of England as well as those in the early settlement of Pennsylvania is literally bristling with errors ; even as near relatives as his uncles and aunts are much mixed in his account, and while he says his father was the son of Silas Crispin's second wife he speaks of the first wife as his grandmother, and called her by the second wife's name, Mary. In fact, the account is only wholly correct in the last paragraph, which relates to himself, his wife and chil- dren, and is as follows : "I now live in Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, No. 16, and have had, by Rachel, my wife, five sons and five daughters, five of whom now live with me, to wit, Mary, my eldest, Sarah, Hester and Rachel, and my only son William. I am now aged 50, in the 7th Month last, and have seen great changes in this life, and one solemn change will fix me unalterably-but I have a well grounded hope it will be for the better. WILLIAM CRISPIN."
William Crispin married, December 10, 1762, Rachel, daughter of John and Mary (Dobbins) Wharton, and granddaughter of Thomas and Rachel ( Thomas) Wharton, ancestors of the celebrated Wharton family of Philadelphia, of whom some account is given in these volumes.
Issue of William and Rachel (Wharton) Crispin:
Mary Crispin, eldest child, d. unm .;.
Hester Crispin, b. 1764, d. unm., Dec. 26, 1849; will probated Jan. 7, 1850; called Hetty in all documents extant except the narrative of her father, above quoted; probably named for her great-grandfather Silas Crispin's first wife, Esther Holme;
Rachel Crispin, d. unm .; letters of administration granted to her sister, Hetty Crispin, July 15, 1822;
William Crispin, b. 1773, d. unm., Aug. 27, 1808; was living with his father at No. 16 Chestnut street in 1797, and until the latter's death, and probably resided there until his own death;
Three sons and a daughter, died young;
Thomas Crispin, b. 1778, d. Sept. 23, 1781 ;
SARAH CRISPIN, m. Sept. 12, 1801, William Levis; of whom presently.
WILLIAM LEVIS, who married Sarah Crispin, was a son of Samuel Levis (III), of Springfield township, Delaware county, by his wife, Mary, daughter of Joshua and Margaret Thompson, of Ridley township, Delaware county; grandson of Samuel Levis (II), born at Harby, Leicestershire, February 8, 1680-1, member of Provincial Assembly from Chester county, Pennsylvania, 1739-47, by his wife, Hannah Stretch, of Philadelphia ; and great-grandson of Samuel Levis (I), (son of Christopher and Mary Levis, of Harby, Leicestershire), born September 30, 1649, died in Springfield, Chester (now Delaware) county, 1734, by his wife, Elizabeth Clator, of Nottinghamshire, England, whom he married May 4, 1680.
Samuel Levis and William Garrat (ancestor of the prominent Garrett family of Chester county and Philadelphia), both of Harby, Leicestershire, purchased of William Penn by deeds of lease and release, dated August 9 and 10, 1684, 1000 acres to be laid out in Pennsylvania, and came to Pennsylvania, bringing certificate from Friends at Harby, dated 5mo. (July ) 20, 1684.
Samuel Levis (1) settled in Springfield township, on land taken up under the deeds above quoted. He was a member of the Provincial Council, 1692-93 ; Mem- ber of Assembly, 1689-94-98-1700-06-07-08-09; and was commissioned a Justice for Chester County Court in 1686 and again in 1689.
William Levis, first above mentioned, was commissioned May 14, 1777, Second
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Lieutenant of Sixth Company, Third Battalion, Chester County Penna. Militia, commanded by Colonel Caleb Davis.
Issue of William and Sarah (Crispin) Levis:
WILLIAM LEVIS, b. Nov. 17, 1804; of whom presently;
Edmund Levis, b. Nov. 17, 1808, d. March 20, 1858; m. Dec. 13, 1827, Elizabeth Thomp- son (b. Nov. II, 1806, d. April 6, 1849) ; had two sons and three daughters, of whom only one son married.
WILLIAM LEVIS, son of William and Sarah (Crispin) Levis, born November 17, 1804, died April 6, 1869. He married, October 24, 1839, Elizabeth Allen, born June 29, 1808, died October 24, 1891, daughter of Brittain White, by his wife, Eliz- abeth Gray.
Issue of William and Elisabeth A. (White) Levis:
Elizabeth Gray Levis, b. Dec. 5, 1840, d. April 25, 1887; m. Jan. 16, 1868, Frank Knorr Hipple, b. July 2, 1839, d. 1906, son of Peter S. Hipple by his wife, Anna Knorr. He was a member of the Phila. bar, and President of the Real Estate Trust Company of Phila., and a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. They had issue :
William Levis Hipple, b. Phila. Oct. 19, 1868; d. Phila. June 1, 1895; entered Haverford College, class of '90, in 1886, left at close of sophomore year; meinber Merion Cricket Club, of Haverford, and Markham Club of Phila. ; unm. ;
Elizabeth White Hipple, b. May 12, 1870, d. April 14, 1901 ;
Gertrude Hipple, b. Nov. 29, 1871, d. May 30, 1875;
Heyward Drayton Hipple, b. Jan. 14, 1876, d. June 21, 1881;
Frank Wharton Hipple, b. Aug. 16, 1877.
Sarah Levis, b. Feb. 6, 1843; m. Dec. 19, 1892, Frank Knorr Hipple, her deceased sister's husband; she is a member of the Colonial Dames of America;
Henry Levis, b. in Phila. Oct. 26, 1844, d. in Switzerland, Aug. 4, 1899, unm .; was a Civil Engineer, and sometime in employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company; mem- ber of the Philadelphia, Rittenhouse, and Union League clubs of Phila .; the German- town Cricket Club; the Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Pennsyl- vania, to which he was admitted Nov. 24, 1893; also a citizen of the state in Schuylkill; Samuel White Levis, b. March 6, 1847; member of the Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by descent from Samuel Levis I. Samuel Levis II, Samuel Levis III, Lieut. Richard Stockton, and Christopher Wetherill; member of Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution by descent from Lieut. William Levis, and Commissary General William Crispin; member of Merion Cricket Club of Haver- ford, Pa., and of the Rittenhouse Club, of Phila .; unm .;
Mary White Levis, b. July 23, 1850; m. Dec. II, 1877, George B. McCulloh, b. 1834, d. March 8, 1887, son of William S. McCulloh by his wife, Galatee Labordaire, and had issue :
Josephine McCulloh, b. May 6, 1879, well-known in Phila. society as an amateur vocal musician of exceptional talent, and a member of numerous select musical societies ;
Elizabeth White McCulloh, b. June 28, 1880, d. June 21, 1883;
George B. McCulloh, b. Aug. 16, 1884;
Henry Levis McCulloh, b. Dec. 28, 1886, d. July 22, 1887.
TYSON FAMILY.
Among the later arrivals at Germantown from the little town of Crefeld on the Rhine, the place of nativity of most of the founders of that first German settle- ment on Pennsylvania soil, was Cornelius Tyson, born in Crefeld in the year 1652. The exact date of his arrival in Pennsylvania is not known, but he was a resident of Germantown in 1703. He was possibly brother of Reynier and Herman Tyson, the former of whom at least, was among the original thirteen families who crossed the Atlantic in the Concord in 1683, and founded Germantown; and the latter, Herman, is mentioned in connection with Reynier in the Streyper correspondence as brother of the wife of Jan Streypers, of Kaldkirchen, near Crefeld, who pur- chased 5000 acres of land of William Penn on March 10, 1682. An account of Reynier Tyson and his descendants is given in these volumes. The similarity of the names of the sons and other descendants of Reynier and Cornelius Tyson would seem to indicate that they had a common parentage. Renier Tiesen, as the names of both he and Cornelius were originally spelled, was a convert to Quaker- ism before coming to Pennsylvania, while Cornelius held fast to the faith of his fathers and was a consistent disciple of Menno Simon, and lies buried among the early brethren of that faith, in Axe's Burying-Ground, Germantown, where his tombstone, probably the oldest in existence erected over a German in Pennsyl- vania, records the fact that "Cornelis Tiesen" died May 9, 1716, at the age of 63 years. His will dated April 6, 1716, and probated July 27, 1716, mentions his wife Margaret, eldest son Matthias, youngest son Peter, daughters, Barbara, wife of Matthias Cunrads; Aeltje, wife of John Cunrads; Williamptje, wife of Paul Engle, and Yanicken, wife of Laurentz Hendricks. The witnesses were Willm. Striepers, Herman Groethausen and Francis Daniel Pastorius. The names of the children of Cornelius Tyson show that he was of Holland and not German origin, though born outside the limits of modern Netherlands. Of the sons-in-law of Cornelius Tyson, the Cunrads, Matthias, who married Barbara in 1705, and John, who married Alice Tyson, were sons of Thones Cunders or Kunders, one of the original settlers of Germantown, and natives of Crefeld. They settled in Hors- ham township, where Matthias died in 1726, and John later, and both have left numerous descendants.
Paul Engle and Laurentz Hendricks, the other two sons-in-law of Cornelius Tyson, were both early purchasers of land in Bebber's township, as were their brothers-in-law Matthias and Peter Tyson, though the Engles were later residents of Bristol township, Philadelphia county, where the old homestead was occupied by three or four generations of the name. Lorentz Hendricks settled later in Tow- amencin township, where he died in 1753, his wife Yanicken (Jane), and eight sons and two daughters surviving him. One of the latter, Margaret, was the wife of Peter Tyson, Jr. Of Peter Tyson, younger son of Cornelius, we have little record, except that he married Catharine - and had a son Peter, and other children.
MATTHIAS TYSON, eldest son of Cornelius and Margaret, was born in Crefeld and accompanied his parents to Pennsylvania. He married Barbara Sellen, daugh-
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ter of Hendrick Sellen, another native of Crefeld, and original settler of German- town, and one of the first trustees of the First Mennonite church of Germantown. Some years after his arrival in Pennsylvania, he made a trip back to Crefeld, and returned to Pennsylvania, thus crossing the ocean three times. A paper dated 1706, containing his signature, is in possession of Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker, who is a descendant, through Matthias Tyson's daughter Margaret, who married Jacob Pannebecker. Hendrick Sellen left four children, Jacob, a "shopkeeper" of Worcester township, who died without issue in 1759, leaving a legacy to the poor of the Mennonite congregation at "Perkyomie & Skepack;" John; Barbara, the wife of Matthias Tyson, and Elizabeth, the wife of Arnold Van Fossen.
Matthias Tyson was the owner of 280 acres of land in Perkiomen township, which descended to his children and grandchildren. He died there in 1766, his wife Barbara surviving him.
Issue of Matthias and Barbara (Sellen) Tyson:
CORNELIUS TYSON, of whom presently;
John Tyson, m. Susanna, dau. of Abraham Updegrave, of Perkiomen, descendant of Abraham Op den Graeff, one of founders of Germantown;
Henry Tyson, large landowner on the Skippack, m. Madeline Kuster, of whose descend- ants we have no record;
Margaret Tyson, m. Jacob Pannebecker;
William Tyson, m. Alice Nash, and left descendants ;
Benjamin Tyson, landowner on the Skippack in 1766, of whom we have no further record;
Joseph Tyson, m. (first) Ann Nash, sister to his brother William's wife, and (second) Hannah Updegrave, sister to his brother John's wife.
CORNELIUS TYSON, eldest son of Matthias and Barbara (Sellen) Tyson, inherit- ed the homestead of his father in Perkiomen township, and resided there all his life. He married March 30, 1738, Barbara Pannebecker or Pennypacker, daugh- ter of Hendrick Pannebecker, the founder of the Pennypacker family in Penn- sylvania ; an account of which is given elsewhere in these volumes. She was born in 1720, and her husband was several years her senior.
Issue of Cornelius and Barbara (Pennypacker) Tyson:
Matthias Tyson, b. Jan. 6, 1739; Mary Tyson, b. Nov. 27, 1740; Henry Tyson, b. Oct. 5, 1742; John Tyson, b. Nov. 12, 1744;
William Tyson, b. April 11, 1746, d. inf .;
Benjamin Tyson, b. Feb. 16, 1751;
JOSEPH TYSON, b. Feb. 16, 1751, d. May 2, 1829, m. (first) Elizabeth Robinson, (second) Barbara Wentz; of whom presently;
Cornelius Tyson, b. Nov. 2, 1753; William Tyson, b. March 2, 1756; Elizabeth Tyson, b. March 31, 1758.
JOSEPH TYSON, son of Cornelius and Barbara (Pennypacker) Tyson, born in Perkiomen township, then Philadelphia, now Montgomery county, February 16, 1751, was a farmer in that county and lived to the advanced age of eighty years. He married (first) in 1773, Elizabeth Robinson, born November 23, 1753, and died November 23, 1783. He married (second) at the Second Presbyterian
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Church of Philadelphia, September 30, 1784, Barbara Wentz, of a family long settled in Whitpain township.
Issue of Joseph and Elizabeth (Robinson) Tyson:
Hannah Tyson, b. "Jan. 6, 1774, d. inf .;
Hannah Tyson, b. March 25, 1775;
Mary Tyson, b. April 18, 1776, d. Nov. 26, 1837; m. - Styer;
CORNELIUS TYSON, b. Nov. 23, 1778, of whom presently;
John Tyson, b. July 21, 1781.
Issue of Joseph and Barabara (Wentz) Tyson:
Barbara Tyson, b. June 28, 1785, d. April 9, 1847, m. Yocum;
Charlotte Tyson, b. Oct. 19, 1789, d. Dec., 1881, in her 93rd year, m. Abraham Wentz, of Whitpain twp., Montgomery co., and had several children, eldest of whom, Joseph Tyson Wentz, inherited his father's homestead;
Susanna Tyson, b. July 9, 1809, d. Aug. 24, 1841, m. - .Detwiler.
CORNELIUS TYSON, eldest son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Robinson) Tyson, born in Montgomery county, November 23, 1778, was a much respected farmer in Worcester township, and during his active years was called upon to fill a number of positions of public trust. He married in 1799, Hannah Smith, born December 2, 1782, daughter of Jacob and Deborah (Koplin) Smith, of Montgomery county, the former born December 24, 1752, died September 12, 1822; and the latter born April 10, 1756, died April 2, 1842.
Issue of Cornelius and Hannah (Smith) Tyson:
Charlotte Tyson, b. Oct. 15, 1800;
Joseph Tyson, b. Feb. 2, 1803, d. June 18, 1824;
Samuel Tyson, b. July 16, 1807;
Maria Tyson, b. June 22, 1805, d. Nov. 15, 1881, m. John Zimmerman;
Jacob Smith Tyson, b. Nov. 20, 1809;
Jared Tyson, b. April 25, 1812;
HENRY TYSON, M. D., b. May 21, 1815, d. April 29, 1872, mn. Gertrude Haviland; of whom presently ;
James Tyson, b. Sept. 16, 1817, d. July 26, 1900, m. Catharine Ryder ;
Cornelius Tyson, M. D., b. May 13, 1820, d. Jan. 26, 1846, graduated at Penna. Medical Coll., Phila., 1843, and practiced in his native township until death three years later; Joseph and Charles Tyson, twins, b. Oct. 20, 1824, d. inf .;
Elizabeth Tyson, b. Sept. 28, 1826, d. Aug. 25, 1856, m. Edward Evans.
DR. HENRY TYSON, born in Montgomery county, May 21, 1815, spent his early life on his father's farm in Worcester township, and received a good common school education. He learned the trade of a stone mason, but being very fond of books soon abandoned his trade for the more congenial vocation of a school teacher. While conducting a school in Philadelphia, he took up the study of medi- cine at the Pennsylvania Medical College, among the instructors of which were the distinguished physicians and scientists: Dr. Samuel George Morton, Dr. George McClellan, and Dr. William Rush. He received his degree of M. D. in 1843. His younger brother, Cornelius Tyson, graduated in the same class.
Dr. Henry Tyson began the practice of his profession at Friedensburg, Berks county, Pennsylvania, in 1843, but soon after removed to Reading, where he prac- ticed until the death of his brother, Cornelius, in 1846, when he succeeded to his
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practice in his native township of Worcester, Montgomery county, where he re- mained until 1850, and then returned to Reading. In 1854 he was elected Warden of the Berks County Prison, and filled that position in addition to attending to his practice as a physician for twelve years. Resigning from the prison he practiced medicine in Reading a few years longer, but his health failing, he removed to a farm in Exeter township, a few miles below Reading in 1868, and spent the re- mainder of his days there, dying April 29, 1872.
Dr. Henry Tyson married in 1839, Gertrude (Haviland), daughter of Caleb Haviland, born April 18, 1774, by his wife Mary Coxe. She was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 7, 1803, and married (first) May 1, 1823, John Cas- well. She died in Exeter township, Berks county, December 18, 1870.
Issue of Dr. Henry and Gertrude (Haviland ) Tyson:
JAMES TYSON, M. D., b. Oct. 26, 1841, of whom presently; Hannah Tyson, b. at Friedensburg 1844, who lived a few months only; Henry Tyson, b. Nov. 9, 1846, d. Oct. II, 1882, was a farmer in Berks co.
JAMES TYSON, M. D., eldest son of Dr. Henry and Gertrude (Haviland) Tyson, was born in the city of Philadelphia, October 26, 1841. His parents removing to Reading, Pennsylvania, when he was a small child, he received his preliminary education in public and private schools there, later attending the Friends Central School, Philadelphia, where he prepared for college and entered Haverford College, from which he graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1860, and received the degree of A. M. in 1864. He studied medicine under the direction of his father, and of Dr. John B. Brooke, of Reading, and Dr. John Neill, of Philadelphia, and entering the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, received his medical degree from that institution in 1863. During the last year of his student life he was acting medical cadet in the Military Hospitals at Philadelphia, and shortly after his graduation was appointed Acting Assistant Surgeon in the United States Army, and served during the summer of 1863 in Philadelphia and Harrisburg. In July, 1863, he was elected resident physician in the Pennsylvania Hospital and served until the following April, when he again entered the service of the United States Government as a surgeon, and served until the close of the War of the Rebellion in the Philadelphia Military Hospitals and for a time at Winchester, Virginia. In 1864 he began the practice of medicine in Philadelphia, and has con- tinued to reside there until the present time (1909). He also became instructor of private classes of students at the University of Pennsylvania with the session of 1864-5. In 1868 he was appointed lecturer on Microscopy in the Medical Depart- ment of the University, and lecturer on Urinary Chemistry in 1870, from 1870-78 he was Professor of Physiology and Microscopy in the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery. On the organization of the new Hospital of the University of Pennsyl- vania, in 1874, he was made lecturer on Pathological Anatomy and Histology. In 1878 he was elected Professor of Pathology and Morbid Anatomy in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania and in 1889 was transferred to the chair of Clinical Medicine, and in 1899 to the chair of Medicine, which he now holds.
Dr. Tyson was Secretary of the Faculty of Medicine at the University 1877-88, and Dean of the same Faculty 1888-92. He was one of the visiting physicians of St. Joseph's Hospital, Philadelphia, 1871-2; was appointed Microscopist to the
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Philadelphia Hospital 1868, Pathologist, 1879, and Visiting Physician, 1872-90, and again from 1893 to the present time. He was President of the Medical Board of the Hospital 1886-90. He is also ex-officio one of the physicians of the Uni- versity Hospital, and was one of the Board of Managers 1874-78, and was again made manager in 1891.
He was one of the incorporators of the Rush Hospital for Consumption and Allied Diseases, in Philadelphia, in 1890, and was consulting physician 1890-92, and visiting physician 1892-93, when he became a trustee of the hospital and is now chairman of the executive committee. He was appointed consulting physician to the Kensington Hospital for Women in 1891, consulting physician to St. Mary's Hospital in 1897, and one of the visiting physicians of the Pennsylvania Hospital in December, 1902.
In 1871 and 1872 Dr. Tyson assisted in editing the Philadelphia Medical Times, and he also edited four volumes of the Transactions of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia (1871-77). In addition to numerous papers on histology and pathology and clinical lectures on general medicine, he has published "The Cell Doctrine; Its History and Present State" (Philadelphia, 1870), second edition, 1878; "An Introduction to Practical Histology (1873) ; "Practical Examination of the Urine" ( 1875) ; tenth edition ; "A Treatise on Bright's Disease and Diabetes" (1881) ; a Handbook on "Physical Diagnosis," fourth edition 1888; and a Text Book on Practice of Medicine (1896, fourth edition, 1905).
Dr. Tyson became a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1886, and was Chairman of the Section of General Medicine in 1898, a member of the Pathological Society in 1868, was its Recorder 1869-77, Vice-president 1871-82, and President 1882-84. He became a member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society in 1874, was its Vice-president for the year 1895-96, and its President in 1897 ; became a member of the American Medical Association in 1872, and of the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania in 1875. He was recorder of the Biological and Microscopical Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences from 1868-72, vice-director from 1872-77, and one of the original members of the Obstetrical Society of Philadelphia in 1869; was one of the founders of the Asso- ciation of American Physicians, limited to 125 members from the United States and Canada, organized in 1886. He is a member of the American Philosophical Soci- ety, elected in 1887, and a member of the Wistar Association. He became a mem- ber of the American Climatolological Association in 1898, but resigned shortly afterward in 1904. Dr. Tyson was elected Vice-president of the College of Physi- cians of Philadelphia, and in 1907 President.
Dr. James Tyson was married in 1865, to Frances Bosdevex, of Brussels, and they had issue :
Thomas Mellor Tyson, M. D., b. Phila. Sept. 21, 1866, entered Univ. of Pa. as partial student, 1885, entered Med. Dept. of same Univ. in 1886; and graduated in 1890; has been Instructor in Clinical Medicine at Univ. of Pa., Assistant Physician to Univ. Hosp., Visiting Physician to Rush Hosp. for Treatment of Consumption, Visiting Physician to Phila. Hosp .; is member of Phila. Co. Medical Society, and other scien- tific organizations; m. 1890, Gertrude Harrar, of Montgomery co., Pa., and had issue : Frances Tyson, b. Aug. 31, 1896.
Helen B. Tyson, b. Dec. 3, 1868, m. May 20, 1905, Henry W. Stokes, of Phila., and had issue :
James Tyson Stokes, b. Nov. 23, 1906.
YEATES FAMILY.
JASPER YEATES, native of Yorkshire, who had been some years engaged in mer- cantile ventures in West Indies, came to Pennsylvania the latter part of the seven- teenth century, and located at Upland, now Chester. It is said that he mar- ried in the West Indies and that his wife died there without issue. He married at Upland about 1690, Catharine, daughter of James Sandelands, said to have been a native of Scotland, who settled at Upland about 1675, by his wife Anika, daugh- ter of Joran Keen, born at Upland, January 26, 1670-1. Joran Keen, or Kyn, was born in Sweden in the year 1620, and came to the South River with Gov. Printz, in the "Fama," sailing from Stockholm August 16, 1642, and arriving at Fort Christina, near New Castle, February 15, 1643. James Sandelands, who married Anika, or Anne, Keen, was a captain of militia at Upland, 1675, and a considerable landowner under the jurisdiction of the Upland Court, his name frequently ap- pearing on the ancient records of that court. He was one of the nine members of Gov. Markham's Council, 1681, and the first Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania is said to have met in his "double house" at Upland. He was com- missioned a Justice at Upland, 1681, and served until his death, April 12, 1692, at the age of fifty-seven years. The arms of the Sandelands family, "Ar. a bend az," with various emblems of mortality, are well carved on a mural tablet erected to his memory by his son in St. Paul's Church at Chester. Catharine Sandelands, daughter of James and Anne, married (first) Alexander Creker, who died soon after the marriage, and (second) Jasper Yeates, above mentioned.
Jasper Yeates purchased in 1697, a tract of land at the mouth of Naaman's Creek, in New Castle county, on which were erected flour and bolting mills, and in the following year additional land in Chester, and erected extensive granaries on the bank of the creek. He also established a bakery, and erected for himself the "venerable Mansion" still standing on the west side of Second street near Edgmont avenue, overlooking the Delaware, where he resided many years, remov- ing towards the close of his life to New Castle. He is said to have been educated for the law ; at least he seems to have had the reputation of a good knowledge of law, which gave him considerable prominence in the community. In 1694 he was appointed a Justice of the Chester county courts, and he was an associate Justice of Supreme Court of Province of Pennsylvania, 1691-1711. He was also a justice of the Lower Counties on the Delaware, 1717-1720. On December 25, 1696, he was ad- mitted to Provincial Council, and remained a member of that body until his death, 1720, though probably during the time when there was contention and division be- tween the Assemblies and representatives of the Province and those of the territories on the Delaware, he took little part in sessions of Council. In October, 1699, he was elected a representative in the General Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania, from New Castle, and was the leader of the representatives from the Lower Counties in the controversies in the Assembly over the organization of a military force and the fortification of the ports on the Delaware for defense against inva- sion, which resulted in the withdrawal of the representatives of New Castle, Kent and Sussex, from the Provincial body, and eventually in 1703, to the establishment
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