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river, and four hundred and fourteen acres in Luzerne county; to his daugh- ter, Sarah Maria Theresa, Marchioness de Casa Yrujo, eight tracts on Sewick- ley creek in Allegheny county, one thousand two hundred and sixty-six acres ; to his son Thomas, his plantation called "Chatham", three hundred and eighty- two acres in London Grove township, Chester county, his silver-hilted sword, his stock, knee and shoebuckles, etc .; to his daughter, Sophia Dorothea, four tracts, one thousand six hundred and eighty-four acres, in Center county and two lots on Spruce Street, Philadelphia ; and to his grandson, Samuel M. Mc- Kean, a plantation of three hundred acres in Mckean county. His sons, Jo- seph B. and Thomas, and his son-in-law, Andrew Pettit, were named as exec- utors.
Thomas Mckean married (first) July 21, 1763, Mary, eldest daughter of Colonel Joseph Borden, of Bordentown, New Jersey, and his wife, Elizabeth (Rogers) Borden. She was born at Bordentown, July 21, 1744, died at New- castle, March 13, 1773. She and her sister Ann, the wife of Francis Hopkin- son, were said to be the two most beautiful women in New Jersey. Her an- cestor, Richard Borden, born 1601, and his wife Joane, born 1604, settled at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, where he died May 25, 1671, and she July 5, 1683. Benjamin Borden, son of Richard and Joane Borden, born at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 1649, married there, September 22, 1671, Abigail, daughter of Henry Glover, of Hartford, Connecticut, and removed to Shrewsbury, New Jersey, where his father had purchased land in 1667. He died there in 1718, and his widow Abigail in 1720.
Joseph Borden, grandfather of Mary (Borden) Mckean, was a son of Ben- jamin and Abigail Borden, and was born in New Jersey, May 17, 1687, He purchased land at and was the founder of Bordentown, on the Delaware, oppo- site Penn's Manor of Pennsbury, where he died September 22, 1765, and his wife, Ann (Conover) Borden, March II, 1754-55.
Colonel Joseph Borden, father of Mary (Borden) Mckean, and son of Jo- seph and Ann (Conover) Borden, was born August 1, 1719. He was a mem- ber of the Stamp Act Congress of 1765, a member of the first Convention of New Jersey, July 2, 1774, a member of the Committee of Observation from Burlington county ; became colonel and quartermaster-general of New Jersey and was one of the most active patriots throughout the Revolution. He was commissioned judge of the Courts of Common Pleas and other courts of Burl- ington county, September II, 1776, and several times re-commissioned.
Judge Mckean married (second) September 3, 1774, Sarah, born December 19, 1746, daughter of James Armitage, of Newcastle county, by his second wife, Francis (Land) Armitage, and granddaughter of Benjamin and Mary Armitage, of Cheltenham, Philadelphia county, who came from Holefreth, Yorkshire, England, about 1700, and settled on the Old York Road, below Ab- ington, where they died, and both are buried in the old Presbyterian graveyard at Abington Church, where a quaint double tablet originally erected soon after their deaths records the death of Benjamin, November 23, 1775, at the age of seventy-five years ; and Mary, February 15, 1728, at the age of seventy years. This Benjamin Armitage was a son of James Armitage, baptized at Lyddgate, Yorkshire, February, 1633-34, and his wife, Martha (Hatfield) Armitage, whom he married February, 1660; and grandson of Godfrey Armitage and Anne his
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wife, of Yorkshire. His first cousins, Enoch and Caleb, sons of John, emigrated to America at about the same date, Enoch settling in Jersey, and Caleb in Rhode Island.
Chief Justice Mckean, by his first wife, Mary (Borden) Mckean, had six children : Joseph Borden McKean, lawyer, judge and scholar, attorney-general of Pennsylvania, 1800-09, judge of the District Court of Philadelphia, 1818- 26; Robert McKean, a prominent shipping merchant of Philadelphia; Eliza- beth, wife of Andrew Pettit, of Philadelphia, merchant; Mary, who died young; Letitia, wife of Dr. George Buchanan, of Baltimore; Anne, wife of Andrew Buchanan.
By his second wife, Sarah (Armitage) Mckean, he had two children, Sar- ah Maria Theresa, who as "Miss Sally Mckean" was a belle of Philadelphia society, while that city was the national capital, and married, April 10, 1792, Senor Don Carlos Martinez de Yrujo, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Spanish Court, at Philadelphia, 1796-1807, later Spanish minister at Paris, Rio Janeiro, etc., and Thomas Mckean, Jr., of whom pres- ently.
Judge Mckean removed from Newcastle to Philadelphia on his second marriage and resided for a number of years on High, now Market Street, near Second. On December 20, 1780, he was granted permission by the Supreme Executive Council to reside in Rev. Jacob Duche's house on the east side of Third Street, which had been confiscated on Mr. Duche's flight to the British. Judge Mckean purchased the house on August 10, 1781, and it was his resi- dence until his death, when it passed to his eldest son, Joseph Borden Mckean, by bequest.
THOMAS MCKEAN, JR., only son of Chief Justice Mckean by his second wife, Sarah (Armitage) Mckean, was born in Philadelphia, November 20, 1770, and resided in that city all his life. He was for some years private sec- retary to his distinguished father, from 1803 to 1806. He married, September 14, 1809, Sarah Clementina, daughter of Henry Pratt, a successful shipping merchant of Philadelphia, and his wife, Elizabeth (Dundas) Pratt, and grand- daughter of Matthew Pratt, a portrait painter. Henry Pratt and his family resided at "The Hills", a handsome country seat, now part of Fairmount Park, where they entertained extensively. Mrs. McKean was a beautiful and ac- complished lady. She died December 31, 1836, at the age of fifty-five years. Her husband survived until May 5, 1852, having been in poor health for a number of years. They had four children, Henry Pratt Mckean, of whom presently, and three daughters, Sarah Ann, wife of George Trott, Elizabeth Dunds, wife of Hon. Adolph E. Borie, United States Consul to Belgium, Sec- retary of the Navy under President Grant, etc., and Clementina Sophia, wife of Charles Louis Borie, of Philadelphia.
HENRY PRATT MCKEAN, only son of Thomas and Sarah Clementina ( Pratt ) Mckean, was born in Philadelphia, May 3, 1810. He was educated at private schools and the University of Pennsylvania, leaving the University before com- pleting his course to take a position in the counting house of his grandfather, Henry Pratt, then one of the best known and most successful shipping mer- chants of Philadelphia. He remained in the employ of his grandfather for several years, acquiring valuable experience in business matters that was of
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great assistance to him in his later business career. At the death of his grand- father, Henry Pratt, in 1838, he inherited an ample fortune. He had previous- ly engaged in business for himself in the South American and Mexican trade, in which he had been quite successful. He later associated himself with his brothers-in-law, Adolph E. and Charles Louis Borie, and they carried on a large business. He gradually withdrew from the foreign trade, and devoted his energies and wealth to local enterprises, doing much for the development of business interests, and railroad facilities of his native city. In 1849 he pur- chased a large tract of land on what was then the northwest limits of the city, near Chestnut Hill, and established his country seat at "Fernhill" a superb country home, commanding a fine view of Philadelphia, the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers and portions of New Jersey. Here he and his talented wife extended a wide hospitality.
Henry Pratt Mckean married, at Troy, New York, July 8, 1841, Phebe Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen Warren, of Troy, and his wife, Martha Cor- nell (Mabbett) Warren.
THOMAS MCKEAN, only surviving child of Henry Pratt and Phebe Eliza- beth (Warren) Mckean, was born in Philadelphia, November 28, 1842. He graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1862, and at once became in- terested in his father's mercantile establishment, and later became one of the prominent merchants of the city. He, like his father, became interested in a number of local enterprises and institutions, and was a director of a number of financial institutions of Philadelphia, among them the Fidelity Insurance Trust and Safe Deposit Company, the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, the In- surance Company of North America, etc.
Thomas Mckean married, September 24, 1863, Elizabeth Wharton, born 111 Philadelphia, December 16, 1844, daughter of George Mifflin Wharton, Esquire, and his wife, Maria ( Markoe) Wharton, granddaughter of Fishbourne Whar- ton, and his wife, Susan (Shoemaker) Wharton, and great-granddaughter of President Thomas Wharton, the first chief executive of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
THOMAS WHARTON, the maternal great-great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1735, and was the second son of John and Mary (Dobbins) Wharton, and grandson of Thomas Whar- ton, of Kellorth, Parish of Overton, Westmoreland, England, of the ancient and honorable family of Wharton Hall, who came to Philadelphia, and mar- ried there, January 20, 1688-89, Rachel Thomas, a native of Monmouthshire, England ; he was a prominent merchant of Philadelphia, a member of com- mon council, etc., and died July 5, 1718.
Thomas Wharton was one of the largest importers of foreign goods in Philadelphia in the period just preceding the Revolutionary War; was a mem- ber of the Colony in Schuylkill, and other aristocratic social organizations, etc. He was one of the early signers of the non-importation resolutions in 1765, and was one of the first Committee of Observation for Philadelphia, appointed June 22, 1774. He represented the city in the Provincial Conference of July 15, 1774; was one of the first Committee of Safety; a delegate to the Constitu- tional Convention of August and September, 1776, and was one of the Coun- cil of Safety, the ruling body of the state for the five months intervening be-
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tween the adoption of the constitution and the election of the Assembly and Supreme Executive Council thereunder. He was elected president of the Su- preme Executive Council, and commander-in-chief and chief executive of Penn- sylvania, March 4, 1777, and served until his death at Lancaster, in May, 1778. He married (first) Susannah, granddaughter of President Thomas Lloyd, sev- eral times acting lieutenant-governor of the Province of Pennsylvania; and (second) Elizabeth Fishbourne, born in Philadelphia, 1752, daughter of Wil- liam and Mary (Tallman) Fishbourne, and granddaughter of William Fish- bourne, Sr., Provincial Councilor, 1723-31, city treasurer, etc., and his wife Hannah (Carpenter) Fishbourne, daughter of Samuel Carpenter, Provincial Councilor, 1687-1713, mayor, member of assembly, etc.
William Fishbourne Wharton, youngest child of President Thomas Whar- ton and his second wife, Elizabeth (Fishbourne) Wharton, was born in Lan- caster, Pennsylvania, August 10, 1778, three months after the death of his father. His mother returned to Philadelphia, after its evacuation by the Brit- ish in the fall of 1778, and he was reared and educated in that city, spent his whole life there, dying in December, 1846. He married (first) May 10, 1804, Susan Shoemaker, who died November 3, 1821, and they were the parents of nine children of whom George Mifflin was the second.
George Mifflin Wharton, son of William Fishbourne and Susan (Shoemak- er) Wharton, born December 26, 1808, graduated at the University of Penn- sylvania, in the class of 1823, studied law and became one of the leading legal practitioners of Philadelphia. He was vice-provost of the Law Academy, 1845-55; United States district attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1857- 60; took a leading part in public affairs of his day. He was particularly active in the cause of education, serving many years as a member of the Board of Public Education, and some years as president of the Board of Control of the Public Schools of the City. He became a member of the American Philosophi- cal Society in 1840, and took an active part in its work. He died February 5, 1870. He married, June 4, 1835, Maria, daughter of John and Kitty (Cox) Markoe, and granddaughter of Captain Abraham Markoe, first commander of the Philadelphia City Troop, and his wife, Elizabeth (Baynton) Markoe, and great-granddaughter of Peter Markoe, whose family emigrated from France to the West Indies in 1625. Among their children was Elizabeth, who married Thomas Mckean.
Thomas and Eliabeth ( Wharton) Mckean had five children: Henry Pratt McKean, Jr., Thomas Mckean, of whom presently; Maria Wharton Mckean; George Wharton Mckean; and Phebe Warren Mckean, wife of Norton Downs, M. D., of Philadelphia.
THOMAS MCKEAN, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Wharton) Mckean, was born in Philadelphia, April 29, 1869. He prepared for college at private schools in Philadelphia, and entering Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, gradu- ated from that institution in 1892. He then entered the Law Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and received the degree of LL.B. in 1896, and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar, where he has since practiced. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution, and of the His- torical Society of Pennsylvania, and of the following memorial and social or- ganizations : the General Alumni Association of the University of Pennsyl-
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vania, Germantown Club, Merion Cricket Club, Philadelphia Country Club, Philadelphia Club, Rittenhouse Club, of Philadelphia; Philadelphia Racquet Club, Down Town Club, Franklin Insurance Club, Kippewa Club, and the University Barge Club.
Mr. McKean married, November 25, 1896, Katharine Johnstone, daughter of George Tucker and Nancy (Brinley) Bispham, of Philadelphia, and they have two children, Nancy Brinley McKean, born at Newport, Rhode Island, July 17, 1901, and Thomas Mckean, Jr., born at Paris, France, March 16, 1909.
CLARENCE P. WYNNE
DR. THOMAS WYNNE, one of the first English physicians of Penn's Colony on the Delaware, and speaker of the first two Assemblies of the Province, was a native of Caerways, in the parish of Yskeiviog, Flintshire, Wales, where his ancestors for fifteen generations had been landholders, and held semi-baronial rights and privileges. His earliest ancestor of whom we have any authentic record was Ednowain Bendew, Lord of Tegainl, a district in Flintshire, North Wales, and lived at Lleys-y-Coed, in the parish of Bodfari, a short distance from the plantation on which Dr. Thomas Wynne was born, which with most of the other land in the parishes of Bodfari and Yskeiviog, he and his descendants held per Baroniam, but which were later divided among his heirs, so that at the time of Dr. Wynne's birth nearly all of the landholders in those districts were like Dr. Wynne, descendants of Ednowain Bendew.
Madog, ap Ednowain Bendew, who inherited his father's lands and titles, intermarried with Arddyn, daughter of Bradwen, Lord of Merionethshire, a lineal descendant of Ysbws and Ysbwch, father and son who "came into this island out of Spain with Aurelius Ambrosius and Uther, A. D., 466, and first inhabited Moelysbidion Vayo, Stranger's Mount, and when Aurelius had re- covered his crown from Vertigern, the Usurper, he rewarded these men, being of his retinue, with the whole of Talybout and part of Estimaner, in Merion- ethshire, where their posterity flourish to this day".
Ririd ap Iorweth, ap Madog, ap Ednowain Bendew, married Tibot, daugh- ter of Robert de Pulford, of the family of Pulford, long seated in Cheshire, England, bringing into the family a strain of Norman blood in this the fourth generation. Iorweth ap Ririd, of the next generation married a descendant of the Lords of Powys, tracing back to the royal line of the ancient kings of Bri- cain.
Ithel Vychan, of the eighth generation of the descendants of Ednowain Ben- dew, and ancestor of Dr. Wynne, married a descendant of Owen Gwynedd, Prince of North Wales, and his grandson, Harri ap Cynric, ap Ithel Vychan, to whom has descended the lands of Yskeiviog, the birthplace of Dr. Thomas Wynne, married Alice Thelwal, daughter of Simon Thelwal, Esquire, and his wife Janet Langdord, of the family of Langdord, long rulers of the castle of Ruthin, Denbighshire, and through his son John Wynne, the patronymic of the Pennsylvania family first appears.
JOHN WYNNE, twelfth in descent from Ednowain Bendew, in the owner- ship of the lands in the parish of Yskeiviog, Flintshire, died there prior to 1582. He married Katharine, daughter and heiress of Ithel ap Jenkin, ap Davd, ap Howell, and had thirteen children, the eldest of whom was vicar of Caerways, the ancestral house of worship.
Rees ap John Wynne, great-grandfather of Dr. Thomas Wynne, was born at Yskeiviog, circa 1538, and the baptisms of six of his seven children are re- corded in the parish church there.
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John ap Rees Wynne, the grandfather of the Pennsylvania pioneer, born at Yskeiviog, in 1570, married at Bodfari Church in the adjoining parish, Octo- ber 29, 1588, Grace Morgan. He was a prominent and influential man in the public affairs of the county of Flint up to the time of his death which occurred prior to 1640.
Thomas ap John Wynne, the father of Dr. Thomas Wynne, born in the par- ish of Yskeiviog, Flintshire, in 1589, was baptized at the parish church there, December 20, 1589. He lived on the ancestral estate there, and suffered se- verely from the heavy taxes and fines imposed on landholders just preceding the civil war. His two younger sons, John Wynne, baptized April 12, 1625, and Dr. Thomas Wynne, both emigrated to Pennsylvania, the former becoming a practitioner at law in Sussex county, now Delaware.
DR. THOMAS WYNNE, fourth son of Thomas Wynne last above mentioned, baptized at the parish church of Yskeiviog, county of Flint, Wales, July 20, 1627, lost his father when he was of the age of eleven years. He early manifested a strong inclination for the study of medical science and surgery, but the an- cestral estate had been so impoverished by ruinous taxation that his widowed mother was unable to furnish him with sufficient funds to prosecute his studies to fit him for a profession. Thrown virtually upon his own resources at a tender age, he sought such employment as his limited education fitted him to follow and took every opportunity to prepare himself for a scientific career. As a lad he frequently absented himself from his home, much to the annoy- ance and concern of his parents, to attend and assist at minor surgical opera- tions.
He finally secured the friendship, encouragement and assistance of Richard Moore, a surgeon of Shropshire, who recognized his aptness for medical science procured his attendance at dissections in that country. Dr. Wynne's own nar- rative gives an account of his experiences with the chirurgeons and anatomists whose tuition and assistance he thus secured.
"These anatomists, being men of well-known worth in that practice, whose names are, Dr. Neddham and Dr. Hollins, who were of deserved repute in their professions, and I then being expert in Drills, and handy with Knife and Lancet & other instruments for that purpose, I sett att making a Skeleton of a man's bones, which I only with the assistance of Richard Moore, performed to their content, at which time they thought me fitt to be Licensed to the Practice of Chyrurgery, and this (1679) is neare 20 yeares agoe, and soon after, being taken prisoner to Denbigh, where I remained a prisoner near six yeares, for ye Testimony of Jesus, I then betook myself wholly to the practice of Chyrurgery."
This "Testimony of Jesus", was his preaching of the doctrine of the Society of Friends, with which he had early united, and of which he was one of the ablest ministers of his day. In 1677 he wrote a pamphlet, printed in that year, entitled, "The antiquity of the Quakers, Proved out of the Scriptures of Truth. Published in Love to the Papists, Protestants, Presbyterians, Independents and Anabaptists. With a Salutation of Pure Love to all the Tender-hearted Welsh- men, but more especially to Flintshire, Denbighshire, Caernarvonshire and Anglesea. By their Countryman and Friend, Thomas Wynne". In 1679 he published another pamphlet, in the nature of a vindication of that of 1677, "from the base Insinuations, False Doctrines and False Charges Against Me, My Books, and against God's People Called Quakers, in General. By Me, Thomas Wynne".
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Being convinced of the utility and wisdom of founding a colony of Welsh Quakers, in Penn's Colony in America, where they could worship God accord- ing to the dictates of their conscience, he organized a company of that faith in the counties of Merioneth, Denbighshire, and Caernarvonshire for the purchase of a large tract of land in Pennsylvania, and his son-in-law, Dr. Edward Jones, went out as their representative to have the land surveyed, located and appor- tioned to the various purchasers, arriving in Pennsylvania, August 17, 1682, and locating the vast tract on the Schuylkill, in Philadelphia and Chester counties known as the Welsh Tract.
In connection with John ap John, Dr. Thomas Wynne, by deeds of lease and release, dated September 14 and 15, 1681, purchased of William Penn, five thou- sand acres of land to be laid out in Pennsylvania, about one-half of which they sold jointly to actual settlers during the following year.
It is doubtful whether Dr. Wynne contemplated removing himself to the new colony at the time of his purchase, but he was intimately acquainted with the "Great Founder," who prevailed upon him to accompany him to his new prov- ince, that he might have the benefit of his eminent skill for the use of the colonists, and furthermore, Dr. Wynne was a man of well known ability with a wide influence among his countrymen, whose co-operation in the formation of his government of the province, Penn, himself half Welsh, especially desired.
Dr. Wynne sailed with Penn for Pennsylvania in the "Welcome" in August, 1682, and they arrived in the Delaware and landed at Chester in October. There is little doubt that William Penn, on the voyage, sought the assistance and ad- vice of the Welsh patriarch and physician, in reference to the formation of the government of his province, as, after the preliminary Assembly held at Chester had called upon Penn to transmit his constitution to the Assembly to be held at Philadelphia, Dr. Thomas Wynne was selected as Speaker of the Assembly, and presided over it during the sessions in Philadelphia in 1682 and 1683. At a meeting of the Assembly held ( the second month, April 2nd, 1683) The Char- ter of the Province was read by the clerk; this done, he the Governor sealed and signed the said Charter and delivered it to the Speaker of the House (Thomas Wynne).
Dr. Wynne had practiced his profession in London some years prior to his emigration to Pennsylvania, and soon after his arrival erected the first brick house in the city of Philadelphia, in his "Liberty Lot" surveyed to him in part of his right as a purchaser of two thousand and five hundred acres of land, two hun- dred and fifty acres of which had been laid out in the Welsh tract. His house was in Front Street above Chestnut Street, the latter being known for a time as Wynne Street, in his honor.
Dr. Thomas Wynne continued to reside in Philadelphia until the return of Penn to England, accompanying the "Great Founder" in the "Endeavor", which sailed from Philadelphia, August 12, 1684. He had affiliated with the Philadel- phia Monthly Meeting of Friends, and the records of that meeting show that the marriage of his step-daughter, Elizabeth Rowden, to John Brock, was hurried somewhat at his request, so that he and his wife, the mother of the bride, who were about to embark for England, might be present at the ceremony, which took place August 5, 1684. He remained in England about two years, and on his re- turn located in Sussex county on the Delaware, now the state of Delaware, where,
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at a court held at Lewes, May 3, 1687, his commission as a justice of the courts of Sussex county was read, and is as follows :
"By the President and Council of the Province of Pennsylvania and Territoryes there- unto belonging, to Oure Loving and Trusty Friend Thomas Wynne, Justice of the yeare for the County of Sussex, in the room of Thomas Langhorne, reposing confidence in thy allegiance to the King's authority and in the name of the Proprietory and Governor, appoint thee to bee Justice of the County of Sussex, Authorizing Thee to act as Justice of ye yeare both in Court or any part of that County.
13th daye 2d Month, 1687.
Thos Lloyd, President."
He continued to act as justice of Sussex county until his removal to Philadel- phia in 1691, and also represented that county in the Provincial Assembly of Pennsylvania, which met in Philadelphia, for the years 1687-88, attending the As- sembly in Philadelphia, May 10, 1688. He removed with his wife to Philadelphia sometime prior to March 15, 1691-92, the date of his will; was in attendance at the Monthly Meeting of Friends there, January 12, 1691-92, but died three months later, and was buried in the Friends burying ground at Fourth and Arch Streets, March 17, 1691-92. He retained his real estate in Sussex county, comprising the "Messuage and Plantation where I lately dwelt in the Town of Lewes", which he devised to his wife Elizabeth for life, then to his son Jonathan, and his two hun- dred acre plantation of Cedar Creek in Sussex county which he devised to Jona- than direct. His personal estate was devised-one-half to his wife, Elizabeth, and the other half to his children, "now in America", viz; Jonathan, Mary, Rebecca, Sidney and Hannah ; with a specific legacy of fifty shillings to his daughter Tabi- tha in Europe. His wife Elizabeth is named as executrix with his "Dear Friends Thomas Lloyd, Deputy Governor of this Province and Griffith Owen", as over- seers. This will makes no mention of any equity or remainder out of his share of the five thousand acres of land purchased in 1681 in partnership with John ap John, though by subsequent investigation by the Land office on petition of Jona- than Wynne, his son and heir, it developed that but one thousand eight hundred and fifty acres of Dr. Thomas Wynne's two thousand five hundred acres had ever been laid out to him, neither had a commensurate part of the Liberty lands in the city of Philadelphia been laid out to him in right of his two thousand five hundred acre purchase. On May 8, 1708, at the request of Jonathan Wynne, the Com- missioners of Property granted him a warrant for the survey of twenty-four acres within the city limits. He, Jonathan, was also granted a warrant, in 1701, for five hundred acres to be laid out in the Welsh Tract or elsewhere, and forty acres Liberty Land, which with ten acres taken up by Dr. Edward Jones, son-in-law of Dr. Wynne, made up the one thousand and five hundred acres to which Thom- as Wynne was entitled. One hundred acres of the six hundred was surveyed to Jonathan in Blockley, and the other five hundred acres in Great Valley, Chester county.
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