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206. Ann L., b. 4th mo. 26, 1824, d. 2d mo. 17, 1845, unm.
207. Henry, b. Ioth mo. 23, 1825, d. 2d mo. 13, 1864, m. 1852, Maria L. Banks, and had issue : (1) William W., b. 1853, m. 1884, Elizabeth C. Kent, dau. of Rodolphus (dec'd) and Sarah (Clark) Kent ; (2) Letitia L., b. 12th mo., 1854, m. 1880, Ellis Clark Kent, son of Rodolphus and Sarah, and has issue, surname Kent : Ellis C., jr., b. 1881, Henry Antrim Foulke, b. 1884, Edward Lyon, b. 1886, and Lester F., b. 1894 ; (3) May, b. 6th mo. 16, 1856, m. Charles O. Beaumont, and has issue surname Beaumont, Mason F., b. 1887, Gwen Elizabeth, b. 1890; (4) Hannah, b. 8th mo. 12, 1860, d. 3d mo. 29, 1876.
208. Jane, b. 8th mo. 16, 1827, d. 2d mo. 13, 1833.
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209. Hannah, b. 6th mo. 11, 1829, d. 12th mo. 25, 1884, m. 9th mo. 17, 1851, Thomas W. Baily, (d. 12th mo. 29, 1893, aged 70 yrs.), of Philadelphia, son of William and Catharine.
210. William, b. 6th mo. 9, 1831, d. roth mo. 28, 1855. He studied medicine, and had graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, in the Class of 1854.
VI. (160.) DANIEL FOULKE, of Gwynedd, son of Joseph and Elizabeth, b. 2d mo. 21, 1814, d. 2nd mo. 18, 1888, m., Ist, 1847, ELIZABETH C. FOULKE (b. 1827, d. 1849), dau. of Wil- liam1 and Susanna, of Gwynedd ; and, 2d, LYDIA WALTON (d. 3d mo. 23, 1884), dau. of Joseph, of Chester County.
VII. Children of Daniel and Elizabeth :
2II. Anna, b. 11th mo. 5, 1848, m. Henry S. Colladay ; and has issue : Elizabeth F., b. 1871, William F., b. 1873, Henry D. J., b. 1878.
Children of Daniel and Lydia W .:
212. Edwin M., b. Ioth mo. 10, 1854, m. Elva Jones, dau. of Mark, of Plymouth, and has issue : Esther B., b. 1878, Helen E., b. 1880, Lydia W., b. 1884, Eliza J., b. 1889.
213. Abigail W., b. 4th mo. 21, 1856.
214. Joseph T., b. 4th mo. 24, 1863, member of the bar, Philadelphia and Montgomery co., m. 10th mo. 5, 1892, Laura L. Lippin- cott, dau. of Samuel R. and Hannah B., of Moorestown, N. J., and has issue : Thomas A., b. 9th mo. 25, 1893.
VI. (161.) THOMAS FOULKE, of New York, son of Joseph and Elizabeth, of Gwynedd, b. 5th mo. 28, 1817, d. Ist mo. 24, 1890, m. 1840, HANNAH SHOEMAKER (b. 2d mo. 25, 1804 ; d. Ioth mo. 6, 1876), dau. of Abraham and Margaret. (Abraham Shoemaker was originally of Montgomery county, the elder brother of Thomas, of Gwynedd. He became a successful and wealthy merchant of New York city.) Soon after his marriage,
1 See No. 173, this Genealogy.
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THOMAS removed to New York, and was there engaged, for nearly twenty years, in the public schools, having charge, as superintendent, during much of the time, of two of the largest grammar schools. (One of these contained 40 teach- ers and 2,000 pupils.) In 1861 he resigned to take charge of the Friends' Institute, in Rutherford Place, and having organized it, conducted this for three years, leaving it then to the charge of his nephew, Hugh Foulke, jr. About 1857 he appeared in the ministry of the Friends, and was subse- quently acknowledged as a minister. He traveled exten- sively in the exercise of his gift.
VII. Children of Thomas and Hannah :
215. William Dudley, b. 1848, m. Mary T. Reeves. ₺ 216. Edwin M., d. in childhood.
[A dau. d. in infancy.]
VI. (173.) WILLIAM FOULKE, of Gwynedd, son of William and Margaret, b. 2d mo. 24, 1802, d. 7th mo. 12, 1882, m. Su- SANNA CONARD (b. 7th mo. 7, 1803, d. 6th mo. 19, 1871), dau. of Jonathan and Hannah.
VII. Children of William and Susanna :
217. Hannah C., b. 3d mo. 12, 1826, d. 7th mo. 16, 1876, m. 1850, George A. Newbold, son of Samuel and Abigail, and had issue : Clara, William F.
218. Elizabeth C., b. 6th mo. 10, 1827, d. 6th mo. 17, 1849, m. Daniel Foulke (No. 160).
219. Margaretta, b. 9th mo. 11, 1830, d. 12th mo. 18, 1865, m. 1864, James Q. Atkinson, of Upper Dublin.
220. Lewis Morris, of San Francisco, Cal., b. 8th mo. 6, 1832, m. Elizabeth Edson, whose family were from Massachusetts. He went to California, 1853, and was several years U. S. Supervisor of Internal Revenue. His children are : Elizabeth, Edson, Su- sanna Marguerite.
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22I. Anna M., b. 6th mo. 5, 1834, m. 1855, Charles B. Shoemaker, of Cheltenham, son of Richard M. and Amelia B .; and has issue : Charles Francis, b. 1856, d. 1876 ; William F., b. 1859 ; Amelia B., b. 1862, d. 1863 ; Benjamin H., b. 1864 ; Lewis F., b. 1867 ; Ella F., b. 1873.
222. Ellen, b. 7th mo. 7, 1838, d. 12th mo. 29, 1863, m. Joseph K. Matlack, and had issue : Marian, who m. Sumner G. Brosius, and has issue : Charles S.
223. William Henry, b. 4th mo. 26, 1840, m. Priscilla Frick. [Jonathan C., b. 1828, Lydia C., b. 1836, d. in infancy.]
VI. (176.) DR. CHARLES FOULKE, of New Hope, Bucks Co., son of Edward and Tacy, b. at Gwynedd, Dec. 14, 1815, d. Dec. 30, 1871, m. HARRIET M. CORSON, dau. of Dr. Richard Cor- son, of New Hope. DR. CHARLES practiced his profess on some time at Gwynedd, and then removed to New Hope, where he remained.
VII. Children of Charles and Harriet M .:
224. Richard, of New Hope, physician, grad. Univ. of Pennsylvania, m. Louisa Vansant, and has issue : Charles, Clarabel, Rebecca, d. in childhood.
225. Edward, of Washington, D. C., m. Eliza Vanhorn, dau. of _ Vanhorn, of Yardleyville, Bucks Co.
226. Thomas, of Yonkers, N. Y., d. 1883, at New Hope, unm.
VI. (197.) BENJAMIN G. FOULKE, of Richland, son of Caleb and Jane, b. 7th mo. 28, 1813, d. 8th mo. 14, 1888, m. 1837, JANE MATHER (b. 3d mo. 24, 1817), dau. of Charles and Jane, of Whitpain. BENJAMIN was Clerk of the men's branch of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting from 1873 to 1886, and was a business man, conveyancer, and surveyor, highly respected.
VII. Children of Benjamin and Jane :
227. Caleb, b. 12th mo. 3, 1839, d. 10th mo. 20, 1865.
228. Charles M., b. 7th mo. 25, 1841, was educated at Foulke's school, at Gwynedd, and the Friends' Central School, Philad'a,
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entered upon mercantile business in Philad'a, 1861, and retired, 1872. He m. Dec. 10, 1872, at Paris, France, in the presence of the American minister, Hon. E. B. Washburne, Sarah A. Cushing, dau. of Horace C. and Harriet C., of New York City ; and has issue : Horace C., b. July 6, 1876 ; Helen S., b. July 12, 1878 ; Gladys, b. April 29, 1881 ; Gwendolyn, b. Dec. 31, 1883.
229. Job Roberts, b. 2d mo. 23, 1843, trust officer of Provident Life and Trust Co., of Philadelphia, m. 5th mo. 25, 1869, Emma Bullock, dau. of Samuel and Jemima R., of Mt. Holly, N. J., and has issue : Rowland R., b. 5th mo. 10, 1874; Rebecca Mulford, b. 7th mo. 18, 1875.
230. Anna, b. 1846.
23I. Jane, b. 1848, d. 1853.
232. Eleanor, b. 1850.
VI. (199.) WATSON FOULKE, son of Everard, Jr., and Frances, b. 9th mo. 10, 1826, m. IIth mo. 29, 1860, OLLIVE SAYLES, dau. of Asa and Amy. He served in the war for the Union, removed from Illinois to Pretty Prairie, Reno Co., Kansas, in 1866, and (1896) is a farmer and stockman.
VII. Children of Watson and Ollive :
233. Fannie M., b. 11th mo. 1, 1861, m. 10th mo. 4, 1880, Charles B. Haskins ; issue three children.
234. Asa M., b. 8th mo. 13, 1863, d. in infancy.
235. Everard L., b. Ioth mo. 25, 1868. Of Hutchinson, Kansas, studied law under Frederick W. Casner, Esq., and was admitted to the bar 1895.
236. Myron S., b. 2d mo. 21, 1872, m. 10th mo. 16, 1894, Nora Combs. Farmer (1896) Helena, Oklahoma.
237. Amy Bell, b. 4th mo. 15, 1876.
238. Grace P., b. 9th mo. 19, 1881.
VI. (200.) WILLIAM D. FOULKE, son of Everard, Jr., and Frances, b. 6th mo. 5, 1828, m. ALICE THOMAS. He was a
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lawyer in Revesville, Illinois, and removed to Ormond, Flor- ida, about 1885 or 1886.
VII. Children of William D. and Alice :
239. Susan, d.
240. Ella.
241. Jane, d., m. James Cunningham.
242. Lulu.
VI. (202.) THOMAS DEHAVEN FOULKE, son of Everard, Jr., and Frances, b. 7th mo. 27, 1832, d. 9th mo. 11, 1892, m. 12th mo. 24, 1868, MARIA EUNICE WHITEMAN, dau. of Charles and Susanna, of Collingswood, N. J. THOMAS was associated with his brother Lester as T. D. Foulke & Brother, in con- ducting the Arthur Springs Stock Farm at Sidney, Ill. In 1882 he purchased his brother's interest, but later, his health failing, he retired from business about five years before his death.
VII. Children of Thomas and Maria :
243. Fannie W., b. IIth mo. 5, 1869, m. 1891, Frank M. Ross, Longview, Champaign Co., Ill.
244. Charles Whiteman, b. 12th mo. 19, 1871. After being engaged in business in Illinois, he came east 1893, and 1896 resided at Medford, N. J.
245. Edith Penrose, b. 3d mo. 22, 1875. Student at Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla .; 1894-6, teacher at Sea Breeze and Enter- prise, Fla.
246. Thomas Everard, b. 3d mo. 2, 1878. Longview, Champaign Co., III. [1896.]
VI. (204.) LESTER E. FOULKE, son of Everard, Jr., and Frances, b. 10th mo. 16, 1837, m. 6th mo. 1, 1882, LENORA M. DUN- CAN, dau. of Dr. William and Charlotte. LESTER was part- ner with his bro. Thos. D. in the stock-farm at Arthur Springs, Ill., removed to Kansas, 1882, and then back to
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Illinois, returned to Kansas, 1892 ; resides [1896] at Pretty Prairie, Kansas.
VII. Children of Lester E. and Frances :
247. William E., b. 4th mo. 19, 1883.
248. Ollie B., b. 11th mo. 3, 1884, d. 6th mo. 10, 1886.
249. Lenora Grace, b. 3d mo. 25, 1886, d. 11th mo. 27, 1889.
250. Ingham T., b. 11th mo. 11, 1887, d. IIth mo. 4, 1889.
251. Lillian E., b. 3d mo. 25, 1889.
252. Lester D., b. 9th mo. 7, 1891.
253. Edward, b. 9th mo. 10, 1893.
VII. (209.) WILLIAM DUDLEY FOULKE, of Richmond, Ind., son of Thomas and Hannah S., b. New York, I Ith mo. 20, 1848, m. October, 1872. MARY T. REEVES, dau. of Mark E. and Caroline M., of Richmond, Ind. (previously Cincinnati, O.). WILLIAM graduated A. B., 1869, at Columbia College, New York city, with the honors of his class for general average and Greek; received degree of A. M., in 1872; in 1871, after study of law, LL. B .; was admitted to the bar in New York city in May, 1870, and in Indiana in 1876. In Novem- ber, 1882, he was elected to the Senate of Indiana for a term of four years, and took a prominent position in that body. In public affairs, including the movement to reform the Civil Service and that to extend suffrage to women, he has taken an active and influential part.
VIII. Children of William D. and Mary T. :
254. Caroline R., b. July 28, 1873.
255. Lydia H., b. September 8, 1875.
256. Mary T. R., b. November 14, 1879.
257. Arthur Dudley, b. May 17, 1882, d. Jan. 3, 1887.
258. Lucy Dudley, b. Jan. 25, 1884, d. Jan. 5, 1887.
259. Gwendolen Middleton, b. June 23, 1890.
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Additions to Foulke Genealogy.
V. ( -. ) CHARLES FOULKE, of Stroudsburg, Pa., son of Evan (No. 80, Foulke Genealogy, see p. 254), and Sarah, b. 2d mo. 26, 1801, d. 3d mo. 1, 1883, m. 6th mo. 6, 1831, CATHARINE P. EDKIN, dau. of Francis and Joanna. CATHA- RINE b. 3d mo. 9, 1809, d. 12th mo. 17, 1890. She was an esteemed minister of the Society of Friends, her ministry approved 1847, and a woman of remarkable strength of char- acter and energy. A memorial of her was prepared by Rich- land Monthly Meeting, 1892. It mentions that she had " upwards of thirty times " received liberty from her meet- ing to travel in the service of the Truth.
VI. Children of Charles M. and Catharine :
260. Frances A., b. 4th mo. 22, 1832, d. 7th mo. 13, 1889.
261. Sarah Jane, b. 6th mo. 11, 1834, d. in her 15th year.
262. Susan L., b. Ioth mo. 6, 1836.
263. Joseph F., b. Ioth mo. 24, 1838, m. Caroline McCully, and has issue : Maria, Charles M., Helen.
264. Hannah M., b. Ioth mo. 11, 1840, m. Sydenham Rhodes, and has issue, surname Rhodes, four children : (1) Joseph F., m. Matilda Snyder ; (2) Anna, m. William Hager ; (3) Arthur, m. Estelle Hager ; (4) Edna, m. William Latham.
265. Samuel L., b. 9th mo. 4, 1842, m. Mary Wolf, a granddaughter of Governor (of Pennsylvania) George Wolf, and has issue : Benjamin T., Elizabeth, Marguerite.
266. Tacy, b. 5th mo. 6, 1844. d. in infancy.
267. Kesiah, b. 5th mo. 6, 1844.
268. Martha E., b. 5th mo. 6, 1845, m. J. P. B. Primrose, and has issue, surname Primrose, five children : Theodore, Elizabeth W., Walter, Joseph, William.
269. Mary, b. 3d mo. 9, 1848, ) d. in infancy.
270. Elizabeth, b. 3d mo. 9, 1848, [ m. Theodore G. Wolf, and has issue, surname Wolf, one son, Wm. Scranton.
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VI. ( -. ) DR. HIRAM CORSON, who married ANN JONES FOULKE
(No. 174, Foulke Genealogy, see page 269), died at his home at Plymouth Meeting, Pa., Third mo. 4, 1896. He was the son of Joseph and Hannah (Dickinson) Corson. As he was born Tenth mo. 8, 1804, he was in his 92d year at his de- cease. He began the study of medicine with his cousin, Dr. Richard D. Corson, of New Hope, Penna., and in 1828 graduated from the medical department of the Univ. of Penna., after which he practiced his profession at Plymouth for 67 years, retiring entirely only about a year before his death.
He was conspicuous in the profession for his progressive views, for his advocacy of the claims of women to medical education and position, and for his efforts to have the female insane under care of women physicians. He was also an earnest abolitionist, and advocate of temperance. A notice in Friends' Intelligencer says :
" Dr. Corson's prominence in his profession was largely due to his independence and earnestness in the advocacy of progressive methods. He was among the first to insist upon the admission of women into the profession, and his niece, Dr. Adamson (Dr. Dolley), was one of the first of the wo- men who entered it. His efforts to secure women physicians a standing in the medical societies, and to have them ap- pointed to the charge of female patients in the insane hospi- tals occupied him during many years, and have been, in Penn- sylvania and other States, largely successful. He early op- posed the use of alcoholic liquors in the treatment of patients and almost banished them from his materia medica. He was not only the champion of temperance at home, but fre- quently introduced the subject at the State and national medi-
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cal societies. He was the author of numerous papers on the treatment of scarlet fever and diphtheria, and very early permitted the use of cold water and ice by his patients, in eruptive diseases,-at a time when generally such treatment was regarded as impossible. Remarkable physical energy and mental activity characterized him throughout life. He wrote many papers on medical subjects, and on social ques- tions. For seven years, 1877-84, he was one of the Trus- tees of the State Hospital for the Insane, at Harrisburg. He was founder of the Montgomery County Medical Society in 1847, and president of it in 1849. He was elected member of the Pennsylvania Medical Society in 1849, and president of the State Medical Society in 1852 ; member of the Ameri- can Medical Association, 1862; associate member of the Philadelphia Obstetric Society, 1874 ; associate fellow of the Philadelphia College of Physicians, 1876 ; honorary member of the Harrisburg Pathological Society, 1881 ; honorary member of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynæcologists, 1892.
" Dr. Corson's last appearance in public as a representa- tive of his profession was on June 5, 1895, at a meeting of the Montgomery County Medical Society. On that occasion, referring to his long career as a practitioner, he said one of his present patients was a child whose mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother he attended professionally, being present at the birth of three of the representatives of four generations."
XVI. The Early Roads.
N ATURALLY, roads to meeting, to mill, and to market, required immediate attention. For thirty years after the first arrival they formed one of the most important objects of the settlers' concern. Their desire for a road to Philadelphia was among the first shown. To the Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia county, June, 1704, there was presented " the peti- tion of the inhabitants of North Wales," who recite "that there are in the said Township above thirty families already settled, and probably many more to settle in and about the same, espe- cially to the northward thereof, and as yet there is no road laid out to accommodate your petitioners, but what Roads or Paths have formerly been marked are removed by some and stopped by others :" they therefore ask an order from the court for "a Road or Cartway from Philadelphia through Germantown to the utmost of their above-mentioned Township of North Wales."
Upon this, the court " ordered that the said road [be laid out] from Philadelphia through Germantown, and so to the house of Edward Morgan, in North Wales, and that Edmund Orpwood, Robert Adams, William Howell, John Humphrey, Toby Leech, John Cook, Robert Jones, Owen Roberts, or any six of them, do lay out said road, and make return at the next sessions."
This road appears to have been laid out at this date-say 1704-5. It began at Whitemarsh,' went past where Spring-
1 From Whitemarsh up, this was called " the North Wales road." In 1713, the "inhabitants of Bebber Township,"-now Perkiomen,-asking for a road from Skip- pack downward, desired it should go "unto the North Wales, or Gwynedd road, at Edward Farmer's mill."
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House now is, and then up through the township, substantially on the bed of the present turnpike. That it extended as far as what is now Towamencin, is fairly certain, because Edward Morgan had his lands there, above the Gwynedd line. "The house of Edward Morgan," mentioned in the order of court, was most probably not "in North Wales," but over the line, in Towamencin.
Even earlier than this, however, the " Welsh road " originated. The mills on Pennypack creek, above Huntingdon Valley and below, were the first to which the settlers turned their attention, and their road from Gwynedd down was begun as early as 1702. At the March sessions of court, 171I, a petition was presented, reciting as follows :
That whereas for about nine years past a road was laid out from a bridge in the line between the lands of John Humphrey and Edward Foulk in Gwynedd to the mills on Pemapeck, which said road having been and is likely to be of a general service to several of the adjacent townships as well as the undersigned, and not being yet confirmed by authority and re- corded, [they ask it may be laid out, etc. The signers are as follows :]
William Jones,
Edman Maguah,
Ellis Davis,
Thomas Evan,
Hugh Evan,
Rowland Hughs,
Jno. Hugh,
Evan Griffith,
George Lewis,
Robert Jones,
Hugh Griffith,
Edward Roberts,
Edward Ffoulk,
Evan Jones,
Rowland Robert,
Robert Evan,
Evan Griffith,
Evan Evans,
Owen Evan,
Hugh Robert,
Jno. Evans,
Jno. Humphrey,
Ellis Lewis,
Hugh Foulke,
Cadwalader Evan,
Evan Pugh,
Evan Evans,
Thomas Foulke,
Robert Humphrey,
Morris Robert,
Cadwalader Jones,
John Robert,
John William,
Nichlas Robert, Ellis Hugh,
Ellis Roberts,
David Jones,
John Roberts,
Richard Pugh,
Edward Morgan,
Robert Thomas,
Humphrey Ellis,
Richard Lewis,
Samuel Thomas,
John Barnes,
Morris Edward,
Alexander Edward,
Jo. Iredell,
Richard Whitton,
Hugh Griffith,
Peter Davis,
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John Morgan, Wm. Roberts,
Robert Ffletcher,
Uimas Luckens,
Thomas Canby,
Thomas Palmer,
John Cadwalader,
Thomas Roberts,
Robert Whitton.
The court appointed as viewers John Cadwalader, Thomas Kinderdine, Robert Jones, Rowland Hugh, Owen Evan, and Thomas Canby, who at the June session (1712), reported the road, which they had laid out on March 28th. Their report, however, is endorsed : " There being a question against this re- turn, the court ordered a review, and appointed Toby Leech, Thomas Rutter, Benjamin Duffield, Peter Taylor, and Robert Jones, of Merion," to make it. The remonstrance, as found in the file of court records, was as follows :
The Petition of Robert Evans,1 of the Township of Gwynedd, in the said county, Thomas Siddon and Ephraim Heaton, both of the said county, humbly sheweth : [That the road as laid out from Gwynedd to Pemapeck Mills will incommode and injure the signers. They assign the following specifications] :
1. For that it cuts the sd Robert Evan's land, being but 150 acres, so that 40 acres of it is separated from the water.
2. For that this road very much incommodes your petitioner Thomas Siddon's lands, and cuts your petitioner Ephraim Heaton's land cross from one corner to another, and is laid out through his corn-field.
3. For that the greater part, if not all those that laid out this Road were either Petitioners or Contenders for it.
] This Robert Evans was not the same person as Robert Evans (of the four brothers), who owned the tract in the central part of the township. (The expression "lower tract," added to the name of Robert Evans, in the list of property holders on page 58, may be misleading.) This lower Robert Evans, whose tract of 250 acres must have covered part at least of the site of the present village of Spring-House, and extended to the Horsham line, is distinguished as Robert Evans Prythra, in the sub- scription paper of 1712 for building the meeting-house of the Friends ; (he was one of the committee of eight in charge of the erection); and in the list of taxables, 1734, (see list later, in this volume), he is called, probably more correctly, Robert Evans ap Rhi- derth. In 1745 he was living in Hilltown, and he then sold 200 acres of his Gwynedd land to his son Evan Evans. He died about 1747 ; his will was proved February 12, that year. He names his son Evan Evans, his grandsons Robert and Jonathan Evans, and daughter Elizabeth Jarvis, and leaves £3 to Gwynedd Preparative Meeting.
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4. For that when Joseph Fisher's land comes to be settled the lands of several inhabitants of Gwynedd and others must be cut in pieces to branch into the road as now laid out, whereas if it had gone up that division line between the sd Fisher and Gwynedd, it would be a more general accommo- dation and bring the Road along your petitioners Heaton's and Siddon's lines upon a more direct course and better answers the Inhabitants on both sides the last mentioned line, there being two townships already settled with many families, joyning upon Gwynedd township above the said Fisher's tract.
[They therefore ask a hearing, with the opportunity to prove their case. The signers are as follows] :
Joseph Ffishore,
benjamin Charlesworth,
Fd. Barch,
David Marple,
Evan Morgan,
Mikel trump,
Peter Lester,
John Nash,
Nicholas Hicket,
Thomas How,
William Rundols,
Richard Carver,
James Haines,
Thomas Fitzwater,
George Burson,
Nath. Page,
John Bradfield,
John Trout,
Patrick Holly,
Joseph Hall,
Thomas Siddon,
Samuel Hallowell,
Thomas Hallowell,
Rouberd Evan,
David James,
Joshua Holt,
Ephraim Heatton,
Methusaleh Griffith,
James Mc Veagh,
William Story,
Bartholomew Longstreth,
Abra'm Griffith, George Phillips,
John Evans,
Mathis Tyssen,
Allen Foster,
Morris Davies,
Willem Hendricks,
Nicholas Scull,
Henry Jones,
John Cunnard,
John ffisher,
William Roberts,
John Huntsman,
Richard Rogan,
Thomas David.
Joseph Charlesworth,
Alexander Guah,
Abraham hill,
John Hurford,
The second jury made their report to the court at the March sessions, 1712. They located the road' somewhat differently from the previous jury, though not with any important variation. Their last course and distance was precisely the same: "north 59 degrees west, 166 perches to the above said bridge " [at John Humphrey's].
1 This road was the present " Welsh road," up as far as the point on the Horsham and Upper Dublin line, near Pennville, and above that point the road by Three Tuns up to the Spring-House. The Welsh road, up the township line above Pennville, was opened several years later.
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At the June sessions, 1714, the following petition was presented :
The humble petition of several of the inhabitants of Montgomery, Gwinedth, and Richlands, within the said county, showeth :
That your petitioners many of them being newly settled in these parts, having want of roads to meetings, mills, and market, do therefore pray this Worshipful Court that you will be pleased to order a Convenient road to be laid out from Joseph Growden's plantation in Richlands aforesaid to John Humphrey's at North Wales.
The court thereupon appointed Edward Farmer, Thomas Rutter, Thomas Siddon, Robert Jones, of Merion, Thomas Jones, and Robert Evan, or any four of them, a jury of view.
At the March sessions, 1715, the following petition was presented :
The petition of the subscribers, inhabitants of Gwynedd, Montgomery, Skippack, and other of the adjacent townships, humbly sheweth :
That inasmuch as the mill late of David Williams in plymouth1 is built on a spring which neither the Drought of Sumer nor winter's ffrost hinders from supplying the neighbourhood with grinding when all or most of the other mills are dormant our and others being so sup- ply'd in times of such necessity lays [us] under great obligations to fre- quent the said mill [they therefore ask convenient roads to it] several of which said roads have been made use for these tenn or twelve years past, but obstructed at the pleasure of ill minded and contentious persons. [They then suggest the roads as named in the record of the court, adding] and your petitioners bringing their corn to mill in order to bring the meal to markett another road wants a confirmation leading from the said mill to the Great Road from Parkysomeny to Philadelphia, without which your petitioners must labor under great hardships and difficulties, for what is more necessary than a Convenient road to places of worship and to mills and marketts " [etc. The petition is signed by thirty persons, most of them Gwynedd people].
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