History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, with genealogical and biographical sketches, Part 198

Author: Futhey, John Smith, 1820-1888; Cope, Gilbert, 1840-1928
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Philadelphia, L. H. Everts
Number of Pages: 1162

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VERNON, THOMAS, from " Stanthorne," County Pala- tine of Chester, England, arrived a little before or with the proprietary, in 1682. He served as a juror at the first court held for the county of Chester. He, with his brother, Randal Vernon, settled on adjoining tracts of land in Nether Providence, and for some time occupied but one dwelling, at which the Monthly Meetings of the Society of Friends in early times were frequently held. He was an exemplary member of the society and a good citizen. Thomas had not entirely escaped religious persecution in England. He died 10, 25, 1698, and his widow, Elizabeth, 3, 24, 1714. Their son Thomas, born about 1670, died 11, 4, 1754, married, 8, 13, 1702, Lydia Ralfe, and had the following children : Thomas, b. 5, 23, 1703, d. about 1760 ; Lydia, b. 1, 13, 1706, m. Nathaniel Ring; Jonathan, b. 4, 3, 1707, died young; Jonathan, b. 6, 11, 1708, d. 1785, m. 8, 19, 1738, to Ann (Cloud) Engle; Nathan, b. 7, 10, 1710 ; Esther, b. 8, 10, 1712, m. Abraham Ashton; Na- thaniel, b. 12, 5, 1714, m. 7, 13, 1744, Mary (Engle) Sal- keld ; Hannah, b. 1, 3, 1716-7, m. John Calvert; Mor- decai, b. 2, 3, 1720, d. about 1792, settled in Marlborough, and had children,-Lydia (Hall), Elizabeth, Mary, Mor- decai, Thomas, James, and Hannah.

Nathaniel (sheriff ) and Mary (Salkeld) Vernon had children,-Thomas, John, Job, and Frederick. He was a tavern-keeper at Easton, 1754. His property was confis- cated on account of loyalty to the British crown.

JOB VERNON, captain in the Revolutionary army, was born in Lower Providence, about the year 1750. He en- tered the army at the commencement of the Revolutionary war, and served faithfully and without intermission until its termination and the disbanding of the army. His name

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appears in the lists, printed by order of Congress, of officers who served to the end of the war, and thereby acquired the right to half-pay and bounty lands, and also as one of the founders of the Society of Cincinnati. He was commis- sioned ensign in Capt. Thomas Church's company of Col. Anthony Wayne's Pennsylvania battalion Jan. 5, 1776, and was promoted to be lieutenant in Capt. Thomas Rob- inson's company of the same battalion Oct. 1, 1776. In 1779 and 1780 he was paymaster of the 5th Pennsyl- vania Regiment, which was then commanded by Col. Francis Johnston, and in which he also held the commis- sion of captain. This regiment was attached to the Army of the North, and seems to have participated in all its ser- vices up to the storming of Stony Point. Capt. Vernon died in Concord township about the year 1810. From fragments of his accounts and other documents in the pos- session of a relative, he seems to have been an intimate acquaintance and favorite of Gen. Wayne, and a very brave and judicious officer.

FREDERICK VERNON, major in the Revolutionary army, perhaps a brother of the preceding officer, was also born in Lower Providence; but nothing of his personal history nor any account of his military services is known to be pre- served. His name appears on the lists above referred to as one who served faithfully to the end of the war, and he was also one of the founders of the Society of Cincinnati. He was major in the 1st Pennsylvania Regiment of In- fantry.

RANDAL VERNON, from " Sandyway," Cheshire, Eng- land, no doubt immigrated to the province with his brothers, Thomas and Robert, and located his land in Nether Providence, between the tracts located by them. Besides being an active and influential member of the Society of Friends, he was frequently intrusted with public business. In 1687 he served as a member of the Provincial Assem- bly. He died in 1725, at the advanced age of eighty-five years, having survived his wife, Sarah, who died 12, 18, 1718-9. Their son Jacob married, in 1701, Ann Years- ley, and died in 1740, leaving children, of whom his son Jacob married Elizabeth (Hickman) Cheyney abont 1730, and died 1748, in Thornbury. Their children were Abra- ham, m. 3, 30, 1751, to Mary Bennett, who after his death married Thomas Cheyney, Esq .; Lydia, m. to David Lewis ; Elizabeth, died young ; Phebe, m. to Maj. John Harper ; and Jacob Vernon.

ROBERT VERNON came from Stoke, in Cheshire, Eng- land. He was a member of the Society of Friends, but did not take such an active part in meeting affairs as Thomas and Randal, though the Monthly Meetings were sometimes held at his house. He conveyed his brick messuage and 330 acres of land, where he resided, to his son Jacob just before his death, which occurred in January or February, 1709-10. His wife, Elinor, who came with him, was the daughter of John Minshall, and sister of Thomas Minshall, a settler in Providence. She died 7, 24, 1720. Their children were Isaac, m. in 1710, Hannah Williams and Mary (Sellers) Marshall ; Jacob, m. 4, 5, 1712, Eleanor Owen, and settled in Philadelphia later in life; John, m. in 1702, Sarah Pyle, who left three children,-Moses, Rachel (m. to Robert Green), and Aaron. Gideon Ver-

non, son of Moses, went to Nova Scotia at the time of the Revolution.

VICKERS, THOMAS, of Plumstead, Bucks Co , son of Abraham and Mary, married, 9, 13, 1746, at Plumstead Meeting, Rebecca Dillon, daughter of Nicholas and Mary, of Bedminster. In 1775, Thomas and several of his chil- dren came to Chester County and settled in East Caln. He was a minister among Friends, and died 12, 30, 1793, while absent on a religious visit, aged about seventy-three. His children were Esther, b. 6, 9, 1747, m. William Mich- ener, 12, 22, 1768; John, b. 8, 3, 1749; Mary, b. 3, 9, 1752, m. David Mendenhall, 6, 3, 1778; Rebecca, b. 7, 1, 1754, m. Joshua Roman, 10, 2, 1776 ; Thomas, b. 3, 8, 1757, d. 9, 25, 1829 ; Rachel, b. 9, 6, 1759; Abraham, b. 1, 17, 1762 ; Mercy, b. 8, 19, 1764.

Thomas Vickers, Jr., m. 6, 30, 1779, Jemima Menden- hall, daughter of Joshua and Lydia, of East Caln, born 12, 9, 1757, died 12, 5, 1851. Their children were John, b. 8, 8, 1780, d. 4, 24, 1860 ; Joshua, b. 9, 19, 1783, d. 9, 20, 1807; Martha, b. 3, 27, 1786, m. William Milhous; Ziba, b. 10, 5, 1788, m. Lydia Kersey; Thomas, b. 4, 14, 1791, m. Ann -; Isaac, b. 10, 10, 1792, m. Abigail -; Jesse, b. 4, 1, 1795; Rebecca, b. 9, 21, 1799, m. Evan Lewis.

John Vickers, son of Thomas and Jemima, married, 10, 6, 1803, at Sadsbury Meeting, Abigail Paxson, daughter of Joseph and Mary, of Sadsbury, Chester Co., born -, died 12, 12, 1818. After some years they settled in Uwchlan, where he carried on the potting business, and his house was one of the prominent stations of the Un- derground Railroad. His children were Martha, Ann (m. to Samuel M. Painter), Joseph, Jonathan, Jemima M., Mary H., Joseph, Aaron, Abigail C., Paxson. The last named, b. 7, 13, 1817, d. 10, 22, 1865, m. in 1840, Ann T. Lewis, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Lewis, b. 4, 20, 1818. He was member of Assembly, 1856-57. His daughter Sarah Louisa, b. in Uwchlan, May 20, 1841, m. Jan. 1, 1862, John Oberholtser, and they reside at Cam- bria Station, West Pikeland.

WADDEL, REV. JAMES, D.D., the son of Thomas Wad- del, was born in Newry, in the north of Ireland, in July, 1739. In the fall of the same year he was brought, an infant in his mother's arms, to this country. His parents settled on the White Clay Creek, Chester Co., Pa., where he grew up to manhood. Having been disabled by an accident, when a boy, in the use of his left hand, his parents resolved to seek for him a liberal education. He was accordingly sent to the school of Dr. Samuel Finley, at Nottingham, where he made rapid progress. His attainments in the classics were of so high an order that Dr. Finley promoted him at an early age to the office of tutor. On leaving this school he became an assistant in the school of Dr. Robert Smith, at Pequea.

After a time he migrated south ward, and was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Hanover, Va., April 2, 1761, and was pastor at different times of various churches in Virginia.

Some time after he had been in the ministry, he became incurably blind. He continued to preach, however, the different members of his family assisting him in his prepa-

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ration, and spending hours daily in reading to him. His mental faculties were not impaired by his loss of sight, and he retained his usual flow of spirits. The mother of Presi- dent Madison was a member of his church, and Mr. Madi- son himself often visited him, and sometimes consulted him in matters relating to the welfare of the country.

The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him in 1792 by the trustees of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.

He was dignified in his general deportment, but remark- able for politeness and gentlemanly manners,-a finished gentleman, in the old Virginia acceptation of the term.

To great learning he added an eloquence so remarkable that the traditionary accounts of it seem almost fabulous. It was of that sort that electrifies whole assemblies, trans- ferring to them the speaker's passion at his will. Under his preaching audiences were moved simultaneously and irresistibly, as the trees of the wood are shaken by a tempest.

It was to delineate the character of his eloquence that William Wirt wrote that inimitable piece of composition in his " British Spy" entitled "The Blind Preacher,"-a description which is indelibly impressed on the pages of Virginia history, and which immortalized the writer as well as his hero.

Dr. Waddel died Sept. 17, 1805. His daughter Jan- netta was the wife of Rev. Archibald Alexander, D.D., for a long time professor in the theological seminary at Princeton, N. J., and whose name is familiar as " house- hold words" in every Presbyterian family in the land. Dr. Alexander's son, the late James W. Alexander, D.D., of New York, was named after his grandfather, Dr. Waddel.

WALTER, GODWIN, was a witness to a deed executed in Wiltshire, England, Sept. 28, 1685, and in less than three months had arrived in Pennsylvania. He settled in Concord, and married, in 1696, Elizabeth Sangurst, or Sang- hurst, by whom he had the following children : John, b. 7, 2, 1697, d. 1732, m. Martha Musgrove, 3, 21, 1724, and removed to Sadsbury; Mary, b. 10, 5, 1698, m. Caleb Peirce; Sarah, b. 1, 25, 1701, m. 9, 26, 1719, to Gainer Peirce, and 3, 25, 1749, to William Eachus ; Ann, b. 9, 7, 1704 ; William, b. 4, 8, 1707, m. Rachel Newlin, 2, 25, 1734; Rachel, b. 10, 27, 1709, m. 8, 28, 1730, to John Pyle ; Joseph, b. 12, 28, 1711, m. Jane Brinton ; Eliza- beth, b. 7, 29, 1714; Lydia, m. 9, 25, 1747, to Eliakim Garretson ; James, m. to Lydia Vernon.

Joseph and Jane Walter removed about 1746 within the limits of Goshen Monthly Meeting, and in 1750 to Kennet. The birth of their first child was not recorded, but the others were Hannah, b. 8, 30, 1741, m. John Car- penter ; James, b. 1, 31, 1744; Joseph, b. 12, 21, 1746, d. 2, 29, 1812, m. 5, 2, 1771, to Elizabeth Levis, and 11, 25, 1802, to Hannah Harry; Elizabeth, b. 12, 24, 1753, m. Isaac Trimble ; Phebe, b. 11, 26, 1758, d. 8, 5, 1785, m. Levi Woodrow ; Jane, b. 2, 19, 1760, m. Peter Harvey ; Rachel, b. 2, 24, 1762; William, b. 4, 29, 1764.

The children of Joseph and Elizabeth Walter were Sarah, Martha, m. to James Passmore ; Jane, m. to Isaac Miller ; Thomas, Hannah, William, m. to Margaret Lamborn ; Thomas, m. to Sidney Peirce; and Mary Carpenter. Eliza- beth died young.

WANGER .- The ancestor of the Wanger family in this country was Heinrich, or Henry, Wanger, who owned a farm in Hanover township, (then) Philadelphia Co., for which he paid quit-rent prior to 1750. He died in 1781, and is buried in the Mennonite graveyard in East Coventry. His children were Johannes, Margaret, Abraham, and Anna.

Johannes (or John) Wanger purchased a farm then de- scribed as in " Coventree" township, Chester Co., now in Union township, Berks Co., where he lived until 1778, when he sold it to his son Abraham. John Wanger died Jan. 6, 1803. His children were Abraham, Jacob, Mag- dalen, Elizabeth, Hannah, Magdalene, John, and Samuel.

Abraham had one son,-Abraham,-who lived to have issue. He married Mary Berge, and had ten children,- Susan, who died young, Susanna, George, Henry, Peter, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Mary, Abraham, and Annie. George married Rebecca Price, and was a well-known farmer of North Coventry. He died Dec. 30, 1876. He was a zealous worker in the anti-slavery cause, having made his house a station on the Underground Railroad. He was also actively engaged in working in the temperance and other reforms. Four of his children are living,-Irving P., now district attorney of Montgomery County, Newton, George F. P., and Joseph P., the last three living at the old homestead in North Coventry. Abraham is a well-known member of the Chester County bar, and was district at- torney from 1872 to 1875. Rebecca married William B. Stanford, a merchant of Pottstown ; Mary married Har- man Prizer ; and Annie married Howard D. Reinhart. Mr. Prizer and Mr. Reinhart are well-known enterprising East Coventry farmers and dairymen.

The Wanger family have ever been identified with the intelligent people of the State, and have always been noted for their integrity and usefulness as citizens.

WAY, ROBERT, appears as a witness at Chester Court 10th mo., 1686. In 1691 he purchased 150 acres on Brandywine, in Kennet, now Pennsbury township, where he died in 1725. His wife, Hannah, was the daughter of Francis and Elizabeth Hickman, and their children were John, Robert, Joseph, Jacob, Elizabeth, Francis, Caleb, Joshua, James, and Benjamin.

John was born 9, 15, 1694, and died 8, 21, 1777, mar- ried Ann, daughter of John and Margery Hannum, of Concord, and settled near his father. His children were as follows : Robert, b. 10, 27, 1725; Sarah, b. 8, 8, 1727, m. James Miller ; Betty, b. 7, 2, 1729, m. Jacob Brown ; John, b. 4, 9, 1730, m. Hannah Marshall; Ruth, b. 3, 19, 1745, m. John Baldwin ; Caleb, b. 11, 30, 1732 ; Rebecca, b. 7, 16, 1735, m. Abraham Taylor ; Jacob, b. 10, 19, 1737 ; Lydia, b. 5, 2, 1740; Ann, b. 3, 23, 1742, m. Samson Babb; Rachel, b. 6, 11, 1749, m. Isaac Larkin ; Benjamin.

Jacob Way married Sarah Hannum, sister to his brother's wife, and after her death married Hannah, daughter of Wil- liam Harvey, 4, 10, 1741. His third marriage was 6, 18, 1767, to Lydia (Sharples) Vernon. His children were, as far as known, John, b. 12, 5, 1727; Ann, b. 4, 25, 1730, m. Jesse Taylor ; Ruth, b. 12, 4, 1733, m. John Bennet, of Birmingham ; Jean, b. 1, 11, 1736, m. - Logan ; Joseph, b. 3, 23, 1737, m. Prudence Larkin ; Sarah, b. 8,

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7, 1739, m. John Hawk ; James, m. Hannah Marshall ; Rachel, m. to Thomas Harry ; Betty, m. to Stephen Hayes ; Hannah ; Amos; Phebe, m. to John Holohan.

Jacob purchased the homestead from his brother Joseph in 1728, the latter having received a deed for it from their father just before his death in 1725. Joseph's wife was Sarah Pyle, and he had children,-Susanna, Joseph, Samuel, Sarah, William, and Nicholas.

James Way, son of Robert and Hannah, was a black- smith, and lived in Thornbury at the time of his marriage, 4, 8, 1738, to Mary Kerlin, daughter of Matthias, of Con- cord. They afterwards settled in West Calo, and in 1742 began tavern-keeping at "The Wagon," now Wagontown, and continued till about 1755. James left one son, Wil- liam, who died in his minority.

clerked three years. He then returned to Londongrove, and was fourteen years in the mercantile business. He then followed farming until 1853, when he retired from active business. He married Elizabeth Pusey, daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth Pusey, and has had the following chil- dren : Jesse P., deceased; Bennett S .; Elizabeth, married to Robert L. Pyle, one of the most successful merchants of the county ; David R .; and Franklin Cardell, deceased young. Mr. Walton's wife died Aug. 4, 1853. He served thirteen years on the school board. He was postmaster nearly forty years at Londongrove, and resigned about 1868, when his son Bennett S. was appointed, and now acceptably fills that position. He has been repeatedly called to act as administrator, executor, guardian, etc., and has settled many estates, and had a dozen of wards at

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WALTON .- Four brothers, Nathaniel, Daniel, Thomas, and William Walton, came to Pennsylvania at an early date, and settled in Byberry, Philadelphia Co. From these brothers have sprung an innumerable posterity, branching out into all the States of the Union. The family was ori- ginally of the Society of Friends.

Several branches of the family have migrated to Chester County, and among the rest was Joshua Walton, who re- moved to New Garden township. His son Isaac married Isabella Starr, and his children were Reuben, David, Wil- liam, Isaac, Sarah (married to George Meredith), and Eliza- beth.

DAVID WALTON was born May 17, 1798, and was reared on the farm, receiving only a limited school educa- tion. When sixteen years old he went into the dry-goods store of Townsend Sharpless, in Philadelphia, where he

one time. His son Bennett S. has served several years as director of the poor, and is now a director in the new bank at West Chester. He is also a good surveyor, and does much conveyancing. Mr. Walton has resided at Lon- dongrove sixty-one years, and accumulated by his industry and business tact a nice competence. He passed several winters in Florida, at the head-waters of St. John's River. In the winter of 1860-61 he traveled in the Southern States, just previous to the fall of Fort Sumter, and witnessed the preparations of the South for the coming rebellion. On this tour he was accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. Rob- ert L. Pyle, and the wife of his son Jesse P.

JOSEPH P. WALTON .- Elijah Walton married Rebecca Briggs, in Bucks County. Their son Abner married Eleanor Baker, and to them eleven children were born, of whom the sixth and only surviving child is Joseph P.

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He was born July 19, 1820, in West Fallowfield town- ship, to which his father, Abner, removed about 1806. He was raised on the farm, educated in the common schools, and when twenty-four years of age embarked in the mer- cantile business in Londonderry township. Here he re- mained one year, and removed to Steeleville, where for six years he kept store, and the next four at Cochranville. He went to farming extensively for twelve years on his three farms of some five hundred acres in all. He then resumed business at Cochranville, in which he continued seven years. He is now engaged in farming. He was married Nov. 9, 1843, to Hannah C., daughter of John and Phebe (Strickland) Cochran. He has had ten chil- dren, of whom the following six are living : Eleanor P., m. Henry C. Thompson ; Susanna C., m. Charles Owens; Abner B., m. Elizabeth Hartshorne ; Joen, m. Dr. Joseph

bly, and often distinguished himself in expeditions against the belligerent Indians. His grandfather, Anthony, was a native of Yorkshire, England, but in early life removed into the county of Wicklow, Ireland. He commanded a squadron of dragoons, under King William, at the battle of the Boyne; and being warmly attached to liberal prin- ciples, he migrated with his family to America in 1722. The subject of this notice received a good mathematical education, and for some years was employed in surveying, practical astronomy, and engineering. When the difficul -. ties betwen the colonies and the mother-country arose, our Anthony Wayne was among the foremost and most active of the Chester County Whigs in counteracting the oppres- sive measures of Britain, and preparing the way for the Revolutionary contest. A large meeting of the inhabitants of the county was held at Chester in December, 1774, to

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Dickinson, of Parkesburg ; Evelina, m. M. F. Hammill ; and Carrie A. P. He was three times justice of the peace, and repeatedly served in other township positions from the time he was twenty-one until four years ago. He was post- master at Steeleville under the administrations of Taylor and Fillmore, and under the latter at Cochranville. He was originally a Whig, and since the dissolution of that party has been most actively identified with the Democracy. Mr. Walton has often served on the school board. Hc is a general farmer, as were his father and grandfather, and in farming and merchandising has accumulated a nice compe- tence of this world's goods.

WAYNE, GEN. ANTHONY .- Anthony Wayne, the famous military chieftain of Chester County, was born in the township of Easttown, Jan. 1, 1745. His father, Isaac Wayne, was a respectable farmer and useful citizen, having repeatedly occupied a seat in the Provincial Assem-

devise measures for the protection of their rights as freemen, in pursuance of a resolution of the Continental Congress, and a committee of seventy was chosen, with Anthony Wayne as chairman, to aid in superseding the colonial gov- ernment, and to take charge of the local interests of the county.

He soon aspired to military service, and early in January, 1776, was appointed by Congress colonel of the Fourth Pennsylvania Battalion, which was sent to the frontier of Canada, and passed the year in the vicinity of Ticonderoga. In February, 1777, he was promoted to the rank of brig- adier-general, and the following summer joined the main army, under Washington, in New Jersey, where he was placed at the head of a brigade. He was a man of impe- rious disposition, and soon became an admirable disciplin- arian. At the battle of Brandywine, Sept. 11, 1777, Gen. Wayne commanded a division stationed at Chads' Ford,

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for the purpose of resisting the column under Knyphausen. He maintained the contest with the utmost gallantry, until a large division of the enemy (through an unaccountable lack of vigilance on the part of the American scouts) had crossed the Brandywine above the forks, turned the right of Washington's army, and compelled a retreat. Some days afterwards, viz., on the night of September 20th, the enemy stole a march into Wayne's camp, near the Paoli, and perpetrated a cruel butchery, under the direction of Gen. Grey. At the battle of Germantown Gen. Wayne evinced his wonted valor, leading his division into the thickest of the fight; and in covering the retreat he used every exer- tion which bravery and prudence could dictate. During a large portion of this campaign of 1777, owing to a com- bination of circumstances, he performed alone the duty of three general officers. While the army was suffering mis- erably at Valley Forge, in the ensuing winter, he performed valuable service on the eastern banks of the Delaware in securing cattle for the American troops, and destroying forage which could not be removed, and might otherwise fall into the hands of the enemy. He returned to the army about the middle of March, and, with his officers and soldiers, received the thanks of the commander-in-chief. In all councils of war Gen. Wayne was distinguished for supporting the most energetic and decisive measures. The characteristic anecdote is told of Wayne that he was ac- customed to attend such consultations with a volume of " Tom Jones" or other interesting novel in his pocket, and would be quietly reading in one corner of the room while the anxious company were discussing the measures proper to be pursued. When they had severally given their views, the commander-in-chief would inquire, " Well, Gen. Wayne, what do you propose to do ?" " Fight, sir !" is said to have been his invariable answer. No wonder that his impetuous daring should procure for him the familiar sobriquet of "Mad Anthony !" Fighting was constitu- tional with him, and he was always ready for a fray. In the council which was held before the battle of Monmouth, he and Gen. Cadwallader were the only two of the seven- teen general officers who were in favor of fighting. This engagement added to his reputation, his ardor and resolu- tion having been so conspicuous that Washington men- tioned him with particular distinction in his official report to Congress. In 1779 he had an opportunity to retaliate nobly on the enemy at Stony Point, by sparing the lives of. many of the same ruffians who showed no mercy in the " Paoli massacre." For his gallantry on this occasion the thanks of Congress and a gold medal, emblematic of the action, were presented to him.

During the campaign of 1780, Gen. Wayne was actively employed, in command of the Pennsylvania line; and in that of 1781-which ended in the capture of Cornwallis and the British forces at Yorktown-he bore a conspicuous part. He was next sent by Washington to take command in Georgia, where the enemy were making formidable pro- gress. After some sanguinary encounters, he effected the establishment of security and order, and was presented by the Legislature of the State with a valuable farm for his services. Peace soon followed, when he retired to private life with a military reputation which, in the time of Gon-

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History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, with genealogical and biographical sketches, Part 198

Author: Futhey, John Smith, 1820-1888; Cope, Gilbert, 1840-1928 Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Philadelphia, L. H. Everts Number of Pages: 1162

Author: Futhey, John Smith, 1820-1888; Cope, Gilbert, 1840-1928
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Philadelphia, L. H. Everts
Number of Pages: 1162