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"P. S .- Mr. Wilcocks bas in his possession a Mould for making paper belonging to this State, which I request you to bring away. It is marked with the word Pennsylvania in 24 places. He did prom- ise, if the enemy came that way, he would throw it into the Mill Dam."
April 2, 1778, in Council, at Lancaster. An order was drawn on the treasurer in favor of Stephen Cochran, Esq., for the sum of two thousand pounds, to be by him paid to Mr. Samuel Futhey, of the county of Chester, to purchase horses with to mount the cavalry, agreeably to the request of the committee of Congress lately at camp.
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April 12th. Forfeited estates noted to be sold : of Nathan- iel Vernon (late sheriff of Chester County), of Curtis Lewis (blacksmith), and of Richard Swanwick, all of Chester County.
April 22d. Col. Andrew Boyd writes to President Wharton, acquainting His Excellency of a set of "Tory horse-thieves" that is in this county. According to the Pennsylvania Archives, in some few instances it was re- ported that the Quakers insulted, and even attempted to fire on, two different guards Col. Boyd had in collecting fines ; so the colonel himself wrote.
May 5th. An order was drawn on the treasurer in favor of Caleb Davis for fifteen pounds for six days' riding to Gen. Potter's camp, and through the neighborhood of Darby and Chester, in order to gain intelligence.
May 6th. The Council, taking into consideration the ap- pointing of commissioners, agreeably to the act of attain- der, etc., ordered that the following persons be appointed, to wit : For Chester County, William Evans, Thomas Chey- ney, Thomas Levis, Patterson Bell, and John Hannum.
May 8th. Council orders that, among others, Henry Skyles, Thomas Bulla, and David Dawson, husbandmen ; Jacob James, late of the township of Goshen, inn-keeper ; Joseph Thomas (heretofore sub-sheriff ), yeoman ; Nathaniel Vernon, Jr., laborer ; and John Swanwick, late of the cus- tom-house, Philadelphia, all late of the county of Chester, be required to appear and abide trial for adhering to the enemy, etc.
May 21st. Resolved, That a warrant do issue to the wagon- master of Philadelphia County for fifty wagons, and the like warrant to the wagon-master of Chester County for forty wagons.
June 4, 1778. On the representation of Col. John Hannum of the ravages made by the enemy in their march through Chester County, and of the great quantities of pro- visions, forage, etc., which have been furnished by the peo- ple of that county for the use of the army, for which they have received certificates only, and the great difficulties the people are under in raising the substitute money and mili- tia fines due from them, Ordered, That good and sufficient certificates from the known commissioners, deputy quarter- masters, or commissaries be received in payment of sub- stitute money and militia fines from those persons to whom such certificates have been given, but not from any per- sons who may have obtained assignments of such certifi - cates, except only in such cases where divers persons, each having such certificates, pay their fines by some one of such certificatcs.
June 4, 1778. John McMekin, constable of the town- ship of East Fallowfield, in Chester County, laid before the Council an account of expenses in bringing to the gaol of this (Lancaster) county from the county of Chester James Chalfant and Evan Chalfant, charged with having taken prisoner one of the inhabitants of said county, and attempting to carry him to the enemy, amounting to the sum of eleven pounds and six shillings, which was allowed.
June 15, 1778. A proclamation was issued by the Su- preme Executive Council designating as traitors a large number of persons -- nearly five hundred-belonging to the commonwealth, of whom sixty-five are named as now or late of the county of Chester.
January 15, 1779. Capt. William Mackey, of the Penn- sylvania regiment, who was wounded at the battle of Bran- dywine, taken prisoner, and now on parole, prays for a suit
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HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.
of clothes, whereupon ordered by Council that he be fur- nished with same and two shirts.
July 13, 1779. Andrew Boyd was desired to purchase and forward six hundred barrels of flour from Chester County to Philadelphia.
July 14th. William Clingan, Esq., of Chester County, was appointed to receive subscriptions, and transmit the same to the loan-officer, agreeably to the resolve of Con- gress of June 29th for borrowing twenty millions of dollars.
June 15, 1780. Col. John Hannum writes from Brad- ford, Chester County, to President Reed :
"Sın,-Pursuant to your orders, I have collected 28 cattle and 101 sheep,-all that I could collect in so short a time, not having recd your orders till the 11th inst. It gives me concorn that the army is reduced to the extremity they are, being well assured that one person may be found that will engage to furnish the Penna troops with every necessary provisions, and to suffer death the day they are destitute thereof."
June 27th. Council drew orders in favor of Gideon Gil- pin, James Hannum, Israel Gilpin, and Caleb Pyle, for cattle purchased by John Hannum for the use of the army.
August 4th. The Council appoint David Wilson, Thomas Strawbridge, Owen Thomas, John Crosby, George Pierce, and Joseph Speer to collect horses in Chester County, especially from the disaffected, for the use of the govern- ment. John Beaton appointed paymaster of the Chester County militia.
February 14, 1783. Col. John Hannum wrote to Presi- dent Dickinson about the sale of Hog Island, the prop- erty of Joseph Galloway, attainted for high treason.
March 1, 1783. The Executive Council received a peti- tion from Frederick Buzzard, convicted of misdemeanors upon three indictments in Chester County in aiding British prisoners to escape, praying remission of his fines, and upon consideration two-thirds of them were remitted. On Feb- ruary 13, 1784, Buzzard again petitioned, and for the re- mission of the other one-third, but his prayer was rejected.
On February 22, 1783, in the Executive Council, a peti- tion was read from Anne Allen, in behalf of her husband, John Allen, convicted of misdemeanors in Chester County in aiding British prisoners to escape, together with a recom- mendation from Honorable George Bryan in his behalf, and on consideration the fine and punishment of whipping was remitted.
May 13, 1783. Upon the petition of Isaac Pyle, con- victed of a misdemeanor in aiding British prisoners to escape, and sentenced at the late Court of Oyer and Terminer, held for the county of Chester, to a fine of fifteen pounds, etc., Council orders that his imprisonment, on his discharging the fine adjudged to the State, his fees, and the costs of prosecution, and upon his also finding sufficient security for his good behavior, be remitted.
Rev. John Carmichael to the president :
" EAST CALN, Jan'y 27th, 1780.
" May it Please your Excellency : As a Sworn, faithful member of the State, I think it my duty to inform your Excellency of what I have by good authority, which I believe to be fact, viz : The atrocious villany of a certain Phenias Whiteker, a Miller in this Neighborhood, in the Township of East Caln, in this County of Chester. The affair, by information, is as followetb :
" When a Division of our Standing army, on their march to the Southerd came up on their way as far as Downingstown, they were,
it is said, out of flour to make bread ; the mills in all these parts 'were then froze fast, except this Phenias Whiteker's; the Comisary bought sixty bushels of Wheat of Mr. John Ligget, my next Neigh- bour, to grind down for the relief of the Troops. But when this Enemy, this Phepias Whiteker, knew it was for our soldiers, he would not grind one grain of it, for he had it then in his power to strike a capital blow for one man against 500 brave Troops under pretense of Conscience, for he professes to be a Quaker, but if it was Conscience, it must have been a very ignorant and partial one, for on that principle he ought not to grind for any of the people in these parts who have taken the oath of alegience to the State and who are supporters of the war, for we are as much to blame or more than the soldiers, we are their employers.
"I think such impotent, insolent contempt of Government ought not to pass over unnoticed, least it may make him and the like of him to despise authority. It is very probable no regular information is tabled to any magistrate yet on the heat, or he would be delt with; he is in the midst of a whig settlement.
"If your excellency will write to William Clingan, Esq'r, a faith- ful, Judicious magistrate close byc, to call this Raskel before him, and if he he found guilty let him be dealt with as the state of the case may require. I hope your excellency's &c. Family are well. I am "Your Excellency's most obedient " & Very Humble Ser't, "JOHN CARMICHAEL.
"his Excellency Jos. Reed, Esq'r.
" P. S .- please to not make my name public if it is not necessary, as it will kindle the rage of the whole quaker society against me, and they may, perhaps employ some Ruffin to Burn my House and Barn or do me so great mischief secritly, for they have not taken the oaths to the States, and we know they are our bitter enemies, if they dared to show it. But if it is necessary to enform how you come by your information, in order to write to Mr. Clingan to do his duty, I chear- fully submit and leave the consequence in the hand of a wise and Good Providence.
"J. C."
DAMAGES INFLICTED BY THE BRITISH ARMY UPON THE PEOPLE OF CHESTER COUNTY, AS REPORTED TO THE AUTHORITIES.
The greatest amount of property taken and destroyed was in Birmingham and Tredyffrin townships, owing to the fact that the army lay for a considerable time, compar- atively in each of these townships. Goshen township ap- pears to have been the next largest sufferer.
Near the close of the contest-viz., Sept. 21, 1782-the Legislature of Pennsylvania passed an "act for procuring an estimate of the damages sustained by the inhabitants of Pennsylvania from the troops and adherents of the king of Great Britain during the present war." By this act the county commissioners of every county which had been in- vaded were directed to call on the assessors, to procure and return accounts and estimates of the damages that had been done by the enemy since the 18th of April, 1775, to register such accounts and estimates, and to transmit the originals to the Executive Council. The precise ob- ject to be accomplished by this act is not now very obvious. It is not likely the Legislature intended to foot the bills themselves. If it was designed as preparatory to a reclam- ation of damages from the mother-country for the outrages committed, it certainly failed to produce any beneficial results.
The estimates of damages sustained in the county of Chester, made in pursuance of the provisions of this law and returned to the commissioners, were carefully recorded, as directed, and the record may be seen in the office of the commissioners at West Chester.
GENERAL HISTORY.
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The Society of Friends, who in a portion of the route traversed by the British army, constituted a considerable portion of the community, generally declined to report their losses to the public authorities, and the plunder being indiscriminate, whether of loyalists or rebels, the es- timates thus furnished from the various townships are probably not more than a moiety of the damages really sustained.
At the period when the returns were made the county (then including Delaware County) was divided into three election districts. The returns are registered according to townships, and the townships in each of the three election districts are classed together.
The three districts were known as the Chester, Red Lion, and Chatham districts, these being the names of the places at which the general elections were held. Cliester, situated on the Delaware River, was the seat of justice of the county ; Red Lion was a public-house in the township of Uwchlan (at the present village of Lionville), receiving its name from the sign it exhibited ; and Chatham was a public-house in Londongrove township, which had for its sign a portrait of the famous English earl bearing that title. The name Chatham was conferred upon this house by Hon. Thomas Mckean, afterwards chief justice and Governor of Pennsylvania, who was the owner of the prop- erty. The Earl of Chatham had favorcd the cause of the colonies in the British Parliament, and hence was very popular in this county.
In order to afford the reader an idea of the wanton character and extent of the ravages committed by the British army on its passage through Chester County, as well as the valuation in those days of the property taken, the reports of a few of the inhabitants will be given in full detail, after which summary statements will be pre- sented of the losses sustained in the respective townships. The returns were made in pounds, shillings, and pence, in what was known as Pennsylvania currency, seven shillings and sixpence being equal to one dollar, or three pounds to eight dollars.
The first return we will present is that of Charles Dil- worth, who at that time owned and kept the tavern at Dil- worthtown. It will be seen that his total loss amounted to £820 15s. 3d., equivalent to $2188.70,-a pretty large sum in those days; indeed, he appears to have been pretty well cleaned out. Mr. Dilworth was afterwards sheriff of Chester County from 1789 to 1792.
" An account of property taken, damage, waste, spoil, and destruction done and committed by the army of the king of Great Britain and their adherents, under the immediate command of Sir William Howe, commander-in-chief, from the 11th to the 16th days of September, 1777, to the property, real and personal, belonging to Charles Dil- worth, of Birmingham, viz. :
" 3 beef cattle.,
21
9
0
0
1 year old heifer
3 0
0
2 two year old horse colts .. 24 0 0
24 large fat hogs 90 0
16 17 6
- 10 sheep @ 15s. ench
14 0
0
4 10 0
33. 12. 0.
£ d. o. The wheat of about seven acres, not less than 15 bushels to the acre, thrashed before the battle, one-balf of which was my property. 17 13 6 The rye of about three acres, supposed to be not less than 36 bushels, two-thirds of which is mine.
5 8 0 The rye of about two and a half acres, supposed to be 40 bushels, my share one-half. 4 10 0
140 bushels of oats, @ 2-6
15 bushels barley, @ 5-6
5 acres of Indian corn destroyed. 7 10 =
6 acres buckwheat, greater part destroyed 7 10 0
5 acres mowing grass.
0
0
70 hushels potatoes, @ 2-6
8 15 0
130 bushels imported salt, in partnership with Richard Nichols, my share 65 bushels, some few bushels left sold current for £12 per bushel ; exchange then at three for one, being £4 per bushel. 260 0 0
3 barrels of singlings of whisky, a number of tierces and barrels destroyed, with other dama- ges done at the still-house. 9 0 0
Destroyed in the house nhout ten gallons of rum, and 15 gallons of peach brandy, which cost me £52 28. 6d. exchange 3 to 1 ..
17 7 6
A quantity of bowls, decanters and glasses in the bar.
2 0
0
2 tow bedticks, bolsters, etc
1 12 6
7 psirs of sheets and 13 blankets. 31 15 0
6 bed quilts, coverlids and rugs 0
4 pair sacken bottom bedstends and 2 pair corded. 6 15 0
1 large walnut table damaged, the feet cut off and leaves cut and split
1 10 0
2 small tables damaged, tops split.
1 painted table. do ..
1
1 mahogany table, best sort, cut to pieces.
3 walnut chairs ; 2 of them damask bottoms, the other leather, destroyed.
3 15 0
12 rush bottomed chairs, damaged and some cut to pieces
1 10 0
1 dough trough destroyed
10 0 6
1. dressing table do. 10 0
22 doz. best hard mettle pewter plates, 5 doz. best hard mettle dishes.
8 7 6
3 small best hard mettle basins and 6 porringers. 1 5 0
1 large copper teskettle and 1 large copper saucepan
2 15 0
2 brass kettles 37-6 and two iron kettles 158.
2 12 6
1 large iron pot 158., and 1 pair of sadirons 108 ...
1 5
0
3 pairs shovels and tongs ...
1 17 6
1 looking glass broken to pieces ..
3 0 0
12 sets of china cups and saucers, and one set of coffee do. broken to pieces.
2 5 0 0
6 silver tea spoons ..
1 6
Tea and coffee pots; delf and queensware, plates und dishes.
1 15 0
Tumblers, jelly glasses and wine glasses, broken and destroyed
15
0
Wearing apparel taken
.8 0
0
5 new checked aprons and caps ...
2 7
6
] English baby's basket, chintz, frock's, petticoats, shirts and a number of oaps.
4 0.
0
3 table cloths, 6 napkins, two towels. 2 15 0
1 boy's new hat, clothes belonging to the chil- dren, servant boy and girl.
3 10 0
1 pair chains, backband, bellyband 15
1 wagon wheel taken away .. 1 10 0
Brass hall and socket and staff belonging to my surveying instruments.
1: 10 0
Table knives and forks, pewter spoons, ladles,. flesh forks, brass skimmers, earthen ware and ·' other kitchen furniture.
3 0
0
Cider tubs, pails, churn and bar-tub.
1 0
C
1 dutch tin oven.
1 0
0
1. large Bible torn to pieces 0 0 1
The time of a servant lad -Patrick Kelley, about . 14 months, be weot off with the British army ..
0
31 pannel post and rail fence burned
3 17 6
89 pannel worm fence
4 9
0
8 8 apple trees in the orchard cut down 0 1
A quantity of small sapling timber cut down and destroyed.
1 10 0
Damage done to dwelling house by breaking doors, stair case and pulling down an oven ...... 1 10 0
Destroying pale fence around the garden and yard ... ...
1 10 : 0
A frame house situate in Wilmington entirely de- strojed
45 14 3
820 15 3" Aggregate ..
14
£
.. 0
d. 0
2 year old heifer.
1 two year old Fillie, part blooded. 15 0
45 pigs or shoats different sizes @ 7-6
7 10 0 32 tons clover hay @ £4.
1} tons not so good
The wheat of about 17 acres of ground not less than 10 bushels to the acre, 170 bushels thrashed before the battle.
2 feather beds, bedsteads and pillows.
12 0
15 0
0
12 6
5 10 0
1 desk damaged and split ..
1 doz. china plates, 4 doz. bowls and sugar dish ..
3 10 0
0
10 0 Damage done to my real estate, viz. :
17 10 2 6
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HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.
Chester se. :
" Personally appeared before me the above named Charles Dil- worth, who being duly qualified according to law, doth declare and Bay, that the above account of property plundered and destroyed hy the British Army, is a just and true account, to the best of his knowledge as the same stands stated, and that he never received any part thereof.
" Affirmed before me, November 18th, 1782.
" THOMAS CHEYNEY."
" An Account af a Sacrillege cammitted in the Baptist Meeting-house in Tredyffrin, in the County of Chester, in the State of Pennsylvania, by some of the British Army under Gen. Howe, in their march fram the head of Elk to Philadelphia, the 18th, 19th ar 20th days of Sep- tember, when said Meeting-hause was braken open, and was stole fram thence the Sacramental Dishes, viz. :
£ 8. d.
" 2 pewter dishes.
15 0
2 do. pints.
8
0
1 diaper table cloth
12
0
1 Bible of the English language.
15
0
A change af Raiment for the administratian af Baptism ! viz. :
2 linen shirts
16 0
] pair ligen drawers 10 0
The lock of the chest the goods were in. 5
0
The Sartan's toale for Burials, viz. :
1 grubbing hoe 8s., 1 spade 78. 6d. 15
6
They destroyed and burnt on the parsanage farm ! viz. :
135 pannel of fence, equal to 810 rails at 48. per hundred 1 12 4
6 8 10
" Attested by
"JAMES DAVIS ELDER."
In Kennet township, among others, Peter Bell returns that there was taken from him and destroyed by the Brit- ish troops and their adherents, on September 9th, 10th, and 11th, property to the value of £657, and to be added to this the loss of his house, with all his effects, money, etc., therein contained, at a moderate computation the additional sum of £513 6s., altogether over $3000.
Dr. John Davis, of Tredyffrin, had all his medicines (of which, from the inventory, he appears to have had quite a full supply) taken in order to replenish the army medicine chests of His Britannic Majesty.
Mary Howell, of the same township, who probably kept an inn, reports as taken from her (among other things) one hogshead of whisky, one hogshead of rum, 20 gallons of gin, 3 horses, 23 head of cattle, 36 sheep, 300 bushels of wheat and a large quantity of other grains, and 6000 rails of fence.
Samuel Davis, a merchant, had almost his entire stock of store goods taken from him, of the value of $1600,- quite a large amount for a country store in those days.
In several of the returns negro slaves are mentioned as having escaped or gone to the enemy, and their market value set down, varying from £100 to £200.
The following is a summary of the damages and losses sustained by the inhabitants of the several townships, so far as returns were made to the authorities :
NEW GARDEN TOWNSHIP.
£
8.
d.
Isaac Allen.
170
0
0
James Allen
6
7
6
William Martin.
65
5
0
Isaac Miller.
363
17
6
Andrew McIntire
41
0
0
David Frame.
5
0
2
William Whiteside
212
5
0
James Miller.
85
7
6
951 2 8
OXFORD TOWNSHIP.
Job Ruston, slaves ...
500
0 0
NEW LONDON TOWNSHIP.
John Jack
35 9 0
John McKee.
79
0
0
114
9 0
LONDONGROVE TOWNSHIP.
Dr. Francis Alisou, late Senior Surgeon General Hospital.
451 7 6
KENNET TOWNSHIP.
£
d.
Nathan Norton.
36
16
5
John McFarlan
81 11 6
William Hickman
73
0
6
Peter Bell.
1170
13
0
1362 1 5
EAST MARLBOROUGH TOWNSHIP.
James Jefferis.
24
9
6
John Jackson.
30
0
0
Calch Jackson.
50
0
0
Isaac Calvert
4 15 0
109 4 6
NEWLIN TOWNSHIP.
d.
Richard Barnard
25
0
0
William Hanna, on April 22, 1778 ..
110
0
0
David Eckoff.
75
0
0
James Shields (by Fitzpatrick and Dough- erty).
3
12 6
213 12 6
WEST MARLBOROUGH TOWNSHIP.
€
6.
d.
Tristram Moore
75
0
0
Ahner Cloud.
20
0
0
Thomas Jones.
17 14
0
Thomas Welsh
82
10
0
Thomas Travilla
30
0
0
225 4 0
WEST BRADFORD TOWNSHIP.
£
8. d.
Richard Baker.
254
0
6
James Marshall.
107
10
0
James Trimble ..
152 10
0
Jonathan Buffington .. 33
16
2
John Highfield.
35 12 6
583 9 2
EAST BRADFORD TOWNSHIP.
Richard Strode.
125 5 0
PENNSBURY TOWNSHIP.
£
8.
d.
Joshua Peirce,
108
11
6
Peter Harvey
15
11
9
Amos Harvey.
130
0
Joseph Brinton
69
15
Moses Mendenhall
98
0
Conrad Seltzer.
11
2
Benjamin Fredd
33
4
6
George Brown ...
17
19
6
Noah Mendenhall
28
3
Thomas Mooks
58
6
6
John Roles
124
6
3
John Fredd.
198
9
0
894 2
9
BIRMINGHAM TOWNSHIP.#
£
9. d.
William Dilworth
48
2
0
Charles Dilworth.
820
15
3
* When Chester County was divided, in 1789, the line ran through Birmingham and Thornbury townships, leaving but a small portion in the present Chester County. The above are the returns made from the whole of the old townships.
£
d.
£
8.
£
d.
£ a. d.
8.
£ 8. d.
00
000
GENERAL HISTORY.
107
£
8.
d.
Joseph Dilworth
522
12
21
Charles Porter.
8
7
6
William Chapman.
16
3
3
John Martin.
242 4
6
William Harvey, Jr
562
16
6
John Bennett.
401
1
4
George Brinton
544
11
8
Raobel Hanninge.
47
12 6
Caleb Brinton
592 18
8
Israel Gilpin.
607 12
6
Thomas Hannum.
42
2
John Henderson
536
6 11
John Chamberlain
57
0
3
Gideon Gilpin
502
6
0
Jesse Graves.
212
14
8
Thomas Davis ...
24
5
7
James Dilworth.
13
0
0
Charles MoCrea
41 13
4
5844 6
THORNBURY TOWNSHIP .*
€
8. d.
George Brinton
517
11
5
Sampeon Davie.
115
18
8
William Arment ...
42
0
0
William Londen.
19
12
0
Catharine Davis ..
34
3
6
Isaac Davis.
58
12
6
787 18 1
WESTTOWN TOWNSHIP.
£
8.
d.
John Hunt ..
30
0
0
Caleb James.
32
10
0
Thomaa Taylor
82
14
0
Jamea Brown ...
23 16 10
169 0 10
GOSHEN TOWNSHIP.
8. d.
Thomas Lewis
261
0
0
Thomas Rees
215
10
0
John Bowen
579
5
0
Elizabeth Oliver
43
14
6
Ralph Forrester
52
0
0
Jarvia Hall
100
0
0
Robert MeLaughlin and Alexander Boggs.
85
6
Evan Williams.
20
7
6
William Joncs
74
10
0
Thomas Patterson
4
10
0
Elias Davia ...
23
5
0
John Underwood.
7
8
4
William Patterson.
5
5
0
Jacob Beaumont.
25
5
0
John Beaumont.
116 21
0
0
Joseph Brown
67
8
6
John Michen
15
0
0
Jonathan Garrett
63
6
0
Mary Garrett
41
8
0
Israel Matlack
40
7
6
John Hoopea.
34
0
0
Ann Goodwin ...
6
0
0
Jonathan Matlack
35
13
6
Charlea Carter
10
0
0
George Smith's estate.
134
1
0
George Haopea.
50
18
0
2372
13 8
WILLISTOWN TOWNSHIP.
d.
Joseph Rowland
18
0
0
0
0
Caleb Smedley.
14
5
0
Eraamua Lloyd
31
0
0
Isaac Yarnall.
25
0
0
Phineas Massey.
21
0
0
Samuel Davis.
10
0
0
Esther Griffith.
24
0
0
Thomas Jones' widow.
11
0
0
Samuel Thomas ...
11
0
0
Iaaao Thomas
15
0
0
Hannah Reea.
12
0
0
636
18 4
EASTTOWN TOWNSHIP.
£
8.
d.
Robert Stephens ....
10
0
0
Michael Binger ..
60
12
6
Christopher Rue.
.23
1
3
Casper White
9
0
0
Peter Uble.
18
0
0
Gen. Anthony Wayne.
60
0
Q
Martha Davie.
46
5
0
Judith Rue ...
5
5
0
Andrew Steel.
42
1
Mary Nichola.
4
6
3
Sarah Scott.
1
5
0
Lewis Morria
4
10
0
Rev. David Jones.
81
11
3
Whitehead Wetherby
4
13
9
Benjaolin Junkin.
10 0
0
Richard Robinson.
27
16
6
James Morria
12
0
0
420 7 6
WEST WHITELAND TOWNSHIP.
£
8.
P
Evan Anderson
56
4
0
Jeremiah Jarman
30 0
James Dunwoody
81
16
3
Daniel Thompson
237 4
1
David Dunwoody
382
0
5
John Boyere.
3]
7
0
Ezekiel Rigg
67
18
1
John Bull.
130
11 6
David Williams.
54 5
0
Edward Lammey.
45
8
0
1116 14 4
EAST WHITELAND TOWNSHIP.
£
d.
John Kerlin
199
0
Dr. Samuel Kennedy'a estate.
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