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MARPLE.
The taxables in 1715 were as follows :
David Morris, Thomas Pearson, Joseph Worrall, Barthow Coppock, Jos : Roades, Peter Worrall, John Worrall, Jos : Powell, Robert Pear- son, Henry Lewis, Mordecai Massey, Robert Taylor, John Evans, Evan Lewis, & Ra Marris.
ffree Men .- Dan1 Broom, Joshua Tompson, Enoch Pearson.
This township became a part of Delaware County in 1789.
MIDDLETOWN.
Taxables according to assessment of 1715 :
John Martin, George Grist, Caleb Harrisson, Edward Woodward, Daniel Cookson, Joseph Jervis, William Pennel, Jacob Tragoe, John Edwards, George Smedley, Jacob Minshall, Peter Tregoe, Sr., Thomas Barns, John Chanley, John Turner, Joseph Sharples, Alexander Hun- ter, Moses Martin, Robert Baker, Thomas Barnsley, Thomas Martin, Jr., Edward Lawrence.
ffree Men .- Ilans Hamilton, Peter Tregoe, James Tregoe, George Martin, ffrancis fferrel, Thomas Smith, William Chamberlin, Simon Battin.
This township is also a part of Delaware County.
NANTMEAL.
This name was formerly-and properly-written Nantmel, being derived from Nantmel, in Radnorshire, Wales, whence some of the early settlers came. In 1717-19 surveys were made on the head of the north branch of Brandywine for Thomas Callowhill, 500 acres; Howell Powel, 300; Ed- ward Thomas, 300; William Iddings, 284; Thomas Rees, 260; John Broomal, 400; David Thomas, 300; Daniel Moore, 237; William Trego, 200; John Moore, 200; Richard and John Peirsol, 410 acres. Some of the surveys on French Creek were made as follows :
James Logan, 1000 acres, June 3, 1715; Jeremiah Jarman, 200, Mar. 12, 1718; Owen Roberts, 1000, June 3, 1715; Ditto, 300, Apr. 30, 1719 ; William Davis, 100, Nov. 4, 1718; John William, 240, May 2, 1719; Philip Rogers, 200, Nov. 4, 1718; Samuel Nutt, 250, Oct.
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28, 1717; Ditto, 650, May 2, 1719; Ditto, 150, Oct. 21, 1720; Mor- decai Lincoln, 150, Oct. 21, 1720; Nicholas Rogers, 200, May 2, 1719; Henry Hockley, 200, May 2, 1719; Simon Meredith, 200, Oct. 22, 1720.
The first assessment of this district is of the inhabitants " Near ye Branches of the ffrench Creek & the Branches of Brandywine," 1720. The names and valuation of the estates were as follows :
Owen Roberts, £50; William Hiddins, £5; Richard, Jeremiah, & John Peircell, £20; David Roberts, £5; William Phillips, £14; John Williams, £6 ; William David, £6; John James, £2; Philip Roger, £5; Sam1 Nutt, £20; Mordicay Lincoln, £12; Lewis David, £5; Simon Meridith, £12.
Non-resident Lands .- James Logan, 1000 acres; lIenry Hockle, 200; Jonathan Gwyne (Wynne), 1000; Thomas Calway (Callowhill), 500.
Prior to 1720 the settlement was assessed with the dis- trict on Schuylkill. (Sce Coventry.) In 1721 this was again the case, and the following names and valuations are given :
Henry Parker, £12; John Colb, £8; Henry Cofnor, £9; Joho Jeser, £12; Joho Hubbert, £8; Henry Castell, £12; Jacob Stager, £6; Peter Helshe, £6; Mark Overholt, £16; Rodger Hi, £4; Heory Land, £8; John Mealyn, £8; Martin Owry, £12; Frederick Long, £6; Andrew Sickler, £6; Wolf Miller, £6; John William, £10; Owen Roberts, £50; William Hiddings, £6; Richard, John, & Jeremiah Peiricl, £18; Richard Moor, £6; William Phillips, £10; Simon Mere- dith, £10; Philip Rogers, £6; Lewis David, £6; William David, £6; William Longeger, £4; Jacob Mealyn, £9; Hans Mealyn, £9; Hans Swifer, £4; Jacob Buckholt, £4; Richard Dunklyn, £4; Thomas Miller, £20; Joho Blare, £4; Joho Rumford, £12; Henry Beell, £6; John Sinclair, £12; Israel Robinson, £20; Sam] Nutt for all his land in this County, £50; Mordecaj Linerwood, £20.
Freemen .- Jaco's Smith, Jacob Overholts, Peter Shaver, Joho Ed- wards, lIuns Owen
Non-resident Land .- James Gibbons, £36; James Logan, £30; Jonathan Gwyn, £30; Thomas Callowhill, £15.
In 1722 the name of Nantmel first appears, and it con- tains these taxables : Owen Roberts, John Williams, Rich- ard Done, Lewis David, Phillip Rodger, Samuel Nntt, " The forge" (valued at £20), Simon Meredith, Mordecai Lincoln, John Moor, Edward Thomas, John, Richard, and Jeremiah Pearsal, Philip Thomas, William Cloud, William Iddings, Henry Baterton, David Morgan. There were also non-resident land-owners.
About 1734 a petition for the division of the township was presented to court, but rejected. The proposed di- viding line was to begin at Lancaster County, above the head of a small branch of Brandywine called George's Creek, " which runneth between the land of David Thomas and the plantation of William Iddings," and to follow that stream until it came to the line of Caln, the cast end to retain the name of Nantmeal, and the west end to be called " Honeybrook."
February, 1739-40, another division was proposed, which would leave Logan's meadow or swamp in the upper part, and Ann Roberts' swamp in the other, after which the line was to pass to the head of Wynn's meadow, and follow the main branch of that water to the line of Uwchlan township. In September, 1739, the citizens of the two ends chose persons to divide the township, being Thomas Miradah (Meredith ?) and Matthew Robertson, of the east side, Arthur Graham and John Piersol, of the west. They could not agree, and called in John Gobeen as umpire. . The line
agreed upon then was from the county line at the spring near Edward George's house, thence to Brandywine, and so to Caln township. In 1740 the taxables were 83 in East and 123 in West Nantmeal. The first settlers were mostly Welsh, and principally confined to the eastern part of the township. The Scotch-Irish came up from the south- western part of the county from 1730 to 1740, and peopled the western part.
Professor James McClune, writing of the western part, says,-
" The first houses were built of unhewn logs, filled between with short pieces of wood and mortar made of clay and straw. They were generally placed with tho front towards the south, oo rising ground, a short distance from a spring. They were usually about twenty or twenty-two hy thirty fect, with a front and an opposite back door. These doors led into what served as a dining-room, kitchen, etc. The chimney was frequently built on the outside.
" These buildings of the pioncer settlers were replaced, after the peace of 1763, by houses with the east end-which experience had tanght them was most liable to decay-occupied by a chimney which extended the entire breadth of the house. In one corner of thie capa- cious chimney a small window was placed, by the light of which the female members of the household plied the spinning-wheel. Tbe other corner of the chimney served as a convenient place for storing the juvenile portion of the family in the winter evenings. During some researches made upwards of thirty years ago, when many of the old buildings were standing, I failed to find any that had been erected during the Revolutionary war.
" Honeyhrook, West Nantmeal, and Wallace, with the exception of a small part of the southeastern portion of Honeybrook, lie io wbat may be called a valley, bounded on the north and west by the Welsh Mountain, and on the south by the Barren Hill. It exhibits evidence of many of the upheavals and some of the eruptions which have given the surface of the earth its present form. Bowlders of gneiss abound in many places. These geological milc-stones show ibat the currents of ice which carried them here pursued a southwesterly course. There are also evidences of a current at a later period which passed nearly from north to south, and carried portions of the Welsh Mountain to the Manor meeling- house, Sandy Hill, etc., and piled np at Spring- field and Harmony school-house the ridges which divide the waters that flow into the Delaware from those that fall into the Susque- hanna. The surface is rolling, the water abundant and generally good, and the land, when properly cultivated, fertile. It is drained, for the most part, by the two branches of the Brandywine and their tribu- taries, and is clevated from three to seven hundred and fifty feet above tide-water. It has always been an nousually healthful section of country, no disease having generally prevailed, except a fever in 1793, which caused the death of many, the typhus fever, which prevailed to a limited extent in 1814, but was singularly fatal, and dysentery in 1815, when a number of children died. Notwithstand- ing the somewhat proverbial longevity of the Friends, there are, I believe, more persons who spent all their lives in this valley, when ages varied from seventy-five to ninety-five years, buried in the graveyards at the Manor than in any other burial-ground io Chester County."
In 1789, West Nantmeal was divided, and the name of Honeybrook given to the western part. In 1852 the remainder was again divided by a line from a corner of East and West Nantmeal, south 49 degrees west 1306 perches, to a corner of West Nantmeal and Honeybrook, at the in- tersection of the old Furnace road with the turnpike. The southern division was named Springton, but afterwards changed to Wallace. In 1860 the lines between Honey- brook, Wallace, and West Brandywine were changed, and: the southeast corner of Honeybrook and a portion of the western part of Wallace were added to West Brandywine. The territory added to West Brandywine was a part of the, old manor of Springton. The addition to West - Brandy-
"CLERMONT." RESIDENCE OF WILLIAM CHALFANT, EAST MARLBOROUGH.
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"CHATHAM CREAMERY." RESIDENCE AND CREAMERY OF JOHN I. CARTER, CHATHAM.
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wine from Honeybrook included the Presbyterian church called Brandywine Manor, but known on the church re- cords as " Forks of Brandywine." East Nantmeal was di- vided in 1842 by the south branch of French Creek, and the northern part called Warwick.
EAST NANTMEAL TAXABLES, 1753.
Samuel flower & Company, Warwick Company, James fisk, James Gilmore, Martin Roads, Patrick Jonson, Jacob Graves, Lewis Walker, George Taylor, John Patrick, Thomas Etherton, John Williams, Wil- liam Brown, Alexander Walker, Henry Owens, David Denny, Benja- min Bartholomew, David beatty, John Rees, Thomas Lloyd, John Marsb, Henry Holin, Jonathan Wyone, John Goheen, Edward Owen, Samuel Joho, Griffith Griffiths, William Kirk, Noah Abraham, David Stevens, Abner Evans, Thos Owins, Evan Griffith, Abel Griffith, Ma- thias Bird, Phillip Vast, John Griffith, John Ewalt, John Sarjent, Evan Williams, David Yarnall, Mordica Roberts, John Davids, Cor- nelius McCarty, David Rogers, Stopbil Knower, David Evans, Wil- liam Ridge, John finly, Jobn Weaver, James John, John David, Tho" Jenkins, Michel Boyer, John Pearce, George Reasor, William Thomas, Henry Hockley, William Mills, Arnold Bassit, IIenry Stork.
Freemen .- Frederick Penter, Jonathan Colmao, Daniel Mchenry, Aquila Jones, John Buff, David Davide, Paul MeNight, William Wil- liame, Jonas Welderible, James Alyson, Alexander Mairs, Hugh Brown, William Denister, Thos. Worral, James Mehcan.
Sojourners .- Robert Ellis, John McNight, Christian Beek, John Hawk.
LAND-OWNERS, 1774.
James Old, Rutter & Potis, William Sterret, James Henderson, Hugh William, Evan Griffith, Thomas Lloyd, Daniel High, Abner Evans, William James, William Kirk, John Ligat (Liggett?), Jona- than Wyon, William Brown, John Lloyd. Daniel Griffith, John Grif- fith, Branson Vanleer, Robert Stuard, Elihu Evans, James Pugh, William Thomas, Abram Bealy, Jacob High, David High, Benjamin Abram, Michael Boyer, Finchunce Beerbower, Borrick Peholt, John Boyer, Andrew Kern, John Nice, Philip Cosmer, Windle Donfelter, Stephen Doughton, William Denison, Theodore Ellis, Christopher Fulker, John Getz, James Guest, Abel Griffith, John Horn, Isase Jones, Thomas John, John Knauer, Philip Lewis, Jacob Murrey, Henry Moses, Adam Miller, Joho Mcknight, Thomas Meredith, George Price, John Robison, Martio Rhoads, Thomas Rutter, Jacob Shuster, Henry Sheffer, David Steel, David Stephen, John Stephen, Joseph Stephen, John Festick, James Tod, William Temple, Frederick Walleigh, Jacob Wiseberger, Philip Boyer, Alexander McKee, William Griffith, John Woodrow, Mark Bird, Esq., Peter Kimes, Thomas Bull, Jacob Vance, Peter Moses, Jacob Vinance, Thomas Leighton.
WEST NANTMEAL TAXABLES, 1753.
Arthur Graham, James Davison, Robert Cambel, Joseph Carr, John Gardner, John McCool, James Gardner, Jean Erwyo, Edward Neal, James Porter, William Trego, Deois Whelan, William Hilles, Widow Donalson, John Henderson, Francis Gardner, William Dunwoody, James Wilson, William Darlinton, Andrew Roger, Samuel Logan, John Bishop, John Moor, John Peareal, Jeremiah Pearsel, Jar., Wil- liam Aston, Robert Steward, John Withrow, John Murry, Benjamin Abraham, John Hambleton, Senr., Thomas Keneday, Widdow Dean, Joseph Poke, John Whiggham, Bridget Pearsel, Joseph Trego, Daniel Moor, sen"., Daniel Moor, Robert Gilmor, Alexander McClean, John Iddings, James Betty, Samuel Modulph, Andrew Wilson, William Mackey, Tho" Keneday, John Mofeeters, Francis Alexander, Benja- min Abraham, Tho" Boyl, William Erwin, Jacob Cochran, Joseph Carel, Robert Brown, Robert Smith, William Gilkey, John Hamble- ton, Elizabeth Graham, William Graham, John Pearsel, Jn"., Mathew Curry, Jeremiah Pearsel, Samuel Jackson, James Graham, Joseph Scean, William Mackey, John Mcfarren, George Brown, Michel Gra- ham, John Coop, Robert Lusk, John Haona, Hugh Wallis, Robert Christy, Robert Matthews, William Cluse, James Creswell, William Waddle, Joba Dunwoody, Samuel Currathers, Robert Futhey, John Neelands, Thomas Carson, Henry Mcheory, William forgison, John McClery, Nathan Evans, Moses Melecan, Thomas Nicolas, Moses Bean, James Moor, Thomas Scoat, Mathew Robison, John Phillips, Henry Idding, James Idding, John Potter, Thos Alford, Samuel Allen,, David McCune, Daniel Henderson, Jacob Cambel, James Scott, Eliza- Ebeth llot, Alexander Craig, Francis MeConoel, Robert MeConabee,
James Nesbit, Charles Brown, John Elliot, James Starre', Margaret Elliot, Thomas Brown, John Jack, Thomas Everet, James MeCroskry, Widdow Long, Lodowick Ligel, Robert Peckinham.
Inmates .- Henry Baterton, James Burnside, William Rachford, Nathaniel Kenderson, James Ross, William Bowel, James MeGachey, Benjamin Jephrey, John Strang, John Sumerly, Charles MeCialy, Charles Ferrin, Peter Hunter, George Ilunter.
Freemen .- Joseph Loughead, William Withrow, William MeCune, Andrew Spence, James Biger, Robert Kerkwood, William Ross, Wil- liam MeGahey, Thomas Kilpatrick, Mathew MeDougal, Collin Spence, Lawrence Hopkins, James Cambel, George Dougherty, Robert Thom- son, John Medogal, George Erwin, John Darlington, James Gardner, Joseph Moorhead, William Daley, Andrew Steel, John Carel, John Henderson, James Ewing, James Ross, John Biger, John White, George Welsh, James Fitzpatrick, John MeCasslen, Thomas Ross.
LAND-OWNERS, 1774.
John Hambleton, James Buchanan, John Irwin, George Irwin, Jared Irwin, James Hare, Matthew Buchanan, John Galt, Michael Graham, sr., John Vanlossic, John Carson, Wm. Meredith, James Graham, sr., Samuel Buchanan, James Graham. jr., James Kean, Jeremiah Piersoll, Michael Graham, Matthew Curry, Andrew Bu- chanan, Nathaniel Porter, William Gibbons, James Hambleton, James Nesbit, Andrew Spence, James Starrett, Robert McConnaughey, Gain Wallace, Alex'r Craig, Samuel Henderson, William Henderson, Thos. Kennedy, Thos. Alford, John Starrett, Wm. Kennedy, Samuel Thomas, Joseph Trego, James Sinith, William Smith, John Aston, Richard Piersoll, William Gilky, John Jones, Francis Gardner, Edward Spice, Joseph Kecre, Hans Henox, Christian Coffman, James Keere, Rob't Matthews, Sam'l Christy, Joseph Martin, John Graham (cooper), John Graham, Jacob Coffman, Samuel Cunningham, Robert Lusk, James Hanna, William Trego, Wmn. Beale, Win. Scott, Francis Alex- ander, James Beatty, Samuel Milduff, Isaac Gibson, Joseph Darling- ton, John Strong, Peter Hunter, George IIunter, Joseph Long, Daniel Moore, George Phcale, Wm. Irwin, Leonard Frescolo, Mark Peter, John Iddings, John Moore, Isaac Philips, Christian Tedwaler, James Anderson, William Logan, Wm. Dunwoody, Matthew Robeson, Ephraim Robeson, John Robeson, John Dunwoodie, Archibald Thomson, Robert Liggett, Samuel Caruthers, Wm. Ralston, John Piersall, James Wilson, John Byers, James Moore, Esq., James Mc- Clure, James Templeton, Thomas Miller, Paul McKnight, William Ferguson, Win. Rogers, James Waddell, John Brown, Robert Carson, Robert Wallace, James MeCachren, John Henderson, Benjamin" Jones, Isaac Phipps, John Millison, Joseph Caldwell, Mordeccai Piersall, John Gardner, Jeremiah Evans, James Evans, Nathaniel Holmes.
NEW GARDEN.
This township was named from New Garden, in the county Carlow, Ireland. It was included in the survey made in 1700 by Henry Hollingsworth, of 30,000 acres, of which 15,500 were patented to Letitia Penn, as has been shown. The remainder, or 14 500 acres, was patented to William Penn, Jr., May 24, 1706, by the commissioners of property, Edward Shippen, Griffith Owen, and Thomas Story, and, like his sister's tract, received the name of the manor of Stenning. The bounds of the manor may be thus described :
Beginning at a hickory tree on the west side of a branch of White Clay Creek, thence east nine hundred and twenty-five perches to a corner of Letitia's manor (Kennett), thence by the same south two thousand three hundred and fourteen perches to another corner, thence West South West nine hundred and thirty perches to White Clay .Creek, West fifty-eight perches, and North by land of the Lon- don Company two thousand six hundred and seventy-four perches, to the place of beginning.
Thus the township of New Garden, as it was before losing a corner to London Britain, embraced just that part of the manor which lay north of the circular line, being; according to an early estimate, 8913 acres. Before obtain- ing the patent . William Penn, Jr., had already appointed
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Griffith Owen, James Logan, and Robert Ashton as his attorneys, he being about to return to England. The land was not immediately taken by settlers, but after a few years several families of Friends arrived from Ireland, and, set- tling there, gave the name of New Garden to their new home, in remembrance of that place in Ireland. The first sale of land was, perhaps, in 1708, to Mary Rowland. In 1712, Gayen Miller purchased 700 acres, while in 1713 convey- ances of land were granted to John Miller, James Lindley, John Lowden, James Starr, Michael Lighfoot, William Halliday, Joseph Hutton, Abraham Marshall, and Thomas Jackson; and in 1714 to Thomas Garnett and Joseph Sharp. Some of these, however, had been settled on the land one or two years before getting their titles. The whole amount purchased by the above-named persons was 5413 acres, at the price of £20 per hundred, or, according to modern computation, one dollar per acrc.
In 1715, William Penn, Jr., sold what then remained of the manor, except 500 acres, to John Evans, in consequence of which it was sometimes called Col. Evans' Manor. A reconveyance of the greater of this was made before the death of the former, which occurred in 1720, or at least such was said to be the case, although the deed was lost. William Penn, Jr., left three children, Gulielma Maria, Springett, and William, of whom Springett inherited his father's lands in Pennsylvania, but dying unmarried, somc years after, was succeeded by his brother William, to whom Evans granted a release or confirmation of title to the manor in 1736.
In the case of Letitia's Manor the quit-rents were payable to her, but in the brother's they were reserved to his father and his successors, as proprietors of Pennsylvania. They must, however, have remained uncollected for a long time, judging from the following letter to Lynford Lardner, col- lector of quit-rents :
" MR. LARDNER, -At the request of our good Friend, James Logan, that we would discharge the manor of Steining, in Chester county, which was laid out to our late Brother William Penn, of all the quit- rent due to us to the time he made sale of the same; these are to authorize you to receive from him, one penny and give him a dis- charge in full of all those rents to the time those lands were sold by our brother or his agents, or to settle the same in any manner he shall judge more propor.
"I am your affectionate Friend,
" THOS. PENN.
" LONDON, June 18th, 1747."
A draft of the manor, probably made by John Taylor, the surveyor, shows the divisions therein as held by the settlers. The tracts were mostly rectangular. In the northeast corner we find Robert Johnson with 200 acres ; Evan Evans, 500 in northwest corner ; Joseph Sharp, below him on the crcek, 200; James Lindley, 200, probably owDed now by Benjamin Hoopes and others. The re- mainder, north of Toughkenamon Hill, about 1050 acres, was vacant. From the hill a line ran south through the middle of the manor, almost to the circular line. Taking the east side we have, first, Mary Rowland, 700 acres, being all the valley land east of the middle line. Next south of this tract 700 acres more were divided between John Sharp (on the east side), 300 acres; Joseph Sharp, 200; and Thomas Garnett, 300. South of these, on the Kennet
line, were William Tanner, 200 acres ; James Lowden, 300; and Benjamin Fred, 300, the latter touching on the cir- cular line. Between these and the middle line were Michael Lightfoot, 300 acres ; John Wiley, 200; Thomas Jackson, 200; (and continuing southward) William Halli- day, 200; and Abraham Marshall, 200, partly in New Castle County. John Miller's 1013 acres extended from the middle line to Londongrove, and from Toughkenamon Hill almost to the old New Garden meeting-house. Next south of him Joseph Hutton held 250 acres on the west line, and James Starr 350 on the middle line; of 900 acres south of these, Francis Hobson held 200 in the northeast corner, and the remainder was purchased by Gayen Miller. From this southward there was a vacancy of over 3000 acres. John Evans held 100 acres at the forks of White Clay Creek, now in London Britain.
In the original survey, in 1700, the surveyor notes that he crossed the Dochcanamon Hill. Other forms of spelling this name were in use one hundred and fifty years ago, such as Tokenamon, Taukenamon, Taughlikenemon. The present spelling is Toughkenamon. It is of Indian origin, and is said to signify " Fire-brand hill."
Thomas and Mary Rowland settled in the valley, near the present village of Toughkenamon, in 1706, being per- haps the first settlers who purchased lands in the township. They came to New Garden from Ashton township, in (now) Delaware County.
John Lowden, a noted minister in the Society of Friends, is supposed to have suggested the name, in remembrance of his former home. He had been a member of New Garden Meeting, in the county of Carlow, Ireland.
John Miller built a mill on White Clay Creek, which did the grinding for the inhabitants many miles around, even, it is said, as far as Lancaster. The first settlers of this township are said to have divided their farms by ditches to prevent the ravages of the Indian fires. Traces of some of these ditches were visible a few years ago.
In 1714, John Rentfro was constable for New Garden, but probably resided in what is now Londongrove, which was assessed with New Garden until 1723. Some of the settlers in what is London Britain were taxed as " inbabit- ants adjacent to New Garden" for some years prior to 1723. The following is the assessment of 1715 :
£ 8. d.
£ s. d.
Mary Miller.
0 9
0
Robert Johnson ..
0 2 0
Evan Powell.
0 10
8
John Sharp.
0
3
6
Nathaniel Richards
0
2
3
Joseph Hollen
0
2
4
Michel Lightfoot ... William Holeday.
0
2
0
Joseph Sharp
0
2
0
0
2
7
John Willey
0
2
4
Margret Lowden.
0
2
0
Thomas Garnet.
0
3
9
James Linley
0
4
6
Benjamin ffred
0
2
1
Thomas Jackson
0
3
0
William Taner
0
1
8
James Starr.
0
3
0
John Renfroe.
0
2
0
ffranois Hobson 0
2
0
Stephen Nayles.
0
1
0
Joseph Garnet
0
2
-
-
-
Richd Tranter
0
1
6
Tot 4 2 3
In 1722 the number had increased very much, as will be seen by the following list :
Michal Lightfoot, John Houlston, W'm Roe, Wm Roan, John Dev- onald, Tho. Morris, Richard Whiting, John Jones, Thomas Evans, Samuel Evans, Owen Thomas, Wm Wright, Neal Gray, Gabriol Alex- ander, Robert Smith, Robert Fenny, John Cook, Wm Reynolds, Thomas John, James Moor, Alexander Moor, Patrick Moor, Wm Field, Sam- uel Steel, James Daniel, Wm Bawhonam, Andrew Steel, John Mount- gomery, Henry Small, Thomas Black, James Mackanliss, Thomas
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Cook, Joseph Wily, John Sharp, John Benttroe, John Wickersham, Joseph Mercer, Daniel Hamond, Yesta Cox, James Cole, Richard Bennet, Israel Robinson, Wm Robh, Thomas Cox, Richard Cox, George Hodgin, Thomas Underwood, Samuel Kirk, Alexander Underwood, Joseph Jackson, Thomas Speakman, John Cook, Peter Cook, John Jackson, Francis Swain, John Fincher, Daniel Macklister, Jonathan Fincher, Robert Lamhourn, Edward Stroud, Wm Pusey, Wm Chand- ler, James Johnson, Richard Tranter, Nathan Dix, Joseph Sharp, Shadrack Scarlott, Moses Starr, John Caine, Francis Hobson, John Allen, John Todd, Wm Hollyday, John Cox, Robert Johnson, Jere- miab Starr, Thomas Jackson, Joseph Miller, James Lyndley, Thomas Lightfout, Benjamin Fredd, James Starr, Nathan Richards, Joseph Hutton, Joseph Hedge, James Todd, Stephen Aile, Wm Miller, James Miller, Isaac Starr, Nehemiah Hutton, Evan Powel.
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