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From John Crosby, Sept. 13.
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the late Sana Cawpland ....
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Benjamin Bartholomew, " stolen hy the British army under Gen. Howe.".
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Alexander Mille, by Mr. Johneon, Comissary of the British army commanded by Count Donop and Col. Starlen, Dec. 13, 1776 .. .. 1796 4 0 Sarah Day, furniture destroyed by the British when in Philadelphia, 1777-8. 20 0 0
Estate of James Matbewe, by a party of Scotch and Hessinoe, when marching from Wilmington to Philadelphia, Oct. and Nov ...
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Edward Vernon, by a party of Scotch and Hessions, when marching from Wilmington to Philadelphia, Oct. and Nov
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Sarah Thomas, robbery by Scotch Bod Heesians, when marchiog from Wilmington to Philadelphia, Oct. aod Nov.
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= Wm. Evaos, team pressed
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George Spear, enddla
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Wm. Kerlin, harness.
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Thomas Logan, eundries.
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Elisha Price, cart.
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Henry Myers, cow
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Thomas Pedrick, horees
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Valentine Weaver's Estate.
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Mary Norris' Estate ..
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Martin Carter.
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John Powell ..
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Widow Deacon'e Estate.
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Jeho Hogan.
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Joseph Neidy, by British under Cornwallia.
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Ann Davie, by British under Cornwallis.
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Henry Hale Graham, by British under Corowallis
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We also append a list of the taxables of the town- ship in the year 1799, which includes all the territory now embraced in the township, the city of Chester, the boroughs of North and South Chester, and the borough of Upland :
William Anderson (tavern-keeper,-" Columbia House"), Joseph Asb- bridge (biscuit baker), William Aahford, Irwin Armstrong, Jane Ash- bridge (shop-keeper), James Barnard, John Birchall (tanner), Eden Bar- ton, Ahner Barton, James Burton, Jacob Eyre (cordwainer), James Burne, Davial Broomall (carpenter), Jesse Brown, Joseph Burne (cord- wainer), Davie Bevan, Esq. (prothonotary and chop-keeper), James Baggs (weaver), Sarah Bartholomew, Roxanna Bond, David Broomall, Jobn Caldwell (honee carpenter), Pierce Crosby (miller), Caleb Cobourn, Joseph Carter, John Craig, Daniel Carter, Edward Carter, Samnel Cros- ley, Asron Cobourn, John Crosby, Elenor Davis, Jonathan Dutton (mil- ler), Jana Davie (apothecary), Thomas Davis, William Evane, Jonas Eyre (store-keeper), Isaac Eyre (jnetice of the peace), William Elliot, John English (cordweiner), Edward Engle (tailor), Joshua Elkins, Jo- aeph Engle (carpenter), Nicholas Fairlamb (justice of the peace), Richard Flower (miller), William Ford (chip-wright), John Gill, George Gill, John Gibbone, Mary Grubb, William Graham (attorney-at-law), Michael Hagan, Elizabeth Harrison (tavern-keeper), Robert Henvis, William Hawkins (wheelwright), William Hoskins, Edward Hunter, Joseph Jobneon, John Keas, William Kerlin (tavern-keeper, " Wadigla House"),
1 Historic Tales of the Olden Times.
2 Hazard's Register, vol. ix. p. 334.
155 0
Mary Withy, sundriee.
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Capt. Stork'e Estate ..
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THE BOROUGH OF UPLAND.
Jediah Lyons, Jacob Lee, Dazey & Leonard (shop-keepers), John Moulder, Jonathan Morrie (blacksmith), Joseph Marlow, Thomae Malin, Erasome Morton, Margaret Mumford, Rebecca McCarty, Margaret Moulder, Richard Newlin (cooper), Joseph Neide, Mary Norris, Jamee O'Hara (miller), John Odenheimer, Jobo Powell, Thomas Pedrick, Philip Painter (joiner), John Price (lawyer), Elizabeth Pedrick, Jonathan Peunell (blacksmith), Samnel Price, Peter Price, Black Pompey, Eliza- beth Price, Ephraim Pierson, George Roberts, Jacob Richard, John Shaffer, Jonas Sharpless (joiner), Trietam Smith (cordwainer), Robert Squibble, Georga Sneath (weaver), John Stilley, Peter Stemmel, James Shaw (victualler), William Sharplese, William Siddous, William Spear (blacksmith), John Wood, Mary Williams, John Wood (potter), Samuel West, James Withey, Hannah West, Joseph Thatcher, Thomas Bow- man, John Middleton (carpenter), Danial Harmony (anh-sheriff), Moses Minshall (hatter), John Bagge (blacksmith), Martin Carter (cooper), George Syng (carpenter), Richard Latchford (carpenter), William Hill (miller), William McCafferty (cordwainer), John Etress (potter), George Hinkeon (millwright), John Smith (tanner), Ahraham Carter (hatter), Joseph Sharp (cordwainer), Thomas Cobourn (millwright), Benjamin Neida (hostler), Luke Cunia (hatter), Samnel Broomall (tanner), Israel Cobonru (cordwainer), Abrabam Kerlin, James West, Michael Mc- Namee, and William Parsons (carpenter).
The following is a list of the justices of the peace of Chester township :
William D. Shoemaker. .April 14, 1840.
George W. Bartram ... .April 12, 1845.
E. B. Loveland.
April 11, 1854.
E. B. Loveland .... May 3, 1859.
Thomas R. Nichol.
April 9, 1881.
Schools .- There is some evidence to support the assertion that as early as 1787 a frame school-house was erected at Cartertown, but documentary evidence, the deed of partition in the Carter estate, positively asserts, in 1793, that this building was then standing. It was known as the Mud Wasp, and stood on the site of the present ice-house on the estate of Samuel M. Felton. It was built by Collins Mclaughlin, a Scotchman, who taught therein until he was compelled to abandon the occupation because of his deafness. Henry L. Powell was a pupil there in 1821, and Paul B. Carter later. In this school-house the early Meth- odists in that section of the county held occasional meetings. In 1828 a church and school-house was built in the Carter burial-ground, which was known as the "Ebenezer" Methodist Church. The funds necessary to erect this unpretentious meeting-house were contributed by John Lloyd, Gilead Carter, and others. Here a school was taught for many years, but finally it was taken down by Abraham Carter, and its site inclosed in the graveyard lot. The pres- ent school-house, known as " Franklin Public School," near the residence of Samuel M. Felton, was built in 1871.
Prior to 1800, Caleb Cobourn donated a lot of ground at Sneath's Corner, and a log school-house, thirty feet square and one story in height, was thereon erected. Between the years 1819 and 1823 the follow- ing pedagogues taught there: Silas Hoff, John Cald- well, George Powell, and Isaac Powell. The log house was used until 1824, when it was replaced by the present stone building, which originally was thirty feet square; it has been remodeled as occasion de- manded.
The following is the list of directors of Chester township, which at first included Chester borough, all
of Chester township, and Upland. In 1859 Chester borough was set off as a school district from the rest of the township, and the several boroughs as they were erected were also made separate districts :
1840, John H. Denning, Samuel Waaver; 1842, John Hinkson, Alexander McKeen; 1843, J. W. Hickman, Alexander McKeen; 1844, Joseph H. Hinkson, Isaac S. Williame; 1845, Joseph Taylor, Fredarick J. Hinkson; 1846, Edward Darlington, Spencer Mellvain; 1847, Wil- liem Weaver, Abram Cobourn; 1848, Peter W. Graen, Isaac S. Wil- liame; 1849, John Larkin, Charles D. Manley ; 1850, Samuel Cro- zer, Jesse Young; 1851, Peter W. Green, F. J. Hinkson; 1852, Edmund K. Edwards, David S. Bunting; 1853, no report; 1854, David Irving, Samuel A. Crozer; 1855, D. S. Bunting, E. B. Love- land; 1856, Jeremiah Flickner, E. M. Edwards ; 1857, Samuel A. Crozer, William L. Gregg ; 1856, Peter W. Green, E. B. Loveland ; 1859, E. R. Edwarde, James Irving; 1860, S. A. Crozer, A. Caetle; 1861, William L. Gregg, John Beatty; 1862, John Harvey, E. B. Loveland; 1863, James Kirkman, S. A. Crozer; 1864, David Rose, William L. Gregg; 1865, Ierael Mattock, J. William Lewis; 1866, J. W. Lewis; 1867, David Rose, William Roebuck; 1868, Joseph A. Kite, Thomas J. Leiper; 1869, W. L. Gregg, George Grubb; 1870, David Rose, Reece Eerey; 1871, E. R. Edwarde, John Evee; 1872, Joseph L. Carter, C. L. Pierce ; 1873, Joseph Engla, John Beatty; 1874, Thomas B. Mace, W. Graham Flower; 1875, Jacob Ebright, C. L. Pierce: 1876, John Beatty, Joseph Engle; 1877, G. W. Flowers, Thomas Mace; 1878, Caleb L. Pierce, Jacob Ebright ; 1879, David F. Rose, Joseph Engle; 1880, Thomas Mace, William G. Flower; 1881, Jacob Ebright, Caleb L. Pierce; 1882, Joseph Eagle, David F. Rose ; 1883, Thomas B. Mace, William G. Flower; 1884, Caleb L. Pierce, Jacob Ebright.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
THE BOROUGH OF UPLAND.
ALTHOUGH the site of the first mills erected in the province of Pennsylvania after the territory passed into the ownership of Penn were located within this municipal district, it nevertheless remained a part of the township of Chester nntil May 24, 1869, when the borough of Upland was incorporated by the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware County. The boundaries of the municipality were described in the order as follows :
" Beginning at a point on the north side of the Upland road where it crosses a stream of water called 'Ship Creek ;' thence down the said Ship Creek, the several courses thereof, about eighty perches, to the east side of Chester Creek, at low-water mark ; thence up the said creek et low-water mark, and on a line of the city of Chester, five hundred and eighty perchee, to a stone on the east benk of the said Chester Creek, a corner of William Weet'e land; thence by said West'e land north nineteen and one-half degrees, east seventy-four percbee and seventy-three one-hundredth of a perch to a stone; thence north eighteen and a half degrees, east ninaty-eix perchae aod three-tentbe of a perch to a stone by William Maris' land; thence south seventy-three and A half perches, east ninety-seven perches, to a stone a corner of Abraham Lukene' land; thence by the said Lukens' land north twenty and three-fourth degrees, east forty-eight perchee and eaven-tenthe of a perch to a stone a corner of Richard Wetherill's land: thence by the same south seventy-two degrees, east thirty perches and twenty-eight one-hundredthe of a parch to another corner of said Wetherill's land ; thence by the same north twenty-three degrees, eget thirty-eix perches aod fifty-two one-hundredths of a perch to a stone another corner of the eBid Wetherill'e land ; thence by and through the same and through lande of J. Lewis Crozar south sixty-four degrees, east ninety-two perchee to a stake in the weet line of Chester Rural Cemetery ; thence by the said cemetery south twenty-six and a half degrees, west forty
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perches and eight-tenths of a perch to a post on the north side of the Chester and Upland road; thence along the north side of the said Up- land road south seventy-two and a half degrees, east eighty perches, and north seventy-one and three-fourth degrees, east seventeen perches, and thirty-four one-hundredths of & perch, to the place of beginning, containing three hundred and thirty-five acres of land."
Ten years subsequent to the erection of the bor- ough, on Sept. 18, 1879, the court made an order add- ing to the incorporated area of the borough of Upland as follows :
"Beginning at a stone a corner of Abraham C. Lukens' land, and & corner of the said borough of Upland ; thence partly by the said borough of Upland, and partly by the borough of North Chester, north twenty And one-half degrees, east ninety-four perches and fifteen one-hun- dredthis of & perch to a stone, a corner of the said Abraham C. Lukens' land; thence partly by the same and partly by lands of the hairs of Jesse J. Maris, decensed, north seventy-seven degrees, wast one-hun- dred and thirty perches and three-tenths of a perch to a stone; thence by lands of the said Jesse J. Maris, deceased, south five and one-fourth degrees, west eighty-five perches to a corner, a stone by Samnel A. Crozer's land, in a line of the said Upland borough ; thence south sev- enty-threa degrees, east ninety-seven perches, to the place of beginning, containing sixty-five acres two roods thirteen perches, thirty-nine acres two rouds and two perches thereof being laude of the heirs of Jesse J. Maris, deceased, and twenty-six acres and eleveu perches being lands of the said Abraham C. Lukens."
Prior to the dates given the act of April 21, 1851, dividing the township and the borough of Chester, was obtained, and by its provisions the elections for the township were directed to be held at the school- house in Upland.
Forty years ago the site of the thriving borough of Upland was occupied only by the mansion-house of the then owner of the land, six tenement-houses for the mill-hands, a cooper-shop, a four-story stone grist- mill, and a frame saw-mill, with the usual out houses on ordinary farms. To-day it is one of the neatest manufacturing villages in the United States, contain- ing a population approximating three thousand per- sons. On the hill-crests to the north of the village are located the palatial residences of the Crozer family, the well-kept grounds adding largely to the attractiveness of the place. The Chester Street Rail- way Company has extended its road to Upland, which affords easy access to the city and the mills, and many of the private residences and stores are supplied with gas by the Chester Gas Company. In 1854 the Bank of Delaware County issued notes of the denomination of twenty dollars, on which were engraved a view of Upland as a vignette. At the present time the same engraving is used as a head-piece on certificates of stock issued by that corporation.
By virtue of the charter incorporating Upland as a borough its local affairs have been controlled by a chief burgess and Council. Following is a list of these officials :
CHIEF BURGESSES OF UPLAND.
1869, Samuel A. Crozer ; 1874, George K. Crozer; 1876, Robert H. Crozer ; 1878, J. William Lewie; 1880, Robert H. Crozer; 1881, J. Lewie Crozer; 1882, George K. Crozer; 1883, J. Lewis Crozer; 1884, John P. Crozer.
MEMBERS OF BOROUGH COUNCIL.
1869, William Band, F. B. Jarman, J. Lewis Crozer, Benjamin Crowther, Robert H. Crozer, J. William Lewie; 1870, J. Lewis Crozer, Robert
H. Crozer, William Band, Michael Leech, James Sample, J. William Lewis ; 1872, Robert H. Crozer, Morris P. Hannum, George K. Crozer, F. B. Jarman, J. William Lewis, M. E. Parker; 1873, Morris P. Hannum, George K. Crozer, F. B. Jarman, J. William Lewis, Augur Castle, Robert H. Crozer; 1874, George W. Koowles, Samuel A. Crozer, F. B. Jarman, Morris P. Hannum, J. William Lewis, Rob- ert H. Crozer; 1875, J. Lewis Crozer, Samuel A. Crozer, Benjamin F. Pretty, J. William Lewis, Robert H. Crozer, George W. Knowles ; 1876, Samuel A. Crozer, George K. Crozer, William D. Howard, Ben- jamin F. Pretty, Morris P. Hannum, F. B. Jarman; 1877, George K. Crozer, Samuel A. Crozer, F. B. Jarman, J. William Lewis, George W. Knowles, William Robuck ; 1878, Samuel A. Crozer, George W. Knowles, George K. Crozer, F. B. Jarman, H. Marshall, Joseph Dransfield, Jr .; 1879, Benjamin F. Pretty, George W. Knowles, Wil- liam Howard, William Band, Samuel A. Crozer, William Grimrod; 1880, Samuel A. Crozer, George K. Crozer, J. William Lewis, Calvert Cardwell, William Newton, William Roebuck, William Grimrod; 1881, Samuel A. Crozer, George K. Crozer, John P. Crozer, William Grimrod, William Newton, Calvert Cardwell; 1882, Samuel A. Crozer, J. William Lewis, Calvert Cardwell, J. Perry Lukens, Wil- liam Newton, Jacob Milla; 1883, Samuel A. Crozer, William Grim- rod, William Maris, James W. Burker, Augur Castle, John P. Crozer ; 1884, Samuel A. Crezer, George K. Crozer, William Maris, J. William Lewis, Dr. L. M. Bullock, Benjamin F. Compton.
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
Daniel G. Crompton, commissioned July 20, 1869, March 24, 1874, Juue 27, 1879, March 30, 1880.
The Pusey House .- The oldest building in the State of Pennsylvania is the Pusey house, at Upland, which is preserved by the Crozer family as a sacred relic connecting the olden times of the province with the active progressive present. The structure stand- ing to-day, almost as it was when built by Caleb Pusey, is on the north side of the mill-race, to the west of the road leading to the bridge spanning Chester Creek, facing to the south, and is about thirty feet in length, fifteen feet in breadth, and one story in height, crowned with a hipped roof, which gives to it the ap- pearance of being a story and a half building. The walls, which are noticeable in their thickness, are of stone and brick, while the floor is of broad solid oak planking. The brick part of the old wall was evi- dently put there to take the place of stones which be- came loose and fell out of position, a fact strongly supported by an inspection of the inner side, which shows no bricks at all. The bricks in the eastern gable were placed there, it is said, after Chester Mills had become the property of Samuel Shaw, when he repaired the structure. The house has two doors and two windows in the front, while a dormer-window is in the roof, and the roof itself has been several times re- newed. A dwarfed door-way gives admission to the room, with low ceilings and the heavy beams support- ing the floor above, still disclosing the marks of the broad axe which, two centuries ago, hewed the felled timber into form, and to the left of the room is a step- ladder, inclosed in a rude gangway, giving access to the apartments overhead. There is the old wide- mouthed fireplace (now inclosed), before whose hearth-whereon the ruddy flames flared aud flick- ered two centuries ago-the founder of a great com- monwealth and his trusty friend and agent, Pusey, sat discussing the prospects of their business enterprise, or laying plans for the future welfare of the colony.
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THE BOROUGH OF UPLAND.
If it be correct that Caleb Pusey made the noted visit, in 1688, to the Indian town on the Brandywine, where the iron-works of William Twaddell were subse- quently erected, when the province was started from its propriety by the rumor that the aborigines were about to begin hostilities and massacre the whites, then, indeed, it is true that "Caleb Pusey, going out unarmed into the forest to meet a threatened attack of the savages, is a more heroic figure than blustering Miles Standish, girt with the sword he fought with in Flanders." To the left of the fireplace, within easy reach, still remains the deep square hole in the wall which the early settlers frequently made in their dwellings, as a sort of tobacco-pouch, so that the con- solation which comes with smoke should be always close at hand and accessible to their guests and to themselves.
Caleb Pusey was one of the most active men of the early settlers in Pennsylvania, honest, sagacious, and absolutely fearless. Notwithstanding his ignorance of "school learning,"1 he has left an impress on our State history which will ever remain. He was a last- maker by trade, and emigrated in 1682, accompanied with his wife, Ann, settling at the present site of Up- land. His name is inseparable from that of Chester Mills, although long before his death he had parted with all interest in the land and business carried on there. He died in February, 1726/7, leaving no male descendant bearing his name.
It is hardly necessary, at this day, to correct the im- pression conveyed by Richard Townsend, in the ex- tract published by Proud,2 or the direct statement of Stephen Day, in his "Historical Collections of Pennsylvania," that Richard Townsend "erected the dwelling for the accommodation of his family while he was tending the first mill erected in the province." That statement has been corrected so often that it may be accepted, if any historical fact has been established, as no longer a subject for refutation. The land on which the house stood was a tract of one hundred acres patented to Pusey, Fourth month 10, 1684, and was known by the name " Landing Ford," the King's road crossing Chester just above his plantation.
The Chester Mills .- The first mill in the province of Pennsylvania was the Swedish water-mill, built by Governor Printz, on the east side of Cobb's Creek, near the noted Blue Bell Tavern, at Paschalville, in the county of Philadelphia. But at the time Penn obtained possession of the province that structure had fallen into disuse and had been abandoned to decay, it necessarily having been rudely constructed, The first mills in the county of Chester were brought to the province in the " Welcome," with Penn, having been framed and fitted so that they might be put to- gether with expedition when the land of promise had been reached. Previous to the departure of William
Penn from England, in 1682, he entered into a verbal copartnership with Philip Ford, John Bellars, Daniel Worley, Daniel Quare, John Barker, Richard Town- send, John Bickley, Thomas Burberry, and Caleb Pusey, all at that time in England, and it was agreed among them to erect one or more water-mills, to the cost of which they were to contribute in proportionate shares, for the agreement among themselves partook of the nature of a stock company, and each party received the interest in the venture in proportion to the amount contributed. Caleb Pusey was appointed agent and manager of the " said joint concern," The tract on which the mill was erected was patented to Pusey, " for the use of the mill," Second month 5, 1690. Many of the partners in the enterprise never came to the province. William Penn, we are told by Hon. Joseph J. Lewis, in his sketches of Chester County, was present when the first dam was made. It is documentary evidence, in an old deed, dated Dec. 19, 1705, now owned by the Crozer family, that in 1683, Caleb Pusey, " with the advice of the sd Proprietary and such others of the said partners as there were in the Province," erected a " corn mill on Chester creek, near his new dwelling house," which mill, with the dam belonging to it, were soon carried away by the flood. Caleb Pusey afterwards, by ad- vice of Penn and "ye other partner that was here" (doubtless Richard Townsend), erected a little above where the first mill stood another grist- and saw-mill upon part of the twenty acres patented for the use of the mill at the cost of the firm. The second dam was in turn swept away by flood, and he erected a third dam, at the distance of a mile beyond where the others were located, and constructed a race to convey the water to the mill. The expenses attending these constant repairs were so great that the outlay far ex- ceeded the earnings of the mill, and Pusey borrowed money from time to time from Robert Turner, a mer- chant of Philadelphia, in order to pay for the improve- ments.
In settlement of these advances Pusey, on June 21, 1688, drew a bill of exchange on Daniel Worley & Co. (the court record gives the name Whearley), mer- chants, of London, partners in the mills, for one hun- dred and eighty-seven pounds, payable at forty days' sight to Robert Turner or order. On Oct. 15, 1688, the original bill was presented to the drawee, who said " that he would not accept the sª bill for that the others Concerned in the same would not allow their proportionable shares," and the bill was protested. At the following March court, 1689/90, Turner sued Pusey, who came into court and acknowledged judg- ment for £293 10s. 4d. Considerable delay was had in issuing execution, apparently with the intention of having the matter adjusted, but the partners still re- fusing, with the exception of Penn and Pusey-Rich- ard Townsend had sold his interest to Pusey several years before-the mills were finally taken on execu- tion, June 14, 1692, and the coroner. Jacob Simcock,
1 Smith's " History of Pennsylvania ;" Hazard's Register, vol. vii. p. 83. " History of Ponnsylvania, vol. i. p. 229.
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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.
-Pusey was sheriff of the county at the time,- was required to sell the estate in payment of the debt. The property was assessed at five hundred and fifty pounds. It was offered at public sale, but found no buyers, and on Sept. 13, 1692, the coroner sold the interest of the delinquent parties to Robert Turner at the appraisement, and the latter sold his interest to Samuel Carpenter, who, for thirteen years, until Dec. 19, 1705, was a partner with Penn and Pusey in the milling business. Doubtless when repairs were made to the mill, in 1699, the rude iron vane bearing the initials W. P. (William Penn), S. C. (Samuel Carpenter), C. P. (Caleb Pusey), and the date, 1699, was placed on the building. When Richard Flower owned the property the old vane surmounted the dwelling-house of the owner, but on gusty nights, turning in the wind, it squeaked and groaned so noisily that it was taken down. In 1870, Reese W. Flower presented it to the Historical Society of Penn- sylvania, and it now points the wind on that building, although so added to and gilded that those who re- member it as it was in Upland would hardly recognize it now.
In 1705, Carpenter sold his interest to Pusey, and on March 15, 1706, Pusey sold his interest in " all those three water corn-mills and saw-mills, commonly called and known by the name of Chester Mills," to William Penn, and the property subsequently had several owners. About 1745, the old mill having been almost destroyed by an accidental fire, a new stone mill was built by Joseph Pennell, the then owner of the property, and the grandfather of John P. Crozer, who was a builder, worked on the structure, which stood, I think, until 1858, when it in turn was destroyed by fire. The dam-breast was built in 1752 by Samuel Shaw while he was owner of the property.
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