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Civil list, 267.
City Hotel (in Chester), 365.
Climate, extreme cold of 1633, 1657, 1681, 1697, 1704, 215 ; the hot summer of 1724, 215 ; great fall of snow in 1760, 216; the year without a summer (1816), 216; drought of 1838, 216; subsequent remarkable seasons, 217.
Clayton, William, 484. Clond, William, 483.
Clayton, Thomas J., 238. Clark, Maj. James, 737, 738.
County-seats, agitation in 1766 for removal of that in Chester County, 78; revival of project in 1785, 78; work of erecting buildings at Turk's Head (West Chester) in 1785, 78 ; sus- pension act passed, 78 ; hostile demonstration made by the anti-removalists, 79; success of the removalists, 79 ; sale of old county build- ings, 79; literature of lament and of joy, 80; erection of Delaware County, 81 (see also DELAWARE COUNTY); dissatisfaction of people of upper parts of county with Chester as county-seat, 112; first opposition manifested in 1820, 113; revived in 1845, 113; the measure accomplished in 1848, 114; Incation of, in Media, 588 ; removal of records to, 592. Courts, the first held at Tinicum, 217; "crude and capricious code of laws" administered by Swedish Governor Printz, 217; Dutch tribu- nals, 218; first undoubted record of formal indictment and trial by jury, 220; second reign of Dutch authority ends, 221 ; Governor Andros issues a commission for holding a Court of Oyer at New Castle, 221; trial of James Sandelands, of Upland, for causing the death of an Indian, 221; Duke of York's lawe introduced, 221; a tribunal located at Upland, 221 ; first court convened there under new code of laws, 222; old records nf, 222 (note 2); case of Oele Oelsen at the third term, 223; first proceedings for foreclosure of mortgage, 223; expense of the court, how
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defrayed, 225; some importaot cases in the early courts, 225 ; changes in the courts by William Penn, 227 ; first grand jury in Penn- sylvania, 227 (also oote) ; peculiar duties de- volviug upon the court, 228 ; remarkable jury (of women), 228; corporal punishment io- flictad, 228; Orphane' Court established, 229; trials for witchcraft, 229, 230; County or Common Pleas Courts, 231 ; Quarter Sessions, 231; justices prior to erection of Delaware County, 232, 233; first court after formation of Delaware County, 233; sketches of presi- deot judges, 233-238 (sea individual names in this index); special provision conceroing the justices in Delaware County, 238 ; list of, 239; associate juatices, 240 (see individual names) ; attorney-generale, 244 ; deputy attorney-gen- erals and district attorneya, 245; attorneys, 245; lists of, admitted, 246-251 ; biographical sketches (aea individual names).
Court-houses, at Chester, 392-396; at Media, 591, 592.
Concord Township, 482; origin of, 482; first constable of, 482; Concord Street laid out in, 482; complaint to Proviocial Council, by sat- tlers, of Iodiaas in, 482; land titles in, 482, 483; churches of, 484, 485, 496; taxables in, 486; justices of the peace for, 487; roade in, 482, 487; schools of, 487; Maplewood Insti- tute, 489; Ward Academy, 489; mills in, 489 ; Johnson's Corners in, 491; Elam in, 491; Wilcox family, 491; Concordvilla, 491; li- censad houses, 497; pedigree of the Gest family, 502; Brandywine Summit Camp- Meeting, 491.
Concord or Society Mills, 483, 489.
Council, Provincial, election for, 25; action of, in 1712, 30; consideration of taxes by, 30; petition finally resulting in formation of Lao- caster Couoty, 31; petitioo to, for repairs oo Queeo's Highway, 508, 509.
Coronars, 268.
County commissioners, 269. Congress, mambers of, 272.
Conquest of the Swedea by Dutch, 7; Dutch by English, 11, 12. Coupland, David, 369.
Continental Congress, 40, 41. Code. See LAWS.
Confiscation of estate of Nathaniel Vernon, 654.
Coofiecation of estate of Mathias Aspden, au " attainted traitor," 637.
Complaint of settlers to Provincial Council, 482.
Cooplaod, David, 72. Costes, Dr. Isaac T., 153, 261. Cochrao, Dr. John, 257. Cochran, Capt. Heory C., 155. Cowan, Dr. William L., 260.
Columbia House, 368.
" Corner catch" (or ketch), 306. Coxe, John D., 234. Collett, Jeremiah, 483-485, 672. Cobourne, Thomas, 619, 620. Cobourne, Joseph, 610, 620. Cornodum, 310.
Coppock, Bartholomew, 580, 613, 714, 724, 735. Cobb's Creek, 545.
Crozer, Maj. Samuel, 511.
Crozer, Joha P., 331, 431, 621, 669, 742. Crosby, John, 242, 360, 741, 742, 753.
Crosby, Commodore Pierce, 156.
Croaby, Richard, 553, 610, 622, 624, 625, 735, 753. Crosby, John, 652, 669.
Crime, 157, 178, 754. Cumberland Cemetery, 613.
Customa, early (see MARRIAGE, BURIAL, AMUSE- MENTS), 178.
Currie, Dr. William, 257. Cummings, Capt. Jesse L., 128. Custer, Bethel M., 755.
D.
Dancing in the oldea time, 184. Darby Fire Company, 525.
Darby Library Company, 523.
Darliogtoo dairies, 632.
Dare, Charles V., 266.
Darby Borough, early settlers in, 516 ; Gabriel
Thomas' mention of Derbytown, 516; de- scription of, io 1836, 516; iocorporation of, 516; burgesses aod members of Council of, 516 ; mills ia, 517-519 ; schools in, Sharon Hill Academy, 521 ; churches in, 522, 523 ; Friends' meeting-house, 521; Darby Library Com- pany, 523; Darby Fire Company, 525; li- ceased houses in, 527; old houses in, 530; societies, 531 ; incidents io, 531.
Darby Towoship, 505; name of, 605; settle- ment of patents and land titles, 505; act of Assembly to drain marshes in, 507 ; commia- sioners to adjust boundary lina between Maryland and Pennsylvania in, 507; roads io, 507 ; division of Upper and Lower Darby, 508; incidents of Revolutioo io, 510; tax- ables in, 511, 512; churches io, 512, 513; schools in, 513; mills io, 513, 514 ; crimes in, 514; justices of the peace for, 515.
Darlingtoo, Isaac, 235.
Darlington, Edward, Jr., 632.
Davis, Dr. Isaac, 259.
Davis, Rebecca Harding, 727.
Delaware County, erection of, 81 ; adjustment
of county line, 82; early description of, 756.
See also COUNTY-SEATS aud BOUNDARY LINE. Delaware Couoty, civil officials of, 267.
Delaware County Temperance Society, 190.
Delaware County Mutual Insurance Company, 606.
Delaware County National Bank, 373.
Delaware County Institute of Science, 601, 674.
Deshoog, John Odanheimer, 376.
De Vries, David Peterseo, 3.
Deaths caused by lightaiog, 293. Deer, 212.
De la Grange, Joost, 278, 279.
Dick, Thomas B., 247.
Dick, Archibald T., 249.
Dick, Peter, 312, 588, 654, 742.
Dick, Job, 663, 724.
Dick, Dr. Elisha Cullen, 257.
Dickenson, William H., 252.
Divioing rod, the, 152. Directors of the poor, 270.
Dougherty, Mordecai, 166.
Dod, Eleanor, 425.
Duels, of Hunter aod Miller, 475 ; of Webb and Marshall, 478; of Keith and Meredith, 481.
Dutch explore Delaware Bay and River, 2; se- cure absolute away ou, 9; conquered by Eog- lish, 11.
Duke of York, grant to, 11; his laws promul- gatad, 14.
Dunwoody, Joho, 586.
Dnowoody, James, 651.
Duno, Capt. George, 116. Dutton, Joha, 290.
Dutton, Thomas, 292, 615.
Dutton, Richard, 615. Dutton, Jonathan, 620.
Dyer, Capt. Samuel A., 119.
F.
Eachus, Eber, 662.
Early settlers, building of houses by, 178 ; pri- vations of, 179, 180; weddings, 183, 184; dancing, 184; funerals, 185; food, 186, 187; dress, 186, 187, 188 ; general nae of liquor by, 188, 189; taveros, 189 ; method of traveling, 192; annoyed by the wolves, 212; in Aston, 290; io Bethel, 306, 307; io Birmingham, 312-314; in Lower Chichester, 472; Welsh, in Radnor, 678.
Earthquakes, 108, 756.
Earl of Aonesley, 453. Eckstein, Samuel, 544. Eckfeldt, Adam C., 447.
Edge, Joseph, 611.
Edge, John, 654, 670.
Edgmout Township, name of, 553; laad titles of, 553 ; dispute of boundary line, 553; great road laid out, 553; meating of Iodiane in, 554; taxables in, 554; damages by the Brit- ich in, 554; incidents of the Revolution io, 554, 655; Temperance Hall, 555; Methodist Church, 655 ; justices of the peace for, 555 ; Howallville, 555; incidents, mills, and tao- naries, 556; schools, 556; liceosed houses, 557; settlers of, 658.
Education, free public, 94 ; legislatioo concera- ing, 94-96; early schools, 180.
Edwards, Capt, Henry B., 116.
Edwards, Lieut. Samuel, 157.
Edwards, Nathan, 611. Edwards, William, 611.
Edwards, Joha, 248, 611, 709.
Edwards, Samuel, 248. Elwya, Alfred L , M.D., 628.
Emanuel, M., M.D., 154.
Emleo, James, 613, 624. Erickson, Peter, patent of, 507.
Engle family, 366.
Engle, Joseph, 242. Engle, Peter Hill, 250.
Engle, Rear-Admiral Frederick, 155.
English, conquest of Dutch, 11, 12.
Erwia, Dr. Benjamio Rush, 259.
Esrey, David Reese, 446.
Essex house, 13, 14.
Etting, Col. Frank M., 483.
Eureka Cast-Steel Company, 404.
Evans, Cadwallader, 560.
Evane, Thomas, 560.
Execution, firet (note), 157; of James Fitzpat-
rick, 171; of Elizabeth Wilson, 175; of Michael Monroe, 539; of Joho H. Craig, 638.
F.
Farrington, Dr. H. W., 266.
Fearne, Joshua, 505, 532, 533, 550, 635.
Fairlamb, Nicholas, 610, 620.
First court held in Media, 592.
Fishing Company (Tinicum) case, 281, 282.
First paper-mill io the county, 491.
Fire department in Chestar, 412.
Fishes, 214.
Fitzpatrick, James, the outlaw, 166; capture of, 636, 637; execution of, 171.
Flower, Richard, 742.
Flickwir, Jeremiah W., 436.
Forward, William H., M.D., 154.
Fox, Joseph, 562.
Forster, Joho M., 235.
Forwood, Dr. Jonathan L., 262. Foxes, 213.
Forgee, early, in Thornbury and on Crum Creek, 92; at Rockdale, 295; Sarum, 459, 706-709; Edward'a, 709; Croaby, 741, 742.
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French and Indian war, beginning of, 32, 34 ; Chester soldiers in, 36; alarm along the Delaware, 37. Frazer, Persifor, 708. Frazer, Robert, 247.
Friends, settlements of, 13; allusion to, 24 ; ac- tion upon change of calendar, 34; position of society in Revolutionary war, 42; orders of, concorning courtship, 184; first protest against liquor by, 189; their opposition to slavery, 202; effort to prevent sale of liquor to Indians, 307. Fresheta, 99-105.
G.
Galloway, Joseph, 283. Gandonett, Dr. Alex., 255. Gardiner, Dr. William, 258. Garrett, William, 533, 543, 544, 714. Garrett, Oborn, 543. Garrett, Thomas, 543, 661. Garrett, Samuel, 643. Garrett, C. S., & Son, 650. Garnets, 310.
Game. See WILD ANIMALS, etc.
Gartside, Benjamin, 398. Garteide, Amos, 399. Gartside, James, 399. Gartside, John, 401. Gest family, pedigree of, 502. Geography of county, 1. Geology of county, 1. Gibbons, John, 307. Gibbons, Joseph, 724, 732. Gilpin, Joseph, 312. Goeltz house, 373.
Gold and silver believed to exist in the prov- ince, 276.
Goodson, Dr. John, 255. Graham (Hoskins) house, 363. Graham, Henry Hale, 233, 234. Graham, William, 86, 247.
Grand Army of the Republic, posts in Chester, 419, 420.
Grants to Duke of York, 11 ; to Lord Baltimore, 15; to Penn, 15. Gray, Capt. William C., 135. Gray, Dr. William, 259, 260. Green, William H., 437. Green, Thomas, 484. Gross, Dr. James E., 266. Grubb, Cept. William L., 118.
H.
Haines, Townsend, 236. Haldeman, Isaac, 604.
" Half Moon," first vessel on Delaware Bay, 2. Hemilton, Gavin, 545. Hannum, John, 483. Harlan, Dr. Ellie C., 259. Harper, John, 366. Harvey, William, 315.
Harvey, Ellwood, M.D., contributor of chapter on physical geography and geology of county, 1.
Harvey, Job, 617, 625.
Haverford Township, name nf, and origin, 663 ; Welsh tract, 663-565; letter of Dr. Jones on Welsh settlers in, 564; warrant for the Welsh tract, 664 ; petition to the proprietary from settlers in, 565; taxablee in, 566, 567, 568 ; phenomenon in, 568; Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike in, 568; mille in, 569- 572; schools in, 572; Haverford College in, 572; Haverford meeting-house, 574 ; licensed houses, 575 ; the Humphrey family, 577 ; the Grange, 578; Haverford Street, 667; in Revo- lution, 668.
Hawkins, Capt. George, 130.
Helme, Israel, patent to, And others, 505. Hemphill, Joseph, 703.
Hibberd, John, 251. Hill's map, 737. Hill, Peter, 738. Hill, Dr. James Serrell, 259. Hinkson family, 376.
Hinkson, Frederick J., 244, 377.
Hinkeon, John, 663, 664.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 414. Hood, Thomas, 532. Hood, John, 632, 533, 550, 613.
Hog Ieland, 287.
Hollingsworth, death of Lydia, 580.
Hollowell, John, 532.
Holme, Surveyor-General Thomas, 606.
House of Employment, 590, 594, 631.
Homœopathy, 266.
Hoskins family, 354, 355, 360. Hoskine (Graham) honse, 353.
Hoskins, Joseph, 356. Hoekine, John, 610, 611.
Hatchkin, George B., M.D., 153.
House of Representatives (State), members of, 274.
House of Defense, the, 23 (also note).
Honses, how built by the early settlers, 178; suggestion concerning, by Penn, 179; log cabin described, 179; old, in Chester, 352, 364; Pneey, the, at Upland, 428; old, at Marcus Hook, 472, 473.
Howe, Gen. William, 510, 511.
Huertine house, 358. Humphrey family, 577.
Humphrey, Daniel, 577. Humphrey, Edward, 677.
Humphrey, Charles, 577. Humphrey, Joshua, 577.
Humphrey, Samuel, 678.
Humphreys, Dr. Gideon, 260.
Hunter, Charles G., 475. Hunter, J. Morgan, 677.
I.
Indiana, murders by, 12; first deed from, 25; second, 26; alarm of, 28; several murdered, 164; action by Friends to prevent sale of liquor to, 367; rumor of Indian attack in Birmingham, 314; meeting of, in Edgmout, 554; complaint to Provincial Council by settlers of Indiane in, 482.
Indien language, first book translated into, 276. Insurance companies in Chester, 406-408 ; Dela- ware County, 406; Chester Mutual, 407; Delaware County Mutual, 606.
Industries, miscellaneous, early, 92; later, 93. Institute of Science in Chester, 381.
Inskeep, Ephraim, 514.
Incident at Moggey's Ford, 621.
Immigrants, great influx of, 25.
Irving, James, 445.
Irwin, J. H., 725.
Iron industry in colonies, English alarm at, 92; early forges in Thornbury and on Crum Creek, 92.
J.
James, Caleb, 625. James, Daniel, 711. Jackson, Dr. Paul, 255. Jackson, Ephraim, 559. Jackson, Roger, 611.
Jacop, Dr., 254.
Jarvie, Joseph, 610, 624. Jacobson, Hendrich, 605. Jaile, at Chester, 395, 396; at Media, 591, 692. Jones, Dr. Stacy, 266.
Journaliem. See NEWSPAPERS.
Johnson Tavern, the old, 373.
Johnson, Andreas, 505. Johnson, William, 610. Johnson, Charles, 633. Justices of Chester County, 232.
Judges, associate, of Delaware County, 239. Justice, Charles, 363.
K.
Kalm, Peter, 742. Kerlin, John, 249, 367. Kerlin, William, 367.
Keith, Washington, duel of, 481. Keen (or Kyn), Joran, 327. Kelly, Dennis, 542, 545.
Kelly, Charles, 542, 543.
Kent, Thomas, 543. Kirk family, 701. Kirk, John, 533. Koch, Ole, 505.
L.
Lawe, penal, of the early English settlers, 159; of Duke of York, 169; those enacted by Penn's Assembly, 159; repealed by act of 1718, 160 ; Rct creating a special court for the trial of negroes, 165; changes in, by Penn, 227.
Labor troubles, 108; ten-hour law advocated and passed, 109, 110, 111 ; strike of 1848, 111, 112; strike nt Crozer's West Branch Mille, 293.
Lamokin Hall, 362. Lamokin, 438. Lafayette House, 372.
Larkin, John, Jr., 379. Larkin family, 308, 379.
Lawe, James, farm of, 436.
Lafayette, Gen., with his son, George Washing- ton Lafayette, visits the battle-field of the Brandywine, 321; wound of, 360, 369. Lackey, Capt. James (war of 1812), 91.
Laurence, Dr. Mordecai, 261.
Lazaretto, 284. Leiper, George G., 608, 662.
Leiper, Thomas, 661-663, 742, 751, 752, 753.
Leiper, William J., 662, 663.
Leiper, Samuel M., 662.
Leiper, Capt. Thomas I., 123.
Leiper, Col. C. L., 154.
Leiper, George Gray, 243, 742, 749, 750.
Levis, Samuel, 532, 533, 542, 544, 646, 714, 724. Levis, Oborn, 543, 544, 724.
Levis, William, 544, 545, 669.
Levis, Isaac, 544, 625. Levis, Samuel G., 544, 545.
Levis, Seth, 625. Levis, Thomas, 240, 724.
Lewis, Samuel, 560. Lewis, William, 560, 635, 642.
Lewis, Edward, 625.
Lewis, J. Howard, 542, 663, 714, 724.
Lewie, Milton, 609. Lewis, Ezra, 251.
Lewis, Col. William, 154.
Lewis, John, 723. Lewis, Mordecai, 723.
Legal, 217. Lee, Jobn, patent of, 483. Leedom, Joseph B., 578. Leedom, Jesse, 651. Leiper's Railroad, 751.
Leiper'e Canal, 752.
Licensed houses, in Tinicum, 289, 290; in Aston, 304; Ring Tavern, 314; Boar Head 1on, 328; City Hotel, 358, 365; ship " George Wash- ington," 359 ; others in Chester, 364, 373; in
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Lower Chichester, 404, 468; in Concord, 497 ; in Darby Borough, 527 ; in Upper Darby, 538 ; in Edgmont, 557 ; in Haverford, 575; in Marple, 583 ; in Middletown, 628; in New- town, 649; in Nether Providence, 663; in Upper Providence, 673; in Radnor, 692; in Thornbury, 710 ; in Springfield, 729; in Rid- ley, 743.
Liquor, at funerals, 185; general use of, 188, 189; excessive use of puoished, 188, 189 ; use of at court, 190; reform in use of, 190 ; license of sale of, 191 ; Friends endeavor to prevent sale of to Indians, 307.
Little Tinicum Island, 288.
Libraries, in Chester, 380; Jefferson Library Association, 382; in Raduor, 681.
Litzenberg, Capt. Simon, 136.
Literary Association, the People's (of Astoa), 305.
Linwood, village of, 473.
Lightning, death by, 293, 675, 715.
Lloyd family, 355, 356, 359. Lloyd, David, 518, 611. Lloyd, David (chief justice), 193. Lloyd, Richard, 518, 541.
Lloyd, Isaac, 518. Lloyd, Hugh, 241, 518, 742. Lloyd house. 359.
Lower Chichester Township, 455 ; grant of land to Capt. John Ammundson Besk, 455; Mar- cue Hook, 456; Lord Baltimore's visit to, 456; pirates at, 457; charter of Marcus Hook, 458; ship- and vessel-building at, 459, 460 ; churches, 460, 464 ; licensed housse, 464, 469 ; King's Highway and Chichester Creek bridge, 469; Linwood Mills, 469; troops at Marcus Hook in war of 1812, 469; kaolin, 471 ; Pio- neer Tron-Works, 471; early settlers, 472; societies, 472 ; Marcus Hook piers, 473; the Hunter-Miller duel, 475; Webb and Mar- shall duel, 478 ; duel of Keith and Meredith, 481.
Lovelace, Governor Richard, grants patent to Israel Helme and others, and Ericke Nichols and others, 505, 517, 735.
Locusts, first mention of, in Penosylvania, 214. Longevity, remarkable instance of, 552. Lock, Rev. Lars Carlsson, 276. Longfellow, poem of, on "Old St. David's," 648. Longstreth, William, 544. Lobb, Asher, 542. Lord, Simeon, 518, 662, 663, 657. Logan house, 352.
"Long Fino," the, trial of, 187.
Lownes, James, 714.
Lownes, George, 723. Lowoes, Curtis, 723. Lownes, George Bolton, 723.
Lungren, John, 544, 669. Lyons, Mary Gorman, 360, 369.
M.
Marple Township, 579; name of, and first con- stable in, 579; early settlers in, and land titles in, 579 ; road laid out in, 579 ; murder of Jonsthan Haye in, 680; death of Lydis Hollingsworth in, 580; taxables in, 581; Marple Post-Office, 581; Drove Tavern, 581- 583; churches, 581, 682; mills and other in- dustries, 582; schools, 582; crimes and scci- dents, 583 ; licensed houses, 583 ; the Brooke house, 583.
Manley, Commander De Haven, 155. Masonry, lodges in Chester, 417, 418. Markets at Chester, 408. Maplewood Instituto, 489.
Marriages, early regulations conceruing, 183;
clandestine aud unlawful, 183; of inden- tured servants, 184; festival of, 184.
Markham, William, 14, 16, 17, 18, 226, 227. Malin, Raodle, 666, 670.
Manley, Charles D., 609.
Marshall, Thomas F., 478, 491, 547. Merchall, John, marriage of, 532, 547. Maiden Islaud, 288.
Martin's Bar, 288.
Marcus Hook, 456; pirates at, 457.
Maddock, Henry, 713.
Manners of the early settlers, 178. Mattson, Margaret, 181, 734.
Mattson, Neale, 734. Map of Philadelphia and enviroos in 1808, 737. Martin, Walter, 448. Martin, John, 610.
Martin, Thomas, 611. Mathews, John, 542. Matthewe, Charles, M.D., 153.
Mathues, Charles W., 500.
Magee, Dr., 153.
Maris, Richard, 579. Maris, George, 713, 714, 732. McAffee, Robert, 169. McCresdy, Bernard, 542.
McCall, Robert, 310.
McAllister, Capt., 144. McIlvaio, Spencer, 407. McIlvain, John, 737, 749.
Members of Assembly, 272, 274.
Members of Congress, 272. Meigs, Dr. Charles D., 261. Mendenhall, Joho, 482, 483, 563. Mendenhall, Benjamin, 483. Mendenhall, Robert, 491. Mendenball, William, 488. Meredith, Morris, duel of, 481. Mecoponacka, 327.
Mercer, Thomas, 290. Mendenhall, Capt. W. S., 127. Medical societies, 264. Merry-making. See AMUSEMENTS. Meredith, Moses, 560 .-
Meetings, Friends', at " Harald," in Aston, 290; Chichester Monthly, in Bethel, 306; in Bir- mingham, 317; first recorded meetiog in Peoneylvania, 334; places of worship in Chester, 334-336; in North Chester Bor- ough, 443 ; at Chichester, 450; iu Upper Chi- chester, 451 ; iu Concord, 484 ; in Darby Bor- ough, 521; in Haverford, 574 ; in Medis, 604; in Middletown, 613; in Newtown, 642; in Nether Providence, 655 ; in Radnor, 679, 687 ; in Springfield, 717.
Medicine, among the Swedes, 253; Duke of York's lawe concerning, 254; curious bill of Dr. Van Leer, 256; remedies in vogue in last century, 257; physiciane since 1800, 260-264, 266-267; Thompsonian practice of, 264; Del- aware County Medical Society, 264; members of, 265; homœopathy, 266, 267; Homeopathic Medical Society of Chester aud Delaware Counties, 267.
Media, Borough of, early settlers on site of, 588 ; titles, 587, 688; location of the county-seat, | 588; act of Assembly authoriziog removal of county-seat, 589 ; early settlers of, 689; fixing site of public buildings, 589; first sale of lots, 589; first buildings erected, 590; first line of stages, 590; description of, in 1853, 591; first fire in, 590; court-house and jail, 591 ; laying of corner-stone of court-houes, 592 ; escape of prisoners, 593: first court held in, 592; House of Employment, 594; incorporation of, 895; temperance struggle, 595; first election of
officere in, 596; burgesses, 596; members of Council, 597 ; treasurers, town clerks, aod juetices of the peace, 597; name of, 897 ; the Charter Houee, 597; the streets of, 598; water-works of, 599; gas-works of, 600; post- office and postmasters, 600; the public echoole, 600; Brooke Hall Female Seminary, 601; Medis Academy, 601 ; Shortlidge Acad- emy, 601 ; Delaware County Institute of Sci- ence, 601 ; churches in, 602-604; newspapers in, 604; banking in, 604; Media Bible So- ciety, 604; Delaware County Mutual Insur- ance Company, 606; Media Cemetery, 606; cotton-factories, 607; societies, 607; Media as a summer resort, 607.
Militia, meeting of, in 1834, 96; Delaware County Troop, 97; other organizations, 98; Gartside Rifle Battalion, 412; at Marcus Hook iu 1812, 469.
Military, two regiments of Chester Associators raised to resist Spanish privateers in 1748, 33; French aod Indian war, 34; Chester sol- diere in, 36; general military history of county, 97 ; in Chester, 412. See also REVO- LUTIONARY WAR, WAR OF 1812, CIVIL WAR, etc.
Miller, Henry, 666.
Minshall, Thomas, 588, 617, 653, 670. Minshail, Jacob, 611. Middleton, P., M.D., 154. Minsterman, Jan, 505. Miller, William, 475.
Middletown Township, origin of, and name of, 610; land titles of, 610, 611; taxables io, 611, 612; juetices of the peace in, 612; murder at Bancroft Bank in, 612; a centenarian in, 612; remarkable mortality in, 612; Friends' meeting-house in, 613 ; churches in, 613-617; Cumberland Cemetery, 613 ; schools in, 617- 619; mills in, 619-625; the Pennsylvania Training-School for Feeble-Minded Children in, 625-629; licensed houses in, 628-630; Lima in, 630; Lima Temperance Hall Association, 630 ; the village of Glen Riddle in, 631 ; Lenni Tribe, I. O. of R. M., in, 631 ; the House of Employment, 631 ; Agricultural and Indus- trial Society of Delaware County in, 631; Chester and Delaware Counties Agricultural Society, 631; the Darlington dairies, 632.
Mille and mauufactures : Crozer'e West Branch, strike at, 293; Peters' grist- and saw-mille and Llewllyn Mill in Aston, 294 ; Thatcher Tilt-Mill, 296; Lenoi Mille, 296 ; Crozerville Mills, 297 ; West Branch Cotton-Mille, 297; Pennellton Mille, 298 ; mille in Birmingham, 318; Phoenix Mills, 400; Mohawk Mills, 400; Irving and Leiper Manufacturing Company, 400; Victoris Mill, 400; Patterson Mille, 401; Algodon Mills, 401; agitation among operatives in, iu favor of ten-hour law, 109; James Campbell's, in Chester, 396 : Broad Street Mills, 398; Keokuk Mills, 398 ; Ara- sapha Mills, 399; woolen-mills, 93, 94 ; Glad- stone Mills (Penoellton), 298 ; Phoenix, at Chester, 400; Mohawk Mills, 400; Chester Dock Mills, 401; Sunnyside Mille, 401; Yeadon Mills, 401 ; Lilley & Sons Manufac- turing Company, 402; Chester City Mills, 402; S. A. Crozer & Sons, 402 ; Lincoln Man- ufacturing Company, 402; Stotesbury, 402; Bowere Mill, 403 ; Morton and Black's, 403 ; Cocoa Mat and Matting Works, 403 ; Chester Edge-Tool Worke, 403; Riverside Dye-Wood Mills, 404; Combination Steel and Iron Com- pany, 404; Eureka Cast-Steel Company, 404; Robert Wetherill & Co., 404; Chester Steel- Casting Company, 404; Phoenix Iron-Works,
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405; Chester Sugar-blouse, 405 ; Color-Worke, 405; Cheeter Chemical-Works, 405; Taylor's carriage-works, 405; Stark's carriage-works, 405; Ocheltree's carriage-works, 405; Lu- kens' grist-mill, 405 ; Strond & Co.'s planing- mill, 406; Peno Street Planing-Mill, 406; Miller Cox'e cash-mill, 406; Hamilton'e box-factory, 406; Price'e brick-yard, 406; Carter's in Chester Township, 425; Chester Milla at Upland, 429 ; Crozer'e cotton-mille at Upland, 431; Vulcan Worke, 437; Auvergoe Mills, 437, 440; River Mille, 440; Trainer's Mille, 440; Wyoming Mill, 440; Centennial Mill, 440; Garfield Mill, 441 ; Oil-Cloth Worke, 441 ; Chester Rolling-Mills, 441 ; Steel-Works, 441; Chester Pipe and Tuhe Company, 441 ; Standard Steel-Casting Company, 441; Chester Oil-Worke, 441; Seaboard Oil Com- pany, 442; Delaware Oil-Refining Works, 442; brick-yards, 442; South Chester Ship- Yard, 442; Irvington Mille, 444 ; Powhattan Mille, 445; North Chester Brick-Yard, 447; Talbot Mill, 465 ; Dutton'e saw-mill, 455 ; Lin- woud Mills, 469; Diamond Mills, 470; Pioneer Iron-Worke, 471; Concord or Leedom's, 489 ; Newlin or Hill'e, 489 ; Trimble or Felton, 490; Marshall's tannery, 491 ; others in Concord, 49]; Ivy, 491; Glen, 494; Glen Olden, 513 ; Washington, 514; carpet, 514; Darby or Griewold Worsted Company's, 517; Oak ford's fulling, 518; Imperial, 519; W. Arrott & Co., 519; tanvery, 519; Upper Darby paper-mills, 541 ; Morme Trueman or Matthew's paper- mill, 542; Kellyville or Hoffman, 642; Mo- doc, 543; Garrett, 543; Union, 543; Rock- hourue, 543; Clifton, 544; Glenwood, 544 ; Tuscarora, 545 ; Bonsall's saw, 645 ; Sellere' locomotive-worke, 545 ; Sellere' eaw, 546; Millbank, 546; Levie' blade, 646; Powell's saw, 546; Cardiogton, 546; Marchall'e, 547; Millbourne, 547 ; Keystone, 550; Union, at Fernwood, 551 ; in Edgmont, 556; Haverford, 569; Haverford, new, 569 ; Ellie' fulling, 569 ; Brown's, 570 : Lawrence, 570; Miller'e, 570; Nitre Hall, 570; Kelly'e woolen and cotton, 570; Boyle's, 570; other mill interests in Haver ford, 571; Clifton, 570; Castle Hill, 570; Abraham Jonee' (Palmere'), 582; in Marple, 582; in Middletown, 619; Forrest Dale Mille, 619; Knowlton, 620; Bottomley woolen, 621 ; Trueman eaw-mill, 620; Old Sable Nail- Works, 620; Glen Riddle Mills, 622; Park- mount mille, 623; l'ennell eaw-mill, 624; Yearsley's grist-mill, 624 ; Hillsborough Mille, 624 ; Media Water-Works, 624, 625; Painter'e clover- and saw-mills, 625. In Newtown: Union Paper-Mill, 648; Moore's mill in, 649; taovery, 648 ; Pierce'e pluwa, 648; William- eon'e enw-mill, 649; Thomas' chingle-mill, 649. In Nether Providence : Waterville Mille, 658; Turner'e cotton-lap, 658; Franklin Iron- Works and Dutton'e grist-mill, 659; Todmor- deo Mille, 659; Rose Valley Mille, 660; Thomas Y. Huttoo's grist-mill, 661 ; Chest- nut Grove Cotton-Mill, 661; Leiper's snuff- mill aud Avondale, 661 ; Strath Haven Mille, 662; the Lewie Paper-Mills, 663; epool-cot- ton worke, 663; othor mille, 663. In Upper Providence: Upper Bank, or Manchester, 669 ; Robinett Griet-Mill and Camm'e etocking- worke, 669; Malin'e grist-mill, 670; Provi- deace, Bishop's or Sycamore Mille, 670; Reg- ister's nail-factory, 672; Jeremiah Collet'e, 672; Jones or Palmer's, 672. In Radnor: miscellaneous, 684. In Thornbury : Sarum Forge and Rolling-Mill, 706-709; Edwarde' forge and rolling-mills, 709; Thorodale
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