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Mill, 709; Brinton Mille, 709; Cheyney Shops, 710; Glen Mille, 494. In Springfield : Wallingford, 723 ; Holtz Mill, 723 ; Gibbons, 724; Fell'e, 724 ; Keystone Spinning, 724; other milla in, 724. In Ridley : Lapides, 742; Davis & Culin'e saw, 743 ; Leiperville Mille, 749; Peter Hill's or Heckman'e, 749; Eddy- stone Manufacturing Company, 750.
Moore, James A., 578.
Moore, Jno. M., 586.
Morgan, Anthony, 532. Morgan house, 360.
Morgan, Capt. William (of war of 1812), 89, 90. Morrie, Richard Hill, 239.
Morton, Dr. Charles J., 263.
Morton, Sketchley, 243.
Mortenson, Morton, 505, 514.
Mertensoe, Lawrence, 514.
Mortenson, Tobias, 514.
Martin, Dr. William, 258.
Morris, Dr. Jonathan, 256.
Morrie, Joseph R., 251.
Morton, John, 738.
Morton, Dr. John, 257.
Murder, in Marple in 1715, 162; of Indiaoe, 164; in Tredyffrin in 1752, 164 ; other mur- dere, 165; frequency of, during Revolution, 165; Elizabeth Wilson's avowed murder of her babes, 172; of Martin Hollie by Thomas Cropper, 322; of an infant by Alexaoder Harrie, alias Dobson, 515; of William Boo- Bal. 539; of George Clay, 541; of Jonathan Hayes by Hugh Pugh, 580; of Ellen Jones and John Bleir io Middletown, 612; of Squire Hunter in Newtown, 638.
Myers, Henry, 242, 491.
N.
Nail-works, Taylor'e, 706-709; Moore'e, 621 ; Edwards', 709; Register'e, 672.
Navigation, act interdicting it with foreign nativos, 38.
Navy, Cheeter Countiane in the, 155, 156. Neckele, Ericke, 505.
Neild, John, 290.
Nether Providence, origin of and name of, 652; land titles in, 653, 654 ; taxables in, 654; jue- tices of the peace, 655; Friende' meeting- hones, 655 ; churches in, 655 ; echools in, 655 ; mille in, 658 ; Hinksou's Corner, 664; Briggs- ville, 665; the Cavana caee, 665; Media Lodge, K. of P., 665; licensed houses, 663. New Guttenburg, founding of, 5, 275.
Newlin, Nathaniel, patents of, 482, 490, 498, 613.
Newlin, Nicholas, 483, 490.
Newlin, Thonias, 490.
Newlin, Benjamin, 490.
Newlin, Stephen. 491.
New Sweden, founding of, 4; criminale eent to, 6, 6; affaire in, 274, 279.
Newepapers : The Post-Boy and Upland Union, 382; The Weekly Visitor, 383; The Delaware County Republican, 383 ; Delaware County Democrat, 384; Upland Union and Delaware County Democrat, 384; Democratic Pilot, 384; Delaware County Advocate, 384 ; Daily Herald, 384; Chester Evening Newe, 384; Cheeter Daily Times, 384; The Delaware County Paper, 385 ; Delaware County Gazette, 386; The Weekly Reporter, 385; Chester Business Mirror, 385; The Chariot, 385 ; Chester Herald, 385; Evening Star, 385; Chester Advertiser, 385; The Independent, 385; Delaware County Mail, 386; The Public Prees, 385; Temperance World-Chester World, 385; The Brotherhood, 385; in South Chester, 439; Linwood Times, 473 ; Union
and Delaware County Democrat, 604 ; Dela- ware County American, 604; Delaware County Republican, 604 ; Upland Union, 604 ; Delaware County Record, 604 ; Morton Chron- icle, 725.
Newtown Township, origin of, and name of, 634 ; land titles of, 635; taxablee in, 636; in- cidente of the Revolution in, 636, 637, 638; roads in, 638; murder of Squire Hunter in, 638-640 ; a notable incident in, 640; Blehop Hunter, 640 ; crimee in, 640; societies in, 641 ; Old Newtown Square in, 641 ; Newtown Square in, 641; schools in, 641; Friende' meeting-house in, 642; churches in, 643- 648; mills and industries io, 648; licensed houses in, 649, 650.
Nichole, Col. Richard, 11.
Nill, James, 236. Nixon, Cnl. John, 652.
Norris, Deborah, 353.
Norwood, 743.
North Cheeter, borough of, 442; Shoemakere-
ville, 443; borough officers, 443; Friends' meeting-honee, 443; Baptist Church, 443; echools, 443; Chester Rural Cemetery, 444 ; maille, 445, 446.
Nossiter. Thomas, 652.
Nya Gotheborg. See NEW GOTTENBUNG.
O.
Oakford, Ieaac, 5)9. Oak ford, Aaron. 519.
Oakford, Benjamin, 619.
Oaetler, Richard, 109.
Odd-Fellows, Independent Order of, Benevolent Lodge in Aeton, 305 ; lodges in Chester, 418- 419 ; Media, 607.
Officere of Delaware County, 267; of Chesler, 333, 334.
Ogden, David, 611. Old Assembly House, the, 22.
" Old King," the, 109.
" Omnibne Bank Act," 373. Oosting, Dr. Jan, 254. Oplandt, 327.
Osborne, Antrim, 661.
Owene, Dr. Joshua, 153, 261.
Owene, Dr. Alfred M., 262.
P.
Pancoast, Samuel, 585. Painter, Samuel, 314.
Painter, Mioshall, 611, 666.
Painter, Jacob, 611.
Palmer, Charles, 601. Palmer, Lewis, 501.
Palmer, John, patent of, 483.
Palmer, Samnel, 423.
Paschall, Dr. John, 255.
Pack-horses, 193. Passmore, Everett G., 562.
Psssmore, John, 166.
Parker, Joeeph, 353.
Pappegoya, Lieut. John, 278.
Patente from Governor Richard Lovelace, 505.
Peunell family, 364. Pennell, Jonathan, 330, 364.
Pennell, Robert, 659, 622.
Pennell, William, 622, 625.
Pennell, Abraham, 622.
Pennell, John, 291. Pennell, Edmund, 378. Peace, Dr. Edward, 699. Pearce, George, 239, 702, 703.
Pearson, John, 239. Peterman, David, 587.
Peirce, Henry, 483.
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Peirce, John, 242. Penal code. See LAWS. Pennsylvania Historical Society, celebration by, 414, 415.
Pennsylvania Training-School for Feeble- Minded Children, 625.
Penn, William, great charter granted to, 14, 15; first voyage to his province, 20 ; his land- ing at Upland, now Cheeter, 20; friendlinese of the Swedes to, 21 ; residence of, at Robert Wade's, 22; he calls an election for members of Provincial Council, 25 ; lndian policy of, 25; effect of hie absence from England, 26; troubles of, caused by faction feelings, 29; return to Eogland, 29; his introduction of horses and other animale, 209; brings about valuable changes in laws, 227; his lodging- place in Chester, 328; his plans for laying ont a great town, 328 ; celebration of landing of, 415.
Penn, Thomae, landing of, at Chester, 31 ; road carriage of, 193.
Physicians (see individual names), 253.
Phipps, Elisha, and the "Dusty Miller," 514. Pierson, Thomas, 579. Pierson, John, 519, 635.
Pillory, the, 160.
Piper, Maj. Joseph, 368. Piper, Lient. Ferdinand, 157. Pigeons, plenitude of, 213. Plumstead, Robert, 552.
Porter, David, 357. Porter, William D., 357. Porter, David D., 357.
Porter, Theodoric, 357. Porter, Henry Ogden, 358. Porter, Hamilton, 358. Porter family, 155. Porter (Lloyd) house, 355. Poulson, Moorly, 505. Powel, Thomas P., 500, 653, 667. Population of Delaware County, 757. Pratt, Dr. Davis R., 267. Pratt, Thomas, 632. Preston, Dr. Coates, 266. Preston, Dr. JODA8, 258.
Printz, Governor, beginning of government of, 5; erects mill on Crum Creek in 1643, 6; dif- ficulties of, from encroachments of Dutch, 6; holda court et Tinicom, 217 ; allusions to, 275, 276, 277, 511, 734.
Printz, Armegat, 276, 278, 279. Printz Island, 288. Price, James, 635. Price, Elisha, 240. Privations of early settlers, 179, 180.
Provincial Council, complaint of settlers in Concord to, 482.
Prothonotariee, 267.
Prisoners escaped from jail, 593, 594.
Punishment, 157; of " Long Finn," 158; of horse-thieves by the pillory and by mutila- tion, 160, 161 ; for fornication, 160; for " se- ditions words," 160; by whipping, 161; last case of gibbeting, 163 (note); execution of James Fitzpatrick, 171; execution of Eliza- beth Wilson, 175; corporal punishment, 228. Pugey, Caleb, 426, 429, 610, 619.
Pusey house, the, at Upland, 428.
Pyle, Nicholas, 483. Pyle, Ralph, 485-487. Pyle, Robert, 702. Pyle, John, 710. Pyle, Robert, 306, 307.
Q.
Quarantine station at Tinicom, 283; masters at, 284. Queen'e Highway, 507-509. Quarriee, Ridley, 753. Quarries, Leiper, 753.
R.
Radnor, Township of, 678 ; Radnor road, 678; first white child horn in, 678 ; Friends' meet- ing, 679; taxables in, in 1693, 679 ; preaching by Church of England ministers, 679; early patents, 680 ; incidente of French and Indian war, 680; Revolutionary war, 680; Radnor library, 681 ; project for annexation to Mont- gomery, 681; lyceum, 682; Wayne, town of, 682; mills, 684; Villanova College, 686; Frionds' Meeting, 687; Methodist Episcopal Church, 688; Wayne Presbyterian Church, 690; Baptist Church, 691; Charch of the Good Shepherd, 691; licensed houses, 692; justices of the peace, 695 ; Wootton, country- seat of George W. Childs, 695.
Railroade, the Columbia (now the Pennsyl- vania), the Black Hawk locomotive, the Chester Creek Railroad, and the Philadel- phia and Delaware County Railroad, 197; origin of the bell-cord, 198; companies con- solidated into the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore, 199; Weet Chester and Phila- delphia, 199; Philadelphia and Baltimore Central, 199; Chester and Delaware River, 199,200; street, 409 ; to Upland, 428; Leiper's, 751; Baltimore and Ohio, 756.
Ramey, Lawrence, 701. Recorders of deeds, 267.
Redemptionere, Duke of York's laws concern- ing, 200; first transfer of an indentured ser- vant, 200; Penn's laws concerning, 200; great bodies of mechanics among them, 201 ; illustrations of the indenture eystem, 201; trading in redemptioners becomes a buei- ness, 202; " sonl-drivers," 202.
Reece, Thomas, 244, 607. Reece, Jolın, 635.
Registers of wille, 267.
Removal of county-seat, 756. See COUNTY-SEAT. Republicauism, 409, 410.
Revolutionary war, an inciting cause of, 38; offensive acts by Parliament, 39; moving to- wards the Continental Congress, 39; call to freeholders of Chester County, 39, 40 ; pro- ceedings of meetings, 40; result of meeting of Continental Congrese, 41; Provincial Con- ventioo in Philadelphia, 41; meeting of committee of Chester County, 41 ; position of Society of Friends, 42; obstructing the Dela- ware, 43; galleys built, 43; muskete for Chester County, 44; activity of Pruvincial au- thority, 44; troops under Col. Miles assemble at the towo of Chester and at Marcus Hook, 45; powder mill built on Crum Creek, 46; the Declaration of Independence, 47, 48 ; local anxiety ond military movements, 48; women in Chester Conuty take the place of men at the plows, 49; movements of Washington's army, and effect of its retreat, 49, 50; Robert Smith, lieutenant of Chester County, reports that the county contains five thousand men capable of bearing arms, 51 ; camp established at Chester, 61; preparations for the defense of Philadelphia, 52, 53; change of Howe'e plans leads to the battle of the Brandywine, 56; the British invade Chester County, 57; Justice Thomas Cheyney's valuable aid to Washington, 68; strategic movements of the
two armies, 60, 61 ; the wounding of Lafayette, 62; judgment of the fighting of the Ameri- cans, 63; retreat of the army into Chester, 64; a Quaker's services under compulsion, 64 ; Washington's letter to Congress, 64 ; succeed- ing and successful movements of Washing- ton's army, 65; the Chester County Dra- goone, 66; "foraging towards Darby," 66; reported assistance to the enemy by the people of Chester County, 67; scarcity of food, 69; " collecting," front the Friends and others, alleged to have aided the British, 69; the case of John Jamee, loyalist, 69; Corn- wallis' expedition againet Red Bank, 70; Gen. Howe's forces in Chester County, 71; David Conpland, 72; local affaire in what ie now Delaware County, 72; those who were called traitors, 73; close of the war, 76; chaoge of the country from a warlike to a peaceful condition, 77; Lord Cornwallis in Aston, 291; damagee caused by British soldiers, 292; the armies at Chad's Ford, 314 ; alleged death of a descendant of the Earl of Percy at the Brandywine, 317; Brandywine battle-field visited by Lafayette, 321 ; damage to the Richardeon honse, memento of, 371 ; depredations by British soldiers in Chester township, 426 ; stones removed from Chester mille by order of Washington, 430; Radnor men in war, 680; skirmishes in Radnor, 681; Frieods' meeting-house in Concord, used in, 484 ; damages iu Concord, 487; in- cidents of, in Darby, 510; letter of Gen. Howe on operations In Darby, 511; dam- ages in Darby, 511; incidents of Samuel Levis in, 633; damages by the British in Edgmont, 554, 555; incidente of, in Haver- ford, 568; damagee by Britieh in, 580 ; inci- dents of, in Marple, 585; incidents of, in Newtown, 636-638; in Nether Providence, 654; in Springfield, 715.
Rhoads, Joseph, 579. Rhoads, John, 579. Rhodes, John B., 294, 621.
Rhoads, William, 651. Richardeon, Francie, 330, 370, 371 (note).
Riddle, Samuel, 623, 723.
Ridley Township, origin of and name of, 734; early settlements of, 734-736; bridges, 736; Amoelaod road, 737; the Revolution in, 737 ; taxables in, 738 ; justices of the peace in, 739; churches in, 739; schools in, 739, 741 ; Crosby Forge, 741; licensed houses, 743 ; suburban parke, 746 ; Norwood, 746; Ridley Park, 743; churches in, 747, 748 ; Ridley Park Seminary 748; Knights Templar encampment, 748; Prospect Park, 748 ; Prospect Methodist Epis- copal Church, 748; The Plow Tavern, 748, 749 ; Leiperville Mills, 749 ; Peter Hill, or Heck- man's, 749 ; Eddystone Manufacturing Com- pany, 750 ; Leiper'e Railroad, 751; Leiper's Canal, 752 ; Ridley quarries, 753; Moore's Sta- tion, 753 ; Leipersville, 753; the Battle-Axes, 764 ; crimes, 754 ; interesting incidents, 754. Riley, Richard, 240.
Rising, John Clandina (Vice-Governor), 7, 278. Roach, John, Sr., 389. Roads, John, 532, 533.
Roade, early, cost of maintaining toll-gates upon, 83 ; description of first ones, 193; post- road in 1797, 194; from Chichester to Aston, 291 ; from Aston to Edgmont, 291 ; from Bethel to Chichester (Marcus Hook), 30G ; from Provi- dence to Chester, 424 ; the King's Highway, 435; in Concord, 482, 487; in Darby, 507; in Edgmont, 553; in Marple, 679; in Newtown, 638; Radoor road, 678; in Thornbury, 704.
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Robinson, Thomas, 362. Robinett, Allan, 666, 669. Roche, Dr. M. B., 266. Rochford, Dennis, 483. Rockland Manor lands, 482.
Rolling-mills, Sarım or Taylor's, 706-709 ; Ed- warda', 709; Bishop'a, 670 ; Harlan & Co., or Johnson's, 659; Dobson'a (copper), 620; Moore's, 621.
· Rose, Dr. David, 259. Ross, John, 235.
Roster of civil officials of county, 267; of Ches- ter, 333, 334.
S.
Salkeld, John, 362. Sandelanda family, 368. Sandelanda honas, 363. "Sandy Flash," 166. Sayers, Dr. Caleb Smith, 258, 472. Schanlan's tavern, 372.
Schools, at Tinicum, 286; in Aston, 298-300; in Birmingham, 320; in Chester City, 348; Pennsylvania Military Academy, 350; Ches- ter Academy, 351; in Chester Township, 427; in Upland, 432 ; Crozer Theological Seminary at Upland, 433; in South Chester Borough, 438; in North Chester, 443; in Upper Chi- chester, 452 ; in Lower Chichester, 464; in Radnor, 665; in Concord, 487 ; in Darby, 513, 519; in Upper Darby, 534; in Edgmont, 556; in Haverford, 568, 572; in Marple, 582; in Media, 600; in Middletown, 617; in New- town, 641; in Nether Providence, 656; in Upper Providence, 668; in Radnor, 685 ; Villa- nova College, in Radnor, 668; in Thornbury, 705; in Springfield, 718; in Ridley, 739.
Seal, William, 634.
Sellera, Samuel, marriage of, 532, 547. Sellers, John, 536, 546-548. Sellers, Coleman, 546. Sellars, Nathan, 546, 547. Sellera, David, 546, 547. Sellera, George, 547, 550.
Sellers, William, 547. Sellers, Capt. Edward, 144.
Serrill, Capt. James (war of 1812), 90.
Secret societies, miscellaneous, in Aston, 305;
K. of P. in Bethel, 310; in Cheater, 417, 422; K. of P. in Upland, 435 ; Evening Star Lodge in Upper Chichester, 455 ; in Lower Chiches- ter, 472; in Darby Borough, 531 ; in Upper Darby, 551; in Media, 607; in Middletown, 631; in Newtown, 641 ; in Nether Provi- dence, 665 ; in Upper Providence, 675.
Senators, State, 274. Serrill, Capt. James, 531. Serrill, James, 611.
Settlements, early, In Delaware County, 2 ; by Dutch, 3, 5 ; first, by Friends, 13. Sharplese, Abraham, 490, 491, 622. Sharpless, John, 611, 620, 653, 654. Sharplesa, Joseph, 611. Sharpleas, Nathan, 622. Sharplesa, Joal, 633. Sharplesa, Daniel, 658, 663. Sharplese, Enos, 658. Sharpless, John M., 658. Sharplesa, Nathaniel, 663. Sharpless Bi-centennial, 653. Sharon Hill Academy, 521. Shaw, Esrey & Co., 445. Shaw, Hugh, 446. Sheriffs, 268. Shoemakerville, 443. Shortlidge Academy, 601.
INDEX.
Sickness, yellow fever in 1699, 29 ; general, in 1748, 33; yellow fever, 83; yellow fever in 1798, 84; various diseases, 253.
Siddons, Willianı, 359. Simcock, John, 702, 734.
Slaves, first on nur shorea, 200; the Frienda utter their now famons protest against slavery, 202, 203; spread of the feeling against alave-owning, 203; slaves mann- mitted, 203 ; law for the gradnal abolition of slavery, 203 ; list of slavea in Delaware County in 1780, 204; laat alave in county, 205; kid- napping, 206 ; slavery agitation, 484.
Smedley, George, 611.
Smedley, Jacob, 561.
Smedley, Samuel L., 561.
Smedley, William, 561.
Smith, John, 506.
Smith, William, 506, 507, 532.
Smith, Thomas, 506.
Smith, Dr. George, 261, 516, 553. Smith, George, 243.
Smith, Bartine, 244.
Smith, Dr. John, 257. Sneath's Cornera, 424. Sneath, George, 424.
Sociability in early days, 181.
South Chester, Borongh of, 435; land titles, 435 ; the Lawe, Ashmead, and Flickwir farma, 436; Thurlow, 436: John J. Thurlow, 436; William H. Green, 437; Vulcan Worka, 437; Auvergne Mills, 437, 440; Lamokin, 438; officera Df, 438 ; schools, 438; Felton Fira Company, 439; Dewapapers, 439; churches, 439, 440; manufacturea, 440-442.
Springfield Township, origin of and name of, 713; description of, 713; land titlea, 713; Swarthmore College, 713, 719-723; township lines, 715; taxablas in, 715; incidents of Revolution in, 715; Friends' meeting-honse in, 716 ; jnatices of the peace in, 716; Lownes Free Church in, 717; incident of Benjamin Weat in, 717; schoola in, 718 ; mille in, 723; Oakdale, 724 ; Morton, 724; Kedron Metho- dist Episcopal Church, 725; Church of the Atonement, 725; Morton Chronicle, 725; birthplace of Benjamin West, 725-727; Penna- dale farm, 727 ; birthplace of J. Edgar Thom- aon, 727-729 ; licensed houses, 729-731 ; Spring- field Free Fountain Society, 732; laat of the Indians, 732 ; remarkable bequest, 732.
Spanish privateers on the. Delaware, 33; two regiments of Associators organized to reciat, in Chester County, 33.
Stacey house, 370.
Stille, Oloff, 734, 750. St. Michael's Cemetery, 756.
Stacey, Maj. H., 155. Stages, 193-195.
State Senate, members of, 274.
Steel, James, 518. Steel, Thomas, 518, 519, 548.
Stetaun, Capt. Elisha, 154.
Steamboat Hotel, 370.
Stiddem, Dr. Timothy, 254 (also note). Story of Kennett, 166. Stoop, Capt. Henry, 511. Storma, 105-107. See also FRESHETS. Street railroada, 409.
Stuyvesant, Governor, 278. Swaffer, William, 654. Swarthmore College, 719. Swaffer, James, 666, 670, 672.
Swedish exploration of Delaware Bay and River, 3.
Swedea' mill, 517.
Swedish settlementa, 505, 506.
T.
Taylor, Bayard, 166. Taylor, Christopher, 281. Taylor, Dr. Israel, 281. Taylor, Joseph, 281, 423. Taylor, John, 610, 702, 706, 707. Taylor, William, 507, 587, 666. Taylor, Peter, 666.
Taylor, Thomas, 234.
Talbot, Joseph, 611, 624, 628. Talley, Capt. William Cooper, 120. Tasker, Thomas T., 754. Taverne, customs at, 189.
Temperance reform, origin of, 190; Delaware Connty Temperance Society, 190; license question a political issnø, 191.
Temperance struggle, 595.
Ten-honr movement, the, 108 ; meeting in favor of, 109 ; law for, passed, 110; adjustment of difficulties, 112; B. F. Butler'a connection therewith, 112.
Tilghman, William, 234. Terrill honae, 360.
Terrill, Dr. J. H., 259.
Tinicum, settlement of, 5, 275; fort at, 9, 275 ; conrt held at, 217; first burial at, 275; Swedea' Church at, 276, 277; graveyard at, 275, 277 ; Governor Printz, 277 ; patent isaued for, 279; island aold to Otto Earneat Cock, 279; contest for possession of, 280; deeded to the Taylors, 261 ; sketch of the Tinicum Fish- ing Company case, 281, 282; sicklineas of Tinicum, 282; meadows reclaimed, 262; Quarantine Station, 283; mastera of, 284; Lazaretto, 284; fox-hunting, 284 ; mordere and suicides at Tinicum, 285 ; the island made a distinct township, 286; achoola, 286; school directora, 286; islanda adjacent to Tinicum, 286 ; adjustment of State ownership, 287 ; Hog Island, 287; licensed houses in Tinicom, 289, 290.
Thatcher, Adjt. G. B., 154. Thatcher, Garrett, 712.
Thomas, Jonathan, 634.
Thomas, Samuel B., 250.
Thomas, William, 635.
Thomas, Thomas, 635. Thomas, George, 635.
Thompson, Charles, 366.
Thomson, John Edgar, 559, 727, 728, 729.
Thornbury Township, origin of, and name, 702 ; petition against attachment to Delaware County, 702; land titles in, 702; damagea by the British in, 703; roada io, 704; tax- ables ia, 704; justices of the peace in, 704; churches in, 704, 705; schools in, 705, 706; milla in, 707, 710; licensed houses in, 710; relice of firat settlers in, 710; Thornton, 709. Thurlow, John J., 436.
Thurlow Station, 436.
Tobin, Dr. Jacole, 259.
Tomahawk, origin of the nama, 21 (nota). Tornadoes, 106, 107.
Townships and boroughs : Tinicnm, 275; Acton, 290 ; Bethel, 305; Birmingham, 311 ; Cheater City, 327; Upland Borough, 427; South Chester Borough, 435; North Borongh, 442 ; Upper Chichester, 448; Lower Chichester, 455; Concord, 482; Darby, 505; Darby Bor- ough, 515; Upper Darby, 531; Edgmont, 553; Haverford, 563; Marple, 579; Media Borough, 587; Middletown, 610; Newtown, 634 ; Nether Providence, 652 ; Upper Provi- dence, 666; Radnor, 678; Thornbury, 702; Springfield, 713; Ridley, 734.
Transportation, 192. See TRAVELING, also ROADS and RAILROADS.
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Traveling, early laws concerning, 192 ; upon horseback, 192: one carriage in Delaware County, 193; Penn's carriage, 193; stages across New Jersey, 193 ; stages from Phila- delphia to Chester, 194, 195; travel on the Delaware, 196; by railroad, 197; first loco- motive on Columbis Railroad, 197. See RAIL- ROADS.
Trials, first, on Delaware, 157 (note) ; first, for homicide in county, 162 ; second, for murder, 163; trial of John and Walter Winter and Morgan Herbert for Indian murders, 164 ; of Elizabeth Wilson for murder of her babes, 173 ; various abortive trials, 176; trials for witchcraft, 229; of James Annesley, 453; Henry Renolds vs. Justa Anderson, 456, 457 ; of John Martin, 457.
Trainer, David, 470. Trainer, William, 481. Trego, Peter, 611. Treasurers, county, 270. Trimble, Williamı, 490. Trueman, Morris, 542. Turner, John, 611. Tutæsenaugh. See TINICUM. Tyler, Hugh Low, 677. Tyson, Jonathan, 620. Tyson, Elijah, 620.
U.
Upland, 12, 15, 17, 20, 21, 23, 24.
Upland, Borough of, 427 ; boundaries, 427, 428 ; Pusey house, 428; Chester Mills, 429; stones removed from mills by Washington's orders, 430; Joho P. Crozer, 431; schools, 432; Baptist Church, 433; Crozer Theological Semiusry, 433; army hospital at, 433, 434 ; Pearl Hall, 434.
Upper Chichester Township, 448; early settlers in, 448, 449; taxables in 1799, 449; division of township, 449; Chichester Meeting, 450; Upper Chichester, 451; schools, 452; James Annesley, 453; mills, 455 ; secret society, 455. Upper Darby Towoship, origin of, 531; land titles and patents, 532; incident of Samuel Levis in, 533; taxables in, 533; justices of the pesce for, 534; schools in, 534; churches in, 535, 636, 551 ; Burd Orphan Asylum in, 537; Burn Brae in, 537; licensed houses in, 538; the Bonsall murder in, 539; the Clay murder in, 541 ; mills iu, 541-551 ; Fernwood in, 550; Abolition Society in, 551 ; Friends' graveyard in, 551 ; first use of gas in, 551 ; crimes, 652; remarkable instances of longevity, 652; so- cietles, 551, 552.
Upper Providence, origin of, 666; laud titles, 666; taxables in, 667; justices of the peace, 667 ; schools in, 668; mille, 668-673 ; licensed houses in, 673; Delaware County Institute of Science in, 674; library at Bishop's Mill, 674; deaths by lightning in, 675; noticeable
incidents in, 675; societies in, 675 ; first coal used in the State, 671.
Urian family, incident of, 511.
Usselinck, William, 3.
V.
Van Culin, Geo., 735.
Van Leer, Dr. Bernhard, 256, 579, 580.
Van Leer, Dr. Branson, 256.
Van Leer, Dr. Richard, 256.
Van Leer, Dr. Benjamin, 256.
Van Rosenberg, Dr. William, 254.
Van Vliet, Cornelius, 4. Vernon, Robert, 653.
Vernon, Randall, 653.
Vernon, Nathaniel, 654.
Vernon, William, 659.
Vernon, Randolph, 702.
Vessels, first, on Delaware, 2; first constructed
in Pennsylvania, 276; captures of, on Dela- ware by French, 33; Spanish privateers, 33; "Chester Planter," "John Wall," the "Ches- ter," Electric Line, 196; later steamers, 197 ; built at Marcus Hook, 459.
Villanova College, 686.
W.
War of 1812, attitude of Democrats and Fed- eralists in, 86; blocksde of the Delsware, 87; organization of the militia in Delaware County, 87 ; fortifications erected at Marcus Hook, 88; drafted troops, 89; the Mifflin Guards, 89, 90; Delaware County Fsncibles, 90; Capt. Morgan's company, 90; other ros- ters, 91 ; soldiers of, at Marcus Hook, 469. Ward Academy, 489. Wade, Robert, 13, 14, 22.
Washington house, 367; a frequent stopping- place of the general's, 367.
Walter, Young S., 383.
Ward, William, 423.
Water-works at Chester, 408.
Wayne, Elizabeth, 643.
Wayne, Gen. Anthony, 40, 43 ; letter of, 43, 44 ; promotion of, to brigadier-general, 51 (also note) ; at the battle of Brandywine, 62; men- tion of, 469 (note) ; burial-place of, 643.
Wars, Freuch and Indian, 34. See also REVO- LUTIONARY WAR, WAR OF 1812, CIVIL WAR, etc.
Wayne, town of, 682.
Weddings. See MARRIAGES.
Webb, James Watson, 478.
Webster, Joseph, 713.
Wetherby, Capt. Benjamin (war of 1812), 91.
West, Beojamin, 431, 579, 726, 727. West, John, 649.
Welsh settlers, resistance of to tax measures in Chester County, 27.
Welsh tract, 564-566.
West India Company formed in Holland, 2; Swedish West Indian Company, 3.
Whiskey Insurrection, soldiers sent from Dela- ware County to Western Pennsylvania to repress, 85. Whitefield, George, 330, 507.
Whitely, Bros. & Co., 546. Willcox family, 491.
Willcox, Thomas, 492. Willcox, James, 492, 669.
Willcox, Mark, 241, 492, 669.
Willcox, Joseph, 494.
Willcox, James M., 495. Wiltbaks, John, 546. Williamson, Dr. Walter, 266.
Williamson, Daniel, 635.
Williamson, Charles R., 244.
Wilson, Elizabeth, 171.
Wilson, William, 174. Wilson, Bird, 234.
Wilson, Dr. James, 260. Wild animals, 211, 214.
Witchcraft, trial for, 229.
Witch of Ridley Creek, 181.
Wolves, various early laws for their extermi- nation, 212; professional wolf-hunters, 213.
Worrall, Jacob, 755.
Worrell, David, 733.
Worrell, William, 508, 735.
Worrell, Joha, 553, 558, 579, 610, 624, 667.
Worrell, John, 702.
Worrell, Joseph, 579.
Worrell, Peter, 579, 580, 666. Worrell, Joshua, 580.
Wood, Joseph, 506, 507, 517.
Wood, William, 517, 532, 635.
Wood, George, 532, 635.
Wolfsnden, Shore & Co., 546.
Woodward, Richard, 610.
Woodmansey, William, 290.
Woolman, Gilbert, 291.
Woodcock, Capt. John, 150.
Worrall, Dr. John, 256.
Worth, Thomas, 505, 506, 507.
Women, duties of, among early settlers, 180.
Y.
Yarnall, Philip, 558, 670.
Yarnall, Lieut. John Joliff, 559.
Yarnall, Professor Mordecai, 569.
Yarnall, John, 559.
Yarnall, Thomas, 617. Yarnall, Dr. Peter, 257. Yarnall, Capt. N. L., 137.
Yeates family, 353.
Yeates, Jasper, 330, 508, 625.
Yearsley, Nathan, 624.
Young, Dr. Jesse, 259.
Z
Zeilin, John K., 250.
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