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June 24TH, 1873. May i6th, 1877. May i8th, 1877.
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the favorite style of church architec¬ ture of the early part of the eighteenth century. In 1732 William Lane, a sou of Ed¬ ward Lave, who had founded the ! settlements of that vicinity, died. By his will St. James’ church acquired 42 acres of land “for the use of suc¬ cessive ministers forever.” This gift has ever since proved of valuable ser¬ vice in sustaining the church. In 1738 robbers entered the church and stole the pulpit cloth and cushions,' a pewter communion service and a baptism basin.
im ' ■ 11 In 1777, after the battle of German¬ town, the Continental army, on its re¬ AN HISTORIC CHURCH. ^ treat up the Germantown pike, con¬ Visits to an Ancient Edifice Near tin Per- i verted the church into a hospital. kiomen Hridge. j Over a hundred men died there and At Evansburg, along the German¬ were buried in the adjoining cemetery. In 1788 the parish was incorporated town turnpike in Montgomery county, ; under the laws of the state. Rev. a short distance east of the Perkiomen 1 Slator Clay was then rector, serving , bridge, and about six miles from Phoe- also for St. David’s, Radnor, St. I nixville, is an ancient church site that Peter’s, Great Valley, and Swedes’ is fast closing the second century of its history church. Upper Merion. Mr. Clay was rector for 30 years. In 1701 there was founded in Eng- i The present parsonage was built in land the “Society fir the propagation ! 1799, additions being made from time of the Gospel in foreign parts.” This! to time. The corner stone of t he pres was the first Protestant missionary So¬ ent church building was laid in Au ciety. It soon established missions in gust 1843. The old church was torn Eastern Pennsylvania, and amnog down, and the stones used in building them being one in the Perkiomen Val the new structure. On March 25, 1844, ley, where St. James’ church is now the church was consecrated by Bishop located. For a number of years fol¬ Henry Guderbund. lowing, the rector of Christ church, Rev. A. S. Barrow, the present Philadelphia, served the missions at rector, assumed charge on May 1, 1890. Whitemarsh, Perkiomen and Radnor, At present, in addition to the morn¬ under the direction of the missionary society. ing services at St. James’, Mr. Bar- row also holds services every Sunday In 1721 the mission at Perkiomen was organized into a parish, and evening at Royersford. house of worship was erected, latter stood in the cemetery opposite the present church. This old struc¬ ture is described as having been a quaint and curious edifice, one story • From,.C high, with a shed roof in front over the entrance door, sashed windows on each side, two end ones and one high Crv-rfC/r-_ / . i UP in the gable. The glass of the ^^ 6 K [A windows was in diamond shaped panes, set in leaden sash impor ed > / from England. The date stone of this s Bate, .^
church is now placed under the pres¬ L * ent tower. It bears the inscription, “J. S and J. P. Church Wardens.” The initials represent )»he names of James Shannon and James Pawling, who were early members of the well known families of those names. THE MASSACRE AT PAOLI It is said that when in 1742 the Augustus Lutheran congregation, at Trappe, decided to erect a church, A CRUEL HESSIAN SLAUGHTER OF they sent a committee to inspect St. James’, and so well pleased with the THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION. building were the Lutherans that they ’ decided to model their new structure after the plans of St. James. The old Tow Gen. Anthony Wayne’s Conti¬ Trappe church, now still standing, ! therefore, in a measure, represents nental Troops Were the Victims of a Midnight Surprise After the
Battle of Brandywine—Cut Down by a Force Double in Numbers and with Advantage of Position—
Monument to the Slain.
OXFORD, Penn., Aug. 29.—Of all the sig¬ nificant expressions issuing from the Revo¬ lutionary /Struggle, not one has been handed down that conveys so much meaning as “Remember Paoll! ” The one4hundred and nineteenth anniversary of the massacre at Paoli will be celebrated on Sept. 19, as the correct date of the anniversary falls this year on Sunday, Sept. 20. The commemo¬ rative programme will embrace speeches, martial movements, and patriotic exercises. The occurrences between the Battle of the Brandywine, on Sept. 11, 1777, and the mas¬ sacre at Paoli, nine days later, are as fol¬ lows: After the battle, the American Army moved out of the Valley of the Brandy¬ wine. The portion of the army under Gen. Anthony Wayne was oVdered by Washing¬ ton to lead the advance and open battle on the morning of Sept. 16, which seemed Im¬ minent in the neighborhood of Goshen Meeting House, Chester County. The ad¬ third Continentals. vance force under Wayne, and Lord Corn¬ Massacred at Paoli, Penn., on the Night of September, 20, 1777. wallis’s light infantry, began skirmishing and a conflict would probably have fol¬ T'acii monument, and about‘four files’back lowed but for a violent rainstorm. of Howe's men. It is probable Wayne was The Continental Commander ordered his especially selected by Washington for this 'forces to the elevations of Great Valley, work, as he was well acquainted with the north of the road from Lancaster to Phila¬ neighborhood, his home being but afew miles delphia, remaining until about 4 o'clock in itway. On the following day Wayne noted the afternoon, awaiting the advance of the the movements of the British. That morn- British. During the storm, which continued ing, as the enemy was beating the reveille, for hours, Cornwallis’sirten encamped along Wayne s men advanced within half a mile, South Valley Hill and vicinity, Gen. oi the British camp, arid found they haa Howe’s headquarters being at the Boat rnov®cl- During'the morning Wayne Tavern and- Lora cornwaiiis s at a farm¬ addressed a number of letters to Washin=r- house near by. The same afternoon the tori, in which he staled the " enemy are Americans moved northward to Yellow qcle,t; vvashing and cooking. 'They will probably attempt to move toward even- Springs. At that point the discovery was ing. 1 expect Gen. Maxwell on the left made that the army was unconditioned to flank every moment, and as I lay on their iignt,, we only want you in their rear to fight, the rain having damaged its am¬ complete Mr. Howe's business. I believe be munition. Next day the march was con¬ knows nothing of my situation, as I have tinued to Warwick Furnace, in the northern taken every precaution to prevent any in¬ telligence getting to him, at the same time part of Chester County, where a fresh sup¬ ply of arms and ammunition was secured, andPre°ara”WatCh£Ul 65 E °n his front- hanks, the furnace being used as an ordnance sta¬ rXb^Bfi-Sh aid not move' but Wayne re- 1ie of his neighbors—he bad been taken prisoner by the British and side. liberated—had heard Howe’s mea talk of an The ISth of September found Wayne en¬ attack that would be made upon the Con¬ camped near the spot now marked by the tinentals before morning. Wayne acted Im¬ mediately by strengthening and Renewing -- , Iningr in strong;Jhcuw that bmallwood's arrival would streju£tfien
atWMeeK.m»»etl,lSt- Washington's «_ oTounds ill our territory. It extends i from Merion meeting, up the old road to the neighborhood of ynuewood. It is our duty to mark this spot. It 1 we do not the Sons of the Revolution in tv do it,’ as they have marked Queen Lane and the Gulph Mill. Phe ^lont- i t'omerv County . Historical Society has | jurt marked Lafayette’s encampment at Barren Hill, the eastern side ot ms crossing. At some future time we should mark the western .side. Also, the Black Horse and the site of General 1 otter encampment. e 'Hie question before us is, can yy the .British landed at the head of Elk j rear our memorial 'on September H, the llUth anniversary of the encampment? River and threatened to march up to Philadelphia, through Chester County, j Mr. and Mrs. Samuel R. McDowell have the Pennsylvania militia was immediate- j already tendered us the ground. The nigl\t of September 14 is be- ;ly called out to aid Washington. It will ! lievpd, to have been one of the occasions be remembered from Lieutenant .Tames when Washington slept at the General MeMlehael’-s diary that Washington Wayne, marched from Philadelphia down the It is known that he and Lafayette Darby road, thence through Chester, to meet the British. At Chester he was slept and dined here on more than one occasion. But, so far as your historian joined by the Pennsylvania militia or a portion thereof. This body of patriots, is yet aware, this is the only exact date that we have of -Washington's sojourn. who have never yet had justice done them, took part in the battles of Brandy¬ It is said that Washington also slept wine and Germantown. one night in the sexton’s house below We already know the movements of the General Wayne, built lGi)r>, the same ’ Washington’s main army after these bat¬ | year as the Meeting House. Since tles. but what became of the militia? , (Morion Chapter held the "National From General Potter’s own letters ; Blower Tea” in the old stone house last and from other sources we know that ! spring-, your historian has endeavored to j General Potter and his men spent a I approximate a date—and with some de¬ great part of the autumn and winter gree of success, (1777-78) in Lower Merion. checking the We hwftw that General Potter, with ravages of Lord Cornwallis and heading his militia, occupied. Lower Merion, in off his efforts to attack Washington in the autumn and winter of 1777-7S, for I Chester, County. A camp ground, with j i the purpose of protecting the neighbor- j ditches and embankments, means a pro¬ ! hood from the ravages of the British tracted stay. Ijwho were occupying Philadelphia. We According io Mr, Enochs, there is a 1 remember fbht Col. Edward Heston was local tradition in the neighborhood to the h rewavdcd for aiding General Potter, effect, that the patriots who encamped jj Now, the “Colonial Records” state that on Mill Creek reached the spot by cross¬ " Col. Heston's services extended from ing the Schuylkill at Laurel Hill, pass¬ I! November 14, 1777, to January 3, 1778. ing up the Old For! road to Bowman’s The skirmishing at the Black Horse, bridge, thence out the old Lancaster road which was continued up through Merion b> the old Gulpli road, and along the J to the Gulpli, began December H. 1777. Gulph road to the creek. This seems > This was about the time when Col. Hes- probable. We know, from Scliarf and ]| ton warned Geneva! Potter of the ap¬ Westcott’s “History of Philadelphia,” proach of Cornwallis,. Heston's obituary, that as soon as the news of Howe’s land¬ j published in the Saturday Evening Post, ing at Elk reached Philadelphia the j February 21, 1824, says that Col. Hes¬ Philadelphia militia was set to guard ton, on'his return homeward, after the fords on the Schuylkill. ’’Robin warning General Potter, met W ashing- Hood” ford,” between Central and South ton. Laurel Hill, was one of these. When From Lieutenant McMichael’s diary Washington’s army passed this locality we find that Washington’s army was on September 13 it is easy to believe encamped at White Marsh from No¬ that the Pennsylvania militia may have vember 2 to November 20. On Novem¬ l\lriled off here and gone up through ber 11, McMichael records, “to attack Blockley and Me no ip rebelling tne vicini¬ the enemy was pur sole relief.” He ■ ty of Merion Meeting about the same does not say what enemy nor where. On time that Washington did. it may have the 20th, tile patriot army went to New been the design ot General Potter to pre¬ | Jersey, hut came back to White Marsh vent any attack on Washington's main r on the 28th. where they remained until army, by way of Merion. j December 12. when they crossed the Mr. Enochs also tells us that the patri¬ Schuylkill and proceeded to the Gulpli. ots encamped on the Register place, that On December p. General Potter defeat¬ is, the old Croft place, in order to be near ed a foraging party at Chestnut Hill. the. water, and near the grist mill, ft Now, it will be seen that through a was in the effort to destroy tne patriots jj great part' of November and December, in the immediate neighuorhood that Washington's main army was near at John Roberts, the Tory, ground glass in hand at White Nfay«h, during which the Hour. \Y e will not presume to set¬ time General Potter defeated detach- I tle the much-discussed question as to ; ment.s qf Ooruwatiis’ troops, on several whetner or not he was guilty—we only ; occasions. It is therefore probable that know the story of tile old mill. It Mis Washington may have slept in this imme¬ never been denied, however, that John diate neighborhood in November or De¬ KoPerts was accused of acting as a guide cember of 1777, particularly if be had to Gornwallis, and piloting him along private business with General Potter. this old Gulpn road, trorn tne Price man¬ From Mr, Enoch Enochs, of Ardmore, sion (now tile Brookhurst inn) to the your historian has reason to believe that neigiiuorhood of General Potter s camp¬ General Potter was encamped for a time ground, a few weeks after W ashington near Mill Creek, on the hill above the mid encamped near Merion Meeting. i Kettle Mill, The embankments and Cornwallis made tne Price mansion ms trenches may still be seen. headquarters. From the Pennsylvania Archives we * From General Potter’s letter to the Su¬ I learn that General James Potter was the preme Executive Council, dated l.)eceni¬ commander of the Pennsylvania militia ne r Id, L7 i i, we learn that on December in the year 1777; also, that a portion of it. Hie dale of 1 lie skirmish, beginning at the Pennsylvania militia was encamped me tilaek Horse, the General was en- I at Chester as eayly as May, 1777, Wheii_ camiH'd noiir "Cimrlcs Tlimnsou’s place.’ and patriotic exercises. aCTange_ i.lie in 11 above the Kettle mill would be raents are in charge of Battery 0, and near enough to suit the tacts. readers of the Republican are ac it it was not then actually a part of quainted with them. At this time, an the GLamton property the probabilities account of the reasons wny Paoli day are that General t'otter would name his is celebrated, may be of interest. camp trom tile nearest prominent house. PROM BRANDYWINE TO PAOLI. A mile, in military parlance, is nothing, this is the opinion of Mr. George YV. The occurrences between the Battle Hanock, of Merion, who is familiar with of the Brandywine, on September 11, the early land titles. 1777 and the massacre at Paoli, nine | Gy December 16 General Potter had days later, are as follows : After the moved up into. Ciiester County. Gut we battle, the American Army moved out know that he had already remained of the Valley of the Brandywine. The some time in Merion. Pie had conducted a slcilllful skirmish against the enemy at portion of the army under Gen. An¬ Chestnut Kill, on Kecember 5, before thony Wayne was ordered by Wash¬ the skirmish at the Black Horse. De¬ ington to lead the advance and open cember 11, may be accepted as the prob¬ battle on the morning of September 16, able date when he was warned by Col¬ which seemed imminent in the neigh¬ onel Heston. The latter’s obituary says borhood of Goshen Meeting House, that on his return he met Washington Chester county. The advance force “crossing the bridge.” From. Lieutenant under Wayne, and Lord Cornwallis’s James McMiehae! s diary it would seem light infantry, began skirmishing and that this was the temporary bridge at a conflict would probably have fol Swedes’ Ford, which Washington cross¬ ed December 12 on his way to the | lowed but for a violent rainstorm Gulph Mill, where he encamped a week I CHESTER SPRINGS AND WARWICK. I before proceeding to. Valley Forge. The Continental Commander order¬ Those of us who entered Merion Chap¬ ed his forces to the elevations of Great ter on the strength of our ancestors’ services in the Pennsylvania militia may Valley, north of the road from Lan¬ now have the satisfaction of knowing caster to Philadelphia, remaining un¬ where they encamped, and of tracing til about 4 o’clock in the afternoon1 their movements, over our own home ter¬ awaiting the advance of the British. ritory. Every foot of it is sacred soil. During the storm, which continued We should not go far wrong if we dotted for hours, Cornwallis’s men encamped) the whole township with memorial stones along South Valley Hill and vicinity, and erected a granite pillar in the centre Gen. Howe’s headquarters being at the of every acre. All Lower Merion is one Boat Tavern and Lord Cornwallis s at great camp ground. M. B. H. a farm house near by. The same afternoon the Americans moved northward to Yellow Springs. At that point the discovery was made that the army was unconditioned to From,C /U L' fight, the rain having damaged its ammunition. Next day the march was continued to Warwick Furnace, (A- in’the northern part of Chester County where a fresh supply of arms and am¬ munition was secured, the furnace being used as an ordinance station. Date, J While there Gen. Wayne was ordered with his division, about 1,500 men and four cannons, to join Gen. Smallwood, in command of the Maryland soldiers, whose position was at that time back “REMEMBER PA0LI-” of the British. Wayne and bis com¬ WHY SEPTEMBER 20TH IS ALWAYS mand started on the mission, having orders to cut off the enemy’s baggage KNOWN AS “PAOLI DAY.” train, and thus interfere with his Story of the Events That Led Dp to I the march toward Schuylkill Valley, thns Mass'* ore at Paoli on September affording the Continentals time to 20th, 1777. cross the river and march down the Of all the significant expressions is¬ other side. suing from the Revolutionary struggle, WAYNE AT PAOLI. not one has been handed down that The 18th of September found Wayne conveys so much meaning as “Re¬ encamped near the spot now marked member Paoli !” The one hundred by tbe Paoli monument, and about and nineteenth anniversary of the four miles back of Howe’s men. It is massacre at Paoli will be celebrated probable Wayne was especially selec¬ on September 19, as the correct date ted by Washington for this work, as he falls this year on Sunday, September was well acquainted with the neigh¬ 20 The commemorative program will borhood, his home being but a few embrace speeches, martial movements miles away. On the following day Wayne noted the movements of the 7
wheeled, the artillery moved off, but I British. That morning, as the enemy by some mistake by Col. Humpton the ! was beating the reveille, Wayne’s troops failed to move, although three men advanced within half amile of the orders had been issued. Fart of the British camp, and found they had not troops went right, others wrong, and moved. During the morning Wayne they showed up within the light of addressed a number of letters to Wash their camp fire, affording the British ington, in which he stated the “enemy an advantage unexpected. After mid¬ are very quiet, washing and cook¬ night, Gen. Grey—known as “No Flint ing. They will probably attempt to General,” by ordering his men to re¬ move toward evening. I expect Geu. move flints from their guns, that not a Maxwell on the left flank every mo¬ shot should be flred-gained Gen. ment, and as I lay on their right, we Wayne’s left. only want you in their rear to com¬ THE MASSACRE. plete Mr. Howe’s business. I believe i he knows nothing of my situation, as Rallied by their gallant leader, the I have taken every precuation to pre¬ Continentals gave fire to the enemy a vent any intelligence getting to him, number of times, but the British for- at the same time keeping a watchful oes being nearly double, the Ameri¬ eye on his front, flanks, and rear,” cans retreated toward the White THE WORK OF THE TORIES. Horse. The British knew no mercy Grey appeared at the head of his bat¬ The British did not move, but talion and cried out: “Dash on, light i Wayne received information on the infantry!” The infantry bayoneted 20th that on the following morning the every man met, and the camp was set enemy would move toward the Schuyl¬ on fire. A Hessian Sergeant, boasting kill. At this period Gen Smallwood uTrri.6 !xPloits that night, exclaimed: was near the White Horse, and Col. What a running about barefoot, half Chambers was sent out to act as guide ciothed and in the light of their own to the American’s camp. Wayne’s in¬ tires. Tnese showed us where to tentions were to move upon the en¬ chase them, while they could not see emy’s rear while it was leaving for the us. I stuck them myself like so many Schuylkill. Pickets and sentinels pigs, one after another, until the were placed on roads running to the blood ran out of the touch hole of my British camp, and other precautions musket.” The American Army had taken to avoid a surprise by the en¬ about 150 killed and wounded. The emy. During the night a resident of report of the British, eight killed, was the neighborhood visited Wayne and thought to be erroneous, and it was informed him that a servant of one of supposed the number was greater. his neighbors—he had been taken Of the American dead, fifty three were prisoner by the British and liberated— buried in one graye. A pile of stones had heard Howe’s men talk of an at¬ marked the spot where these brave tack that would be made upon the Continentals were interred until Sept. Continentals before morning. Wayne 20, 1817, when the Republican Artil¬ acted immediately by strengthening lerists of Chester county, assisted by and renewing his outposts, remaining citizens, erected a monument over the in strong hope that Smallwood’s ar¬ grave. The military companies of rival would strengthen his position. Chester and Delaware Counties pur¬ During these hours Tories in the chased the land, twenty-three acres, neighborhood kept Howe poste d as to surrounding the monument, and con¬ matters and the locality of the Amer¬ verted it into a parade ground. ican’s camp, and even informed him The anniversary of the massacre of the Continental watchword for that was for years celebrated by military night, “Here we are, and there they companies and a large number of citi¬ go.” zens assembled. The present shaft THE ATTACK. was erected on the hundredth anniver¬ Gen. Grey and Col. Musgrave of the sary, Sept. 20, 1877, of the massacre. Hessians were ordered out to meet It is of Quincy granite, twenty-two Wayne. Grey’s men encountered one and a half feet in height. or two of Wayne’s pickets, who fired Not far from Paoli is the Wayne and made their escape. Other pickets mansion, a large stone edifice of ample were stabbed and the patrolling officer proportions, once the home of Gen. missing them, he conveyed the intelli¬ U»Elth,ony Wayne. who was known as gence to his commander. Wayne Mad Anthony.” A number of the called his men to arms, the cry, “Up, rooms contain the same 'furniture and men, the British are on you ! ” sound¬ decorations as when the illustrious ing upon the midnight stillness. Find¬ Generals occupied them. Major Wil- ing the enemy advancing upon the lia“ Wayne, President of the Society right, Gen. Wayne’s orders to Col, ^j.^^ciHnati, great-grandson of Humpton, second in command, were Mad Anthony,” is proprietor of the to wheel the division by sub-platoons historic estate. Among the numerous to the right, march off by the left, and relics of interest attached to the old gain the road leading toward White mansion is the military coat worn by Horse. In the darkness the division the General^ The Waynes originate from fighting stock, but not one of them arose to such prominence as Gen. Wayne. He was appointed by Con¬ gress Colonel of the Fourth Pennsyl¬ vania Battalion in 1776, and was dis- Eatched to the Canadian frontier. His ravery and vigorous action won for him promotion, and the following year he was made Brigadier General, and commanded a division at the battle of Brandywine. One of the most gallant occurrences in his military life was that in 1779, when the enemy at Stony Point was spared by him, a number of them the men who knew no mercy in the “Paoli massacre.” For this Con¬ gress presented him a vote of thanks and a gold medal. After the capture of Cornwallis at Yorktown, Washing¬ ton sent Gen. Wayne to take command in Georgia The mission accomplished 4 Paoli Programme Suggested as Should the Legislature of the state recognized his services by presenting him with a y Meat With Approval valuable farm. He was elected one of the State Cen- I sors of Pennsylvania in 1783, and a KEEPING- ITS HISTORY GEE Eli, member of the Assembly in 1784. Five years afterward he was a member A Preparation for the Approaching Ex¬ of the Pennsylvania Convention, and an advocate of the Constitution of the ercises to Be Held There on the l Wi United States. Gen. Wayne in 1792 and 20th ot September—A Glance succeeded Gen. St. Clair in the Indian Backward Over the Long Years Sines war on the western border. The battle the Massacre Took Place on That His¬ of the Miami of the Lakes was won bv Wayne. His end came Dec 14, 1796, toric Spot—What Was Said There. at Presque Isle, Pennsylvania. A few years later his son, Col. Isaac Wayne, Id view of the font that Griffin BaAfpry; brought the remains to the family lot is preparing to observe the anniversary^ at St. David’s church They were put of Llie Paoli M'a-ssaicre by appropriate ex- in a box attached to a gig and trans¬ ercises.we suggest that the public schools ported from Erie to the final resting observe Brandywine Day by exercises re. place. Railroads had not yet been latjtig to Paoli. We p'kjnt herewith it constructed. The Pennsylvania State history of the massacre, with other ex* tracts which may, with other exercises, Society of the Cincinnati on June 6, be read in the school rooms next'Friday 1811, erected a monument to the mem¬ September nth. ory of their brave brother soldier. HISTORY OF PA Old MASSACRE. Th s hero of Chester county was on After the Ba.Ct.le of Brandywine, itiiflf one occasion court martialed, the American forces marched by way of charge being made by Col. Richard Chester to Philadelphia, and prepared Hnn pton. The charge: “That Gen. Og-aon to prevent the march of the Brinish to that city. Cornwallis with his division Way te had timely notice of the en¬ ■came up from near Chester by the Ches¬ emy’ ,i intention to attack the troops ter road past Rocky Hill and Goshen ui) r his command on the night of i Meeting House. K-iiyphauseri proceeded, tha 20th of September, and notwith¬ lroxn Birmingham by -way of the Turk's- standing that intelligence, he ne¬ Head, now West Chester. After several: glected making a disposition until it skirmishes on the South Valley Hills, was too late either to annoy the en¬ the Americans withdrew to Warwick’ emy or make a retreat without the ut¬ Furnace, on the South Branch of French Creek, to obta.ru fresh supplies of arms, most danger and confusion.” A full on-d ammunition. The forces of Corn¬ investigation was made, and the con¬ wallis and Knypba-usen were uniled oi* clusion arrived at was : “The court do the ISth, at the White Horse, and thenc* acquit him with the highest honor.” moved down the Lancaster and Swedes- It is supposed Humpton was envious ford road and encamped on the south: of Wayne’s rising.reputation. Hump- ■side of the Swedesford road, at the pres¬ ton’s name (he was one of the original ent village of HoweilvEle. and between members of the Society of the Cincin¬ that and the village of Centreville. nn Creek. General Wayne, nati) appears between those of Gen. on the l,th. was detached with has di¬ Anthony Wayne and Gen. William vision. amounting to about filtefen hun- Irving. He was an Englishman. His Genera^chS"^ fou.r fi<;ld pieces. ■ to. joint Hwood, who had comrrcin.£ death occurred in 1804. of tlFe JM'aryhuK] militia^ ami was then art orter^f to ‘S* E,1L)sh army- Wayne .wa* orde! ed to harass a nd annov the ens- JTI' fnd to Siev.e every occasion which. rm&ht offer to engage him with advant¬ age, and endeavor to cut oft the baggngu train, and by this means to arrest his' 9
f'...... ami cut him on. a service ot a dangerous- march towards■ {heChe Schuylkill,Sol until tho character, as Wayne’s corps was known Americans could cross the river higher* for its stubborn and desperate conduct ihJ up. and pass down on the east side ami light. Colonel Musgrave. wtth -tile 40th-, intercept tlhe passage of the river ov rhe and 55t'h Regiments were moved up un British. the Lancaster road near tjhe Baoli tavern. ’ General Wayne proceeded to the duty" to be in a position to aid General Gray, if assigned him, and on the 18th of S-eplem- necessary, and to intercept a.ny attempt her encamped about three hundred yards' by Wayne’s f(frees to retreat over tha-f a little north of east of this point on land. route. The watchword of the Americans noJY belonging to Hannah G. Griffith, and for that night was “Here w-e are and, WAich was about four miles in the rear' there they go.” and this, /the tradition of' of the enemy, distant from any leading" the neighborhood says, through soma road and securely concealed, as he be- treachery, was communicated to tha enemy. heved from thekmiwledgeef Howe. Hees- tahliShedhis head-quarters at the house off', “General Gray, aided by bis Tory aids,. a man namecLKing,now of Robert Hutch- as is generally belie-ved. ma.rcbed from htu- lnsom on the east side of what is noivf encampment near Howellville. up Hus* called the Sugartowu road, and a shor t Swedes ford road, and massed his troops distance south of the gate by which thesis on tha t road, as near the camp of Wayne grounds are entered from tha t road. as possible, without betraying a knowl¬ On the 19ldi of September Generali edge of his approach. From tlhe re ha- Wayne watclied the movements of the-.! moved on up the road to wba.L is now enemy as far as was practicable with th«! known as the Valley Store, at the cross¬ view of attacking them, should they at¬ ing of the Swedes Ford and Irong Ford tempt to move. On the morning of that roads, north of the Admiral Wurren. At day, on the enemy's beating the reveille this point there was an American picket, he ordered his troops under arms, and who fired and escaped. Tradition saya took up the line of march for tlheir left1 the British ma.de use of the American flank, and proceeded to within half a mile watchword, but tlhe picket discovered of their encanipmemt, but found they had tbe.y were not. Americans, and filed. Gen-| not stirred, and lay too compact to admit enal Grey then proceeded south ori th« of an attack with prudence, to a letter Long Ford road to near the Admiral to the Commander-In-Chief, written at Warren, where-they encountered another Faoli after 10 o’clock a. to., he stated thatj picket, who also fired and escaped: from the enemy would probablv attempt. u> there he cautiously moved through the move towards evening. Tbev did not woods and up the ravine through the move, however, hut on the 2Uth he re¬ south Valley hill north of this point, -and ceived what he believed was reliable in¬ near to tlie present. Malvern Station oh formation that the British commander! the Pennsylvania Railroad. would take up his line of march for tliu “The first intelligence General Wayna Schuylkill at 2 o'clock on the following;! received of the eneiny’sadvance was from morning, and he sent Colonel Chambers- one of the videt.tes whom he had sent out- as a guide to General Smallwood, the<* in consequence of the notic-e received nea.r the White Horse, to conduct him iir from Mr. Jones. Several pickets had been.- the place of encampment. When ttwr silently bayoneted in r>hie darkness, and7 Junction with his forces sJhoulci be ef¬ being missed by the patrolling officer,.hiss fected, rt was his desig-n to advance upoir suspicions were aroused, and he hastened •the British rear and attack it while- in tha to the head-quarters of the commander operation of moving, lie had already rt£- 1 with tile information. The troops were connoitered a road leading along iheii*. immediately ordered under arms, and right flank, and hiad determined on hLs niiany of them were awakened from their plan of operation. To be in readiness for slumbers by the cry, ’Up. man, the Brit¬ this purpose, he directed his men to Jia ish are on you!’ 'Hie night was dark, and on their arms, and, as it was raining, to- being rendered more obscure by the sur- i protect flheir cartridge boxes witli their; rounding woodland, miueh (had to be left I coats, and that no time might he Jose to conjecture as to the point of attack. •after the arrival of General Smallwood, Having ascertained, however, that th-a' he had his own horse brought up, saddled enemy w-ere advancing upon his right, and bolstered ready for mounting, and where the artillery was placed, Wayn*' his cloak thrown over his horse to pie- directed Colonel Hampton, his second ip- serve his accoutrements from injury front- command, to wheel the division by sub- the inclemency of the weaUbcr. platoons to the right, and to march off “He had carefully guarded himseiS by the left, and gain the road leading on against surprise, plan.led pickets and sen¬ tJhe summit of the hill towards the White tinels. and thrown forward patrols upon Horse, being the road on which the divi¬ the roads leading to the enemy’s camp,, sion, had marched two miles the previous Between nine and ten o’clock he received evening. The division wheeled according¬ a visit from a friendly citizen of tin* ly, and the-artillery moved off; but owing neighborhood—a. Mj\ Jones—who ha-d to some misapprehension, as is alleged come to his qua-rtrys to give information, on the part oif Colonel Humpton, 'the that a servant of Mr. Clayton. Who had, troops did not move, although thev were been taken by the enemy and afterwards wheeled and faced for the purpose, until liberated, had said that he had over¬ ■the second and third order had been Is¬ heard some of the British soldiers speak¬ sued. In addition to this, only part of the ing of anattack to be made upon Wayne's force took the right direction, while the detachment during the course of tbs-, other part took a wrong one, and were night. General Wayne thought proper, int brought within the light of -their fires, consequence, to take some additional pre¬ and -thus gave tlhe enemy on advantage cautions. He dispatched a number of vi- which should have been assidious'ly detrf.es, with orders to patrol all the roads .ouarded against. General Wayne took leading to Howe’s camp. He planted new pickets, one on a. by-path leading frotnu the Warren Tavern to the camp and others to the right and in the rear. Iu addition to these, a horse picket was well of ?wl^e^LGrey; wh°*e forces consisted advanced upon the Swedes Ford road. second the 42d and 44 th, the And having taken these precautions, ho » econa battalion oi light infantry and lay in momentary expectation of General 3*?? 5ec°n<* and tenth dragoons, was en- Smallwood’s arrival, to enable him to andn’irwi consequence of the darkness take the offensive. the knowledge of his Tory ’’Although-the British commander dldt- observationpp«ach ^ery, cJosely without, not know where the forces under Genera V! Shm t n « I iHe, &ained Wayne’s left Wayne lay, th-ere were Tonies residing iitl fikOdf one-i 0 clock m the morning. The Hie neighborhood who did. and by rihesa; snir/t^ aO*!61- W;ayae met the enemy witli he wa-s informed of the precise locia!? 1V',- well rtiraoItJ0ve them several close and and of the nature of-tlie -approaches to it-, e\er'nt;nntem!1!'es’ wa,ch did considerable He at once sent G-eneral Gray to surprise xecution. They were, however, soon ^eiT'to give way before superior tuim- i-s of the assailants. Seeing this, Gen¬ onel Isaac Wayne? the son of General eral Wayno immediately flew to the Fourth Regiment, which which he again •’Socm after these grounds, containing received the shock o£ the enemy's charge, twenty-three acres, were purchased by ■a.nd covered the retreat of the rest of his the military organizations of Chester line. After being again compelled to re¬ and Delaware counties, and set apart as tire, he rallied such ol' Colonel Humpton s a parade ground. On each returning an¬ troops as had taken the proper course in niversary of the massacre, for many tiheir retreat, about three hundred yards years, the citizens, soldiers of these coun¬ in the rear of the last stand, where they ties and occasional visiting companies were again formed ready to renew the from Philadelphia and elsewhere, met conflict. Both parties, however, drew oft here to participate in the ceremonies of without further contest, and Wayne re¬ the day, which, I believe, were for some treated to the White Horse, carrying with years invariably closed with a sham bat¬ him his artillery and ammunition, except tle These visits were interrupted by the eight wagons loaded with baggage and war of the Rebellion, but since its close stores,which, with a considerable amount ■they have been resumed. The scene of of arms, were left upon the field, amd feu this conflict is probably the best pre¬ into the hands of the enemy. served of any that marked the progress “The British forces amounted to nearly of the .Revolutionary War.” j double the number commanded by- The above extracts are taken from Wayne. General Howe had received from Judge Futhey’s historical address at the | disaffected persons such accurate ac¬ dedication of the present monument Sep¬ counts of the strength and posi- tember 20. 1877. We also give two para- | tion of the American forces, as enabled graphs from the oration of Hon. Wasme him to give to his own detachment so de¬ MacVeagh on the .same occasion. cided a superiority as to insure victory. FROM WAYNE MACVEAGH S ORA¬ He knew from his guides the precise TION. point where to make the attack, and was “Contemplation of the men and the enabled to move with decision and ac¬ events of that critical period in history j curacy, while Wayne was under the ne¬ can not fail to exert an elevating in- j cessity of acting, in a great measure, fluence upon ourselves. It removes us from conjecture. form the narrowing cares of our daily “The British attack was made with bay¬ lives. It lifts us above the unsatisfactory onets and light horsemen's swords only, standard of public duty with which we in a most ferocious and merciless spirit. vainly try to content ourselves. It , In emulation of a remarkable action brings us ‘into the higher and purer air which took place in the German war. of the patriotism of the Revolution. It Grey ordered his men to remove the flints sets us face to face with the men who from their guns, that not a single shot were possessed by the early American should be fired, and thus gained the so¬ spirit in their best estate, its self-reli¬ briquet of the ‘No-flint General!’ An ance, its fearlessness in investigation, its officer of the British Light Infantry, in thoroughness of conviction, its practical describing the attack, writes .that, as they good sense, its vivid conception of its approached the camp of the Americans, own relation to the forces at work in the General Grey ’came to the head of the world, its high liberty, its undaunted battalion and cried out,‘Dash on, light in¬ courage, its unquestioning faith in God fantry!’ and without saying a word, the and liberty, its profound hold upon the whole battalion dashed into the woods; future, and its noble capacity for sac¬ . and, guided by the straggling fire ot the rifice in a good cause. In such communion picket, that was followed close up, we en- ( a sordid and selfish public spirit, with low tered the camp and gave such a cheer as methods to mean ends, tends to disap¬ made the woods echo. The enemy were pear, and a cowardly and corrupt public completely surprised; some with arms, life becomes less possible. Indeed, as we others without, running in all directions stand in the presence of the men and the in the greatest confusion. The liight in¬ events of the Revolution, despondency fantry bavoneted every man they came gives place to faith, and the memorable up with. The camp was immediately set words instinctly recur to us with which on fire, and this, with the cries of the Mr. Burke closed the noblest of orations: wounded, farmed altogether one of the ‘If we were conscious of our situation, most dreadful scenes I ever beheld. An¬ and glow with zeal to fill our places as be¬ other officer of the light infantry, in writ¬ comes our station and ourselves, (we ing to a friend, said: ‘Then followed a ought to auspicate all our public pro¬ dreadful scene of havoc. The light dra- ceedings on America with the old warn-i goons came on, sword in hand; the ing of the church, Sursum Corda. Wf shrieks, groans, shouting, imprecations, ought to elevate our minds to the great deprecations, the clashing of swords and ness of that trust to which the order o bayonets, etc., etc.; no firing from us, Providence has called us. By advertinf and little from them.except now and then to the dignity of this high calling, ou a few, as I said before, scattering shots, ancestors have turned a savage w-ilder was more expressive of horror than all ness into a glorious empire the thunder of artillery, etc., on the day pire, and have made the most extensive of action.’ Even the wounded and sick and the only honorable conquests, not b; ; were not spared, and many were killed destroying but by promoting the wealtt i after resistance on their part had ceased. the number, and the happiness of th It is this feature in the conduct of the British commander which has stigmatized human race.’ ” it as ‘British barbarity’ and ‘cold-blooded Tee following is from the closing word cruelty,! and has given, to this affair the of Hon. Wayne MacVeagh’s oration o the occasion of the centennial observanc title of the Baoli Massacre. “For forty years the spot where the in 1S77: patriot dead of this field lay interred was “In order to secure stability and per unmarked, save by a heap of stones; but manence to government resting upot on the 20th of September, 1S17, the R-epub- such a basis, Its citizens must be worthy lican Artillerists of Chester county, aided They must learn to be faithful to th( 1 American principal without qualificatior by their fellow citizens, erected a monu¬ ment over their remains, appropriately or abatement. They must learn to recog¬ inscribed. On that occasion an address nize willingly and cheerfully the suprenr was delivered by Major Isaac D. Barnard, acy of the laws they assist to make and an account of the massacre was given They must learn the inexorable limita¬ tions upon the functions of government by the Rev. David Jones, then in his eighty-second year, who had been the where its capacity for beneficent actioi chaplain to the ill-fated warriors, and begins and where it ends. They mus learn to prefer their country to thei who was on the ground on that fatal night and barely escaped. The occasion party. They must learn to prefer unpaf was also honored by the presence_of Col: atable truth to palatable falsehood. The must learn to regard every form of co; ruption in the public service as a hatef crtffie. They mu s fleam to labor earnestly' and unceasingly to restore to American giving an, additional grandeur to the statesmanship its ancient dignity, ability and character by purifying and elevat- I little church hidden away in its nest of ing the purposes and the spirit of our politics. They must learn to inculate trees in the valley. peace and good-will between all sec¬ The old church was beautifully adorn¬ tions and all classes, by taking care that every class and every section enjoys the ed with ferns and flowers and the most equal protection of the law. Above all they must learn the indispensable lesson striking effects were produced by the that if America is to continue mighty combinations of the wild flowers-nature’s and free, giving joy to her children and hope to the world, it can only be because contribution—the whole being very her citizens, in the words of John Milton have been 'instructed and inured in the beautiful in its uneffected and very ap¬ perpetual practice of truth and right¬ propriate simplicity. “Old St. David's’’ eousness, and casting far from them the 1 lias something besides its antiquity to hard to IhiThigh,VandS''happy emu ll^rT endear it to all who see it. It is the wisest ideal country church. It is even more than a monument to the enduring faith of the people of the early part of the 18th century, amid all their trials and hard¬ From, ships and dangers. It has now, as it doubtless had then, that atmosphere of rest and content and peace which are the • gateways to charity. It is a hallowed \ spot. As a mere relic of anti quity, the pile of stones dates back to 1715, for in that year the corner stone was laid. But the church was founded in 1714 on the 182nd ANNIVERSARY. first Sunday in September, and it is this service that is annually commemorated, uow, for it was then that the church Impressive Services held in the St. began to take physical form, though the David’s Church last Sunday. history of the parish dates back to 1700. The 182nd anniversary of the founding These and other interesting facts were of Old St. David’s church was celebrated pointed out in the sermon delivered by last Sunday and for the first time in the Rev. Geo. A. Keller, who has been more years than are within the memory Rector of the church for many years, jf of very many anniversaries Sunday was the eminent successor of the worthy men not heralded by the glow of sunlight. It who from time to time in its long his- ’ ;> was a damp, dark morning and to that tory, have had charge of its affairs. 1 condition of the weather must be attri- He chose his text from the 7th verse I t-i buted the fact that the congregation in of the ith chapter of Deuteronomy— numbers was somewhat smaller than is The Lord did not set His love upon usual on these unfrequent, but always you, nor choose you because ye were interesting occasions. more in number than any people, for ye ■ The celebration, coming as it does, in were the fewest of all people. But be¬ ■J the early part of the first fall month, has cause the Lord loved you and because always before been favored with the He would keep the oath which He had ' most pleasant weather. It really seemed sworn unto your fathers hath the Lord Jtkat the elements themselves loaned brought you out with a mighty hand.” their grace to the occasion and smiled “On the first Sunday of September, 182 A UP°- tlle mass of grey stone which for years ago,” he said, “the people of this 2 nearly two centuries had withstood their neighborhood who had come from Wales « changeable moods. To the exception met with a missionary sent out at their which was quickly noted by all is worthy solicitation by the society for the propo- j of mention. More especially, as during gation of the gospel in foreign parts, to the service the clouds parted, until, just arrange matters whereby they might l as the benediction was pronounced, the have settled among them, a minister ; sun burst forth in all its bright and who could speak in their own “British mellow warmth as if bringing a message tongue. They agreed, if the society of peace to the devout congregation and would send them such a clergyman, to build a handsome stone church. I “If we cannot claim precedence on I p “A considerable sum of money was account of age with these other build¬ raised for thi s pui pose on the spot. This ings, we can surely claim for the church meeting is considered the founding of an honarable standing amongst the the church, and is commemorated today oldest buildings of the Commonwealth as anniversary Sunday. On the fifth on the ground of undoubted historical day of May following, the corner stone data. We may claim for it a certain ■ was laid with considerable ceremony, uniqueness in that the Anglican service each present laying a stone. It was has been continued from its founding; named St. Davids Church of the Patron that no changes have effected the char¬ Saint of Wales and in rememberance, acter and appearance of the building doubtless, of St. David’s Cathedral and that it has survived a condition of which was the principal church of their} ' affairs to which its other rival was not native land, and iu which many of them subject. had moit likely worshipped, though aTV This building antedates the Indepen¬ the same time it was commonly called dence of the country by 60 years. Those Radnor church, from the name of the who worshipped here, threw in their place from which they came. influence to make that independence I “A year or two ago through a friend sure, denying for themselves while it of the church, the stone over the door was in doubt the pu lie ministration of j and forming as it were the Keystone of their clergymen, whom they highly re j of its Arch was given by the Dean of spected and loved. It was represented St. David’s Cathedral, as a link binding in the war by the most gallant general the the daughter church in the new world Commonwealth produced. For 00 years with the mother church in the old. years it formed part of the Diocese of The stone was taken out of the Cathe¬ London, and for the same length of ; dral and cut after the figure of a cross time the Liturgy of the Church of which has stood over the altar in Bishop England was heard in these walls, the Vaughan’s chapel for at least 700 years. greater part of the time it was said in Though our thoughts naturally centre the Welsh language. t each service around the church itself, it will uot be prayer was said for the Royal family, inappropriate to mention that services [Were field in tne parish lortmgntly as and it was only when the minister of early as 1700 by the Rev. Evan Evans, a that day in accordance with his oath of minister of Christ Church, Phila., mak¬ office, refused to give up the use of that ing the parish an off shoot of the mother prayer, while the qu estion of authority church of the Diocese. The brass cross was in doubt, that these walls ceased to " over the altar was given by a member of echo back the service of the Church of the church to commemorate the services England. They were silent until the of that year, the fact being inscribed on clergyman was absolved from his alleg— . . 1 its base. iance, and the Independence of the United States had been achieved. Then “The age of this church,” he contin the clergyman resumed his functions. ued, “is almost as great as the age of the “In 1786,” he stated, “when there Commonwealth. It was built about 30 were only four or five parishes in the years after the landing of William Penn. State, St. David’s was admitted,' to the It is claimed, I do not know with what convention of the Diocese. In 1/92 it truth, that the Friends Meeting at was chartered to meet the changed con¬ Haverford is two years older. It is also ditions of the civil Government. After said that Trinity church, Oxford, con¬ nected for many years with this parish ' pointing out how the congregation dim- ' : by the laboi-3 of a clergyman who | ished at the close of the war and discus- sing the reasons and finally relating the divided his time between the two, is % heroic measures by which it was made , older by a year or two. Old Swedes’ I Church, Phila., is certainly 14 years again to renew its life and vigor. older, haviDg been built in 1700, but as a “It is not needful I point out at any II Lutheran church, and it is an interesting | length that it was God who moved these L coincidence, that the church built the fathers in the church to work. Surely year that services probably began in this we realize that it was under Him that all parish, should be re-opened after restor- the benefits of which we are partakers | ation, to-day, our anniversary Sunday. Jjj and which we celebrate today have come of the Swedesford road, at the present to us, and while we honor all who have village of Howellville, and between that and the village of Centreville. I preserved at all times this priceless place “From French Creek General Wayne ' of worship with its inspiration and its on the 17th, was detached with his di¬ t peculiar helps to a better life, our un¬ vision, amounting to about fifteen hun¬ feigned gratitude should go up to Him dred men and four field pieces, to join General Smallwood, who had command who was our fathers’ God and shall, we of the Maryland militia, and was then hope, be ours as long as time shall last. in the rear of the British army. Wayne The Lord did not set His love upon us was ordered to harrass and annoy the nor choose us in the way of honor, be¬ enemy, and to sieze every occasion which might offer to engage him with cause we were more in number or advantage, and endeavor to cut off the stronger in any way than all others. It baggage train, and by this means to was not because we were in any way arrest his march towards the Schuyl¬ I peculiarly worthy of the blessing of this kill, until the Americans could cross the river higher up, and pass' down on ? ancient house of prayer,but because He the east side and intercept the passage loved us and because He would keep the of the river by the British. 5 covenant relation He entered into “General Wayne proceeded to the 1 with our fathers, hath He given us the ! duty assigned him, and on the 18th of September encamped about three hun¬ things we rejoice in today. dred yards a little north of east of the on land now belonging to Hannah G. I Griffith, and which was about four miles in the rear of the enemy, distant from and leading road, and securely , concealed, as he believed, from the knowledge of Howe He established i his headquarters at the house of a man named King, now of Robert Hutchin¬ son, on the east side of what is now called the Sugartown road, and a short distance south of the gate by Bate, . which these grounds are entered from that road. “On the l&th of September General Wayne watched the movements of the enemy as far as was practicable with the view ot attacking them, should “REMEMBER PAULI" they attempt to move. On the morn¬ ing of that day, on the enemy’s beat¬ HON. WAYNt MACVEAOHS’ ADDRESS ON ing the reveille, he ordered his troops THE SUHJECT OF PA''Ll. under arms, and took up the line of A Preparation for the Approaching Exercises march for their left flank, and proceeded to be Held ('here on the 19th and to within half a mile of their encamp¬ 2Qth of September. ment, but found they had not stirred, In view of the fact that Griffin Bat¬ and lay too compact|to admit of an at ; tery is preparingTo observe the anni¬ tack with prudence. In a letter to . versary of the Paoli Massacre 'by ap¬ the Commander-in-chief, written at | propriate exercises, we print here¬ Paoli after 10 o’clock a. m., he stated with a history of the massacre. that the enemy would probably at¬ After the Battle of Brandywine, the tempt to move towards evening They American forces marched by way of did not move, however, but on the Chester to Philadelphia, and prepared 20th he received what he believed was again to prevent the march of the reliable information that the British British to that city. Cornwallis with commander would take up his line of | his division came up from near Ches¬ march for the Schuylkill at 2 o’clock ter by the Chester road past Rocky on the following morning, and he sent Hiil and Goshen Meeting House. Kny- Colonel Chambers as a guide to Gen¬ phausen proceeded from Birmingham eral Smallwood, then near the White by way of the Turk’s Head, now West Horse, to conduct him to the place of j Chester. After sevenl skirmishes on encampment. When the junction j the South Valley Hills, the Americans with his forces should be effected, it withdrew to Warwick Furnace, on the was his design to advance upon the South Branch of French Creek, to ob¬ British rear and attack it while in the tain fresh supplies of arms and ammu¬ j operation of moving. He had already nition. The forces of Cornwallis and |reconnoitered a road leading along Knypbausen were united on the 13th, their right flank and had determined at the White Horse, and thence moved on his plan of operation. To be in down the Lancaster and Swedesford readiness for this purpose, he directed road and encamped on the south side j his men to lie on their arms, and as it vas raining to protect their cartridge i Swedes Ford and Long Ford roads, boxes with their coats, and that no north of the Admiral Warren. At time might be lost after the arrival this point there was an American of General Smallwood, he has his own picket, who fired and escaped. Tra¬ horse brought up, saddled and holst- dition says the British made use of the ered ready for mounting, and his American watchword, but the picket horse to preserve his accoutrements discovered they were not Americans, from injury from the inclemency of the and fired. General Grey then pro¬ weather. ceeded south on the Long Ford road “He had carefully guarded himself to near the Admiral Warren, where against surprise, planted pickets and they encountered another picket, who sentinels, and thrown forward patrols also fired and escaped; from there he upon the roads leading to the enemy’s cautiously moved through the woods camp Between nine and ten o’clock and up the ravine through the south he received a visit from a friendly Valley hill north ofthis;point,and near citizen of the neighborhood—a Mr. to the present Malvern station on the Jones—who had come to his quarters Pennsylvania railroad. to give information that a servant of “The first intelligence General Mr. Clayton, who had been taken by Wayne received of the enemy’s ad¬ the enemy and afterwards liberated vance was from one of the videttes had said that he had overheard some whom he had sent out in consequence of the British soldiers speaking of an of the notice received from Mr. Jones. attack to be made upon Wayne’s de¬ Several pickets had been bayoneted in tachment during the course of the the darkness, and being missed by the I night. General Wayne thought I patrolling officer, his suspicions were proper, in consequence, to take some aroused, and he hastened to the head¬ additional precautions. He dispatched quarters of the commander with he a number of videttes, with orders to information. The troops were imme¬ patrol all the roads leading to Howe’s diately ordered under arms, and many camp. He planted new pickets, one of them were awakened from their on a by-path leading from the Warren slumbers by the cry ‘Up men, the Brit¬ Tavern to the camp, and others to the ish are on you!’ The night was dark, right and in the rear. In addition to and being rendered more obscure by these, a horse picket was well ad¬ the surrounding woodland, much had vanced upon the Swedes Ford road. to be left to conjecture as to the point And having taken these precautions, i of attack. Having ascertained, how- he lay in momentary expectation of ; j ever, that the enemy were advancing General Smallwood’s arrival, to enable ! upon his right, where the artillery was him to take the offensive. j placed, W-'vne directed Colonel “Although the British commander . Humpton, his second in command, to did not know where the forces under ! wheel the division by subplatoons to General Wayne lay, there were Tories ! the right, and to march off by the left, residing in the neighborhood who did, and gain the road leading on the sum¬ and by these he was informed of the mit of the hill toward the White Horse, precise locality and of the nature of being the road on which the division the approaches to it. He at once Sent I had marched two miles the previous General Gray to surprise and cut him evening. The division wheeled ac¬ off, a service of a dangerous character, cordingly, and the artillery moved off- as Wayne’s corps was known for its but owing to some misapprehension’ stubborn and desperate conduct in as it is alleged, on the part of Colonel fight. Colonel Musgrave, with the Humpton, the troops did not move al¬ 40th and 55th regiments moved up to though they were wheeled and faced the Lancaster road near the Paoli tav¬ for the purpose, until the second and ern, to be in a position to aid General third order had been issued. Gray, if necessary, and to intercept “In addition to this, only part of the any attempt by Wayne’s forces to re¬ force took the right direction, while treat over that route. The watchword the other part took a wrong one, and of the Americans for that night was were brought within the light of their “Here we are and there they go,” and fires, and thus gave the enemy an ad¬ this, the tradition of the neighborhood vantage which should have been as¬ says, through some treachery, was siduously guarded against. General communicated to the enemy. wayne took the light infantry and “General Gray, aided by his Tory First Regiment, and formed them on aids, as is generally believed, marched ( the right, with a view to receive the rrom ms encampment near riowell-T enemy and cover the retreat of the ar¬ ville, up the Swedes Ford road, and tillery. massed his troops on that road, as . “General Grey, whose forces con¬ near the camp of Wayne as possible, sisted of two regiments, the 4£d aad without betraying a knowledge of his 44th, the second battalion of light in- approach. From there he moved on fan try, and the second and tenth dra- up the road to what is now known as goons, was hnabl d, in consequence of the Valley 3tore, at the crossing of the the darkness and aided by the know- j ledge of his Tory guides, to approach ~very closely witqout observation. He cries of the wounded, iormeo aito- gained Wayne’s left about orje^dqck > . . , getb,er pne of the most dreadful scenes in the morning. The troops ’ imd&r ; * .**. fever Upheld.’ Another officer of the Wayne met the enemy with sfnrff/jtn’d' V * ’ fight hifantry, in writing to a friend, gave them several close and well-di- said : ‘Then followed a dreadful scene ercted fires, which did considf rafcjle > .,, ,, of bavpc, The light dragoons came ecution. They were, howejflar,; sc*g>p ; ,b’n,;i?WQyd in hand; the shrieks,groans, obliged to give way before Superior * ’’ > ^hciufcirjg, imprecations, deprecations, numbers of the assailiants. Seeing the clashing of swords and bayonets, this, General Wayne immediately flew etc., etc.; no firing from us, and little to the Fourth Regiment, which he from them, except now and then a few, again received the shock of the' as I said before, scattering shots, was enemy’s charge, and covered the re¬ more expressive of horror than all the treat of the rest of his line. After be¬ thunder of artillery, etc., on the day ing again compelled to retire, he rallied of action.’ . . _ .— . such of Colonel Humpton’s troops as Even the wounded and sick were had taken the proper course in their not spared, and many were killed after retreat, about three hundred yards in resistance on their part had ceased. It the rear of the last stand, where they is this feature in the conduct of the were again formed ready to renew the British commander which has stigma¬ conflict. Both parties, however, drew tized it as ‘British barbarity’ and ‘cold¬ off without further contest, and Wayne blooded cruelty,’ and has given to this retreated to the White Horse, carrying j affair the title of the Paoli Massacre. with him his artillery and ammunition, THE SPOT MARKED. except eight wagons loaded with bag¬ gage and stores, which, with a consid¬ “For forty years the spot where the erable amount of arms, were left upon /patriot dead of this field lay interred the field, and fell into the hands of the was unmarked, save by a heap of enemy. stones; but on the 20th of September, “The British forces amounted to 1817, the Republican Artillerists of nearly double the number commanded Chester county, aided by their fellow by Wayne. General Howe had re¬ citizens, erected a monument over their ceived from disaffected persons such remains, appropriately inscribed. On accurate accounts of the strength and that occasion an address was delivered positions of the American forces, as by Major Isaac D. Barnard, and an ac¬ enabled him to give to his own de¬ count of the massacre was given by tachment so decided a superiority as the Rev. David Jones, then in his to insure victory He knew from his eighty-second year, who had been tbe guides the precise point where to make chaplain to the ill-fated warriors, and ! the attack, and was enabled to move who was on the ground on that fatal with decision and accuracy, while night and barely escaped. The occa¬ ! Wayne was under the hecessity of act¬ sion was also honored by the presence ing, in a great measure, from con¬ of Colonel Isaac Wayne, the son •. f jecture. General Wayne. “Soon after these grounds, contain¬ ATTACKED WITH BAY ONETS. ing twenty-three acres, were pur¬ “The British attack was made with chased by the military organizations bayonets and light horsemen’s swords of Chester and Delaware counties, and only, in a most ferocious and merci¬ set apart as a parade ground On each less spirit. In emulation of a remark¬ returning anniversary of the massacre, able action which took place in the for many years, the citizens, soldiers German war, Grey ordered his men to of these counties, and occasional vis- ; remove the flints from their gens, that iting companies from Philadelphia and | not a single shot should be fired, and elsewhere, met here to participate in thus gained the sobriquet of the “No¬ the ceremonies fo the day, which, I flint General !” An officer of the Brit¬ believe, were for some years invari¬ ish Light Infantry, in describing the ably closed with a sham battle. These attack, writes that, as they ap roached visits were interrupted by the war of the camp of the Americans, General the Rebellion, but since its close they Grey ‘came to the head of the battal- have been resumed. The scene of this lion and cried out, “Dash on, light in¬ conflict is probably the best preserved fantry !” ’ and without saying a word, of any that marked the progress of the the whole battalon dashed into the Revolutionary War.” woods; and, guided by the straggling The above extracts are taken from fire of the picket, that was followed Judge Futhey’s historical address at close up, we entered the camp and the dedication of the present monu¬ gave such a cheer as made the woods ment September 20, 1877. We also give echo. The enemy were completely two paragraphs from the oration of surprised; some with arms, others Hon. Wayne MacYeagh on the same without, running in all directions in occasion. the greatest confusion. The light in¬ FROM WAYNE MACVEAGH’S ORATION. fantry bayonetted every man they “Contemplation of the men and the came up with. The camp was immed¬ events of that critical period in history iately set on fire, and this, with the ., American statesmanship its cannot fail to exert an elevating e inf^u- . • 11 Vneteilt dignity, ability and character ence upon ourselves. It removes *. V •* .*: bV"pufifying and elevating the pur¬ from the narrowing cares ofouj-j *•' poses and the spirit of our politics. lives. It lifts us above the unsatisfac¬ They, must learn to inculate peace and tory standard of public duty wtyh .. ■goqd-w'ill between all sections and all which we vainly try to cohteirt jojff-' classed,' by taking care that every class selves. It brings us into the h'igjiei;,’ ’ and every section enjoys the equal and purer air of the patriotism ot the protection of ttie law. Above all, they, Revolution, j It sets us face to face must learn the indispensable lessons with the men who were possessed by that if American is to continue mighty the early American spirit in their best and free, giving joy to her children estate, its self-reliance, its fearlessness and hope to the world, it can only be in investigation, its thoroughness of because her citizens, in the words of conviction, its practical good sense, its John Milton, have been ‘instructed vivid conception of its own relation to and inured in the perpetual practice of the forces at work in the world, its truth and righteousness, and 'casting high liberty, its undaunted courage, far from them the Crags of their old its unquestioning faith in God and lib vices, have pressed on hard to that erty, its profound hold upon the future high, and happy emulation to be found and its noble capacity for sacrifice in the soberest, wisest and most Christian a good cause. In such .communion a sordid and selfish public spirit, with jpeonle.’ ” ___I_sZ— low methods to mean ends, tends to disappear, and a cowardly and corrupt public life becomes less possible. Indeed, as we stand in the presence of the men and the events of the Revolution, despond¬ ency gives place to faith, and the memorable words[instinctively recur to us with which Mr Burke closed the noblest of orations : ‘If we were con¬ scious of our situation, and glow with zeal to fill our places as becomes our station and ourselves, (we ought to auspicate all our public proceedings i* g ft fc f § r r fiM t IAJLjP on America with the old warning of the church, Sursum Gorda. We ought to elevate our minds to the / LOCAL greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. 1 Stony Bank Church to Celebrate Its 84th ■ By adverting to the dignity of this high calling, our ancestors have Anniversary on Sunday. turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire, and have made the most extensive and the only honorable m WEST CHESTER HAS [A PART. conquests, not by destroying but by promoting the wealth, the number, and the happiness of the human Historical Facts Which Show the Steady race.’ ” Progress of Diligent Church Workers The following is from the closing in Chester and Delaware Counties words of Hon. Wayne MacVeagh’s or¬ During the Early Portion or This Cen¬ ation on the occasion of the centen¬ nial observance in 1877 : tury—The Church in This Borough “In order to secure stability and Was Organized in 1823, Under Pastor permanence to government resting William Hunter. upon such a basis, its citizens must be worthy. They must learn to be faith¬ ful to the American principle without For some time past the Rev. Charles S. qualification or abatement. They Hamilton, pastor of Stony Bank Metho¬ must learn to recognize willingly and dist Episcopal Church, together with the cheerfully the supremacy of the laws members and friends of this old-time religious landmark of Delaware county, they assist to make. They must learn have "been preparing to celebrate its the inexorable limitations upon the eighty-fourth anniversary, which will functions of government, where its take place on Sunday next. In the morn¬ capacity for beneficent action begins ing the sermon will be preached by the and where it ends. They must learn to Rev. F. B. Lynch, D. D., Presiding Elder prefer their country to their party. of the South Philadelphia District, and in They must learn to prefer unpalatable the evening the Rev. Charles M. BosweU, truth to palatable falsehood. They must of the City Church Extension Society, J wiil preach. There will be a platform learn to regard every form of cor¬ meeting in the afternoon, -when George ruption in the public service as a Drayton, of Chester Heights, will pre¬ hateful crime. They must learn to side and_give his personal recollections labor earnestly and unceasingly to re- 772 write and colored Methodists then in Delaware county. —»-r „4. ; V-- .. -m of the church'arid Ha pastors, extending FIRM DISCIPLINE. over a period of nearly sixty years. A In 1816 Philadelphia Conference disci¬ number of others will also address the plined and expelled Joseph Sansom for people during the day. v not subscribing to the second article of The history of Stony Bonk up until th Methodist doctrines, and William Tor- ■time of the dissolution of Chester Cir¬ bert and Charles Reed were appointed to cuit is a general history of the ‘Methodist Chester Circuit, which now began to Church in Delaware county in the early rapidly increase in membership. In 1822 years of the century. In 1810 the congre¬ David Bartine and John Talley were ap¬ gation was organized, being' the fifth pointed to preach on the circuit. John Methodist class started in the county \ Talley was a native of Brandywine hun¬ and the third to build a church, its pre¬ dred, Del., and from this year up to the decessors being Madison Street Church, time of his death, in 1862, was the most in Chester: Radnor, where Bishop As- familiar figure in local Methodism. He bury is said -to have preached; Mt. Hope was followed on the Chester Circuit, in and Zion Church in Darby. On the 18th i 1824, by the Rev. Henry Boehm and the day of August, 1812, for the sum of $1, ] Rev. John Wilson, the former of whom Abraham Sharpies, an iron master of As-, died at 100 years, having been Bishop ■ton township, and his wife, Catharine, Asbury’s traveling companion for some both members of the Society of Friends, [ time before that great Bishop’s death. conveyed to Daniel Broomail and John Philadelphia Conference met on April 1G, 1816, in Philadelphia. It was a day of Miles, of Aston, and Israel Pyle, of sorrow to the members. When the Thorn'bury, a plot of ground, “whereon Bishop, probably McKendrel, asked,“Who they were to erect a Methodist Episcopal have died this year?” the ministers meeting house.” The land being a very heard the solemn announcement in re¬ stony knoll, the name Stony Bank was ply, “Bishop Francis Asbury/' The man chosen as an appropriate name. In 1814 chosen by John Wesley, under the di¬ recting hand of Providence to establish the little stone church was dedicated and the Methodist Episcopal Church in I became an appointment included in what America, had died in Virginia a few days ■ was then known as Chester Circuit. This before while on one of his almost inter¬ circuit appears to have comprised all of minable journeys through the wilder¬ Delaware county at that time, and a ness. Numbers of those present, some of small part of Chester county, and over whom had carried the Gospel over Ches¬ ter Circuit, had been ordained by this ! this extensive section of the country the wonderful man, and therefore they felt Methodist circuit riders traveled the in¬ a personal bereavement in the death of frequent roads, once probably Indian their beloved Bishop and spiritual father. trails, preaching in school houses, under In 1826 Jacob Gruber was assigned to trees, in farmhouses. They were rarely, the Delaware county pulpits. Gruber was somewhat eccentric in his ways, though if ever, unwelcome guests, though meet- well liked in Philadelphia Coriference, J ing with some little opposition from where he occupied some of the leading those having different and q1 *. ter ideas pulpits. It is related that during his of religion. They were welcome visitors preaching at a camp meeting in this vi¬ to the early Delaware county farmers cinity he was much annoyed by some on the circuit, because they brought with women in the rear of the audience stand¬ ing on the seats. “If,” said Mr. Gruber, them news from Philadelphia, as well os “the women standing on the back seats the truths of Scripture, and it was the only knew what big holes they have in hospitable boast of one of the Stony Bank their stockings, they would sit down.” members that his farm house had been The offenders, being thus abruptly ad¬ the home of these itinerants for more monished in the midst of the sermon, sat than forty years. down, but at the close of the services took the speaker to task for his language. The Philadelphia Conference met in “Well,” answered the preacher, “if you Easton, Maryland, in 1810. The Clerk had no holes in your stockings how would stated that there were 22,975 white and you have got them on?” 10,714 colored members in its boundary, TWENTY-NINE PASTORS. which extended over all New Jersey, From 1814 to 1832 the records show that Delaware, Pennsylvania, east of the Al¬ the Methodists of Chester Circuit had leghenies, and the eastern shore of Mary¬ twenty-nine pastors. In the latter year land. This number had increased in 1823 Levi Scott, afterwards Bishop, was lo¬ to 27,896 white and 7,920 colored members cated at West Chester and preached at in a considerably smaller territory. At Stony Bank occasionally, the regular | that time there were 32S.523 members in pastors being tbe Revs. James B. the whole United States. Ayars and Williarn Ryder, they receiving AN EARLY CIRCUIT. the addition of R! E. Morrison in 1833. Philadelphia Conference met in its titu¬ From 1833 to 1847, when the Chester Cir- lar city on April 6. 1814, and appointed 1 cuit became a part of the Wilmington Dis¬ three ministers to the Chester Circuit— trict, there were twenty-six pastors on George Sheets. Thomas Miller and Sam¬ the Chester Circuit, among triem being uel P. Levis—who changed their preach¬ the Rev. John Henry, an Irish Methodist, ing places once a month. These were the who “was a better preacher than he was acquainted with the ways of the world:’’ first pastors of Stony Bank. In 1815 Con¬ the Rev. “Father” Dailey, a native of ference again met in Philadelphia, this New Jersey and an eloquent speaker: the time on October 20, the members being Rev. Henry King, Rev. Joshua Hum- much disturbed over the War of 1812, phriss, father of the present pastor of winch had interfered with its work on Asbury Church, West Philadelphia, and the Delaware Peninsula. This year Asa J. W. Arthur. Smith and Joseph Sansom were given WEST CHESTER’S BEGINNING. Charge of Chester Circuit. There is no known record of any other assistant, but * In the Conference mlnu'tes of 1823 the alone, on horseback,with his saddle bags, West Chester congregation is first heard his Bible, and a collection of Wesleyan of, with William Hunter as the supply. hymns, just from the Rev. Ezekiel Coop¬ William Hunter, the first pastor of th er’s new Book Concern, each traveled V^est Chester Church, and whose voi< alone his circuit of more than fifty miles, ministering to the spiritual needs ot the some ti _ heard in Chester circuit, ■ , i/L ..iX'x* • i— s born in lounty Tyrone, Ireland, in j5, and ca _ to 'this country in 1790, HISTORICAL .•aving Ire! id on May 5th and landing at.. Wilming jn, Delaware, in August, "three montlifejafteirwards. During this Alfred Sharpless’ Lecture on the Indian of long voyage h^ every Sunday preached to the ship’s crew with marked effect. In Chester County. 1824 he preached in West Chester and Coventry, then one appointment. During 1 * that time he was on the superannuated list which continued up to the time ot CUSSI0N. his'death in 1824, in September. He was A N INTERESTING DISC interred at Coventry. In 1S28 Francis Hodgson, uncle of the present proprietor of the West Chester Professor D. W. Howard Read a Letter Local News, was admitted to Philadel¬ phia Conference, and in 1832 or some¬ From George S. Zane Concerning the where near that time, was stationed at Harrisburg, becoming well knoiwn Heroine, Elizabeth Zane—Many lnter- amongst Delaware county Methodists a teresting Traits of Indian Character few years later. In 182S Daniel Parrish preached at West Chester, and in 1S30 Brought Out in Mr, Sharpless’ Paper Jesse Thompson was the pastor, the ‘ church having at that time 130 white and Which Led Others to Ask Questions. 1 colored members. Some Talk About the Mound Builders THORNTON CHURCH STARTED. and the Indians of Various Places. In 1846 Israel Pyle, who was one of the; three organizers of Stony Bank, together with his cousin, Al'bin Pyle,left and start- ed the Thornton. Church. Israel, who was a local preacher for fifty years, was the eldest of fifteen children, and Albin was the youngest of sixteen. As many of these, with their children were Metho¬ dists, the new addition to the Chester Cir¬ cuit staxted out very promisingly, Steph¬ en Townsend and John Henry being the pastors of both churches in the year 1847. In 1850 Stony Bank became a part of the Reading District of the Philadelphia Conference, and in 1852 was transferred to the present South Philadelphia Dis¬ trict, and to what was for many known as Village Green Circuit, M-eth?- dists having become numerous enough in Chester to render separation necessary from the circuit plan in 1849. From 1848 to 1850 Conference appointed fifteen pas¬ tors over the churches in Village Green Circuit, amongst them being the Rev. Thomas A. Ferhley, who preached at A stated meeting of the Chester County Stony Bank in 1849, and Joseph Carlisle, Historical Society was held last evening, David R. Thomas, John Talley and J. B. which was fairly well attended. As is Maddux in 1851. This frequent change of usual with the stated meetings, it was preachers in these circuits dates back to held in Library Hall, instead of in the the Conference of 1795 in Philadelphia, room of the Society, which is on the first; when this closing injunction in the min¬ utes occurs: "N. B.—The Bishop and floor of the building. A meeting of the Presiding Elder recommend that tne Council of the Society was held in the preachers should generally change every Society’s room before the public meeting. six months whenever it was convenient. The purpose of this meeting was to trans¬ From the year 1S50 to 1S76 Stony Bank act some necessary business. The Presi¬ continued as a part of the Village Green dent, Professor George M. Philips, pre¬ Circuit, hut in the latter year it was joined to the Thornton Church. Be¬ sided. In the absence of the Secretary, tween those years the pastorates of Vil¬ Gilbert Cope, William T. Sharpless was lage Green Circuit were filled by men elected Secretary pro tern. who afterwards, in many instances, oc¬ Professor D. W. Howard read a letter cupied conspicuous positions in the Phil¬ from Rev. M. Sheeleigh. Mr. Sheeleigli adelphia Conference. The names include had in a former communication offered the Rev. Joseph S. Lame, Henry Sutton, to E. I. D. Pepper, J. M. Hinson, H. H. read an original poem before the society, Bodine, W. M. Ridgeway. W. S. Pugh- J- and it was decided to have him come. R. T. Gray, W. C. Johnson, S. W. Geh- In this letter he stated that he could not rett, the present Presiding Elder of the come at present, but would do so at some North Philadelphia District; W. B. Ch^.1- future time. A letter from George S. fant and R. Wood. Zane, of West Chester, was laid before Since Stony Bank and the Thornton Church were made one charge in the the Council, and Professor Howard was South Philadelphia District there have instructed to read it in the public meet¬ been fourteen pastors over the venerable ing. house of prayer, amongst them being the Fred. W. Wolierton, of West Chester, following: William B. Chalfant, 1877 and George F. Schenk, of Phoenixvilie, 1878: R. A. Sadlier, 1S79: Charles M. Bos¬ were elected members of the Society. The well, 1880 and 1881; C. E. Adamson 1S82, N W. Clark. 1SS3; W. C. Gaff, 1884, J. K. report of the Curator, Miss Alice Lewis, Raymond, 18S5 and 1886: James S. Mad¬ was read and approved. dux, 1887; A. L. Haziett, 1888; Gladstone THE PUBLIC MEETING. Holm, 1SS9, 1890, 1S91 and 1892; F. A. Gacks, Professor Philips called the meeting to John Priest, 1893 and 1S94; William H. order and stated that Professor D. W. Stewart, 1895; A. N. Millison. Charles S. Howard had a communication to read. Hamilton, 1896. JAMES F. DALLEY. ¥ 11 '
rjm that gentlemahwas called up'to We | | necessary to their construction. Such platform. * communities could only exist where the A LETTER FROM MR. ZANE. I products of the soil were largely de¬ The letter from' George S. Zane was pended upon for subsistence. The Mound Builders had disappeared written because of the reading by Gilbert from the face of their country before the Cope at a meeting of the Council of the white man came here, and. so far as we Society some months ago of an extract know, no tradition of their existence re- from a newspaper calling in question the I mained amongst their successors. Va- story of Elizabeth Zane. Mr. Zane, in the ! rious theories have been suggested as to letter read last evening, answered the how they disapepared. It is generally be¬ lieved that the race was exterminated newspaper article. The story of Eliza¬ and absorbed by a more warlike and beth Zane, as told toy historians, is a fierce nomadic tribe, probably the pro¬ thrilling one. The settlers were be¬ genitors of the present Indian race. Some leaguered by Indians somewhere near urge that they were driven south and be¬ Wheeling, West Virginia. There was a came what is known as the Aztec race, scarcity of powder in the fort and Eliza¬ but there is little evidence left upon which to build such theories. We only beth Zane is said to have ridden forth to positively know they existed and are now obtain it. The Indians did not molest her gone. as she rode away, but when they saw her MISCALLED SAVAGES. returning with a supply of powder they Although all of the Aborigines of this rained bullets and arrows about her, but country were denominated savages, yet they were not the bloodthirsty demons as she reached the fort in safety with the ■ frequently depicted by their enemies, who needed ammunition. The newspaper so often sought to kill and rob them of j story-attributed the deed to one Molly their possessions. The Indians of Amer¬ i Scott and not Elizabeth Zane. ica were far in advance of what we would Colonel Ebenezer Zane, who command- call primitive man. They had learned i ed the fort, was a great-grandfather of how to manufacture implements neces- George S. Zane, and Elizabeth, the hero¬ I sary for war or the chase and had some forms of government beneficial to the ine, was a sister of the Colonel. It is said general welfare, and had some crude that she made the trip because she said ideas of an overruling Providence to a woman would not be missed in the de¬ which they were accountable. fense of the fort, and there were no men Man when first placed on earth,whether to spare. evolved from some anthropoid origin or otherwise, was but little, if anything, su¬ Mr. Zane stated in his letter that he perior to the savage beasts that sur¬ had written to his uncle. Judge Gibson L. rounded him, and with whom he had to Cramer, of Wheeling, West Virginia, who contend for existence. Physically he must married a daughter of Daniel Zane. who have been inferior to many of them. Na¬ was a son of Colonel Etoenezer Zane, the ture not having provided him with na¬ Commander of the fort and brother of tural weapons of offence and defence, such as most of them had, his higher in¬ the heroine. I telligence must have served to offset Judge Cramer gave the facts which Mr. j their greater strength. We see that many Zane furnished to the Society,, and re¬ I of his contemporaries have from some ferred to a number of historical author¬ cause become extinct, yet he survives in ities in support of the story. He further i ever advancing stages. stated that the story of Elizabeth Zane’s THE PRIMITIVE MAN. heroism was never disputed while any of t It has been very surely proven that man was cotemporary with the mam¬ the defenders of the fort who were eye moth, great cave bear, cave hyena and witnesses were living. That one Mrs. I many other animals that no longer ex- Cruger, who had in her younger days 1 ist, and with which he had to contend been on bad terms with Elizabeth Zane for his cave residence. The struggle of because of a love affair in which they primitive man for a bare existence on were involved, related the story in her the earth must have been an unequal one for many ages. He was probably at first old age, ascribing the act to one Molly provided by nature with a covering of Scott. That, it is maintained, is the only hair that protected him from the chilling basis of the story that denies to Elizabeth j blasts of five glacial period, .Without ef- • Zane the credit of the performance. ficient weapons and so inferior in streng THE ABORIGINES OF CHESTER to the beasts around him, he must ha - COUNTY. obtained a precarious sustenance from Alfred Sharpless was introduced and natural fruits, berries, nuts, roots and such small animals as he could catch or read a very interesting paper on the kill with a club. He no doubt soon Aborigines of Chester County, their char¬ learned to cast a stone with unerring acteristics and habits of life. The fol¬ aim from his hand, or perhaps a club lowing is the paper in full, as read by similar to the boomerang used by the Mr. Sharpless: Maoris of New Zealand with such skill in securing their game. He sought his The Aborigines of this part of the coun¬ mate very much as other animals did, try were very similar to most of those the stronger man overcoming the weaser inhabiting nearly the whole continent of and taking his mate by right of might. North America. Only on our southwest¬ But it was probably ages before man ern borders were to be found a different conceived of stone implements, such as race at and after the arrival of Euro¬ peans in this country. spear and arrow heads made from sharp¬ ened stones, with which and the use of a Previous to the advent of civilized man bow he could kill the larger game and in this country there was a race of peo¬ clothe himself with robes and furs. This, ple of a very considerable extent, and with the discovery of fire, was a great of a distinct lineage extending over a advance to the man who had previously large scope of oountry now covered by to depend upon some cave for shelter. what we call the Middle Western States. These were known as the Mound Build¬ The American Indian had advanced be¬ yond this before we knew him. He had ers. from the numerous earthworks still to be found where they formerly lived learned to build bark and skin tents for shelter, and how to make various imple¬ They were evidently more of an agricul¬ ments from wood and bone, also some tural people than the Indian race that first came into contact with the white pottery for domestic purposes. Hence settlers. The great mounds built by this he had attained to more comfortable cir¬ people were such as would show the ex¬ cumstances than some other races of istence of large compact communities as primitive men. Still, he had ever to be jn the alert to Ifecure a living for him-1 self and family. . On the arrival of Europeans in tnis country they foi nd the natives living inj tents made of the skins of animals or. sometimes of bafk. law. fhat rner war WJtj1 each H'OW THEY WERE CLOTHED. Thev were alfo dependent upon the hides'of such ga ne as they were able to |m£nly upon Urn chase kill for all necessary clothing. early w riter upon this Subject gives us this ac¬ count of their methods of preparing the same We give it' in his own quaint lan-, gtiage and spelling: “These skinnes they | rifpro^cf sus fenaTce0 for a family it convert into very good leather making the same plume and soft. Some ot these ainth»o°fr p^e^^omg tribes would naturally ‘Ocrease in num- skinnes they dniss with haire on and some with the haire off. The hairy side in winter they weare next their bodies and in warms weather they weare the ho i re OllLWcirds. They m3/k6 likewise some coates of the Feathers of Turkies SSps ,Ma.f which they weave together with twine ot their owne making© very prettily .these garments they weare like mantels kn t over their shoulders and put under their gsH ,‘11 s al‘They have likewise another sort of mantels made of Mose skinnes, wn c beast is a great large Deere so bi0ge as a horse These skinnes they commonly haps wipe thus reduced peace j dresse bare and make them wonderou-s white 'and stripe them with size about the borders, in form like lace set on by a I tavlor and some they stripe with size in works of severall fashions very curious, according to several 1 fantasies ot the workmen wherein they strive to exeeU one another. And mantels made of Beares ~ f nftiintTv enioved a month or two skinnes is an usuall wearinge am-ono th ttonso ,yeeand good fellowship. natives that lira where the beares doe «* their^ndness for fish. haunt They make skinnes of Mose 1 in the spring of the year when shad , skinnes, which isfthe principal lether used plentiful in the rivers, they gathered to that purpose'and tor want ot sucn wereplen the Susquehanna River lether which is the .strongest they make shoes of deeres skrnnes very handsomely and commodious,and of such deereskinnes as they dresse bare they make stockings that comes within their shoes, likea stir- rup stockinge and is fastened above at sg.| their belt whilch Is about their middell S,. rCS'ft.,.-.mbp rnen would spear *,v'ssfish ana A erood well growne deere skin is of great every day w^ a feast, whilst the women account with them and it must have the e 5u mrp some for future use, say as tale on. or else they account it defaced. The tale being three times as long as the £& aVbhrmCe°nUldwo^drypfaTya?l ^ lales of our English Deere, yea foure time so longe. This when they travell is raped round about their body and with a abundant When they ceased to run all . sSrdle of their making hound • round about their middles to which girdle is fastened a bagg in which his tn^rumenW of stone implements have been gathered be with which hee can stiike nre upon
1 a-Of°?heiv°several arts and employments, iSE iSoSil as first in dressing all manner of skinnes, which thev do by scraping .and rubbin0, , that the Aborigines must have gathered j afterwards painting them with antique there at times in large numbers and to ! embroyderings in unchangeable coilore. | have continued their annual visits for a, Sometimes they take off the haire, es Sreat length of time. The Susquehanna n«?allTff it bee not killed in- season must have been a. favorite resort at P Self-preservation is said to be the first law of nature. Hence the procuring of mher points also, for only a few miles food is the first and most important ob- below RFriar^la^ewin'"of serpentme ■iect of the natural man. crosses the river, with many rocks juttmg 1 HOW TOO® ABOUNDED. The American Indian was less savage, leL brutoTXn the Arab of ithe Sahara figures cut in the soft stone These are T>esert whose hand was against ^ called the “picturedrocks.’ The eharac man! The reasop for this was that the Indian was less/ pressed in obtaining a supply of food. This country was covered wUh forests and rich in natural frui^ There was shelter and food for large man Throughout Chester county many of numbers of wildl animals that served to furnish necessary supplies. Not so with fhA nid Indian paths leading through th - woods in ewry direction were well-known the Arab, who from the sterile nature of his country was |ver at war with his fel- To the Sariy white settlers and hunters. mw M.n for'existence. The sandy desert One of these that appears to have nf considerable importance, leading as it furnished him w|ith little or no food dfd from the Delaware River to the Sus- water His hand was against his fellow nuehanna; is well remembered in this man He was ready to rob, steal or mur- neighborhood by men still living a-mon0st ™ r to get the ne sessanes of life^ and the life of an unfortunate stranger thrown th*>ir chores was worse
Each us mill, if passed on a short distance nallv given up in 1795, after Wayne’s vic¬ south of the borough line, thence to near tory. At his taking leave the children all the site of Sconnelltown School House to hung around him crying, and when pres¬ some good springs on the old Jefferls ent before the military, his Indian father property, and from there pretty directly stood up and made this touching and pa¬ to the Brandywine.a short distance above thetic speech, saying, “My son, there are the forks, where it crossed the east the men of the same color as yourself. branch. Further than this I "nave never Some of them may be of your kin, or can traced it. These greater pathways were convey you to those who ore your kin¬ by no means on nearly straight lines, but ' dred. You have lived a long time with diverging frequently so as to pass near us. and I call on you to say if I have not springs of good water to be found near j| used you as well as a father could use a the general route. (son? You have hunted for me and been THE SITES FOR CAMPS. to me as a son. I call on you to say if you On some elevated spot near each spring will go, or if you will still stay with me? of good water is to this day to be found Your choice is left to yourself.” Then traces of their camping sites, easily to be Brickell says he knew its truth, and identified by the archaelogist when the stood up some time, considerate, hardly ground is plowed. knowing what choice to make. He The camping site was always on some thought of the children he had just left spot having natural drainage. It made in tears, then of the Indians whom he but little difference to the Indian if his loved, then of his own kin, and at length camp was sometimes at the top of a high answered, "I will go to my kin.” The or steep hill. He wanted it dry, and it Indian replied, "l must then lose you. I was the duty of his squaw to carry up I. had leaned on you as a staff; now it is from the spring all water needed, and broken, and I am ruined.” He then sank that g'ave him no trouble. back to his seat and cried, and was As he was seldom hurried in his move¬ joined in tears bv Brickell. ments from place to place, he often THEIR CHILDISH CURIOSITY. i stopped in th.ese camping sites for several Watson, in his “Annals of Philadel¬ days at a time if game was toumd plenty phia,” tells us that “from a very early in the vicinity, and here he was liable to period it was the practice of Indian com¬ lose some of his implements, to which the panies occasionally to visit the city, not archaeologist of to-day falls heir as they for any public business, but merely to are turned out of the soil by the farmer’s buy and sell and look on.” On such oc¬ plow. At these camping places when casions they usually found shelter for time served and suitable material was to the short time they remained about the he had, the Indian would,with a few sim¬ State House yard. A shed had been con¬ ple implements always carried in his structed for their use along the western pouch, employ his time in preparing his side. There they would make up baskets spear and arrow heads. and sell them to visitors. Before the Withim the borough limits of West Revolution such visits were frequent, and Chester nearly all of these oamp sites after that time they much diminished, so have disappeared, but wit’hin a few hun¬ that now they are deemed a rarity. Old dred yards of the borough lines at least a people have told me that the visits of dozen well marked sites can to this day * Indians were so frequent as to excite but be pointed out. little surprise. Their squaws and chil¬ WHAT TRIBE ROAMED HERE. dren generally accompanied them. On The Indians of Chester county be¬ such occasions they went abroad much in longed to the great Algonquin nation that the streets, and would anywhere stop to held control from New England to North shoot at marks of small coin set on the Carolina. That branch or tribe inhabit¬ tops of posts. They took what they could ing Eastern Pennsylvania and with which so hit with their arrows.” These Indians William Penn and his people first oame ■mentioned by Wats'on were probably in contact were known to the whites as from tribes still in the vicinity. I can |i the Delawares, but they claimed as a myself remember seeing such small par¬ tribal name that of Lenni Lenape, which ties on the streets of West Chester as signified the original people. late as about 1830, but they must have That the Indians of Eastern Pennsyl- come from Ohio or Indiana or possibly | vaniia were far from cleanly in their from some nearer reservation. On one I habits is not to be denied, but they did occasion an Indian with his squaw hay¬ have many of the finer traits of human¬ ing a papoose on her back and a small ity before having been contaminated by boy by her side, stopped on Gay street in contact with an inferior class of white front of the residence of Thos. Sweeney, men. They were honest and truthful, where on the benches of a narrow porch and made use of no profane words; in some of the gossips of the town had fact, it is said there was none such in gathered for a chat. For amusement and their language. Their women were emi¬ to see the skill of the Indian, small sil¬ nently chaste. That they were generous ver corns, six-pences and levies, all of has been proved by many kindly inci¬ Spanish mintage, for we had almost no dents. Let one suffice: "Mr. Carver, a subsidiary coin of our own at that time, first settler at Byberry, became In great were stuck in the cleft of a short stick straits for breadstuff. They then knew which was stuck into the joints of the of none nearer than New Castle. In that brick pavement. extremity they sent out their children to INDIANS’ SKILL WITH THE BOW. some neighboring Indians, intending to The Indian would stand off about thirty leave them there till they could have yards and shoot his arrows at them, and food for them at home; but the Indians when struck they were his. His little boy took off the boy’s trousers and tied the was very active in securing the coin when legs full of corn, and sent them back dislodged, and returning it with the ar¬ thus loaded,^ showing a rude but frank rows to his father. When one of the : and generous hospitality.” old-fashioned copper cents was stuck up, THEIR AFFECTION FOR PENN the father would turn from it with dis¬ Their sincere affection for William Penn gust as too small game for him, but the and respect for his government was ' boy quickly took his place with his minia¬ shown in various ways at times of hold¬ ture bow and arrows, and seldom failed ing treaties and on other occasions. He to strike the coin, and transfer it to his was always generous towards them, and own pouch in the hands of his mother. in every way avoided giving them cause WHEN INDIAN WARS BEGAN. for jealousy or ill will. To show that they So. long as Wm. Penn and his fellow I were naturally warm hearted and af¬ Friends held control of the government fectionate in their natures, I will repeat of the Province of Pennsylvania there the story of John Brickell, who was taken was but little trouble in maintaining prisoner in his youth in Pennsylvania, kindly and peaceable relations with the taken to Ohio and adopted into the family aborigines. Every effort was made upon of an old Delaware chief, and was fi- | their part to treat the Indians with jus- .is retain their good wm. a trail ought to be marked by the Historbl two white men were execntectj cal Society. ester for murdering three Indians. Professor D. W. Howard spoke of the later others came into authority, and] Mound Builders of the Ohio Valley - who it toon ^be4me no crime to kill an ^di] were’manifestly a different race from the an. By the year 1750 tire re w as much f e e -\ Indians, and said that he had recently in®' existing between the whites and Inn dians The French in Canada had stored, read an article upon the subject in which nr> the latter against their English neighs the writer stated that he believed that a b?rs The deflat of Braddock’s army m careful search of tba West as late as_the! ■ 1755 increased their animosity and en year 1800 would have disclosed some rem¬ emira^ed them to retaliate upon their nants of the mound builders, the history persecutors. Albout this tln“ed^® Nations counts of massacres and depredations of whom is now lost. committed by the Indians of a blood Professor W. W. Woodruff spoke of a curdling character in every large mound which he saw in West Vir¬ While but little is said of ,what „ ginia covered with a growth of forest these cruelties, or how innocent Indian Sen women and children were shot down; trees, and of the numerous mounds in Ohio. One that he had helped explore a\WpoUc5^vvas°adopted at that day that, contained only a little -ashes. It has been has been followed down to the present. sard that bones are found in some of ' A certain class of men have ever since them, but it is uncertain as to what the hung upon the trail of the Red Man, purpose of the mound builders was. following him persistently from the At¬ lantic Ocean to the Rocky Mountains, i Professor Philips said; "Several years watching to rob him of his miserable: ago I visited Moundville, Ohio. There are numerous mounds near that place, ^Tbrandywine RESERVATION. | but one very large one. From my recol¬ Xieslfan; in a letter dated 1731. re¬ lection I would say it was 50 feet high, 100 cites that “The Indians upon the Bran- feet in diameter at the base and about 30 dywine had a reserved right to reta n to themselves a mile in breadth on bo feet *at the top. It h-ad been tunnelled in¬ cides of one of the branches of it up to to. A tunnel about six feet high pene¬ its source.” How they were finally di¬ trated to its centre. 1 think it was told luted of this right I have not seen that bones were found in it.” “WERE THERE BUFFALOES HERE?” StA tribe belonging to the Heuni-Lenape This question was asked by Professor ■known as the Nanticokes dwelt and lin¬ gered along the whole region drained by Philips of Alfred Sharpless. He could not the Brandywine after others had disap¬ answer it, and no one else attempted to peared They removed from there in the answer. Professor Philips said: ”1 have year 1757 to the Wyoming Valley on the thought that possibly Buffalo Valley Susquehanna.and later went on to .Can¬ was first given its name because of there ada, settling there with and becoming a having been buffaloes there.” part of the Six Nations who still have a reservation on Grand Rivei .and no doubt James C. Sellers -asked: “What kind of some of their descendants are to still be ball did the Indians play? It was stated found there. The last remaining family in the paper read by Mr. Sharpless that in the county are remembered in Pierce s they played ball on the island in the Sus¬ park, about 1790. They were known as quehanna at Peach Bottom, but the gajne Andrew. Sarah Nanny and Hannah; the last named survived the others, and died is not described.” In 1803 at nearly one hundredyears of age. Mr. Sharpless said: “I do not know ex¬ “She had a proud and lofty spirit to the actly how it was played. They are said last, hated the blacks, and scarcely tole¬ to have had various games. I have in rated the lower orders of the whites. Her my collection of Indian curiosities a set family before her had dwelt with other of forty-two little sticks which a gentle¬ Indians in Kennett township. She otten spoke emphatically of the wrongs and man bought for $3 from Indians in Ne¬ misfortunes of her race.” braska. He said they played a game OLD INDIAN HANNAH. something like cards with them, but he She had her wigwam for many years did not understand the game. They on the Brandywine. The last place, I have played -something like quoits and had - been told was on the Marshall farm, near stone balls that they used in games.” Northbrook, from whence she would ■travel much about to sell her baskets James C. Sellers said: “Several years and other wares, followed by her dogs ago when in West Virginia a guide took and pigs, who were guests with her me over the mountains. We followed an wherever she stopped for the night. Indian trail. At the top of the mountain There is an old Indian cemetery on the there was a heap of stones. He told me same property. A person visiting her that it was the practice of the Indians old cabin thus expressed his emotions: “Was this the spot where Indian Han¬ to carry -a stone up the mountain in nah’s form crossing and lay it on the pile. It for¬ Was seen to linger, weary, worn with merly stood up in the shape of a cone care? about six feet high, but people, supposing Yes, that rude cave was once the happy there was something concealed there, had ’ home torn it down, and the stones, several Of Hannah, last of her devoted race; But she, too, now, has sunk into the thousand in number, lay in a confused tomb, heap.” And briars and thistles wave above tne G. G. Cornwell, Esq., asked: “What place.” was the purpose in building the THE DISCUSSION. mounds?” Several questions were asked and an¬ Alfred Sharpless said: “It is supposed swered, and members of the Society gave that they were built for defense. The, Interesting bits of Indian lore. mound builders are believed to have been - James Monaghan. Esq., spoke of having an agricultural people, inoffensive and j recently ridden out in the country with quiet. They knew of the copper mines | Philip P- Sharpies, a brother of the in Michigan, worked them and carried speaker, who pointed out the marks of an copper to Mexico.” old Indian trail and told him that it was On motion the meeting adjourned. / the only one now visible in Chester coun¬ ty. Mr. Monaghan suggested that such i I
j ERECTED A MON CM EXT. For forty years the spot where the pa- j triot dead of this field lay interred was old Roil unmarked, saved by a heap of stones, but on September 20, 1S17, the Republican Artillerists of Chester County, aided by Where British Barbarity Shaped Itself in their fellow citizens, erected a monu¬ ment over their remains, appropriately a Massacre. inscribed. On that occasion an address was delivered by Major Isaac D. Bar¬ nard, and an account of the massacre A RALLY ON HISTORIC GROUNDS. was given by Rev. David Jones, then in his 82d year, who had been the chaplain i of the ill-fated warriors, and who was An Assemblage as Was Mildly Sugges¬ on the ground on that fatal night. He ■ barely escaped. The occasion was also tive of Days of Long Ago, When All honored by the presence of 'Colonel Isaac the Military of Chester and Delaware i Wayne, the son of General Wayne. Soon thereafter these grounds, con- Counties and Many Organizations I taining twenty-three acres, were pur- | From Other Points Gathered There. ' chased by the militaxy organizations of Chester and Delaw^je counties, and set Able Addresses, Historical and Other¬ apart as a parade ground. On each re¬ wise—Words of Welcome—Fine Music turning anniversary of the massacre, for and a General All Around Good Time many years the citizens and soldiers of ; these counties, and occasional visiting of It. companies from Philadelphia, met here to participate in the ceremonies of the Had the sun early smiled on old his¬ day, which were for some years invari¬ toric Paoli this morning, there would ably closed with a sham battle. ~ These have been a crowd of earnest people in visits were interrupted by the war o* the her blood-christened grounds to assist rebellion. in celebrating the anniversary of the The monument originally erected in 1817 [ massacre of patriotic soldiers there on having, in the lapse of years, become | the night of September 20, 1777. j very much injured and defaced by relic As it was there was life and action on hunters, steps were taken to procure a the field soon after the day was fairly : new one, and on September 20, 1877, the begun, and from all points later on, by 100th anniversary of the massacre, the rail and almost every other conceivable i new monument, built under the auspices means of conveyance, people began ar¬ of the military of Chester and Delaware riving, showing that they were bent on counties, aded by the citizens, was dedi¬ a mission dear to their hearts, and that cated. they were happy in the restoration of The new monument is of Quincy granite what may be well-termed, “Paoli Day.” twenty-two and a half feet in height. The story of Paoli is an old one. But The west side of the stone carries the it is an ever interesting one. Since our word Paoli, and the die these inscrip¬ Civil War there has been no marked tions: military demonstration there, but it is WEST SIDE. now evident, thanks to Captain Deni- thorne, of Phoenixville, that the old Sacred to the Memory of the spirit of patriotism is to be revived, and Patriots the 20th of September again becomes a Who on This Spot prominent date on our home calendar. Fell a Sacrifice to The deeds of the Paoli property have British Barbarity been held by Major B. F. Bean, of Mont¬ During the Struggle for gomery county, for the past 21 years, American Independence on the Night of the but a few weeks ago they were trans¬ 20th of September, 1777. ferred to Captain John Denithorne, the senior commanding officer of the Chester NORTH SIDE. county militia. There are five different sets of papers, and curious affairs the> The Atrocious Massacre are. The oldest one is dated 1779, and em- Which This Stone Commemorates Was Perpetrated braces the original tract of land where by British Troops the massacre occurred. The most recenl Under the Immediate Command one is dated 1832, and is for the tract oi of land which is now occupied by the monu¬ Major-General Gray. ment and used as a parade ground. The final deed shows where the property ha= SOUTH SIDE. been bought by the citizens of Chester Here Repose and Delaware counties and states that the Remains of Fifty-three the ground is the property of the militia American Soldiers | of these two counties and is to be held Who Were the ! trust for them by the senior com¬ Victims of Cold-blooded Cruelty in the well-known manding officer of these bodies. “Massacre at the Paoli,” WhileUnder the Command of General Anthony Wayne, An Officer Whose Military Conduct, Bravery and Humanity, Were Equally Conspicuous Throughout the Revolutionary War. -4~ can indtoendenjpe, on the nighit of the 20th EAST SIDE. September, 177/ ” Other sides jpf the stone Inform the Erected by the Citizens of Chester and Delaware Counties, readers that the stone was erected by the September 20, 1877, Being Republican Ar illerists of Chester Coun¬ the Centennial Anniversary ty, September '20th, 1817, and that it of the Paoli Massacre. marks the gri ves of fifty-three of the i American sold ;rs. The Other Inscriptions on This In the centreb£ the plot stands the new- | Monument Are Copied from monument, a tall granite shaft, erected The Memorial Stone by the citizens-of Chester and Delaware Formerly Standing Here, counties on the centennial of the mas¬ Which Was Erected by sacre, September 20th, 1877, and bearing | The Republican Artillerists copies of the inscriptions on the earlier and Other Citizens of Chester County i stone. § THE rfROOPS ARRIVE. September 20, 1817. At about 10.3* o’clock Battery C arrived upon the grounds from Phoenixville, ana These inscriptions (except one) were entered the grounds passed to the right taken from the old monument and were side of the field, where they formed and written bv Dr. William Darlington. dismounted. . , ON THE GROUNDS. The scene immediately presented a i The mist which hung so disciuragingly more animated appearance. The red low over the country during the early , trappings of . the artillerymen gave a hours of the day 'broke away toward 9 touch ot color ho the landscape, while an occasional mounted orderly dashed back o’clock and the September sun shone out and forth, his; accoutrements shining in brightly. the sunshine. , , , , w -* For hours before the exercises began, The Battery’s arrival was closely loi-/ people were assembling on ithe historic lowed by that of the Phoenix Military j '-.glounds. Malvern 'and the neighboring Band, accompanied by several gall// vulages and farms sending numerous decked hacks and omnibuses bearing p fHepresentatlves of all sizes, ages and triotic friends from the iron town. j At 11 o'clock a salute of twenty-cme t complexions. The inevitable woman with guns was fired to the consternation at a y£e babjt^was in evidence, while small few of the horses, although for the most ■itpflfllefs .'romped over the rough ground part they stood quite placidly aften the or* got in the way of the numerous bicy¬ first few shots. _ £ clers. Col. H. H. Gilkyson, Capt. R. T. Corn- well, James Monaghan and others of the As visitors approach the grounds, they Arrangement Committee were early on see first of all the orderly row of shelter the grounds shaking hands with ac¬ tents arranged for the members of Bat¬ quaintances and looking after the lew| tery C, of Phoenixville. On the right of last touches to be given before the final the field stands a row of fifteen tents, commencement of the memorial services. w'hile four or five more complete an L AS TO THE PROGRAMME. containing several dining tents. Near the The concert at twelve o’clock and thet guard mount by the battery at 12.15 came centre of the parade ground this enclosed off promptly and were wbfnessed and en¬ on the two sides stands the new flagpole joyed by several hundrc/1 persons who erected by Malvern’s citizens for the oc¬ had by this Time a-yfeembled on the casion. On the left side of the road stand grounds. < / several other tents, giving the field quite As the flag was un/urled from the new staff before noon / second salute was a military appearance. fired, while the bar/d took up the stirring Two or three restaurauters from West strains of “The Star Spangled Banner’ Chester and Malvern have established and Yankee Dood/e.” One or two altera¬ stands on the grounds, and here the de¬ tions, however, were necessary to be sires of the inner man may be readily made in the programme. Rev. William L. i satisfied, although many of the picnic Bull, of Exton, who had been asked to make the opening- prayer, was not pres¬ parties present were amply provided al¬ ent, so Rev. A. L. Parcells, of the M. E. ready. Church at Wayne, was requested to take; TO THE MONUMENT. his place, and accepted this instead of The speakers’ stand, draped with the preaching on Sunday, as his duties at his j National colors and ornamented with own church will prevent his being present golden rod and Japanese lanterns, had th6n' SOME OF THE VISITORS. been erected directly opposite to the two Grand Army men were present every- - monuments which mark the burial place where and heroes of the rank and file, of fifty-three of the American patriots. one or two names which are familiar to The stones, of course, form the chief everyone, were to be heard in friendly snot of interest upon thejields, although , salutation. Hon. William Wayne, Paoli. upon first arrival on the grounds, the’ great-grandson 'of General Anthony Wayne, r as present with his family as preparations of 'the day claim immediate a guest .. i the occasion. General B. F. attention. JFisher, of Valley Forge, was among the Within a space surrounded by a sub¬ speakers,“while General Snowden and his stantial iron fence and guarded by a pair staff were present this afternoon. of staunch cannon, they keep watch over WHAT THEY ARE DOING NOW. the silent dead who gave up their lives At two o’clock the commemoration ex¬ on the spot so many years ago. The orig¬ ercises proper began with music by the inal monument is of white marble; a band and a prayer by the Rev. li. A. Par- block some five feet in height.surmounted sels, of Wayne. The people and military by a pyramidal stone of the same mater¬ were then welcomed by Colonel H. H. Gil¬ ial. The inscriptions upon it are worn kyson, of Phoenixville, who said: by wind and feather, and the corners On behalf of the Committee of Arrange¬ are clipped by.’ the chisel of the vandal ments, and especially on behalf of Bat¬ relic seeker. LJpon the face of the main tery C, whose guests we all are, it is my stone is this inscription: pleasant duty to bid you welcome to this “Sacred to the memory of the patriots historic ground. You hearty response to who on this spot fell a sacrifice to British the invitation to join in a commemora¬ barbarity during the struggle for Ameri¬ tion of the events which occurred here one hundred and nineteen years ago is a given by Capt. Fetters’ company and to generous and paFrTotic return for the few which the Griffen Battery were invited and not elaborate plans we have made guests. for your entertainment. Your presence From 1872 until 1876 or 77 the -old Tenth more than repays us for our effort, and Division, N. G. P., annually encamped here, and with bloodless sword and gaudy we regret that time and circumstance uniforms played mimic war. The recol¬ prevent a fuller and more general observ¬ lection of these annual encampments is ance of this anniversary. fresh in the minds of many of us. Seven To Captain Denithorne belong the credit years of peace had partly healed the of the thought of reviving the annual ob¬ cruel wounds of the Civil War and had servance of “Paoli Day,” and in the pre¬ left only a military sp'rit and ardor which burned in the breasts of old and young paration and consummation of the plans alike. This spark was annually rekindled his has been the guiding hand. at Paoli, and from reveille to taps, from W ithin a month the deeds of convey¬ dress parade to sick call the veteran of ance by which this tract of land is held the late war renewed at Paoli his recol¬ came into the possession of Captain Den¬ lections of the Peninsula and the Wilder¬ ithorne, toy right of his seniority as com¬ ness, while the younger generation hoped and dreamed on the tented field here of manding officer in commission on the Na¬ the time when they should be promoted tional Guard of Pennsylvania of Chester from the mimic camp of peace to the real and Delaware counties. Much is due to camp of war. these faded bits of parchment in reviving Indelibly associated with this place at the desire to keep green the sacred mem¬ these times and on these occasions is the ories which cluster round this spot. They name of GGeneral John R. Dobson, the commanding officer of the Tenth Di¬ seem to breathe patriotism from their vision. One can hardly remember paoli musty vellumed folds and when one reads from 1872 to 1877 without remembering the the title by which we hoid the land, we kindly old man who was at once com¬ fee], indeed, that we are joint owners in mander and father to his men. Plain, a sacred spot, and that all are hosts and simple, generous hearted, with a cheery nature and a sunny temper that was none are strangers here. The title reads. never rutiled, and never forsook him, he To have and to hold the said described was not what the world calls a hero, but tract or piece of land with the appurten- he was truly great in being truly good. ances unto the commanding officers, in He has but lately joined the Grand tiust, as a place of parade forever, for Army encamped on the other side of the ■ the use and benefit of all Volunteer Corps, river, and I know I will be pardoned in turning aside f'or a moment to remember lawfully organized, that have contributed him while I remember Paoli. [ towards the purchase of the same, or that Who of us who recall these encamp¬ may think proper to assemble thereon.” ments of the Tenth Division can fail to So that all who are assembled here to- remember the blaze of glory which are part owners in fee of Paoli. Not greeted the eye when the West Chester only as Americans with a common coun¬ Zouaves marched upon the field? With turbaned heads, with the colors of the try and a common patriotism, but by a morning sun on their breasts, and with legal right which this deed conveys to us the aurora borealis about their legs, Jo¬ as a sacred heritage to care for and be seph’s coat of many colors was a mourn¬ proud of. ing robe compared with their uniforms. This gathering of friends calls to my In all these ways and times have we in Chester county sought'to remember Paoli mind some reminiscences connected with and it is well that we should do so, for Paoli, partly personal and partly gather¬ our country is rich in historic spots, and ed from others which is a part of the much of her soil has been hallowed by unwiiten history of the place, and may the blood of Revolutionary patriots. be of some interest to you. In speaking Standing here withing a radius of ten of these reminiscences I will endeavor miles we have three of the most sacred not to encroach upon any theme reserved spots in American history—Valley Forge, Brandywine and Paoli. All hallowed by for the historical address of my friend suffering, self denial and death. It seems Mr. Monaghan, or of the other addresses as if the quiet vales of Chester countv to which it will soon be your pleasure to had been reserved to witness the hope"- listen. I wish for a moment to recall less sufferings, and the personal self- some of the earlier commemorations of sacrifice of our Revolutionary fathers, this day held here, and within the mem¬ while the real pomp of war, the rush of battle and the clash of arms should have ory of many of my older hearers. And been spent upon the brilliant battles for the first in point of time X must de¬ from Bunker Hill to Yorktown. pend upon the memory of Captain John But are we not drawn just a little Denithorne, to whom I am indebted for closer in sympathy and admiration to the the details and circumstance. I refer to heroes whose shoeless feet marked with the_ celebration of 1S49 or 1850 when the biod the snow clad hill of Valley Forge than to him who in the excitement of military from Chester county and Phil¬ the battle field braved the danger of shot adelphia assembled here in memory and shell? Do we not pity and admire of this day The familiar names the brave men who defenceless and un¬ of many Chester county citizens armed were shot down on this spot like who participated in this event are still sheep in the shambles, hopeless, help¬ remembered. Some are still living, many less and without a single chance to strike a blow in defence of the country they , more ong since dead. Col. Henry R. loved so well? It was not for them that Cxuss, if my informant’s memory serves the poet said “Their’s but to do and die ” him true, commanded the artillery, Capt. it was “Their’s but to die.” Keiter, the Penna Protectors, and Capt True heroism is the genius for <=elf- Davis the troop of cavalry. Major Peck sacrifice, and not the product of trump was the Battalion Inspector and drum, and battle field alone Its op¬ portunities are boundless and its silent .during the war little was done here influence more potent and far reaching We all lived too closely to the horrors of than we can ever estimate, and yet the then present war to turn backward these opportunities exist to-day for every hearth, within the mart, pa»theACf??rteS^k°rnthe fim gafherTn" ^ a the thoroughfares of life, and es¬ pecially as we face the living throbbing' issues of the hour, an hour when selfish Lpnr greed seemed never so triumphant, and | all the old ideals of patriotism and true statesmanship are sunk in that mire over “There is, however, one 'memory im- which we inscribe the one word—Politics. perishably associated with the lost bat¬ This is a time of bloodless contest, and tle of Brandywine, with the men slaugh¬ all the accessaries of war are wanting, tered at Paoli, with the frightful winter nevertheless it should be a deathless at Valley Forge, which Chester county one, for ’tis the world-old struggle for may aitvays cherish with pride and joy. truth and right. It is the memory of Anthony Wayne." Yet in the presence of such an assem¬ This famous military chieftain of Ches¬ blage and within sight of yonder shaft ter county, essentially the Pennsylvania of gray should we not take cheer? For soldier of the Revolution, came of liberty- are not these the eloquent witnesses, liv¬ loving stock—stalwart English yeomanry ing and silent, that the reverence for of Yorkshire—followers of Oliver Crom¬ true heroism is not yet dead in the hearts well. In later time his grandfather, An¬ of the American people. thony, having moved to Ireland, fought WEST CHESTER’S SPEAKERS. well as a commander of dragoons under Col. Gilkyson, as presiding officer, then King William in the battle of Boyne introduced Gibbons Gray Cornwell, Esq., Water, and 30 years after that in his old of West Chester, who made a felicitious age migrated with his family to the new world and settled in Easttown township, address upon the significance of the oc¬ about three miles from this place. The casion. father of our hero, a useful citizen, re¬ The county of Chester may claim in the peatedly occupied a seat in the Provincial tract of land upon Assembly, and more than once distin¬ which we now stand guished himself in martial expeditions. So, with such ancestry and of strong a memorial ground nature was Anthony Wayne an inevitable the best preserved of patriot through all the vicissitudes of his any that mark the very extraordinary career, until life left progress of the Revo¬ him. lutionary War. Upon Born on Chester county soil, trained in this site,in years past, her schools, he was at the age of 21 the after the erection in trusted agent of Franklin in his coloni¬ the early part of the zation projects in Nova Scotia; later a ■entury of this first member of the Provincial Assembly; a marking stone over deputy to the Pennsylvania Convention; tlie common grave of loremost and most active of the Chester those here massacred, county Whigs in resisting the oppressive i't was the custom of measures of Great Britain and preparing citizens and soldiers the way for the Revolutionary contest; G. G. Cornwell. to meet at each re¬ Chairman of a committee of 70 to aid in curring anniversary. superseding the Colonial Government, The British army in its march from the and to take charge of the local interests Head of the Elk to Philadelphia occupied of the county; in January, 1776, at the age about two weeks in its passage through of 31, raising a regiment for the army; this county. It entered on the 9th of Sep¬ invading Canada, and by the fortune of tember. . 1777, and left on the 23d of the war suddenly in command of a defeated same month. It traversed nearly the force; conducting the retreat safely from whole length of the southern part of the Ticonderoga; promoted to the rank of county (then comprising within its limits Brigadier-General and commended for the present county of Delaware) and also his ability; commanding a brigade under J made incursions into several townships Washington in New Jersey; resisting 1 not on the line of the main route, and with the utmost gallantry Knyphausen’s made its exit in the neighborhood of the advance at Brandywine until sunset; re¬ present borough of Phoenixville and of newing the fight with ardor at Goshen; Valley Forge. And this was the only time leading his division with his wonted valor duringthe entire contest; if we except oc¬ at Germantown and always covering his casional foraging expeditions sent out retreat with every precaution which from Philadelphia while it was occupied bravery and prudence could dictate. by the British Army, that the soil of our Using every exertion, even during a leave good county was pressed by the foot of of absence and amongst his personal the invader. friends, to collect clothing for the half- America’s cause was destined within naked troops at Valley Forge, foraging the borders of this non-resistant, Quaker constantly through New Jersey to sus¬ county to suffer two grave disasters at tain them, and during a large part of the the hands of the enemy during the brief campaign of 1777 performing the duties period mentioned; and her soldiers to un- three general officers. He tore asunder 1 dergo great hardship and privation dur¬ the British lines at Monmouth, and by a ing the months that immediately fol¬ plan proposed by himself to Washington lowed. scaled and captured the terrific steeps of We are here to-day for our own good Stony Point. Though a fighting man by and in accordance with the stated cus¬ nature and constitution, we find by his toms of our fathers, to take counsel of prudence and judgment quelling a rau- our faith and our patriotism at the rest¬ tmy of unpaid troops. He assaulted Corn¬ ing place of the little band of patriots wallis, five times stronger than himself, who were here attacked in.the night and with advantage at Green Springs, and slaughtered by a much larger body of bore a conspicuous part in the campaign British troops 119 years ago. which ended in the capture of Cornwallis “Indeed,” using the language of the and the British forces at Yorktown. Sent splendid oration delivered here in 1877, by Washington to take command against “it is not permitted to us, as citizens of the enemy in Georgia, he entered Sa- Chester county, to celebrate with thanks¬ vannah and Charleston in triumph, and giving any victory of the Revolution, or alter bloody encounters closed the war to recount with exultation any triumph by receiving the allegiance of the disaf- - of the Continental Army. .Where we tected, and for himself gifts of kind from stand occurred the massacre of Ptioli. the Legislature of Georgia, and new titles 1 Near us, on the other hand, are the hills from Congress for his services. of Brandywine and on the other the hills 1 hen, m the Pennsylvania General As¬ of Valley Forge. These, then, are the sembly he was the first to oppose the test only historical scenes of the war of the laws, and most influential in their repeal. Revolution within the borders of the He was amongst the first to advocate a I conu'ty of Chester, and the only memories complete system of inland nagivation He we are able to associate with them are was a member of the United States Con¬ the memories of a great battle lost, of a stitutional Convention. grave disaster sustained and of awful He was appointed by Washington Com-' and prolonged sufferings endured.' mander-m-Chiet of the army of the United States. By the discipline of his troops and his skill and training in the field, he fought the Indian War of the 27
West to a successful termination, secur¬ ing to the vast territory which he had laid down their thus rescued from the wholesale'massa¬ lives for their con¬ cres and wild terrors of the savages, the victions. Brandy¬ blessings of permanent peace. wine, Valley Forge More than twenty years of active, un¬ and Paoli are ceasingly active service, both civil and James Monaghan. Chester county’s military, he devoted to his country. priceless heritages. To understand "From Canada to Florida, from almost the importance of the Battle ot Bran¬ within hearing of the sea at Monmouth dywine, we should recall that at the to the Indian lodges on the Miami he had Battle of Long Island the American sol¬ been engaged in battle.” diers new to arms, fled without finnli a And having at last turned his face single shot, leaving Washington alone on homeward, in the full enjoyment of life the field courting death rather than dis¬ and honor and glory he died on the jour¬ honor. The heroic struggle on the Bran- ney East at a military post on the shore dvwine taught the British to respect of Lake Erie. American arms. The winter at Valley "Spun was all the thread the Fates al¬ Forge witnessed the birtti of our army. lowed The British barbarity at Paoli furnished And Patroclus went down the stream.” the war cry ‘Remember Paoli,” which Who can but believe that, if it is per¬ fired the hearts of our soldiers on many mitted to our immortal natures to revisit a well-fought field the scenes of their earthly struggles, the “After the defeat of Brandywine, on shade of Anthony Wayne sweeps regal September 11, 1777, the American Army and distinguished amongst the foremost retreated bv way of Chester and Darby leaders of the viewless hosts that troop to Philadelphia. As soon as they were re¬ our hills and plains? freshed and supplied with ammunition Here surrounded by the scenes of what they re-crossed the Schuylkill and ad¬ at the time seemed irreparable disaster, vanced to meet the British to check and contemplating the shining example their approach to our capital. There is of this extraordinary man and the out¬ evidence that the British advanced by come of that most desperate Revolution¬ three routes from the Battle of Brandy¬ ary contest, may we not take courage for wine- -one division under Cornwallis by the future? the Chester road, from a point near Ches¬ i When things seem to tend downward to ter past Rocky Hill and the Goshen justify despondency, the just cause is Meeting House; another division di¬ i carried forward. Things seem to say one rectly north from Birmingham to the old thing and say the reverse. It is the years Goshen road (no-w vacant) just north of and the centuries against the hours. West Chester and by the Valley road to It seems to be an all-wise decree that the tavern of the Indian King1, while the spirit of liberty shall not be smoth¬ Knyphausen c-ame by way of the Turk’s ered; that man shall not be vitalized or Head, now West Chester, to the Boot humanized, call it what you will, by Tavern. After several slight skirmishes, thwarting any vital instinct. It is found and an ineffectual attempt to attack that the absolute ruler cannot in the long Co-rnwallis before the juncture of the run be trusted; it is found that the ruled British forces, a heavy and long-contin¬ deteriorate. Why? Because through the ued equinoctial rain storm compelled years, through the centuries, through evil Washington to withdraw his troops to agents, through all circumstances, the Warwick Furnaces, to get a fresh supply great and beneficent tendency irresisti¬ of arms and ammunition. The British bly streams. forces had united in the meantime and Every experiment, by nations or by in¬ advanced on the old Lancaster and dividuals, that has a sensual or selfish Swedesford roads to a position between aim, will fail, as it always has done. the present location of Howellville and The existence of the republic depends Centreville, in Tredyffrin township. upon the virtue of its people. There is’ “General Wayne, with a flying detach¬ absolutely nothing else by which it can ment of some 1,500 men and four cannon, be saved. was ordered to take a position in the The heroic example of these dead speak rear of the British Army, to- capture the more loudly than their speech could do. baggage train, if possible, and attack They have served to the uttermost, and the enemy in the rear, while Washing¬ are silent from the extent of their de¬ ton guarded the fo-rds of the Schuylkill. votion. The success of his expedition depended Let us remember upon the secrecy of his movements. On "Only that good profits which we can the 18th of September General Wayne,en¬ taste with all doors open and which camped on the ground adjoining the serves all men.” monument on the northeast, then partly THE “DAUGHTER’S” PART. wo-oded, with headquarters in the farm house immediately to the west. This loca¬ The “Daughters of the Revolution” had tion was some three or four miles in the their part also in the day’s exercises. rear of the British, and off from the line Chester county’s Chapter was present, as of -any leading road. Every precaution well as members from other places. Mrs. was taken to guard against surprise, Abner Hoopes, Regent of the Chester pickets and sentinels having been plant¬ county Chapter, read extracts from ed and patrols thrown forward on the ro-ads leading to the enemy’s camp. On | Washington’s farewell address to the the 19th General Wayne advanced to American people, which is also celebrated within half a mile of their po-sition, but to-day. found them still in camp, ‘washing and This was followed by a historical ad¬ cooking,’ too compact to admit of an at¬ dress by James Monaghan, of West Ches¬ tack. On the 20th, receiving information that the British would march the follow¬ ter, as follows: ing morning for the Schuylkill he sent “Washington’s patriotic words, which orders to General Smallwood, at the you have just White Ho-rse, to join him immediately, heard read so well, prepared fo-r an attack. Every prepara¬ come to us in tion was made by Wayne for the prompt trumpet tones, in movement of his forces.The men were or¬ these times of po¬ dered to lie on their arms,protecting their cartridges with their coats. His own litical confusion horse was saddled and ho-lstered ready for pointing the way mounting. Between 9 -and 10 o’clock at to civic duty. This night he received a rumor of a midnight day .and these attack. Vague and unaut-hentic as it was, scenes recall an additional precautions were immediately early struggle for made. A number of videttes or horse political freedom, when men gladly ana mis wiui the cries of Ihe wo ,s were- sent out with formed altogether one of the mostt . M all the roads leading T°' the British ful scenes I ever beheld. Another Brn „mp Two new pickets were planted, one ish officer repeats that a dreadtul scene on a'by-path from the Warren Tavern of havoc followed. Col. Hay, of the the other to the right and in the reai, American army, writes: The annals ol malting altogether six different pickets, the age cannot produce such a scene ol m addition to a horse picket well ad¬ butchery.’ Neither can I accept.Mr. Jo¬ vanced on the Swedesford road, , seph J. Lewis’ friendly suggestion that “With all these precautions the attack this eold-blo'oded murder may have been unon the Americans could not have been unauthorized by the officers in charge suhcesssful without the aid of Tory spies The British witnesses themselves speak The expedition was well P^^^L^thJee of picket after picket being ‘massacred Gray who was m charge of some tnree at the point of the. bayonet and sword thousand men, had with him as an aid And we know that the same General Major Andre, of Benedict fame. Gray afterwards covered himself with in¬ Andre had been a prisoner of war on famy bv directing the bayoneting ol un¬ toarole and had frequently traveled the armed American soldiers near Tappan, 1 ancaster road. As they marched along New York, to whom he ordered no quar¬ the Swedesford road they took every in¬ ters to be given, although they begged habitant with them. Traitors had lur for their lives on bended knees. When nil iiished them with the counter-sign watch¬ & is said, the Paoli massacre will remain word of the night, ‘Here we are and there one of the most brutal records of English they go,’ which enabled them to surprise and beat down the pickets. In this way W“Among the daring feats of the night thev silently advanced along the Swectes one is related characteristic of Wayne. ford road to Warren Tavern turned On the first approach of the British he -noth past what is now known as tne turned his cloak, which was lined with V&ley Store and moved cautious y up red dashed up to the British line and the ravine near to the present site o_ commanded a halt. The strategem suc¬ Malvern Station. Genera Gray had de ceeded He was taken for a ‘red coat or cided on the Camden system of warfare^ English officer and the command was He directed his men not to fire, as tiring obeyed. By this hold adventure he re- would disclose them; by Pot. connoitered their forces and learned would know the enemy to be wherever something of their number, while he the firing appeared, and a bayonet gained further time for his men to form charge was ordered to follow. Amongst for action their opponents those in the rear wou | “Local historians have never been able direct their fire against those firing in to explain why the mounted pickets who front? and thus they would destroy each patroled the Swedes Ford road did not other. These plans were aided by m give earlier warning of. the approach of darkness of the night, the surrounding the enemy. A local writer has offered a woodland, the use of the watchword, and solution. While it may not be ‘confirma¬ a blunder of the Americans in disobeying tion strong as proofs of Holy Writ, it is orders, which brought them within the at least evidence of how history may he light of their own fires. made in the absence of more authentic “The official account of the engage¬ data.’This writer suggests that the pick¬ ment, transmitted by Wayne to Wash¬ ets were at the tavern drinking, cider. ington, September 21st, is. as The facts upon which he bases his sug¬ ‘About 11 o’clock last evening we wpr^ gestion are that it was cider-making alarmed by a firing from oneof-^T^"^ time,and whatsoldier is there who doesn t guards. The division was ® k Cl[“The "grave in which fifty-three of the Ttgu^t patriotic victims of this massacre are buried w>as unmarked for forty years, save by a heap of stones. In 1817, at the suggestion of Dr. William Harhngton, a monument of marble was erected by the trllt By this time the enemy and we Republican Artillerists and citizens of were not more than ten yards distant Chester and Delaware counties This \ well-directed firing mutually took monument having become defaced, the i^inre followed by a charge of bayonet... present handsome granite shaft was lumbers fill on both sides. We then erected by citizens sixty years later, ' drew off a little distance (probably to largely through the efforts of Dr. J. B. the present parade grounds) and formed Wood, late of West Chester, deceased. a front to oppose them. They « In diffRing* the foimdiation for the nist think nrudent to push matters turtner. monument it was found that the remains W®have saved all our artillery, ammu¬ of four of the patriotic soldiers would nition and stores, except one. or two have to be disinterred. They were taken wavons belonging to the commissary de- up and reburied in the centre of the pariment Om dfad will be. collected and foundation. It was then learned that the buried this afternoon.’ mea„e- original interment had been made with “If this had been all of the \ every mark of attention. The grave was -merit, it would not have gone down to V dug north and south and the bodies laid history as ‘the Paoli Massacre, The ^ I side by side east and west. Their hats, taiity was probably not known to J^aVn I shoes clothing and armor were buried when he wrote his report. As we know it I with them. The committee in charge re¬ to-day, it was worthy of the slavage ulu, served a few specimens of each of thes« nr the still more savage Turk, ine at articles, and they were probably kepi tempt of historians to mitigate its b°rroi with veneration during the life of Dr has-been unsuccessful. Eyeri .^s impa - Darlington. That they have not been pre¬ tinl a historian as Stille, in his Lite or served "until our time is due no doubt tc Wayne,’ says that the term the fact that no suitable room, m spm< is misapplied. This is true with permanent institution, has been providec prif.A fQ the engagement between the . for the preservation of such priceles. forces1 and Mr. Stille no doubt has refer- i ence to that! But the butchery which fol¬ 1 ^“Recalling and refreshing the mernor: lowed should find no apologist. .The of the patriots who died at Paoli shouli Inecial horror of that terrible night make us prize and preserve with renews which we can never forget, was the devotion the freedom and citizenship fo slaughter in cold blood of the wounded, which they fought.” the unarmed and the sick. HeaT J-1tenant Music and an address by Gen. B. I timonv of eye-witnesses. Bieutenani Fisher, of Valley Forge, completed th (afterwards General) Hunter, of the Brit¬ regular exercises, although military ma ish army, says: 'The light infantry bay¬ oneted every man they came up with. noeuvres continued to o, late hour. The camp was immediately set on fiie. Td-af5RROW’3 DOINGS To-morrow the solders will be aroused TWO OLD CANNON. by the reveille at 5 o’clock, and 8 there will be a guard mount, while from s ™ ! Story of Two Guns That Stand in Front of to 9.30 the Phoenix Military Band w'm the Paoli Monument. ghve a sacred concert. - 01 /SPFCrAt, TO THE PtBtIC TEDOltR. I At l o’clock the military and civic <50 Phcenixville, Pa., Sept. 22.—During the cieGes and citizens will form in line and ! recent anniversary celebration at Paoli the arch around the monuments to the sor i two old cannon thatstand on their trunnions rowful strains of the "nP,, m" 5r' ol granite in front of the monument were This will be followed later in the after viewed with great interest and curiosity. noon by a second sacred concert a Among the thousands who visited the his¬ mounted drill and dress parade ’ toric grounds on that occasion there were THE LAST ENCAMPMENT few who did not peep into the rusty mouths of the old guns as they sat beside the grave of trheRehe.rthe>breaking 0ut of ‘he war mound of the massacred patriots like silent sentinels keeping watch over the dead. Of the many who viewed the cannon, very few were acquainted with their strange history. grounds, always remainingx overss thess 20th All seemed to think that they had once been of September, and on several occasions used against the British during the Revolu¬ there were quite a number of troops on tion, and were afterwards taken to Paoli as the ground, but with the breaking out of relics of that war. They are contemporary the war the practice was discontinued with the war, but were never used, and, in and was never resumed for some reason! fact, never flred a shot, unless in recent years on heroic or holiday occasions. The two old guns were made at the War¬ there” encampment ever held] ere, says Benjamin Swenev of wick Furnace, which still stands near the Place, “was in 1S40 At th»t a™ / th,s ! headwaters of French creek, about fifteen miles northwest of Pbosnixville. The fur- .Wh”esSleh"" e‘6:ie -'™'»“S! ■ nace was built long before the Revolution, ; and for many years was used for making j blooms from the iron ore mined near by. rraV/s srn When the war for independence broke out ! ing out fn thf’ b 1 1 wel1 remember go- the owners began to make cannon and solid diers ” th6 Srouncis t0 see the sol- shot for the American army, which were hauled to the Schuylkill by oxen, and thIhgroundbLboeutCatinPment Was he,d ^ then sent to Philadelphia on flatboats. ■joidiers werethTrl for The furnace is located in a lonely spot among the Warwick hills, and a hun¬ Srt oTTL-ISJ ■"';»»> dred years ago was accessible only by ox trail was under the*direct"'1 the encampment or bridle path. The primitive gun makers lamb, of Ph ladfinMe nA °f C°lonel Faip- consequently knew very little of what was izations which took narfm0n& the or“an- going on at the seat of war. But they were patriotic and kept on making cannon for the army until Just after the Battle of Brandy¬ ssrJxLP wine. The day following the battle a horse¬ man came riding up the bridle path In great excitement, and told the gun makers that Washington’s army had been defeated at Brandywine and that the Americans were Captain Robert Irwin’s nTi^ T,r°°P and of West Chester! National Guards, retreating up the Schuylkill, with the British in hot pursuit. Tho „ memorial BADGES. This news was too much for the gunmakers ' for they feared that the cannon in tlieir shop consisting'of1 ^ Inittomwtth^red badges, flag and a satin rfRn n with the American might fall into the hands of the victorious cd in blue “Remi>b®n’ °“ which is Print- enemy and he turned against them instead of . used in their defence. They helfi a hasty These bad'o^wm b®r Paoli! 1777-1S96.” council and decided to bury the cannon in a the occasion. ThesTJre of f™en}ori^ meadow along French creek, Just below the grounds, also at «wT„ f°r sale °n the furnace. The oxen were made ready and the r’hester, and_a^^| guns were soon dragged down the hill into the meadow and buried in trenches near the creek. After the cannon were secure and the ground resodded they next hauled all the solid shot they had on hand, and also hid it away in the meadow near the gun. Soon after the cannon were buried another messenger brought the news of the massacre at Paoli to the furnace. This was more than From,_ the gunmakers could stand, so they blew out. the furnace and left the neighborhood, and local tradition says none returned, for they .GHLl^ >f- may have been killed or located elsewhere. Time went on and the grass soon covered the scars made in the meadow in burying the guns, and the spot where they lay could not Date, . Aff( be found. At last the story of the buried cannon set¬ tled into a local tradition of somewhat doubtful integrity, and the natives soon be¬ gan to ridicule the mention of it. and had it not been for the ever restless creek that flows through the meadow the guns might still be Jsnng m me cjrrnrrH^vTng to the R„* years ago, while hundreds made the jour- J '°““dlng h)1‘s the
Monaghan (of West Chester), and H. Esq., read them and tho society approv- i Morgan Ruth (of Bryn Mawr). A meet¬ ed. ing will be held at the call of the Chair¬ PRESIDENT HAINES’ REMARKS. man, at which time it is expected to ef¬ The President of the Society, Isaac N. | fect a permanent organization and get in Haines, addressed those present briefly, shape for business. saying: We are met for the first time WASHINGTON TROOP TO REORGAN- i after the summer vacation. I am glad IZE. to see so good an attendance. The Philo- | A meeting of the survivors of the old sophical Society has come to be almost a Washington Troop, a military organiza¬ necessity in West Chester, as it is the ; tion which flourished in Chester county only one of its kind now in existence. We years ago, was held while the exercises j expect to continue to furnish a regular ! attending the celebration of the anniver¬ I series of instructive and interesting ad- sary of the Paoli massacre were in pro¬ I dresses, from time to time, and this even- gress yesterday afternoon. The old com¬ [ ing we shall begin by having one of the mander, Captain B. F. Bean, presided. It best of our local speakers, Charles H. was unanimously decided that the Pennypacker, Esq. I am also authorized troop should reorganize. The idea is to i to say that at our ^extcneetng there will form a company independent of the Na¬ be a microscopic display provided by Mr. tional Guard. If this is.found to be inad¬ Frank L. McClurg. Mr. Pennypacker visable, the Troop will take a place in the will now deliver an address upon Hon. Guards, the State having recently called John Hickman. for two -more companies of cavalry. The GOOD THINGS PROMISED. old members will be first given an oppor¬ The speaker of the evening prefaced his tunity to enroll, after which the Troop lecture by stating 'that it is his purpose will be filled in with recruits. The build¬ to prepare an delver a series of lectures ings on the Paoli Parade Grounds will be this fall and winter upon Chester county the headquarters of the Troop, as they celebrities, and among those whom I shall were years ago. embrace in this list are Charles Miner, Another meeting of the surviving mem¬ Dr. Wilmer Worthington, Judge Bell and bers of Washington Troop will be held in others. Then turning to the subject of the headquarters at Paoli on Thursday, his evening talk he delivered a fine eulo¬ October 1, at which time it is expected gy upon Hon. John Hickman, tracing in that the movement for a reorganization faithful lines the character and services will have come to a head. of that great and distinguished citizen The Troop disbanded about eight years 1 of Chester county. ago, owing to a lack of interest in the MR. PENNTPACKER’S ADDRESS. organization on the part of the members. ; Having concluded his introductory re¬ New life will, however, now be infused marks Mr. Pennypacker spoke as fol¬ into the lifeless body, and it is expected lows: that it will become stronger than ever. I Ladies and Gentlemen:—The Hickman family lived for several centuries, prior to the settlement of Pennsylvania, in OUlT PHILOSOPHIC. Wiltshire, England, and the ancestor of that name in America emigrated hither about the year 1684 to the township of Charles H. Pennypacker, Escp, Eulogized Thornbury, and the family has been more or less in evidence in that vicinity Hon. John Hickman. ever since. The greatgrandson of the emigrant, Francis Hickman, was born in the township of West Bradford, upon the A GREAT MAN’S PUBLIC! LIFE. farm now owned by William B. Pritchett, in Pocopson township, September 11, 1810. The neighbors called the place The Speaker Described the Great Lawyer “Bragg Hill,” because of the wonderful and Statesman in Glowing Terms—A events which occurred there and which were so picturesquely described by John Large and Greatly Interested Audience the elder at all the “vendues” and “rais¬ Listened—Members and Others Pres¬ ings,” militia trainings and meetings in that vicinity. There was a fine flow of ent Recalled Some Reminiscences of language at and from “the old home¬ the Man—Books Presented by Hon. stead” and the English was ornate, terse and expressive. A graduate of a foreign John B. Robinson—Good Things Will university, Major MacPherson, gave the Be Provided by the Philosophical So¬ young boy an insight into the classics, ciety the Coming Season. and laid the foundations for literary taste. At first destined for the study of medicine he turned from that profession The first meeting of the Philosophical to that of the law and in the office of Society after the summer vacation was Townsend Haines completed his studies, held last evening and the room was and April 9, 1833, was admitted to the bar crowded with interested participants. The of Chester county. In the winter of 1834 announcement that Charles H. Penny- a series of religious meetings were con¬ packer, Esq., would deliver a lecture up¬ ducted in the Court House by Leonard on the life and public services of Hon. Fletcher, an evangelist of the Baptist John Hickman sufficed to bring out many faith, and among others who professed who do not usually appear at the meet¬ repentance and were to be baptised on a ings of the society. The President, Isaac certain day was the subject of our dis¬ N. Haines, called the meeting to order course. He did not appear. Although he and asked for the reading of the minutes had signed a church covenant, and had of the last meeting of the society in June made all his arrangements to become a | last. The Secretary, J. Carroll Hayes, charter member of the First Baptist Church. Meanwhile, he had visited three meinbers of Congress, and this plan ! “Bragg Hill,” where the language was existed twenty years until 1842, when j both explosive and expressive. The next Chester and Delaware were united in one day John Hickman said to my father that district and have so continued ever since. he guessed he had been “about as near CHESTER COUNTY IN CONGRESS. Heaven as he would ever get.” It may be interesting to note as an in¬ A ZEALOUS DEMOCRAT. stance of the ability and taste of Chester He became a most zealous Democrat ' county for continuous office holding, that and was a great admirer of Andrew from 1794 to 1S62 inclusive, a period of 68 Jackson and his deliberate method of years, she had one of her citizens at speaking, and his epigrammatic style Washington as a member of Congress made him popular as a political speaker. from this district.. Ten years after his He was fond of debate and repartee and defeat the subject of our sketch was a never tired of devising some plan to di- i candidate tor congress on fine uemo-> vide and distract the Whigs and help the cratic ticket. Meanwhile, he had been Democrats. When his preceptor became District Attorney four years, and had! a newspaper editor he remarked that a become more popular and effective as aj new edition of the Book of Proverbs public speaker, so that when he entered would appear soon, and likewise poetical the lists with John M. Broomall, in 1854. hexameters which would flow as gently he was all that a West Chester man as ‘Black Horse Run.” Captain D. W. C. styled him, when he said he was “an ex¬ Lewis’ father taught a school near Mar- perienced fighter.” The Know Nothing shallton, and Major MacPherson was his party was potential in this election, and chief assistant. The Major had served in cast a large percentage of its vole for the Revolutionary Army, and had taught Mr. Hickman, he having’ a majority of j the youthful John such a precision of ex¬ 2,656 in the District. What influences pression and clearness of statement that gave him the “Know Nothing” vote can William Williamson said that the cheer¬ best be explained by Townsend Walter ful conversation resembled “target prac- I and a few other ‘‘war horses” who yet tice.” survive. I am sure that there was no Mr. Hickman was a Jacksonian Dem¬ question raised as to whose “turn” it ocrat, and a great admirer of Thomas was, or whether the last shot was a Jefferson. He believed that the privil¬ “ten strike’ or “a spare,” and neither eged classes of mankind had no con¬ candidate browsed around the lodges to science on the subject of privilege and “jolly” the brethren. He took his seat,in that history could not produce an in¬ the 34th Congress, December 3, 1855; and stance in which monopoly intrenched in | speedily attained distinction as a free- precedent or custom had ever made vol- ( soil Democratic supporter of Nathaniel P. untary restitution to society of the rights \ Banks for the Speakership. The election of which she had been despoiled. It was of Mr. Banks was the beginning of the the era of the contest with the United end of Southern domination in the Hous* States Bank and it was said that “the of Representatives. He was brought fact iron jaws which close on the marrow to face with the Southern slave owners bones of privilege never relax until they and he felt the spirit of the coming seces are broken.” At this distance of time sion and rebellion, and he became a cO-; we can scarcely appreciate the extent of adjutor of John B. Haskin and Stephen I party spirit and the depth of political A. Douglass. In 1856 he was a candidate I feeling. There were Whigs and Monday for re-election, defeating John S. Bowen, j Whigs, Anti-Masons and Wolf Demo¬ who was the Republican candidate. Al¬ crats and Muhlenberg Democrats. A though he was a staunch supporter of Chester county mob had prevented President Buchanan, he soon felt com¬ Charles Burleigh from making an anti¬ pelled to antagonize the Administration slavery speech, and had in another part in its efforts to fasten the Lecomplon of the county consigned him to the Constitution upon the people of Kansas, County Jail upon the charge of violation and in a speech of great brilliancy anc7 of the Sabbath day by presuming to power, delivered in the House of Repre¬ speak in public. This Hot Spur of Dem¬ sentatives in the winter of 1857-58,-. said ocracy told the Whigs that he would that the President was the tool of the know them if he saw a hide in a tan yard South, and he could not sanction hit and the retort was in kind. Such politics Kansas policy. was the gentle art of making enemies, THE MEMORABLE CONTEST OF 1858. and no pleasure was equal to the joy of In the autumn of 1858 occurred that battle. memorable content in which Charles D. DELEGATE TO NATIONAL CONVEN¬ Manley, of Delaware county, was the TION. regular Democratic candidate. John M. In 1S44 he was a delegate to the Na¬ Broomall, of Delaware county, was the tional Convention that nominated James regular Republican candidate, and it was K. Polk, of Tennessee, as the Demo¬ a “battle royal" worthy of the partici¬ cratic candidate for the Presidency, and pants therein. Mr. Hickman was at hir he insisted on the floor of the Convention best. His mental and physical powers, that Polk should not be named, but that were taxed to the utmost. Meetings “Old Hickory” himself was the only were held in every school house in the logical candidate of the party. In the District, and the people were thoroughly same year he was the party’s nominee for aroused. Every prejudice was appealed Congress, but was defeated by Abraham to, and the regularity of nomination was i R. Mcllvaine. Chester and Delaware a boundless theme from Tredyffrin to counties were first made a Congressional Tinicum. But t^lie voters admired Mr. District in 1731. This union continued un¬ Hickman for his pluck and his grit'and til 1802, when Delaware county passed his determination,, and they loved him for into another district. Twenty years the enemies he had made and the dangers ! thereafter (1822) Chester, Delaware and he had passed. A pro-slavery conspiracy Lancaster formed one district, sending I him—from his cradle to his grave he is ^a
—-'sTn his nalive county from d’rk- ed so much. They would rather any of -ess unto light. He had. never stopped to the great national leaders would come [.Inquire into -the "’ratio and proportion” of representation, but had- sefved his into the district and talk than that he -people with every fibre of his genius In- ! should come. The people would.listen to a contest mdre momentous than had ever him better and more readily follow his arisen in humari history, amid all the leadership than that of any other man. J-onflicts of men and of nations; when the I used to work in his interests after he life of our government was at stake, his came over to the Whig party, arid would ability shone with undim'med splendor He is gone, but long shall his memory generally be able lo bring delegates to survive. West Chester instructed for him. After ‘“Time takes them home that we loved he went out of politics, I did, too, arid I fair names and famous. have been out ever since.” To the soft long sleep, to the broad MR. PENNYPACKE-R SPOKE AGAIN. sweet bosom of death. When Dr. McClurg took his seat, ChaS. But the flowers of their souls he shall not take away to shame us, H. Pennypacker, Esq., rose again and Nor -the lips lack song forever that now said: “There are many reminiscences of lack breath. John Hickman that might be given. He *'°r 'dwellJS ShaJ1 the music that dies not was not the profoundest of lawyers, nor was he a very hard student. His prepar¬ Though the dead bid welcome and we farewell!” ation for the Quarter Sessions Court con¬ sisted usually in his working very hard OTHERS TAKE A HAND. all of the day immediately before. He *‘I know but little of John Hickman ” would shut himself up in his office and if Temarked President Haines. “Liyin°- in some of his companions, knowing that he Lancaster county I was better acquaint¬ was there, would come and knock on the ed with our own representative, Hon door, he would open it a few inches and Th-addcus Stevens.” He then stated -that remark, ‘Don’t you know that this is the inembers and others present would likely Sabbath day. I am surprised that you have something- to say. are not at church.’ Dr. McClurg lived Dr. Jesse C. Green had been sitting an down in London Grove township in those Interested listener to the lecture. He was days, and his battles in behalf of Hick¬ now asked to speak, and rising he said- I man were fought with Charles Dingee. I am not a member of this society.” The Doctor generally won, as he has told It s a free platform, free to everybody ” you. said Mr. Pennypaclcer. Dr. Green then “When John Hickman was in Congress said: ‘‘While the lecture was being- de¬ during the Administration of James livered I thought of many things that I Buchanan, a man called upon him and would like -to have added, but I don’t asked to see President Buchanan. John know whether I can put them together Hickman replied, ‘I don’t know such a properly, I recollect that on the morn¬ person.’ ‘You don’t know him!’ exclaimed ing after John Hickman announced him¬ the visitor. ‘Don’t know James Buchan¬ self as a candidate for Congress, in 1834 an, Pennsylvania’s favorite son, whom I was in the store of Eusebius Town¬ 1 we elected President?’ ‘Oh, yes,’ said send, and Mr. Townsend said if I wanted Hickman, ‘he is dead. Died long ago. to go to Congress and had the ability to There is nothing in the White House now say what John Hickman has said I would but a magnificent poultice which is draw¬ say it and then think that I had said ing the Rebellion to a head.' enough to cause the people to elect me to the office sought.” “A man came to West Chester once 1 and stated to John Hickman that his son The Hoc tor -then gave a number of wanted to study law. ‘He does'.' exclaim- reminiscences, among them the follow¬ j ed Hickman. ‘Does he know what the ing: “I remember well when John Hick¬ definition of law is? Law is a luxury in¬ man came out from the Democratic par¬ tended only for the rich.’ ” ty Joseph Hemphill, Judge Hemphill’s PROF, DARLINGTON’S TRIBUTE. father, said to me: ‘We are sorry to lose ‘‘I knew John Hickman in 1846,” said him, but you have gained the greatest | Professor Richard Darlington. “He was political leader -that we Democrats have a Leeompton Democrat. The Republican ever had.’ It was so, too; lie was a great I party was no-t organized until about 1855. political leader. When he made the can¬ The Free Soil party had given V-an Buren vass it was a very energetic one. He a vote of about 350,000. The Democrat and spoke every night, coming home late, and Whig parties had adopted practically the yet never seeming to weary. The even¬ same platform in 1852. Both had declared ing before the election 1 said to him: the slavery question settled, and it looked Well, what will the result be? ‘If the | as if it were so, but nothing is settled un¬ people have told me the truth,’ he an¬ til it is settled right. Between 1852 and swered, ‘I will have -a majority of so 1855 there sprang up an organization many.’ I have forgotten the figures, but. known as Know Nothings, or Americans. it was not fifty from the actual result Their meetings were held in barns and as determined by the election.” school houses. They had grips, passwords The Doctor mentioned several other an-d signals. They stayed, for a time the personal recollections of Mr. Hickman. rising tide of opposition to slavery. When James Monaghan, Esq., gave an in¬ the Republican party arose the remnant stance of Mr. Hickman's position in ad¬ of the Whigs went into it. In 1854 John vance of his times, mentioned by the lec¬ Hickman was elected to Congress. He turer, when at Harrisburg he proposed received the support of the ‘Know Noth¬ a Constitutional a.mendment giving uni¬ ings.’ He -w-as them a Leeompton Demo¬ versal suffrage, based on intelligence, crat. By 1.856 he had become a Republi¬ and he thought it the greatest act of ills life. can. As an enthusiastic young Republi¬ can I was for Hickman and Fremont. Dr. John R. McClurg said: ”1 knew The latter, as candidate for President, re¬ John Hickman well, and admired him as ceived 1,306,000 votes, and many of the a man. When he was a Democrat, there Electoral votes were cast for him. I was was no other man that the Whigs dread¬ ‘9
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ucn in Highland township teaching school I organized the first Republican club there. The American party still held 50THAffivEIMY. I | organization there. We worked a**- THE FIRST PRESBYTKRIAN CHURCH CELE- ■ i Sjessively, and exactly divided the vote 66 for the Republicans and 66 for the BRATES ITS 50TH BIRTHDAY. American party. Interesting Exercises—Rev W. L. Mudge and |i '■John Hickman brought into the Re¬ Rev Maxwell Rowland. Give Histori¬ publican party a following of about 1.50U Democrats and made Chester county per¬ cal Addresses at the Jubilee manently Republican. The First Presbyterian Church of j “In 1S56 John M. Broomall contested the Phoenixville, celebrated its 60th anni- j election with John Hickman. Broomall versarv jubilee yesterday with fitting ■ was in many respects as great a man as services for such a joyful occasion, j i ,c;™an- but less magnetic. He had been The church was handsomely decorated I a life-long opponent of slavery, and was a with flowers, plants and ferns, and the *}n,e °f men- 1 always admired . | John M. Broomall. pulpit was a literal bower of chrysan “John Hickman was a great man, but themums tastefully arranged by the he fell politically. I do not want to mar young ladies of the church. The what has been said of him, but like many morning service was devoted to the other great men he made a mistake that usual Sabbath morning worship, and Was fatal. In 1862, he told President Lin- the pastor. Rev. William L. Mudge, coln that if he did not appoint the man that he wanted for Collector of the Port gave a very interesting historical and in Philadelphia, he would oppose the Ad¬ biographical resume of the church, ministration. Lincoln said: ‘There are which was a most able and excellent tw’o of us who can play at that game. If address, and worthy of a wider circu¬ you turn against me in this hour of peril, lation than the pulpit gave it I will stand firm.’ Lincoln appointed an- HISTORY OP THE CHURCH. other man. John Hickman began his op- position. He lost the leading position he Mr. Mudge chose a text from. Acts had held in Congress, and when he came 14th chapter, 27th verse, which reads home was no longer the political leader as follows “And when they were here that he had been. We honored him come, and had gathered the church as a citizen, but that was all.” together, they rehearsed all that God On motion of Dr. McClurg, a vote of thanks was extended to the speaker of had done for them. the evening. A vote of thanks was also After speaking briefly of the early extended to Hon. John B. Robinson for a church and its "divine character, Mr. long list of books including many maps Mudge proceeded to give a very care¬ and official surveys prepared by the Gov¬ fully prepared history of the first ernment. Prpsbvterian Church from its first On motion the meeting then adjourned. organization to the present time, covering a period of fifty years. The history of the church dates back to the fall of 1846, when during the i month of September, Robert L. Ander¬ son, a licentiate of the Presbytery of New Castle, Delaware, accepted an invitation to come to Phoenixville and preach to a little handful of Calvanists, who were without a preacher after their own hearts. The young preacher complied with the iuvitation and was soon on the field “doing the work of an evangelist.” A request for a permanent organization was soon sent to the Presbytery of Philadelphia, which body appointed a committee to act in the matter. That committee %/; >} zt consisting ot Rev. 0 0. Cuyler, D. D., Rev. William Latta, D D., and Rev. Mr Ludebope visited Phoenixville and examined the field. Dr. CJuyler, chairman of the committee, named tne first Tuesday in November as the time for perfecting the organization. The From, committee visited the field, affected the organization and submitted its re¬ .c3. port which was accepted by the Pres¬ tfdAr, bytery January 6th, 1847, and the church enrolled as the “First Presby¬ terian Church of Phoenixville ” John Anderson and George Nixon were duly .1-.(ML ordained elders, and the infant church -re began its existence with a member¬ ship of nine. 5 The elders only served very brief The next pastor was Rev. Joseph terms when they withdrew, and for a Fowler Jennison who filled that office time the church was without a session. from 1857 to 1859. During his pastor¬ April 16th, 1848 a Presbyterial commit- ate the Charlestown church appears I tee consisting of Dr. Cuyler and Rev. for the first time, and he supplied the Griffith Owen came to Phoenixville pulpit in connection with the Phoenix- and ordained a new board of elders as ville church. While he was pastor the follows : Samuel Milligan, Hugh Love | church seems to have awakened to the and Caleb Stackhouse. I grace of giving, for the minutes show Rev. Robert L. Anderson resigned liberal contributions to the different in April 1848, and was soon succeeded Boards. The membership of the Sun¬ by Rev. Jacob Belleville, D. D., who day School is recorded at 130 pupils, came to serve the church as stated but the session only had two members. supply and acted in that capacity until Mr. Jennison resigned in 1859 to ac¬ April 1849 when be too left for another cept a pastorate in Maryland. field, leaving tbe infant church with¬ The next pastor chosen to minister out a spiritual shepherd. to the church was Rev. Joseph May Things had gotten into such shape Porter, whose pastorate was the long¬ | that a rehabilitation and reorganiza¬ est in the history of the church extend¬ tion were thought to be expedient, ing over a period of 17 years, and dur¬ and the church entered a new era of ing that time great numbers were life. The moving spirits of the church added to the church. John E- Tencate at this time were Samuel Milligan, succeeded Mr. Stackhouse as superin¬ Robert S. Buck and Samuel Cornett— tendent of the Sunday School, and men of sainted memory-—who took up held the office six years, when be was their work with zeal and devotion. succeeded by Edward L. Caswell, who The Presbyterians began to think of a has held the office for the remarkable house of their own, for they had been period of 30 years and is the present worshipping in the Mennonite church, incumbent. The session was composed now the Central Lutheran, and plans of the following elders : John E. Ten¬ were soon formulated for the erection cate, George W. Fronefield, and Hugh of a church building on a lot of land Love, the two former being ordained ! donated by the Phoenix Iron Com¬ January 31st 1864. pany. About this time Dr. Belleville During Mr. Porter’s pastorate the left them, and they had to look for church property was greatly improved another minister. and the membership greatly increased. The church still had only nineteen But the pastorate which began under members, they were a determined lit¬ such bright promise was doomed to tle band. Rev. Charles Wood, a home close amidst discord, and the church missionary, was sent to minister to unhappily suffered from the trouble them, and during his term as supply and it was a long time before all the the membership rose to forty. The ugly wrinkles were removed from its Sunday school was organized Septem¬ \ garments. ber 16, 1849 and Caleb Stackhouse was the first Superintendent. j Mr. Porter resigned April 5th, 1876. In 1850 Rev. John Thomas, a Welsh¬ The membership had increased to 265, but the church was heavily in debt. man, was called to the pastorate and The Sundav school also bad a member¬ served the church five years. He was ship of 235 pupiis. Mr. Porter died at installed February 9, 1850. The work Newark, July 16th, 1890, aged 64 years, i of building the church edifice pro¬ The next pastor was Rev. George gressed, notwithstanding the changes j Hay Stuart Campbell who was in¬ going on in the pastoral office, and the stalled December 14th, 1876. by a! congregation assembled in their new house for the first time Monday, Sept. Presbyterian committee from " the | 30, 1850, when it was dedicated with Presbytery of Chester. The session j fitting ceremonies by a Presbyterial was composed of the following: Jos. I Committee. Jones, E. L Caswell, *-i illiam Yerger, I This same year a parochial school James Murray and John Carruthers. j was established, but it was soon found April 1880 the membership reached 234. About this time the Ladies’ Aid to be inexpedient and was abandoned. Society, one of the most useful and In 1854 the church met with a severe important auxiliaries of the church loss in the death of Samuel Milligan, was organized with a membership of who was devoted to its interests, and severity. The original officers of the was one of its strongest supporters. society were: Mrs. Campbell, Presi¬ The same year the churchyard was laid out into burying lots of which dent; Mrs. Meeser, Vice President; there were forty-six double at d twenty- Mrs. Davis, Secretary; Miss Auld, As¬ three family lots. During Mr. Thomas’ sistant Secretary; and Mrs. Caswell pastorate eighth two members were Treasurer. The society now numbers added to the roll of the church. thirty-one, many having moved away or been called to their reward From 1856 to 1857 there is an iuter- min in which the church had no pas¬ These nob e women have done a tor and had to depend on supnlys. good work and many a time when tbe church was in sore distress, they were the source of hope and help. The MorriaWller a flourishing borough on society has, during its existence con¬ the Delaware river, opposite Trenton, tributed the magnificent sum of the capital city of New Jersey. His $5,578.74 to the various needs of the story is one of the most interesting as church, and the parsonage stands as a well as one of the most pathetic, of the noble memorial of their worth. The prominent actors in the Revolutionary handsome iron fence around the War. church was built during Mr. Camp¬ Robert Morris was a native of Eng¬ bell’s pastorate. Forty six members land, his father, who bore the same were added to the church and the name, having removed to this country Sunday school and other societies in 1740, when the son was about six were greatly strengthened. years of age. The family settled on Rev. Mr. Campbell resigned in 1881 the eastern shore of Maryland. The and is now pastor of the Beattystown, father losing his life by an accident N. J., Presbyterian church. He was when the son was but sixteen years of succeeded by Rev. Nathaniel P. age, the latter became a clerk in the Crouse, who was pastor from 1881 to counting house of Charles Willing, a 1895, or for a period of 14 years Dur¬ well-known merchant of Philadelphia. ing his pastorate he introduced unfer¬ Later he became a partner of Thomas mented wine for the Sacrament and Willing, making several voyages to added many members to the church. England as supercargo. War was in In 1882 a Young Peoples’ society was progress at that date between France organized which was absorbed by the and England, and at one time Robert Christian Endeavor society which now Morris’ vessel was captured by the has forty-five members. 'The session French, and he was a prisoner for during Mr Crouse’s incumbency con¬ some time He returned, however, sisted of the following : Messrs. Stack- and in 1869 married Mary White, a house, Emery, Caswell, Keeley, Yer- sister of Bishop White, who was after¬ ger, Dettra. Herzel, Wells and Murray. wards chaplain of the Continental The Sunday school in 1890 reached a Congress. membership of 288. When the Stamp Act was passed in Mr. Crouse resigned November 30th, 1765, Robert Morris had fully coin¬ 1895, and is now pastor of a church in cided with the indignation felt in the New Jorsey. He was succeeded by colonies. By the commencement of Rev. W. L Mudge, of Princeton, N. J., the War of Independence, he had ac¬ who was installed June 24th of this cumulated a considerable fortune. He year, and his pastorate has the promise was elected a delegate to Congress of being one of the most successful of from Pennsylvania in 1775, serving any in the history of the church. three years In that body, and being In sucoming up the fifty years’ his¬ the first signer of the Declaration of tory of the church, the review is very I Independence from this state, thus gratifying. During the half century I learning much in regard to the weak¬ just closed the magnifieant sum of ness and insufficiency of the financial $57,329 has been raised from all sources system under which it was expected for carrying on the work of the church that the British yoke was to be thrown EVENING EXERCISES. off forever. The first reliance of Congress bad In the evening Rev. Maxwell Row¬ been to issue promises to pay, no pro¬ land who is well acquainted with the vision being made, however, for their history of the church for many years, redemption. To a man of business gave an interesting address. He spoke like Robert Morris this mast have mostly of the church as he has known been very repugnant, and he, con¬ it during his many years’ residence in stantly urged something be done to es¬ Phoenixville. _[ tablish the credit of the new govern¬ ment on a firm basis. He had his own private fortune and almost unlimited ROBERT MOERIS’TaRM. credit, and he did not spare either in SKETCH OF THE FARM OF THE GREAT the cause in which he was so much in¬ FINANCIER AT VALLEY FORGE. terested. Making loans that were slowly repaid and using his own funds Tie Remarkable Services and Lamentable for public purposes, he suffered, as Fate of tbe Financier of tbe Revolutioav- may be supposed, many losses that Hls Projected Palace in Philadelphia. were never made good Robert Morris was the financial In 1777 he was one of a committee of genius who piloted this country Congress to urge upon the various through the trying times of the Revolu¬ colonial legislatures the importance of tion. He was president of the bank of levying taxes to support the war for North America and was very close to independence. But little success was Washington, and at one time owned attained in this direction. The revolt and occupied a farm at Valley Forge. against Great Britain was due primar¬ Morris was a wealthy man at that ily to unwillingness to tolerate taxa¬ time and he owned property in many tion, and the authorities were, very localities, including an extensive es¬ naturally, loth to impose a burden too tate in Bucks county, where is now I groat on a people who were in. arms enforcing his views, ne was obliged to against a aoraewhat similar proceeding. make contracts on his own responsi¬ Even where taxes were levied for the bility or to expend his own means lor support of the patriot cause, the neg¬ procuring necessary supplies for the lect or inefficiency of collectors led to army. much delay and trouble in this connec¬ The regulation of the navy was also tion. In many cases the scarcity of confided to Morris’ charge, there be¬ money made it extremely difficult for ing no special department yet created farmers and others to pay • the sums for this branch of the public service. necessary to carry on active operations In 1781 he proposed to Congress to In many instances the Tories, who establish a mint at Philadelphia, and were utterly opposed to the continu¬ it was through his influence that the ance of what they declared a hopeless bank of North America, which rend¬ contest, by refusing to contribute their ered financial aid of the greatest value, share of the taxes levied, caused ser¬ was incorporated He resigned his ious embarrassment to the authorities, position in 1783, just before the ratifi-j compelling them to use the only cation of the treaty of peace between weapons which were of any avail in the United States and Great Britain, such a contingency—the levying of but, at the request of Congress, he i fines and the confiscation of the prop¬ continued in charge a year longer. erty of persons who refused to pay When the army was finally disbanded, them. One difficulty was that nobody it was impossible for the officers and had money to purchase thej confiscated soldiers to receive their arrears until property which was offered for sale. Mr. Morris became responsible for the Disgusted with the system which | repayment of the money to those from earned so much embarrassment to whom it was obtained. The country Washington and so much dissatisfac¬ owed him on his retirement from of tion generally, Alexander Hamilton,in flee a half million dollars, a very large 1781, suggested the appointment of sum for those times, all of which was Robert Morris to the position of Su¬ ultimately repaid. He was a member perintendent of Finance, in which he of the convention to frame the new was to have authority to form and constitution and rendered efficient ser¬ carry out measures to fill the empty vice in that body, as also in the United treasury and restore the public credit. States Senate of which he became a From’thls time he was known as the member. He was offered by President financier, his salary being six thousand Washington the position of Secretary dollars a year, certainly a very small of Treasury, but declined it, recom¬ one in comparison with the services mending Hamilton who was named. which he was expected to render. The His position of financier having been j obligations of the Government, mostly laid aside, Robert Morris became asso- j in Continental money, which had de¬ dated in business with Gouverneur preciated to a very low ebb, were Morris. The two were not relatives, nearly a hundred and fifty-millions of though bearing the same name. They dollars. The Confederation, which engaged in the Chinese and Indian had been hastily formed, under the trade, then regarded highly profitable. pressure of a common danger, had Robert Morris lived in a magnificent proved entirely inadequate to provid¬ mansion on Market street. Philadel¬ ing the needed means to wage a suc¬ phia, where he usually entertained cessful contest against Great Britain. Washington when the latter was in Morris endeavored to meet his re¬ the city, they being warm friends, as sponsibilities in such a way as to pro¬ the frequent references to Morris in mote the interests of the country. He the diary and correspondence of the urged the states to pay their different first President, amply prove. assessments in specie, since the paper Robert Morris delighted in enter money had become practically worth¬ taining prominent men, whether less. Failing in this he was often Americans or foreigners, and it is | obliged to make good the deficiencies probable that his extravagance con¬ that arose, from his own purse. Foiled tributed to his ultimate ruin. The in the execution of the measures he re¬ dwelling in which he lived originally commended at home, he turned for aid belonged to Richard Penn, grandson to foreign countries, endeavoring to of the founder of Pennsylvania. The negotiate loans from France, Spain desire to entertain his friends in a still and Holland, in turn. He succeeded more magnificent residence, was an¬ in obtaining from the last named other factor in his pecuniary downfall country $1,400,000, which was a very He purchased a square of ground ex¬ welcome addition to the slender means tending from Chestnut to W alnut in the Government Treasury. He con¬ street, between Seventh and Eighth, tinued to insist that the taxes appor¬ and here he proceeded to erect at | tioned among the various colonies enormous expense a palace fit for the ; should be paid by those who owed occupancy of a king. It became known them in coin, and not in paper money as “Morris’folly,” and longj before it or in supplies, such as grain, hay, etc., was completed, it was seized by the the latter method being very objection¬ Sheriff at |the suit of his creditors. No j able for several reasons. Failing in AN OLD CHURCH- purchaser could be found, tor such an The Church at Evansburg Said to he One', of elaborate structure, and it was Ulti¬ the Oldest In the United States. mately torn down and the materials In the little village of Evansburg. sold at public sale Montgomery county, on the Morris owned much real estate, as ssaue Perkiomen and some six miles already noted, all of which was sold from Phoenixville, is one of the oldest by the Sheriff to satisfy the claims of and most interesting churches in the greedy creditors. The largest tract United States. This church is fast was that at Morrisville containing closing out the second century ofits 2500 acres, on which were a grist mill, iron works and manufactories of var¬ existence, and there are very fe^ organizations in this country. In IJQ ious kinds. None of these ever made there was founded in England the any substantial return It was on the Society for the Propagation of the Morrisville tract that Morris had hope Gospel in Foreign Parts,” which -™1® of fixing the capital of the country, the first Protestant Missionary Society and he was one of the members of a organiz d. The Society soon began an commission appointed to locate it active propaganda in America, and there but the plan ultimately failed one of the first churches established 1 because Washington favored the site was St. James at Evansburg,) and for fir allv selected In addition to his a number of years the rector of Christ s ! land investments there, in Philadel- church, Philadelphia, had charge of I phia, and near Valley Forge, he bought in connection with the opera¬ the mission and came .. re??1:*rlLtv,° minister to the little folks that gath¬ tions of the North American Land ered there from the surrounding Perk¬ Company, in which he was the leadipg spirit, millions of acres elsewhere for a iomen Valley. . . _„„ ’ In 1721 the St. James Mission was trifling sum. . formally organized into a parish, and a His land speculations brought him church building erected, which was a into contact with the unprincipled quaint, curious old structure that long men who, in connection with other cir¬ stood in the centre of the burying cumstances, finally effected his ruin. ground. The building was one story He was arrested for debt, and, having no means of payment, was confined in high, with a shed roof m front over the entrance. There were sashed win- prison for nearly four years. He was a victim of the rage for speculation, dows on each side, two end windows and one.high up in the gable, which, his operations being bo vast as to be with its projecting donner, resembled beyond his control when the time a great nose on the little building. came to meet bis pressing obligations Washington frequently visited him The glass in these old windows was diamond shaped panes, set ^ leaden when he was in prison, and condoled sash brought from England. The date with him in his unmerited misfor¬ stone bore the following inscription tunes. He enjoyed five years or more of freedom, dyiug in 1806, at the age of “J. S. and J. P., Church Wardens which represented the initials of James seventy-two. His widow died in 1827. Shannon and James Pawling church They had a large family of children, wardens and early members of those seven sons and daughters in all. Washington often praised Robert w ell-known families. In 1742 when the congregation of Morris for his faithfulness in the re¬ Augustus Lutheran church of the sponsible position he occupied as na- Trappe decided to erect a church build¬ ancial agent of the struggling repub¬ ing a Committee was sent to inspect lic Just before the attack on York- the St. James’ church with a view of town, Morris borrowed on his own responsibility thirty thousand dollars planning their church after it, and they were so well pleased with t to relieve the distress of the American building that they took it for their soldiers, without which the campaign might have resulted in failure instead model. The old church at the Trappe of being as it was the crowning sue still stands as a memorial of the chare® architecture of the early part of the cess of the war. The sad fate of his later years was due to the fault of eighteenth century. , In 1732 William Lane,a son of Edward others, and it will always remain a matter of re^et that such experiences Lane, a pioneer of the Perkiomen val¬ ley died and left 42 acres of excellent in his old age should have been en ground “for the use of successive countered by one who rendered such ministers of St. James parish forever. valuable services to his country m connection with the Revolutionary This generous gift has greatly helped the congregation to sustain a minister struggle. ever since. In 1738 a band of robbers who infested the Perkiomen valley broke into the church, stole the cloth from the pulpit, the cushions from the pews, a peuter communion service and a baptismal basin. adelphia, July 30, 1787, with “Gouver- 1777 after the battle of German-1 neur Morris, in his phaeton with my tovvn, the Continental army on its re- horses; went up to one Jane Moore’s in treat up the Germantown pike, turned the vicinity of Valley Forge to get the church into a hospital. Here hun¬ trout.” Trout creek was famous for dreds of sick and wounded soldiers its trout in that day. Here on thiB were cared for, one hundred died and property the fish were taken, close to are buried in the churchyard adjoining. the famous springs which still pour A small stone marks their graves, and forth their crystal waters to flow into each Memorial Day this time-worn Trout creek and on down to the cenotaph is covered with flowers by Schuylkill, a mile away. While Mor¬ the neighboring Grand Army posts. ris was fishing the next day, the future In 1788 the parish was incorporated President of the new republic rode under the laws of the state. The rec¬ over the old camp ground, and in- j tor then was Rev. Slator Clay who spected the huts erected nearly ten also ministered for St. David’s,Radnor; years before, then described as being St. Peter’s, Great Valley; and Swedes in ruins. On his return to Mrs. church, Upper Merion. He supplied Moore’s he “found Robert Morris and these charges thirty years and died be¬ his lady there.” What more natural, loved by all. since Robert Morris—the great Finan¬ The present parsonage was built in cier of the Revolution, the intimate 1799, and additions have been made friend of Washington at whose city from l*006 1° time. The corner stone house he practically made his home, of the present edifice was laid with im- while at the Constitutional convention pressive ceremonies August 1843 and over which be presided—owned the the following March it was formally adjoining farm and spent some time consecrated by Bishop Henry Grunder- there every summer for a number of bund. St. James’, Evansburg and years, fishing in the clear waters of Augustus at the Trappe are (visited by Trout creek, and enjoying the quiet thousands of people during the sum¬ beauty of the vicinity. The next day, mer months. The churchyards adjoin¬ after it had ceased raining, they all set ing these old churches are full of in¬ out for the city, and as a matter of terest, and most any day visitors may course, the whole party dined at be seen among the graves and reading Robert Morris’ and the next day also. the quaint epitaphs on the headstones The brigade commanded bv Muhlen¬ These old graveyards contain the ashes berg was the nearest to the Schuylkill, of some of America’s noblest men and and consequently more exposed to the women. attacks of the enemy, should any such have been meditated. Several re¬ doubts were erected in order to make MUHLOTBfi’S MANSION. the position more secure, one of them on this farm. Being on land which EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY OF (jffiNERAL was cultivated, the remains have dis¬ PETER MUHLENBERG THE PATRIOT. ite appeared, although the site is still His Mansion Now Owned by the Moore pointed out by old residents of the neighborhood. Family, of Which Ool. D. F. Moore Is a Member—Washington's Visit. The Moore Mansion was the most convenient location for General Muh¬ Ascending Trout creek from the lenberg’s headquarters under the cir¬ Conrad property, owned by Robert cumstances. That portion of the Morris in Revolutionary times, the building furthest from the road is the next farm in order is owned by the part that has come down from the hoirs of Edwin Moore, one of whom is Revolutionary period. It is worthy of j Assemblyman Daniel F. Moore, of note that the property has remained PhoeDixville. The mansion is occu¬ in the same family for considerably pied by William T. Reitnard. Like more than a century. As has been al¬ others in the vicinity the farm is un¬ ready mentioned, John Moore oc¬ derlaid with limestone and is highly cupied the farm at the beginning of productive. An old limekiln, no the encampment. He dying January 1, j longer used, may still be seen along 1778, the property passed to his widow i the road, on the opposite side of the and son Richard. It contained then creek from the buildings. Close at more than twoj hundred acres of land; i hand is the abandoned quarry from which was taken the limestone burned now there are about seventy acres in the farm, much having been sold. in the kiln. On the farm are several abandoned quarries or mines from Richard Moore died in 1823, and the which copper ore was taken two hun- j property passed to his son Edwin, re¬ cently deceased dred years ago, the enterprise being given up when it was found that the General Muhlenberg was a young metal was not present in paying qual man at this time—but thirty-one years of age. In a previous paper mention ities. It is probable that the real ob¬ ject of those engaged in the enterprise has been made of his clerical career. may have been the discovery of gold, j Early in 1768 he was ordained a min- Here lived the widow of John Moore { ister of the Evangelical Lutheran and here came Washington from Phil¬ jh, of wHcTTas father, Rev. morning we heard hard ana long con- ...enry Melchoir, Muhlenburg, of Gnued cannonading, which seemed to Trappe, was the founder in America. be about thirty miles off towards the Peter .Muhlenberg was Blatant rector of Zion’s and St. Pauls j Br^Svinseept!l2‘-We received one Churches at New Germantown and message after another, that the loss of Bedminster, in Hunterdon and Som¬ the American army was very JtSrnecl erset counties, New Jersey. Whils and this gening .myison Fred returned there, his marriage with An“a B|ir|)ai0a from Philadelphia, with his wile ana Meyer took placemen November 6, 1770 child, with the news that the British For some time previous to this theie armv was already near the city. In had been considerable emigration from J the afternoon, six wagons with a ^d the German population of the U noted oassed bv; they conveyed the princi States, especially Pennsylvania to the pal captive Quakers to Augusta county valley of the Blue Ridge, m Virginia. VirgiS Now Pennsylvania, prepare A Lutheran congregation was fo™ed to meet the Lord, your God. at Woodstock, in Dun more county. ! Sunday, Sept 14.—A restless Sa A call was extended to young Muhlen I bath No end to chaises, coaches and berg but in order that he might ac¬ wagons with fugitives. A g0?Jen?®“ 1 cepts? under the laws of Virginia, it of intelligence informed me where the was required that he be ordained by a British army was encamped and sup^ /'Shop of the English Church. He posed that a division clc.8® // ailed for London and was there or- Schuylkill near us and take the great | graphically described by the poe , Thomas Buchanan P08-® • wav to iinlton, was with the troops who marched past herb to, the Perkiomen. The procession lasted the whole nigh , a miss doping the 6n( „f and we had all kir ds of visitors from officers wet to the breast, who had to th^ Americans0.jVaUey4 Forge, the march in that cone ition the cold damp night through, and to bear hunger i f°KxrraSpf""-2“ and thirst at the same time. guafi robs them of courage and health, and Thursday, Sept. 25.—God’s instead of prayers we hear from most and goodness has li bened to our pr. the national evil, curses. ers and protected ui. All is quiet, am Saturday, Sept. 20.—The two armies the American army has not returned are near together, the American on from New Hanove . The report is this side and the British on the other that the British sc idiers behave bar¬ side of the Schuylkill. Our weaker barously. They ye ter ay hanged up vessels have baked bread twice to-day an old man of seventy or eighty years and distributed all the food we had to of age, and when nearly dead cut him the sick and ailing.' In the evening a down again; to-day Jwill have its own i nurse with three English children i f a evils. Yesterday ''evening we had fugitive family of consequence from plenty of visitors, apd to-day we bad Philadelphia, arrived and could get no to breakfast Lord Stirling, General farther, as it was night. They begged Wayne, their aids, and other officers. for lodging, which we granted, as At two in the afternoon a cold, heavy good or bad as we had it. Give rain commenced, and continued shelter willingly (Rom. xii : 13), par¬ nearly all night. The poor -oldi< ro ticularly to children, who are yet must suffer much, as they have no saints. There were also two negroes, tents. Our barn was foil of these I servants of the English family, who seeking shelter, and the little hay ' wished to one another in secret that which we had saved for winter was the British might be victorious, as scattered and spoiled. then all negro slaves would become Tuesday, Sept. 30 —Since yesterday free; and this opinion is said to be gen¬ the main American army is said to eral among all negroes in America. have advanced on the Skippack road, Sunday, Sept. 21.—In the afternoon and to be only twenty-three miles we heard that the British army was in from Philadelphia. In one vicinity motion, and that it was probable they the militia are stationed, which is ruin would come upon the great road at to the farms in wood, hay, straw, and our house and attack the American grain. I can neither read nor write in army. We were advised to fly, as these restless times and cannot be a battle might take place and our thankful enough for the gracious house be plundered or burned. My goodness, protection, grace and mercy son Henry’s wife determined to go to of our saviour, which has governed us New Hanover, and wished us two old miserable worms up to this time. My people to accompany her. I saw no children and family are scattered one possibility, but wished my sickly wife here and the other there. Mr. Knnze to go and leave me behind alone. She and his family have remained in Phil¬ was not to be persuaded, but would adelphia. rather live, siiffer and die with me in Wednesday, Oct. 1.—This morning Providence. At twelve o’clock at several American regiments marched night the advance of the American off with flying colors to join the main army, with many field pieces, came army. There are stilljfrom 2000 to 3000 past and some of them knocked at our men in this vicinity, mostly militia, door, as if to break it in. Our people commanded by Major General Arm¬ rose, asked them what they wanted and were answered “fire.” A German strong. Thursday, Oct. 2.—The remaining captain, however, drove them off. militia marched down the great road, Monday, Sept. 22.—The whole as the main army is said to have ad¬ American army came back and en¬ vanced on the Skippack road, nearer camped a milo above our house, be¬ town. It looks as if an army of locusts cause it was said the English were crossing and coming upon the great had been there. Friday, Oct. 3.—There is a report i road at out house, and the battle was that at daylight to-morrow the British to take place here. We had to-day very cold and rough winds, which outposts at Barren Hill and German¬ with the equinoxes and other inci¬ town will be attacked. dents, have rendered me quite sickly. Saturday, Oct. 4.—Early in the morning we heard several field-pieces We have the whole day bad calls from hungry and thirsty soldiers. and in the evening were told that the Wednesday. Sept. 24.—Last night advanoed forces of both sides had we slept quietly, under the gracious fought and been driven backwards protection of God. A portion of the and forwards, until two o’clock in the British army is still lying about five afternoon; that the American forces miles from our house, and to-day the were retreating and would again en¬ American army is doming back from camp in their old position. The Brit¬ New Hanover. Tc wards evening we ish advance on this side of German¬ saw several high r sing smokes, and town, had planted cannon about our are informed that the British have Lutheran church and fired out of the burned the houses of many militia of¬ windows, but were driven out at first ficers. It is suppo ;ed they will come attack. It may easily be imagined in up and attack tbp American avant what condition it is. The church at Barren Hill is not likely to be better off; the one at Reading is used as a hospital, and is full of wounded, and the one at the village of Lebanon is full of Hessian captives. Ellw'ood Roberts. The historical light which xo weeks, had been concentrated ’ SAM0EL PENNYPACKER. was turned upon other scene Someth’ng Ati ut the Miller of skippack these mills on the Perkiomen, 'who^Founded tiie Pennypacker FamJy. into an enduring fame were The Pennypacker family of this pursue their peaceful work Jof gr community descended trom Samuel ing grists and fulling cloth, Pennypacker who owned a mill near what did the owner think of the ever Skippack on the Perkiomen When occurring around him ? He lc he was a voung man of thirty years of out towards the Perkiomen, saw his age the War of the Revolutio bro < desolated fields and empty barn and out and he was caught in a tide of taking down his large family Bible, events which he did not appreciate, which was his solace under every af¬ but which for ail that will help to keep fliction, he wrote in German :—On the bis memory fresh for he was the friend 26th day of September, 1779 an army of V asbington. He was severely tried, of thirty thousand men encamped in ( for a year or two later, he found him- Skippack township, burned all the I self between the contending armies : fences, carried away all the fodder, It was the gloomiest period of the hay, oats and wheat,and took their de- j Revolutionary war. Burgoyne was parture on the 8th of October, 1777 advancing with an invading army from Written for those who come after me, the North. Washington and Howe by Samuel Pannebecker.” had been contending for the posses¬ W hat a numerous and varied poster¬ sion of Philadelphia, the most im¬ ity have descended from the quiet old portant city the Colonies. The battle Dutch Mennonite in the century and of the Brandywine on the 11th of Sep¬ a half since he flourished at.the mil! tember has resulted in defeat. Wayne on the Skippack. They comprise had been surprised and beaten, at people in all stations of life, living in Paoli on the night of the 18th. A widely different regions and in diverse manoeuvres along the Schuylkill to circumstances—plain farmers and prevent Howe’s passage of the river, mechanics are a portion, as were their being a final effort to save Philadel¬ ancestors; but also comp ising preach phia, had been unsuccessful. This ers, physicians, lawyers, teachers, edi¬ was the situative of military affairs, tors, soldiers, politicians, authors, when on Friday. September 26, 1777, generals and statesmen. Here is a list a cold, rough windy day, the Ameri¬ of some of the notable men who have can army, numbering about eight sprung from the loins of old Heinrich, thousand Continentals and two thou- a list of whose descendants would ex Militia came down the road from Potts- reed three thousand, as given by town, and encamped here. Washing¬ Samuel W. Pennypacker. So far as ton fixed his headquarters at the house known right have been ministers of of Samuel Pennypacker, and the tents the Gospel, including Mathias, Who of the soldiers were stretched along was a Bishop among the Mennonites. upon the high grounds on both sides of Besides Isaac A. Pennypacker, the the Perkiomen. The situation was not friend of Neal Dow, the apostle of very pleasing to the quiet farmers of Prohibition, Ebjah F Pennypacker, the neighborhood who looked with once candidate for State Treasurer, misgivings upon their barns filled with and Edmund Pennypacker, President recent crops, the returns for a whole of a tern perance organization extend¬ year’s careful labor. Their horses, ing throughout the South, it would be they had in anticipation, driven away, easy to place one who never touched and hidden in the distant roads. The alcohol or tobacco. Then there was poorly*supplied soldiers of the Revolu¬ Isaac S. Pennypacker, Senator from tion had learned how to forage, and Virginia, of whom Reverdy Johnson, were by no means different. It was wrote as possessing “sterling integrity four o’clock in the afternoon when the and had the confidence of every man army arrived, and before night every in the Senate,” while Thaddeus Stev¬ fence upon the place was carried away ens complained of him as being ‘too for camp fires. The hay and straw d——d honest.” Fourteen have been in the barns disappeared, and were physicians, among them Benjamin followed by four stacks of unthreshed Pennypacker, resident physician of wheat. Every fowl perished save an the Philadelphia House of Correction, old hen, which was trying to hatch a Jacob Pennypacker, President of the late brood. So serious were the de¬ Medical Society of Chester county, predations, and so numerous the com- and Isaac Pennypacker a Professor in complaints that Washington issued an the old Philadelphia College of Medi¬ order, saying that he would hold the cine. Brigadiers responsible, who in turn The children of old Henrich were notified the Colonels and lower of¬ trained in the belief that it was wrong ficials that they must, at their peril, to hold office, to engage in law suits, prevent the continuance of such in¬ and to fight, even in self defence. Also fringement of discipline. On Satur- for the expectations of men ! From dav Gen. Smallwood joined the army them have come a generation whose with a reinforcement of one thousand Maryland Militia. _ , . , „ ,_ 45 : chief distinction has been won in law, politics and war. Twenty-seven have been lawyers; of these three district at¬ torneys, one president of a law aca¬ THE DAVIS FARM WAS THEN OWNED BY demy and five judges, Isaac S. Penny- THOMAS WATERS. Li* packer, long a judge of the U. S. Dis¬ —-—-— n trict Court, refused a seat in the Su¬ Changes Wrought Around Historic’ Valley preme bench of Virginia, to which his Forge—The Home of the Dewees Family double first cousiD, Green B. Samuels, Seventy Years Ago-Old Families etc. afterwards obtained. Peter, of the Next above the Stephens properties second generation was Assessor of on Trout Creek is the farm owned and Philadelphia county, and Henry Van occupied by Mordeoai Davis, who was j derslice, of the third was sheriff of born here about 1830, his grandfather, i Berks county, before the Revolution. I Mordeoai Davis, having purchased it Since then there has been a United j in 1821. During the Revolutionary States Senator, two members of Con¬ War, Thomas Waters, a prominent gress, a Presidential elector, a Canal man in his day, owned the farm and Commission, two members of the Con¬ resided thereon. He also owned two stitutional Convention, a State Treas¬ others in the vicinity, still further from urer, a County Treasurer, five state the Valley Forge campground. Senators and nine Assemblymen. The visit of marauding Hessians to Isaac S. was offered the place of Attor¬ the place about the time that the old ney-General in the Cabinet of Martin forge was burned by the British, has LYanBuren. B. M. P-«*>t itaa moo a | been mentioned in connection with the publican nominee for Congress ana description of that affair, in a pre Benjamin Samuels was the Democratic vious article. When the plunderers nominee for Governor of Iowa. wgre at the farm, having secured much la war, the records of the descend¬ booty in the house which the inmates ants of Heinrich Pennebakker are also had deserted on their approach, they ! as remar .able as their civil history gave chase to hens on which they pro- j During the Revolution John Penne- i posed to feast. The fowls took refuge i backer was one of the committee to under an old smoke house on the j distribute food and clothing among premises, according to tradition, and the families of soldiers, and Henry the pursuers following them discovered Vanderslice bore an active part in mil¬ a considerable sum of money for that itary affairs in Berks county. Direk time,in solid coin,it having been hidden Penny backer was a Captain; Daniel there by the family previous to their Pennebecker was an ensign, and many flight. The place was stripped of hay, others might be mentioned. But the grain, and other produce, the fact that fines imposed upon nearly all the men Thomas Waters was the father-in-law of the third generation for refusal to of William Dewees, who had served assume military duties, shows that the in the patriot army, making him par¬ Mennonite spirit was still in the ascen¬ ticularly obnoxious to the British. dant. Besides those who served in tiie General Sullivan was quartered at war of 1812 and those with Mexico, the the house during the encampment. descendants of Heinrich Pennebakkar It is a matter of history that he enter¬ furnished the Northern army with two tained the idea of resigning his com- , Major Generals, one State Adjutant mand in the army and retiring to General, one Colonel, one Surgeon, private life at this time, his pecuniary two Captains, one Lieutenant, five Ser¬ affairs being in bad condition. He had geants, eight Corporals and 66 pri¬ exhausted hie own means in the con¬ vates. They were also largely repre¬ test, and was thoroughly disheart¬ sented in the Reb61 army. The place ened. Washington’s influence was of General Premiss, who defeated exerted, however, to induce him to Stirling Price at Helena, and bore the remain, which he did, and he was ap¬ brunt of the battle of Shiloh is fixed in pointed later to the command of the the history of the country, while Gen¬ forces in Rhode Island which co¬ eral Galusha Pennypacker earned an operated with the fleet under D’Es- enduring fame in the war as a brave and capable commander. a taing. Htsto:lo Ba n Burned! ' The Waters mansion was further Fire Thursday evening destroyed the from the road than the present farm¬ famous old stone barn opposite General house, having been built, according to Wayne Hotel, whioh has been a fami- the old custom, in the low ground, lar landmark for more than a century. close to the water course. It was torn General Washington’s troops were down in the early thirties, when the uartered there on the one occasion building now standing was erected. uring the Revolutionary war. The The barn in use at the time of the en¬ barn was the property of Miss Minnick. campment, was replaced by a large All the live stock, carriages and wagons i one in 1799, and that by the existing were saved. The Narberth Fire Com- j structure in 1879. pany and the Merion Company, from ! Thomas Waters and Ool. Dewee* Ardmore, saved the surrounding build- j both died in the old house, the latter ■’ “ S .<-n- time, EHizaBeth Gilbert Peart becom¬ j T809 Obi. Dewees was nnaneiany ing his wife. She was also a minister embarrassed towards the end of his and very highly esteemed in the Soci¬ life. Waters had bequeathed the ety. All three are interred in Valley property to his grandson, Waters De¬ Friends’ graveyard. wees, subject to a life right in it for his mother. The latter, some years GENERAL SULLIVAN. after her husband's death, succeeded General John Sullivan was born in in securing the passage by Congress Berwick, Maine, February 17, 1740. of a biil granting compensation to the His father, who emigrated from Ire¬ extent of $7500, a large sum for those land in 1723, died at the great age of days, for the loss of her husband by one hundred and four. He attended the burning of the old forge, more than to the education of his sons, being forty years previously. This was ac¬ himself a scholar of no mean attain¬ complished only after much importu¬ ments. John studied law, was ad¬ nity, the bill having been defeated in mitted to practice, settled at Durham, one Congress, and the contest re¬ New Hampshire, and soon acquired a newed in the next. It will thus be large practice. The position he took seen how slow was the national gov¬ in favor of popular rights prior to the ernment in giving remuneration to outbreak of the Revolution, led to his those who felt Jthe effects of British becoming a major in the militia. In vengeance for their patriotic attitude 1774, he became a member of the Con¬ during the war for independence. tinental Congress. In December of Mrs. Dewees resided on the prop¬ that year, he and John Langdon se- erty until its sale in 1821, already ! f..retlv organized a force, obtained am- mentioned She died at Valley Forge, | moved to places of safety. Tbe gov- late in 1822, over eighty years of age. ■ emor denounced the act as treasona¬ The Davis family are of Welsh or¬ ble, but it was sojon forgotten in the igin, being probably descended from onward march (If events leading to a settler of that name in Radnor who Lexington and Bunker Hill, to Valley came from Wales. There were three i Forge and Yorktown. Both men took brothers—William, of Radnor; Thomas | their seats in the second Congress at of Tredyffrin, and Llewellyn Davis. Philadelphia in May, 1776, and, June A later ancestor was Joseph Davis, of 22, Sullivan was appointed a brigadier Willistown, * Chester county, great¬ general,and immediately joined Wash¬ grandfather of Mordecai, who now re¬ ington at Cambridge. Here he was sides on what was the Water-Dewees < actively employed in collecting ana farm. .The latter’s grandfather bore munition, and captured Fort William the same name, Mordecai, and he it and Mary, mar Portsmouth, before the was who purchased the farm in 1821, arrival of an expected reinforcement his son Joseph coming there to live in from Boston. The plan was executed the old house which had been Sulli¬ without any difficulty, and sixteen van’s headquarters and whose site is cannon, a large quantity of powder, still pointed out to those who seek in¬ and a small supply of arms, were re¬ formation of Revolutionary times. distributing supplies and drilling the Joseph Davis was a well known raw recruits who constituted the minister among Friends, being for American army. many years a speaker at Valley Meet¬ The next spring Sullivan was sent ing, not far distant. He married to Canada to collect the survivors of Eleanor Stephens, daughter of Ste¬ the Montgomery and Arnold expedi¬ phen and Sarah MacVeagh Stevens, tions, of whom he assumed the com¬ They lived here until their death, mand. He led them, after some de¬ Eleanor taking her own life about lay, to Crown Point, where he was 1850, and Joseph dying in 1879, at the superseded by General Gates, who re¬ age of 90 years. tired to Ticonderoga. Angered at the One daughter ot the couple, Sarah promotion of tile junior officer over S., married Moses Walker in 1849. him, Sullivan went to Philadelphia to They occupied a farm purchased from offer his resignation. This was char¬ the estate of James Barry, overlooking acteristic of Sullivan. His besetting the Schuylkill near Morion station, faults were vanity and a desire of be¬ where he died February 24, 1870. ing popular. He was readily induced Here the widow lives with the family to give up his idea of leaving the of her daughter Ellen, who married. army. Washington said of him: William Ramsey. “That he does not want ability, many * Susan, the second daughter of Jos¬ members of Congress can testify, but eph and Eleanor Davis, married he has his wants and he has his foibles. Lewis Walker. Mordecai, the son, He wants experience to move upon a who came into possession of the prop¬ large scale; for the limited and con¬ erty after his father’s death, married tracted knowledge which any of us Hannah Mary Beidler. All the child¬ have in military matters stands ren of Joseph Davis married descend¬ I in very little stead, and is greatly ants of Lewis Walker, the first of that I overbalanced by sound judgment, and family in the vicinity. I some acquaintance with men and Joseph Davis married a second 47 | Kennedy, known as Caffisl d am. j Dooks, especially when accompanied Every span was formed of a single by an enterprising genius, which I piece of timber, extending from one must do General Sullivan the justice pier to another. to say I think he possesses.” Woodman says: “After the work Sullivan was taken prisoner in the was finished, Sullivan invited General unfortunate battle of Long Island. Washington and a number of other of¬ He was liberated on parole, and soon ficers, with some people of the neigh¬ after exchanged for General Prescott. borhood, to come and see it; and take a He was engaged in the campaign walk over it. A number complied which led up to the American vic¬ with his request, among whom was tories at Trenton and Princeton. Sul¬ David Stephens, who, residing near livan was engaged later in an unfor¬ the place, was probably better ac¬ tunate expedition to Staten Island, quainted with the freshets that oc¬ which was followed by a court of in¬ curred in the river and particularly quiry, held immediately after the bat¬ those upon the breaking up of the ice, tle of Brandywine, the result being an than any others present. honorable acquittal of Sullivan. Sul¬ “He was asked by Sullivan his opin¬ livan’s part in the battle of Brandy¬ ion of the stability of the bridge and wine on September 11, 1777, is well how long he supposed it would stand. knowD. He commanded the right He in reply informed Sullivan that it of the army, which was attacked by might possibly stand till the next ice Cornwallis, who had crossed the flood, but he was certain that in the stream by fords supposed to be inac¬ I next breaking up of the ice, if aeeom- cessible and outflanked Sullivan’s I panied by a heavy flood, it would be troops. After vainly endeavoring to carried off. rally his command, he was compelled “Sullivan, who was rather' profane to retreat. The contest was, however, in his language, though in other re¬ kept up till nightfall, when the army- spects an amiable and benevolent man, retired without molestation, wit" repeated his assurance of the durabil¬ j their artillery and baggage. ity of his structure, by positively de¬ The misfortunes at Brandywine were claring that all the ice floods which popularly attributed to Sullivan, but ever were and would be in the Schuyl¬ his conduct was again investigated by kill would not be able to destroy it. order of Congress, and he was again “It stood during the ensuing sum¬ acquitted. Lafayette, who was with mer, but at the breaking-up of the nce him as a volunteer, insisted that he be¬ at the close of the next winter, it was, haved with great courage. with the exception of the piers, car¬ At the battle of Germantown, three ried away, and thus ended Sullivan’s j weeks later, Sullivan and Wayne led bridge.” the principal attack, and completely The piers were not high, enough to . surprised the British, driving all be¬ permit the water and ice to pass under | fore them, until the course of success the bridge, and the materials of the \ was checked by the attempt to dis¬ superstructure were so frail and so ! lodge the British from the Chew man¬ slightly put together that they were j sion. The failure was not due to Sulli¬ unequal to ..withstanding enormous van or Wayne, and Washington highly pressure, and everything iwas swept complimented both for their behavior, away by the sudden rise of the stream and especially Sullivan. The career caused by the breaking up of the ice. of Sullivan subsequent to the Valley The force exerted by the broken frag¬ Forge encampment must be reserved ments, piled one upon another at such for another article. a time, is verjl great, indeed, as any Neighborhood tradition tells com¬ one who has noticed the effect of such paratively little of Sullivan at Valley an ice freshet upon the trunks of large Forge. Sullivan’s men were not lo¬ trees in the vicinity can testify. Sulli¬ cated in the vicinity of his headquart¬ van’s bridge was much narrower than ers but were on the river Schuylkill, the structures that are built at the between Fatland ford and Washing¬ present time, not more than 12 feet in ton’s headquarters at the Isaac Potts width. Three pieces of timber ex¬ mansion. tended from pier to pier, and on these During the winter, Sullivan’s men, slabs were laid for flooring, being fast¬ j who were all from New England states, ened to the timbers by wooden pins. under his instructions built the bridge It was scarcely to be expected that across the Schuylkill known as Spen¬ such a bridge would be durable. cer and Sullivan’s, whose site is still JEHU STEPHENS. marked by two monuments, one on j each side of the river. The objects It was “Jehu” and not “John” were to provide a means of crossing ■ Stephens, a son of Benjamin Stephens, should a hasty retreat be required at who was missing after the battle of any time, and to afford facilities for ' Brandywine and was sought by Sarah obtaining supplies for the army. Piers Stephens who afterward became the were built in the river, the founda-1 wife of Edward Woodman and mother tions of which yet remain and could of Henry Woodman, she beingaccom- be seen at low water previous to the i | panied by her aunt, the mother of construction of the dam below Port j Jehu, in her search. He was found at farm of Henry S. Kriebel, but then be¬ Falls of Schuylkill, he having suffered longing to Benjamin Fuller. The from camp feVer and having become j northern section of the encampment, very much emaciated. It would be in¬ then belonging to Frederick Wampole, teresting to know what became of in whose house was Washington’s Jehu Stephens, but the writer has been headquarters. It is now owned by unable to obtain any information on Jacob Detwiler. The western section this point. was then owned by Jacob Bossert AMELIA FISHER’S FAMILY. and now'by Charles Wampole. In naming the children of Amelia One flank rested upon the great Stephens Fisher in the last of the highway, the present brick Lutheran previous articles of this series, the ac¬ and Reformed church standing at the count of one daughter was inadvert¬ edge of the tented city. ently omitted. The following para¬ The first front conveniently reached graph should have been inserted in its to the waters of the Skippack, extend¬ proper place : Catharine, daughter„of ing for a considerable distance up that Jacob and Amelia Stephens Fisher, stream to where it receives its easterly was born May 18, 1792, died Feb. 8, branch. From thence it stretched up 1885. Buried at Montgomery ceme¬ the incline to the heights to the east¬ tery, Norristown, Pa. She was twice ward. Much of the surface was pre¬ married—first, to Jonathan Clemmens; vious to the arrival of the army cov¬ second, to Lawrence Snively. One ered with a heavy forest, which was son of the first marriage—-J. R. Olem- cut down for fuel and other purposes mens—is still living; also one daugh¬ during the stay of the troops. The ter of the second marriage, Lydia strip of woodland now covering the Ulriek, both residing in Philadelphia. hill on the southerly border of the an¬ John R. Clemmens lived in his boy¬ cient encampment has no old or large hood days with Joseph Davis, the trees in it. The present forest is Davis farm being near the old Stephens wholly the growth since 1777, or since I homestead. the axe of the soldiers levelled the In the same article the husband of original tress. Anna Stephen’s Richards was desig¬ During the encampment here sev¬ nated as “Enos” Richards when eral events of importance took place “Enoch” was meant. that are worthy of recital. Among Ellwood Roberts, i these was the burial of the American officers slain or mortally wounded at the battle of Germantown. General TOWAIM. Francis Nash, of North Carolina, had been wounded in the thigh by a can¬ non ball, which had killed his horse. THE HISTORIC TOWNSHIP THAT WAS THE He was carried to the present farm of CAMPING GROUND OF WASHINGTON. Benjamin Markley on a litter made of The Mennonite Graveyard, and Its Patriotic poles, where he died on the 9th of Oc¬ Dead—Some of t'ne Heroes—Spitenagel the tober. At that time the property be¬ Spy—The Story of the Old Woman. longed to Adam Gotwals. Other of¬ ficers buried here were Major John There is considerable of interest White, of Philadelphia: Lieutenant connected with the Revolution in Matthew Smith, of Middlesex county, Towamencin township owing to the Virginia, and Colonel Boyd. Major encampment of Washington’s army Smith was an aid of General Sullivan here, and the burial of several officers and was shot by a British soldier from within the Mennonite Graveyard. It a cellar window in an attempt to fire is not known that any British detach¬ Chew’s house. Lieatenant Smith had ments traversed its surface and here been killed in the hazardous effort to was the farthest that the American carry a flag to demand an immediate army penetrated northward within the surrender of the house, add was struck county of Montgomery. by a musket ball. The monument in After the battle of Germantown the the graveyard bears these inscrip¬ fugitive arm of General ashington pitched their tents along the northern tions : On the northeast side is chiselled : edge of the township from the'Sth to the “Per Acta Belli. In memory of Col¬ 16th of October, 1777. The main body onel Boyd, Major White, of Philadel¬ came hither from the borders of the phia; Lieutenant Smith, of Va., Amer¬ Perkiomen on the afternoon of the ican officers wounded in the battle of 8th. The encampment grounds of Germantown, and interred side by Washington and his army of weary side in the order named, southward soldiers, resting for a brief period in a from General Nash.” secure position at a distance from the On the northwest side is “Honor to enemy’s detachments, were about a the brave.” mile above Kulpsville of the present On the southwest face of the monu¬ day. They comprise some 300 acres, ment : then the property of different owners. “Vota via me a pro Patria: The most southerly of these, compris¬ In memory of General Nash, of ing a farm of 120 acres, is now the 49 ton was very clear, and resemoieo other portraits drawn by the pen and North Carolina, mortally wounded In ! pencil of his contemporaries. th« battle of Germantown. Interred He was accustomed to relate, how, October 1777 in the presence of the previous to the Revolution, a few com¬ army here encamped.” paratively tame Indians yet remained | On the southwest aide: “Erected in the vicinity, occupying a hut about by citizens of Germantown and Norris- half a mile southwest of Kulpsville, town in 1844.” upon the Boorse homestead. There During the stay of the army at tbeir was also an encampment of the red- encampment, one John Farndon, of men near the creek'along the Skippack j Colonel Hartley’s regiment, suffered road. Once upon a time, when start¬ death as the dreadful penalty for de¬ ing on a journey, an old woman was sertion, as he had left the army on the unable to follow the rest, and they saw 25th of September. This execution she would only be an incumbrance. took place on the afternoon of the 9th I To get rid of her nothing better sug¬ of October, immediately after the fun¬ gested itself to their cruel minds than eral of the officers. The place of exe¬ to make a bon-fire of her. So they cution is said to have been on the Sal¬ proposed to seize her, fasten her to a ford line, about a quarter of a mile stake and set fire to her, intending in northwest of where the Skippack Indian fashion to all get uproariously crosses the turnpike. A few weeks be¬ drunk and have an enjoyable time, fore a detachment of American troops dancing in a circle around her, and be¬ encamped at Paoli in Chester county ing diverted by her sufferings. But, find whilst under command of General fortunately, the woman was too alert jAnthony Wayne had been surprised for her unnatural kinsmen. She es¬ and many of them massacred by the caped from their hands and fled to a British. There were charges of neg¬ place of safety. She afterwards lived lect on the part of Wayne, and it was for many years along the Perbiomen, said that more watchfulness on his near Zieglerrille. part would have prevented this ca¬ tastrophe. So a Court of Inquiry was held here concerning this matter, but Wayne was acquitted of blame Over Court Lord Sterling presided. 'SULLIVAN’S LATER CAREER- The local histori&Da of the vicinity relate some incidents of the stay of the HIS RESIGNATION FROM THE ARMY AND army here which may well be worthy RETURN TO CIVIL LIFE. of preservation. The grandfather of Tliat he Was a Man of Great Ability is Shown, John C. Boorae, Esq., also named John by His Achiivements as Lawyer, Boorse, was then a boy of fourteen. In Soldier and Jurist. the evening of his days he used to re- It has been observed, perhaps, by v.41 j r edification of hia grand- the readers of this series of articles children various reminiscences of his upon Valley Forge, that it is the aim early youth He said that a spy bear¬ of the writer to impart to the various ing the name of Ssitenagel, supposed topics treated as actual, living interest *° ^aJe bfen » Tory, had been de¬ in addition to the historic value at¬ tected and captured. By the stern taching to them. For this reason rec¬ rules of war death was the appointed ollections of the period of the encamp¬ penalty for his temerity. The scene ment have been interspersed with de¬ of the execution was without the camp scriptions of the buildiugo occupied by across the Skippack in Salford, about American Generals as headquarters 160 yards northeast from the present and their surroundings as they now ap¬ turnpike, and some 30 yards from that stream. An apple tree was selected pear. Reminiscences of Revolutionary families have been purposely inter¬ that long afterwards remained stand¬ mingled with data as to their living ing on land which was then owned by descendants, in order that the narra but later the property tion might not relate exclusively to the of Abraham Nyce. Besides himself a dead and buried past, but that it might peat crowd of boys from the neieh- be imbued, to a certain extent at least, borhood, drawn by morbid cariosity with the life of the present time, and had collected to view the hideous spec¬ tacle of the spy’s shameful death. Mr thus become, as it were, a living, j Boorse remembered seeing Washing¬ breathing reality. In this way, it is ton mounting a horse,and hearing him hoped, the connection between the give orders to the soldiers to form a past and the present has been main¬ close circle in order to shut out the de¬ tained, and a deeper meaning imparted moralizing view from the sight of the to the lessons derived from the story of urchins—mindful even amid the crush¬ the Encampment era. The memories ing cares and perplexities of the na- of the past are precious, and they are tion’s griefs and perils that the hearts well worth preserving, especially when of the young should not be hardened they are joiued indissolubly to events by cruel and unwholesome exhibitions. of national importance and patriotic interest. Mr. Boorse’s description of the pres- ent personal appearance of Washing- f i'liis plan or treating the subject, Atthougn greamy vexea arnus turn while it mav fail to preserve that con¬ of affairs, Sullivan decided to besiege tinuity of narration which is often re¬ Newport with his army, augmented garded as desiijable, certainly has its by this time to ten thousand men. advantages. It avoids the monotony But the fates were again unpropitious. which arises from a relation of events A violent storm arose which prevailed and circumstances lying wholly in the for three days, ruining the ammuni¬ past. It aims to present the scene and tion and causing much exposure and surroundings of camp life at Valley loss. Both fleets suffered greatly in Forge as they appeared to the people this storm, but the French vessels of that day It causes the detai s ot again coming in sight, the American i that eventful period to take on a local generals besought d’Estaing to assist coloring which they would not other¬ in the capture of Newport. He de¬ wise possess. cided, however, to proceed to Boston SULLIVAN’S LATER CAREER. to refit his fleet, notwithstanding a 1 Sullivan’s bridge, though it was not protest signed by all but Lafayette, destined to remain a very long time, which was as violent in tone as unwise answered well its purpose for the time j in its conception, since it created, ill- being. It became available for bring¬ feeling between the allies. Aban¬ ing supplies into camp from the easo- doned by the French and deserted by | ern side of the Schuylkill and it was many of his own troops, Sullivan was i used by the army when the Anal order compelled to relinquish the enter¬ was given to march in pursuit of Olm- prise. No sooner was the retrogra.de i ton’s army when the news ol the evac¬ movement begun than the British uation of Philadelphia reached the sallied forth, the battle of Butt’s Hill ears of the Commander-in-chief. 1 he being the result. The approach of Sir men who had suffered from hunger Henry Clinton from New York with and disease through the long winter, reinforcements induced Sullivan to were soon ready for the marc j, and retreat, a feat which he accomplished they hurried almost gaily down Was ' without loss. | ington Lane, as it is still called, to [he Sullivan received the thanks of Lon- | river’s edge, and over the bridge tnat gress and of the Legislatures of New swayed back and forth under its un¬ Hampshire and Rhode Island for hi j wonted burden. Over the hills they . zeal, courage and ability in this cam_i filed toward the Delaware, glad to es- paign, which to a certain extent roc \ cane from the inaction and monotony ompensed him for the failure arising of camp life, even though it were ex¬ from no fault of his own. He re¬ changed tor the post of danger on the mained in the East until the following field of battle. , . „ ,, , spring, but the scene of operations Sullivan, meantime, had left the hos¬ had shifted to other sections, and h«| pitable roof of Thomas Waters, having was chosen to lead an expedition been appointed to the important com¬ against the Iroquois Confederacy, mand of the forces in Rhode Island whom it was thought necessary to where the British held Newport with punish for the aid they had given the six thousand men. It is a tribute to British. He built Fort Sullivan at the the courage and ability of Sullivan, confluence .of the Susquehanna and whatever trivial faults he may have Ti/bga Moving towards Elmira he possessed, that he was assigned to the rjfeated the British and Indians under | performance of such a task as now lay ohnsou and Brant, laying waste the | before him. Sullivan took post at fieldB and villages of the savages as Providence, with a much smaller force far as the Genesee river. The Indians than that of the British, but American were compelled to retire to Fort Niag¬ lmnPB were greatly raised in July oy ara, and they were comparatively ?hTap£”a=ce of Count d- Estaiag , powerless thereafter. At the close of with twelve ships and a like number ot this campaign, Sullivan retired frorn frigates off Cape Henlopen, Washing¬ the service, receiving the thank# of ton sent instructions to Suilivan to in¬ Congress for ms earnest ettort# in tn®! crease his army to five thousand men cause of American independence. j by drawing recruits from New E g Resuming the practice of law, .Suui-/ land and detached Lafayette aLd ran occupied a seat in Congress iu the 1 Greene, with their brigades, to his as- session# of 1780 and ’81. He also ’’stance. The French arrived in the served as Attorney General of New wfcters near Newport on July 29, and a Hampshire; was a member of the con¬ plans, of operations was arranged stitutional convention of that state, wheriby the town was to be attacked and presided over the one which on August 10. The French fleet passed adopted the National Constitution, a up the'channel on the 8th, wlt^PJur^ few year# later. He wa# the execu¬ from the British batteries. The ai - tive of New Hampshire from 1786 to rival of the British fleet under Lord 1789, resigning his post to become a Howe prevented the success of the at¬ Federal Judge, holding the latter of¬ tack, as the French admiral taking fice until his death, which occurred counsel of his fears, precipitately put January 23, 1795,; in bus fifty-fifth year.; to sea. . „ . ., • •.— Sullivan was a mkn of great ability, as) his varied achieviments in the capaci- | ties • of' liwyer, soldier and judge, Mrs. Stephens carried the conteL abnndantly prove. If he failed at of the chests to a quarry in a piece c times to win the success which seemed woods near the house, and threw them within his grasp, the result was attri¬ m, covering them with stones, and butable in every ease to circumstances ruining the most of them in her desire beyond his control. It is probable to escape any further danger on their account. that these failures so wrought upon his sensitive nature as to lead him to The Davis farm, lying along Trout give up his command and seek occu¬ j crcek, was and is one of the most pro¬ pation more in harmouy with his ductive in that portion of Chester Val¬ ley. The soil, as is the case with i tastes, which led him to prefer pro¬ fessional to military pursuits. other farms in the vicinity, is under¬ laid with limestone, and is probably THE DEWEES FAMILY. ; unexcelled for natural fertility The Before leaving the Waters property, j farm, being further from the encamp¬ now the Davis farm house, it may not ment, naturally suffered less from the be amiss to make some further refer¬ I depredations cf the soldiers than ence to a family which has frequently those of the Moores and Stephenses. been mentioned incidentally in these It may be added that Ool. Dewees articles, that of Co! William Dewees. continued in the iron manufacturing He had been an officer in the Conti¬ business after the close of the Revc>‘ nental army, but at the time of the lutiouary War, being associated with I battle of Brandywine he was engaged his first wife’s relatives, David Potts ! in the manufacture of iron at Valley and Isaac Potts. About the close of the war they built another forge fur¬ i Forge. As already mentioned, he : deprecated the storing of arms and ther down Valley Creek than the one ammunition at the place, because of burned by tine British, the cotton fac the danger that would arise from in- | tory covering its site in recentj years. curBions of the British Bis worst' Ig remained until 1814, being used th© | fears were realised, as has been seen, latter part of the time for a tilt mill. i in the burning of the forge on the Dewees & Potls erected soon after night of September 23rd, only three the close of the Revolution a slitting days after the massacre of Paoli. and rolling mill, on the opposite side Co!. William Dewees’ first wife was .ofthe stream, and, as a matter of a member of the Potts family, and it course, in Chester County. Col. De¬ was through this connection that De¬ wees continued himself for some time wees became interested in the forge the manufacture of bar iron, David His first wife dying, he married Sarah, Potts having an irou store in Phila¬ the daughter of Thomas Waters, delphia, and Isaac Potts being occu¬ After the burning of the forge and the pied by the grist mill which was de¬ destruction of other property in the stroyed by fire originating in a spark vicinity, the Dewees family removed from a locomotive on the Philadelphia to an adjoining farm to his; also owned and Reading railroad in 1843. by Thomas Wafers. Col. Dewees, as the result of living Henry Woodman narrates an inci¬ in a style far above his means, he dent which placed the family of his being somewhat aristocratic in bis grandfather, Abijah Stephens, who lived habits, failed in business, and became not far off, in great jeopardy. In the very much reduced in his circumstan¬ hasty flight of the family from Valiev ces in consequence, towards the close Forge, Sarah Dewees had deposited of his life, which ended, as already two chests at Stephens, they were sup¬ noted, at the Waters mansion in 1809. posed to contain only clothing and Thomas Waters died in 1791. After ' other equally harmless articles which it his death the family of Col. Dewee9 ! was desired to keep securely. When went to reside on what is now the the Hessians made their visit a little Davis farm, and remained there until later, the chests W6r* noticed, but, the purchase by the ancestor of the strange to say, were not broken open present owner. Next day Mrs. Stephens, feeling un¬ Ellwood Roberts easy, visited Mrs. Dewees, and de¬ - —_ manded the keys ofthe chests, in order that she might ascertain whether any¬ thing was contained in them which HANNAH PHILIPS EACHES. might give offence to the enemy should INTERESTING SKETCH OF MRS. EACHES they pay a second visit to the place. ! —HER REVOLUTIONARY ANCESTORS The keys were reluctantly handed i over, and to Mrs. Stephens’ surprise ' The welsh Immigrants—Their Settlement on opening the chests,they were found Here—The Revolution—Mrs. Eaches’ to contain Col. Dewees’ military uni¬ Birthday and Life. form, insignia of rank in the army, his The following interesting sketch of sword and other weapons, than which Mrs Hannah Philips Eaches and her nothing could have been more injuri¬ ancestors was written by a grande- ous should they be discovered in the daughter, and will no doubt be read possession of the family. with interest. The history of the life . T of this aged lady is really the history having previous to her marriage, bore I of the community for nearly a hun¬ the name of Philips. dred years. Mrs. Eaches is one of the Here he at once built a two-story oldest persons in the country and prob¬ log house, the first story having one ably the oldest Daughters of the Ameri¬ room and kitchen and the second hav¬ can Revolution in the United States, ing two rooms. By trade he was a she being 95 yrars of age : weaver and carried on the work in the The noble ancestors of Mrs. Hannah simple manner of that period. As his Philips Eaches born on the other side four sons grew to manhood so the of the Atlantic, were of Welsh origin. business kept pace with them until Southern Wales was their home. there were three shops and three looms About 1726 quite a number of Welsh in each shop. This is what is said of people emigrated to America. In the man of this generation, Mrs. Pennsylvania the familiar names of Eaches’ grandfather, “Joseph Philips Radnor, Carnarvon and Merion, wore the small clothes of the olden which are the sweet sounding names times, buckskin breeches with buckles. of counties in the Welsh land, show His native language was Welsh, which the drift. the four sons spoke to some effect. It is to be imagined that the fore¬ He was of medium height, portly in fathers of Mrs. Eaches sailed with appearance. others from the seaport county town The four sons resembled him in this of Pembroke. This little province is respect, being men of large size. The the birthplace of brave and hardy men. family lived with the simplicity of the “It is a good place to grow men.” In olden times, using wooden trenches at the Philips family the farthest back of tables.” The ancestors of Mrs. Eaches whom there is any record is that of had in their possession a number of Joseph Philips, the grandfather of Welsh books, but none are to be found. Mrs. Eaches, born among the barren The only reminder of by-gone days is hills and secluded valleys of Southern a relic of China which the old lady Wales in 1716. Nothing is known of values highly. Joseph Philips and his birthplace and early life. It would his four sons drove thirteen miles to be a satisfaction to know more of the church summer and winter—the Great man—more of the training of his boy¬ Valley Baptist church. September, hood. It would be pleasing to know 1771 fifty-one persons were dismissed what motives caused him to lift his from this church and constituted into eyes across the blue ocean to this a church, the Vincent Baptist church Western country. Perhaps “the rec¬ and in the same year two of the sons, ords of some old church (Baptist) in David and John were married. the Fatherland may yet give a clue to When the Revolutionary war broke the knowing more of him and his kin¬ out, the family stood up bravely for dred.” the land of their new home, urged on Married to some Welsh maiden, by the longing of freedom, which is Mary, who was born in 1710. He set¬ predominant in Welsh blood and re¬ tled at Pembrokeshire, South Wales, gardless of the many ties that bound With a home growing up about him, them to the country across the sea. one would think that he would be con¬ It is handed down through the dif¬ tent to there end his days. But in 1755 ferent generations of the Philips’ clan as tradition goes, this heroic Welsh¬ that three of Joseph Philips’ sons took man accompanied by his wife and an active part in the war for Indepen¬ three sturdy boys, David, John and dence, David, Josiah and John. It is Josiah, the last named being about with great satisfaction to-day that the four years of age, braved the ocean descendants can tell of Josiah Philips’ voyage of 3000 miles, which was a very bravery as a Lieutenant in the army of venturesome journey at that period. the Revolution and of David Philips’ Dark were the days when they aid as a captain in the army John landed on the American shore. The Philips was taken captive in the Jer¬ French and Indian war had just seys and held in confinement in the begun. The Indians were on the war¬ prison-ship at New York, where bis path in Western Pennsylvania and a beloved wife waited upon him. “The terrible fear had struck the hearts of old swords are rusted, the old uniforms all the people. George II,was King of have passed into dust, but the work England and Washington was growing I done by them abides. We to-day are up into manhood. Philadelphia was a reaping of the harvest sowed by them village of a few thousand people. 30 and to-day may justly glory in the Baptist churches were the sum total in part our forefathers took in the all the common wealth. They first struggle,” has been beautifully ex settled in the vicinity of West Chester. pressed by a descendant. There a fourth son was born bo them, Up to this period the family resided Joseph by name. Afterward Mr. in the same locality. Now arises an Philips purchased a farm of 63 acres, unrest among the sons, a longing to which a number of years ago, enlarged, see more of the country. David the was occupied by Frederick Bingaman eldest son settled twelve miles south and family, the wife, Mrs. Amanda, of Pittsburg in Washington county, Joseph Ftulips tnethe youngestyoungeBi eightejgut Philips developed into so marked a miles south of Pittsburg in Allegheny character of beautiful womanhood. county. “Here they lived, here they ' When we think of the noble Welsh died,here they were buried. David was blood that she inherited and the influ¬ pastor of the Peter’s Creek church for ence for everything right, that gov¬ forty years. “That church is his erned her youthful days. A glimpse monument to-day.” He was also in¬ of her early home life is quite a con- terested in the government of both I trast to the youthful home life of the land and state. present day. In the Whiskey Insurrection he She with her sisters worked out of stood firm. W^en the rebellion had reached us height, mounted on a doors—tending sheep and doing the stump he made a speech urging the i lighter farm work. Mrs. Eaches often payment of the excise. There were tells of sowing red clover seed with cries;of “Shoot him, shoot him !” but her father and helping him to rake he stood bravely and passed through and bind oats. The chief occupation the danger in safety. was the working of the flax through Joseph Philips was deacon for many the various processes from the time of years of the Peter’s Creek church and the planting of its seed to its manufac¬ was also Justice of the Peace for many ture into linen. The winter months years, that office being of larger di¬ were uniquely spent in spinning, mak¬ mensions than at present ing cloth and blankets, some of which John Philips, the second son, settled are in Mrs. Eaches’ possession to-day. on the old road near downingtown. No carpets graced their floor—tapestry He died in 1790. These three men of and velvet floor coverings were un¬ broad minds and much influence were, known to her, yet she lived through it. as we have already learned, the uncles satisfied. While her father and of Mrs. Baches. brothers took their after-dinner nap, The third son, Josiah, married Miss Hannah wras expected to assist in the Martha Edwards and settled on the dish washing before returning to the “Old Homestead” in Uwchlan. field. This seemed to her a little hard. He was content to remain among We think, perhaps a trifling unfair¬ the scenes of his childhood and also ness of a similar nature is found wished to be company for his parents among the present generation under in their declining years. He followed different circumstances or surround¬ the occupation of weaver, as his father ings. Mrs. Eaches used to hear her had done before him. Three sons mother tell, that during the struggle were born to them, David, John and for Independence, while the men were Josiah. His first wife died while her engaged in fighting for their country sons were yet children, and in due the women were compelled to put time he married Miss Sarah Thomas, through nearly all of the field work, the daughter of Rev. Owen Thomas, ploughing not excepted. At the time the first pastor of the Vincent Baptist of the breaking out of the French and Church, himself also a Welshman. Indian War Hannah Philips had Their union was blessed with six reached the age of ten. Many were children, Joseph, Owen, Martha,Mary, the childish tears she shed for fear Sarah and Hannah; the youngest, Owen, her favorite brother would be Hannah, being Mrs. Hannah Philips taken. . ,• Baches of the present day. Here in the There were companies formed to picturesque looking farmhouse, orig¬ which all of her brothers belonged, inally built by her grandfather, Han¬ equipped ready for war, but none en¬ nah Philips first saw the light of day tered the army except Josiah. In after April 6, 1802. Here she passed her years when her brother, Owen, was childhood and girlhood days con¬ settled in a home of his own, up under tented and happy with her sim¬ the eaves in a small cobweb garret, ple mode of living. Hannah Philips’ hats, feathers, regalias and uniforms early training was good and thorough were found stored away. The children in every particular, her mother being of Owen Philips and a daughter of a noble and self-sacrificing woman, Mrs. Eaches, who made her home and it was often said of her that she there, often tell their children of the made no difference in the treatment jolly, good times they had on dark, of the children, so sweet was her dis¬ rainy days, hauling out and arraying position. Her father was a man of themselves in the finery of their ances¬ deep piety and fidelity to conviction— tors. Before Hannah Philips’ time an as his son Owen writes in later days, addition of several rooms, built of “This home was always open fer the stone, was added to the log house. In man of God and the fugitive.” With 1814, when she had reached the age of him it were “better that the earth twelve, the log structure was torn should revolve without an inhabitant down and re-built of stone also. Mrs. than that it were peopled with a race Eaches remembers the number dis¬ of slaves.” He held some public posi¬ tinctly. In those days the date or tion, but what Mrs. Eaches cannot re- number (as it was really called) was It is not surprising that Hannah placed somewhere on the house, when either newly built or enlarged. Her ,oer died in 1817 and was laidto restr ] the most active members of the chnrcb7] a the Vincent Baptist burying ground. working in every good work that came Her brother, Joseph, who had pre¬ to their hand, never waiting for some¬ viously married, settled at the old thing pleasant, but treating the dis¬ homestead, he being the third genera¬ tasteful on a par with the agreeable,he tion to occupy it. Hannah Philips being for many years a strong, upright and her mother resided with him. deacon, living daily his profession. All The other sons and daughters were visitors, preacher and people alike, already married and had homes of were welcomed and entertained by their own also. In 1820, at the age of Mrs. Eaches. No one ever called at 18, Hannah Philips changed her name the wrong time. In 1877 her daughter to Still by marrying Jacob Still, a far¬ Sarah peacefully passed away. mer ofUwchlan township. In 1831 he In 1880 her loving husband departed died leaving her a widow with four this life. Both lie sleeping in beauti¬ small children, Abram, Sarah, Mar¬ ful Morris cemetery. Two of Mrs. garet and Isaac. Her brothers and Eaches’ children by her first husband sisters kindly came to her aid and took are still living, Abram Stille, of West j them'to their own bright and comfort¬ Chester, and Mrs. Margaret R. Sig- man, of our borough. After her hus- I able homes. Mrs. Still, herself, went to reside band’s demise she still remained in with her sister, Mary, who had mar¬ her own home. About four years ago ried John Tustin Mr. and Mrs. Tus- the home was broken up and since 1 tin had a number of small children and then she has been contentedly living | Mrs. Still assisted in caring for them. in the bright and comfortable home of Her kind, sweet ways drew the cbild- her son, Josiah, having everything to make her happy. i ren close to her and they loved her al- | most as a mother. In winter the family Mrs. Hannah Philips Eaches is liv¬ i of John Tustin lived in Philadelphia. ing to a good old age and is still active. ! in summer they occupied a handsome She is a wonderful lady for her years; residence of tneir own near Chester has all her faculties and actually seems Springs, which is still in good preser- to be more interested in the topics of the day than many of our younger j vation. Here Mrs. Still met and in j 1834 married Eber Eaches a man well people. Her memory is particularly I known in that section for his good good, also her eye-bight. The sixth of April she will celebrate her ninety- judgement and true piety. fifth birthday. The first part of this The children were terribly grieved sketch gives us to understand when she left them to make another that this respected lady is an orig¬ home tor herself. They cried and were inal daughter of the American indignant at the same time that their Revolution and is greatly hon¬ aunt Hannah would leave them. ored from the fact of her being the One little fellow would look out of oldest living member of the Daughters J the window and sadly say “ ’t’ anne of the American Revolution, Chester has gone. I have no more ’t ’ anne, County Chapter. For this distinction not beiDg able to talk plain. Mr. and she received a golden spoon from the Mrs. Eaches settled about two miles National Chapter ofD. A. R., of Wash¬ out of Phoenixvilie on a small farm ington, D. C. This spoon of gold was and at once united themselves with prettily engraved and upon the handle the First Baptist Church of this bor¬ may be seen a representation of a wo¬ ough. In 1845 her mother was laid to man s'ttiDg at a spinning wheel, rest at Vincent. In 1847 they moved bringing up memories of early to Phoenixvilie into a rented house on days spent at the wheel. She! Bridge street, while they were build¬ also owns, wears at times, the in¬ ing a house on Morgan street, which sigma of the D. A. R. This is a gold j still stands shout rs it were built. badge, with a pendant of blue and In 1848 they moved into their new white ribbon and was conferred upon home. Their moving to our town her by the Chester County Chapter, j dates back to the pastorate of Rev, The blue and white button she owns Andrew Collins. About this time her shows that she is a member of the daughter, Saran P. Still, came home society. An estimable relative says : sick and was an invalid the remainder “My recollection of her at a very of her life, Mrs. Eaches waiting on early age was as it ever has her with marked patience. Five chil¬ been of the sweetest nature only dren were born to Mr. and Mrs. knowing her to love her. Her life Eaches, William, Josiah, Owen, John ■ is one of the most beautiful illus-j and Elizabeth, the three oldest of trations of our blessed religion, no whom are living, Josiah P. Eaches, of matter how great her trials, ever Phoenixvilie; Rev. Owen P. Eaches, cheerful and sweetly patient. Her D. D., of Heightstown, New Jersey; sainted sister, Mary, mentioned before and William Eaches, of Philadelphia. in this article, six years her senior, John T. Eaches died a few years since was another illustration of the same in Spring City, and Elizabeth died in character. It does us good to dwell onj infancy. these beautiful lives as the poet has so Mr. and Mrs. Eaches were among beautifully expressedlt. “We can make our lives sublime, And departing leave behind us, ^ Foot prints on the sands of time.” ’j erection of the main part of the pres¬ ent stone building, as better suited for VERY OLD BUILDING. educational purposes. The original log church seems to have remained LOCATED AT STRAFFORD, ABOUT EIGHT side by side with its more pretentious miles; from phobnixville. rival, until about the year 1805, when M slderably Over a Century Old- it was demolished and some of the logs Now in the Possession < f Trustees— are said to have been utilized in the School House and Church. old Huzzard House, now owned by John Quigley, some half mile north of On the public road, a few hundred feet north of Strafford station, Penn¬ this spot. The stone bui’ding erected in 1788 sylvania Railroad, in Tredyffrin town¬ fairly represents a pioneer school ship, stands a quaint and venerable house in Pennsylvania. Its size was looking building, with pointed walls, little more than one-half that of the shadowed by many fine old trees, whose Colonial doorway and low corn¬ present building. It is impossible to give an accurate ice suggests a history co-extenBive list of the Trustees to whom was in¬ with the nation, and the inscription “1788” in quaint lettering on the old trusted the care of the property for the date stone high in the south gable con¬ public uses thus referred to, but the authority exercised by these officers firms the suggestion must have been almost nominal; and The property thus suddenly appear¬ their meetings evidently conducted in ing in modern use, with all the attrac¬ tive features of antiquity, is known as the most informal way. To these Trustees was delegated the the Old Eagle School. The entire absence of any records right to grant the use of the building, concerning the early history of this which was by no means confined to ed¬ place, envelops it in an atmosphere of ucational purposes; but was freely ex¬ mystery which prepares the visitor for tended to itinerant showmen or lectur the many traditions and legends with ers. Religious services were also con¬ which it is associated in the minds of stantly held there by various denom¬ the old residents. inations. It was long an outpost of The most probable of these tradi¬ the Great Valley Baptist Church, who tions indicates that shortly prior to the established a Sunday School here as American Revolution some unknown early as 1820, and the religious services philanthropist deeded the property, held here in the early half of this cen¬ containing then nearly two acres, to tury led, undoubtedly, to the estab¬ Trustees, to hold for “the general use lishment, in 1841; of the Radnor Bap- and good of the neighborhood for reli¬ tist Church, now known as the First gious educational and burial \ pur¬ Baptist Church, of Wayne. poses,” and that some connection was Its use as a school house was, how¬ sustained between this place and the ever, the main object of its existence. old Lutheran Church at the Trappe, in Of all utfioheld the honorable position Montgomery county, which resulted ' of school master prior to the establish¬ in the erection of a log church near ed nt of the public school system, only the site of the present building about a few names have been preserved in- the samejtime c Tiding Brinton Evans, said to have These same traditions assert that the been the first teacher in the old school Patriot Muhlenberg preached often at tiome, and Andrew Garden a Revolu¬ this point during the life of the early tionary fifer, who taught there until settlers. Indeed, tradition and scat¬ the beginning of the present century. tered information from letters and These were" succeeded by-Irens other sources indicate that the pros¬ (•'ii Iiishman, whose learning, accord¬ pects of the congregation worshipping ing to traditions, was profound); Wm here at the close of the eighteenth cen¬ Curl, G. W. Ferguson,-Pennington, tury were far brighter than those of Hezekiah Burhan; Wm Simpson, the Episcopal congregation at St. C u istianThode, Louis Pearce, George David’s in Radnor, then in common O'.vington, Thomas Ward, Calvin with all churches so distinctly associ¬ James, Evan Jones, Adam Siter and ated with English customs, subject to G o W. Lewis. These old-time school popular prejudice, and whose congre¬ mauters owed no allegiance to any gation about that time is said to have school board, and usually established included but a single communicant. themselves by circulating a subscrip The year 1788, however, is definitely tion list around the neighborhood and and accurately fixed as the time when inducing the various residents to send the united co-operation of several their children to school at a certain charitably disposed citizens of the rate This was usually $2 a quarter, neighborhood,including William Siter; exclusive of books, slates, ink and the elder, and Robert Kennedy (then goosequills. Three centi per day for landlord of the Unicorn) and John each scholar was also a usual rate. Pugh, the elder, all of Radnor, with The occupation of the building for Jacob and Rudolph Huzzard, of Tre¬ common school purposes continued dyffrin, and probably, also, Robert until about 1872, when it was aban- Grover, of the same place, secured the doued by the School Board for their of great interest npt only to the parties new building at Pechin’a Corner about litigant, but to the legal profession at a quarter of a mile northwest of the large, as the only reported ca3e in the old school house. At this time a little United States where title to real estate Union Sunday school was holding and the character of such a trust had weekly services there, and to them successfully depended mainly on tra¬ the key of the building was surrend¬ ditionary evidence. On May 6, 1895, ered. a formal decree ras entered, appoint¬ This Sunday school was evidently ing Thomas R. Jaquett, Elijah Wilds, the successor of the Sunday school John S. Angle, M. D., Daniel S. New- held there as early as 1820, which at hall and Henry Pleasants Trustees, first was mainly under control of the “to hold title to said real estate and to I Baptist denomination, but later under administer this Charity, and in tho that of the Episcopalians. These Sun¬ exercise of a reasonable discretion, day school services continued there subject always to the further order of until the fall of 1873, the last service the Court, to regulate the manner in being held there on October 12 of that which the property can most effec¬ year, when the school house was closed tively be utilized for the general use for the winter. and good of the neighborhood for Before the time for the resumption religious, educational and burial pur¬ of the Sunday school services in the poses.” spring of 1872, possession of the build¬ The Trustees so appointed organized ing was obtained by a squatter, and so at once and prepared and circulated a frail did the learal tenure of those In¬ subscription paper pledging money for terested on behalf of the Sunday school i the necessary expenses in restoring the appear, in the absence of any deed, property, and also prepared and dis¬ that for two years this squatter main¬ tributed widely an account of the place, tained possession against criminal and giving in detail its chequered history. civil proceedings He then voluntarily The response to their appeals for aid surrendered ittj theTredyffrin School has been so generous that the Trustees Board, who, notwithstanding two ap have been enabled to put the entire plications to court for permission to property in thorough ^repair, preserv¬ sell the property, found equal difficulty ing or renewing throughout as far as in getting rid of this Old Man of the possible, through the valuable aid of Mountains, because of the strong pub¬ Mr. Isaac Parsell, the well-known lic sentiment against its sale. church architect, its quaint style of Meantime the property fall into a architecture, and were ^even able to condition of the most absolute ruin restore the original pointing on the and neglect. A photograph taken by outside walls. Mr. Sachse in 1888 eloquently presents The general plaus of the Trustees for it in Whittier’s role of “The Ragged carrying out the provisions of the Beggar.” Trust are set out in their first report, An attempt, however, by the School recently published for general circula¬ Board, in March, 1891, to dispose of a tion, and include : The use of the build¬ part of the premises by private sale ing for religious purposes; the offer of was so violently opposed by some of prizes in the Public School for general the old residents that on bahalf of proficiency in studies, and the estab¬ these Remonstrants a petition to the lishment in the old building of a Public Court of Common Pleas of Chester Historical Library and Reading Room. county in the nature of a bill in equity The burial purposes of the Trust will was filed June 8th, 1891, reci ting also be fully ^recognized, not only by the history of the property and the ornamentation and care of the asking for the appointment of Tr u^- present graveyard, in which no ad¬ tees to hold it for religious, educational ditional interments will be permitted, and burial purposes. The only de¬ but by the erection on the property or- fence against this proceeding was a monuments to the memory of the made by the School Board of Tre- Soldiers of the Neighborhood, who dyffrin on the ground that their title : took part in the late war for the im, was absolute under a lost grant to the tegritv of the Union._ Township, for School purposes, and under statutory possession. Alter a I long and careful examination, extend¬ AS SEEN IN BOCKS. ing over a period of more than three years, the master, Robert E. M magtaan, CUKIOUS WORKS OF NATURE IN MONT¬ appointed in the case by the Court, re¬ GOMERY COUNTY. ported in favor of the complainants, The Indian Kettle Waich the Aborigines and recommending that Trustees Used to Prepare Their Food-The Hang¬ should be appointed by the Court “to ing Rock. Saul's Rest. take charge of the property and man¬ About three miles northwest of the age the same for the benefit of t)le neigh¬ little village of Scawenkaville, in the borhood,according to the purposes and adjoining county of Montgomery, is a intentions of the donator or grantor.” bit of wild and uncultivated country This ruling was sustained by court in known to that locality as Spring Moan an elaborate opinion by Judge Waddell^ tain. As its name implies, it is ''F" arranges cannon Dans, ana to wmen J mountaino ts character, ana is almost they bore considerable resemblance. inaccessible, except on foot, which ac¬ After the tide of civilization had counts for it not being more widely forced the Indians to take their depart¬ known as one of the most interesting ure for more western regions, these spots in the State of Pennsylvania. cooking stones were found in their Here are located in liberal profusion customary place beside the “Indian a number of interesting and romantic Kettle,” but none of them remain at objects, any separate one of which the present date, have long since been would obtain fame and renown f *r a appropriated by relic hunters. locality more accessible to the excur¬ About one hundred yards from the sionist and pleasure-seeker. In this “Indian Kettle,” and farther up the as¬ spot, created in one of Nature’s most cent is “Catch-Me-Not-Rock.” Liter¬ extravagant moods, lie in chaotic con¬ ally speaking this is a collection of fusion innumerable rocks and boulders rocks, and not, as the name would lead of every conceivable size and shape, one to suppose, a single rock. These embodying some of the most remark rocks are also of a very interesting able,geological formations in the coun¬ character, not only from a geological try, and attached to which is consider¬ point of view, but from the occurrence able historical romance of a local char to which they are said to owe their acter. name. From the time that this region was The story runs that in 1846, a certain first vacated by the American Indians, young man named John, who was hired in 1724, four years prior to their return on the farm of Samuel Alderfer, was and subsequent defeat in battle, there wanted by the civil authorities for have been transmitted from one gen¬ some infraction of the law. John hap¬ eration to another among the local in-1 pened to be chopping wood in the vi¬ habitants up to the present date, leg¬ cinity of these rocks when the con¬ ends and tales which contain just suf¬ stable made his appearance and com¬ ficient historical truth to insure their manded him to surrender. Instead of [general acceptance and perpetuation. allowing himself to be arrested, how¬ In^a spot somewhat cleared of under¬ ever, John dropped his ax and sprang brush there lies a large boulder known through the natural tunnel formed by i as the “Indian Kettle,” the name of the rocks. As the constable followed which was derived from the fact that him, John climbed back over the top, it was known to have been used for and while th^< constable was climbing cooking purposes by the Indians. The after him again went through the tun- rock is about eight or nine feet across ; nel. It seems John was entirely too the base, and resembles in formation a i nimble for the officer, who was a very huge caldron, the inside or hollow part ! determined man, and was loth to give of which is as smooth and regular in up the chase. The result was that the form as the interior of an iron kettle. pursuit lasted from noon till night, A very remarkable feature of this rock when the constable finally withdrew is that the kettle-like cavity is perpet from the field in disgust, allowing ually filled with water, of which it the intended prisoner to make his es- contains about a barrel, and of which I cape. there is no visible source, in this mini¬ I Little did the nimble-footed John ature pond, the bottom of which is dream that while he was making tracks covered with moss, an interpid frog around that rook he was at the same makes his home, and as thero is no time making history. other water within a considerable dis¬ “Hanging Rock” is another remark¬ tance of the “Indian Kettle,” that fact able feature of Spring mountain. This helps to substantiate the claim that it boulder, weighing hundreds of tons, is is never empty. perched upon several other large According to the chronicles handed rocks near the summit of the hill and down from colonial times, the Indians rests in such a manner as to leave then|living in that locality,cooked their about seven eighths of its bulk project¬ food in the rock by casting heated ing into space. stones into the water. This primitive On the western slope of the moun¬ culinary operation must have been tain are the ‘ Ringing Rocks,” which, very tedious, |but it would no doubt when struck by a hammer, emit a have been highly interesting to wit¬ clear, bell-like tone of a high or low ness pitch, according to the size of the rock. The stones used by the Indians to If some enterprising musical genius boil water were of the species common¬ could succeed in arranging these rocks ly known as iron stones, which they into a musical scale according to their had collected from different parts of tones he might be able to give an open the mountain for this especial purpose. [ air concert on a natural xylophone, as These stones,which were nearly round, has been done with the ringing rocks and of a uniform size, were very heavy of Stony Garden in Haycock township, and possessed the quality of retaining | Bucks county. heat to a remarkable degree. When | These rocks are piled promiscuously not in use they were usually arranged on top of each other as if they had in a conical-shaped heap of the same been cast up by a gigantic explosion or style in which the modern artilleryman 58 iOme internal eruption of a volcanic nature. In some places the under sur¬ brought many skilled faces of the rooks are covered with a work&uen to the place, and the pro¬ whitish mould, showing unmistakable duct pf their foundry became widely evidences of the presence of gas, of knowh and in great demand. The which there is at times a distinct odor. tall, dignified form and kindly face of There seems to be a division of opinion Michael March are remembered by as to whether this arises from some many of the village and vicinity at the subterranean pooroT stagnant water or present day. Later these works were whether it is natural gas. enlarged, and afterward removed to About two hundred yards above the Lin field in order to secure better rail¬ ringing rocks, on the western slope, road facilities, and conducted there is another curious natural formation under the style of March, Sisler & | which has been designated “Saul’s Company, the late Edmund Sisler, of Rest” on account of the striking re¬ this place, being one of the active semblance it bears to the Biblical members of the firm. In 1892 the same narrative whrreia Saul slept when works were removed to Pottstown,and David cut off the hem of his garment. operated here as the March-Brown- While the engravings representing back Stove Company. Mr. March, the the cavern ip which Saul rested may originator and head of this firm, possibly hot hear ranch resemblance to through his strict integrity, left at his the actual scene of the occurrence, death a life record of usefulness and there is no denying the fact that the good citizenship. Of his two sons, one “Saul Rest” of Spring Mountain Franklin March, is a prominent attor¬ seems to be almost an exact reproduc¬ ney with an elegant home at Parker¬ tion of those illustrations, and if it ford. The other, T. Jefferson March, I were appropriately situated in the an honored citizen of Pottstown, a holy land there is not the slightest gentleman of character, ability and i doubt that it would be universally energy, is a leading spirit in the man¬ accepted astheoriginat subject thereof. agement of the stove works. There are a;so many other objects of In its earlier days boat-building was interest on the Spring Mountain, and, quite a prominent industry of the though the way be rough and weary, place There were two yards, one the explorer will be amply repaid for conducted by Isaac Kulp and the other the fatigue ai.d discomforts of climb¬ by Mathias Kulp. David Zook was ing over rocks and trudging through proprietor of a mule mart, and fur- underbrush. TiiaVioH t.Vman nnfifnl and hifth-bickinB animals to the boatmen. John C. Saylor conducted a flour - PARKERFORII | mill on the Pigeon Creek, which is yet in operation under his management. I PLEASING SKETCH OF THE BUSY VILLAGE !| The late David Y. Custer also conduct-' ALONG THE SC 3UYLKILL. | ed a flour mill and clover mill. Mr. A Home Like Village, and Its Home Like Custer was also a justice of the peace People—Once a Busy Place, But Now and conveyancer. This latter Jmill is a Quiet Country Hamlet. now operated by Samuel T. Wagner. The Pottstown News has the follow¬ The Scatchard woolen mill and the ing bright sketch of Parherford : Kay’s woolen mill and the needle The Schuylkill Valley is teeming works were flourishing industries. The with wide awake towns and villages people take pride in the fact that on either side of (he flowing Schuylkill Washington’s army crossed the river but there are none more cheerfully at this point, breast deep, September located or attractive appearing than 19, 1777, on its way to Sbippack. Parkerford, situated in East Coventry, Lawrenceville, as it was then called, Chester County, at the confluence of was not without its literary features. the Pigeon creek and Schuylkill river, The East Coventry debating society and bordering on the latter. The was a well-known local organization, Pennsylvania Schuylkill Valley rail¬ and the themes discussed smacked of road passes through the town,and also anti-slavery, there being a strong anti¬ the old Schuylkill canal. slavery sentiment in that vicinity be¬ The place was formerly called Law- fore the war, with a branch of the renceville, and was a sleepy hamlet or under ground railway system not far crossroad until the advent of the away Among the prominent families Schuylkill canal in 1826, when it be¬ who took part in these debates, many came a shipping point for heavy tim¬ of whom have since gone to their rest, ber, bark, iron ore and farm produce. are Miller’s, Bush’s, Frick’s, Reiff’s, One of the most prominent citizens Frederick’s, Rholand’s, March’s, and in fact, the founder of the place, Baugh’s, Price’s, and Buckwalter’s. in an industrial capacity, was Michael When the Pennsylvania Schuylkill March, deceased, who. while con¬ Valley railroad was built, the name of nected with other local enterprises, es¬ the town was changed to Parkerford, tablished in 1848, in connection with likewise the mame of the postoffice. Isaac Buck waiter, the March & Buck- There are three houses of worship, waiter Stove foundry. jjjiion Meeting House, Baptist and 59 nkard, and the spiritual interests 6. History of the Ivy Mills. the village are cared for byJRev. W. T. Johnston, of the Baptist church and Joseph Willcox, a member of the the Rev. F. F. Holsopple, of the Ger¬ family of that name who formerly con¬ man Baptists. The physical needs by trolled the noted Ivy Paper Mills in Dr. S. S. Finkbiner, and the lawisfe- Delaware county, and whose grand I presented in the person of Franklin father founded the first mills to pro¬ March, Esq. The graded schools duce bank note paper iu this country, taught by Charles H. Ash and Oscar read au interesting paper before the Brownback. The postoffice is in charge Historical Society of Philadelphia at of Jacob S. Keller, an accommodating its last meeting, entitled “The Willcox and most worthy citizen, who is also Paper Mill, 1729—1864 (Ivy Mills )’ the village shoemaker and general The paper was most exhaustive, but. handyman. Harry Hiestand and Ly¬ it wts listened to with great interest by man Ouster are each proprietors of the large audience present at the meet general stores and each does a thriving iug. The substance of the paper is trade. herewith given. Joseph FaviDger is a syndicate with¬ The founder of the mills was Thomas in himself. He runs a blacksmith Willcox, who came from England, pre¬ shop, wheelwrighting, general ma¬ sumably from near Exeter in Devon chine work, chopping mill and cider shire, and settled in Concord town¬ press. Water power is his motor. The ship, then Chester county, iu 1725. other blacksmith is Daniel Drexel, Four years later he erected a paper mill with Henry Stienruck as wheelwright- there, the ruins of which are still stand er. Wismer, Heistand and Booth have iug. The next year he took into part¬ a stocking factory. Sylvester Claus, nership with him Thomas Gilpin, the a hay press and coal yard. Nathaniel grandfater of Joshua Gilpin, who sub Fryer, a cafe, George McKissic,a large sequently established a mill of h s own f cattle yard and dealer in live stock. on the Brandywine. Benjamin Frank¬ Jacob Geiger is the well-known build- lin was a frequent visitor to the mill and 'ing contractor, and Curtis Reinhart a it is said on good authority that some school teacher, and Enos D. Miller, of the paper used in Poor Richard's S country ’squire and deputy cor- Almanac was made by Thomas Will¬ r. John M. Mauger, the urbane cox. At the Historical Society there is ever-polite undertaker; Al. Scheif- preserved a large volume, contributed leyfathers and shaves; H. S. Daub by Joseph Willcox, which contains manages the stove and tin store; samples of nearly all the grades of bank Emanuel Fox is the veteran lock- and other paper made at the mills in tender; Henry Carl, a stone mason; those early days. Some of the colonial Aaron Keiter has a large green house notes which were printed on the paper just beyond the village. made there, notably the bills of Penn Among the prominent farmers near¬ sylvania, are still preserved. The pa¬ by are J. Warren Walt and Allen Mud- per used contained a watermark of hart. The retired gentlemen are Pennsylvania -■'■Each sheet of paper Frank Wentworth, Abram B Stauffer, made twenty bills, and the paper used Christian Schwartz, Isaac Buckwalter, was the first bfire paper made which who is the oldest resident of the place, contained the fibre heavier on one side Prof. !saac Urner, W. H. Setzler and than on the other The watermark of H. W. Johnson. the first paper made at the Ivy Mills Last, but not least, is Brady Sellers, was “T M W,” and there is oh fUe-->u the popular and accommodating sta¬ the volume some of the paper whiclr tion agent, of the Pennsylvania rail¬ was used by the Supreme Court in 1778, road. Like all other up-to-date places, which bears this watermark. it has its bicycles and bicycle riders of ^Thomas’ son, Mark, born in 1744, as both sexes. sumed management of the mill a few years before the Revolution. In 1779 he used as his watermark a dove, and at that time the mills became known as the Dove Mills. At this point in i the reading of the paper Mr. Willcox exhibited an orignal receipt from John From, Gibson, Auditor General of the United States, dated March, 1777, in which it was set forth that Mark Willcox had loaned 15,000 sheets of the Loan Office paper authorized by Congress as its first loan, and that he had deposited Jh / it with Michael Hillegas,(United States Treasurer at Baltimore. He also made a number of quotations from the book of finances kept by Robert Morris, which gave the amounts of several sums of money paid to Mark Willcox PpSperuswl by the Government. let Persian.' other - . . ...J rither interesting matter read by the made about this time was for the New 'lecturer was a letter from the Com Grenadian Government in South mittee of Safety, then sitting at Lan¬ America, the paper being taken from caster, to Colonel Andrew Boys, of the coast to the capital, Bogota, on the Chester County, in which he is directed packs of mules; for the Farmers; and to take several wagons, as secretly as Mechanics’ Bank of Philadelphia, in possible to the mills of Mark Willcox, whose strong box there was discovered and to remove therefrom all the paper only very recently the very molds used that was on hand, tor fear that the in the manufacture of the paper for enemy might capture it the Wilmington DuPonts; for the The history ot the making of the fc Bank of Greece, with a curious involved first bank note paper in the United shell for a watermark, and in subse¬ States, the lecturer declared, began at quent years for the Treasury Depart the Dove Mills of Mark Willcox. The ment of the United States. Bank of North America was chartered Iu 1859 Joseph Willcox, the reader of in 1781, and Mark Willcox was one of , the paper, made paper for an order the original subscribers of stock. He from New Orleans. It was sent South, was authorized to make the paper for but, falling into the hands of the Con¬ the first issue of notes This he did in federates, was used for them to print 1781, in November, under the personal their own currency, and the first notes inspection of au agent of the bank. of the Confederacy were thus printed The original order for the manufacture + on paper made by the Ivy Mills, which of this paper is still preserved at the under the name of the Dove Mills had Bank of North America, and samples | made paper for the Continental Govern¬ of the paper made are contained in tie ment. During the civil war the de¬ volume in the archives of the Histori¬ mand for hand-made paper was so cal Society. This he declared was the great that the Ivy Mills were unable first paper used for bank note making to supply it, and thereafter the paper in the United States, and was as well for the “greenbacks” and the bonds : the verv first beginning of the manu was made by the three sons of Mark, Tacture of bank note paper. The fam¬ Mark, James and Joseph, on machines ily continued the business of making at the Glen Mills, which were estab¬ bank note paper for about 100 years lished by the family in the immediate vicinity of the old hand made Ivy 1 from this date That the mills must have been very Mills. James invented patent fibre busily employed in the manufacture of paper in 1870 and thereafter the bonds t bank note paper is shown iu the cor- • and notes of the Government were respondence which is still preserved. printed on this sort of paper, which : The Bank of the United States in par was made in the new Glen Mills. I he ticular used large quanties of the note old Ivy Mills, the hand-made plant, paper. There are scores of orders sub- closed down for good in 1864. The - scribed by William Mcllvaine. cashier ruins are quite picturesque and in of the bank, and I. Copperthwait, the closing his paper Mr. Willcox exhibited second assistant, preserved in the col- several handsome.photographs of them ?j lections of the Historical Society. It 1 was a custom in those days'"to*;-hay e i the notes made of different sizes in ac- l cordance with their denominations, and samples of the very different sized Th|E ORIGINAL BGNSALLS. paper made for the $5, $10 and $20 notes are preserved. The New York Dry Dock Compauy, the New York Na¬ By William B. Evans. tional Bank and the Bank of New Two hundred years ago, the little York of that time were also large pur¬ village of Darby was a pioneer settle¬ chasers, as the orders and receipts ment. The locality now comprising evidence. The receipt given by the the Borough of Darby was then occu¬ Comptroller at Albany for bank note pied for the most part by the followers paper made under his supervision, in of William Penn, who accompanied a< co"dance with the laws of those days, him on his first voyage from England •-,i is al ;o still on record in 1682, and other associates who con¬ Towards the close af 1811 Mark Will-- 1 tinued to follow almost yearly till the cix abandoned the dove watermark, close of the century. and it was then adopted by Amies, a About forty years before, the whole manufacturer in Lower Merion. The territory along the northern banks of Ivy watermark was adopted in 1823. the Delaware River, extending at least One curious receipt dated 1823, an or¬ twenty miles below its conjunction der from the Planters’ and Farmers’ with the Schuylkill, had been sparsely Bank of Charleston, gives the exact settled by the 8wedes. In 1643 the constituents which are to go into the Swedish colony built a mill on Cobb s paper to be made for it. It specifies creek and a church in Tinicum. This that there are to be used four pieces of settlement was captured twelve years Russia sheeting and two pieces of scar later by the Dutch, and then made sub- praying lora’more equitable division, ] and on August 30, 1786, the request of servient to the English after their cap¬ | the petitioners was granted, and the ture of New Amsterdam. This colony line exists to-day, serving now as a aloug the Delaware continued under boundary for Upper Darby, Laus- the government of New York until downe and Yeadon boroughs. Charles II granted the whole territory As the Bousall family is now so to William Penn. The names of sev¬ widespread and especially so numerous eral of these original Swedish residents in Delaware county and vicinity, it are still to be found on old deeds and may be of interest to many readers of records, but very few, if any, of these the Progress who are of that name, names have been perpetuated until the or, at least, connected therewith by present time. On the other hand, however, it is family relationship, to know something of a few early generations of the family interesting to find that of the fifty or name, who were among the early more family names of English and Welsh settlers of Darby, located in the settlers of Darby. Bichard Bonsall was the pioneer of time of Penn, many still exist, and are the now great family of Bonsails in in some instances the descendants of America. He came from Moldridge the same family names are very numer Grange in the parish of Bradboro, ius at the present time. Again, some of the half hundred Derbyshire, England, and settled in ames of two hundred years ago, who Darby in 1683. This was a time when the settlement ere identified with this locality, are was interspersed with Indian wig¬ ntirely extinct and altogether out of \ . f ‘J wams, and “white and red children memory, except, perhaps, as applied to some old landmark, as in the case of played together about the village of the old Blunston name, perpetuatedperpe Darby.” At this time the great extent now in the name of a running orook. of Pennsylvania, as it now exists, was8 The Darby of two centuries ago com¬ unknown, and the whole State com . ■> prised greatly more area than now, as prised,_ty- only the three divisions of Ches the whole territory of what is now Up¬ ter, Philadelphia and Bucks counties. per and Lower Darby townships, with Richard was granted a large portion the boroughs of Darby, Coliingdale, of land in this vicinity by William Sharon Hill, Colwyn, ‘Clifton, Lans- Penn, and his dwelling house was situ¬ downe and Yeadon, was known in its ated at what is now the intersection of entirety as Darby, and was for the Darby road (Lansdowne avenue) and most part a heavily wooded forest with Providence road, in the Borough of - ■ ::9- occasional openings of meadowland Yeadon. aloug the larger streams. Mary, wife of Richard Bonsall, was These woods consisted mainly of the the daughter of George and Hannah deciduous varieties of hickory, chest¬ Wood, of the village of Bonsall, a nut, beech, white and black oak, some small mining place, about three miles of the latter attaining an unusal size. north of Wirksworth, in Derbyshire, A small percentage of red cedar in the England. more thinly wooded districts, and some Richard and Mary (Wood) Bonsall hemlock spruce along Darby creek, had been married several years before constituted the evergreen growth. Very they came to this country, and did not little pine timber was found between settle at the homestead before men¬ the boundaries of Cobb’s creek on the tioned until some months after their east and Muckinipattus on the west; arrival here. but a little to the westward of this lat¬ They being members of the Society ter stream some dense pine woods ex¬ of Friends, brought witn them a cer¬ isted, and now, in the adjoining town¬ tificate of membership from their ship of Springfield, about one-half mile Meeting in England, which introduced northwest from Secane station, a por¬ them to the Friends Meeting at Darby, : '..V tion of this pine woods exists intact at Pa. (I suppose the same may yet be the present time. found in the records of the Darby It is but reasonable to infer that Meeting.) The following is a copy of the view of these primeval forests of said Darby first suggested to Penn the name certificate: “Sylvania,” and doubtless the name of “This is to certify to all whom it our noble State thus grew out of these may concern, that Richard Bonsall, very woods, remnants of which we the bearer hereof, is, and hath been, now see about us. since he came among Friends, of hon¬ The territory continued under one est life and conversation, and in unity municipal government until 1747, with Friends; and doth now remove when, at a town meeeting, it was de¬ himself to America with his whole cided to separate the upper portion family, with the consent of Friends, from the lower and make the two town¬ being clear of debts and other things ships of Upper and Lower Darby in relation to his testimony in the The boundaries then agreed upon, world. From our monthly meeting at however, existed only forty years, Ashford, England, this the twenty when a petition was presented to the second of twelfth-month, 1682 ” Court of Quarter Sessions at Chester, ■ivwnjsirim The above certificate was signecUby T h e ernKbren of Enoch a i id Ann^TH sixteen members of Ashford Meeting Bonsall: Isaac, bjaJfu February 3, 1713, j Richard and Mary Bonsall brought died August 6, 1766. Sarah, born Feb | with them six daughters, who were ruary 10, 1720, died July 7 1743. Wil-1 born in England. Their names were liain, born March 25, 1722, died July i Elizabeth, Rachael, Ami. Abigail 10, 1742. Benjamin, born January 31, I Mary and Sarah. Obadiah Bonsall also 1724, died December 24, 1807. Hannah, , came with them, in some way related born December 7, 1725, died September but there is no evidence that he was 2,1790. Enoch, born January 5; 1727, their son died August 18, 1785. Joseph, bom , Richard Bonsall was engaged in December 23, 1729, no record of death. farming and grazing for most of the Joshua, born June 9, 1732, died Sep sixteen years he lived in America, and tember 1, 1784. Jonathan, (11, born at the time of his death, which was July March 7, 1734, died December 14, 1736 13. 1699, he had accumulated consider¬ David born March 11, 1736, died Feb¬ able property. Mary, his wife, died the ruary 5, 1778. Jonathan, (2), born Sep¬ previous year, June 24, 1698. . tember 3, 1738, died April 1814. Fortunately, for the perpetuation of The foregoing include all of the chil¬ the Bonsall name, three sons were born dren of Richard Bonsall and all of the to Richard and Mary after their settle¬ children of his three sons, and embraces ment in Darby. as far as can be known all the names The following were the children born of the Bonsall family of the first three in America: Jacob, born October 9, generations who lived in America. It 1684, died May 10, 1739. Beniamin would be interesting to follow the des¬ born November 3, 1687, died January 6 cendants of the daughters of Richard 1762. Enoch, born November 2, 1692, and Mary, who married into families died May 6, 1769. Elinor, born Sep¬ the names of which are for the most I tember 8, 1694, no record of death. part so well known throughout our Of five daughters born in England county. But as each succeeding gener¬ and one, Elinor, in America, there are ation multiplies so greatly, it soon be¬ records of marriages as follows: comes difficult to follow the genealogy Elizabeth, married Joseph Hunt, of ail the different lines or to present September 10, 1686. Rachael, married the same intelligently within the scope Daniel Hibberd, August 6,1697, Ann of an article of this length. It may, married Josiah Hibberd, August 7 however, be of interest to include in 1702. Abigail, married Joseph Rhoads’ this a copy of the certificate of the August 7, 1702. Mary, married John marriage of Enoch —youngest son of Johnson, no record of date. Elinor Richard—-and Ann Hood, dated April j married --Davis, no record of date! 26, 1717, at Friends’ Meeting, Darby, The sons of Richard and Mary Bou- Pa. sall married as follows: Jacob married ’ CERTIFICATE. Martha Hood, daughter of Thomas and Whereas, Enoch Bonsall, of King Sarah Hood, March 1716. One son, sessing, in the county of Philadelphia, j Abraham, was born to Jacob and a province of Pennsylvania, yeoman, j Martha Bonsall; he married Sarah and Ann Hood, daughter of Thomas j Levis December 12 1739; was married Hood, of^Darby, in the county of Ches the second time to Mary Hinde, Octo¬ i ter and province aforesaid, having de- ber 15, 1767. i clared their intention of marriage with Benjamin Bonsail married Martha each other before several monthly meet¬ Fisher. The children of Benjamin and ings of the people called Quakers, ac¬ Martha (Fisher) Bonsall were: Rich¬ cording to the good order used amongst ard, born May 13, 1714, died January 1 them, whose proceedings therein aftei’j 1754. John, born August 28, 1716, no a deliberate consideration thereof, hav-j rfCQMi of death. Sarah, bom May 9, ing consent of parents and relations: 1/20, died November 27, 1761. James concerned, nothing appearing to ob¬ born June 18, 1725, died March, 1755 struct, were approved by the said meet¬ Benjamin, born February 4, 1728, died ing Now these are to certify to all December 26, 1769. Hannah, born No whom it may concern that for the full vember 18, 1730, died March 8, 1802 accomplishing of their said intentions, Martha, born June 2 1733, no record ol this the twenty sixth day of the fourth- death. month, in tjhe year of our Lord, one Benjamin Bonsall also was mar thousand, seven hundred and seven¬ ried twice, tiie second time to Eliza¬ teen, they, the said Enoch Bonsall and beth Horne, April 8, 1737 From this Ann Hood, appeared in a public meet¬ marriage one son, Nathan, was born, ing of the said people, for that purpose January 12, 1739; he died 1807. appointed, at the Public Meeting House Enoch Bonsall, youngest son of Rich in Darby aforesaid: and the said Enoch ard and Mary Bonsall, married Ann Bonsall, taking the said Ann Hood by Flood, daughter of Thomss and Sarah the hand, did in a solemn manner| Hood, April 26, 1717. (Ann was sister openly declare that he took her for his of Martha, the wife of Jacob Bonsall.) wife, promising to be unto her a faith¬ Ann (Hood) Bonsall was born October ful and loving husband till God should 30, 1695, died October 20, 1759 by death separate them. And then and :;bb "'if' ’ _ _JHB| lie saul Aim Mood did m like manuer declare, that she took the said Enoch fionsall to be her husband, promising to be unto him a loving and From, faithful wife till death should separate them. And, moreover, the said Enoch Bonsall and Ann Hood, according to the customs of marriage, assuming the name of the husband as a further con¬ firmation thereof, did then and there to these presents set their hands. / Enoch Bonsall, feigned | Anne bonsall. And we, whose names are hereunder I subscribed, being among others at the ! solemnization of their marriage and subscription in like manner aforesaid | as witnesses thereunto, have also to these presents set our hands the day I and year above written: (feigned.) A Mooting of ike Society on Saturday Even¬ Margaret Blunston, Barbara Bevau, ing Last. I Pliebe Blunston, Esther Warner, fearah Ffearn, Mary Chandler, Sarah Marshall, Rebekah Hunt, HONOR TO JAMES B. EVERHART. Margaret Paschal), Anne Bevau, Martha Parker, fearah Faucit, Anne Bethell, Katharine Beyan, A Meeting of the Council of the Histori¬ Ann Garrat, Mary Hibberd, cal Society Transacted Business and John Blunston, Mary Faucit, Richard Parker, Ellen Bonsall, Acknowledged Gifis— James Mona- 1 Michael Blunston, Esther Webb, ghan, Esq., Afterwards Addressed a Thomas Worth, Thomas Hood, Public Meeting on “Hon. James B. Samuel Bradshaw, Jacob Bonsall, Everhart As a Man of Letters.”— Thomrs Bradshaw, Benjamin Bonsall, Josiah Ffearn, Daniel Hibberd, Other Tributes to the Memory of a John Marshall, Josiah Hibberd, Worthy Man—Readings and Recita¬ Job Harvey, John Hibberd, tions Selected From Mr. Everhart’s Benjamin Cliffe, David Thomas, Writings. Richard Parker, Jr. John Wood, Martha Gibson, Joseph Hibberd, Rachael Hibberd, Josiah Hibberd, Abigail Rhodes, William Wood, Ann Hibberd, James Hunt, Sarah Thomas, Samuel Kirk, Martha Bonsall Rebekah Wood, Martha Bonsall, Hannah Wood, In the foregoing half hundred names of the early residents of Darby, many Delaware countians, though they may or may not be of the Bonsall name, will recognize the progenitors of their own lines of ancestry in well known names, which are still closely identified with this county. Aud in the above certificate, dated 1717, and the certificate of introduction of Richard Bonsall to the Darby Meet¬ ing, dated 1082, copied from the records where they had been preserved for two HON. JAMES B. EVERHART. centuries, one, in fact, for fifteen and On Saturday evening- last the Chester the o:lier fifty years before George County Historical Society held one of the Washington was born, we realize what most interesting meetings in its history. care has been bestowed upon the keep¬ P'irst the Council of the Society met in ing of these simple records, as well as the small room usually occupied for such others of importance, and which have purposes in the Library building, and af¬ ter disposing of such business as requir¬ rendered valuable service to historians ed immediate attention they adjourned to in present and past generations. the hall up stairs, and here, with others assembled, did honor to the memory of the late James B. Everhart, of West Chester. The proceedings were as fol¬ lows:_ 64 BUSINESS TRANSACTED. the Council of the Society. He first in¬ The meeting of the Council was not as troduced J. Thornton Emrey, of Honey- largely attended as usual, but the busi¬ brook, a student at the West Chester ness that needed attention was disposed Normal School, who recited one of Mr of in the course of the half-hour's ses¬ Everhart’s poems, entitled "The Brandy¬ sion. wine.” Mr. Emrey showed good appre¬ In the absence of the President, Prof. ciation of the thought embraced in the Geo. M. Philips, the Chair was occupied poem, and his recital of it was well re¬ by Vice President Alfred Sharpies. The ceived by the audience. minutes of the previous meeting were MR. MONAGHAN’S TRIBUTE. read by the Secretary, Gilbert Cope, and James Monaghan, Esq., the speaker of i approved as read. The Committee on En¬ the evening, was introduced, and pro- j tertainment reported that they had been eeeded to deliver a very fine address, in unable to arrange for an address by Rev. which he reviewed the writings and R. M. Patterson, D. D., as had been ex¬ speeches of Hon. James B. Everhart, and pected when the last previous meeting presented him in the light of a man of j was held. letters. We give Mr. Monaghan’s ad¬ Some time ago Misss 'Mary I. Stille re¬ dress in full as follows: signed the position of Committee on Col¬ “My apology—if apology is needed— for lecting and Binding Chester County Pa¬ offering a sketch of Mr. Everhart before pers and Periodicals, and Samuel Mar¬ the Historical Society is, that notwith¬ shall was appointed her successor. It standing the admirable treatment which was reported that after conference it had he has received at the hand of lecturer and biographer, there has been no at¬ been agreed between them that Miss tempt even to adequately portray him as Stille should still continue to assist in the a mjn of letters. To my mind the literary matter, while Mr. Marshall shall relieve side of his character is (he one which her of some of the heavier and more irk¬ stands out in boldest relief and makes some duties. This arrangement was per¬ the strongest claim upon posterity. This fectly satisfactory to the other members quality dominated his whole life and found expression in every public utter¬ of the Council, and the report was accept¬ ance. His speeches and essays show not ed. only the learning of the scholar, the keen Three new members were . elected. analysis of a close observer and (man ot They were Henry Pleasants, Esq., of affairs,but the finished touch of a trained Wayne, Delaware county; George Rhy- man of letters. Had ho devoted himself fedd Foulke, West Chester, and Thomas to literature be might have greatly , en¬ E. Eyanson, Seattle, Washington. riched our language and won a high lace in the Republic of Letters. It shall A list of gifts to the Society was read. e my pleasant task to call attention to I They came from Thomas H. Mont¬ » some of the good things which he has gomery, Prof. J. T. Rothrock, Dr. John given us and which should not be allowed R. Everhart, the heirs of Hon. P. F. to die. There is an especial appropriate¬ Smith and others. Among these gifts ness in presenting this before the Chester County Historical Society, as Mr. Ever¬ were copies of the ■publications by Hon. hart’s whole life was spent here, and James B. Everhart, presented by his many of the subjects which he adorned brother, Dr. John R. Everhart; “Smith’s related to the county or her people. It Forms,” by the heirs of the author, Hon. should be the business of our Society to P. F. Smith. The commission of John keep alive the memory and works of Evans as third Judge of the Supreme such men. Court of Pennsylvania dated August 16, THE VIRTUE OF HEREDITY. . 1777, presented by Hon. Septimus E. “Mr. Everhart’s ancestry should not he Nivin, who is a descendant of the Judge. overlooked in estimating the qualities 1 A “file of the Daily Eocal News,” from that go to make up the man. The earli¬ est strain of blood was the French,which its first issue, was presented by Alfred for a man of letters may be considered a Sharpies. A volume giving an account precious heritage. This in turn flowed of the exercises on the occasion of the through a later stream of Teutonic blood, unveiling of a monument on the battle¬ equlally valuable in giving character to field of Monmouth, New Jersey, was pre¬ the student or philosopher. That there sented by Major James S. Yard, of that were inherited qualities is shown by the fact, that: his brothers have exhibited State. A model of the Legislative Tele* talents in the same direction, having both, graph, invented by Hon. R. E. Mona¬ attained distinction in their respective i ghan, was presented by the heirs. fields. Nothing is more common than i All the donors were thanked for this inherited quality in men of letters, their valuable gifts, and the Secretary and many famous examples exist. There was instructed to notify them of the ac¬ were the brothers Grimm, 'Tennyson and Longfellow, and our own Bayard Taylor tion taken by the Society. has a sister who is quite gifted 'in song. I. A hill for the transportation of -the cannot do better here than quote from Military Band of Phoenixville on the oc¬ the admirable sketch of Mr. Henry C. casion of the unveiling of a monument to Townsend, of' Philadelphia, himself an Lafayette on the battlefield of Brandy¬ honored son of Chester county and a wine, September 11th, 1895, was presented. member of this Society. In writing of Mr Everhart he said: ‘His mother war As it had not been before the committee a woman, ot singularly lovely nature^ for action at the time when other ex- i gentle, amiable and affectionate, illus¬ penses were, paid, it had never come up trating in her daily life all the Christian until now. The bill was ordered paid. virtues, while his father was a. man of On motion the Council then adjourned. force and executive ability, honorable HON. JAMES B. EVERHART AS A and upright in all his dealings, a useful, MAN OF LETTERS. ! ' public-spirited citizen, and a benefactor to the community which lie served in a The audience assembled in Library Hall distinguished public capacity with honor was not very large, but it was apprecia¬ and success. In the son were harmoni¬ tive, and would no doubt have been ously blended the traits of character much larger if any special effort had which distinguished these worthy pa¬ 'been made to bring it to the attention of rents and so permanently were they en¬ the public. Mr. Alfred Sharpies presided grafted into his eatly nature and so last¬ ing were the influences of his home there, as he had done at the meeting' of ] w«TS®s’ >ith anecdote* ancTTncidem ot | Washington, Adams, Hamilton Chief (Justice Marshall, Luther Martin anjf W ’ham Pinckney, Webster and Wirt in the famous Dartmouth College case and WetafMr and Binney in the lqu“?y ?a- controlled hiS ! f1/6!?' Personal conduct mous Girard will ease. These and other ?•»< ? imXVK,. •w.'Wft*ss: realism,reaJiam” Ththese«8 Atwo reproducedpapers, all withtoo briefvivid S?®»p“‘al‘y praised by the Poet Long- w? A Ay n°t onIy show Mr. Evef- lf,rt tke finished man of letters, but they indicate how receptive his mind was to w.*f 5? faSL j" *1 the influences and opportunities of his surroundings. After a year spent at Har¬ vard he returned home and entered th° PhTi °f William M, Meredith of Philadelphia. On February 4, 1845 he was admitted to the bar of Chester countv leg'e in 1839 atthe a-e of ^TA0" Co'- .and of Philadelphia. After three years cortespondence wit A he writer b0Tth£ |of practice at the Chester County Bar he went upon an extended foreign tour homehi„Cd°nab?oUaedd f°r “a?y ??*» *>«£ p.fVtS n ™ hs-wete spent as a student [ft the, University of Edinburgh. From “edV,dlcti“ ,Stf1"iCti0% copttln'd °va! u?>erS v.16 wtnt t0 'tfie University of Ber¬ lin, where he studied Internationa] law Ulebtleef °^ ^ ^ ®S PU^- leaders of the^fiteraryworll- rec°snized SSoiis Pl°maS fr°m b0th of thes® A man op letters THE COUNTY'S FAMOUS TRIO. ^P-perly estimate the standing of Aee me,n of letters here mentioned zzi'!:Ss'Sa“« .,yerna.rt as a man of letters2.M for ■ t the movement in literature nnH otI r?areS.W«Vh,my 0wn conclusion after enned 'Rre-Raphaelitism.’ shoull be rel an effort ito throw off thp preCpaa7aftU/onSrryth°?s ft^ artificial manner which followed” the school of Raphael and of Milton This Beyard^Taylor and™!8 Buchanan Reid, school of mannerism, though weak Imi tators of these great artist! culminated he6adthoef * “*“ ln s*iiRed and artificial style of Pone .and -Byron. The reaction in lit erst?,™ a°nUdntayrt set in with the now forgotten Churchin »SnHlM rBeamyeamd who took Dry den as a modeh and in do¬ ing thas influenced C'ow-per, and through •Cowper and Wordsworth and others hke ■them came all of the best efforts n? of hfa wrifingTs veTy hi^ ln ! I modern times in naturalism But it r- qmred time and heroic efforts. Read met’ enrwll'16 0f!,1he new scfiool in England e ns o n ^fhl^fuis* siev- and threw himself into the work with py choice of 7vr>Va *ue '*^e same hap- enthusiasm. Taylor and E^rhart in Pennsylvania, as Burns in Si-nulli ?n quote Prof. Smyth toe|an in ?his envL onment and beat their wav out of thp wilderness to symmetrical3conception® and proportioned art.’ conceptions 'iKJVK fcL,?T,,“"r ™' j Sana? s EVERHART AS A LEGISLATOR ft/eS^o'n Mr®Ehwfs careTl* -MrHp,RpE, H,E WAS SCHOOLED. I cation ft BolmVs® Ar»lf his early «d«- "J'ous school for boy a fa' He was grraduafpri West Chester. Congress he secured }mnn?tAeftMy- In to Turke/bein- «7\.°ne time Min^ter I merits to pension wi1^?P°rtant sinnend- Everhart's’abUity asVwriteAA M[’ Bweau of1Animal lZus:rv\mV?, 1he ,er marked him for dll 111 and sPeak- speeches on the Unicoi ^11S colleg-e career. Hethe lllly in hls vey. the River and Harbo?bfj|Ca0^t„1ur- Pent of four reDreipltL- e most promi- marganne attracted wide attention l?' sophic Society hi ?^ yTS of the Clio- Contest.’ and he wa^one^?’?/' ?rator ers of ‘The Na«a, t /?ne of t!ie found- il5S?Egs»fe;1 Still published. Af terTlA ¥a&azine,’ flee of Joseph J Lewis then ln ’the of' leaders of the Chester' rll one of the entered the Harvard Law^A Bar- he while here that he hearrtS?h°? ’ J4 was SS? b,p,0; aiSSify'v*!' oration of the Elder ChlnVlatv,thrilling I The morning cometh! Thank Ond'lA8 morning cometh!’ a decline God! The forms the first paper of °f which gentleman whose honnr 11 1 as a (Here he had the rare privito^lfe'1,a'nies-’ mg the lectures of JudA S? at tele¬ graphically described in S+v, story> so lanies.’ In these pipers ChLt Misce1' raven locks and dreaml l¥a*te’, with COMMENDATION RECEIVED the round face, thin-voiepri°1r’ent¥ eyes> the massy-browed Webster G£,ee*ley and I a,Sv'rDe„a„‘is «;?»■» boo. cially the fascinating Storv^tf”^ , esPe' I ana Oopdfoic SoTOy. Jmf js instinct with life, whUelhi i **before - - "““e_uie latter dis- members of tfie. House, including Major McKinley, Willmtn 'Walter Phelps and “He was a gentleman in heart and Galusha A. Groiv, crpfyded around him bearing; a genius without proverbial ec¬ and congratulated hint warmly. The centricities or contrasts; learned, with¬ applaused attracted many from the out pedantry; flattered, without egotism; cloak rooms. Major McKinley asked appreciative, catholic and generous in Grow if he had heard Everhart. ’Oh, his views; close as a brother in his at¬ yes,’ Grow replied, ‘and f have heard him tachments: just as an arbiter in .crili- in the Senate of Pennsylvania.’ ’Put,’ cism; grateful, but not resentful; persis¬ said Major McKinley, ‘did he waste suph tent against difficulties, but not obstinate speeches as he has made here in a State in error; aspiring to distinction, but not Senate?’ ‘Yes,’ said Grow, ’but he seems vain of success; betraying no envy, and exciting none. With teeming recollec¬ to have as many left.’ tions and honest courtesies, trusting, re¬ HE WAS FOR SOUND MONEY. ciprocal, congenial, his very presence “A single quotation from his speech on was an inspiration. The friend of oleomargarine Will show how Mr. Ever¬ Fieiligrath. Humboldt and Thackeray, hart would have stood in the late politi¬ whom Ayhittier ‘so loved;’ whom Long¬ cal contest: ’Being of cheaper materials fellow compared to his own ideal prince; and of more extensive production, its whom Powers spoke of as ‘almost an an¬ tendency, like that of poor money to ex¬ gel ;’ whom the nation honored with high pel the better, would, unhindered, usurp responsibility and trust.” the market and ggrrupt the trade,’ ” GENERAL WAYNE’S SERVICES. _ WHERE HIS FATHER WAS SAVED. "He was especially the Pennsylvania Mr. Monagha^i then read some ex¬ soldier of the Revolution. Born on her tracts from the "Miscellanies" tp illus¬ soil, trained in her schools, we see him trate and prove his position. The follow¬ the trusted agent of Franklin; a member : ing from the "Trip to Ireland" has a lo¬ of the Provincial Assembly; a deputy to cal interest: "Not far from the town (of the Pennsylvania Convention; one of the Klnsale) are the mansions of J. Redmond Committee of Public Safety; raising a Barry and J. B. Gibbons, Esquires, whose regiment for the army; invading Canada, homes, like ’Marathon, look on the sea.’ and. by the fortune of war, suddenly in They were most hospitable and declared command of ia defeated force; conducting ‘that during the famine the Chester ithe retreat with safety to Ticonderoga; county donation of meal was the best promoted and commended for his ability; i which came to Ireland, that it saved a skirmishing with success about the thousand lives.’ The destitution had heights of Middletown; resisting like a been frightful; there was neither food wall Knyphausen’s advance at Brandy¬ nor money; the people were terror strick¬ wine till sunset; renewing the action with en. and these provisions arrived at the ardor at Goshen; blazing like a fire j very crisis of the calamity. For this through the fog and gloom of German¬ timely succor the Irish of Ballanspittle town; collecting clothing for the half- will ever gratefully remember the coun¬ naked troops while on a leave of ab¬ ty of Chester. Those gentlemen, years sence; foraging in Jersey to sustain the ago. had beejn extremely kind when the samp at Valley Forge; bursting like an good ship Albion was wrecked upon the avalanche through the British lines at coast. They showed me the scene of that Monmouth; scaling the terrific steeps disaster, and trip rock from which my of Stony Point; quelling a mutiny of un- | father, the only cabip passenger saved, paid troops by his prudence; assaulting ! was hoisted to the bank, ft is a perilous Cornwallis, five times stronger than him¬ place even in fair weather; tfie waves self, with advantage, at Green Springs; wash over it; and the iron side3 p£ the defeating the British and Indians at shore, bare and precipitous to a pro¬ Ogeechee; storming the redoubts at digious depth, make it fearful, ‘and dizzy Yorktown: repulsing the savages and to cast one’s eyes so low-’ ” Tories at Sharon; entering Savannah and Charleston in triumph; closing the war HIS E'EOQUBNT PLEA FOR WAYNE. by receiving the allegiance of the dis¬ . Probably Mr. Everhart’s finest foren¬ affected, and new titles for his services. sic efforts were his speeches in the State “Then, in the General Assembly,he was [ the first to oppose the test laws, and the I most influential in their repeal. He was favor of substituting General Wayne’s amongst the foremost in advocating com¬ name in place of General Muhlenberg in munion of the Delaware and Chesapeake the bill making appropriation for the 1 bavs. He received a deserved gratuity of statues of distinguished Pennsylvanians, land from Georgia^ was elected to Con-i to be placed in ;he rotunda of the Na¬ gress; made a member of the United ; tional Capitol, contained a soien.did tri¬ States Constitutional Convention; ap- [ bute add an unanswerable argument. pointed Chief of the army. Again in the j Some of riie extracts read from the field, he subdued the Indians, whose pre¬ speeches are given here because of their vious massacre of Citizens and soldiers , special local interest, in referring to the had filled the wide West with woe and | two closing selections Mr. Monaghan said terror. He returned to the seat of govern- |- they contained enough suggestions of ment, and was awarded a welcome which ■■ reminiscences to keep "Bygones" going recalls the enthusiasm of Rome’s his- . in the Local News for a year or more. torie triumphs. And after half a lifetime | A GLIMPSE OF BAYARD TAYLOR. of public labors, he died on duty.” "What facility, tenderness, and sweet¬ JOHN HICKMAN. ness, what spirit and fitness, what “He was one who impressed his indivi- j splendor and wisdom in his verse! His duality upon his generation, modified the Muse may not indeed, with exulting direction of contemporaneous history, ; strength sour upwards with the might¬ formulated current sentiment into a pol¬ ier bards, to the highest heaven of In¬ icy,resolved some of the gravestproblems vention;’ but sweeping along with easy of the insurrectionary crisis. It wTas he wing and inspiring breath, over various- who stood forward, if not form'ost. to as¬ leatured nature, she transmutes the sert the exhausted forbearance and bel¬ voiceless landscape and the latent ligerent defiance of the North. It was he thought into imperishable song. How who sounded the slogan through the land, exquisite his idyls of the fields! How en¬ calling the free States to their guns. kindling his heroic strains! What melt¬ "His self-reliance, his decisiveness, his ing pity in his tones of grief! What rhy¬ indomitable will, his inspiring manner, thmic grandeur rolls along his lines! And and intellectual alertness, fitted him to what vigor, clearness, and simplicity in be a leader. A man of insight and analy- his pose! Nothing superfluous or inoon- ■ sis,he looked with a clear eye into the re¬ gruous or insipid, not weakened by cant, lation of facts and the springs of action. or biurred by vice, or wasted on subtle¬ Undeluded toy plausibilities, undaunted ties, but rich in matter as the waters by resistance, unwearied by effort, skil¬ ihat_ abound in pearls. ful, vigilant, logical, he pursued his pur¬ pose to the end. He made circumstances, personal political, or pecuniaryyTelcT ide* In'MmacV could no/per- game and song: and truits and grain arid suade. noi animosity confound nor the milk and honey: a.nd breeds ot stock ex- contingencies of the hour, nor public vfceent l0! leather* wool, feed and ser- •Tl?e' pi\vaUe 'interest swerve him. aidoi of his nature onoe kindled Within our borders are sweet waters •a.nd pastures, a temperate climate a roll- became a coo!ed- His convictions became a. passion, his passion a principle ing surface, and landscapes with ever- I'3 Principle a duty, his duty a com renewing charms. And main highways -Tkt^s i1'® Public speech bad .all °f tra,Yel aild transportation: and the din ot mills and towns: and of trains carry¬ 1 'iasm^His1,11 0f s.ineer,ity and enthu- siasm His aggressive spirit, his nerti- ing earths, growths, metals, manufac- nenc knowledge, his directness or ar^u- t“T«- and People to all quarters of the globa Herejare libraries and schools and pealingpea'l ni- 10like,^13 an'adeqUate organ, hisi™agery,hf face beamings voice cha.1 ities find cViupches. for everv crppd capacity, and want. anl hefimne61^' thls imposing attitude ana befitting gestures, proved him 'an Here, for a while, lived the Founder °rator, £apabIe of swaying the Hustings of the government. Here were Scholars or the Forum. And .though he had not ^vho furnished a famous college with its the scholarly grandeur of Sumner nor president and a grammar and lexicon to the nervous logic of Stevens nor the’ bril- the Greek and Latin tongues. Lawyers iant fluency of Winter Davis, he was un- who became eminent on the bench ‘and like them only jn degree and kindrpri at. 'the bar, and in the literature of the law. Statesmen who served their coun¬ j quencehem aU ^ the true quality of el'o- ty abroad or led the Union forces in ! sqch considerations which the Federal Congress. And Soldiers who : now move us most. These shining gamed unchallenged honor at Stony | characteristics ’did the State some ir? Point, Chapul-tepec, Fort Wagner, Fort vice made his life historical, made him Fisher, Antietam Bridge, and bv the ; the dazzling centre of the public gaze^ round-top hill of Gettysburg. Here noted clergymen elucidated the Scripture, and ] Peress3 ZW^of ^op^lfe urged the truth in words of fire. Physi¬ cians followed hence their patients with nluonl/dlpaXre'116 g®iUS °f ’thCe neW equal devotion to the pest-house, and 1 weBr^! I1 is ear gentler attractions which the field, and the executive mansion Men miss and mourn: the genial fripnri- ot science here collected, collated and 1 ^'P the social frankness, the bland classified the scattered minerals, shells and flowers, taught the evolution and j $ qu,am *^l«**S? ; m,ininirou/s of conversational,com- numbers and the mensuration munings, the charming 'bandina^e the of 'aPd angles to famous pupils I pregnant sentence, the idle iest the’tran noted the variations of climate, and the s,en,t wrangle, the eheer/ui lauVh-in f dip of i-lr© magnetic needle. Artificers me? winter nig hits—in the sweet sum? her.©, fashion platinum, almost without mer days—beneath the roof—beneaTh ..oompetUip, constructed irom bridges ^,ep.treesra,Ion» streets—along116the a!I ihe appliances of ship and car stiearn And therefore we grieve for the and produce wares and textiles DaDer loosened grasp of the generoul hTnd- and machines. Here farmers have im- f?' the silence of the golden mouth—for sto-<:k' th® facilities of tillage and the stijmess of the sympathetic heart " the capacities of the soil. Merchants CHESTER COUNTY. have introduced new staples and new markets. Historians have explained great cai]hedStaftir tZ w the original counties local tacts Indian myths, and German Zt Z Enghsh Chester, which progress. Architects have reared elan got its name from eastr-a, the site or a orate structures on lines of btauty and CT?mp- Hither came the Swedet proportion Here were poets whose aad ti“e Eians with their hardihood the Wagoner” and '-Picture of St John” Scotch with their ingenuity, the Trim th*!*1 vivacity, the sturdy Welsh ADol'nthpm the §'enuin'e garlands of F?0 ,auP!lcated nature t?fcC°!nSt,tu lor‘a! English, the phlee- in portraying Sheridan s splendid rid^ rn P?a!-,c iPer'man to mingle, after a1 time their lives and their labors together iri expressex ta^^erthe°thc1flm^ *Tfo£ »S LoTand^esource^ Her^is^mes^on11 fi^m®', territorial dialects, the better methods of education, the farrier’s craft the stockbreeder’s care, private leneal- are’“lodes of®Je“Hn’l z^ife™ and"' Here and irop, better than grains nfC°EP?a’ Here is trap rock for curbs tre°nci P°d; mjca graphite for crucibles'and SKr&»s““w sih“M' corundum -hard like the diamond oi tiLLfi6 '?'as the first rolling mill and ■ boiler iron, and the fir™ gram Is“LnfhatPmIvi!|finSr’ ™c combustible drill in America: here belong the Pen nock mower, the Clayton thlesher the chron!eSandatoS ZZcZZijZ0 for porcelain, and jasper and heV,.Pa h1 Wiley plough, the Chester Whites ’ and amethyst, called aReF the m IyL wove?'? Silk handkerchiefs long tgo ™ woven from our own borough cocoon^ shone on the breastplate1 of Aaron ch Around us still remain landmarks of the is timber for furnitwe vehicles and tT? knees of ^vessels^and ?eUcs.ab0r!S'ir‘al names and revolutionary ‘‘THE OLD SHOP,” on West Market street, West Chester,| crossed the Ticino, ana even, till it fell formerly owned by Judge Wollerton’s| like Holmes' one-horse shayv “all at once;” and as a human body tUrw£>4 to father. A tearful spectacle to the antiquary dust— was the demolition of that venerable “So all that in this world is great and frame. It antedated the oldest inhabi¬ gaie. tant; it was standing in the fabulous1 Doth as a vapor vanish and decaie.” period of munidipal Infancy. Its origin, A "VOTE OF THANKS. like that of empires,invites the exaggera¬ At the conclusion of the address by Mr. tions of tradition, and the inventions of Monaghan, Prof. D. W. Howard moved the muse. Its carpenter, like the ar¬ that a vote of thanks be extended to him chitect of the pyramids, and the inven¬ for his very beautiful, interesting and in¬ tors of gunpowder and the compass, is , ! forgotten in the lapse of time. His -work structive address, which motion was outlived him. Others have left nothing promptly seconded and unanimously but names. There have been kings who adopted. transmitted no realms: heroes who be¬ ALFRED SHARPLES’ RECOLLEC¬ queathed no trophies; poets whose songs TIONS. have never reached us; but of him lit might be said, as of Christopher Wren Mr. Alfred Sharpies spoke briefly con¬ at St. Paul’s: .“Si monumentum requirds, cerning his recollections of Hon. James curcumspice.” B. Everhart. In the course of his re-; * * ******** ■marks he said; Mute as Willis’ pigeon on the belfry, it “My first recollection of Mr. Everhart heeded not the great steps of human pro¬ was when he was about six years of age. gress. It cared not that the telegraph from here crosses the mountains and the His father moved into West Chester and oceans; that rail cars run hence through opened a store on Gay street. He and I all the zones, with the velocity of birds; went to school together to Jonathan that gaslight makes the town bright as Gause, at the West Chester Academy. noon; that the streams of Goshen are Mr. Gause was a teacher Whom we all conducted to the upper chambers of our loved, a man, however, who thought dwellings; that marble halls, shady trees and wide pavements decorate our streets: that flogging a boy was like currying a that the new Court House 4s veneered horse—it loosened up his skin and made with grindstones; that free schools are him grow. I don’t think he ever struck built for colored folks; that our doors young Everhart.” are numbered, our dogs 'muzzled, and Mr. Sharpies then related an amusing; our pyroteohnics forbidden on the holi¬ incident of their school life, and 'then fol-' days. But though it did not resemble a liv¬ lowed it up by brief reference to Mr.[ ing creature, as some architectural speci¬ Everhart's later life, and said: “He was mens are described, yet it sheltered many a man whom everybody knew only to of various kinds, and recalls infinite as¬ love.” sociations. It points backward, like a “THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE. ”, t finger board, to a host of faots; to the purr%>s, straight as sentinels, before the Miss Helen Foulke, of West Chester, doors, going periodically dry like cows; was then introduced and recited one of to the inaccessible fire hooks and ladders Mr. Everhart’s poems, entitled “The Old in the old market shed; to the two en¬ School House.” It had reference to the gines which squirted water from every building where Jonathan Gause taught pore but the nozzle; to the wooden hos¬ and Mr. Everhart was a pupil, which Mr. pital built for the cholera, and, after the panic, changed into a pound for strays; Sharpies had just referred to in his rem¬ to Tom Bug, the sinecure watchman, iniscences. The recital was very effect¬ with his cocked hat and rusty sword; to ively done, and was a fitting close to the the old jail yard, where the lawyers evening’s entertainment. _ played ball on Saturdays; to the time A vote of thanks was given Mr. Emrey when the boys slid down Quaker Hill, and Miss Foulke for their recitals, after.- i and pulled calamus on the site of Horti¬ cultural Hall; when wild geese were .which the meting adjourned. _ shot onthe mill dam,and wild pigeons broke /'a historic masonic apron the branches in the neighboring woods; when the plowman turned his furrows Was Buried With Its Owner and Afterward near the Methodist Chu»ch, and cattle Exhumed. were foddered in a barn by the Mansion House; when hedge pears were gathered behind the Cabinet, and idlers robbed the orchard in the rear of “battle row;’’ when the Judge went to the bench, as the Hell rang, swathed in flannel, and the State’s counsel pleaded against Ned Williams, the second negro hanged in the county; when the gallant generals re¬ viewed the regiments at Paoli; when old Seneca drove the “Bluebird” to Philadel¬ phia, and rare Imla kept the “Travel¬ er’s Rest,” and gay John was landlord of the big Arcade, and everybody went to school to patriarchal Jonathan. They made saddles and saddle bags in it, when scrub races were run on the Boot “level, when both sexes rode on horseback to parties ind to Meeting. Shoes were made in it, when they danced the pigeon wing at weddings, and jumped for wagers on election day. It was noisy with the rat¬ tle of turning lathe, before steam drove the spindle, the vessel or the train. Chil¬ dren were horn in it, when black Henry, with a label on his hat, delivered bag¬ gage from the horse cars. They mixed paint there in that Saturnian age, when \ whiskey was six cents a quart, and^ the toper said a poor man -could live, iney I carved steak 3 there, aftersdftan the Austrians / owing to the moral oouvity so prevalent b among men; the institution of law has come to be regarded as its substitute. Yet law is regarded by many as a ne¬ cessary evil, and its prodigality has proved the occasion of an equally pro¬ lific race of lawyers, scarcely any two : From, . of whom interpret law alike. Man needs nothing more than a knowledge of justice, and a due regard for it, to secure happiness. Blackstone holds the '; jVn 4A. [sentiment that the laws of eternal jus¬ tice are so interwoven in the web of In- i dividual happiness that the latter can [not be obtained without observing the former; and if the former be punctually i obeyed it can not but induce the latter. The truthfulness of the sentiment is strikingly in accordance with the experi¬ ence of the good and just and is worthy of the learning and integrity of that great authority. Law itself, when in accordance with justice and equity is unimpeachable. Its mal-administration makes it odious. The ancients, as proof of their reverence for law and justice, l'cpresented their goddess, Themis, as [Charles E Pennypacker, Esq., Was the the daughter of heaven and earth, of heaven as typical of her purity and _ Speaker of the Evening. holiness—of earth as representing her abode and sphere of action. To denote her strength, she was of Titanic origin; as an appreciation of her consequence, JUDGE BELL WARMLY EULOGIZED she was placed by the side of Jupiter, the father of gods and men. Bishop Hooker sneaking of the law says: “Her ! The Public Services of a Distinguished seat is the bosom of God and her voice the harmony of the universe. All things Citizen of This County Brought Prom¬ in heaven and earth do her homage; : the humblest feeling her influence and inently to View—A Man of Fine Men- ; the greatest not exempted from her tal and Moral Qualities Who Served j ! power.” INTRODUCES HIS HERO. His Day and Generation Well as Among the very many able and dis¬ Lawyer, Judge and Legislator—A j tinguished sons of Pennsylvania who have added strength and reputation to Few Words From Others Who Re¬ the bench and bar of this Common¬ wealth few have been better equipped member Judge Bell. than Thomas S. Bell. Born in the city of Philadelphia October 22d, 1800, he studied law under the instruction of An adjourned meeting' of the West 1 James Madison Porter and befofe he Chester Philosophical Society was held had attained his majority he was admit¬ last evening,the meeting having been ad- ted to the bar, and in May. 1821, he re¬ moved to the borough of West Chester ; journed from the regular time which was and began the practice of the law. At one week before. The President, Isaac that period there were but few lawyers J N. Haines, was not present, and on mo- resident in this town. Joseph J. Lewis i tion Prof. Richard Darlington was made had not yet begun the study of the law j President pro tern. The theme for the with Jesse Conard as his preceptor. Wil¬ j evening's consideration was the life and liam Hemphill had not yet laid the first brick pavement in West Chester. John ! services of the late Judge Thomas S. Duer was as rough as a hackle in his ' Bell, and the President introduced Chas. j treatment of witnesses and his daily H. Pennypacker, Esq., as the principal j conversation was a coarse mixture of speaker. ribaldry, jest, and sarcasm amid show¬ I JUDGE BELL EULOGIZED. ers of tobacco juice and the dust of Mr. Pennypacker’s remarks were as snuff. Dr. Jacofc Ehrenzeller, a physi¬ cian from the State of Massachusetts, follows: whose only diploma was a discharge | Mr. President—Ladies and Gentlemen: from a long service in the Revolution¬ —I am to speak to*-night of the lawyer ary Army, was the Chief Burgess of the i who in all ages and in all lands is the town. 'common subject of uncommon criticism; THE EARLY MODES OF TRAVEL. ; j and who suffers for the sins of his A stage line was the only means yt\ clients and gains no advantages com¬ of communication with the outer world, mensurate with the success of his .cause. and Humphrey Marshall was making I As the voices of prejudice, and the botanic exchange by way of said stage judgments of ignorance beset his path- line which climbed the hills of Marshall- '! | way, he seeks the pursuits of science ton where the “fip” brought consolation ; and of literature as some genial relief and succor to man and beast. Board at l from the irksomeness of a profession the leading hotels was $1.50 to $2.00 per a! which calls for the utmost forbearance week and the wage of the household i and urbanity in the face of unjust handmaiden was fifty cents per week, suggestion. He sees the hearts and feels i and the toiler in the fields “from sun t the impulses of humanity, and no crim- to sun” harvested the grain for fifty ' 1 inal, however debased he may be, has cents a day. The best of butter was ever appealed in vain to the profession eight cents a pound, and horseback was for the support of his rights under the the usual method of travel. Five hun¬ I law. Daniel Webster’s definition of a dred and sixty-five people lived in West lawyer was “a man who works hard, Chester and New street was the aristo¬ " 'lives well and dies poor,” and Rufus cratic section and no sewers or slaugh¬ Choate divided his compensation into ter-house mists arose athwart the set¬ four sections: 1. The Retainer; 2. The ting sun. The young lawyer from Phil¬ Reviewer; 3. The Refresher; 4. The adelphia was active, zealous and true. Finisher. He earned the regard of his fellow Equity is one of our natural wants, I citizens by his courtesy and his atten- hephew7Tfu' eral Parke iwas a son of the late Judge hpSi^97 /? ,I1,ss,ary General, Decem- Frank Parke, who resided so long on the ’ 3Sr?’ Col°nel and Assistant Com¬ missary General, June 10, 1S96. He re- southwest corner of High and Miner streets, though when appointed a cadet iC,eiYf£ tkfr rel-T The deed is written on heavy sheep¬ skin in dark ink, the handwriting be¬ ing of that careful ornamental style OLD CANNON FOUNDRY- then used in legal documents. It is still perfectly legible, and purports to HISTORIC WARWICK FURNACE iRICH IN be a transfer' of the property from “Ed¬ L* revolutionary ;memories. ward Rees, of Merion township, Phila¬ —-- delphia county. Province of Pennsyl¬ Samuel Nutt, the Original Founder. Came to vania, a yeoman, on the one part, and America in 1714 and Found Rich Deposits Robert Jones, a yeoman, on the other Of Iron Ore. part.’ ’ Rees being unable to write, Much space is devoted by the news¬ placed “his mark,” E. R., in the middle papers of to-day to the wonderful new of the line where his name was writ- j ; ten. At the end is the great seal of the guns of recent invention and the mills providence, and the signatures of where they are manufactured. If only I Joshua Lawrence, Richard Heath and by way of comparison, a description is I Richard Walton; witnesses; Nathan apropos and interesting of the anoient | St anbury, justice of the peace; and furnace, now long since abandoned Richard Heath, Deputy Recorder of and almost forgotton, where the can¬ Deeds. Mr. Baird has nearly every non was made that fought for us during ' other deed of transfer from that date the revolution. It is a quaint spot,hid¬ down to the present time, one being a j den among the peaceful environment transfer drawn up March 25, 1768, from I Silas Jones to Benjamin Jones, who | of hills and farms, yet replete with in turn, in 1775, handed the estate over | memories of historic interest. Close j to Abraham Streeper, of Lower Merion. by the ruined forges some of the old THE OLD HOTEL. guns may still be seen, and they point j Just when the hotel itself was built I out a meadow where, in 1777, a quan¬ is not exactly known, but it is supposed tity of firing pieces were buried to | that it was about 1704 when'the origi- escape seizure by the British. Then, | nal grant of the. land was procured too, the furnace is among the first es¬ from William Penn. The hotel was tablished in Pennsylvania and was • first known as “The Wayside Inn,” and the place of manufacture of the Frank¬ was on what was then Old Lancaster lin stove, an invention of the famous pike, which was the leading avenue scientist and philosopher, so popular ; from Philadelphia to the southern part ] of the State. Farmers made the coun¬ in his day and so highly prized by mod¬ try inn their favorite stopping place, ern antiquarians. and no doubt the words of the present UP NEAR COVENTRY. proprietor, “You know you can’t make Historic Warwick Furnace, around . | a church out of a tavern,” have been I very true. According to the history of which these memories cling, is situa¬ | Montgomery county, General Anthony ted in Chester county, close by the Wayne, known as “Mad Anthony,” pretty rural village of Coventry. So stopped there in 1792 on one of his nearly has it disappeared that diligent I Western expeditions against the In¬ search is required to find the spot. i' dians, and from that event, it took its The furnaces have been cold and silent present name. for nearly half a century, the hand of In 1806 it was kept by Titus Yerkes, progress has left them stranded far and in 1824 by William Matheys. From : 1838 to 1883 it remained in the family from the channels of modern com¬ of David Young. From 1806 to 1867, merce and a few more years will find the elections of the whole township them little but a memory. A ride in were held there and hence manv ex¬ the steam cars to Pottstown, and an citing scenes transpired within its eight miles’ drive southward are the walls. only difficulties in the way of reaching Before 1851 a post office, probably the them. But this jaunt, short as it is, first in the township, was established transports one a thousand miles away there, but was removed about thirteen years ago to Academyville. from the present into a past replete The place around the hotel was first with its own romance and into a re¬ known as the villag’e of Merioneth, as gion pervaded with an atmosphere of it was so called by Gabriel Thomas, in elegance and aristocracy which in the his “Account of Pennsylvania,” in 1696. olden time resembled more the landed gentry of old England than the uni¬ versal liberty and equality of free America. On the northern edge of Chester county, a hilly, agricultural district of great rural beauty is drained by French creek—a corruption of Friend’s creek —a stream which flows into the Schuyl¬ kill here at Phoenixville. About six miles south of Pottstown, at the old hamlet of Coventry, French oraek divides into two branches. One winds up to the romantic “falls,” the other penetrates a lateral valley to the j south. About two miles up this valley i .i surrounded by rugged bills are the to his widow ana daughter, Rebecca, emains of ancient Warwick Furnace. 120 acres of land upon which to erect a In spite of the general ruin, enough furnace. It was then that Warwick remains to give a good idea of what came into existence. the busy settlement must have been A DESERTED VILLAGE. when revolutionary cannon was made This forge must have given birth to here. a very considerable village, for the NEARLY TWO CENTURIES AGO. land about the old mill and in the ad¬ Iron was manufactured in this re¬ jacent valleys is thickly strewn with gion as early as 1717, the only forge in theiemains of workmen’s dwellings. Pennsylvania of prior date being that They were little, one-and-a-half story of Thomas Rutter, on the Manatawny stone buildings, with small windows, established in 1716. Samuel Nutt tall chimneys and low “stoops” in of Coventry, Warwickshire, Eng¬ front, each with its strip of dooryard land, came to America in 1714 and kitchen garden. Some few of and is believed to have discovered the ' these are still in a fair state of repair, rich deposits of iron ore which are many are abandoned and fast falling found in the neighboring hills. In to decay and a still larger number aro 1717 he took out his patent for the first utter ruins, with perhaps a pile of traot of 400 acres of land and estab¬ bramble-covered stone, a solitary chim¬ lished his forge. During the follow¬ ney with weather-beaten hearthstone ing years he rapidly increased his or a gnarled garden shrub to mark holdings of real estate until at the time their former locations. of his death he owned over 1,600 acres. The furnace was in the meadow lose to the brook. A mill dam higher j The region then a virgin wilderness, up the creek supplied! water power was named Coventry, after his Eng¬ through a winding mill race, which lish home. As coal had not then been still pours its crystal torrent through discovered in Pennsylvania, the old a crumbling flume. Near by is the forges then, used charcoal in their re massive smelting furnace of stone, torts as fuel and the near-by forests shod with iron, its vent hole intact, made this product cheap and easy of though clogged with asnes and cin¬ manufacture. Indeed, the subsequent ders. The masonry around it has abandonment of many forges was due crumbled where exposed to the in¬ to the destruction of the forests and tense heat from molten metal. The the scarcity of charcoal, coupled with mill building itself has entirely disap¬ the discovery of mined coal and its peared and upon its site and close to effectiveness in manufacturing iron. the furnace a modern creamery has Samuel Nutt brought his first work¬ been erected. Fifty feet away, on the men for the Coventry forges from banks of .the stream, are the huge England, and with them came many heaps of cinders from the furnace, but of the customs and peculiarities of the even these piles are fast disappearing, old country. The forges multiplied for the material they contain is being and grew in importance, the wealth of 1 widely used to repair the public roads their owners increased in magnitude ! of the neighborhood. and as the years went by the English proprietors governed their English On the hill behind the furnace is a workmen and their miles of posses¬ large stone building in whjph the char- sions with a power that resembled the I ooal was stored. Its waljs and floor feudalism fast dying out in their native are still coated with black dust and its land. Fine mansions, with their solid- I lofty interior is damp with the many ity and size embellished with many rains and dimly lighted by the sun¬ elegancies, sprang up in the winding shine percolating through the thous¬ valleys, with little tenants’ or work¬ and gaps in the crumbling roof. Down men’s cottages clustering around them. in the meadow, near the road leading The ancient church of St. Mary’s was from the charcoal house, an ancient built as a place of worship, and here blacksmith shop is now used as a shel¬ their mother religion solaced them on ter for cattle. the Sabbath, baptized and married THE ANCIENT MANSION HOUSE. them and buried them in the little churchyard where their headstones A stone’s throw further to the east still wear a look of ancient, aristo¬ the ancient “mansion houBe,” still in a cratic pride. good state of preservation and inhab¬ Samuel Nutt, proprietor and first ited, nestles among the trees like the autocrat of the Coventry mines and citadel of the erstwhile village and forges, took William Branson, a Phila¬ gives a suggestion of the place’s former delphian, into partnership, about 1728, importance. It is a great, rambling but their relations were not entirely structure, elevated upon a high stone satisfactory and each established iron terrace. The private lawn, shaded by works of his own. Nutt was gathered fine old trees, is removed, from the to his fathers in 1737, but under the surrounding land by the terrace and oare of his widow Anna and his chil¬ iron barriers. Upon it faces a long dren, the mills grew and prospered verandah connecting with the prin¬ greatly. In his will Nutt bequeathed cipal rooms of the mansion. On one 77 an,anf3ient g^den with the oict- years as Potts & Rutter, and bought l oonf,OXf°7leii8 erown waist-high in out the shares of the heirs of William On thl ed JDfJgle °1 neglected foliage, -Branson betwteen 1778 and 1783. insr shir^P)P031te,end of the main huild- REVOLUTIONARY CANNON. subdiSfH ®- af lo^Tng> it8 interior During the revolution Warwick Ismail u dumto bltchens and many furnace acquired national fame. While ateand filSer9^,Where the workmen the struggle for liberty was in pro¬ gardens S' -°T Dyare fche kitchen the quainfc aPring house, with gress the mills were in constant opera- lot ground gallery; an ancient !tlon tfae government, and large quantities of cannon, balls and shell erffded v,°ne °f ihe firsfc buildings st^rihd here—-and groups of small ZZZ??8'0ne of the old shells, I storehouses and outbuildings. recently found near the furnace is still ffpnnl?r»fthe mansion house extends a preserved at the Mansion House. The I™np o.f mammoth barns, each with S™?1, is exceedingly heavy; about a n°vJ3rhfan^1“g Projections upheld by | foot in diameter, hollow, and with a SDj 8t°ne pillars, forming a pro- cast iron sheath an inch thick. Dur¬ tected porch. These buildings were ing the year 1776 sixty cannon of once the stables and baiting places of twelve and eighteen-pound calibre scores of horses and mules, for wagons [ were cast at Warwick for the Conti- had to be used not only to haulchar- nental forces. It was the next year, however, that | the f?re8ts a“d ore from the I neighboring mines, but to convey the witnessed a threatened invasion, a | manufactured iron to distant markets seizure of the armament and a sudden win0dy OI °ne of the ancient wagons termination of this warlike labor. Af¬ is still preserved in the charcoal house ter the battle of the Brandywine, in It is a picturesque affair, ribbed on the September of 1777, when the BriVsh outeide and turned up at the ends like occupied Philadelphia, Washington re- tired from the neighborhood of Goshen FRANKLIN STOVES. Friends Meeting, where an expected I Shortly after Samuel Nutt’s death battle had been prevented by a rain¬ Warwick Furnace- witnessed the first storm, and came to Warwick, obtain¬ ing a fresh supply of ammunition for stovesfaCRnh ^ Ahe famoa8 Franklin his army. During the winter that fol¬ fn^I68' Robert Grace, manager of the furna.ce and one of the Nutt family bv lowed, when the massacre of Paoli and the hardships of the patriots at Valley FrTntifm Wa8/.a £riend of Benjamin Franklin s, and the famous scientist Forge filled the colonists with despair, and philosopher thus describes the the cannon at Warwick were in con- transaction m his autobiography : “in stant danger of being seized by the order of time I should have mentioned British, quartered within easy march¬ before that having in 1742 invented an ing distance at Philadelphia. So one open fireplace for better warming of day the furnace bell sounded an alarm, rooms and at the same time saving and its peals across the hills and fuel, as the freely air admitted was through the neighboring valleys col¬ warmed in entering, I made a present lected all the loyal citizens of the coun¬ of the model to Robert Grace, one of tryside to bury the guns. They hid my early friends, who, having an iron them m the stretch of meadow below furnace, found the casting of the plates he mill, and in front of the Mansion for these stoves a profitable thing, as fHouse, and tradition says that after they were growing in demand.” the interment the fields were plowed These stoves are now very rare At up, so that all traces of the excavations first glance one would suppose them were lost. to be shallow open fireplaces, with very broad rounded hearths. A back plate TIE OLD BELL, extends upward and forward toward The bell whjeh sounded the tocsin is an overhanging cornice or curtain at still in existence and was exhibited at tne front and top over the fire. Be- the Centennial with some of the can- hind this curtain is an aperture which non made at Warwick furnace. It was earned the smoke off and furnished a cast at the mill by Potts & Rutter in draught from the chimney through a 1757 and was used constantly to call chamber behind the bach plate The £ W(fk f^om that time until presence of this hot air chamber back May, 1874, a pferiod of 117 years. of the fire increased the radiation of . , . ®tUl a number of cannon heat, making a greater warmth with a buried in the ipud along the banks of less expense of fuel. the stream in the meadow, although The furnace property has been held guns which by the Potts family, descendants of d“? “°t 8fcand firing test, than the Anna Nutt, from 1737 to this day swivels concealed there to escape the Thomas Rutter, a name also famous British. The latter would be too valu- among early iron manufacturers in ble to remain buried after danger was Pennsylvania, purchased a half inter- past, and traditoin says that the im¬ ®8*Lin fche forges from Samuel Potts in perfect guns were deposited along the 1771. The firm was known for many are6sfill may’ the eannon are still visible there, although thev ried (1) Mary BeyeF and (2) Ruth are fast beingf ’submerged. __- fington, and had (22) Wiliam, (2 kiel, (24) Mary, (25) Elizabeth, (26) weight is so gro^t that the washing of (27) Ruth, (28) Benjamin, who died in _ water around them and -falling away unm. Ezekiel -Harlan was one of the of the soft earthftbat supports them is largest land owners of his day in Chester causing them to sink deeper and C°(6)n Hannah, married Samuel Hollings- j deeper into iht$ ground. Several of worth in 1748 and had: (29) Enoch, (30) them have beep removed as relics. John, (31) Samuel, (32) George and (33) Betty. _» _ * , 1 • About ten years ago, some of the men (7) Moses Harlan, born 1083, married at | and boys of that neighborhood who Kennett Monthly Meeting, 1712, Margaret wanted to celebrate the “Glorious Ray a native of Lurgan, Ireland, ana Fourth” in true Revolutionary style, settled in London Grove or New Garden township, then moved into what is to-uay exhumed one of' the old cannon and Adams county, Pa., where he and his dragged it to the summit of a neigh¬ wife died. They were the parents of boring hill. Thfljre they loaded it with but two children so far found. (34) Mary, (35) Margaret. . „„„ . a charge of powcler and fired it as a (8) Aaron Harlan was born in 168o in salute. The ancient cannon was burst Ireland, and died in Kennett township, Chester county. Pa., In 1732. He m|rned into a thousand dieces. na? ■ at Old Kennett Meeting in lil3 Sarah Heald, a daughter of Samuel and Mary (Bancroft) Heald. They were the par¬ ents of (36) Charity, (37) George, (38) Mary (39) Elizabeth, (40) Samuel, (41) Aaron, (42) Jacob, who died young. (9) Rebecca Harlan, born Chester From, fi , county, 1688; died there in 177o; burled at Old Kennett. Married In 1709-10 at Kennett Monthly Meeting, William Webb, a na¬ tive of Gloucestershire, England. Tne> were farmers and resided all their lives on a farm in Kennett township. William died 1753 and Rebecca in 1775, and botn -were buried at Kennett Meeting. They were the parents of (43) William Date (10) Deborah Harlan was born, 1690, in Chester county, and married in 1709 at S£C- Kennett Meeting, Joshua Calvert, of Upper Providence, Chester (now Dela¬ ware) county. Pa., and it is supposed that they afterwards removed into Maryland. Diligent search has failed to THE HARLAN REUNION find any further mention of them (11) James Harlan was born in Chester county in 1692. He married “out in lfl5 Preparing the Way for the Happy Occa¬ to Elizabeth, whose family name has not sion Here on August 18. been found. They resided in Kennett for some years and then removed into New A Family History as Is Full of Interest, Garden township. In lOth-mo. 1744, James Harlan appears in Kennett Monthly Covering a Period of Over 300 Meeting and asks for a certificate for Years—1687 to 1897. himself and wife to Hopewell Monthly Meeting, near the (now) present town The following is furnished the News of Winchester, In Frederick county, Va. by A. H. Harlan, Esq., of New Burling¬ There is no further account of them, be¬ ton, Ohio: yond a tradition that James was killed ■George and Michael Harlan were the by the running away of his team of sons of (2) James and grandsons of (1) horses while drawing a loaded wagon. William Harlan, of Durham county, He and his wife were both living in L62 England. “George Harlan, ye sone of and were the parents of (44) John, (4o) James Harlan, of Monkwearmouth, was George, (46) James, (47) Philip, who died baptized at the Monastery of Monkwear¬ young; (48) Jacob, (49) Stephen. (50) mouth in Old England ye 11th day of lat Moses, (51) Aaron, who died 1762 unm., month, 1650.” (3) George Harlan was the (52) Hannah, (53) Elizabeth. eldest of the two brothers above men¬ (12) Elizabeth Harlan, born 1694, Ches¬ tioned, and about the year 1687 accom¬ ter county. Pa., was married at Kennett Monthly Meeting in 1713 to Joseph Robin¬ panied by his w'lfe and four children, and the younger brother, (4) Michael, emi¬ son, who, it seems, resided at the time of \ grated from Ireland to America, and his marriage in Christiana Hundred,New landed -at New Castle, on the Delaware, Castle county, Delaware, and where it is believed he and his wife resided dur¬ in the now State of Delaware, the place of settlement being near the present ing life, as nothing further is known of town of Centreville. Lands were pur¬ them. They were the parents of (54) chased and settled upon, where they re¬ George, (55) Ann, (56) Rebecca,^ (t>7) mained for some years, and then both Rachel, (58) Mary, (59) Martha, (60) Ruth. removed further up the Brandywine, and (13) Joshua Harlan, born Chester coun¬ located in what Is now Chester county. ty, llth-mo. 16th, 1696; died there in June The children of George Harlan and his or July, 1744: buried at Old Kennett. He wife Elizabeth were: (5) Ezekiel, (6) married at Newark Monthly Meeting in Hannah, (7) Moses, (8) Aaron, (9) Re¬ 1709 Mary Heald, a sister of the wife of becca, (10) Deborah, (11) James, (12) his brother Aaron. There is no date of Elizabeth, (13) Joshua). George Harlan the death of Mary Harlan; can any one died in 1714, buried at Old Kennett. give me the information? (A. H. Har¬ (4) Michael Harlan married, after com¬ lan). Thev were the parents of (61) Deb¬ orah, (62)'Joseph, (63)-Joshua, (64) Sam¬ ing to America, Dinah Dixon, in 1690, a daughter of Henry Dixon. He died in uel, (65) Sarah, (66) Rebecca, (6i) Caleb, 1728, and was buried at New Garden. who it is supposed died young. Joshua and Mary settled on a farm in Kennett They were parents of (14) George, (15) Abigail, (16) Thomas, (17) Stephen, (18) and remained there during life. His will, made in June, 1744, and probated July Michael, (19) Solomon, d. unm., (20) James, (21) Dinah. 13th following, speaks of his wife, Mary (5) Ezekiel Harlan, born 1679, in Ire¬ as then living.^ land, died while on a trip into England in 1731, and was buried there. He mar¬ / Har,an> Dorn mn-mo. 4th, : tion of the name in America, sne mar¬ ! xt ’ J^th® Province of Pennsylvania.now ried at New Garden Monthly Meeting, Castle county, Delaware: dying- in | 1729, Thomas Gregg, son of John and West Bradford township in 1732: was the Elizabeth (Cooke) Gregg. They had chil¬ eldest in the family of (4) Michael He dren: (100) Mary, (102) Michael, (103) John, married in 1715-16 at Newark Monthly (104) Thomas, (105) Lydia, (106) Dinah, Meeting- (now Old Kennett) Mary Baily, (107) Amy. (10S) Stephen, (109) Abigail. born 9th-mo. 10th., 1688, in Chester coun¬ (22) William HarlanT born 9th-mo. 1st, ty- died there in September or October, 1702, in Chester county, Pa., was the eld¬ lii1’ a?d <&uried at Bradford Monthly est of the third generation in America. Meeting She was a daughter of Joel and He married at Kennett Monthly Meet¬ Ann Baily and at the time of her mar- ing 12th-mo. 14th, 1721, Margaret Farlon, a wl t? Geofge Harlan the widow of born 9th-mo. 1st, 1703, a native of Ireland, Alexander Stewart, late of Kennett and resided for many years in West township They were the parents of (68) Marlborough township. Margaret died in John, (69) Rebecca, (70) Dinah (71) Han- 1767 and William in 1783, and both buried, nahA (^2>. Jo®1. G3) kiehael, (74) George. it is supposed, at London Grove. They G») Atugail Harlan, born 1692, married were the parents of a large family, and at London Grove Monthly Meeting 1724-5 many persons in Chester county to-day Richard Flower, who, ft is Supposed are descended from these people, among Theva«A?tVV/ ?f Leicestershire, England! them Robert L. Hayes, of West Ches¬ settled in London Grove township ter; Enoch Harlan, of Elkview; Mitchell fa,r™ willed her by her father, Baker, of Chadds’ Ford; Mrs. Hettie (4) Michael Harlan, and where they re- Lamborn, of Avondale; and also George 1s-1f.ed d4rinf tife. Richard died about W. Harlan, of Philadelphia. The writer „„Ablga I’ h‘s Widow, survived him of this article is descended from Enoch, wirtLfye^s and died very suddenly the youngest son in this family. Chil¬ dren: (110) Mary, who married William j her hushed l?NewGrrd^riTieyehad Moore, 1742, (no further report); (111) vv u- liam, who married Abigail Hollings¬ ■aasai!o#%«srM-m M*ry-® worth, 1748: (112) Jonathan, m. Deborah , itGl Thomas Harian was born in 1694 Marsh, 1745; (113) James who married T?owhrT Province of Pennsylvania, now Elizabeth Webb, a daughter of Daniel New Castle county, Delaware. He mar- and Mary (Harlan) Webb (127), and for ^ed’*J20’ al New Garden MonthTy Meet- whom no record has been found, but for ing^ Mary Carter, a daughter of Robert which record in, full a reward of five and Lydia (M^aliey) Carter natives of dollars is offered by the writer of this ?armrdiSifliT?’ Enfland- They’settled on a article: (114) Alice, who married (77) farm in Kennett, and remained there Richard Flower:/ (115) Sarah, who mar¬ during life. He died in February 1745-6 ried Robert McMjnn, and whose son, Jos¬ and was buried at Kennett. In his will eph McMinn, was one of the earliest Gov¬ WhlPh W « a TXrwit-f A,-x. VYli4» ernors of Tennessee; (11(5) Stephen, who married Mary Carter, and emigrated about 1769 to Randolph county, N. C.; wife, Mary -Harian, the Snl-third part”? (117) George, who married Elizabeth Wo Personal estate, and also the privi- Chandler, and lived and died near Doe mP®.5 .abode upon this my plantation.” Run, and whose date of death, aa also lsr,no date of her death so far that and the date of birth of his wife Gan aPy one supply it? Their are needed to complete his record; (118) children were: (79) Isaac, (80) Abigail (Si) Enoch, who married Edith Carter and Thomas, (82) Lydia, (83> Ann, (84) Su’san- emigrated to Randolph counter, N. C., in 1769, and died there in 1794. He was my (17) Stephen Harlan, born 1697 in the treat grandfather. His widow and chlf- £™nce of Pennsylvania, now New ren came to Ohio in 1806, and she died Castle county; died in Bradford or New- ' in 1830. riliao^IfShlps about 1732, where he had (23) Ezekiel Harlan, born 1707, Chester resided for many years. He married at county; died there, 1754: buried at Ken¬ Kennett Monthly Meeting, 1723 Hannah nett. He married, 1724, at Concord Carter, a sister to the wife of his brother Monthly Meeting, Hannah Oborin a sis¬ Thomas. They had children- (85) Sto ter to the wife of (20) James Harl'an, Phen (86) Hannah, (87) Henry the laff and settled in London Grove township. of whom there is no record found Can They had children: (119) Susanna, (120) SthS“f Ph jt’ as als° the date of the Hannah, (121) Ezekiel, (122) Jonathan, death of Hannah Harlan? (123) Ruth, (124) Ellis, (125) Elizabeth. 7th8)lffl9C in6lth^apan WaS born 2d-mo. (24) Mary Harlan, bom 1709, in Cheater rffTem at Cape May, and the next day they Holy Word. Will start for their homes. As Godly men, I believe that they were WATERMELONS IN EVIDENCE. directed by the Holy Spirit, and as we stand here to-day we ought to thank The dinner to-day was in the form of God, our Heavenly Father, that He gave a basket picnic, every householder pre¬ us such a noble ancestry, and placed us paring for those of her own domicile. in this God-given land, the United States Cake and jelly, cold ham and chicken, of America. . . pickles and canned fish were strictly in George and Michael Harlan lived and order, but the leading article on the bill died in this good old county of Chester, of fare consisted of half a hundred water¬ loved and honored by all who knew them. , . . melons, which were cut at the proper Gerge Harlan represented this county time and eaten with such hearty appe- in the Assembly of Pennsylvania in the tities as Harlans—good healthy Harlans year 1712. ... —can bring to a feast. The children of these good men with At the business session yesterday af- I their children to the eighth and ninth ternoon the speakers were almost hidden \ generation have gone forth from place behind a barricade of flowers, which had to place, until their descendants are found in almost every State and Terri¬ been erected in front of the platform at tory in our nation. Our family has not the Tattersall. The stars and stripes been a money making people, but they were draped across the table which ! have ever borne a good name, and many formed the speaker’s desk, thus showing of them have filled high and honorable that the aesthetic and the patriotic w'ere positions, both civil and military, in the blended in the minds of those in atten¬ different States where they lived and dance. also in the Nation. . ,, To-day the Honorable John Marshall It was nearly two o’clock in the after¬ Harlan, a descendant of George Harlan, noon when President A. D. Harlan, of is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Coatesville, rapped for order and an¬ United States, and although holding such nounced that the opening prayer would a high position, he finds time to teaP“ a be offered by Rev. Joseph S. Evans, pas¬ class every Sabbath morning in the Bible School connected with the church ot tor of Goshen Baptist Church, who asked i which he is a member. Judge Benjamin for many blessings on the family and its A Harlan, of Michigan, is the Chief of reunion. He referred to the excellent the Finance Department of the Pension characters borne by members of the fam¬ Office. Hon. James Harlan, of Iowa, ily, and the valued services which they represented for many years his State in have rendered the country and nation. the Senate of the United States and was Afterwards Hon. A. D. Harlan made the an honored member of Abraham Lin¬ coln’s cabinet. Major General Absalom address of welcome, which was listened Baird a descendant of Michael Harlan, to with much interest. The address is who was born at. Kennett Square, had given in full as follows: a distinguished record during the Re¬ My dear relatives:—It gives me very bellion. and is now on the retired list great pleasure to meet with you here to¬ of the U. S. A. Dr. Richard Harlan, who day, look into your faces and feel that was born in Philadelphia in 1796 and died we all belong to a family that has grown in New Orleans in 1843, was a naturalist of note, and that lovely Christ-like child, to be a very large one, and that we are Fannie L. Michiner, who was born near descendants of an ancestry that we have Avondale, this county, was a Harlan, reason to be justly proud of. and although she died in her sixteenth My thoughts to-day are, no doubt like year, she wrote some of the most chaste your own, many, and carry me back to and beautiful lines in prose and poetry the year sixteen hundred, nearly three that I ever read. Whittier said of her centuries ago, and to William Harlan, that if she had lived, she would have the grandfather of George and Michael ranked among the first writers. _ Harlan, who lived in the old Parish of But, my dear relatives, what gives me Monkwearmouth, joining the town of the most satisfaction in looking oyer Sunderland, in the county of Durham, the past three hundred years of our clan England, and then of (that beautiful is that, as a rule, they have been and are scene, which is on record, of his son, a God-fearing people, in an humble way James Harlan, and his beautiful wife, on the 11th day of January, in the year 1650 doing the work the dear Master has presenting their infant son, George, in given them to do. No matter what our the Sacrament of baptism in the old names may be, we can feel a just pride parish church. in knowing that the blood of George or Michael Harlan courses through our Then when that same child grew to manhood, how that he and his younger % The weddings were always witnessed by COMMITTEES APPOINTED. many persons, and the old certificates The following- committee of live was ap¬ show many familiar names. pointed to retire and select officers for While the people were always religious, the next reunion, and also to arrange for snJfo.36611*that same Df them were of a the time and place: A. H. Harlan, New jovial nature, and in the course of af¬ SJEWT* °hi0: Wil,iam H. Johnson, fairs in the Meeting it became necessary Philadelphia: James P. Harlan, Char¬ to deal with some of them. Mr. Carter, lottesville, North Carolina: Andrew however, does not feel that he really Jackson Harlan, Savannah, Mo.; Joseph knows much about them. y ^5 Palmer, Doe Run. p THE HARLAN BOOK. While these gentlemen were in retire- 1 rm rfflden*Har,an made some remarks ment ’Squire Joseph H. Johnson of ! tbe subiect of the Harlan book, the DT™n?t0Wn’ read the wiIls of George j family record, on which the Secretary, a!? d Mlphael Harlan, who were the heads A. H. Harlan, of New Burlington, Ohio of the family in this county. These wills has spent a period of fifteen years. He showed the Christian character of the 1 has secured 30,000 names, and enough data testators, and the careful manner in ! „= aS ™uch as 1350 Pa&es of matter, which they disposed of the goods which as much as the unabridged copy of Web- belonged to them. The will of George j ster s Dictionary. The author has spent Harlan was according to the old style 1.®DJ1,ey.ln.coUectinS' the data, but he in the second month, called April ” 1717 f a.nabI® t0 furnish the funds for pub- and he left an estate amounting to 346 ! foundgri«ho thi°Hnri^,ar!an and °tbers, who feel that a hfnl h unfer are oblised ta up rri,." in rs scrinMnn^fif done, asked that the sub- SC£ ptl0n ,Ist be opened at once. George Harlan spelled his name as tho Ex-Superintendent W. W. Woodruff “erS of tho family do at present.bu? Whose wife’s grandmother was a Harlan" Michael s name, which was not written by himself, is spelled “Harlen ” - hc is far rema,ks- He said of more credit than some Squire Johnson is a Harlan. His grand- thamh urs,' because while some of Josephr Harlana and r^n haf a grand® ** nelphel^it it, hehH thadr t nchosen®vbeoaUSe a Harlanthey couI<:l He "ot Is unionl0* °£ th? famlly unions and re? marrfed1^ Harlan. * Hartan' “He nions because it is a good thing for th» Mr. Johnson stated that in his nuhlic business he comes in contact wjth a 1 held"! ffi°Ple ‘r l6am that their ancestors If p ® o£ credit in the community. »reat many people, especially among the ' At it is known by the young people that criminal classes. He has known a -reat ireyth«r e*peeted ta a° well the chances are that they will do well. ! Harlan^ S°nS Wh° Were in jai!> b5t no ORGANIZATION. At this time a lady in the audience rnw “mittee on Organization made to remark that she is not ashamed of the following report; the Johnsons. She was a Harlan hot Executive Committee—James F. Har- was married to a Johnson, and is’verv lan, Charlottesville, Va.; O. E Dunlap proud of the Johnsons. She does not Waxahatchle Texas; Ork Harlan, Lo- know that any of them are in jail GOING TO CAPE MAY fW***-, W*1,iam H- Johnson, Crew, Iowa S‘ Mar^aret Taylor, La anA™'S!m „,Jbe undersigned committee, to whom was referred the selection of officers of Harlan, of Wilmington, who is making the organization for the two years ta arrangements with the railway 7n„ C0^le’ beg'.leave to report as follows: I panies and with the steamer Republic President—Nathan Harlan, Bethel, Ind. REMARKS CALLED FOR John I. Carter, of Chatham, who was FWM.53L““M5““* w- a3 deedU*for I * P*ace °f holding the next reunion, ’tt?1 He*iiad to begin on the third Wednesday in Au.\ a waste basket, where the evfuo P Jr0n* fust, 1899, will be at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, ' the Executive Committee having powers to change if necessary the time and place. CONSTITUTION CONSIDERED. pear to have belonged to ap‘ Tne constitution, which was printed' inf Orthodox Friends’ Meeting Grova tne News of yesterday, was brought up is mentioned often on name for consideration. It had been adopted much in the way of Wrthf^V0* Sa but more aiong the ■ w- l . ■ '1^.^ ! in 1890, at Richmond, Indiana, and I "'I though agreed upon by the members of in order, and those who had nothing ty the family, the association has not been hand but to enjoy themselves were talk living under it. It is desired to form ing together at their comfortable board4 such a complete organization that the I ing houses or were strolling about the members of the family will be able ta j , town to gather mental impressions of travel in any paw of the country and , the neighborhood and its people will there find that congenial fraternal Some one asked why it is that there* feeling which characterizes the family. are not thirty thousand Harlans here. Andrew Jackson Harlan, the Vice j President, who has served several terms; ^at many of them are not living. The large number mentioned in¬ in Congress, made an excellent speech, cludes all those who have belonged to telling of his experiences, and making ] the family in the last two hundred years some reference to the characteristics of ■ the family. He knows that they are a I ^ndL°£™these abom flve generations arts ! dead. The number living is in the neigh¬ very clannish family. He does not i.. an borhood of fifteen thousand. Many of this in any uncomplimentary sense, but the latter reside in different States and he has known them to be a people who eling to one another very closely. He has | territories so far removed from West Chester that the journey here is a long known them to be very free from those and expensive one. The total number of actions which are discreditable. He does those who have been in West Chester this not know a family which is so free from season is about two hundred taint as is the Harlan family. STARTING FOR LENAPE He has had to make his own way in They could not start for Lenape until the world, and has never had more then*' 9.30 for the reason that the cars earlier in nine months schooling. He has served in< the day were all occupied bv colored peo¬ j Congress, has served thare more than ■ ple who went out in carload after car¬ once, but he feels that he has occupied load to Birmingham Park, until nearly a positions which are more honorable than thousand had left he town. Then there that. He was always in favor af public came a time when the Harlans could go education, and when he was a member and the latter embraced the opportunity of the respective Legislatures in Indiana to make their way to Lenape, where they and Missouri, he was each tim© one of are spending the day beside the lake oi a handful of men who voted for It. At ; are strolling up and down along the the present day he is glad to stty thatf banks of the Brandywine. the educational systems in the newer f There is much inquiry for the facts of Western States are better than those of relationship, and Secretary A. H. Harlan the older States Df the East. who has made a special study of the fam¬ In the State of Indiana it was his good ily tree for a long while is besieged by fortune to introduce the famous Louis those who wish' to gain information j Kossuth to the Legislature. Many of those who belong to the clan do 1 Mr. Harlan went on to tell how he had not know in what tvay they are related been elected to one office after another but these questions; are being solved ona and he said that he would have been bet¬ f 1 OUI v cu u ter off if he had never been a seeker after office. He thinks if he had never been de¬ HARLANS AT LENAPE. sirous for public office he might at the present day have been a Chief Justice on CONTINUED PROM FIRST PAGE. the Supreme Bench. He beat for Con¬ at a time to the satisfaction of every one. gress once the Judge who had married ADDITIONAL NAMES. him, and under whom he had been ad¬ Those who registered after the News mitted to the bar. went to press yesterday were as follows; He succeeded Andrew., Kennedy, who Elizabeth Edna Marshall, 1906 H street was a highly popular ''member of Con¬ N W., Washington, D. C.; Miss Lida M. gress, and was a great favorite with Chandler, Hamorton, Chester county; John Quincy Adams. Ephemia B. Lawrence, 3715 Chestnut Mr. Harlan, who is thoroughly conver¬ street, Philadelphia; Joseph C. Skelton, sant with United States history, told Doe Run, Chester county; Elizabeth B. Baily, Johnson and Front streets, Cov- some of the important measures which ington, ICy.; Horace G. Whitson, Oak were considered while he was a member Hill, Lancaster county. Pa.; Rev. Jos. of Congress. The lives of Henry S. Evans, West Chester; Miss Phebe E. Clay and numerous other noted states¬ Baldwin, Media, Delaware county, Pa.; men were briefly reviewed. Mrs. Emily Whitson IToopes, West Ches- At the close of his remarks the meeting ter; Mrs. Anna Jackson Monaghan, West of the afternoon adjourned; and the Chester; Josie H. Harlan, daughter of John Harlan, Ercildoun, Chester county; members separated until this morning. Mrs. Warren Piersol, Honeybrook:, Ches¬ The company divided up into groups and ter county; Master Roy Piersol, Honey- the evening was spent socially. brook, Chester county; Wm. V. Smiley, REGRETS RECEIVED. West Chester; Miss Ethel Piersol,Honey- During the afternoon letters of regret brook, Chester county; Hannah Ann Har¬ lan, 239West Chestnut street, West Ches¬ were read from John Marshall Harlan- ter. Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, whi Miss Sarah R. Woodward, 601 West is now in Canada; Major General Ab¬ Ninth atjeet, Wilmington, Del., (a de¬ salom Baird, of the United States Array) scendant of'Michael Harlan;) Gertrude who is located at Washington, D. C., and e. Mendenhall, West Chester; Mrs. E. Judge Benjamin A. Harlan, of Washing¬ , S. Mendenhall, West Chester; Florence ton, D. C. M. Bell, Brandywine Manor, Chester county; Margaret E. Speakman, West THIS MORNING’S PLEASURES. Chester; Annie E. Deeds, West Chester; | Early this morning the Harlans werei Ann Leeds, West Chester; Mrs. Edward wide awake and ready for whateve* Savery, West Chester; Mrs. George B. might be in order during the day. Thos#» Mellor, West Chester; Elizabeth Savery in charge of the arrangements were.: Taylor (Mrs. Thos. B.,) West Chester; ■ looking about to see that everything wate Mary E. Webb, West Chester; Anna Webb, West Chester; W. A. M. Lewis, West Chester: Mrs. Elizabeth A. Ferree, 124th Regiment.Pennsylvanla Volun'teSrer rt'arkesbufg, Chester county; Mrs. u. m. Three years ago they met at Antietam, Golder, West Chester; Miss Emiline that field which was bathed with the I White, West Chester; Harlan Doane, first blood shed by their Regiment dur¬ Hamorton, Chester county; Hannah J. ing- the Rebellion. Last year they were Doane, Hamorton, Chester county; at Chancellorsville, and two years ago Maflan M. Doane. Hamorton, Chester Valley Forge was the scene of the cele¬ county;Mai E. Sutton, Collamer, Ches¬ bration. So they are apt to alternate ter countv: Israel H. Mitchell, West between the fields which have been Chester; Mrs. Ida V. Dutton. Parkes- made memorable by the Revolution, and the Rebellion. burg, Chester county; Anna EVI. Windle, They meet on the 17th because that ! Cochranville, Chester county; Anna L. is the anniversary of their first battle Harlan, Hamorton, Chester county; in 18(52. Most of them were mustered in Ellis Harlan, Hamorton, Chester county; during the month of August, from the Elizabeth B. Sutton, Collamer, Chester 8th to the 16th, and that gave them just county; Sarah Sutton, Lancaster: Wm. a month to prepare for one of the fiercest j Sutton, Lancaster; Bessie Dutton, engagements of the war. That is why Parkesburg. Chester county: Edwin they do not wait for Paoli Day, but have Sutton, Collamer, Chester county; Wal¬ their celebration at the time when they ter Coates Webster, Lancaster; Mrs. can best recall their early experiences Henry (Woodward) Chandler, Hamorton, and feel that the sun strikes upon the Chester county. „ , , . earth at precisely the same -angle Mrs. S. B. Scanlan, West Philadelphia: which he did thirty-five years ago. T. B. Scanlan, West Philadelphia-: Mrs. Though they are growing old, they P. Harlan. 4715 Chester avenue, Philadel¬ have youth in their midst, for the music phia; S. T. Skelton, Doe Run, Chester of the day is furnished by the Refuge county; Mary E. Skelton, Doe Run, Band, from Glen Mills, whose members Chester county; Miss Nellie Samples. came up this morning -and went to Mal¬ West Chester; Mary L. Garrett, West vern by rail. C ll G S ft 61* Colonel Joseph W. Hawley, of Media, Sarah Jane Whitson Hambleton, At- is the President o-f the Veterans’ Asso¬ glen, Chester county; P. P. Wollaston, ciation. He has in these days the appear¬ New Garden, Chester county; Phebe S. ance of a philanthropist more than that Paxson, West Chester; Thos. B. Evans, of the soldier. In his connection with Media, Delaware county; C. Burleigh the House of Refuge -at Glen Mills he Plombleton, Atglen, Chester county; An¬ has become impressed with the idea that nie Gause. daughter of Whitson Gause, there are enemies to conquer in time of New Providence, Lancaster county; Ed- peace, and a generous share of his at¬ •ward T. Harlan, 2444 North Seventeenth tention is given to the training of the strfeet, Philadelphia: J. Engle Evans. lads who are brought up to learn the Media, Delaware county: Hanna Hughes, value and the responsibilities of Ameri¬ Lyndell Chester county; Miss Lida R. can citizenship. The Secretary is Charles Le Malstre, 321 Locust avenue, German¬ P. Keec-h, of Philadelphia, who for years town, Philadelphia; Baldwin Hughes, has held this office, and uponVwhom a Lyndell, Chester county; Mrs. Mary E. large share of the work h-as fallen. Shingle, West Chester; Mary Amelia ANSWERED THE LAST CALL. Harlan Dickey, Cumberland, Allegheny There are six names on the roll which county, Md.; Henry M. Lewis, Lyndell, must be reviewed with sadness, for no Chester county; Miss Helen J. Le Mais- answers will ever come from them when tre, 321 Locust street, Germantown, Phil- the future calls on earth are made. A delphia; Mrs. Henry M. Lewis, Lyndell, brief record of them was read as follows Chester county. by Rev. Joseph S. Evans, of West Ches¬ VISITORS. ter: Clara M. Brown, West Chester; Edwin Committee on Obituaries, 124th Regi¬ G. Wills,West Chester: Marian M. Evans, mental Association, report as follows: Media, Delaware county; Phebe Griffith, Deceased comrades reported since our | 128 West Miner street, West Chester. last annual meeting: ^ j _-j A ,, Z 7* Horatio Nelson Platt, Co. H, 124th Regt. Mustered August 9th, 1862. Wounded at Antietam, September 17th, 1862. Muster¬ ed out with Co., May 16th, 1863. Died De¬ cember 11th, 1896. Buried in Rural Ceme¬ tery, Chester Pa., December 14th, 1896. From, //yFiA/K- Cyrus J. Burnett, Co. F, 124th Regt. Mustered August 11th, 1862. Mustered out with Co. May 16th, 1863. Died March, 1897, aged 73 years. Buried in Greenmount Cemetery West Chester, Pa. James O’Neil, Co. E, 124th Regt. Mus¬ tered August 12th, 1862. Mustered out with Co., May 16th, 1863. Died July 21st, 1897. Buried in St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Down, mgtown, Pa. Joshua M. Booth, Co. C, 124th Regt. Mustered August 11th, 1862. Mustered out with ton; Jesse Darlirjgton, "Darling, Delaware county; Mrs. C.- W. Roberts, George Roberts, Josephine Roberts, West Ches¬ ter; D. E. Kirk, C, Philadelphia; A. D. Yoder, K, Philadelphia; James Sorber, D, Beaver Valley, Del.; E. B. John, A, Kenilworth; Josiah Burnett, E, West Their Third Annual Reunion Is Being Chester; Alfred Holton, I, New London- Held To-Day. Markley Davis, G, Brandamore; Benj. T Green, D, Cheyney; I. Walton Martin, Paoli Field the Scene of Their Gathering. F, Marlborough; James Ingram, K, Phil¬ adelphia; John W. Kennedy, K, Philadel¬ What the Secretary Says in His Re¬ phia; James Wilson, E.Mortonville; John port to the Association. S. Baldwin, F, Wayne; E. T. Harlan, E Philadelphia. To-day the Chester County Veterans’ R. Casey, Co. I, Claymont, Del.; John Association, which was organized Sep¬ H. Baily, H, West Philadelphia; Charles tember 26th, 1895, is holding its third an¬ Bonsall, H, Darby; Ed. Seipter.B, Darby- nual meeting. This morning a business Thos. McFadden, C, Coatesville; F A session was held at the grounds of the Davis, H, Philadelphia; D. E. Wilkin¬ Paoli Memorial Association, and this af¬ son, D, Coatesville; Andrew J. Gill A ternoon was devoted to social pleasures, West Chester; H. S. Barnes, K, Berwyn; some of the members taking part in the Ed. Cooper, B, Clifton Heights; John public celebration there and others Pugh, D, Conshohocken; Ed. Jackson D chatting about the days when they Angora: George L. Osborne, K, West marched shoulder to shoulder with their Chester;Williarn Esbin, D.Camp Ground- faces towards the enemy. William P. Shaw, K, Coatesville: John This organization is broader than the C. Jones, Conshohocken; Oliver Patter¬ Grand Army Posts or the Union Veter¬ son, E, Philadelphia; Mary F. Clark an Legion, in that it seeks to unite all Hyde Park; Bertha Thompson, John M the members of these and any old sol¬ Irwin, Philadelphia; George W. Chan- diers who do not belong to either. Its i nell, K.Pine Grove; Harry Warburton D dues are low and its limitations for New Centreville; John Mott, H, Chester; membership are not closely defined. For Brinton, J. Heyburn, D, Ward- Frazer this reason it has drawn from many Patterson, E, Philadelphia; Geo. Ayers different localities to make up its mem¬ B, Ailoway, N. J.; L. F. Davis, D, Phila¬ bership. delphia; William A. Fleming, C, Colla- The first meeting was held at Bir¬ mer; George E. Taylor, C, West Chester; mingham Park three years ago. Then Jesse Darlington, D, Lima; John W. on the third of October, 1896, a second Martin, Philadelphia; William H. Burns, reunion was held in the Coatesville E, West Chester; William Wickersham, Cjlpera House. It was this morning con¬ I, Coatesville; Marshall Lamborn K, sidered likely that the next meeting West Chester; John A. Rupert C West would be held at Oxford, though there Chester; George M. Gardiner,E, Berwyn- were those who wanted to go to Phoe- Charles P. Rushton, A, PhUadelohia- nixville or to meet at the county seat. Thomas Kay, B, Philadelphia Colonel F. B. Bpeakman, of Coates¬ Joseph Martin, F, Marlborough; Peter ville, is President, with Dr. H. E. Wil¬ Gamble, Philadelphia; William Epright liams, of the same borough, as Secre¬ A, Warren Tavern; Moses M. Brown, E tary, and Captain W. S. Underwood, of Sugartown; John Crothers, G, Philadel¬ West Chester as Treasurer. The list of phia; William Gamble, D, West Consho¬ Vice-Presidents embraces Major D. F. hocken; George F. Baily, E, Bridgeport- Moore, G. W. Ferree, Nathan Wilson, Caleb Price, D, Philadelphia: Francis William Foote and ex-Sheriff A. H. ^ker, E Philadelphia; John L. Grimm, Ingram. D Philadelphia; C. D. Watkins, D, Phill SECRETARY’S REPORT. adelphia; George Miller, D, Philadelphia ) The report of the Secretary, Dr. H. E. Charles D. Patterson, D, Willistownt Williams, of Coatesville, was read as George Maxton, F, Berwyn: John S follows; Chalfant F Camden; D. F. Thomas, d' Coatesville, Pa., Sept. 20, 1897. Elwyn: J. E. Morris, A, Sadsburyville' To the President, officers and members ?et-flFTSr^EC^st Chester; Thomas t’I of the Chester County Veterans' As¬ Smith, F, West Chester; Caleb James Fj sociation. Keiton; William Trainer, H, Philadel-f Comrades:—In making my annual re¬ pbia: Harry R. Duey, D, GarrettsfordJ port it is with reluctance that I am Delaware county. compelled to state that our organization does not seem to meet with the success its merits should demand. What this seeming lack of interest among the veterans of our grand old county can be attributed to, it is impossible for me to decide. I have endeavored in season and out of season to foster an interest In the organization and wherever I could speak a word in its favor, I have taken advantage of the opportunity. The time at my command necessarily being limited, I have not been able to do as much in this direction as I had desired. I trust that every one of our mem¬ bers present to-day will resolve to add at least another name to the roll be¬ From, ' fore our next meeting, by active, ear¬ nest work. Instead of 196 members now on the list,' our membership should at least be doubled and swollen to a re¬ . spectable figure. Shortly after our last reunion our ranks were broken by the grim reaper Death, and we were called upon to pay Bate, our last tribute of respect to one of our members, Charles Gill, comrade of Bran¬ dywine Post, No. 54, of Coatesville. Comrade 'Gill was born in Chester coun¬ ty, Pa., and enlisted as Sergeant in In¬ dependent Company, Acting Engineers, on February 24th, 1864. Was assigned to duty at Washington, D. C., on the for- | tifications on the Virginia shore under The old officers were all re-elected. command of General Whipple, of Gen¬ During the year the receipts were $31.49 eral Barnard’s Division. While on duty and the expenses $27.06, leaving a balance here the company assisting, six miles of $4.43. of defences were constructed, extending Among those who were present, in ad¬ from Chain Bridge down to Fort Al¬ dition to many from West Chester,whose bany. The company w’as afterward names will be found in another column i transferred to Harpers’ Ferry the re¬ of this paper, are the following: mainder of its term, with detachments Coatesviile—Colonel F. B. Speakman, in charge of pontoon trains at various Thomas H. Windle, Captain Joseph. N. i points along the Potomac and farther Woodward, W. H. Bentley, William i west, one squadron being at Fairmount, Davis, William Y. Townsend, D. N. West Virginia, and another at Clarks- Johnson, John Speakman, Michael Mc¬ ; burg. The company was discharged on Cann, J. F. Milburn. July 11th, 1865. Downingtown—Commander Nathan >, Comrade Gill was mustered into Post Wilson. J. Hunter Wills, Rees M. Bailey, No. 54, Coatesviile, on September 25th, Oswald Clayton, G. W. Martin, 1885. He passed through the different From elsewhere—John R. Martin, chairs, finally becoming Commander. He James Mcllhenny, John Mcllhenny. Wil- was an active member, always ready to mer Ringgold, J. Miller Shope, G. W. perform any duty assigned him, and Fern, Austin Curtin (Chester Springs), died on October 16th, 1896, while on a Mifflin Gilbert, H. L. Hoopes, James visit to his niece in Ohio. He was buried* Hadley; William R. Keech, J. Jones Still in Fairview Cemetery with military (Malvern). honors, on October 19th. This is the only member we have lost, so far as I can ascertain, and in this connection I would earnestly urge upon PA0L1 DAY. those who have not given me their post office addresses. The necessity of so do¬ ing is important, for I have no means / otherwise of immediate correspondence How the Spot Where Wayne’s Men Were 7 with membersh should necessity arise. I also make a suggestion, and that is Butchered Looks To-Day. ' the appointment of a Necrological Com¬ mittee. It is a certain law of nature ■ that we must soon answer the last roll- I call, and the duty of this committee THE SPEECHES, HISTORY AND MUSIC will be to ascertain so far as possible ail j facts connected with our deceased i members that may 'be of interest to the The Anniversary of “British Barbarity” j organization, especially those connected 1 with his military service, in order that Observed—Noble Sons of Noble Sires. proper record of the same may be kept A Meeting of the Veteran Association in the archives of the Association. Such record may not be very valuable at Held This Morning—Ex-Governor Pat- present, tout as years pass on, the ques¬ tion is asked “Who was he?’’ The tison the Orator of the Occasion. | record can be pointed out, and the an- Waves of Sweet Harmony From the j swer given, “He was an honest, true- hearted soldier of the Republic.” Brazen Throats of the Phoenix Military At our last meeting we adopted a badge. No provision, however, was made Band—Other Features Interesting and i for its purchase, and the Executive I Entertaining, j Committee did not feel warranted in or- j dering, as there has not been sufficient , - in the hands of the Treasurer to pay for them. Since then a number of our To Chester countians who feel a vital members have suggested the propriety Interest in local history this day is an im¬ of a change in design, from the fact that portant one. It marks the 120th anniver¬ the badge as adopted is so near the de- sary of the only action of *the Revolution ! sign of that worn by the State Militia fought entirely upon Chester county soil, I that it is difficult to distinguish be¬ tween the two. The matter was dis¬ and of one which has been handed down cussed at .the meeting of the Executive as among the most brutal of that great Committee on August 21st, but referred conflict. The massacre of Gen. Wayne’s to us for final action. I trust the As¬ troops encamped at Paoli, by the British sociation will adopt a neat, distinctive and Hessians, on the night of September design, and your Executive Committee 20th, 1777, following so closely upon the be authorized to procure the same, and disaster of the Battle of Brandywine, in this connection I suggest that each member pay fifty cents at this meeting seemed to the almost despairing patriots I for a badge, and if the cost is not so an overwhelming blow, but like many ; much the balance over and above the other seeming misfortunes it served | cost to be placed to his credit on the their purpose better than they knew, and books. I presume the badges will cost “Remember Paoli!” became a battle cry from thirty to forty cents apiece. which nerved many a strong arm in the In conclusion, comrades, I greet you j one and all, and trust nothing will oc¬ fights which followed. cur to mar the pleasure of our meeting. The memory of the dead there has al¬ Let us work hard the coming year and ways been held sacred, tout of later swell our numbers nearer to what they years the place has been growing,In, pop¬ should be. I enclose financial statement, ular interest. Years ago the property and trust it may meet your approbation. near Malvern, known as the Paoli Monu¬ If I have erred in my duties in any way be assured the effort was uninten¬ ment Grounds, was owned by the Wash¬ tional. With thanks to our President and ington Troop. This cavalry troop has officers and members for courtesies ex¬ kept the place in repair, and has been in¬ tended, I am, Yours fraternally, strumental in the erection at 'both monu¬ H. E. WILLIAMS, Secretary. ments. Latterly, however, its numbers At the business meeting of the vet¬ have become diminished, and it was con¬ erans Colonel F. B. Speakman presided, sidered wise to hand over to the newly | and J. Hunter Wills, of Downingtown, was made Temporary Secretary in the organized Paoli Monument Committee j absence of Dr. Williams, of Coatesviile, the venerable grounds. who was kept at home on account of the To-day this transfer was recorded and ! illness of his wife. the formalities attending it proved one ventions- of thei colonies that where no of the features of the occasion. government suljfleient to the exigencies Indeed the day has been an unusually of their affairs jhad been established, to busy one on the quiet parade grounds. adopt such government as should, in the In the morning was held a business ses¬ opinion of the people, best conduce to the sion of the Chester County Veterans’ As¬ happiness and (safety of their constitu¬ ents in particular, and America in gen- sociation, while in the afternoon the reg¬ eral. ular commemorative exercises took place, In order to carry into effect the said under the auspices of the Chester and resolutions of Congress, a committee of Delaware County Historical Societies. the citizens of the City of Philadelphia adopted circular letters to the commit¬ STARTING FROM WEST CHESTER. tees of the several counties, requesting On the morning trains from West them to elect deputies to meet in Provin¬ Chester there were numerous passengers, cial conference. This was complied with, all bound for the one place, and anxious and the members so elected met on the to join in the celebration. Shortly after lXth of June, 1776, at the Carpenters’ Hall in the City of Philadelphia. Colo-nel nine o’clock, the bristling little brass Thomas McKean was chosen President; cannon, all anxious for war, was taken Colonel Joseph Hart, Vice President, and out by the firing squad from McCall Jonathan B. Smith and Samuel Morris, Post, No. 31, G. A. R., with Comrade Secretaries. Then. F. Turner in charge. Several The sessions were held daily and on members of the-Historical Society also Sunday, the 23d of June, 1776. Amongst went at this time, and later quite a dele¬ other things, a committee consisting of Dr. Benjamin Rush, Colonel James gation of citizens started. Smith and Colonel Thomas McKean was The Veteran Guard, with Jonas Nash appointed to draft a resolution declaring in command, lined up on the platform at the sense of the conference with respect Market Street Station and held the situa¬ to an independence of the province from tion while the other passengers were the Crown of Great Britain, and to report stepping on board the cars. These men next morning. On Monday morning, the 24th of June, looked very martial in their uniforms, 1776, the committee brought in a helmets and plumes. “DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Several old soldiers were present in uni¬ for the colony of Pennsylvania from form or In citizen’s dress, among them the crown of Great Britain, which, read I being the following: Hannum W. Gray, a second time and being fully consid- Andrew J. Gill, Jacob Tompkins, Thomas ered, it was unanimously by ail the Whisler, William H. Turner, J. Frank members, agreed to and adopted in the MeLear, Major S. G. Willauer, R. N. following words: Thomas, Jasper Darlington, Miller Shope, “Whereas, George the Third, King of Great Britain, etc., in violation of the Samuel Thompson, Captain W. S. Under¬ principles of the British constitution, and j wood and others. of the laws of justice and humanity, Among the citizens noticed were Samuel both by an accumulation of oppressions, I Marshall, Dr. Justin E. Harlan and Sam’l unparalleled in history, excluded the in¬ Pirches. habitants of this, with the other Ameri¬ MR. BROSIUS DETAINED. can colonies, from his protection; And, Whereas, He has paid no regard Congressman Marriott Brosius, of Lan¬ to any of our numerous and dutiful peti¬ caster, had sent word that he could not tions'for a redress of our complicated be present to-day,much as he should like grievances, but hath lately purchased to be with his old comrades and the citi¬ foreign troops to assist in enslaving us, zens generally. Most of the other speak¬ and hath excited the savages of this country to carry on a war against us, ers, however, were on the ground, and as also the negroes to imbrue their hands the Phoenix Military Band, with L. C. in the blood of their masters, in a man¬ Vanderslice as leader, was in readiness ner unpracticed by civilized nations, and to fill up all the breaks with appropriate hath lately insulted our calamities by de¬ music. claring that he will show us no mercy SOME SPECIAL FEATURES. until he hath reduced us; And, Whereas, the obligation of alle¬ Two o’clock this afternoon was the time giance being reciprocal (between a King set for the celebration proper to begin. and his subjects) are now dissolved on One of the special features was prepared the side of the colonists,by the despotism In the form ofa reminiscence read by of the said King, insomuch that it now Mary Florence Teatman, of Norway, this appears this loyalty to him is treason against the people of this country: county, the article having been prepared And, Whereas, not only the Parliament, by her mother, Lavinia P. Yeatman, of but there is reason to believe so many the same place. It recorded the experi¬ of the people of Great Britain have con¬ ences of Sarah ijlather Wylie, who was a curred in the aforesaid arbitrary and un¬ little girl at the time of the massacre and just proceedings against, us; And, Whereas, the public virtue of this lived near the scene, where she saw the colony (so essential to its liberty and events of the night at the Admiral War¬ happiness) must be endangered by a fu¬ ren. She described the presence of the ture political union with or dependence troops, the neighbors collected and guard¬ upon a crown and nation so lost to jus¬ ed, and the looting, of her home. The tice, patriotism and magnanimity, weary waiting, \ and near daybreak, the We, the deputies of the people of Penn¬ sylvania, assembled in full Provincial release Df the prisoners, were vividly de¬ Conference for forming a plan for exe¬ scribed. ; cuting the resolve of Congress of the 15th / PENNSYLVANIA AND THE DECLAR¬ of May last, for suppressing all authority ATION. in this Province, derived from the crown An interesting paper had been prepared of Great Britain and for establishing a government upon tne authority of the by Rev. James jr. Creigh. of West Ches¬ people only, now in this public manner in ter, setting forth the theory that Penn¬ behalf of ourselves, and with the appro¬ sylvania origin ited the Declaration of bation, consent and authority of our con¬ Independence. The argument is as fol¬ stituents, unanimously declare our will¬ lows: ingness to concur in a vote of Congress The Continen ,al Congress on 15th of declaring the United Colonies free and independent States; May, 1776, adopted a resolution commend¬ Provided, the forming of the govern¬ ing to the respective assemblies and con¬ ment and the regulation of the internal policy ox tins coiony d© always reserved to the people of said colony. sacre.” I hope to be able to convince you, And we do further call upon the na- with the facts here presented, that this of Europe and appeal to the Great name is not misapplied. The one thing I Arbiter and Governor of the empires of desire, however, more than anything else the world, to witness for us, that this is to forever set at rest the charge that declaration did not originate in ambition Wayne was absent or neglected his duty °r in an impatience of lawful authority: on the night of the massacre. The vital¬ tout that we were driven to it in obedi¬ ity of a lie is properbial. Truth crushed ence to the first principles of nature by to earth may rise again, but we may be the oppressions and cruelties of the sure error will. So careful a historian as aforesaid King and Parliament of Great Bancroft found it necessary, in the last Britain; as the only possible measure edition of his history, to modify his judg¬ that was left us, to preserve and es¬ ment of General Sullivan, who has been tablish our liberties, and to transmit blamed for the defeat at Brandywine. them inviolate to posterity. The court martial trying General Wayne, instead of criticising him, unanimously Ordered. That this declaration be signed at the table, and that the Presi¬ acquitted him “with the highest honor,” dent deliver it in Congress. and this verdict was approved by Wash¬ ington and has been accepted by the his¬ I MEMBERS WHO SIGNED. torian,yet one still often hears the original ™F-£-om th6U£ity of Philadelphia—Thos. charge repeated with modifications to McKean, Christopher Marshall Sr i suit the speaker. If on this day and on Benjamin Rush, Christopher Ludwig’ this ground I can forever silence such Jacob Shriner, Sharp. Delaney,John Cox calumny I shall be more than satisfied. Benjamin Loxly, Samuel Brewster The story of the Paoli massacre and the Joseph Blewer, William Robinson, Jona¬ events which led up to it may be briefly than B. Smith, William Lowman, John told: Bayard, Timothy Matlack, John Dean After the defeat at Brandywine—a de- Francis Guerney, William Coates, I feat which was equivalent to a victory, George Schlo, Jacob Barge, Samuel I as it taught the British to respect Amer¬ Morris, Joseph Moulder, George Good¬ ican arms—our army retreated by way of win, James Milligan. Chester and Darby to Philadelphia. As The county of Philadelphia—Henry Hill, soon as they were refreshed and supplied Robert Lewis, Enoch Edwards, John with ammunition they recrossed the. Bull, Brederick Antes, Robert Loller, Schuylkill am advanced to meet the Joseph Mather, Matthew Brooks British to chi - their approach to ouv For Bucks county—John Kid, Henry capital. It is usually stated that the Wynkoop, Joseph Hart, Benjamin British march d by two lines from the,- Segle, James Wallace. battlefield of • he Brandywine, one by; For Chester county—Richard Thomas, way of the neighborhood of Chester, they VV Ilham Evans, Thomas Hockley, Caleb other by West Chester, but an old Eng-C Davis, Elisha Price, Samuel Fairbanks, lish map, in the possession of the His- I Hugh Lloyd, Richard Relley, Evan torical Society nf Pennsylvania, indicates-1 ' Evans, Lewis Grono, Sketchley Morton, that they also passed over the road by Thomas Lewis, William Montgomery, which Cornwallis approached the battle- ’ j _ For Lancaster county—William Atlee, field, past Osborne’s hill and Sconnell- Ludowich Lowman, Bartram Galbraith, : town, and by i road, now vacated, to the | Alexander Lowrey, William Brown,John old Goshen road, also vacated, just north Smiley, James Cunningham, David Jen¬ of West Chester, and thence by the Great kins, Andrew Graaf. ; Valley road to the neighborhood of the For Berks county—Jacob Morgan, Indian King tavern. After several slight Henry Haller, Mark Bird, Boda Otto, skirmishes and an ineffectual attempt td Benjamin Spiker, Daniel Hunter, Valen¬ attack Cornwallis before the juncture of ce Eakerd, Joseph Hiester, Nicholas | the British forces, a heavy and long-eon-- Lutz, Charles Shoemaker. 1 tinued equinoctial rain storm compelled Washington to withdraw his troops to For Northampton county—Robert Levers, Nergal Gray, John Wertzel, Warwick furnaces, to get a fresh supply Nicholas Depue, David Deshler, Ben¬ of arms and ammunition. The British jamin Depue. forces had united in the meantime and - advanced on the old Lancaster and county—James Smith, Rob¬ Swedesford roads to a position betweer ert McPherson, Richard McCall, David ■ the present location of Howellville anc Kennedy, Henry Stagle, James Edgar, Joseph Reed, William Rankin. t Centreville, in Tredyffrin township. I General Wayne, with a flying detach- For Cumberland county—James Mc- , ment of some fifteen hundred men anc Lane, John McClay, William Elliott, four cannons, was ordered to take a po¬ M llliam Clark, John Calhoun, John sition in the rear of the British army, tc Creigh, Hugh McCormick, John Harris, Hugh Alexander. ; capture the baggage train, if possible ! and take the enemy in the rear, while For Bedford county—David Espy, , Washington guarded the fords of th . Samuel Davidson, John Piper. Schuylkill. The success of Wayne’s ex ' For Westmoreland county—Edward pedition depended upon the secrecy of hi Cook, James Perry, movements. On the 18th of Septembe For Northumberland county—William he encamped on the ground adjoining th Look, Alexander Hunter, Robert Martin monument on the northeast, then parti- Matthews Brown, John Heitzel. wooded, with headquarters in the farrj Journal of Congress, Yol. 2, p. 230—“In house immediately to the west. This lo j Congress, June 25, 1776, a declaration of cation was some three or four miles ii the Provincial Conference of Pennsylva¬ the rear of the British, and off from thi nia was laid before Congress and read line of any leading road. Every precau declaring the United States free and in¬ , tion was taken to guard against surprise dependent States.” pickets and sentinels having been plant j s?e Am. Archives, Yol. 6, p. 962, 4 th series. | ed and patrols thrown forward on th< ! roads leading to the enemy’s camp. Or See Cong. Journal, Vol. 1, p. 386 : the 20th, receiving information that the .See Com. of Penna., pp. 35, published British would march the following morn b> Westberg & Schenck in 1825, giving- ing for the Schuylkill, Wayne sent or¬ proceedings of Con. in full. ders to General Smallwood, who was ai HISTORICAL ADDRESS. at White Horse with a force equal tc The following address was delivered by Wayne’s, to join him immediately pre¬ J^Fes^¥onashan’ Esq- of West Chester: pared for an attack. Every precaution Mr. Chairman,Ladies and Gentlemen:— was made by Wayne for the nrompt You must not expect me to tell you any- ! movement of his forces. The men were! thing new about what is called, in diplo¬ ordered to lie on their arms, protecting matic language, “the affair at Paoli,’’ their cartridges with their coats. His but which with a sufficient justification, own horse was saddled and hostlered I think, we prefer to call ‘The Paoli mas¬ ready for mounting. Between 9 and 10 o’clock at night he received a rumor of n impending attack. "Vague and unau- 1 roiiowecrcarrnnd no apologist. Tfi^Hbr- thentic as it was, additional precautions | ror of that terrible night Which we can were immediately taken. Aj number of i never forget was the slaughter in c0*“ videttes of horse pickets were sent blood of the wounded, the out with orders to patrol all the roads the sick Hear the testimony ot eye leading to the British camp. Two new witnesses. Lieutenant (afterwards Gen- pickets were planted, one on a blind- pral^ Hunter, of the British Arms, nkrtli from the Warren Tavern to .the “The light infantry bayoneted ®very H?*n American camp, the other to the right they came up with. The camp was lm and in the rear, making altogether six mediately set on fire, and this, with the different pickets in addition to a horse cries of the wounded, formed altogethe picket well advanced on the Swedesford one of the most dreadful scenes I ever road the very road by which the British beheld ” Another British officer r®Pe^s approached. With all these precautions that, after the first engagement, ^ dread¬ it seems incredible that the attack or ful scene of havoc followed rebels the Americans could have been success¬ sergeant boasted: I stuck the reoei ful The British expedition was well like so many pigs, one after another, un planned by General Gray, wllo ha(l)™ til the blood ran out of the t0U CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE. ~ --- " 'l-t children. They in company with these three children sailed from Ireland for this country in the month of May 1737. Two of the children died on the passage with small-pox. They arrived in the city of Philadelphia in the month of From, . August, having been thirteen weeks in : crossing the Atlantic. My father, Crom¬ well Pearce, was the surviving child. I He was born in December 1732. The family remained in the city of Philadel¬ phia until the succeeding Spring, when they removed to the neighborhood of Radnor Church—St. David’s—Delaware Date , <<--Vx a/x /ffy ; county, Pennsylvania, in which locality - they continued for some time. They buried two children at Radnor Church. My grandfather was a mason and car¬ penter and in the year 1744 built 9t. Peter’s Church, Great Valley, Chester county, Penn., together with its gallery, CHESTER COUNTY HISTORY CONSIDERED, shed and church-yard wali. On the 15th of April, 1745, he was chosen the first warden of that church. In the year 1750 he purchased from George Ashton the It Was the Opening Night of the Season farm on which the Paoli Monument now and Drew a Full House—Some Very stands, where he died on the 6th of March, 1777. He and Grand-mother are Timely Suggestions and Interesting both buried at Radnor Church in one grave. He left beside my father a son Reminiscenses—The Subject Was George Pearce, who with the first Further Discussed by Several of Those settlers emigrated to Kentucky in 17S5 living to an advanced age and leaving a Present, and a Vote of Thanks Was large family of children. There was also born to them a daughter Rachel w'ho Extended to the Speaker of the married Richard Robinson and with her Evening, husband returned to Great Valley and are both buried in St. Peter’s church yard near the church. Grand-father Pearce was a man six The first meeting of the West Chester feet in height, of robust frame and of Philosophical So¬ industrious, temperate habits; he died, ciety was held leaving to those who survived him an last evening and unblemished reputation. ». the attendance My father was commissioned a Dieu-1 ■ was' very large. It tenant by William Denny, Dieut. x was a deeply in¬ Governor of the Province of Pennsyl¬ terested audience vania, on the 8th day of May, 1758, and ■as Charles H. was connected with the Forbes campaign Pen nypacker, This company built a fort at Shamokin Esq., talked of on the Susquehanna River near the pres¬ Chester county ent village of Sunbury in Northumber- history and his¬ torians. The Presi- dent, Professorj 103 -Frank H. Green, was not present and his native county, and his fellow coun~j Professor Richard Darlington filled the I trymen will expect that this great task chair for the time being. Miss Sue C. I will now be completed and our children's Lodge, the Secretary, was present and children will not have to grope around read the minutes of the last meeting, for facts to establish themselves as Sons which was held in June last. The min¬ or Daughters of the Revolution. Permit utes were approved as read. the speaker to remind this historical es¬ The names of Mary I. Stille, Dr. J. B. sayist that facts, especially family facts, Rayner and Dr. E. L. Palmer were pro¬ are disturbing elements. We don’t want posed for membership in the Society to make our narrative a bundle of pages and all three were elected. which are stained. We don’t want that Professor Darlington announced on be¬ hearts now beating shall ache by reason half of the Business Committee that at / of the mistakes long since buried In the the next meeting of the Society Prof. / silence of the grave. Stick to the doc¬ J. Russell Hayes, of Swarthmore, would trine of general averages. Remember deliver an address upon the theme of George Bancroft’s definition of a gentle¬ "The Poets of Cambridge and Oxford." man, “a man who rises superior to his . HISTORY OP CHESTER COUNTY. accidents.” More than 700 square miles of territory hold on its surface about 90,- The President introduced Charles H. 000 people. TheTe is the greatest diver¬ j Pennypacker, Esq., the speaker of the sity of soil within this small area, and evening, who proceeded to deliver a likewise the greatest diversity of people. very interesting address upon the theme Their intentions are generally good,- and of “The History of Chester County, their chances for future rewards and Those Who Have Written it and Those punishments about as certain as the Who Contemplate Doing So.” times will admit of. The lawyers should Mr. Pennypacker introduced Ms ad- occupy the first place in this volume or | dress by a few extemporaneous re- these volumes because the first business I marks of a spicy nature and then read of which history makes any Tecord was the following paper: an action of ejectment from the Garden j THE HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY. of Eden, and all creation have tried to The first man to venture into the do¬ figure out the “mesne profits” ever since. main of local story was Joseph J. Lewis, The humors as well as the hardships of and his epistolary method of descrip¬ the law should not he forgotten. Treat tion was as didactic as the best sentences upon the importance of seriousness in of “Junius,” of whose writings he was a this learned and lofty profession. Show close student. This obscure and undis¬ how the dear people value a long face, covered writer had for his motto “Stat and a sepulchral air as proof positive of nominis umbra,” arid he wTas a sort of great intellectual endowments and a ( political gospeller in an age of political close attention to the lessons of life and intrigue. Modern politics would have death, which every suitor believes he has ! given “Junius” nervous prostration be¬ to learn when he risks his fortunes and fore sunrise, and his soliloquy would his sacred honor in the temple of justice. j have been, Point out the dangers of a laugh. Ex¬ “As I journey on the voyage of life plain tho weight and solemnity of m And float adown the stream, frown. j The milk of human kindness ELI K. PRICE. Seldom yield^ us any cream.” When Eli K. Price went into the ad¬ j So that we can uot adopt this old Eng- miralty law of the Christian era, he wag lish plan of inditing letters to our readers no less zealous than the barrister who al¬ j although Mr. Lewis was a master of his luded to Aaron as a “gold hug.” Hold ! language and should receive great credit up to scorn those members of a learned for his zeal and fortitude. The plan and profession who allow their responsibili¬ ! scope of his history was excellent, but ties to rest upon them so lightly that would not be so regarded in the light they can eat and sleep while great causes of “University Extension" criticism. are hanging in the balance. which seems to have for its motto, “Rip Having disposed of the men of law, 'em up the back!” I was acquainted reproached the living and eulogized the with Mr. Lewis for many years and he dead, exhorted them to be more down¬ was as painstaking, methodical, indus¬ cast and more thoughtful, turn your at¬ trious and exhaustive a writer as I ever tention to the men of physic. Do not knew. Blue paper, black ink, a quill pen quote any Shakespeare to them about and a sand box had charms for him unto “throwing physic to the dogs,” for the the midnight hour, and it is recorded fate of our public library hangs upon that with a wet towel about his head the continued existence of dogs in West and bis feet In a bucket of water, he Chester, and anti-toxin at $1.75 a dose sought to write all the letters needed to causes frictional disturbances between jbe written in the Internal Revenue De- the Board of Health and the Board of | pantment, of which he was Commis- Wealth in our lovely inland borough. I sloner. In 1843 Sherman Day gave ua DR. EHRENZELLER. the historical collections of Pennsyl- ! vania and the three taverns and the Give us the story of that Massachu¬ Bank of Chester County attracted his setts Revolutionary veteran. Dr. Ehren- pencil. Then Eli Bowen gave us some zeller, a man without a diploma, but a Pennsylvania sketches in 1851, and in re¬ man with a country. Did he find West ferring to the supersedure of the turn- ' Chester or did West Chester find him? pike by the railroad, says that some Summon up the shades of these dauntless Chester county poet 4n league with “John heroes of field and flood, these minister-1 Barleycorn” had inspired his mournful ing angels of mercy and peace—whose muse to sing, beggarlv stipends of ingratitude, forget¬ fulness and cash caused the Legislature “May the devil catch the man to give them a preference equal at least Who invented the plan with that of the undertaker. In the early That ruined us poor wagoners. days when they took a lockstitch upon And every other man.” an aching tooth, something had to come. The “every other man” had special re¬ Give us a history of these old Doctors ference to the inn keepers along the Lan¬ who traveled with saddlebags and lancet, caster turnpike. and some gentle purgatives which were Then we have Watson’s Annals of Phil-ft good for man and beast. They required adelphia, with some local references, I no medical society. They needed no cre¬ and lastly the history by J. Smith Futhey dentials from a State Board. Tell us and Gilbert Cope. And yet thq ground ! about the “Thomsonian Revolutionists,” has not been covered. Joseph S. Walton’h who pinned their faith to lobelia, cayenne! school history is rather a condenser of | pepper and No. six, and how Dr. Sum- ] circumstances than a dispenser of them. I ner Stebbins delivered a course of lec-! The editor of the Daily Local News i tures upon the subject, realizing th»> olds has consented to become a historian of motto, that “persecution increases rather! than destroys new dogmas.” The man of physio was the central sun about generation. It is better to know a few which society revolved. (Nowadays he things which are so than a great many revolves about society.) He was in Con¬ things which are not so. The bibliography gress. He was in the Legislature. His of this county needs attention and there patients all turned out to the elections should be remarks anent each publica¬ and voted for him to hold divers offices tion to show who and what the writer at home and abroad. If there were any was, and the limitations of his achieve¬ bacteria floating about a mush and milk ment. There is a long list of them, and diet surcharged, with “fippenny-bit” there is one man in town who knows them whisky was too much for them. The best of all and he is H. Rush Kervey. He patent medicine almanac had not yet has devoted his wakeful hours to ascer- , done its deadly and persuasive work taining the life history of the brave and until a woman_ without an ailment was courageous. Chester county men who 'nofeligible to' membership m me ciup, or have dared to print books either for hope could be received in genteel society. of reward or fear of punishment, and I Christian science had not yet achieved think his list is almost complete. her victories over small pox, pneumonia, Newspapers have always flourished in consumption and yellow fever, so that all this part of the world, but who can get the peopife of New Or elans and other me copies of the Edenton Star, the Ken- stricken* cities were proof against its in¬ nett Square Free Press, the Chester roads. Springs Casket? At this time one thou- • OTHER WANTS. sand Sunday newspapers are sold in Mr. Thomson must give us the medi¬ "West Chester, every Sabbath in the year, I cal annals of the county, and tell us how and thanks to the efficiency of printer’s We have become so cosmopolitan that ink and the extensive improvements in •teeth are now extracted on both sides of pictorial conspiracies on barn doors, the 'the Atlantic by the descendants of these annual circus takes more money from {worthy sites. There were no dentists in West Chester in a single day than all the those early days; all the ills of flesh pull¬ preachers in town get from their doomed ed together. And what shall be said congregations in an entire year. The about the clergy? The first house of wor¬ power of the newspaper press and its ship in West Chester was a Catho¬ adjunctive powers of illustration, are lic Chapel, and they have been here ever topics which Brother Thomson needs to since, until they have the largest congre¬ touch very thoroughly. The people can gation in the town. I have always ad¬ be discussed by families and in such a mired this church. They have no ‘'rebels” discussion tact and keen knowledge of among them. What they believe, they all the phases of human life are essen¬ ibelieve and there are no way stations or tials. A returning tourist when asked •half-way houses on the1 gospel railroad. for whom he had brought so- many dainty They deserve an exact narrative, and I souvenirs of foreign lands, replied “for hope they will get it. In writing church my intimate enemies.” The consecra¬ history get the data from the church tion of our friends, relatives and fellow yard tombstones-of when lived and when countrymen to the cause of mixed and they died, Be generous and tolerant in assorted criticism is one of the bulwarks the estimation of men and their motives of our social life. It is true that the in professing Christianity. We have_ had personal c.olumn and “the hash” of all sorts (Of religions expressed within modern journalism have supplanted this the limits ;of our county and they all need feature, hut the rare and delicate morsels , elucidation so that they may be known of personal bric-a-brac yet remain for ;and understood. You must start with the social conversation. If the new history j idea taught by Thomas A. Kempis that is to be something more than tabulated every human being has within some of statement it must “hold the mirror up to the ‘‘Christ essence,” that condemnation nature,” where it is possible to do so I cannot come from man to man. This without wounding the sensibilities. grand old Commonwealth was a haven of AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS. , | refuge for the oppressed truth seekers in In discussing the agricultural interests foreign lands. William Penn was not the be careful to say that farming is a'-poor first settler of Pennsylvania, nor was business. That will accord with the popu¬ Thaddeus Stevens the last. We have had lar idea no matter what are the popular many forceful minds to leave them im¬ facts. There is a good deal of English print upon our institutions and our laws. blood in Chester county and there is a And this remark brings up the impor¬ divine right to growl and grumble. It tance of contemporaneous events. As re¬ makes home so pleasant and is so- en¬ ligion progressed elsewhere so did it pro¬ couraging to the wife and children and gress here. As early as 1770 Morgan Ed¬ has such a smell of great wisdom about wards was writing a history of Baptist it. The price of labor is so high and the Churches and these protestants were as price of all sorts of produce so low, that faithful to the church militant as they the poor farmer is ground to atoms, and were to the church triumphant. The fol¬ the future is dark and dreary. Give us lowers of John Knox went to the head the valuations of farm land in 1810, the of Elk and to the head of Brandywine, money at interest in 1810, and the figures and the head of Octorara to found their of each succeeding decade-to show us conventicles in the wilderness. Their chil¬ how much poorer we are in 1890 than in dren were the bone and sinew of Chester 1S10. And don’t forget the cause of* edu¬ county’s part of the Pennsylvania line cation. In the olden time there were rules from Saratoga to Yorktown. and rods as well as poles and perches. “Their good swords rust At more than four score Philip P. Sharp¬ And their hearts are dust less told the old scholars at Westtown But itheir souls -are with the gods we that when he was at school there they trust.” were ruled by fear and now they were THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. ruled by love, thus showing the changes The epoch of the American Revolution of seventy-five years. William Baily is an important one. If it is possible to rather doubted so extreme a statement, \ extract the truth from the mass of ma¬ but I guess Philip hit the nail exactly on terial, and discard the fable, let it be the head, and gave us the civilization of done. Upon our soil occurred one of the the early twenties just as it was. Truth most important battles of the war, and is truth, and we cannot shade it without the events of Paoli and Valley Forge are marring it. never to be forgotten. The attitude of Tell us about the old schools and this people toward the contending forces academies, the New London Academy in that struggle should be fully explain¬ the Hopewell Academy, the Moscow Aca¬ ed and the material is at hand with demy, the Log College,and the education¬ which to do it. Because tradition has in al centres of Glassley and New Italy. time been assumed as fact is no reason Let us know what these old teachers did why such an assumption shall continue and how each pupil was taught to mend a unto _the misinformation of the coming pen or make a pen, as one of the early requirements of a polite education. Tell the story of how Major Ferguson taught 105 John Hickman the classics arid what a“ H1®/ ar.e at- Our mines have produced' success Captain D. W. Clinton Lewis iron, copper, zinc, manganese grandfather was as an .instructor. graphite, nickle, sulphur, corundum fel- These were the haleyon days of an ‘Quarries of S«pen- education without any frills, and sub¬ t,1,?®, a?d limestone have sent their pro- stance without broth. ???* f1,1 over the United States. Among °,utput of statesmen and politicians, OP LECTURERS. William McClay, of New Garden, (and of The lecture platform was a valuable whom Airs. Dr. John B. Brinton is a coadjutor in the cause of education. A descendant) easily heads ithe list, and of course of lectures delighted the people ot fe«®r?ls An.thony Wayne is head and Phoenixville, and Doctor David Euen D^orerSwa'mVe t£®m aI1’ of scholars was the manager of the enterprise. Tem¬ Doctor William Darlington was our perance Hall was the scene of these in- greatest exemplar and of financiers Wil¬ 'tefiectual feasts, and sucn men as liam Darlington heads the list, (and had Theodore Parker, Wendell Philips, Park Benjamin, Dr. Chapin and George Wil¬ er? w1?h ^f11 Street wouid have rank- ^J^e Pr®wsLand the Vanderbilts), liam Curtis were the "spell binders.” and of merchants William Everhart was The furnishings of the platform were the foremost and was an extensive im- meagre and a spoutless pitcher filled with poner and a Justice of the Peace in the water to dampen the flow of eloquence interests of peace and good order and moved Theoonre Parker to remark that in the good time coming' when the whole TosenheSSTVbmt°?8' his feliow citizens. Joseph TVhitaker and David Reeves world would be enraptured with elo¬ quence, "there would be pitchers with were.pioneers in the manufacture of rail- spouts and pitchers without spouts,” f°ad J,ror{s an? Hu^h E- Steele was an whereat Sammy Moses observed: "Doc¬ iron worker along the Brandywine and tor, you must be mpre careful of your iC benefactor on both sides of tnat stream for a score of years, but liv- crockery. Remember that that other fel¬ Jhg <-0 see and realize how low who was here said you had the con¬ Man’s inhumanity to man! sumption, and had it bad!” Thomas Starr King and Henry Ward Makes countless thousands mourn!” Beecher lectured to West Chester audi¬ THE COUNTY’S GROWTH. ences. While aforetime the literar> so¬ Taking township by township in the ciety or the debating club blazed in SU' ? les??n of growth and de¬ many a school house, and great questions velopment is taught. The first county- of governmental statesmanship were de¬ map was published about 1816, and what bated by candle light. The wave of a contrast between the names of that ' anti-Masonry had swept the county from time and eighty years later! Each title Coventry to Nottingham. These social ?hmuSnSIsniflcance an<3 a story clusters gatherings for debate were of great ad¬ about its adoption. The clear running vantage to the people. Would that we streams have a name and a histoiw had them now. But this is the day of I jny friends, I must conclude these “the club,” and each religious organiza¬ remarks which we’ve designed tion has its social “annex,” until our to call your attention to the things the social life becomes a herd of groups, places and the persons about us& It is with but few roses blooming upon the important that the dead Greeks and dividing lines. The evolution of Chester Romans remain undisturbed, if we can- county society with illustrative incidents hot time for the American subjects from each decade would be an interest¬ r?*1®,we are discussing the Trojan war ing subject for an entertaining chapter. and the ability of a Roman emperor to What would the world say to a ball in give a violin "obligato,” the Court House, and yet such a thing did occur sixty-six years ago and one of "T night " h0t tlme in the old town t0_ its floor managers yet lives in West Chester. Riding parties to the' Cave wnile his capital was burning. The func¬ Rocks have been succeeded by bicycle tions and purposes of this society are parties to Coatesville or Kennett Square. Platform^ H11®’ Tt is essentially a free The country tavern resounded with the thfnk '7 men can he made to music and mirth cf the evening party rfyr.lk and to know and to express and the social status of the host and their thoughts and knowledge This is hostess was unquestioned. the place for them. If at the end of thl “Yo! ho! yo! ho!! ye Valley blades! discourse—they get a few jolts of doubt We’re .won’t to come to Mammy Shades.” Westtown scholars were eating pie statementssta1:emelnUtr yare~th ®^"accepted” must Iearn and 'that no re¬no from pewter plates, and drinking milk marks go unchanged. The future his¬ .from powter porringers. Emmor Kim- torian of the county has our best wishes ber was managing the French Creek P® °yr aid and comfort, and as Boarding School for young women who . shall hew to the line so shall he re- were taught the elements' of a solid Eng¬ ®®'ve ^ thanks of the society. WTe are lish education. The West Chester Aca¬ ^LWed?e i T«Ind“iantheyDyrcSeugi° held In^H^h I street Friends’ School, before he was married and took part in the discussions. From,.. On one occasion he said, ‘There is vinity that shapes our ends, rough hew thfmN°'HusU^Esq., said: ”1 think that it is the duty of those interested in the history of our county to make sug¬ gestions, especially when they have any- thfng practical for the purpose of aiding those who are preparing a work on the Date, ” ’ ’ ^ubiect The common practice is to crit- ssaais1 office address of the own^L£°u'nd gtgm he indicated by proper marks and s!g:n.. ^veHfheThe most valuable feature of ffis work. I think the historians ought Survivors of the 97th Regiment Hold Their t0p?0fess?rUtW°WSv. Woodruff said: “I wondered that the speaker did not speak Reunion To-Day. of the Morus multicaulis craze^d t „ RALLY ’ROUND THE MONUMENT. make the coming history as perfe P Professor Darlington: ‘‘This is an age in which we do everything: according After Holding a Business Meeting in the rule It’s a question whether or i do not have too many laws At the Tattersall and Listening to an Address present time, dentists have to doctors {.afnre thev can practice, so the Q0<- , of Welcome by Burgess Talbot There and others School children have to be Was a'Short Parade and Ceremonies at the Monument—History Read by Major Price During the Business Meet¬ improvement upon the oia. related Charles H. Pennypacker, Esq., reiateu ing—A Banquet at 1.10 and After two good stor,iesi “^^“tronl dtsire to fact that People have a strong j d Dinner Speeches—A Camp Fire Will see and acquire that an Be Held This Evening. or hidden from them. T Chester incident in connection with the Chester County Bar. It was a* ting. of “A number of years ago a meeting oi the Chester County^ Bar was held. 107 ecT the Re'gTmervt, ana here "in juamuaii-i Square stands the beautiful -monument I erected by the survivors of the Regiment j in remembrance of their comrades who gave up their lives for the cause they loved so well. Welcome, thrice welcome, always wel¬ come, veterans Df the 97th! It was here vou were recruited. It was from here you went forth to battle. It was to this place you returned when the war was over and you entered once more the avenues of peace. 'Writ?hin the hounds of Chester -county many of your dead lie buried and here amid the scenes of your early associations many of you will find loving sepulchres when life’s fitful scenes are ended for you. BUSINESS MEETING. There was between two and three hun¬ dred people in the Tattersall when Col. -Henry R. Guss called the meeting to or¬ der. -Some of those composing the au¬ dience were wives, children, or. grand¬ children of the members of the 97-th Regi¬ ment A considerable number of the citizens of West Chester in no special manner connected with Regiment were GENERAL GUS3. there and others kept coming as the To-day the veterans of the 97th Regi¬ meeting continued. Altogether nearly .500 ment are holding their annual reunion in people were there before the session West Chester and the town is doing closed. The opening prayer was made by everything possible to make them wel- Rev. Joseph S. Evans, while the veterans come. Flags are displayed from the sat or stood with bowed heads and pen¬ Court House, the public schools, the ; sive manner. Normal School and many places of busi¬ ADDRESS OF WELCOME. . ness and even from private residences. Col. Guss, as Presiding officer, intro¬ The ranks of the veterans grow thinner duced -C. W. Talbot, Burgess of West from year to year and the obituary col¬ Chester, who delivered an address of wel¬ umn grows longer. Those who survive come, which was received with repeated are' showing, tlje effecjs^ of advancing rounds of applause. Mr. Talbot’s ad¬ years, 'but the enthusiasm of 35 years ago dress was a follows: is in their blood to-day. They greet each Mr Chairman, Comrades and Friends:— other with a warm grasp of the hand and It is a great words of hearty welcome and many pleasure as well an incident of their days of campaigning as a high privil¬ is retold for the fiftieth time.. ege to stand here At an early hour they began to assem¬ to-day and wel¬ ble in the Tattersall and the first busi¬ come to our mu¬ ness was to register t'he names of those nicipality the in attendance. This went on though surviving mem¬ throughout the forenoon as belated bers of the 97til members of the command arrived. At Regiment o f 10 o’clock a business meeting was held Penn-sy lvania and an address of welcome was deliver¬ Volunteers. If ed by Burgess -C. W. Talbot, Esq., and there is a spot Major Isaiah Price read a history of the throughout the length and events' of the past year that concerned breadth of this the Regiment. This included sketches of great Common¬ such comrades as have died during the wealth of ours past -twelve months. The parade that fol¬ where you are lowed and the ceremonies about the more welcome than all others, that place monument, all of which we give in the is right here in the bosom and hearts ot following report had a tinge of sadness the people of the -boro-ugh of West Ches- ter. about them. It was only when at 1.10 It was here you gathered at your coun¬ o’clock they met about the festal board try’s call, when the red hand of war that the spirit of fun and jollity broke had firmly grasped its hold upon our forth. This evening will witness a re¬ free institutions and threatened their newal of the martial spirit as the camp overthrow and destruction. fires are lit once more and orators tell From every hillside and valley—from the forge arid the loom, there came of heroic deeds on gory battle fields and brave, stout-hearted young men, filled urge succeeding generations to cultivate with a noble and patriotic purpose to the arts of peace. defend and protect wilh their lives that The 97th Regiment is peculiarly the country and that flag, which had been pride of -Chester county. Many Df its transmitted to them by a noble and illus¬ officers and the majority of its rank and trious ancestry. j file went from the farms and -work shops It was here you gathered to receive your first instructions in the art and I of this county to battle for the Union, science of modern warfare. It was here and many of them re-enlisted when their the revery of the camp first broke upon ! first term of three years had expired,thus vour ears. It was here you first slew serving through nearly the whole war. upon the tented field while t-he stars Chester county is the native place of night kept their silent watch over « Gen. Pennypacker,-Captain of -Co. A,and about you. It was here on this afterward Lieutenant Colonel of the thirty and six years ago you cons^ ed yourselves to vour country and rfn. Regiment, and -Col. Guss, who command- - " ’- v tered your vow before high heaven that of the human f.iJnlly. It follows, then, t you would support, defend and protect that it is a, sacred duty charged upon [ its Constitution and the liberties of its each and every succeeding generation to people. guard with eternal vigilance these pre¬ It was here you broke the sacred ties cious legacies, if we are to continue a which bound you to home and kindred happy and prosperous people. For the and marched proudly away to the field maintenance and broader development of battle and the valley of death. of these two great principles, America Here around these scenes gather and alone has expended millions from iiS cluster all the associations of vour ear¬ treasury, and sacrificed countless of its lier military career. It is, therefore precious lives upon its altars. It was eminently fitting and proper that you’ for the preservation of these principles who survive the deadly conflict through you fought and struggled on every bat¬ which you passed, should once again re¬ tlefield of the Civil War. Your flag in turn to the scenes of your earlier days these struggles led to victory, and your and renew your associations and friend¬ valor and courage preserved to us the ship, and for a short time live again in free institutions of our fathers, liberated the pleasant memories of the past. four million human slaves and made us The world has ever been proud of its a nation of free and independent people. heroes, and while mighty kingdoms and This was a glorious triumph and no army empires have crumbled and fallen to in all the world's history ever returned dust and decay, the valor and courage to a conquering people laden with the of their heroes have been gathered up rich fruits of so precious a victory. , I and recorded in the pages of history Let me impress upon you to-day, my and there sacredly preserved for the ad¬ comrades, the fact that your labors as miration and inspiration of all succeed¬ patriots of our great country, did not ing generations. cease with the muffling of the war drum. name1' T?,!or ,V,pon the field Of “Peace hath her victories no less re¬ naitie aireadj adorn the pages or cne nowned than war.” That civil liberty history of your country. They are writ¬ and those free institutions for which you, ten in letters of gold upon imperishable fought continue the need of your pro-, tablets, there to remain as long as time tecting hand. They are at all times be¬ itself shall last. History will forever tell ! set by dangerous influences within t“e story that wherever the brave boys ; and without, and to whom can they more ot the old Ninely-seveiith fought their I confidently appeal than the soldier who battles, whether in front of tfie guns of I so gallantly protected them with his.life Fort Wagner, (he bloody charge of • and his fortunes on the field of battle, i Green Plains, atj Cold Harbor, “Deep I The success of our Government is based* Bottom, or storming the parapets of upon law and order and every patriotic h ort Fisher, over which your flag was citizen should see that these two forces the first of all others to wave in tri¬ are properly and judiciously adminis¬ umph and glory.: you discharged your tered. Every country where the people duty to your country with a degree of govern must have the faithful support zeal and fidelity 4-filch entitles you to be of the citizen in order that she shall be numbered amon^ the world’s bravest strong and powerful in country wherever it lead, I desire-at this time and upon this occasion to call your °f. the flag of your country and attention to what I conceive to be not , ‘‘hat it represents, will ever he proud¬ only a gross injustice to you, but also to ly cherished by your posterity, as the your country, and the toiling millions richest inheritance of manly valor and who support its public treasury. I refer unselfish deeds of patriotism which one to the present evil system of distributing generation ever transmitted to another. pensions. X am one of those who believe May He who controls the destinies of that every faithful soldier who gave his nations, yet makeih the sparrow’s fall hie for his country, or who bears upon guide and protect your footsteps his body the scars of battle, or who by throughout all the checkering scenes of f-.n', ?!®asori whatever is unable to earn a livelihood, should be liberally and well THREE CHEERS AND A TIGER. provided for by our government, and that the same tender care should be ex¬ Immediately upon the conclusion rtf ercised by it toward his widow for life the address by Burgess Talbot, Isaac A. and his youthfui children. This is a just Cleaver, of Berwyn, arose and proposed debt which our government owes to its a ,v [companionship or me camp lire, me rent i eomradeship.the mutual dependence! You at ‘'Old Town,” midway between Per- | will recall your mate, with whom you | 'nandina and Fort Clinch. This post re- i were mutually all in all to each other; in | mained in his charge until the regiment | all your experiences—until, perhaps, it | was ordered to join the Army of the [ was on that sad, sorrowful, fatal day at ' Potomac April 22d, 1864. Green Plains, Va., you and he marched ' During the memorable charge of our out side by side with that grand, devoted 1 gallant Colonel Pennypacker’s "Light batallion of the Regiment, scarce 3001 Brigade,” of less than 300 men. that was strong,led by our brave and gallant Lieu- > so recklessly ordered to charge tenant-Colonel Pennvpacker, to> face the upon the famous General Pick- ■ deadly fire of General Pickett’s entire di¬ • ett’s entire Division, which oc¬ vision. How grandly and heroically the cupied an entrenchment, having_ six field I charge was made, across the open field, pieces in position. Captain Lemaistre was we know, and those who witnessed it severely wounded in the left leg, and the know! But you left your comrade on the left wrist, being thereby disabled from field, with the 47 killed, 139 wounded, in¬ further service. He had led his company cluding your intrepid young leader,thrice with commendable gallantry into the stricken down; and 12 captured (dead or midst of that holocaust, as the record ot living). Only a remnant returned from casualties shows. He was sent to the that ’'Balaklava” before Petersburg, Va., hospital at Fortress Monroe with other on that dire evening of May 20th, 1864. wounded officers, and was discharged on Such are some of the reminiscenses we account of his wounds at U. S. Hospital, naturally recall as we meet again to re¬ at Annapolis, Md., September 20th, 1864. new the touch of elbow, and close up the Upon his recovery he became engaged gaps which the lapse of time has caused as the chief manager of the chemical de¬ in our ranks since our last meeting. partment of Walter Whann & Co., fertili¬ The line growls shorter as the years roll zer manufacturers at Wilmington, Dela¬ on, but as our numbers decrease, the ware, where he fulfilled a position of bond of interest and fidelity of comrade¬ great responsibility to the entire satis¬ ship gathers strength from the unity of faction of his employers, and no doubt 1 feeling that links our lives together, would have continued therein, had not through experiences that no other rela¬ the financial depression of the great busi tion in the lives of men can so bind them ness interests of the country wrought , together, as one in capability of endur¬ ruin and disaster to the great enterprise ance and inseparableness, in mutual faith he was concerned in. : and dependence, comparable with the Captain Lemaistre was twice married, * fusion of their qualities of courageous ; his first wife being the daughter of Enoch manhood, in the crucible of war amid Harlan, Esq., a well remembered citizen ji the fiery ordeal of battle in defence of a of Chester county. principle, but not for the mere glory and His second wife was an estimable lady j honor of winning the bauble that shall of Charleston, S. C., to which city after crown the successful triumph of a cause! the collapse of the business at Wilming¬ One by one, the links will unclasp from ton, he removed. the hand of the comrades present here, ■ 4. Norris P. Meyers, Co. C, died sud¬ and will be stretched out toward that denly of convulsions, at the home of his i other chain of equal strength that hinds sister, Mrs. Emma Jackson, in Union- j in invisible unity, our long roll of heroic ville, Chester county, Pa., on January | comrades in the land beyond! Each will 8th, 1S97. He was wounded during the ad¬ find there the grasp of a hand and the vance against Petersburg, Va., on June touch of an elbow that he will recognize,as 15th 1864. For many years, since the the same with that we now and here war, he drove the stage between Union- realize a^ we stand beside each other in ,i ville and Glen Hall, and became quite line as comrades. popular with all having occasion to pa¬ Let us turn now to the record of the tronize the stage. He was about 58 years year that this date of our meeting closes. of ago. 1. The report of the death of David 5. Mark Milbourne, Co. F, died at Mulholland, private of' Co. H, was ie- Bridesburg, Philadelphia, Pa. on Thurs¬ ' ceived on the day of our last meeting, but day, February 4th, 1897, aged about I I too late to be entered on the list for that rears, tie was formerly a resident ot ; I occasion. He died at Conshohocken, Mortonville, Chester county. Pa. He was Montgomery county, Pa., 1896, date not buried at Hepzibah Baptist burying known. ground on Sunday, February 7th. 2. Charles Stewart, Corporal, Co. I. 6. Corporal Isaac Miller, Co. K, died at ! | Died of kidney disease, at the home of Elkview, Chester county, Pa., February his sister, Mrs. Henry Waiscott.in Media, ISth 1897, after an illness of ten days, of Delaware counts^, Pa., on December Stli, la grippe. He enlisted October 2, 1861: re¬ j 1896. Corporal Stewart was one of the enlisted as a veteran February 29, 1864. number who re-enlisted as a veteran, Promoted to Corporal October 10, 1S64. March 16th, 1864. He was wounded in the Wounded in action at Green Plains, Va., face during the charge upon General on May 20th, 1S64. The severity of his Pickett’s Division, on May 20th, 1S64. wounds, in the bowels and head, pre¬ 3. Captain George A. Lemaistre,' Co. H, | vented his return to service and he was died in Charleston, S. C., on January 7th, discharged from U. S. Hospital at Point 1897 of la grippe, after an illness of sev- Lookout, Md. Corporal Miller was a | era! months. He enlisted as private most faithful, conscientious man and sol¬ October 2, 1861. Appointed Sergeant Oc¬ dier. He-took great interest in our re¬ tober 17, 1861, promoted to Sergeant Major unions, and it afforded him great plea¬ October 31, 1861; promoted to Second Lieu¬ sure to meet his old comrades at our an¬ tenant April 29, 1862; Commissioned Cap¬ nual gatherings. He was a great suf¬ tain June 11th, 1863. He was in com¬ ferer from his wounds, which he bore mand of the company almost continuous¬ with patient fortitude; cheerful and un¬ ly frm the date of his commission as ! complaining on account of the pains en¬ Second Lieutenant. Captain Mcllvaine dured as the result of his service to his being on staff duty detached. During the country. _ -. ■ most arduous service of the siege' of 7. Sergeant Caleb Mercer, Co. F, died Charleston, S. C., 1863, Captain Lemaistre at Leavenworth Soldiers’ Home, on was the only commissioned officer on March 20th, 1897. He enlisted October 2d, duty with his company from June 10th, 1861, and was appointed 8th Corporal; pro¬ I 1862, until May 20th, 1864. He was a most moted to 7tli Corporal November 29th,1861; capable and efficient officer, uncomplain¬ to Gth Corporal March 1st, 1862, and to 5th ing on account of being without the Corporal March 14th, 1863; re-enlisted as usual co-operation of two additional offi¬ veteran March 15th, 1864; wounded in ac¬ cers for the company. When the Regi¬ tion at Green Plains, Va., May 20th, 1864: ment was sent to Florida to recuperate promoted to 4th Sergeant May 21, 1864,and from the toils of the long siege on Morris served in that grade until July 19. 186a, Island, in September, 1863, Captain Le¬ when he was promoted to Commissary maistre with his company was stationed Sergeant of the Regiment, and transferr. ed to the Non-Commissionecl Start. and was mustered out as such with the Regi¬ cellent character, mild and gentle in ais- \ ment at Weldon, N. C., Aug. 28th, I860. position, kind and considerate as a hus¬ That he was a good and efficient soldier band and father, he secured the confi¬ is evident from his having received the dence and respect of all his associates well deserved promotions here stated. and the warm friendship of his comrades. S Kersey Drummonds, Co. B, died at 11. Charles Warren, Co. C, died at his Chester, Delaware county, Pa., on Tues¬ home in Schuylkill county, Pa., on Fri¬ day. March_ jn 30th.ouui, 1897, emu.and wasw«.o buried onw.. day, July 16th, 1897. He was a native of ApVll~2d.a ' 1 0.1 TTrtHe enlistedll August 30, 1861; re¬ England. Was mustered into Co. C, on enlisted as veteran January 1, 1*64. September 11th 1861, and was detailed as wounded in action at Darbytown Road, ! teamster and borne upon the rolls as such until early in 1864. He was pro¬ JVa., October 27th, TSBTrWiscuaTgeu ~ irorrn moted to Corporal and Sergeant, the V; flospital on account of wounds at dates of which the historian has been un¬ ■*Hexa4?dna> Va-' August 23, 1865. able to ascertain. He re-enlisted as a 9- 'First Lieutenant Henry T. Grey, veteran March 15th, 1864. Was wounded Co. A, died at the home of his brother-in- in action, left foot, at Fort Fisher, N. C., law, A. L. Dutton, Sharon Hill, Delaware January 15th, 1865. He was promoted to county. Pa., on Wednesday, April 28th, Second Lieutenant May 1st, 1865, and to loth. He was buried at Fernwood Ceme¬ First Lieutenant June 1st, 1865, but was tery on Saturday, May 1st. The pall¬ not mustered on the last commission. bearers were William W. Bullock, Co. D, He was mustered out as Second Lieuten¬ Wilmington; William Collom, Co. G, Phil¬ ant with the Regiment at Weldon, N. C., adelphia; Hillejy Fox, Co. Iv, and Alex- August 28th', 1865. Lieutenant Warren ander Chandler, Co. A, of West Chester, was a brave and excellent soldier and all old comrades of his Regiment. Lieu¬ had well earned the honorable promo¬ tenant Grey was one of the recruits en- tions he received by faithful service in I listed at West Chester, after the Regi- the defence of his adopted country. I Jhcnt had entered the service, the date of 12. Sergeant Samuel Wynn, Co. F, died fins enlistment being March 10, 1862. He at his home in East Nantmeal township, joined the Regiment at Legareeville on Chester county, Pa., July 25th, 1897, aged 'the oth of June, 1862. He was promoted 65 years, after suffering for many years ' to Corporal August 1st, 1862; to Sergeant from a disease contracted while in the ■ August 23d, 1864; to First Sergeant Oc¬ army, the immediate cause of death ! tober 4th, 1864, and to First Lieutenant being a stroke of paralysis. He was December 4th, 1864. This appointment he buried at St. Andrew’s Church, July 30th, did not accept, and was mustered out 1897. He enlisted September 23d, 1861; ap¬ May 9th, 1865, at the expiration of three pointed 8th Corporal November 29, 1861; years of service. He was a most faithfu. to 7th Corporal January 10th, 1862; to 6th soldier, brave and efficient in the per¬ Corporal March 14, 1862; to 4th Sergeant formance of every duty to which he was June 10th, 1863; to 3d Sergeant May 21, assigned. Some time after the close of 1864; Mustered out October 3d, 1864, at ex¬ the war Lieutenant Grey became a resi¬ piration of his term of service. Sergeant dent of Petersburg, Va., and in 1870 he Wynn was a good soldier, brave and was appointed Chief of Police of that faithful in the discharge of all his duties city, __which office he held for four years. and at all times he enjoyed the confi¬ In 1874 he came to Philadelphia and en¬ dence and respect of all the officers under i tered the service of the Pennsylvania whom he served. Upon his promotion to Railroad as switchman; during the same Sergeant, June 10th, 1863, he was select- ! year he was successively promoted to ed, on account of his conspicuous gal¬ brakeman, bagghgemaster and conduc¬ lantry in the performance of duty at the I tor. The latter position he continued to front, to have charge of the' Pioneer fulfill to the entire satisfaction of the Corps of the Regiment and continued [ railroad officials- and the traveling pub¬ to fulfill that important position during lic until within a few months of his the remainder of the service to the en¬ death, his route being on the P., W & tire satisfaction of his commanding offi¬ B. R. R.,between Philadelphia and Wash¬ cers, and of those under his command. ington. His widow survived him but At his home and among his neighbors he ‘four months, her death’ having occurred was recognized as one of the most sub¬ September 9th, 1897. A son, Henry T. stantial citizens. Grey, Jr., is the only survivor. He is em¬ With the single exception of the time ployed as gatemau at Broad Street Station. that he was engaged in the service of his country he had resided all his life 10. Reuben Powell Fithian, Co. K, died in Northern Chester county. By occu¬ uis home in Muirkirk, Md., in June, pation he was a farmer, industrious and ! 1S97, at the age of 61 years, after an ill- prosperous,looking well to the tillage and P®ss of.moie than one year. He joined culture of his land, whereby the reward the Regiment at Fortess Monroe, Va.,and of his diligence was sure. was mustered into service December 3d, It has been the desire of the historian 1*01, and was soon after appointed Ser¬ to note such appointments to positions of geant. He participated with the com¬ public employment and trust any of our pany and Regiment in the advance upon comrades of the Regiment have received, Charleston in the spring of 1862, and was but our members have become so widely •• wounded in action on June 10th, at Grim- scattered, that the knowledge of com¬ ball’s, on James Island, S. C. losing part paratively few such cases has come to ot a finger of his right hand. Being an hand. excellent printer he was detailed at Post Within the past year John E. Huey,Co. Headquarters at Hilton Head, S. C„ for D, has been elected and formally in¬ uuty in the printing department and be- stalled as a Director of the Farmer’s Na¬ , came the head of the office, and he also tional Bank of Chester County, to sue- V I conducted a newspaper called the" New ceed Dr. Jacob Rickabaugh.of Tredyffrin, i feouth at that post and subsequently at who desired to be relieved from further \ 1* ernandina, Florida, he was similarly en¬ service on account of his advanced age, I gaged. The printing offices and material over eighty years. The congratulations at both places had been captured from and best wishes of his comrades will at¬ the enemy and in his hands they continu¬ tend him as he enters upon the respon- » ed to render loyal service to the Union, sible duties, which he is so well qualified instead of serving the Confederacy. to assume. After the close of the war Sergeant Fith¬ Michael Montgomery, Co. C, soon after ian was in the employ of the Government the close of the war found employment in the Printing Offices at Washington, in the service of one of the principal pas¬ D. C. The death of his wife occurred two senger railways in the city of Philadel¬ years previous. She was brought to West phia, in which he continued for several Chester for interment, where he was also years, giving satisfaction that led to sev. buried by her side. Two children sur¬ eral promotions in that service. vive them, a son and a daughter. Ser¬ He has of late years held the important geant Fithian was a man of most ex¬ position of Assistant Superintendent of the Spring Garden Market at 23d and Spring Garden streets, the duties of Frame, of Parkesburg, Chester county. which ne lumas so sansraetoriiy as to be in no fear of the vicissitudes that be¬ RESOLUTIONS OF REGRET. set the paths of the old soldier, "under Several resolution of regret at the death the civil service rules.” ot comrades adopted by members of Grand Army Posits to which they be¬ _ RECRUITING THE RANKS. longed were read by the Secretary and ! Wm. W. Bullock moved that sons of received with approval, but no action the members of the 97th be enrolled as i I was taken on them. members of the Survivors’ Association ! When the meeting adjourned the vet¬ upon arriving at the age of 21. The reso- ! erans formed in line in front of the Tat- lutfon was unanimously adopted. tersall and proceeded to the monument, INVITED TO PARKESBURG. where additional exercises were engaged Rev. Thomas R. McDowell, of Parkes¬ in, wmch were in memory of deceased burg, who is an honorary member off comrades. fSe Survivors Association, requested DECORATIONS. that the next reunion be held at Parkes¬ The Tattersali was very prettily de¬ burg. In support of this request Rev corated with bunting and flags. The McDowell said: “Parkesburg has some bunting was stretched around the pillars ■claims upon the 97th. Company B was that support the roof. Flags were drap¬ recruited there and the children grow¬ ing up in that reighborhood do not know ed around the windows, and at the back but what Company B was all there was of the platform. of the Regiment. Borne of us would like W. W. Bleed has in the window of his them have the inspiration and instruc¬ ■place of business,an West Gay street, an tion that comes with such a reunion as unique display. It consists of eight large this.” posters, all having some important bear¬ On motion of Comrade Isaac A ing on the history of the 97th. One is Cleaver the request for the holding of the next annual reunion at Parkesburg Colonel Guss’ original announcement was referred to Colonel Guss for his re¬ that he had been authorized to organize spectful consideration. It was also the Regiment. moved that the Colonel be requested to Another is Captain Frank R. Guss’ call fix the last Saturday in October as the for volunteers for Company A. Another time of meeting. The Colonel ruled this is Captain Wm. Wayne’s call for volun- ■motion out of order but expressed his willingness to consider any proposition teers for another Company. Another is ■hat might be made to him. He was re¬ the call for volunteers published 'by L. H. minded, however that it might be well Shuler, still another was far volunteers for him to fix the time lest some of them tor Co. E, which was afterward com¬ might hot learn about It. He then an¬ manded by Captain Wm. McConnell, and nounced that the next reunion would be yet another was for men for Company H 'held upon the last Saturday in October of next year. The place will be an¬ issued by Major David Jones. ' ■; nounced later. One of the posters announcing a recep¬ GREETINGS TO GENERAL PENNY- tion for the Regiment on its return home PACKER is signed by Wm. Darlington, Chief Bur¬ The following was read by Isaac A. gess of West Chester. This reception .Cleaver and a resolution to telegraph it was in April, 1864. to General Pennypacker was immediate¬ LETTERS OF REGRET. ly adopted unanimously: Letters of regret were read during the „„ . West Chester, Pa., Oct. SO. To Major-General G. Pennypacker U business meeting this morning from the S. A.—Respected and beloved old Com¬ following comrades: mander—As we are gathered in annual F D. Lumping, Benton Ridge, Han¬ reunion , we would assure you of our re¬ cock county, Ohio, a member of Co B membrance, loyalty and affection with our best wishes for your health and hap¬ wmnlMO°re;JrVin?’ Illinois, who was piness, Sincerely yours, with them in the war, wrote his regrets SURVIVORS OF 97TH P V that he could not be here to-day TREASURER’S REPORT. H. M. Henry, Penfield, Pa The report of Oliver B. Channel, the Tr°y’ iPa” a member of Treasurer of the Association, was read account nf a refJets and Save a short ?™<1„approved- xt showed a balance of account of himself in connection with $32.4S in his hands. hMirhflpfS r?F ,n£>t b6ing abIe t0 attend. ELECTION 0>F OFFICERS. Michael Dunleavy, Lexington, Ken¬ When Colonel Guss declared the meet¬ tucky, a member of Co. E. ing open for the election of officers a mention to re-elect the old officers was ,MoCarter, Middletown, Ohio introduced and was adopted. This car¬ late Hospital Stewart of the 97th RegL ried y’ith it the election of all except ment, expressed his regret at the im¬ George B. Le Malstre, of Philadelphia, passibility of his being with the Regi- w'ho was one of the Vice Presidents, but who died during the past year. Dr mRev.Rnev°V W.h RR.0C Bingham,BaSi0hn °f UsOxford Wth Reunion.Pa an Theodore A. Worrell, of Northeast Md ’ honorary member who delivered the’ ad was elected to fill the vacancy. Hillerv Fox, of West Chester, and Frank Frame of Parkesburg, were added to the Execu¬ *hat an engagement made prior tive Committee. to the receipt of the invitation to attend THE OFFICERS. ■the reunion prevented his presence d The following are the officers as now GREETING BY TELEGRAPH constituted: Captain Austin Curtin,of the 45th President-Colone1 Hefiry R. Guss, of West Chester. me ”ChSa^hed ,to 001 Vice Presidents—Isaac A. Cleaver, of ! “To Pni WSPF Pa” 0ctoher 30th “ri ‘ Henry R. Guss: Dr^rheodore'AV"vv-am 17ayne’ of Paoii; 5 greets6 t°hethe surviying officers of 45th Maryland A' WorreH* of Northeast; greets the commander and surviving oL1WnnfingToCn!1OD|iaWJa0rhen Wainwright, ! Chester™* . °hver B’ Channell, ,f West > sil"I VISITORS ik H Win die,-!•—_—Goatesvfile, of’ Phla and’^Thomas Frank C., Dept. Commander, G. A. R., Lancas¬ ter, Pa.; Jos. Craig, 133d P. V.. A. Q. M. street, Philadelphia. General, G. A. R., Philadelphia, Pa.;.Capt. F—H. C. Reagan, West Chester. Wm. Emsley, 116th P. V., Philadelphia; Jos. G—Hillery Fox, West Chester; F. P. Clapp, Swartz, Philadelphia: Thos. Kay, 124th P. V., Media. Philadelphia; J. Miller Shope, New London, H—L. F. Snyder, Glen Moore, Pa.; W. F. Thir,d Artillery; John Q. Taylor, 175th; Mrs. Smith, Conshohocken, Pa.; Ezra Sullivan, Annie D. Hayes, Wagontown; Enoch W. Wilmington, Del.; A. E. Miller, Philadelphia; Hayes, Wagontown; Tiieo. F. Turner, Third Isaac Davis, Oxford, Pa.; James McLoud, Artillery: Thomas T. Smith, 124th P. V.; J. Reading, Pa.; Robert Walker, Downingtown; Henry Holcomb, Sergeant Major, Third Ar¬ Nathan Wilson. tillery, Philadelphia; A. J. Gill, 124th P. V.; j_j0hn McDermott, 1901 North Ninth street, Major James E. McFarlan, 11th P. C., West Philadelphia; Capt. Geo. W. Duffle, Nor¬ Chester; William Keech, 124th P. V., Down- wood Delaware county, Pa.; Edw. Horne, 314 ingtown; William Gunkle, 176th P. V., West Washington street, Wilmington, Del.; Lieut. Chester; Capt. George R. Guss, Chester Coun¬ Geo. M. Middleton, 1228-South Third street, ty Battery; R. Newton Thomas, 29th P. V.; Philadelphia; Thos. Edwards, Morton, Dela- Comrade Reed, 49th P. V. Mvare county, Pa.; Patrick Finley, 5546 Pulaski Mrs. Joseph Sweney, West Chester; Mrs. avenue, Germantown, Philadelphia; Jno. C. Theodore Rogers. Mortonville; P. Miles Morton, 401 Hlnkson street, Chester, Pa.; Jos. Frame, Elam, Delaware county; Joseph E. E Moyer, 854 North Fifth street, Philadel¬ Frame, formerly wagon master; Miss Cora phia; James Groff, Clifton Heights. Wilson,Mortonville; Miss Jane Bocherer, West K—John S. Famous, Devault, Pa.; Barnet Chester; John H. Livezey, 4. ,.h P. V., Dil- R. Rapp, West Chester; Capt. Wm. S. Un¬ worthtown; IT. Morgan Ruth. PuftTyn Mawr; derwood, West Chester; John H. Kauffman, Harrison Ross, West Salisbury: Milton Taylor Berwyn; John W Farra, Wilmington, Del.; and son, George Cardwell Taylor (the 7-year- David P. Thomas, Kimberton, Pa.; E. Lane old drummer), Kennett Square; Nathan Wil¬ I Schofield, Berwyn, Pa.; Casper Fahnestock, son, Downingtown; Joseph N. Marshall, Ed¬ Philadelphia; William S. Sullivan, Warren gar Q. Bullock, son of W. W. Bullock, of Wil¬ Tavern; William S. Davis. Tredyffrin. mington, Del. FIELD AND STAFF. Honorary member—Rev. T. R. McDowell, Colonel—Henry R. Guss, West Chester. Parkeshurg. Quartermaster Sergeant—J. H. Sktles, St. A—Thomas Ringler, Oxford, Pa.; Geo. L. Augustine, Fla. Taggart, South Orange, N. J.; Joseph Wink¬ Major—Isaiah Price, Philadelphia. ler, Manayunk, Philadelphia; Thomas E. A—Lafayette Thompson, London Grove, Weber, Reading, Pa.; Joseph N. Wilkinson, Chester county; I. P. Chandler, Coatesville; ICimbleville, Chester county; Samuel Walton; , Charles A. Stone, Mortonville._ _^ William H. H. Startz. Concordville, Dela¬ ware county; Jeptha Clark, Coatesville; J. King, Oxford; H. P. Talley, 842 North Union ' BYGONES RETOUCHED.! street, Philadelphia; Thomas Smedley, Ber¬ --- wyn; Francis M. Guss, West Chester, Threads of the Past Woven Into Stories j B—Benj. Linton, 434 South Fortieth street, Philadelphia; Benjamin K. Hutton, West for To-Day. Grove; Nelson P. Boyer, Ercildoun; George Doubts, Coatesville; R. B. Wallace, 2352 Sar- ROWLING around} geant street, Philadelphia; Edmund Esrey, through ancient Ches¬ Philadelphia; Samuel Q. Day, Coatesville; ter county history one James Reese, Norristown: Dr. T. A. Worralt, of our citizens has un¬ North East, Md.; Jos. H. Emmerson, Coch- vanville; John B. Griffith, Coatesville; Thos. earthed the following- Sloyer, Coatesville; Jos. Sweeney, West Ches¬ papers showing how ter; H. Lamping, Coatesville; Samuel Miles, things were done in West Chester. “yeancienttyme.” The C—A. Cobourn, 3227 Locust street, Philadel¬ phia; William F. Willas; E. B. Hickman, latter document is cer¬ West Chester; John R. Miller, Downingtown; tainly great reading M. W. Montgomery, 772 North Twenty-fifth in the light of those street, Philadelphia; C. Burleigh Hambleton, days. Were two men Atglen; R. A. Wilson, Londonderry; Elias O. Griffith, Lyndell; Oliver B. Channell, West recommended to the Chester; Eugene Vickers, 431 North. Fortieth Governor at the pres¬ street, Philadelphia; George W. Walton, Ox¬ ent time for an . ap ford; Capt. Geo. W. Abel, Thornton; Edward pointment each would make the fur fiy Mendenhall, 1806 Berks street, Philadelphia; Chas. Wagner,184 Green Lane, Manayunk, Pa.; in his efforts to succeed. There would be Wm. H. Speakman, West Whiteland; I. A. no nice words wasted,but each would pull Cleaver, Berwyn. . . for the shore for all he was worth. Here D—Daniel McBride, 4553 Frankford avenue, are the old documents, which date back j Philadelphia; Robert J. Ferguson, John to the year 1704: Sharpe, William McIntyre, Upland, Delaware “To the Honorable John Evans, Esq., ! countv; John Goodwin, 8 Rusling street, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Trenton, N. J.; Jacob B. Smyth, 429 East Pennsilvania and the Terrltoryes there¬ Fourth street. Wilmington, Del; Frank M. unto Annexed. Frame, Parkesburg; Jas. Beaumont, Ger- “By vertue of a Charter of Previledges| ! mantown, Pa.; John W. Brooks, Coatesville; granted by William Penn, Esq., Governor Wm W. Bullock, 835 VanBuren street, Wil¬ in Cheife and Proprietor of the said Pro¬ mington, Del.; James Crossan, Hockessm, vince of Pennsilvania with the advice and Del; Robert Fairlamb, Norristown, Mont- consent of his Councell and Assembly S<^ThomastL. E. Brown, Trainer, Delaware that there should be every three yeares county; Wm. E. Stiteler, Kimberton; Edward upon the first day of October elected and Sherey, Lickdale, Lebanon county; R. w. chosen by the freeholders and inhabitants Stephenson, South Amboy, N. J.; Abraham of the respective Countyes of Pennsil¬ Thomas, Rockland, Del.; William T. Meeteer, vania aforesaid and Territoryes adjacent , Modena; H. P. Brower. Spring City, J. W. two substantial freeholders of each of the Boyles West Chester; L. J. Malin, late Cap¬ said Countyes to represent the place of tain Leopard, Chester county. High Sheriff which of them your Honor G—Chas. Kurehn, 2433 Cedar street. Philadel¬ pleases to commissionate. phia- Philip Rothweln, Clnaminson Lane Kox- “In pursuance whereof and in obedience hmo- Wm Henry, Thurlow, Pa.; H. Wateis, to the said Charter and att the day and Media Pa.; c s. Jones, Landenberg, Pa.; Wm. Popjoy, Cheyney Shops, Pa.; Capt. Caleb place appointed therein wee the free¬ Hoopes, Media; Washington W. James, Dar- holders and inhabitants of the County of Chester according to the coman method byC-Helnrvar|caSffm^n. 603 North Forty-forth and morme have elected and chosen John street, Philadelphia; Thomas Jefferls, Goshen- Hoskins and Paul Sanders, which of them vllle: Ambrose Rudy, Birchrunville;; Emmor your Honor likes best to be High Sherlffe G Griffith, West Chester; J. Jones Still, Mal¬ of the said county of Chester according vern; S. II. Eachus, West Chester. to charter. D—Walter Pyle, Cheyney; William IT. Gnf- James Cooper, Isaac TaylDr, James Sandelander, Thomas Barnsley, ' fitE-G. Jenkins, West Chester; G. L. Smith, Jno. Edge, George Oldfield. Lima Delaware county; R. Sherman, Em- Paul Saunders, one of the above chosen breev'ille: James A. Riley, 1609 Huntingdon freeholders then writes the following let¬ ter to the appointing power and gives his I opinion as to who should be appofirLetf “To the Honorable Governor for this I Province, etc: BYGONES RETOUCHED. j “Whereas, according to Charter upon the day of election att Chester last past, Threads of the Past Woven Into Storie it was the good will of the people of said for To-Day, I County to elect me one of the two for j Shirife to be farther submitted to the MONG the soldier displays j Governor's pleasure to nominate the finall that we have heard of ate choyce; I desire most submissively the happening in our town, but Governor’s favor to excuse me, being as¬ in which we were not a par¬ sured of the People's satisfaction most ticipant was the march of generally in the former Shirife, that he is the British Army up along a man worthy of the place. “So desiring the Governor's prosperity what is now High street in and the prosperity of our peaceable Gov¬ the fall of 1777. ernment during the Almightyes ordina¬ After the battle of Brandywine the tion I remain a true subject under the British troops were encamped down same. “PAUL SAUNDERS. around Dilworthtown for a time. When “Chester, 2d day of ye 8th month, 1704.” they started to capture Philadelphia they The former Sheriff allude,d to was John Hoskins and the supposition is that he came up the Wilmington road to where was reappointed as his name figures as Gay street now is, turned to the right High Sheriff during the years 1705-6-7. and went on out to where the Goshen Baptist Church now stands where they Recaling election day incidents one of took to the left hand road going down our citizens gets one off as happening a towards Philadelphia on what we now few years ago down at Kimblesville in know as the White Horse road. Franklin township that is somewhat out A small detail of Americans came into of the ordinary. West Chester with orders to watch their A colored individual was brought up to movements. Some half dozen men is said the polls to vote and there was some to have constituted this detail. One of doubts as to his having reached the legal these men took his station at about age. where Barnard street now crosses, while “Are you 21 years old?” the remainder of the detachment stopped “Yes, sir, 1 iz.” in at the old Turk’s Head Tavern for rest “What year were you born?” refreshment and consultation. “Don't know dat sir. 1 know I is 21 About where the vidette was stationed years old, do.” were two or three log houses and tne “How do you know it?” children from these houses were out play¬ “Well, sir, I was born de year dat Mr. ing in the road. The vidette must have Bisbey was killed. Dey always told me seen wearying service for he went round dat.’’ asleep sitting on his horse. The Mr. Bisbey alluded to was a min¬ When the advance of the British Army ister who had been struck by lightning reached about where the Normal School in his pulpit, and killed. now stands they could see this soldier Then came up the usual difference of and they put spurs to their horses and opinion among those around the polls as made a dash for him. They had gotten to the date of that event. Some knew it well up toward him when these little chil. had not been twenty-one years since that dren proved the better guard for they event, others knew it had. Finally a noticed the approach of the British couple of men of opposite political views troops, and rushed out to the soldier ex¬ mounted their horses and rode to the claiming: burying ground where the minister was “Man, wake up, quick, here comes the buried. From the tombstone over his British!” grave was taken the date of his death He gathered himself quickly together and it proved that the colored voter was and made off up the street, halloing right and on that tombstone record the loudly to attract the attention of his vote was received. comrades. Their retreat from the old Turk was so hurried that one of them One of our citizens who evidently trip¬ i left his cap on the bar, not having time to ped the “light fantastic toe” in his young¬ grasp it. They mounted and went out er days has presented us with his ticket over “Quaker Hill” with the enemy at of admission to one of the balls he attend¬ their heels. Just over the hill they struck ed down in old Horticultural Hall back in the woods and escaped through the tim¬ the fifties. It is gotten up in white and ber. We wonder if the descendants of gold and reads thus: those children can claim membership in The Hibernian Beneficial Society the Sons of the Revolution? will give their first annual The Turk’s Head Tavern (they didn't Citizens’ Dress Ball have hotels then) of those days was a log at the building standing from wliat we learn Horticultural Hall. back about where the banking house of on Monday evening, April 25th, 1859. E. D. Haines & Co. now stands with the Managers: tavern yard along the road. T. Henesy, A. McConnell, We would have preferred to have writ- i M. Keough, M. Finegan, ten this reminiscence in some such way, E. O’Neil, J. Dolan, as to have shown how the British were J. Finegan, J. Conner, whipped on our streets, but it wasn’t told I J. McGrath, B. Bowen, us that way and we are a little George J. Harley, F. Hamilton. Washington in the matter of felling an Floor Managers: untruth. P. McHale, J. Henesy, J. Grant. J. Kelly. ^ixiung tneLliC iXALtM-esung- rencs or Tickets, $1.00, admitting a gentleman and two ladies. army office preserved by J. Miller Shope, That is a good array of well remember, or New London, is the manuscript of the farewell address of his commanding of¬ ed Irish citizens of Dur town of the days ficer. This is not a copy, but the origi¬ just prior to the war. Of the entire list we think it is safe to say that all have nal document. That commanding officer since passed away with but three excep¬ was Captain Samuel Hazzard, who by tions—James and Michael Finegan and Lie way was a splendid officer and a. Martin Keough. It takes the grey haired brother of Willis P. Hazzard. Miller is people to recall them, but there are plen¬ very careful of this old manuscript, but , ty left among us to do so. he permitted us to copy it, thinking at ' this late day it would prove interesting tD the surviving members of the i old Battery: ((niu. „ ‘‘Headquarters Company E, —3Jlird Penna. Artillery, in the Field, . .<$4,1., . “February 13, a very Interesting SESSION “Men of Company E: “It is my unpleasant duty to bid you farewell. For the second time during the A Public Meet Ins of the Chester war my continued ill health compels me County Historical Society :Held to quit the service. “Many of us have been together now Last Evening at Library Hall—l)r. over two years and most of you have G. M. Philips Presides and Intro¬ been in my command at least one year, and in parting with you it is natural that duces the Speakers of the .Even- I should feel regret and sorrow. If it has not been allotted- to us to engage ac¬ in s. tively in the struggle so constantly go¬ ing on around us I know it is from no in¬ disposition manifested on your part or The public meeting of the Historical mine, but -we have nevertheless the con¬ Society, which was held at Library sciousness that in performing the duties Hall last evening, was a source of assigned us by our superiors we have at much intellectual enjoyment to the all events fulfilled that requirement townspepople who assembled to listen which is the bravest soldier’s proudest boast—we have done our duty as it was to addresses as delivered by two well- ordered. known residents of the town. “If the promises made to some of you Dr. George Morris Philips, the Pres¬ at enlistment have not been carried out ident of the Society, occupied the chair it is. through no fault of your officers. and after announcing the purposes of They have endeavored to do their duty . by you, but nevertheless you have been \ the meeting he gave way to Gilbert fortunate in the opportunity given you Cope, the Secretary, who read the min¬ in the early history of your organization utes of the previous meeting, after for instruction and discipline. which he enumerated the articles that “Some of you may have thought me had been contributed since the last strict in the discipline required of you, meeting. Chairman Philips then in¬ but all I am sure will bear testimony to my endeavors to be just toward each and troduced as the first speaker Alfred every one of you. Sharpies, an old and honored inhabi¬ “If there is a man who feels that he tant of the town, who spoke on is not a soldier it is through no fault of “THE OLD INDIAN FORT OJ'T THE mine. I have given you all the benefit BRANDYWINE.” of such knowledge as I possessed, and it Mr. Sharpless began his lecture by is here that I will refer with pride to the testimony of the Inspector’s record which saying that the Red man in his origi¬ you have made for yourselves and nal state as found by the early white which I trust will never be sullied. settlers has vanished from Chester “And now in parting let me ask of you county- and never returns as of old to for your new commander a continuance shed tears over the graves of his an¬ of that soldierly respect hitherto so uni¬ cestors. Such as do stray within the formly manifested toward me. Recollect that your officers have their trials and boundaries Of the borough come as troubles as you have yours, and that it strangers lit- a strange land. They is not always in the power of a Company come attiredNn the habiliments of the Commander to do as he would like to tor white man and they are distinguished his men. Give him your cheerful obe- in nowise except in facial formations. dience; make no unnecessary complaints, He no longet makes stone implements hut if you have grievances state them m a proper way and I know they will be at¬ of warfare out of the fragments of tended to. „ . , T rocks as did the Lenni Lenape tribe “I need not say that in the future I in the daysiof old. The Lenape In¬ shall watch your career with interest and dians wereja brave and numerous you may rest assured that if in any way tribe and did not fear to meet the you gain honor and distinction either in¬ fierce bear dr the stately stag in dead¬ dividually or as a company it will be with feelings of pride I shall say, yes, that ly combat. The career of the last In¬ was my company.’ ” , . dian who died in Chester county is There are still several survivors of this recorded in the History of Chester old Battery in our country who stood at County, a short and sad one. We still attention and listened to this farewell ad¬ have some traditions of the Red men dress The popular commander who ut¬ handed down to us. We have some tered it has long since been mustered out and passed over the divide. Captain Haz- history of their latter days here in zard was enthusiastic in his desires to Chester county. Their camping serve in the army and made two attempts grounds and cemeteries were well but he was not robust enough to stand known to our forefathers, but at the its hardships and exposures. He went present day they axe about obliterated. out orginally as a First Lieutenant in At one time an Indian path was trace¬ Co D of the Sixth Cavalry, known m armv records as Rush s Lancers, but able from the Schuylkill to the Sus¬ known in the army as turkey :stickers quehanna. It passed through West- Up was discharged on Surgeon s certin- town and near West Chester, and. its ?ate of disabmty April 19 fe He. again route was marked by clear, sparkling went out in February, 1863, but had to springs. These springs were particu¬ again resign only a month or so before larly noted on the farms of W. S. In¬ the trouble was over._- gram and Emmor Davis. Mr. Sharnless theDk traced the path from its origin on the farm of the late Emmor Seeds to a point near the MISS DARLINGTON TALK Brandywine in West Bradford town¬ ship which was known as the old In¬ TO PIE HISTORIANS dian fort. This fort was situated on a rocky section of ground, which was covered for many yards with a dense growth of timber. The fort was lo¬ liss Isabella and Alired Sharp- cated at the brow of a hill. Of late less the Speakers. years the timber has been cut away andjdie_marks at the roots would in_- dicate that th& trees had flourished for mi„nty God, His Son, Jesus Christ it a century at least. From the top of "ZS ,Jals0 st>Pulated that Quakers the rocks a beautiful view up the should not be allowed to testify jn Brandywine as far as Jefferis Bridge criminal cases or to hold office, and may be obtained as it winds it way .hat no lav should obtain which through the pretty meadow in Mrs. granted to Quakers greater indulgence Charles W. Roberts’ property. It may have been the sight of many a san¬ than that accorded in England. These guinary engagement, but of the bat¬ laws were modified as the majority of tles that were undoubtedly fought the people of Pennsylvania were there we have no record. The only Quakers, and in his memoirs William tradition is handed down by an old Penn speaks of these laws as very un¬ resident who rushed into the farrping just. When the Quakers began to for¬ community one morning and aroused mulate their own laws to a great ex¬ the neighborhood by yelling that a tent it was attempted to make lying in body of braves was on the warpath ordinary conversation an actionable and that they were prepared to make °K.ense’ the promoters were Un¬ an onslaught upon the community. able to secure the passage of the pro¬ Arrangements were at once made for posed statute. Penalties were also at¬ a defense, but before the arrange¬ tached in case of election abuses, and ments could be completed a second it seems from this that the early can¬ messenger arrived with the informa¬ didates for power and place h.ad trou¬ tion that the schreeching braves had bles of their own, even as do those of developed into a schreeching wagon to-day. It was unlawful to smoke to- which had not been properly oiled and bacco on the streets of Phii a iphia that the noises heard were responsible and for each and every violation a fine for the alarm. This was the last In¬ ot twelve pence was exacted. This law dian “uprising” reported in Chester was not enacted against the weed county. rut was passed as a protection against i “COLONIAL LEGISLATION OF hre, the fines being devoted to the pur¬ PENNSYLVANIA FROM 1700 chase of leather buckets to be used in TO 1724.” case of a conflagration. Our ancestors This was the title of a splendid ad¬ were fully alive to the need of proper dress delivered by Miss Isabel Dar- judicial bodies, and the establishment i liftS’toii, daughter of Hon. Smedley l at that time of a Court of Equity Darlington, who was introduced to her marked the only organization of the audience as “a member of the Chester kind m the histury of the country. County Bar, who had kindly consented In order to remove any ambiguity to appear before the society and tell of t that might cloud the law relative to Colonial Legislation of Pennsylvania gambling the games were specified. fiom lfOO to 1724/ ” Miss Darlington The included shuffle board, and any was applauded as she advanced to the otiier game about to be invented or front of the stage, and after ac¬ ever to be invented. knowledging the flattering reception The English discouraged American I began in a clear, nicely modulated manufacture and encouraged a Colo¬ voice to detail in an entertaining way nial trade in England. Laws that con- the legislation that flourished and died flicted with the manufacturing inter¬ during the period referred to. Miss ests of Gret Britain were set aside by Darlington in opening said she liked the home goverment. Miss Darlington the Quakers and the State which they tnen touched upon the money interests had done so much to develop The that prevailed in the early days and speaker referred to the distinction held her, very admirable address by William Penn by reason of the sin¬ amiast app 1 a use._ gular authority which he exercised bere for such a length of time, desoite the fact that he was the champion and defender of a sect that was des- pised by monarchs. The laws maue by the Colonists if contrary in letter or spirit to the prejudices prevailing in England were unceremoniously disal¬ lowed by the Privy Council of Great Britain. The interests of Great Bri¬ tain were never lost sight of, and where the laws framed bv the Colo¬ nists conflicted with any of these they were returned with the royal stamp of disapproval. Many of these laws were thus rejected on account of the arbi- trary construction that might be placed upon them. The Colonial as- : sembly upon receiving notice of the - action across the sea would strive a second time by law to improve the • condition of the people. The leeisla- t°f $5 twentrfour years—Trom LOO to 1724, may be regarded practi¬ cally as the beginning of our law. The I first act which aroused a storm was that conferring liberty of conscience, but. before it was finally approved by the British Government a clause was inserted _that they must believe in Al- A HISTORIC FARMHOUSE. give ouL Then a report won 1C that they we.e being pursued bj The Old Supplee Home in Worcester Visit’d British, and they would go on a by Washington. run. A trooper was going along up “In the eastern portion of the town the road with a foot soldier riding on ship of Worcester, in Montgomery behind Opposite my point of view county, stands a stone farmhouse, one the hindmost dropped off, of which the of the oldest dwellings in that vicinity, cavalryman took no notice. , It is about a mile northward of Belfry “The foot soldier was found to be station, on the Stony Creek railroad dead, having been shot through the The borough of North Wales lies two body, and was buried on one sideiof miles to the east, and the village of the road, on the farm. Hance’s grand¬ West Point half-way between the two. mother’s horses were taken to help on The surrounding farm is part of the the retreat. He was sent to bring northern slope and summit of Methac- them back, but they were retamed till ton Hill. next day, when they were returned^ The datestone on the western gable^ The boy saw Washington, whom he of the house tells of its erection in 1733 described as a “tall, heavy man over by “H. S ,” and that it was repaired in six feet, with a dignified look and 1816 by Benjamin Weber. slightly marked with small pox. Originally this was a part of the ex¬ The narrative of Hance Supplee was tensive tract owned by Isaac Norris, given in 1844 to his grandson. Thomas) from whom Norristown was named, R. Supplee, now a citizen of Pbiladel- and later it was held by James Logan plllRi ^ a _ I and Israel Pemberton. 1 This historic farm was built andi The initials on the datestone are for owned by the Supplees; later owned Hance Rupplee, His son Peter became I by Anna Waggener, and sti l later by the owner, subject to certain rights of Beniamin Weber. On October 2, 1829, Hance’s widow, Magdalin, left her by it was bought by Samuel Harley and his will, one of which was that she was sold to his son Joseph, Feoruary 8, to have a residence in a part of the old 1863 He resided thereon until his homestead during her life. Hance death, July 6, 1888. It was then sold Supplee died December 16, 1770. His to James A. Oassel, the present owner grandson, whose name was also Hance, and occupant. was born in 1768, and he was an eye witness of what happened at the Sop plee farm on October 3, 1777, the day FUNK’S GRAVE HARD- before the battle of Germantown. His an orchard now flourishes in this life was very long, his death taking “ ^ANCIENT__ PLACE „t. OFrtr. THErroT-TirsTI DEAD place in 1869 at the age of 92 His mother d.ving when he iwas a child, Tbe Old Grave Yard at Evansburg—Its His February 27, 1777, the boy came to live tory and its Dead—Tbe Gotwa's, with his grandmother, Magdalene, Funns and Other Families who was then a wid >w at the Supplee The following interesting sketch is j farm. from the pen of William E. Corson, It is from the testimony of this Esq , of Norristown. . Hance Supplee that we know that a There is a graveyard yet m the town military council was held on this se¬ ship of Lower Providence, Montgom¬ cluded farm previqfffl to the attack on ery leounty, that was omitted when Germantown. His words were : those from that part of the county “I was a boy of nearly ten years, liv¬ were being given. It is not, with one ing with my grandmother, near the exception that we know of, like unto Skippack road. Washington and his the rest given and which are yet to army were encamped in this neighbor¬ come, it having at one time a church hood. Gen. Greene had his headquar¬ building, with regular eerviees. It ters at our hou3e. Washington called was of the Mennonite persuasion, but to see him and they had a long talk by its members dropped off to other de¬ themselves. The next day, October 3, nominations and religious services Washington called again with other there finally ceased About 40 years officers, and all being mounted went ago the church building was taken into the meadows, and formed a semi¬ down, and the stones used to build a circle, facing Washington. They stood wall around tbe graveyard. This house in this position for a considerable time, of religious worship was not large it and afterwards each officer went to his w >s quite unpretentious in appearance command. Gen. Greente came into the being in keeping with the ways and house and went to his room. The sol¬ mrnners of that religious sect. We, diers were around the hills in camp. ourself, remember yet about it. it “The next morning not a soldier or was called Funk’s meeting house and officer could be seen around,and a bat¬ its site is at the extreme lower end ot tle was heard going on. Some time in the village of Evansburg, which, as the the afternoon the soldiers were in full readers knows, likely, is in the north retreat up the Skippack road, in a de¬ and rather west part of the township moralized condition. They would go at times very slow, seeming ready to 119 oFLower Providence, quite near the Skippaek creek, a short distance, Germantown pike, which passes where Jacob Buckwalter lives now. i hroueh the village and forms a junc¬ Mr. Funk was a man of education and tion with the Reading pike at Perfeio- strong religious inclinations, and msn bridge, and also quite near the preached at this place. This was about the Evansburg creamery building. the year 1840 and earlier and later. I! This graveyard is enclosed with a A Rev. Mr. Gouldy likewise preached very good stone wall, is 50x150 feet in at this church. Great revival meet¬ size, and has perhaps 30 interments. ings went on there, and many who The place looks like a miniature or¬ joined in the services became, on the chard, having been planted some years final decline of this church, life long ago with cider apple trees, by the pur¬ members of other churches. Many chaser of the farm from which this went to the German Reformed church graveyard ground when purchased for at the Trappe. its purposes was originally a part. Rev. Christian Fonk wrote a book, They are quite large trees in full bear¬ entitled, “The Mirror for all Man- ! ing. kind.” In this yard we find on the tomb¬ Some few are still living that helped stones, with much difficulty, on ac¬ to take the church down. One at mind count of the great growth of briars, now is Samuel Hendricks, who was weeds, etc.—the place seeming to be long a resident of near Upper Fair- forsaken and forgotten—the following : view, Worcester, but who, with his “In memory of Elizabeth Gotwals,who family, a few days back, moved to died March 26fch, 1817, in the 61st year North Kohn street, Norristown, and of her age;” “Henry Gotwals, who who, we will state, has been allotted died July 25th, 1837, aged 83 years.” an unusual number of days, being These people lie side by side, and were some years over 80. Joseph Gotwals, | the father and mother of Joseph Got¬ of Lower Providence, alluded to, also wals, late of Lower Providence, who assisted to take the building down. had a large, good farm, a mile or more The latter has been dead over 25 years. nothwest of Hhannonville, on the road There are quite a number of graves I to Eagleville. Joseph K. Gotwals, in the yard that have no stones with superintendent of the schools of Nor- inscriptions, simply large field stones Jristown, is a grandson. There are at head and foot of grave; and the other grandchildren, likewise, living— founder of the church, Rev. Mr. Funk, three sons and two daughters, that we if in this yard, has nothing to indicate know One son and the daughters that such is the case, or the wife either. live at Eagleville, and in the vicinity. There were many of the members at Other inscriptions are as follows : this church that had a strong inclina¬ “In memory of Christian Gotwals, who tion to the “River Brethren” creed, died December 1, 1835, 55 years and 11 months old. and wanted interments made at some “O let us to our Savior fly, ground in Skippaek, belonging to : Whose powerful arm cau save. individuals of that faith. But others Then shall our hopes ascend on high, of the Funk church stoutly opposed And triumph over the grave.” it; hence ground for a graveyard was “In memory of Henry, son of John bought to the church, and interments, and Ann Gotwals, who died Dec. 16, 1816.” with the out and out adherents, had there. | “In memory ofMaria C^oll, wife of We might add in connection with Z^bulon Croll, who departed No¬ what has been said of the apple trees vember 18th, 1817, aged 28 years and 8 f J days. in this graveyard, that many people “Hark, from the tomb a doleful sound, have a great prejudice to a tree near My ears attend the cry, or anywhere about a grave. The late Ye living men come view the ground James G. Blaine, long in public life Where you must shortly lie.” and attaining to everything but “In memory of John Funk, son of president of the United States, lies in Abraham and Susanna Funk, who died Oct. 6th, 1816, aged 12 years.” Oak Hall cemetery, Washington, close by a hickory tree that is blasted “Elizabeth Funk, daughter of Ab¬ raham and Susanna Funk, died 10th at the top, having been struck by month, 1815, aged 4 years, 5 months.” lightening some years ago, but having Among others baried here are Jacob revived somewhat of late years. The Longaker and wife, grandparents of grave is by the foot of the tree,and has ex-Judge A. B. Longaker, of Norris¬ a quite small stone with the initials “J. town. G. B.” It was Blaine’s wish during life The following inscription on a stone, to be buried at the foot of this hickory we copied, verbatim : tree. He wanted it. he said, “for a “Inn. Ihhr. 1815, Ten. 17ten, Sept. monument,” and hoped it would 1st. Jacob Keitlerjester, ben all 50, i never be destroyed; and that tree at¬ lhhr. 6 mo mat. Psalms cxxx, 3rd tracts more attention than any tomb verse. If thou, Lord, shouldst mark in the cemeterv. And Hon. E. M- iniquities, O Lord who shall stand ?” j Stanton, the War Secretary; Hon’ This Funk meeting house was John H. Eaton, Secretary of the Navv, founded by Rev. Christian Funk, who j| and John Howard Payne, author of lived in the neighborhood, up the ji “Home, sweet Home,” and Corcoran, A few years ago it was the founder of the cemetery, all lie the present one was built, which is a credit to the place and a "timber of there in proximity, with perennial me¬ private houses. The writer when a boy at¬ morials. And Thomas Jefferson lies tended a school kept by George W. Ca in a thick growth of woods, to the, penter, a resident in the neighborhood. It was the custom in those days tor a right as you approach the Monticello teacher to provide a suitable building, fit homestead, A lover of solitude could it up with desks and benches, then not desire a more lonely place. And around and notify the ufighb°rhood that ® he would open school at a certain place James Buchanan lies in Woodward on a given day, and for. his services, $2 Hill cemetery, at Lancaster, Pa., and a for three month's tuition would be hedge of blooming roses interlaces the charged, the student finding books, paper iron fence that encloses the grave. and ink. The school house was in the west of the village, this side of where the But Martin Van Buren, at Kinder- office of Dr. J. W. Temple now stands. It hoob, New York,- the “Scholar of was a log house, large enough to accom¬ Lindenwold,” has not a flower or modate twenty-five or thitry scholars. Boys at that time had not the °PP?rA“™I shrub at his grave'. And James K, ty of getting an education as have those Polk, the eleventh president of the of the present. Farmers’ sons were ex- United States, scholarly, and the “Na¬ pected Pto work upon the farm as soon as large enough to be useful in the busy poleon of the Stump,” on account of season, and in the winter they had th his great stump speeches during the privilege of attending school f°ra te™ campaigns, has Kenilworth ivy cling¬ monthi. Boys who were apprenticed to learning trades were given. irom one to ing to his 12-foot , high and 12-foot two months a year, as the ?as® be square monument. There was also a school in the school house in the Friends’ yard where the present one now stands for Friends children and others kept by Joho ^Iason an uncle of the elder Judge Butler, if 1 I mistake not. A number of those who at¬ tended school in that log house in after life filled prominent positions ana anaae of themselves honorable men. THE WAGON TRAINS. Goods were conveyed in the large Pittsburg wagons, from Philadelphia to Pittsburg,then and many a fine team was seen on the road, gaily mounted with bells and fine harness, the owners taking great pride in trying to excel each other in having the finest teams. Isaac Car¬ penter was the proprietor of the -entre House Hotel at the west end. The pres ent one was kept by Lydia Martin, moth¬ er of the late George Martin who as¬ sisted his mother as well as kept store in a building adjoining It was no > Marshal lton common occurrence in the evenings to see . the yards of the hotels filled.*ul‘ fwt'^ these wagons, a horse trade there. i\iow Daniel did not want ! ™erit among tnemserves, wouro eafry their violins and use them when an op¬ amy customer to pass him by and ill portunity offered. p clothing was made by tailors then MarshalUon was a busy, stirring place heanper??n wanted a suit made in a hurry then, in contrast to the quiet place it would engage to do it by time when is to-day. Railroads have taken the wanted. When it was called forit fre° business from it and centered it in other quently happened the clothing was not places more fortunate. ready and the customer would rave and | scold, but Daniel went on as if nothing SOME PROMINENT FIGURES. W11 °rUh Jhe way t0 ruffle him. S nC CarPenter, as we remember him, At that time there was no hniidino-c was a tall man about six feet or more from Bally house to the ftowntartSSS road on that side up to the tb1 lieHeh waswf«h aa an,goodLa £horseman.OUt sixty yearsI have of oftenage. Martin building his store an?dn£me°‘ R him riding a fine horse of which which, I think, was about 1834 or lS’I 'cm th^oL,Xery proud of- and a« he sat in the south side of the road there was hT,1 , he saddle was a fine looking specimen one house and that was near M^rt- • ?lLn?ai?h°od. H«; died in the thirties, and Hotel, which holstelry.if I remember corS hnf hll had, seyeral landlords since, rectly, was called the Gener-i I wl COr‘ £dt 1 been kept as a hotel for num- | The residence of George McFarSmPnf shoMt/ears Past. The residents of Mar¬ to-day was then occupied by Dr Chas sel ton as remembered were at the Parrish, who practiced medicine in tho; Mn«fa^0feStea(1t Aquilla Humphrey, locality. He and his wife well ,li1at fh1S™n1h1 Jun‘us- ^eing the sons; Alice, of England and came here TarfvlH nff the mother, who was a widow, a single and settled in MarshalUon The Doctor daughter, and another daughter -tvdio had in his employ a colored min jlhT was married and left home. Aquilla pur¬ : Lundy by name. Now John wll’ chased a farm in West Cain townshiD and ready to help a neighbor when he Hin- ai?d sPent his days in ■ had leisure to do so, but he had vIlLi agricultural pursuits. Moses studied ness for Stimulants, and 6orda ac^etak: medicine and practiced at MarshalUon as well as conducted farming to the time Wrett b,fnT»'in« .onTTf of his death, which occurred many years or barrels in” cellar ho^heaas-j ago Junius purchased a farm ui h rendered John IT’ d for services northern part of this countv Bnd resided to drink, whi.'h did n1f1dered something upon it until his death, whilst Humoh- effect he hadhandc1p°|tereTthe pieaaan? rey remained at the Homestead Tn Mar- the circumstances afford' ln narrating shallton, attending to his farming in a hurried home to th! tw^’ h- Said he retired way. They are all now deceased down on the grass in tJ>octor and lav about it. Herald that Mr«arpany rolled eddinfn GthrdeS WiJh the farm have pass- those about the houle ‘ Pamsh and he fli v r,„r?h’ nat connected with his comical appear!nr? traded by amily’J and the Garden, once the him, which hio-ni,. and laughed at pride and admiration of itsownerwith its thought he h£l Loffe2'ded him as he rare specimens of valuable trees’Ts now going to decay for want of proper ca?e kindness he had don” for the other residents of the niaHe’u lke many AN OLD LAND MARK. aw'ay and are now almlsTT bave Passed ho‘el.°P the west lived Rachel house on the corn^r^if th»nrgot .en' The ■ Buffington and her daughter Marv The road, occupied in later lit Downingtown Moses T. Woodward wastl ,1y the Jate of°Uthe1Shote S,t“d,n* theloJfh £de time, but who dwlit f1-fpriandin8'at‘his aged a sma11 hou,se lived an ufiec!i,iady’ who was known all around lemember. The firm „ete we do not by the name of Aunt Peggy Yarnall Embree girls was thti?OW owned by the Aunt Peggy was a kind woman and had Woodward, Sr , and occupied by Jas. many attractions for the bovs ?n th- Woodward, Jr. Jamie 1* ,son James way of ginger bread ana othe^ eatables" was a farmer and ,Jru ln early life wfnd^6 writc.r well remembers, of her latter part of his liffl^' Toward kindness, which left a pleasant remem- carried on wheelwrig’hiint hiSa ST-n Aarol> i*oince her ,n after life Beniamin the farming. James 'at® and James,Jr.. and used to speak in theirWas a Eriend K./rfrnv^e1easat nsideSld€la, ?fItthehOC oGarden,UPlid the now house *>wned on Raised a large family Itit peettngs. He John. He was the father of Hom-f6, aeed nlnet/ y@irsdr1? £nd died the late Benjamin I. and Joel B Miller Hoopes, of West r'hec.iear?' Bobert F Aaron Woolward0^^6^'8 a ^^ndson! dfJr°atesViy,.e- He was an aged man and ' quite patriotic at /• 6 b°h. used to gp<- m^vT,00!1 atu'r- Thomas McCan occupied Fourth of July he coll, a certffn sidesirteeb ofnf CM-Miller1nlth ilane,Shop ’ butwhioh is stoodnow atPthe must be observed with00 Uded the day ohTay' Thomas did a brisk business in pat^.oti,sm in their^iillftores,than usual ea his horse to a hitch- seif with flags an/h nh’ decorated him¬ Ar? staginifne self up and dot" thi,S' lnd droye him- the great amustmenl the PIace to hotel and did a good business at makin°- and resulting hi 3ltlle. spectators, I’f'S-h for future us? T^airs.Jto the hS’e^t^^the^nermillcI 1 Alfred Embree now walln residence of and kept the store on the soulh sideband Joseph Woodward whlfa il1611 owned by and resided There jlmll a«mall farm nousehouse P°lattached ™chedr ’ tntoh rtheh° b6ingstore nathen billing The who was called Weav1^Ti~,M'oodward, writer remembers the store being entered given him to Janies, a namp by burglars while Bally kept it and 1 other Jamel, heSteisQh him frlm thl considerable quantity of Tr,. anci ,a as a farmer, lived oif thlVeaV6r as well the Strausburg road ilsouth side of w1rTtin now resides T-heTeTrl tAtoraham few miles from MarshalUon afamui TL1 were a part of the l Ivll tracts of lan jf IN PENNSYLVANIA ^During the winter of 1682-83 Wmmm Penn took lodging m the Hoar Hotel The Interesting Domicile in Up= Inn, so named from the. sign of beaUs head projecting from a crane just be¬ land Wherl Penn Visited. low the eaves. The inn stood on the main street of the infant The ter and was peculiarly constiucted. tne ITS A PICTURESQUE STRUCTURE doors swung' on a peg above ar.d below fitted into the frames; the glass fc the windows was 4 by 3 inches m saze set It Might Have lieen In tlie Second in lead, and the flagging on the kitchen Largest City of America Had Penn’s floor Was 6 by 16 feet, and the double Wishes Been Regarded—A Bit of doors were large enough for a cai t fill History About the Old House Down ed with wood to be taken through. The chimney was an enormous affair, neaily in Delaware County—Caleb Pusey 16 feet in width, and the fireplace was Hived There. spacious enough to hold entire cord- wood log's on great iron dogs, l his building was destroyed by fire March The oldest house in the State of Penn¬ 91 1850 sylvania, stands in the. borough of Up¬ " Penn’s object in lodging in the. vil¬ land. Delaware, county, in a good state lage wL to reach an. understanding of preservation. It is known as, the with Jane Sandelands, "'h°hdadf*Pfh^ Pusey house, and at present is tenanted ent to a large tract of land for toe by a, colored family, who. keep./it sciu founding of a city, but he and the pulously neat and clean. Sandelands could run. agree an The land on Which the house stood, turned his attention to :1 susaue- was a tract of 100 acres “patented 10 tween the Delaware and the »usqu.e Caleb Pusey 4th Month 10 1634, and hanna rivers, and thus Philadelphia was known as “Landing Porch in- was founded. King's Road crossed the site, or the present city of Chester, just above CHESTER’S FOUNDATION. Pusey’s plantation, and 'William Penn The refusal of Sandelands, the chief was a frequent visitor at Caleb Pusey s owner of property at Chester to acGede home during the great founder s stay to Penn’s wishes, proved disastioas, ' there in 1683. , and was discovered after Penn had The Pusey house stands to-day al¬ fixed upon Philadelphia for his city | most as it was when its first owner but an attempt was made to coireet it built it. The hip roof gives it the ap¬ on November 19, 1700, Ruined Gov* i pearance of being one. 'story and a hair Sandelands, the youner, petitioned Ooi high but it is really a, one-story budd¬ ernor William Penn, upon his second | ing ’thirty feet in length and fifteen VjSit to the Colonies, and his Council, feet in breadth. The walls a,re.vf1rt^ sitting an session at New ^s«e^tti g thick and are built of stone, and the forth that the royal patent to the pro fioo-r is of broad, solid oak planking'. ptietary gave him “absolute power to ' The house has two doors and two * >:* * erect and #icorpo,rat-e Town-, windows in the front and a dormei Hundreds and Counties and to incor¬ window in the roof. The dwarfed door¬ porate Towns into Boroughs & Bor way gives entrance into the living oughss into Cities.& to make and con¬ room, which has a, low ceiling. Hea j ■ stitute Pairs & Markets herein withi all beams support the floor above, and tl other convenient privileges & Irnmuni marks of the broad-ax which over two ties according to the merits of the in^ centuries ago hewed the timber into habitants & fitness of ye places. shape are plainly visible. , , ._ 4nd whereat, ye Petitioner is. possess- Access to the apartments ovemead is , ed of a certain spot of land lym m sd gained by a. stepladder inclosed in a Countie of Chester, verie fitt & natur¬ rude gangway. The wide-mouthed fire¬ ally commodious for a. Town & to ttfe place has since been, inclosed, but on end .lately caused. ye_sd spot of Lan • the left, within easy reach, still le- 125 ! to be divided &' laid out into" 1 Streets & Market place, a draft & Me,_ whereof (the generallie desired & Leak¬ ed of by ye sd Inhabitants, of sd Coun¬ tie) is, notwithstanding, 'herewith pre¬ ! From, C fXe sented & submitted to your honors for your approbation, & consent.” / The Council approved the petition r ft /'A and the foundation for the city of Ches¬ Ol Lt/V .. ter was laid, but the more rapid growth p of Philadelphia never ceased to cause A/ / ‘ v regret for the lack of foresight of the jp Date, / 3/01. I elder Sandelands, whereby the metrop¬ ' 7 7 / olis was lost to this desirable site on the Delaware. " Penn frequently walked over to Caleb Pussy’s house and talked over his pro¬ jects with this sturdy settlea-. He was always warmly welcomed, and as he Hammer and Trowel Has an In¬ warmed his hands over the blazing- logs terest in History. in the wide-mouthed fireplace., he made Special Correspondence of “The Press.” an imposing picture, quietly talking- Oxford, Pa., Feb. 12.—The old Ham¬ over his project of founding a great city j mer and T ovel Tavern at Toughkma- there on the banks of the Delaware. I mon, which has just been purchased by Joseph Green, of Philadelphia, is one of the most historic landmarks in South¬ ern Cluster County. The o'd inn is made pr mi rent in i ayard Taylor’s “3to-y of Kennett.” It lies along the great high¬ way that runs through Toughkenamon Valley and is frequently visited by tour¬ -- -- i ists _ TROWEL TAVERN. century ago the Hammer and cemiants Considered. •vas the scene of many a part. Jj Owing- to the length of the address we are obliged to out in two part, the first hunters who stopped to slake their thirst oeing given below and the second will be In tankards of ale. One of the most im¬ given to-morrow: portant characters that frequented the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Histori-i Hammer and Trowel was “Sandy cal Society of Chester County:—I have Plash.” a daring highwayman, wno intnnnqu addre8S you this even- operated boldly in Chester County. On ng on the Welsh Settlers of Chester the day of the fox hunt in the Story County and Their Descendants.” Such of Kennett” the fox was holed near rimfSiu to° broad in its scope for the the old hotel. After Gilbert Potter had time which your courtesy and patience secured the brush the hunters returned >d permit me to occupy. I propose tothe tavern and drank at the expense therelore, to confine my remarks chiefly of Fortune, alias Sandy Flash. within the lines that will permit me to In the day Fortune robbed Alfred Bar¬ piesent a few facts concerning- the early ton in the Avondale forest of his watch, cyyuic planters of your county, their bunch of seals and moleskin purse in a., ? wCterj‘?tiYa' tbfJ men which they pro-' which there were several pounds. dneed, and the virtues and faults of the ia.ee, from which they s'piang. In tlie year ltSik), because of a, dispute in. reference .to a division of the Welsh Barony.* to which I will refer presently, a number °t the Welsh .settlers of Rad-' ?«es^a>t)vJll4ybtPh.w tiy Vnihf fthese?ha addressed words: the author- .A* Ft'am, of -Trl£e’ ,beil18 descendants, Britons who always in the! EndiirtOUvnatlVI'-5'’ under .the crown of Ln^Jand, ha\e enjoyed that liberty and C-.O. ^^^ privilege as to have our bounds and lim¬ its by ourselves within which all causes, quarrels crimes and titles were tried anrll wholly determined by officer Magis¬ Bate, . trates, jurors of our own language which were our equals: having our faTes to wards these counties, made motion to our Governor that we might eniov the same, here to the intent, we might live to- « o i.rfU> * r* rr':r -f gether here, a.nd enjoy our liberty and devotion, which thing was soon granted us before wc came to these parts.” I WELSH SETTLERS THE FIRST NOTE OF LIBERTY. I So far as I have been able to discover this was the first trumpet note that AND THEIR HISTORY. pea.ed for civil liberty in the plantations;. oi America, and it is well to remember Thomas Alien Glenn’s Comprehensive Ad¬ fba4jC sounded by Welshmen, not in New England, not in New York nor dress of Last Evening. m tne South, but by the inhabitants of Uaverfcrd and Radnor, once in this county of Chester, in Pennsylvania'. ! the very difference in the wording of HISTORIANS IN TALKING MOOD. thit, petition from that of similar papers ox .the day drawn up by other settler^ makes us pause to ask. Who were these The Society’s Rally in Library Hail Was nTo? rWh° boasted their descent frern a) halt-forgotten race: who prized so highly a Siiccc-ss and Several of the Members both civil and religious liberty f whose I words rang out so defiantly to the of. Took Part in the Discussion—The beers ot the. Province? Opinion Was General That the When Caesar formed, on tlie sands of1 Romney, the legions of brass and leather! | Majority of the Tories in Revolution¬ that had over-toppled kingdoms he -LItound - —opposed x- £- ~ — >-» awto his forces a brave and ary Times Were From Outside the intelligent people. Society of Friends and That Most af THE RELIGION OF BRITAIN the Welsh Sided With the Patriots. The-religion of the Britons even at that time was .superior to .that of other na-i tions. The members of ihe Chester County ii.cpsE!1 *he t®aehin- of tlie Druid Historical Society and their friends were h, rr l’onvfyed a very deep philosr.-! ph*.. For instance, the three unsuitable cut in farce last evening and their public juc.gments in any iiersnn whatsoever— meeting in Library Hail was a.success the thinking himself wise, the .thinking in every way. No business meeting was ■ ®Y,eJT otb®r person unwise, the thinking held, the call being for a meeting to lis¬ all that that he likes becoming to him. ten to an address by Thomas Alien O, tne three requisites of poem*: an eve Welsh, the author of a work entitled <-'an see riaUlrP* a heart that can Te- a resoilUign that dareg ( "Jlerion in the Welsh Tract.” His theme folmw nature, and the three objects of last evening was “The Welsh Settler* poetrj increase of goodness, increase of in Chester County and Their Descend¬ understanding, increase of delight ” ! ants.” Prof. George M. Philips, Pres¬ 'their religious belief, called for a strict ident af the Society, was present and in¬ morality, and ot it a writer has observed troduced the speaker, who read from tnat it comprehended all the leading! principles that tend ,o spread liberty I manuscript which had been, carefully peace and happiness among mankind and, prepared. was no more inimicable to Christianity! Juan the religion of Noah, Job or Abra¬ WELSH SETTLERS. ham.” I Those in Chester County and Their IP*. m I JWiTQNS HAD TO SUBDl'E | Athelstan an?T/^her-EngliBh kings, i hn,i Cwf ■ Borman,. coiKiuest of Eng- lai! rvTh J ,fUiUn 0f thfi ,a,and ot' Brit- I .yet- reidained? independent, i ed •ifter » T‘a,,S WClS Gnly ■>«,ompiish- fiml c w-i- f0l"ld imjfcssihle, from the str/'g ee fVmggl* ,,r S!'rip« of . ,”1? 1VVuhani die Norman to .the reign the -Stuarts,toAimpotie upon the Cymry and fSf 8 f°r nf,arty a «ntury revoi/niw^e witKotit' orrespoftdins~ tKUE LOVERS OF LIBERTY , Urn ai,rising- of the 'two- Llewellyns, severs fc^pn ot °P°. °wen Giondower and nilhOr conflicts, are witnesses ot* 98M &SK Mh,"’<;®SSS .the love of liberty of this ^le^eoi WpMiVBim’f' especially, wefe the theiSsffiarSr*^**,!! Doiipv r»V,i?I1C0n ■ 1 "**iccord■ r with ”»i and°nnmrfd i0Xi ,lheir lore 01 music vinces were SiamSflrt’ ,tne, conqueted pro ■ Ppmcv, tneir love cl battle and ra-cer firm belie£ in the survival of’ their iribufc’ ulfthi- of'the! ! WeTibinmvyl°fU,”saiS-fhV- eis can witlf’,t5at your People oi reb- ..n,r n Wlttjs!arul my. army.” inhabitants T , cnt! ni>w defenceless "miv Pe0Pie,” replied the chieftain. ay.b® weakened by your might, and Romans 4^10 tad 5i.nVn?ber of thosi' ™ the wra^feat- P.ari': destroyed, but unless ‘led, and 'the nativeft^rpmI^^0C°thlt-y foe i? wm of, be on the side of its 1i }}Lnot lKlerly perish. Nor deem t'^od^thebamA of Ixon they answer ^il ii,race or otJrler tongue will fhe^ ?r ^ e°rner of the world at of Wafe/”7’ Ve lhe people and tongue l-r.nileiLl0^ accluajntanee with war had ' fit)rro!sd h m partlaUy insensible of its tpeir 'hards delighted in chanting the than the Ramin*“am^was no't’n^‘V'”"' We'raid aiho*bloods deeds of their lords, ino- 4ietdi.#‘lat a certam Cadwgan, hav- Hm «,d i ,amerl’i' whilst hunting,. slew established a Roman cRv at OhL?ritaini his flesh-to be food fdr his hi^'hrnM that afterwards he burned out KSS nis hioBier s eyes with red hot irons mn-tiuf /‘"an three centuries - after, this man s descendants suffered without mur- sijiilent of British hi,. munng the most terrible persecution tor preaching- tne Quaker faito. An& W; «**»*. Ml FROM WARPHOR TO peacemaker. u le, doctrine of George Fox began to iwUP nea?hec* Jn ^ales about the vear nf t’hhf11? -?uP of tIle earliest ministers giound wag torn aiway by the* strange*!-1 tS a,t Was John ap Jnhn- who af- able H nd w.af ,a Purchaser of consider- tne Britons sullenly withdrew U able land within the boundaries of Chea- only to turn doggedly and fight foTtha 1V W uwil° died in Wales, thim^u eiS!i w.et:e eager to take upon tVn tn1-nlth? ir a s .and burdens which a;nare ot those who were sfeiSfi-feH of the truth.” 1 superficial observer/’ says an A £REAT WELSH general. fhlji0ruy’ wouid seem impossible Keniu-EnUthiS- Weri.not with • ' ■ pTreS miles' upon ye same, & two miles backward, & then extend ye parallel wlh ye river six miles and to run west ward ly j The Second Part of T. Allen Glenn’s Lecture I so tar as this ye sd quantity of ..land be Completely surveyed unto you—Given at as Delivered Before the Historical Society. Pennabury, ye 13th 1st mo. 1GS4." Holmes thereupon issued an order to This Chapter Fully as Interesting and ■ one of his Deputy Surveyors,David Powell Instructive as the Preceding One (a, Welshman), dated 2d month 4th. 16S4, directing him “to survey and sett and Should lie Kept for Its out unto the said purchasers the said Historical Value. quantity of land, in manner as before ex¬ One of tile last to arrive was Ellis pressed, and in method of townshipps lately appointed by the Governor att Lewis, who came from Merionethshire five thousand acres for a townshipp," by way of Ireland, and who settled in which directions were only partially car¬ New! in. ried out. But although the Welsh Friends were THE WELSH WANTED UNION FROM first in th.e Great Welsh Tract, there THE FIRST. were two other Cymric emigrations to The warrant of the Proprietor was Chester county of equal importance, but issued on account of comp'aints from the made from entirely different reasons. Welsh Friends already a.rrivid, that they These were: First, the Welsh Episco¬ were compelled to have the tracts which palians,’who began to come in numbers they had purchased in Wales, divided, in about 1G98, and ceased a few years port being surveyed to them near Phila¬ after, and, secondly the Welsh Baptists, delphia, and part in what they after¬ whose removal commenced about 1701 wards called Goshen, and some of it in and continued pretty steadily until about the lower counties of New Castle, Kent 1735, or later. and Sussex, now Delaware, and that (al¬ The Episcopalians, or members of the ready lands were being surveyed to the Church of England, of course, had never English within the bounds of their pro¬ suffered any bitter persecution. posed boundary. The earlier history of the Baptists, in The result of these eompaints led to this respect, however, about equals that various clashes with the authorities fur¬ of Friends, but their sufferings at home ther complicated by the proposal to had terminated long before their corning fejiace the townships of Haverford and hither. (The church of England people Radnor, considered by the Welsh to lie are found, at an early .date, principally I a.part of their Barony, Within the bpunds in the townships of Newlin, Easttown M Chester county, j Ofr^he progress of and neighborhood. They came, with a [his dispute I have already written at few exceptions, from the county of Rad¬ Some length, and I will not tire you by j nor, and they almost immediately estab¬ going over it to-night..* Suffice it to say lished the Church of St. David which still that the Barony in spite of Cjfmric op¬ remains a monument to their piety. position was divided and that the dis- l Services are said to have been held near buted townships became a part of the the site of this ancient church before County of Chester. 1700, by one Evan Evans. The records, SUPERIOR STATUS OF THE WELSH. 1 which are very imperrectlv kept, begin You may search the records of the in 1706. The first entry is the baptism of entire list of American colonies hut you Elizabeth, daughter of Morgan and will not find in ‘any of them any com¬ Elizabeth Hughes, June 8, 1706. and is fol¬ munity equal, in intelligence and indus¬ lowed by the baptism of her brothers, try, to the Welsh settlers of Chester Benjamin and Edward, in the years 1708 county. . and 1712, respectively. They were, with but few exceptions, The first records of the members of the men of education and position in the members of the congregation of St. country which they left. David’s is a list of “the names of those Here is a list of some of the first who were at the Sacrament on Good Fri¬ Cymric settlers of Radnor and Goshen, day, March 23d, 1721-2.” taken from the deeds executed in Wales They were: David Howell and Evan for the lands which they purchased, and Harry, Church Wardens, William Davis, which, in many cases, their descendants Thomas Edwards, James. Price, Susanna continued to occupy for many genera¬ Price, Thomas James, Ann James, David tions, and some believe, yet hold: Thomas, Ann Thomas, George Lewis, John Evans, of Nantmele. Radnor, Francis Lewis, Owen Hugh, Ann Hugh, gentleman; James Price, Morthvery Philip DaVjd, Thomas Godfrey, John ■Parish, Carmarthenshire, gentlemah: David, _ Mary Morris, William Owen, Richard Humphrey, Llanglynin, Merion¬ Evan Jones, Richard Hughes, wife and ethshire, gentleman; Roger Hughes, sister, Peter Elliot, John Martin, Evan Llanishangeil, Rhydrytbon, Radnor, gen¬ Hugh, Mary Hugh, James Davis, Grif¬ tleman; Thomas Jones, Glascombe, Rad¬ fith and James. nor. gentleman; Richard Cook, of the Some of these names quaintly graven same place, glover: John Lloyd, of Des- by the chinking chisel of some old mortal¬ sart Parish, Radnor, glover; Edvan ity, I have found traced on the shattered Jones, St. Harmon Parish, Radnor, gen¬ and crumbling stones in the church yard. tleman; Evan ap William, Lianvachreth, The Welsh Baptists appear to have Merionethshire,gentleman; David Evans, mostly congregated in the neighborhood of Lianvachreth. Merionethshire, gentle¬ of Tredyffrin and in Vincent townships. man; Ellis Pugh, Merionethshire, gentle¬ The Rev. Morgan Edwards, in his book man, and so I might read you all night on the Welsh Baptists of Pennsylvania, the roll of these Cymric adventurers printed in 1770, says, regarding the great who planted your country two centuries Valley Church: ago. “In 1710, Rev. Hugh Davis,(an ordained The emigration of the Cymric Quakers ] minister,) William Rees, Rev. Alex¬ to the county of Chester commenced in ander Owen, John Evans and 1(582 and continued until about 1700-10. Margaret his wife, arrived and One of the last to arrive was E lis Lew's, I settled in the same neighborhood, who came from Merionethshire by way, which increased their number to sixteen, of Ireland and settled in Newliri. " and made them think of forming them¬ (Part ’Second To-morrow.) selves into a church. Accordingly, April 22, 1711, they were incorporated, and did choose Rev. Hugh Davis to be their min¬ ister; Alexander Owen and William Rees to be elders, and the same year they joined the association; the former of¬ ficiated a's a deacon till Griffith Jones ar¬ rived from Rydwilm, in the year 1712. j’rom ‘Ons time till L22, they increased iiiicuo mr me women. fast partly by Mr. Davis’ ministry, part- ! Such articles, you will admit, exhibit ly by comers from other parts, chiefly | signs of inherent refinement and of edu- by emigrations from Wales, which made cation Their homes were so substantial- it inconvenient for them to hold their ly built of stone that many of them meetings in private houses, and set them stand to-day as solid and comfortable on erecting the building before des¬ as when first erected. cribed.” A recent historian has said that the This was the Great Valiev Church—Its number of Welsh settlers in Pennsyl¬ dimensions were 28 feet Square (erected vania. as compared -with those of other 1722), with seats, galleries, and a stove. nationalities was so small as to have The ground about it contained near two fty any effect upon the history acres: a part of which was given by of the State. William George: the rest -purchased' by I have examined, hastily, a number of the church. Adjoining it was a school- the tax lists, and other documents of house. Chester county, for the early years of In 1770, the congregation consisted of: the 18th century, with a view of ascer¬ John Williams, Sampson Davis, David taining what proportion of the inhabit¬ Thomas, Thomas Nicholas, George ant3 (landholders) -at that time were George, Thomas Davis, Edward Powell, W elshmen. Evan Thomas, Griffith Thomas, Thomas [ ♦ The result of those lists examined is Morris, Enoch Lewis, Joseph Philips and about as follo-ws: others. Aston, Welsh settlers, 3 to 17, English Rev. Plugh Davis, the first pastor, was or other nationalities, Bethel, 3 to ll born in 1665, in Cardiganshire, baptized ci,lfIny^aI?; P-' Bedford, 2 to 2c! and ordained at Rydwilm. Arrived in Cain 3 to 14, Charlestown, 15 to 2. Chi¬ this country 26th of April, 1711, and set¬ chester, i to 13, Concord, 6 to 45 Cones- tled with the church when first con¬ toga 11 to 29. Darby, ll to 56, Edgmont, structed. He continued among them < ■-? 40, Goshen, 11 to 9, Haverford, 25 to • until his death, which came to pass Oct., 1, London Britain, 20 to 1, Nantmeal, 14 13th, 1753. He had one daughter, who to 3, Pikeland, 19 to 18, Radnor, 40 to married David Davis. The family yet none of other races, Tredvffrin, 30 to exists. He was succeded bv John Davis none, Vincent, S to 6. born Nov., 1, 1702, in Llanfernach Par¬ The total is, in the townships men- rish, county of Pembroke who arrived tioned, 24? Welsh land-holders against 27 July, 1713. He married Abigail Miles, 23< of otner countries. An examination and had Sampson Miles, who had Abner cn other sections would, doubtless pro¬ Abigail, Hannah, Nathan, and John duce a more surprising result But if the early Welsh of Chester The early Welsh, of Chester county couny were divided in their religious be¬ or their immediate descendants occupied lief,they were united in frugality,industry aa cime went on, many positions of and a clannish pride in the ancient race trust under the Provincial Government. behind them. Of the High Sheriffs of your county" . The Cymric settlers of Chester county, prior to 1775, six were Welchmen. One in common with their kinsmen in Merion ol these, John Owen, held numerous were possessed of a social refinement other offices. far in advance of some of their neigh- He was Sheriff 1729, 1735, 1743, 1749-57: bors. To understand precisely the mode : member of the Provincial Assembly at of life pursued by them here it is-neces- \ periods from 1733 to 1748: was one of the sary to explain the conditions which sur¬ trustees of the Loan office of Pennsyl¬ round them in their native land. vania, and collector of Excise for The Welsh emigrants to Pennsylvania, Chester county. 1733-1737: he was also a most of whom are described as gentle¬ Justice. He married Hannah, daughter men, in deeds to them for land here of George Maris, and had children, Jane were, indeed of the Gentry of Wales but who married Joseph West, George who by occupation they were farmers or died s. p., Elizabeth, who married James graziers. Rhoads. Rebecca, who married Jesse In Wales, in the spring-, the wealthy Maris, and Susanna, who married Josiah farmer left his Hendre, or "Permanent Hibbard. All of these names are fami¬ Home, taking with him his family ser¬ liar to you as identified in after time, vants, his cattle and his sheep. The with the history of Chester county and sheep would be sent to the higher moun¬ Pennsylvania. tains, but tlie cattle would be grazed Allied to Sheriff Owen bv ties of near upon the joint or common pasture lands ;relationship were the Humphreys of belonging to the different Hendres. In Haverford. then in Chester countv. August the farmer would return with his Daniel Humphrey, the son of Samuel, cattle to his Hendre, bringing with him lot' Llangeleynin, came in 1862, and was the summer product of cheese and but¬ followed by his widowed mother and his ter, to gather his harvest. Later in the brother anil sisters. season the sheep would be brought from Descended in unbroken line, as the old the hills and secured in comfortable . ' manuscript pedigree of his family, still quarters for the winter.” preserved, proves, from a house so an¬ The Welsh in Chester county farmed cient that its history is lost amid the red tneir lands in a similar manngr, and ’confusion of forgotten wars, this Welsh¬ those who are at all familiar with their man became a hardworking farmer of habits will note that they often possess¬ Chester county. ed farms, one in the more thickly popu¬ He married Hannah Wynne, unon lated centres which they considered their whose family Dry SI Weir Mitchell , homes, and another for grazing pur- founded his' novel, "Hugh Wynne,” poses, further from civilization and had a number of children. His i The Chester county Welsh ' were in¬ grandson, Joshua Humphreys was born: finitely better provided than their Eng- m Chester county in 1757, and died 1838. neighbors, with books and articles At an early age he was placed with a of household luxury, i have noted in firm of shipfbuilders in Philadelphia, I inventories, mahogany shaving cases, tea and before he had finished his course, tables and dieing tables, and handsome his master died, young Humphreys was chests of drawers; feather beds, mirrors chosen to manage the business, and be¬ and silver-plate are frequently mention¬ came, in time, the foremost ship-builder ed. in America. Among other articles of apparel ac¬ He is regarded as the first naval con¬ cording to old account books, we find structor of dr is country, and has been beaver hats, coats with silver buttons, called the falher of the American Navy. embroidered vests and silver mounted Alter the adoption of the Constitution riding whips for the men: ginghams of of the L’ni-ed States he was officially lively.color, colored -silk.hose, silk hand¬ consulted r- garding the proposed navy, and his views and plans were finally kerchiefs, silk gloves, bonnets -and Irish approved. early settlers, and that, vdrv -efficient. Commissary-General of the Continental the snips which be afterwards design¬ Army, Owen Biddle was of Welsh line¬ ed tor the Lnited States, some of which age and a nephew of John Owen. whom, were built in his own yard under his we have mentioned as one of the Sher¬ iffs of Chester. wt'ro°-nal inspection’ and some elsewhere. And last of the list, but first in the The Congress, The President, The ranks of honor and fame, I will barely ,'0!?,stl.'-ution- The Chesapeake, The Con¬ mention to you the name of Major Gen¬ stellation, and the United States, and a eral Anthony Wayne, of Welsh blood ou’jlo smalier vessels. His brother, through his mother, to whose memory ries Humphreys, was a member of Pennsylvania has never thought fit to , e l oncinental Congress, an.d was high- 1 >;aise, any memorial, in return for the blood he shed for her, from the frozen acter9PeCted for his inte^rity of char- fields of Canada to the burning sanas Joshua Humphreys’ son, Clement, was of Florida, and whose hones, hadi t not made the bearer of official despatches been Jor his noble son, would still have to France during the John Adams ad- remained un-coffined on the desolate shores of Lake Erie. diiilcfma1/1011’ anC' 8a'ned some fame as a , £ - the professoin of -arms appealed to 1-Ano*-b®r son, Samuel Humphrey, born the Cymric race in Chester county, tho ,"e:4 the position of Naval Con- profession of the law had its champions. ^,L,rpet°r from l$i5 to 1S24. The Emperior be inappropriate to name those Alexander, ot Russia,once repuested him of n elsh blood who are now brilliant to oversee the making of his Navy, and members of the Chester county bar, but offered him a salary of $60,000 per an- you will permit me to , mention, one or n u m. two of the descendants of the Welsh The reply of this Chester county Welsh- settlers of your county who have won 1 fbajt is worthy of record. laurels in the legal profession. 1 do not know,” he wrote, ‘‘that I The ,first °f these in name and place is possess the merits attributed to me, but, Ellis Lewis, Chief Justice of Pennsyl¬ ?e t‘iey great or small, I owe them all vania. John Evans, another Chester t0 the Flag of my country.” county man, and the son of John Ewans, o-^seral A; Humphreys was the was appointed third Judge of the Su¬ Orandson of Joshua. His first active ser¬ preme Court of Pennsylvania in 1777. A vice during the late war was a com¬ stil earlier legal light in your county was mander of a division of the 5th Corps or David Lioyd, who in early provincial the Army of the Potomac, at the battle times was ‘‘a power in the land.” Horace A Fredericksburg- and Chaneello-rsville. Bianey, in his “Leaders of the Old -Bar,” At Gettysburg he was promoted to tells us much concerning that most emi¬ Major General, and his subsequent nent lawyer, William Lewis, who he career a record that sheds great credit says, was born in Chester county in’l715 Jbf county in which his ancestors Of his practice at the bar, Mr Binnev says: “Whatever prerogative had been here *S t0° we^“^nown for comment given by Magna Charta, the Constitution The Vi elsh of Chester county seem to or the law, either to the courts or the ?Are<'I1A®nted' in a considerable degree, people, for the vindication of public jus¬ the fighting instincts of their Cymric tice and order, or for the defense of per¬ ancestors. sonal liberty and reputation, had a sleep¬ less guardian in him.” tAAA"8 th,e War °£ the Revolution, of tne -Pennsylvania troops engaged, so far ACater Welshman “learned in the law ” JSii cS,n ,^lscover from the existing rolls, native in your county, was Eli K Price rully forty per cent, were of Welah de¬ whose works on the law of real estate- scent and many of these were from this nave made him widely known county. I have time, only, to name a ,Art> ?ls°- ^as, its representatives in a few of them. descendant ot the early Welsh of Ches- .John Davis entered the Continental An coJnrty ia the Person of Joseph Pen- army m 1i,6. He raised a company and served as Captain until the end o"f the etche?! ot ou°rnday'e °f ^ m°St SkillfuI u ar. He participated, with his com¬ In the practice of medicine the Welsh pany, at !ne battles of Brandvwine, have always excelled, and you can doubt¬ Germantown, Monmouth, Stony Point less recall to mind a number of physi¬ and_,^orktown, and was at the Surprise cians of elsh lineage who have ‘at- tamed ffistmctjou in this county ,V£ tfiose early physicians of Philadel¬ /-AA..1S?0‘ .’I? ™a?. appointed Brigadier General of the Militia of Chester county. phia and neighborhood, who by descent I0n' ,£saac Jones, was an emin¬ association or influence are at all coni ent Surgeon in the Army. nected with the county of Cheste? in Dr. John Davis, a native of Tredyffrin, early times, I can only name to you as of Chester county, received the appoint¬ Cymric blood. Dr. Thomas Wynne Dr ment ot Surgeon-in-Chief of the Penn¬ Thomas Cadwalader. Dr. Lloyd Zachary] sylvania Battalions, in 1776. p;at,/°nr Morgan, pr. Cadwalader T„Rev‘ H#id Jones, the son of Morgan .Mans, Di Tho-mas Parke, Dr Evan Jones, then a resident of Chester countv Dr Mm-risJ°hTn t0"6-3’ 1>r- John Foulke,; was appointed Chaplain of the Contin- WafjB? W‘S and Dr’ James- '.n lll6> an,d served under Hates, St. Glair and Wayne from 1776 to Members of the Historical Society of Chester County,. I . have attemnGJ G the Rev. Horatio Gates Jones, son of night to bring to your notice, for further Daviffi was an eloquent Baptist minis- investigation and research the Welsh One ot his sons, I. Richter Jones. settlers of Chester county. Colonel of the okth Pennsylvania Volun¬ The shadow has lengthened unon the teers was killed at NeWburn, North dial. More than . two centuries have Carolina, in 1863. passed since the Cymry settled thi<- Another son, the-late Hon. Horatio county, and your record of the Founders Gates Jones, was well-known as a his¬ is yet scant and incomplete Unaers torian. The sun of the nineteenth century is fast going down, and ere it set I wLfl 1 might mention to you a number of ask von tn wtGr r-,™ .... 1 would other descendants of the Welsh who took an active part in our struggle for Independe ice, and if I do, the names of Evans, of Morgan, of James, of Davis, ffthe?s hi®”V'ement* ^'°u'rL Welshetfore- ot Lewis,! and of Williams, would be most conspicuous. 1 may add that the Brigadier General commanding the Pennsylvania Militia. * , A Cadwalader, though not a native ot < hesteii county, wras a kinsman of its hold rta t M-eVsii bi-aSns 'and honor wdl continue to have their —--■- this county and State until “r2e?nCe In Piety, truth -and justice ’> siA? I810n am1 be a factor in the afflirs of As^ tC> monwealth. 01 ltlls Com- David’s Episcopal Church, which is’ lo¬ cated at the Intersection- of Easttown and Newtown Townships, about a mile and a half southwest of Radnor Station, ! on the Pennsylvania Railroad. It is here that the dean of the convocation of Chester, Rev. George A. Kellar, dis¬ courses from the pulpit upon each Sab¬ bath, as his predecessors have done for two centuries. St. David’s Church was established by a colony of Welshmen who emigrated from Radnorshire, Wales, about the ] year 1685, and of the early history of j this venerable institution very little is definitely known. According to tradi¬ tion a log church stood near the site of the present building as early as the seventeetnh century, but it was burned down. Ancient church publications, A Quaint Little House of Wor¬ however, show that service was first held from the year 1700 to 1704 by Rev. j ship Where Dean Cel¬ Evan Evans, missionary at Christ | Church, Philadelphia, at the house of ! lar Preaches. a William Davis, and in the old church register are recorded births of children i in 1706, Oldmixon, who wrote in 1708, mentions THE FIRST SERVICE HELD. a “congregation of Church-of-Engiand men” at Radnor, while the ruins of an old log house on the old William Davis( farm within the memory ~oT people” now 1 The Programme for the Laying of the living, seemed to mark the spot where the old church was established. Oomer-Stone — The ReYolution LONG WAIT FOR MINISTERS. Ended a Pastorate ‘WTiicli Rev. Evan Evans, in a letter dated September, 1707, announces that he Peace Restored, g pleached in Welsh at Radnor once a fortnight for four years, and that among his._nume.rous,. charges Montgomery and Radnor, next to Philadelphia, received . r. —&Ebiicia! attention. The, people ST. DAVID'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, BUILT I7J5. [ 131 '■fiffigt- oC Radnor about this time sent a reA Hie church fas aeTObiH apt-m-a for -• • quest to.1 the “Honorable Society for the vice, and was frequehr.lv '■'used as"a Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign rendezvous by parties of soldiers. Parts” that a minister might be settled in luJ a subscription wah started for' among them, which request was not j toe erection of the present', .gallery, [granted for nearly seven years, when, i which was built under the supervision [ fntw16/^' “Mud Anthor.yf. Wayne’s J in the Summer of 1714, John Clubb, who 1 fathei then a warden of Mid i.hurch. In i rhad previously been a schoolmaster in thf^hichc m tne north wail• of the oUH Philadelphia, and had frequently preach- chuich is placet]? this, simple inscription- • £d here, was formally appointed mis¬ A- D-. V1'- v'radition states that from sionary to Oxford and Radnor, this niche a large stone had fallen out many years ago, bearing the date “1717.” j In September, 1S14, Mr. Clubb reported ?inci lor this reason tho .suzzio date ’iva*3 to the Honorable Society that he had | piacecl on the hew tablet. ^ received subscriptions for building a PEACE RESTORKS A PASTOR. stone church, and that the people Mr. Currie again took charge of the “obliged themselves to make it good." church m liSj, the ratification of the Immediately after these subscriptions treaty between England and the United were raised it is handed down by tradi¬ States having absolved, him from his tion that sharp debates were held in re¬ oath of office. Five years later he was gard to whether the church should be succeeded by Rev. Sla.vtor Chav, the first American minister, whose field of labor erected on the present site or on a lot included also the Great Valley Church- of fifteen acres known as the “grave¬ gi- James’, at Perkiomen. and the yard field,” situated near the junction Swedes’ Church, near Norristown For of Sugartown and Reeseville Roads. this reason he could not preach at Rad¬ iThe present position being decided upon nor oftener than two or three times each month. because of its proximity to a good rTll1e,1 pbfjggA was incorporated in 1702. Spring, a writer of long ago says:— In ISIS Mr. uiay’s son.TVnn C ciav I “On the 9th day of May, 1715, Pastor ofheiated about once a month In the .Sandel was nvited to attend the laying [same year Rev. Samuel C Brink!" set- of the foundation of Radnor Church, K,ef‘ p®ar Paoli, and at the rcouest of i[sixteen miles from Philadelphia. First [ tot, congregacion preached litre ovei-v a .service with preaching was held in a two weeks, until Slay tor Clay’s death' private house: then they went in proces¬ overv- iv f’K'c'3eded him and preached sion to the place where the church was ITi Ln c'5"’- r° enable him to do this to be built; then a prayer was made, \v ilbam Crosiey, a wealthy member Piter which each one of the clergymen thhscZi!,eJ S20, sna others, animated by pa for blood. 4i circle was formed, two or three Indians bolding or guarding each prisoner, while the work of death dragged forward. Queen Esther raged like a demon. He saw six or seven murdered. A young man, Thomas Fuller, sprang to escape, but was over¬ taken and tomahawked. The savage yells, the moans of his dying friends, the streams of blood, the scattered brains for a moment stultified him. With a ray of returning reason, he sasr death almost in a moment certain. He could but die. “With the might of combined cour¬ age and despair he threw off the Indi¬ ans who held him, and, at a spring HISTORY OF NEW GARDEN. leaped down the bank, turned off to the right and at a bound cleared a fence and fled to the river. He had THE FIRST SETTLERS OF THE TOWN¬ passed Monockey island when a bullet struck him in the left shoulder, and SHIP AND THEIR DESCENDANTS. when he arrived at the fort Dr. Smith offered him aid. He could remember JOHN HURFORD. to have seen Jeremiah Ross, Samuel and Stephen Crocker, Stephen Bidlack In 1724 Richard Trantor and wife. and Peter Wheeler killed. [Elizabeth, granted and conveyed their 100 “It is,” he says, “the opinion of Mr. acres of land they had purchased of Thomas Elliott, that the exasperation of Queen Garnet unto John Thompson, who held Esther was owing to the fact that sev¬ [the same for nine years, when he and his eral Indian spies had been arrested and wife Jane sold and transferred the title were held prisoners at Forty Fort. [thereto unto John Hurford (3). Queen Esther had been down from her John Hurford (1) with his family were home at Sbeshequin to obtain their re¬ among those who emigrated from England lease, which Col. Cenison had deemed about the close of the seventeenth century | proper to refuse.” and settled in the vicinity of Chester. He brought to Philadelphia a certificate from Callumpton monthly meeting dated |29-2mo , 1700, in which his son John, (2) was included. John Hurford (2) was twice married—first to Elizabeth Brown— From,..Li Esther Hunter was the second wife. John Hurford (3) was a son of John and Eliza¬ beth (Brown) Hurford and was born in ti Aston, Delaware county. In 1732 John Hurford (3) married Han¬ nah, a daughter of Nicholas and Haunah Date Fairlamb, and in the same year came and , A'T- \f.A. settled on the land he had purchased of John Thompson in New Garden township, now the home oi Samuel E. Hannum. Being of the society of Friends they An Ancient Paper. attended the London Grove meeting. James r: " Ex-County Commissioner Thomas Johnson disposed of his 200 acres, apart o MeTcer. of East Washington street, the Thomas Garnet land, unto Isaac this borough, yesterday came into the Starr in 1724. Isaac Starr was the young possession of an old paper—a copy of est of three brothers who emigrated from the Phrfrffeylvania Gazette, No. 3521, Old Castle,county of Meath,Ireland,in 1717. dated/ January 10, 1798, and published in Philadelphia, by Hall & Sellers, at In 1723 Isaac Starr had married Margaret, the new printing office, near the mar¬ a daughter of Thomas Lightfoot, and they ket house, that place. The paper is probably settled on this purchase where 20x16 inches, containing four columns they remained for five years and then con¬ to the page, which are filled with for¬ veyed the same 200 acres unto Nathauiel eign news and advertisements. One Houlton. Nathaniel Houlton had to wife advertisement refers to an owner I Martha Miller, widow of John Jordan and wanted for a cow that had strayed to 1 daughter of of John and Mary Miller, the the premises of Isaac Cochran, while, another advertisement announced the first settler at Avondale. They held foi sale of several building lots at the cor¬ nine years and theu conveyed the same un¬ ner of Market and Broad streets, Phil¬ to John Hurford (3). adelphia. The paper was sent to West Lying directly between these lands and Chester yesterday by William Broch- the‘‘Pemberton woods” was an area that ard, of Downingtown, to be presented remained vacant until about 1742—3, to the Chester County Historical So¬ when William Penn the 3rd, by his at- ciety, which Mr. Mercer wil do at its next meeting. 1 Jr __ torneys, confirmed it 'unto John HurfbJd" After her decease, wbich occur It embraced 100 acres, and extended bis 1864, her real estate was sold by bei domain over 400 acres. unto Isaac Larkin, who for several „ — From the southeastern part of this large was an active contractor and carpenter in tract John and Hannah Hurford, in 1765, New Garden. He built a new barn on granted and confirmed 80r acres unto their the premises and greatly improved the ion Joseph Hurford. Their dwelling on dwelling, erected extensive greenhouses, .his 80 acres is the same as is now occu-| and with his good wife, Rachel (Kinsey) pied by John A. Minsliall. Larkin, gave much attention to the pro¬ John Hurford retained the remainder or duction of flowers and fruits, etc. In the his land until his death which occured summer of 1897 he had built on State about 1774. In his will he devised about street, in the borough of Kennett Square, 100 acres of the northwestern part unto his a comfortable mansion and greenhouses to son Samuel, and about the same amount of which they removed, leaving the farm and land in the southern part with the mansion its environments in charge of their son. and farm buildings unto his son, Nicholas. Joseph and Naomi Hurford in 1786.1 All other of his real estate he directed his granted and conveyed 146 acres of their1 executors to sell. In the following year, land unto James Greenfield’ Six years! 1775, Joseph Hurford purchased of the later James and Aun Greenfield sold 100 executors about 81 acres adjoining his acres, a part thereof, unto Phillip Yarnall. own land. The remaining 83 acres were Thomas Chandler in 1798, purchased from sold and confirmed with Joshua Proctor. Phillip Yarnall about 85 of his 100 acres. In 17—Joshua Proctor conveyed the same Thomas Chandler in 1792 had married land with 7 acres additional that he had j Ann, a daughter of Francis and Judith otherwise acquired unto his son Job Proc Lamborn, theirs having been the first pro¬ tor. In 1803 Job sold and conveyed his posals for marriage made in London Grove land unto Samuel Pyle, from whom it pass¬ monthly meeting after its establishment in ed by devise unto his son Jacob Pyle, who 1792. From the the time of purchase they by his will proven in 1814, divided his land occupied the premises during the remain¬ about equally between two of his sons, der of their lives. Ann, most familliarly Samuel and Isaac Pyle, the latter to have known as Nanny Chandler, died in 1841, the southern part. having survived her husband seventeen In the Autumn of 1800 Samuel Pyle (2) years. They were respectable members of married Hannah, a daughter of George the society of Friends and very regular at-! and Hannah White, and they settled on tendants of Londongrove meeting. During1 his inheritance where they continued to Ann’s widowhood she continued her steady reside the remainder of their lives. Samuel attendance of meeting, mostly riding on died in 1859 and Hannah in 1859. The horseback over the lonely road through farm descended to his jovial son Samuel “Pemberton Woods” and in sleighing sea¬ Pyle (3) who with his wife, Anna P. son carrying a bell to ring as the sleighs (Cranston) Pyle, whom he had married in would pass to prevent their scaring her 1842, reside thereon. Their children are horse. Ann lived unto her 87th year, hex- in the land. son Thomas and family and her daughter Isaac Pyle in the spring of 1807, married Mary resided with her in her old age. Ruth Cook, and they dwelt on the land de¬ After her decease Thomas and his sister vised to him. Isaac had the tailor trade to Mary, being the only surviving heirs, sold which be gave his attention as well as to the messuage and land, which had been in¬ his farming operations. On the evening of creased by subsequent purchases to 107 the seventh of the Fourth month, 1831, acres unto John Malin, late toll gatherer, j Isaac took a walk to visit some of his and honest shoemaker at Avondale who neighbors, and on going from Samuel Pen- 3 with his family removed to it in 1842 and nock’s to John Pusey’s he had a stroke of where his remaining days were spent. He paralysis and was found after nightfall I died in 18—. John Malin had sold of his and was carried to his home where he died ■ purchase two small lots, one to his brother the same night. Ruth continued to occupy Mahlon Malin and the other unto Albert the premises as long as she lived. They Michener jr._.jp _. had four sons and a daughter, and as the former grew up to manhood they went out to make a way in the world for themselves. About 1848, her son, Isaac Pyle (2) who in 1840, married Minerva Vernon, now re¬ siding on Broad street, Kennett Square, purchased the adjoining farm and rendered his mother efficient aid in the management of hers while she lived. Ruth Pyle was a minister much esteem¬ ed amoDgsi Friends, and a faithful attender of London Grove meeting a mile and a half distant from her home—very often going alone through summer’s heat and winter’s cold and storms. She travelled much in the discharge of her religious duties as a minister visiting meetings and families. and made the theatre of military opera¬ tions, while they themselves, throwing HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY aside the implements of husbandry, and forgetting the employments of BY SHERMAN DAY. PUBLISHED 1843. peace, were to mingle in the geheral strife. The first military force raised in the ©oui-drivers.—This was a name given County was a regiment of volunteers, to a certain set of men who used to of which Anthony Wayne, Esq., was drive redemptioners through the coun¬ appointed Colonel and Richard Thomas try, and dispose of them to the farmers. Lieutenant Colonel. Wayne afterwards They generally purchased them in lots joined the regular array, and the com¬ consisting of fifty or more, of captains mand of the corps devolved upon of ships, to whom the redemptioners Thomas. This regiment marched to were bound for three years’ service, in New York previous to the battle of payment for their passage. The trade Long Island, but, with the part which was brisk for a while, but at last was joined the flying camp, was neither en¬ broken up by the numbers that ran gaged in that, nor in any of the subse¬ away from the drivers. The last of the quent actions which took place in that ignominious set disappeared about the vicinity. A second regiment was raised year 1785. A story is told of his hav- and officered principally by the inhabi¬ iug been tricked by one of his herd. tants of Chester County, soon after the The fellow, by a little management, first had been formed. Mr. Atlee, of contrived to be the last of the flock that j Lancaster, was appointed Colonel; Farry remained unsold, and travelled about of Chester County, Lieutenant Colonel; with his master. One night they lodged John Potts, Major; and Joseph McLel- at a tavern, and in the morning the lan, of West Chester, was among the young fellow, who was an Irishman, captains. Thus it will be seen that rose early, sold his master to the land¬ Chester County contributed a full por¬ lord, pocketed the money, and marched tion of men for the service, and evinced off. Previously, however, to his going, a spirit scarcely to be expected among a he used the precaution to tell the pur people so generally opposed in principle chaser, that though tolerably clever in to the practice of war. Early in the other respects, he was rather saucy, and ) contest Chester County became the a little given to lying. That he had scene of active operations. even been presumptuous enough at The battle of Brandywine took place times to endeavor to pass for master, on the 11th of September, 1777. The and that he might possibly represent following spirited account of the en ! himself as such to him! gagement is from Botta’s History of The long period of 80 years that the American Revolution. Botta was | elapsed between the settlement of the himself a soldier in Napoleon’s cam¬ County'and the war of the revolution, paigns; he describes the manoeuvers of I was a peaceful era, unfruitful of inci¬ the battle with a soldier’s enthusiasm: dent. During all that time the settlers Late in August, 1777, Washington ; were left to pursue their peaceful occu- was informed that the enemy had ap¬ j pations, uninjured and unmoved by the peared with all his forces in the Chesa¬ j commotions that shook the rest of the peake. He then saw distinctly the . world. They plied the arts of com¬ course he had to pursue. He despatched merce, brought new lands into culture, orders to all the detached corps to join established schools and meeting-houses, him, by forced marches, in the environs and advanced with uniform progress of Philadelphia. The militia of Penn¬ ' towards a state of superior opulence and sylvania, Maryland, Delaware and the refinement. The contests indeed of northern parts of Virginia, were ordered 1736 and 1755 occurred jyithin the pe¬ to repair to the principal army. riod mentioned,-but.th^se little affected On the 25th of August, the British the settlers here. They were princip¬ army, 18,000 strong, was disembarked ally Friends, took no active part.in mil¬ not far from the head of the river Elk. itary concerns, and wTere not' n]61ested It was plentifully furnished with all the by them. equipage of war, excepting the defect of The cloud, however, which had been horses, as well for the cavalry as for the long gathering and rumbling on the baggage. The scaroity of forage had horizon, had at length spread itself over caused many of them to perish the pre¬ the land, and the awful momentary' ceding winter, and a considerable num¬ rived when it was to burst. The citij ber had died also in the late passage, zens of Chester County were now to se^ i This was a serious disadvantage for their fields crossed by hostile armies; 136 m . J^troops; who, ia the vast, plains is said with very good results, delivering JA&, ysylvania, might have employed the stone to the stone mill at Toughkenamon e^vny with singular effect. On the where it is manufactured ready for use and 27th, the English vanguard arrived at from whence it is shipped to Trenton aud the head of the Elk, and the day fol other potteries. lowing at Gray’s hill. Here it was NICHOLAS HURFORD. afterwards joined by the rear guard Nicholas Hurford in 1788 married Mary, under General Knyphauseu, who had daughter of Benjamin aud Elizabeth Hutton been left upon the coast to cover the of New Garden and they settled on the pre¬ debarkation of the stores and artillery. mises he bad inherited, the first purchase V The jvhole army took post behind the made by his father in the township. Mary river Christiana, having Newark upon lived only a year or two leaving a son John the right, and Pencada, or Atkins, on In 1794 Nicholas married Dinah, daughter the leit. A column commanded by of Michael and Sarah Gregg, of Keunett Lord Cornwallis having fallen in with township. They left seven ctiildren, name¬ ly Michael, Jesse, Joel, Eber, Samuel, Maxwell’s riflemen, rooted and pursued Isaac and Mary; all of whom lived into them as far„as the farther side of White man aud womanhood and several of them j 01ay creek, with the loss of some dead to old age. and wounded. Nicholas died about 1830 and in his will he directed that his land should be valued, and sold. Disinterested men placed a value ou the real estate.and Eber Hurford having pleasant associations with his native place From /stL -li _ tion. It is said also that there existed i underground caves, extending from I 130 the building to certain portions of the being thus disposed, the American gen¬ I grounds. One of these caves is known eral waited the approach of the English. to have existed up to a few years ago, | and the entrance t o it was near a Although the Brandywine, beiDg ford¬ spring at the foot of the hill near the able almost everywhere, could not serve old bridge. This entrance, it is under as a sufficient defence against the im¬ stood, has boea built up to prevent petuosity of the enemy, yet Washing¬ any one entering the house through ton had taken post upon its banks, from the tunnel. w a conviction that a battle was now in¬ evitable, and that Philadelphia could only be saved by a victory. General Howe displayed the front of his army, but not, however, without great circum¬ spection. Being arrived at Kennet Square, a short distance from the river, he detached his lighthorse to the right upon Wilmington, to the left upon the Lancaster road, and in front towards Chadsford. The two armies found themselves within seven miles of each other, the Brandywine flowing between them. Early in the morning of the 11th of HISTORY OF CHESTER COUNTY September, the British army marched to the enemy. Howe had formed his BY SHERMAN DAY. PUBLISHED 1843. army in two columns; the right com¬ manded by General Knyphausen, the / / left by Lord Cornwallis. His plan was, The American army, in order to en¬ that while the first should make re¬ courage the partisans of independence, peated feints to attempt the passage of and overawe the disaffected, marched Chadsford, in order to occupy the atten¬ through the city of Philadelphia; it tion of the republicans, the second afterwards advanced towards the enemy should take a long circuit to the upper and encamped behind White Clay creek. part of the river, and cross at a place A little after, leaving only the riflemen where it is divided into two shallow in the camp, Washington retired with streams. The English marksmen fell the main body of his army behind the in with those of Maxwell, and a smart Red Clay creek, occupying with his skirmish was immediately engaged. right wing the town of Newport, situ¬ The latter were atjfirst, repulsed; but ated near the Christiana, and upon the being reinforced from the camp, they great road to Philadelphia; his left was compelled the English to retire in their ' at Hockesen. But this line was little turn. But at length, they also, were capable of defense. reinforced, and Maxwell was constrained The enemy, reinforced by the rear to withdraw his detachment behind the guard under General Grant, threatened river. Meanwhile, Knyphausen ad¬ with his right the centre of the Ameri¬ vanced with his column, and com cans, and extended his left as if with menced a furious cannonade upon the the intention of turning their right passage of Chadsford, making all his flank. Washington saw the danger, dispositions as if he intended to force it. and retired with his troop3 behind the The Americans defended themselves Brandywine; he encamped on the ris¬ with gallantry, and even passed several ing grounds which extend from Chads- detachments of light troops to the othe: ford, in the direction of northwest to side, in order to harass the enemy’s southeast. The riflemen of Maxwell flanks. But after a course of skirmish scoured the right bank of the Brandy¬ es, sometimes advancing, and at others wine, in order to harass and retard the obliged to retire, they were finally, with enemy. The militia, under the com- an eager pursuit, driven over the river. mand of General Armstrong, guarded a Knyphausen then appeared more than I passage below the principal encamp- ever determined to pass the ford; he ment of Washington, and the right stormed, and kept up an incredible wing lined the banks of the river higher noise. In this manner the attention of up, where the passages were most diffi¬ the Americans was fully occupied in cult. The passage of Chadsford, asi the the neighborhood of Chadsford. Mean¬ most practicable of all, was defended by while, Lord Cornwallis, at the head of the chief force of the army. The troops the second column, took a circuitous march to the left, and gained unper- f?ed the forks of the Brandywine. By YV ayne, to oppose The passage of Knyp tuis rapid movement,! he passed both hausen. These two divisions, under branches of the river, at Trimbl’s and the immediate orders of the command¬ at Jeffery 8 fords, without opposition er-in-chief, served as a corps of reserve, about two o’clock in the afternoon, and ready to march, according to circum¬ then turning short down the river, took stances, to the succor of Sullivan or of the road to Diiworth, in, order to fall Wayne. upon the right flank of the American Bat the column of Cornwallis was al¬ army. The republican general, how ready in sight of the Americans. Sul¬ ever, received intelligence of this move¬ livan drew up his troops on the com¬ ment about noon, and, as it usually manding ground above Birmingham happens m similar cases, the reports ex meeting-house, with his left extending aggerated its importance exceedingly it towards the Brandywine, and both his being represented that {General Howe flanks covered with very thick woods. commanded this division in person. His artillery was advantageously planted Washington therefore decided immedia¬ upon the neighboring hills; but it ap¬ tely for the most judicious, though pears that Sullivan’s own brigade, hav¬ boldest measure; this was to pass the ing taken a long circuit, arrived too river with the centre and left wing of late upon the field of battle, and had his army, and overwhelm Knyphausen not yet occupied the position assigned by the most furious attack. He justly it, when the action commenced. The reflected that the advantage he should English, having reconnoitered the dis¬ obtain upon the enemy’s right, would positions of the Americans, immediately amply compensate the loss that his own formed, and fell upon them with the might sustain at the same time. Ac¬ utmost impetuosity. The engagement cordingly, he ordered General Sullivan became equally fierce on both sides to pass the Brandywine with his divi- about four o’clock in the afternoon. ?l°n uPPer ford, and attack the For some length of time the Americans left of Knyphausen, while he, in per¬ defended themselves with great valor, son, should cross lower down, and fall and the carnage was terrible. But such upon the right of that general. was the emulation which invigorated They were both already in motion in the efforts of the English and Hessians, order to execute this design, when a that neither the advantages of situation, second report arrived, which represented nor a heavy and well-supported fire of what had really taken place as false, or small-arms and artillery, nor the un¬ iu other words, that the enemy had not shaken courage of the Americans, were crossed the two branches of the river, able to resist their impetuosity. The and that he had not made his appear¬ light infantry, chasseurs, grenadiers, ance upon the right flank of the Atner- and guards, threw themselves with such can troops. Deceived by this false in¬ fury into the midst of the republican telligence; Washington desisted; and battalions, that they were forced to give Greene, who had already passed with way. Their left flank was first thrown the vanguard, was ordered back. In into confusion, but the rout soon be¬ the midst of these uncertainties, the came general. The vanquished fled commander-in-chief at length received into the woods in their rear; the victors the positive assurance, not only that pursued, and advanced by the great the English had appeared upon the left road towards Diiworth. On the first bank, but also that they were about to i fire of the artillery, Washington, hav¬ fall in great force upon the right wing, j ing no doubt of what was passing, had It was composed of the brigades of Gen- j pushed forward the reserve to the suc¬ eral Stephens, Sterling, and Sullivan. cor of Sullivan. But this corps, on ap¬ The first was the most advanced, and [ proaching the field of battle, fell in consequently the nearest to the English; j with the flying soldiers of Sullivan, and j the two others were posted in the order perceived that no hope remained of re-1 of their rank, that of Sullivan being j trieving the fortune of the day. Gen¬ next to the centre. This general was eral Greene, by a judicious manoeuvre, ; immediately detached from the main opened his ranks to receive the fugi¬ body, to support the two former bri¬ tives, and after their passage, having gades, and, being the senior officer, closed them anew, he retired in good took the command of the whole wing. order; checking the pursuit of the en¬ Washington himself, followed by Gen¬ emy by a continual lire of the artillery eral Greene, approached with two which covered his rear. Having come strong divisions towards this wing, and to a defile, covered on both sides with posted himself between it and the corps woods, he drew up his men there, and he had left at Chadsford, under General again faced the enemy. His corps was 141 composed of Virginians and Pennsyl¬ vanians; they defended themselves A New School of Their Disciples Soon to Be with gallantry; the former, especially, Organized Here. commanded by Colonel Stephens, made an heroic stand. Knyphausen, finding the Americans ,1)R. DARLINGTON’S MEMORY HONORED. to be fully engaged on their right, and observing that the corps opposed to him Arbor Day Was Fittingly Celebrated at at Chadsford was enfeebled by the the State Normal School Last Night troops which had been detached to the by the Local Scientists With the Aid succor of Sullivan, began to make dis¬ of Dr. Mcfarlane, ot the University of positions for crossing the river in reality. The passage of Chadsford was defended Pennsylvania—Dr. William T. Sharp¬ by an intrenchment and battery. The less Reads a Highly Interesting Sketch, republicans stood firm at first; but upon and Dr. S. C. Schmucker Lays the intelligence of the defeat of their right, Foundation for a New Botanical Club. and seeing some of the British troops who had penetrated through the woods Last evening a new organization was come out upon their flauk, they retired fftorn in West Chester—a botanical club in disorder, abandoning their artillery :which is likely to thrive and become a and munitions to the German general. power in the scientific world. It grew In their retreat, or rather flight, they eut of the celebration of Arbor Day at the State Normal School, where several passed behind the position of General speakers addressed an interested audi¬ Greene, who still defended himself, and ence, and much scientific enthusiasm was the last to quit the field of battle. was aroused. There seems to be little Finally, it being already dark, after a doubt that unless the social fabric of the community is severely damaged by long and obstinate conflict, he also re¬ national issues now in process of set¬ tired. The whole army retreated that tlement this club will become a worthy night to Chester, and the day following .successor to those which have existed to Philadelphia. here in the past. The chief speakers were Dr. Macfar- There the fugitives arrived incessantly lane, of the University of Pennsylvania, having effected their escape through by¬ Dr. William T. Sharpless, of West ways and circuitous routes. The victors Chester, and Dr. S. C. Schmucker, who instructs in botany at the Normal passed the night on the field of battle. Sqhool. The principal, Dr. G. M. If darkness had not arrived seasonably, Philips, presided. iit is very probable that the whole Amer¬ In Introducing the first speaker of the ican army would have been destroyed. evening. Dr. Philips said: The loss of the republicans was com¬ I am very sure, my friends, that there i-a-re few subjects which are, or ought to puted at about three hundred killed, six Vbe of more interest to those connected hundred wounded, and near four hund¬ with a State school than that of for¬ red taken prisoners. They also lost ten estry. Our State has suffered greatly field-pieces and a howitzer. The loss in the past through neglect or ignorance of the laws of forestry, and now when in the royal army was not in proportion, "the State i^s doing so much towards re¬ being something under five hundred, of pairing this havoc it is very fitting that which the slain did not amount to one- j those who are to be the teachers of the fifth. coming generation should be taught the importance of these matters. Much of (To be Continued in Next Issue.) the work which has been taken up by the State has been done through the influence of our townsman, Dr. Roth- rock. The speaker whom I introduce tv you this evening. Dr. John Macfar- C^-'CXs/Oo-^ ■lane, is the successor of Dr. Rothrock From, .as instructor in botany in the Univer¬ sity of Pennsylvania, and he will tell you about “Some of the poisons of the vegetable and animal kingdoms.” Dr. MacFarlane said that it would possibly have seemed more appropriate when speaking in the home of Dr. Dar¬ Fate / lington. and Dr. Rothrock, particularly ,on the evening of Arbor Day, if he had chosen for his subject some phase of the forestry or strictly botanical ques¬ tion, but there were many reasons why he had not done this, but had chosen 'CHESTER COUNTY’S rather to speak of some medical tri- jumphs which had been achieved ■through the study of vegetable and an¬ NOTED BOTANISTS. imal poisons. ^ ANTAGONISTIC POISONS. . 1 -o' 142 ,3ome years ago. Dr.. Frazer, a col¬ It has,"the scientists claim, addecTSiirr league of the speaker, had in a course lions of years to the life of mankind. of experiments discovered the fact that Dr. Frazer, who had discovered the two virulent poisons, each deadly in it¬ antagonism of the poisons, has carried self may be made to neutralize each on successful investigations in another other and become perfectly harmless. field, that of the poisons from snake A bean, native of Africa, used as a bites. By experiments with the poison test for witches, by the natives, had from the rattlesnake, the cobra, the played a most important part in these South African blacksnalce and some of experiments. the venomous snakes of Australia he I The witches tested by the bean had has found that an antidote may be en- | , but little chance. If they did not die gendered in the animal which may be from the effects of the bean they were used to counteract the bites of these declared witches and drowned. If they snakes just as anti-toxin does the died from the poison they were known diphtheria poison. (to be innocent of witchcraft, but unfor¬ BILE AN ANTI-SEPTIC. tunately the knowledge came too late to The discovery w'as also made that be of much use to the victim. This bean the bile, secreted by the liver is a pow¬ however, is now of greatest use to sci¬ erful anti-septic. It has for years been entists, for they have found that it is known that a person may swallow a an antidote to the deadly poison atro- large amount of snake poison without pia, the active principle of several poi¬ evil effect, and a series of experiments sonous drugs. proved that this was because of the At first thought it might seem that antagonistic properties of the bile,which this fact is not particularly practical, neutralizes the poison and sweeps it out but it opened the eyes of scientists to of the system. This fact explains the the fact that other poisons may be reason why such an apparently super¬ found to neutralize each other. fluous quantity of bile is secreted, and Diphtheria had been until about four makes us look on it as one of the most years ago a most elusive disease, which useful eg all the cleansers of the sys- | physicians could not understand or tern. treat with certainty of success. The theory was developed that the disease DR. DARLINGTON’S CAREER. germ of diphtheria breeds in the hu¬ At the close of Dr. Macfarlane’s ad- man body millions and millions of min¬ 'dress Dr. Philips introduced to the audi¬ ute organisms which feed upon the tis¬ ence Dr. 'William T. Sharpless, of West i sues of the body. In doing this they set Chester, who spoke as follows, concern¬ free a poison engendered in the body, ing the life and career of the- late Dr. but cast off in a state of health. The Darlington. theory further concluded that there Dr, William Goodell, who once prac¬ must be some antidote for this poison ticed medicine in West Chester, and who I because two persons attacked with an afterward became an eminent professor j °f a branch of surgery in the University equally virulent form of diphtheria do of Pennsylvania, a man of great skill, not always show the same symptoms. fine scholarship and wide experience i* In one case death may result while in with the world, says in his book pub¬ another the sufferer may recover. This lished in io67, "I once knew a man, a I explanation seemed to be that an an- | member of our profession, a general tidote is secreted in the diseased per¬ scientist and withal a great botanist, who ^ so moulded the tastes of his fellow son which in time, if the victim does townsmen, that there is, I will venture' not succumb meanwhile, will neutralize to assert, no other town in this country the poison of the diphtheretic germ. which in proportion to the number of its THEORIES VERIFIED. Inhabitants contains so many exoellent botanists, geologists, mineralogists, eon- These theories were, of course, veri¬ ehologists and entomologists. Few far¬ fied, and in doing this small animals mers in that county have not had a lib¬ used. Rabbits and guinea pigs were eral education and scores there are who largely used in these experiments. The can show a well arranged hortus siccus toxin, or diphtheria poison, was injected or give the botanical names of the in¬ digenous plants and weeds. The town in varying quantities into these ani¬ in which he lived has at this moment mals until the smallest dose which more successful schools, Normal, public would result in death was found. A lit¬ and private, than any other of its size tle less than this amount was then in¬ In the United States,” The man to whom i jected into one of these animals, and it he refers is Dr. William Darlington, and | was found that while it exhibited all the place where his beneficent influ¬ the symptoms of a severe attack of ence was exerted is our own town of j West Chester. A generation has passed j diphtheria it gradually recovered, and a away since the death of Dr. Darlington, i second and much larger dose was found Only a tew of those intimately asso- ! to have little or no effect upon the an¬ ciated with him remain, and one may a'l- I imal. Successive innoculations had less most count on the fingers his pupils who effect upon the animal, and it wTas con¬ are now living. It is altogether fitting ■ and proper, therefore, that his memory tended that an antidote had been gen¬ should be revived amongst us and that erated in the animal’s system. his true value to this community and to After several experiments it was the world at large should be fully under¬ found that the serum of the blood of an stood. animal so treated would, if injected in¬ MEMOIR OF DR. DARLINGTON. to an animal innocuiated with the tox¬ Soon after the death of Dr. Darling¬ in overcome and neutralize the poison. ton a short memoir of his was published This discovery has been the greatest in pamphlet form, written by the late achievement of the age. The anti-toxin Washington Townsend, whose family now used so successfully in treating has kindly placed at my disposal not diphtheria and usually generated in only the manuscript of this memoir, but horses, is probably one of the most val¬ a memorandum in Dr. Darlington’s own hand of the j)|rincipal events of his life. ; uable weapons in the hands of physi¬ cians. “Tills memorandum closes in , wnen the war of 1812 occurred he was years before his death. This autobio¬ chosen Major of a battalion of volun¬ graphy furnishes most of the data con¬ teers. In 1814 be was a commissioner tained' in the following sketch. A notice named in the charter for taking stock of him was also read before the Ameri¬ i in the Bank of Chester County and this can Philosophical Society in 1S64 by T. P. began a connection with this institution James. * which ended only with his death. During the last 33 years of his life he was its WHERE THE DOCTOR WAS BORN. President. He was born in Birmingham township, HIS CAREER IN CONGRESS. Chester county, in 1782, near the village In 1814, while he was in camp with of Dilworthtown, about five miles south his company, he was elected ,to re¬ of this place. He came of an unmixed present this Congressional District at line of English Quakers. He grew up on Washington. Ht» was defeated in 1816 his father’s farm, and received at Bir¬ mingham, as he says, a “tolerable plain through dissatisfaction with his colleague English education under John Forsythe, from Montgomery county, the Con¬ an Irish Friend, one of the best teach¬ gressional District then being double,but ers of that period in the county.” At 18 was re-elected in 1818 and in 1820. In 1822 he became tired of farm drudgery and the Congressional Districts having been with difficulty persuaded his farther to changed so as to throw a large major¬ let him study medicine and entered the ity to his political opponents and defeat office of Dr. John Vaughan, ..ilming- being certain, under a sense of duty after ton. in louu. Here in 1802 an event oc¬ the honors conferred, he asked and ob¬ curred which a physician does not i..ve tained permission to stand as a candi¬ to record, but as it illustrates a point in date and was accordingly defeated. In Dr. Darlington's character the truthful | 1825 he was appointed by the Governor of biographer must not omit i.t. A malignant I the State, one of the first Board of Canal epidemic of yellow fever occurred and Commissioners along -with Albert Galla¬ every physician in the town along with tin, Robert M. Patterson and other dis¬ the populace in general sought safety in tinguished men. In 1826 he assisted in flight with the single exception of Dr. organizing the Chester County Cabinet Vaughn and his pupil, Wm. Darlington. of Natural Science and was its first These were the only medical personages President, holding the position for the who remained to attend the sick. ; balance of his life. In this institution he took great interest, working indefati- | STUDYING MEDICINE AT THE gably for it and endeavored through it to UNIVERSITY. stir up and encourage the study of ail In the winters of 1802-3 and 1S03-4 he , branches of natural science. One would attended the medical lectures in the Uni¬ suppose that duties such as have been versity of Pennsylvania, and in 1804 he ; mentioned and many others that hav t graduated with the degree of M. D., be¬ ; not been referred to would be sufficient ing the first Chester county man who to occupy his whole time. Yet during the period from 1804 to 1825 he was con¬ took that degree in that school, and the stantly engaged in the study of botany. first regular graduate in medicine to He was in correspondence with the noted practice in this county. His thesis upon botanists of this country and of Europe, the "Mutual Influence of Habit and Dis¬ exchanging specimens with them and ; ease” received a flattering compliment contributing articles on botanical sub¬ from the immortal Dr. Rush. In 1804, jects to the scientific journals. In 1825 while preparing his graduating .thesis, he a genus of plants was named for him attended the ootanical lectures of Dr. by -Professor De Candolle of Geneva and Benj. S. Barton. This event marked an in 1826 he published his first botanical epoch in his life, for the study of bo¬ work, the Florula Cestrica, being a de- tany taken up as a pastime thereafter I scription of the flowering plants in the became the great wor^ of his life, and vicinity of West Chester. that upon which his fame securely rests. Upon receiving uls diploma he returned HIS FAMOUS FLORA CESTRICA. to Dilworthtown and practiced medicine In 1837 he published the Flora Cestrica, until the autumn of 1806.when he received which, as he modestly says, is “an at¬ the appointment as surgeon to an East tempt ,to describe the flowering and fili- India mercnant ship and sailed to Cal¬ coid plants of Chester county with cutta, returning in tue autumn of 1807, brief notices of their properties and uses and in the spring of 1808 he resumed the in medicine, domestic and rural econ¬ practice of medicine, this time in the omy and the arts." The arrangement of village of West Chester. He says: “The the first edition is according to the famous embargo in Jefferson’s adminis¬ j-mnaean system, but his observations tration prevented any further voyaging are so accurate, his descriptions so care¬ to sea, but circumstances had occurred in ful and minute and the additional in¬ the meantime which would have kept me formation so interesting and helpful tha^t at home without an act of Congress. to the students of botany in this vici- HE MARRIES KITTY LACEY. “hity it musfaTways remain an indispen¬ For on the first of June I was married sable thing. Copies of this edition are to Catharine, daughter of General John now comparatively rare, while it is al¬ I.acey, of New Jersey. Dr. Darlington most impossible to obtain the Florula was now 26 years of age. He had ob¬ Cestrica which is worth many times its original price. In 1843 he edited the tained a good education, for in addition literary remains of his friend. Dr. Wil¬ to his studies in medicine and botany, he liam Baldwin, who -went as botanist to had taken up French and Latin. He sub¬ the expedition under Major Long in 1814 sequent^ added German and Spanish, and died near the headwaters of the Mis¬ and in all of these languages he became souri River. proficient. In the Townsend collection Dr. Baldwin was also a Chester county of Dr. Darlington papers there is a pam¬ man and studied medicine with Dr. Todd, phlet containing hundreds of proverbs in Downingtown, about -the first of this from Don Quixote, in the original Spa¬ century and gained his love of botany nish, with his translations into English, through his acquaintance with those French and German added Id each. He pipneers of botanical science in this -1 practiced medicine in this place for sev¬ countv, Humphrey Marshall and his eral years after his marriage, and so scarcely less distinguished nephew, Dr. gained the confidence of his neighbors Moses Marshall. that in the bears immediately following HIS ESTEEM FOR DR. BALDWIN. he was callel to many positions of trust and honor. Saving lost his membership Dr. Darling-ton had the most profound in the Society of Friends by serving as regard for the intelligence and zeal of surgeon to a company of militia in 1806, Dr. Baldwin in his special line of work the" Reliquae Baictwimanae is- ,-r- . . n iaii miii \iutiful and appropriate memorial of a second Darlingtoriia was established I Turn. In 1S47 he published a small vol¬ on a rare and remarkable California ume which he called “Agricultural plant by Prof. Torrey in 1850. Botany,” an enumeration and descrip¬ tion of the 'useful plants and weeds THE FLORA CESTRICA REVISED. which merit the notice or require the at¬ In 1852 he prepared a second edition tention of the American Agriculturist, of the Flora Cestrica, arranged aceord- and he dedicates “to the young farmers i big to the natural ordhrs, and to this of the United States this humble at¬ was added a chapter on the lichens by tempt to aid and persuade them to cul¬ Dr. Ezra Michener, of this county. tivate a department of science essen¬ • This was the last work of anv size which tial to an enlightened agriculturalist he undertook, though we find him in and indispensable to an accomplished 1S53-4 contributing sketches of Chester yeomanry.” The circumstances under county physicians to the Medical Re¬ which this book was compiled seems to porter, a journal then published jointly me most interesting. Two years before by the Chester and Delaware County he had lost his son, a naval officer and Medical Societies. These sketches, with a young man of great promise. Soon those of other Chester county men and after he lost, as he says, “his excellent with some written by Judge Futhey, wife who had borne him four sons and were afterwards collected and printed four daughters and who for thirty-nine ■ in the Village Record as the “Notae years had been his counsellor and part¬ Cestrienses.” The amount of work in ner—the light and joy of his happy the natural sciences that has been done home.” by Chester county physicians and for ROBBED OF $30,000. whom plants have been named is rather In this year also he was the unlucky remarkable. In 1792 the Marshallia was victim of a daring robbery—the sum of named for Dr. Moses Marshall by Dr. Schreber at the suggestion of Rev. fifty thousand dollars in negotiable se¬ I curities which he had in his possession Henry Muhlenberg. In 1818 Thos. Nut- as President of the Bank of Chester tall gave the name Baldwlnia to a County was stolen. The loss was far genus of plants In honor of Dr. Wil¬ beyond his power to replace and al¬ liam Baldwin to whom we have before though it was all recovered but about : referred. We have already mentioned eight thousand dollars, he never fully the genera named for Dr. Darlington. recovered from the shock it caused. Al- F In 1853 a species of lichen was called the fred Sharpless, of this borough, who was Micheneri for Dr. Ezra Michener, of familiar with all the circumstances at New Garden township, who also in con¬ the time, has written out for me an junction with Dr. Wm. D. Hartman, of account of this robbery, which is most West Chester, compiled the Conchologla interesting', but which I can not quote S Cestrica, being a catalogue and des¬ entirely. He says in.conclusion, however: j cription of the frSsh water and land “Immediately after the robbery men ;■ shells of Chester county. We ought also who did not know Dr. Darlington to add that several species of shells wagged their heads and talked of others - have been named for Dr. Hartman. At who had robbed themselves, but no one least two other .botanists of thia county who knew him for a moment suspected have been similarly honored, David his integrity.” Dr. Darlington himself Townsend and Joshua Hoopes, and -a says that he was “never charged with species of the Townsendia has been being a particeps by those who knew named the Rothrockii for Dr. Rouirock. him.” With these sorrows and cares HIS LASTING LEGACY TO SCIENCE. pressing heavily upon him he turned . again for relief to that “beautiful Several of these men may have been as .science,” as he called it, which had been well versed in botany as was Dr. Dar¬ the great passion of his life.* The re- , lington, but in the cases of David Town¬ suit was the Agricultural Botany, in¬ send and Joshua Hoopes their knowh tended to be a practical application of edge to a large extent perished with his years of scientific work and dedi¬ them, while he has recorded his for our use. In this as well as in other respects cated to the class whence he himself, | had sprung—the ’■eniigntened agricul- he has, in common with most other turist” and the “accomplished yeo¬ great scientists, shown the instinct to i manry.” teach—to share his knowledge with others, which has done so much to make HONORED BY YALE COLLEGE. him popular in this community. He had In 1848 he was highly honored by the a class in botany in this place when degree of LL. D. from Yale College. he waa nearly SO years of age. He was In 1849'he edited the memorial of Bar- always accessible even to the humblest tram and Marshall. This book contains beginner in botany and he had a charm¬ letters of these eminent botanists and ing faculty of making his pupils feel of their correspondents—letters of Ben¬ at their ease and of gaining their confi¬ jamin Franklin and of Dr. J'no. dence. This is illustrated by a letter 1 Fothergill, the great Quaker botanist, from one of his few remaining pupils— i physician and philanthopist, of London, a lady in Wilmington. She says: “There ' in last century, and of whom Franklin waa never the veriest beginner with his said: “I can hardly conceive that a bet¬ few spring flowers miserably pressed I ter man has ever existed”—of Peter ancT gummed' on paper with elaborate F Collinson, a eo-religioniat of Fothergill label that did not receive from him j ■ ! and Bartram, a London merchant and true sympathy and help, and when we ■ botanist, and who to a great extent started in Wilmington about 1850 a j made Jno. Bartram what he was—of Ladies’ Botanical Society, in distinction , Henry Muhlenberg and of Sir Joseph from one composed entirely of the other Banks, the President of the Royal So¬ sex which had ignored our desire to be ciety: of Dr. Casper Wistar, of Phila¬ admitted, we looked to Dr. Darlington delphia, and of many other eminent with hope as our champion. He had re¬ botanists of the time. It is said that this fused on {he ground of too much busi- book awakened such an interest in ness to lecture for them, but wThen we John Bartram and his work that his sent an appeal it was answered by a old home on the banks of the Schuyl¬ chivalrous note accepting the 'honor,’ kill was rescued from the hands of a and it was a proud day for us when we man who intended to convert it into a were able to invite our ungallant coal yard and ultimately becoming the brothers to hear him.” property of the city of Philadelphia it will always be preserved as a relic of WHAT HIS CRITICS SAID OF HIM. • the “greatest natural botanist of his No doubt Dr. Darlington had his time.” faults. His lifelong quarrel with the ex¬ The genus named for Dr. Darlington in cellent Charles Miner in which he did 1S25 having been merged intoja^ prior one ! and said things which to say the best of it were exceedingly undignified, will ’ * ' - I-.. . «««y nave, ueemtu West Chester, the home of Dr. Dariing- egotist and he has been accused of on. A letter from Dr. Gray was read S'0"?’01 ‘he work and reputation of fL hotanis.s. These things had best m which that distinguished scientist be forgotten. They can never counter¬ spoke of the good qualities of Dr. Dai- balance the inestimable services he haa lington, whom he characterized as the rendered to this community. He was a greatest botanist of his day Chester county man of Chester countv Dr. Schmuoker, who followed, urged ancestry. He lived here all his life'and he described the flowers of this county ntlatf™t,h ®uoh a Past it is a shame tn al¬ l0Yed with a passion that was low the ootanical interests of "West Ches beautiful and touching. He endeavored to ter to die out. show their .beauty to others and his in¬ It had been suggested by a few inter¬ fluence was ennobling and elevating. He ested persons that a botanical club should died in 1863. and on the little stone which marks his grave in Oaklands Cemetery be /°rmld for the study of local Plants uni this epitaph written bv himself- oa?dth^nh“d h°Pm Jhat many residents . Plantae Cesirienses quae dilexit atque of the town w-ould have been present on ft™®^.ger tumulum ejus semper j tn's occasion, as any permanent organi- noreant. The plants of Chester county 1 zation must necessarily be composed of f^i0Ved 2nd described may they bloom j to®11* lather than of the students. | forever above his grave.” He evidently Quite a number of interested people and very justly regarded his scientific were present, he felt assured-, and he WOr.k i.as xthat by which he wished posiericy to remember him. asked these to manifest their interest bv EVER TO BE REMEMBERED AS THE giving their names as members of the BOTANIST. proposed club. It is suggested that th° Membership Jn our National Congress ■dues be made SO cents and that eight in- and the Presidency of the Bank of door meetings and two field meetings be Count-y aye Positions of honor held during the year. These meetings jt and influence in this community Yet was promised, will be made intelligible who of us can tell who preceded him to the most untrained workers, while or who followed him in either of thesm those who are more advanced in botani¬ Dr- Darlington the physician the politician, the banker is practically cal work will be able to pursue inde¬ • ,bUt Dr. Darlington thfbotan- pendent investigations which can be ro- * 1 ” an active force among'st ported to the club at large at the time loulding our tastes for better things' of the meetings. stimulating a iove for the study of After the meeting broke quite a number otany, although the flowers of Chester jooty for nearly half a century have of persons pressed forward to the staae ten blooming on his grave. where about twenty, enrolled their names as members of the new club. Had it not ■ mv.TCl?D,FROM DR- ROTHROCK. been for the patriotic, entertainment in n thC *IIVing botanists of celebrity ps well as those of other days might be the town it is probable that a much represented Dr. Schmuoker had some ullcncc w'ould have been present ! tlmf a&° asked Dr. J. T. Rothrock to be present and adflress the meeting, but as ithat was impossible he sent the follow¬ ing- note: ? ,, _ "Wesi Chester, April 22 1818 I ■ From, ^ |My. Dear Prof. Schmuoker:—Yciur "cor- 1-5vltat,oa participate in tty* Ar- > ^bor Da>—and may I add. Darlington Day-exercises would have been most promptly aceejted but for that physical iff 2 {{ , /k limitation which prevents tne same body Te Uml W° distinct Plat-e^at the here is insp:-ation in each of your nin¬ es on this occasion. 1 think a>so :re is in the same measure education’ fnAtb«*vTeF°£ ltlon °f lasting w-ork weii £?f; 1 ay spur some ambitious KV?. emulite the productive life of ji , ~ ~ - - 1 Vre W1! ,whDse. "ame you honor, mere is in tie environment here that ! HISTORY OF NEW GARDEN. >ch produced botanists: from the dav« Humphrey Marshall down there has :n a perenn U crop of them-wfllicm r mgton, Jothua Hoopes. David Tn™ the first settlers of the town¬ id, Ezra Mifrener, Josiah Hoopes ami ljamin Everhart have all mad! en- ship AND THEIR DESCENDANTS. rJ\US rna2?es for themselves on the »ds of this good county. Cordially Xs' ... . J- T. ROTHROCK. fl SAMUEL HURFORD. F* Philips reminded the people of thn ?y associations with Dr. Darlington The same year that Samuel Hurford in¬ |**h 21? #1 existing in the Normal herited the 100 acres of land from his father SE?Dl- His portrait, which usually hangs he soJd and conveyed the same unto George erim eiStn001 °,ffice’ but Which ]ast night White. About twenty-one vears after this guided the platform: his herbarium purchase George White sold 43 acres from S*h 1S m the school museum and a the Western part unto Francis Wilkinson arge part of his private library all are Francis in his will among other things de- n the possession of the school as iega- Cies from the defunct Chester' County vised the same 43 acres and about 3(facre« -abinet. He spoke further of an inter- adjoining it on the south, which be bad Dr*”a cq3 0 which he had once made on otherwise acquired, unto his daughter vhn t i G 'I- thte celebrated botanist Elizaoeth, wife of James Trimble Thev vho had expressed great interest in him soon after released and conveyed "the said |en he learned that he had come froS 73 acres of land unto her brothers,1 FraS and William Wilkinson. In 1815 Francis before the day of dairies and creameries and Phebe (Posey) Wilkinson and William had become the order of tbe day, but they and Hannah (Phillips) Wilkinson granted made butter for the market and Reuben and confirmed the same 73 acres of land un- pretty regularly attended Wilmington mar¬ tc Allen Chandler. Ten years later (1825) ket with it and other products of his far"1 Allen and Sarah Chandler transferred the every week. Excepting William Waite title in said messuage and land unto their who took veal and mutton weekly to Wi son Joseph Chandler who had in 1814 mar¬ mington market for many years Reubc ried Ann, a daughter of Edward and Mar¬ was the only regular market man from t garet Brooks, then living on the adjoining neighborhood. farm, now the home of Harvey and Alice There were no milliners then in tl M. Stackhouse. country to furnish bonnets and trim the Joseph Chandler was noted as a close ob¬ with birds and feathers. No railroads the server and a good judge of the points in tb conduct you to the city to get a new h neat cattle and it has been said of him that or a pair of gaiters. As a consequence after looking over a lot of fifty head and Reuben White was often solicited to. carry going home he could describe nearly every bandboxes to and from town which he bullock in the lot. cheerfully did, especially so if a quarter, ? Lindley Chandle", late of Kennett levy or even a humble six-pence fell inti Square, was a son of Joseph and Ann Chan¬ his hand. * dler and he knew a good bullock when he In 1851 Reuben White disposed of b;. saw one too. real estate unto Lewis Skelton and reste- Joseph and Ann Chandler were greatly on the fruits of his labors. esteemed members of Londongrove Month¬ Lewis Skelton died in 1857, six yea? ly Meeting of Friends and he was regarded after his purchase, and the administrate1 as an authority on matters of discipline. of his estate, Enoch Harlan, sold the mef Their daughter, Philena, lately deceased suage and land to the widow Hanna wife of Chalkiey J, Walton was au estima¬ (Wiekersham) Skelton. Hannah after , ble woman. She was the mother of Chand¬ few years married Harlan Morrison. The ler B. Walton, who was at one time in busi¬ continued to occupy the farm, built a nevi ness in Toughkenamon, now deceased. barn and much improved the dwelling. j In 1839 Joseph and Ann Chandler grant¬ Harlan Morrison died about 1879 and ed and conveyed their messuage and lands Hannah soon after sold and convey unto Eber Harford of the same township premises unto C. J. Valentine, o' and removed to a larger property in the Marlborough, who with his family township of Londongrove. On this new possession which he held until 1887 purchase Eber and Hannah (Allen) Hur- he and his wife passed the title th ford through summer’s heat and winters to Rachel C. Poyott a widow who chilling storms toiled together for seven¬ family came from Delaware coun teen years. which time she and her son mai In 1865 Pennock Palmer who had for large dairy on the farm and sell mil- wife Dinah, a daughter of John and Hannah city of Philadelphia. (Hilles) Mann, came from Concord and bought Eber and Hannah out and settled where they had lived. A few years rolled away and Pennock and Dinah sold and conveyed the same 73 acres of land unto From Joseph Cooper an honest shoemaker who came from Taggart’s cross roads, now Wil- lowdale, and continued to “wax the end” ? ... as well as to till the 9oil for a few years. In the pleasant village of Avondale an avenue for business seemed to open out be¬ (J. 2 /cf & fore him with bright prospects for the near Date future and in 1869 Joseph and his wife sold their messuage and land to Moses B. Car¬ penter and removed to the village where he B ‘ bid 6raVeyard and church opened a shoe store. Moses B. Carpenter removed to the farm The graveyard connected and has developed thereon valuable de¬ Mennonite church, in Wa posits of felspar running many feet in township, Borke county, cove deptli and seems to be almost inexhaustible. acres, and is one of the oldest i George M^bite held the 73 acres and in being started about the year ‘ will proved in 1817 devised them' unto his church is one of the oldest i son Reuben White. In 1820 Reuben mar¬ Eastern Pennsylvania. The ried Lydia, a daughter of Thomas and Ann nonites hold their services (Chamberlhin) Chand'er. They settled on larly as ever. The building his laud, were industrious and frugal peo¬ preserved and may last for i ple making little show in the community years. Its quaint appearance where they lived and I find a tradition that its extreme age. It is a wood he was at one time engaged in the propaga- ture, whitewashed, and a littl of fruit tree in nursery stock. They lived than the average school hou joists upon which the roof tend far across the sides of tl ing. I __.. The congressmanifestedtheirsenseof courage, attheheadoflighthorse. order. TheCountPulaski,anoble cheering thetroopsandre-establishing The congressgavehimanotherafew ecuted withasmuchability aspromp¬ excellent; thathismovementswereex¬ guinary totheEnglish.Howeverthis ginians andPennsylvanians,es¬ action oftheBrandywinehadfought of thecavalry. his meritbygivinghim,shortlyafter, Pole, alsodisplayedanundaunted a soldierinfightingandasgeneral and example,torallythefugitives,was days after.TheMarquisDeLafayette, Captain DeFleuryhadahorsekilled prisoner, tothegreatregretofcongress, nevertheless, tofulfilhisduty,bothas wounded intheleg.Hecontinued, while hewasendeavoring,byhiswords under himinthehottestofaction. who borehimaparticularesteem. evening, theEnglishdispatched ade¬ well asGerman,behaved admirably titude; andthathistroops, Englishas might havebeen,itmustbeadmitted pecially ifWashingtonhadnotbeen the rankofbrigadier,andcommand notwithstanding theinferiorityofnum¬ led intoerrorbyafalsereport,perhaps, with thesameintrepidityasVir¬ them, theBaronSt.Ovary,wasmadea when thrownintoconfusion.Oneof ing thetroops,asinrallyingthem ity totheAmericans,aswellinform¬ a placesituated attheconfluenceof tachment oflight troopstoWilmington, well. that GeneralHowe’sorderofbattlewas least, wouldhavemadeitmoresan¬ would havegainedthevictory,or,at ber andtheimperfectionofarms,he The dayafterthebattle, towards If alltheAmericantroopsin The Frenchofficerswereofgreatutil¬ BY SHERMANDAY.PUBLISHED1843 There theytookprisonerthegovernor and private,somepapersofim¬ as wellotherproperty,bothpublic considerable quantityofcoinedmoney, of thestateDelaware,andseizeda the ChristianaandBrandywine. portance. . grenadiers. Therestofthearmyre¬ detachment ofBritishandHessian the 26thofSeptemberatheada Thus therichandpopulouscapitalof mained inthecampofGermantown. power oftheroyalists,afterasanguin¬ the wholeconfederationfellinto Other loyalistswhohadremainedthere, ary battle,andaseriesofmanoeuvres, two armies.TheQuakers,andallthe no lessmasterlythanpainful,ofthe of gratulation.Washingtoi,descend¬ welcomed theEnglishwithtransports ing alongtheleftbankofSchuyl¬ Germantown. HeencampedatSkip- kill, approachedwithinsixteenmilesof j Themovementsofthetwoarmieson pach creek,purposingtoaccommodate his measurestothestateofthings. I theSchuylkill,previoustoentryof one ortwomileswestoftheBirming¬ ham meeting-house,andafterhaving, j theBritishintoPhiladelphia,and with hisglass,reconnoiteredthemove¬ j scenesofthewinter’sencampmentat claimed, “thoserebelsformwell!”The ments oftheAmericantroops,heex¬ peaceful sectwhobuiltthemeeting¬ ship underitsroof,littledreamedthat house, andwhosedescendantsstillwor¬ an hospitalforthedeadandwounded it wouldbecomeasceneofcarnage,and from abloodybattle-field.Theroads and thefieldsbeyondmeeting¬ house aresaidtohavebeenstrewed with woundedmen;andmanycannon j toWashingtonofthenearapproach up bythefarmersinlateryears, balls andbulletswereannuallyploughed Valley Forge,willbefounddescribed i difficultyescapedtheirgrasp. Wash¬ under theheadofMontgomerycounty. ing notes,gatheredfromvarioussour¬ Marshall inhisaccountofthebattle, ces, someofwhicharehereinserted. has appendedtoitsomeveryinterest¬ short distanceoftheenemy, andwith Cornwallis. Hehadbeenwithina ington atfirstcouldscarcely creditthe Lord CornwallisenteredPhiladelphia account oftheSquire,and directedhim of theroads.Thiswasdone promptly. to alightanddrawinthe sand adraft Washington still appearingtodoubt, Cornwallis stoppedatOsborne’shill, Mr. Lewis,whogenerallyfollowed Squire Cheneyfirstgaveinformation . '■M- 41 147 1 Cheyney, who was a strenuous whig, gold watch to take charge of, remark¬ exclaimed, “Take my life, general, if I ing, “This place I saw in a dream be¬ deceive you.” Washington was at fore I left England, and I know that I length convinced. shall fall here.” The coincidence was Major Ferguson, commander of a striking. The event verified the pre¬ small corps of riflemen attached to the diction. His name is not reported British army, mentions an incident among the slain in the British official which he says took place while his account, because he held no commis¬ corps was concealed in a skirt of a wood sion in the army. He was merely a in front of Knyphausen’s division. In volunteer. a letter to Dr. Ferguson he writes, “We Among those who were distinguished had not lain long when a rebel officer, by their conduct on this day was Colo¬ remarkable for a hussar dress, passed nel Marshall, (father of Chief-justice j towards our army within one hundred Marshal!,) who commanded the'3d Vir- ’ yards of my right flank, not perceiving ginian regiment. It is said, also, that • us. He was followed by another dressed the chief justice, then quite young, was in dark green and blue, mounted on a also present as a volunteer. In July, good bay horse, with a remarkably large 1776, he was a lieutenant in the 11th \ high cocked hat. I ordered three good Virginia regiment; in May, 1775, he , shots to steal near to them, and to fire was appointed a captain. His regi¬ at them; but the idea disgusted me——I ment belonged to the brigade of Gen-1 recalled the order. The hussar, in re¬ era! Woodford, which formed part of turning, made a circuit, but the other the American right at the battle of passed within a hundred yards of us; Brandywine, in front of which was upon which I advanced from the wood placed the 3d regiment, commanded by | towards him. Upon my calling he his gallant father. He was in the bat- I stopped, but after looking at me "pro¬ tie of Germantown, and in that at Mon¬ ceeded. I again drew his attention, mouth. He was one of that body of and made signs to him to stop; but he men who tracked the snows of Valley slowly continued his way. As I was Forge with the blood of their footsteps within that distance at which, in the in the rigorous winter .of 1778. He was quickest firing, I could have lodged in the covering party at the assault of half a dozen balls in or about him be¬ Stony Point. fore he was out of my reach, I had only Major General Greene in person was to determine; but it was not pleasant to rather corpulent and above the com¬ fire at the back of an unoffending indi¬ mon size. His complexion was fair vidual who was acquitting himself very and florid, his countenance serene and cooly of his duty, so I let him alone. mild, indicating a goodness which The day after, I had been telling this seemed to shade and soften the fire and story to some wounded officers who lay greatness of its expressions. His health in the same room with me, when one was delicate, but preserved by temper¬ of our surgeons, who had been dressing ance and regularity. the wounded rebel officers, came in and General Wayne was about the middle told me that General Washington was size, with a fine ruddy countenance, all the morning with the light troops, commanding port, and eagle eye. His and only attended by a French officer looks correspond well with his character in a hussar dress, he himself dressed indicating a soul noble, ardent, and and mounted in every respect as above daring. At this time he was about described. I am not sorry that X did thirty-two years of age. In his inter¬ noLknow at the time who it was.” At this stand (soon after the first rout) . course with his officers and men he was for a few minutes was some very hard 1 affable and agreeable, and had the art fighting. Washington himself was of communicating to their bosoms the present, with Lafayette, and it was here gallant and chivalrous spirit which the latter received his wound in the leg. glowed in his own. An interesting anecdote is told of General Lafayette, then the Marquis Lord Percey, which I have never seen Lafayette, at that time was one of the in history, but which I believe is very finest-looking men in the army, not¬ generally known and accredited. When withstanding his deep-red hair. The he arrived, with the regiment he ac¬ expression of his countenance was companied, in sight of the Americans strongly indicative of the generous and ranged in order of battle, upon the gallant spirit which animated him, heights near Birmingham meeting¬ mingled with something of the pride of house, he surveyed the field around conscious manliness. His mien was him for a moment, and then turning to noble, his manners frank amiable, and i his servant handed him his purse andi 149 his movements light and graceful. He between his two grandsons, George W., wore his hair plain, and never complied and William Knight, sons of John Knight, so far with the fashion of the times as of New Garden.” From this I infer that to powder. the premises were at that time ocoupied by Major Lee, (not Major General Lee,) John Kinght. one of the most vigilent and active par¬ In 1799 the messuage and 40J acres of tisan officers in the American army, land was sold in lots to suit purchasers. Thomas Reynolds, of West Nottingham, was short in stature and of slight make, purchased about 13 acres of the part on but agile and active. His face was which the dwelling stood. The remainder small and freckled, and his look eager was sold and conveyed unto George W. and sprightly. He was then quite (Copeland, George W. Knight and George young, and his appearance was even W. Rawlins This portion of the 401 acres more youthful than his years. was at that time and a portion still is un¬ Sir William Howe was a fine figure, der a heavy growth of timber and there is full six feet high, and admirably well no evidence of any part of it having been built on. George W. Copeland had land proportioned. In person he a good adjoining this south of the “Toughkenamon deal resembled Washington, and at a Hill line” on which he lived. The writer little distance might have been easily of these sketches well remembers the dwel- mistaken for him; but his features, ting in its decline near a red cedar tree on though good, were more pointed, and the north side of the State (then Notting¬ the expression of his countenance was ham )road about one hundred yards west of less benignant. His manners were pol¬ the brick tenant house of William T. Dow- ished, graceful, and dignified. dall opposite the entrance to the farm of William Sharpless A beautiful spring of water issued from the ground near by, but it, the cedar tree and the dwelling no long¬ er greet the eye of the passerby. From, —t~-a'—-> About the year 1802 the aggregate of the three lots with other lands south of the “Hill line” fell into possession of Dr. JohD Ross of whom mention has heretofore been made. His residence was close to the east¬ ern line of his lands on the south of and very near to “Toughkenamou Hill line and Date, between it and the State road. The bam was south of the road. The Doctor had re¬ solved on leaving the neighborhood and re¬ moving to the State of Ohio. About 1820 he sold out his possessions in New Garden HISTORY OF NEW GARDEN. unto Joseph and John Mull. The wife of John Mull was Mary daughter of Nicholas THE FIRST SETTLERS OF THE TOWN¬ and Dinah Hurford. The Mulls did not prosper in their new location and about SHIP AND THEIR DESCENDANTS. 1830 the sheriff closed them out. Jeremiah --- Underwood purchased the messuage and WM. F. DOWDALL. *' lands which he held about ten years until the time of hts decease. The mansion was Up to 1740 some land lying south of burned off it about the tima of Jeremiah’s West from the James Lindley tract reach¬ demise while in the occupancy of his son- ing down to the Toughkenamon hill line in-law William Cloud. remained vacant but in that year James The heirs soon after sold the premises un¬ Logan, attorney, etc., found a purchaser in to John White whose land adjoined it. Iq the person of Eichard Hallett, of Newtown, 18— John White conveyed the same unto in Queen’s county in Long Island in His Joseph Dowdall. His heirs hold possession Majesty’s province of New York in America, and William F. Dowdall’s fine Jerseys farmer and Anne, his wife. make good returns as they nip the fine Sometime prior to 1761 Anne Hallet died daisy blossoms that flourish on the sunny and after her decease Richard conveyed his hill side. messuage and land unto his son Thomas EDWARD SKELTON. Hallet jr., “late of Queen's County, Nasau Island in the colony of New York hut now The messuage and 13 acres of land sold of Chester county, yeoman.” to Thomas Reynolds was by him in 1813 In the same year Thomas and Esther conveyed unto his son Israel Reynolds also Hallett granted and conveyed their mes¬ of West Nottingham. In 1816 he and his suage and 40J acres of laud unto William wife Esther Reynolds conveyed the same Knight of West Nottingham township premises to Joseph Heald and Ezekial Reed Chester county. as tenants in common both of Mill Creek In 1783 William Knight made his will hundred Delaware. They held possession in which he directed that “his New Garden until 1822 when Joseph and Hannah Heald land should be sold and the money divided and Ezekiel and Ann Reed conveyed the same messuage and 13 acres of land unto 150 jnn White.' A few years later John WilliamTWalton was the AVilmington market man to whom allusion has already White passed the title therein with some additional laud unto his son Joshua who been made as the father of Joel and Chalk- for a few years resided thereon and during ley J. AValton. In 1856 the farm of Wil¬ which time he built an addition to the liam Walton was sold unto Mahlon Mercer dwelling, In 18— Joshua and Hannah and William and his wife Sarah (Humes ^ (Pennock) White sold thesapre premises AValton went to reside with their sons above back unto his father John White who with named. his wife removed to and occupied until the After a year or two Mahlon Mercer sold time of her decease about 1855 or ’56. He out to Isaac Brown who about 1863 convey¬ then gave up housekeeping and sold his ed the. messuage and premises unto Harvey leal estate unto John Harper in 1857 and Stackhouse who with his wife Alice (Spen¬ made his home mostly with a grand-daugh¬ cer )_Stackl‘ou8e_aiSLits nresen* - ter near Lewisville. He died about 1858 or ’59. John Harper occupied the messuage and land for a number of years retained^ posses¬ sion of it until his decease in 1875. The last few years of his life were spent else¬ where. Under directions in his will the property was sold in about one year after his decease unto Weldon Brinton, of Bir¬ mingham township, Delaware county. He with his family removed to and occupied it until his decease in 1876. He left a widow, Ann (Gilpin) Brinton and seven children to survive him. The family coo binned to occupy the premises and as the children respectively attained to legal age |hey released their interest thereiu unto their mother during her life. Thus she held the messuage and premises until her decease in 1880. . After the decease of Ann G. Brinton the real estate was again sold and Edward W. Skelton, who had married Margaret, the only daughter of the decedent,was the pur¬ chaser. Since that time they have made it their home and added to its attraction greenhouses in which violets, carnations, and other popular flowers and fruits are propagated. HARVEY STACKHOUSE. Edward Brcoks in 1798 purchased of Wil¬ liam Plowman a tract of about 24 acres of land to which he added 19 acres from Nicholas Hurford’s tract, 2 acres from Samuel Pyle and in 1806, 10 acres from Thomas Adams, making in all 55 acres. These are clippings oS the larger areas al¬ ready described. . Edward Brooks and Margaret his wife in 1806 conveyed the title in their messuage and several lots of land unto Levi Wicker- sham and they removed to Wilmington, Delaware. Edward and his son, John Brooks, were joiners by trade but had en¬ gaged in the manufacture of Dutch fans for winnowing grain. John Brooks became a noted minister among Friends. Levi Wickersham occupied the premises cultivated the land and occasionally atten¬ ded Wilmington market with the products of the farm. He was an active member of ' the society of Friedds. In 1837 he and his wife Phebe conveyed the same messuage and premises unto William Walton they having purchased a larger farm in the , neighborhood of West Grove to which they removed and where I believe they both ended their days on earth. >' f . 1 % $ s V’. i t*- \ A