Upper Providence Township.

bury, of whom little is known to the writer, took up one hundred acres lying between this imaginary line and Crum Creek. On a resurvey, in 1702, to Joseph Carter, it was found that one hundred and fifteen acres were included in this tract. The latter came from Cheshire, and settled in Upper Providence in 1698, possibly on this land, to which he acquired title by patent Nov. 16, 1709, although it had been surveyed to him seven years prior to that date. The records of Chester Monthly Meeting under date of Fourth month 28, 1708, set forth that "Providence Meeting informs of Joseph Carter being concerned with one not of our Comunion in relation to marriage, this meeting having laboured with him to convince him of his error, & advise him to desist." But Carter persisted; on Sixth month 30th of the same year it appears that he "hath actually married to one who doth not any wayes profess the truth with us." Carter by this conduct gained a wife, but lost his membership with Friends. He was living in Upper Providence in 1715.

Immediately south of the Carter estate, beginning at the present property of Samuel Otey, on Providence road, continuing southward along the eastern side of that highway to the northern line of the borough of Media, including the lands within those boundaries to the creek, a tract of seven hundred acres was surveyed to John Calvert First month 25, 1683. John Calvert and Judeth, with their children, emigrated to the province and settled on this tract, for which he received a patent April 24, 1691. In 1739 this estate, which by a resurvey proved to contain six hundred and eight and a half acres, was patented to John Worrell. If this purchaser was John Worrell, the settler in Middletown, and afterwards a resident of Edgmont, where he died in 1742, aged eighty-four years, he was well advanced in years at the time he bought this tract, and if it was one of his sons, John, who with his twin brother, Peter, was born in 1719, the young man had not attained his majority when the land was purchased. Of the John Worrell who acquired the estate the writer has at this time no definite information. The Rose-Tree Inn is located on this land. Immediately south of this tract Robert Robinson took up one hundred and fifty acres on rent First month 10, 1683, which property extended from Providence road to the creek. To Thomas Powell, March 21-22, 1681, was surveyed one hundred and eighty acres south of the Robinson land. On this tract Friends' graveyard is located, and it was there that an effort in 1698-99 was made to have Chester Meeting approve a site for the erection of Providence Friends' meeting-house without success. Perhaps it was that refusal which caused Thomas Powell to change his religious conviction, first adhering to George Keith in his opinion, and then became a churchman, for Keith held meetings at his (Powell's) house in 1703, at which time both Keith and Powell were earnest Episcopalians. Directly south of Powell's land, Randal Croxton, March 21-22, 1681, entered one hundred and fifty acres. He came from Chormely, County Palatine of Chester, England, among the early settlers, and located on this land, but on March 14, 1699, he conveyed this plantation to Joseph Taylor. He continued to reside in the township, for he was assessed there in 1715, and in 1734 was still there.¹

The taxables of Upper Providence in 1715 were as follows:

John Edge, Jacob Edge, Henry Miller, Sarah Powell, Thomas Williamson, Joseph Taylor, Peter Taylor, William Sinkler, Zachary Butcher, Joseph Carter, Thomas Jones, Jacob Chandler, Jacob Malin, Joshua Calvert, Daniel Calvert, John Cam, Job Harvey, Randal Malin, Randal Croxson.

Freemen. - Jacob Norbury, Richard Clayton, Thomas Norbury, John Jones.

The taxables in the township in 1799 were as follows:

Thomas Bishop (miller, stone-, grist-, and saw-mill), Ann Bonan, Richard Briggs, Joseph Bishop, James Black, Joseph Bishop (smith-shop, cartwright), John Culin (carpenter), Hezekiah Camp, Samuel Carr (weaver), Thomas Calvert, Evan Eachus, Benjamin Evans, John Hinkson, Patrick Hagerty, Edward Hall, Philip Kirk, John Levis (paper-maker, paper-mill), Seth Levis, Samuel Lindsey, George Miller, Gideon Malin, William Malin, William Haddock (tavern-keeper), Caleb Martin, Joseph Newlin (cooper), Richard Nuzum (blacksmith), James Paist (victualer) William Robinson, Ether Riley, James Smedley, Jacob Siter (grist- and plaster-mill), George Thomas, Nathan Taylor, Peter Taylor, Jonathan Worrell, Peter Worrell, Jesse Williamson, Adam Worrell, Thomas Worrell, John Worrell, Abel Worrell, Jesse Worrell, Josiah Worrell, Owen Worrell, Ezekiel Yarnall (tailor), David Yarnall (cordwainer), Jacob Dunn, Peter Taylor.

Inmates. - Robert Williamson (blacksmith), Job Pyle (tailor), Thomas Steel (miller at Bishop's mill), William Eldridge, James Malin, Joel Malin, Isaac Malin (mason), Isaac Sharpless (paper-maker), Jacob Newhouse (paper-maker), Jacob Mills (paper-maker), Isaac Taylor (tailor), James Neal, James Dizer, Hugh McDale, Robert Miller (blacksmith), Joseph Taylor, Isaac Taylor (carpenter), Thomas Pollin, Joseph Martin (cordwainer), John Williamson, Benjamin Kirk, William Robeson, Frederick Benninghove, James Haws.

Single Freemen. - George McQuade, Charles McGlown, Peter Rezer (miller), Thomas Hawes (cordwainer), Israel Taylor (mason), Robert Barge, Samuel Malin (weaver), Abner Malin (weaver), George Martin, Joshua Hardy (tailor), Hugh McCown, Richard Briggs (mason), Mordecai Dunn (weaver), John Barr (weaver), Benjamin Kirk, George Kelley, Thomas Thomas (miller), John Smithel, John Taylor (gentleman), Owen Worrell, Gideon Malin (gardner), Leonard Webber, John Carr (weaver), James Smedley, James Gorman.