John Wildman of Croasdale Grains

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birth record at Settle MM

John* Wildman 1681 Birth Settle, Yorkshire RG6/1116
John, son of Martin Wildman born the 2nd day, 2nd mo., 1681 (Apr 2, 1681)

~• The grandson of a widow who died in Lancaster Castle jail, persecuted for her non-payment of tithes. Came to Pennsylvania with parents and siblings.

"Middletown was well provided with local roads at an early day, which were increased according to the wants of her inhabitants. In 1712 a road was laid out from John Wildman's to the Durham road. The King's highway, from Attleborough to Scott's ford, on Poquessing, was widened to fifty feet in 1763. "

~• from a History of Bucks COUNTY

(details) "Middletown was well provided with local roads at an early day, which were increased according to the wants of her inhabitants. In 1712 a road was laid out from John Wildman's to the Durham road. The King's highway, from Langhorne to Scott's ford, on Poquessing, was widened to fifty feet in 1753. There was a jury on it in December 1748, probably to relay and straighten it. In 1795 the court was asked to straighten it from the falls to the Neshaminy via Langhorne. A road from Yardley's ferry, to the bridge over the Neshaminy, was laid out in 1767, but probably it was only the relaying and straightening of the road already running between these points. The old road from Philadelphia to New York via Kirkbride's ferry on the Delaware passed through Hulmeville, crossing the Neshaminy at Galloway's ford, and by Langhorne and Oxford Valley. In 1749 a road fifty feet wide and used as a stage road was laid out from the Chicken's-foot, half a mile above Fallsington, through Hulmeville and across Neshaminy to the Bristol pike at Andalusia. It shortened the road between Philadelphia and New York about four miles. What is now Main street, Hulmeville, was laid out in 1799. The bridge across Neshaminy was built soon after the road was laid out from Chicken's-foot in 1794. Several roads concentrated at Hulmeville in early times. On the eastern edge of the borough, near the Methodist church, was a deposit of iron ore quite extensively worked a hundred years ago by a Philadelphia company, whither it was shipped and smelted. [In 1792 John Hulme had a direct road laid out from Kirkbride's ferry on the Delaware via Hulmeville, to the King's Highway, now the Frankford and Bristol turnpike. This became the short line stage road from Philadelphia to New York via Trenton and New Brunswick.*]"

• John Wildman was a person of some status for he was an executor of the wills of others Atkinson Family of Bucks Co page 169. We read, also in the same text, of correspondence with Quakers back in Lancashire, ones that include in-laws of John's aunt Elizabeth Wilde (Wildman) an individual who perhaps died before the Wildman family emigration in 1690.

• John Wildman represented Bucks County Quakers at yearly meeting in Philadelphia on 20 day, 1st mo., 1736 (see graphic)