Purpose

To take the names on a map of early settlers and cross reference them to Geni Profiles
The surname will be alphabetized. Added to each surname will be the Township where each occurs. Some will be in several townships.
The juxtaposition of first settlers of Chester, now Delaware County then becomes better illustrated.
The originator of this project is adding profiles of early PA families of the surname and their spouse and children. Should you join this project, feel free to add ones on your own.

important dates

• 1638 Swedish Rule
• 1644 : Governor Johan Björnsson Printz built Fort Nya Vasa where the Great Minquas Path crossed Cobbs Creek.
• 1653 : people of Wales introduce themselves to the Quaker faith (see screen capture)
• 1650s : overrun by the Dutch West India Company
• 1660's : British assume control
• 1680s : William Penn's great experiment
  • Welsh Tract (2 miles x 3 miles x 6 miles ?) March 1684, see page 27
• 1789 .. When Delaware County split from Chester County in 1789, the seat of local government was retained in Upland/Chester. As the interior developed, complaints grew concerning the distance to the county seat and finally was moved to Media in 1850 with the beautiful Delaware County Courthouse being erected in 1889. Geographically, it would have made sense for Merion to be part of the new Delaware County but it remained part of Chester. The upshot of this is that our map here does not cover those who remained in CHESTER CO. after 1789

TOWNSHIP CODES

• ASTON (AST)
• BIRMINGHAM (BHM)
• BETHEL (BTL)
• CHESTER (CTR)
• CHICHESTER (CHI)
• CONCORD (CON)
• DARBY (DBY)
• EGMONT (EMT)
• HAVERFORD (HAV)
• LOWER PROVIDENCE (NPR)
• MARPLE (MAR)
• MIDDLETOWN (MID)
• NEWTOWN (NEW)
• UPPER PROVIDENCE (UPR)
• RADNOR (RAD)
• RIDLEY (RID)
• SPRINGFIELD (SPR)
• THORNBURY (THN)
• WILLISTOWN (WLT)

THE MAP ITSELF

THE MAP (CLICK), held by the Library of Congress reconstructs location of land owners from Europe who came in the 17th and early 18th centuries

Title: Map of the early settlements of Delaware County, Penna.
Contributor Names: Smith, George, 1804-1882., Ashmead, Henry Buckley. of Bowen & Co.
Created / Published: [Philadelphia : H.B. Ashmead, 1862]

ALPHA LIST

NO DUPLICATES FOR MEMBERS OF SAME SURNAME. This is complicated by Welsh patronymic naming patterns

• Baker: EMT,
• Bevan (aka Stevens much later): HVR,
• Bezar: BTL
• Bonsall: DBY The Derbyshire Bonsalls arrived in America in several branches. Others include the Bonsalls of NYC who didn't arrive until the mid 18th century. See: Mary Spingler and brrothers
• Brassey: CTR (related to Worley)
• Brinton: THN, BHM
• Cartledge: DBY,
• Chad(ds): BHM,
• Chandler: CHI
• Cheyney: THN, but doesn't ssem to be on map
• Coppock: MAR, SPR,
• David: HVR
• Dilworth: BHM,
• ~Ellis: HVR
• ~Evan: (son of Evan ap William; RAD
• Fearne: DBY
• Havard:
• ~Humphrey: HVR,
• ~Hunter: NEW, MID n(did not arrive until the early 18th century but are on the project map
• ~Lewis : HAV, NEW, see also: James Lewis
• Lightfoot: DBY
• ~Maris: SPR,
• Mendenhall: CON,
• ~Morgan : RAD
• Nayle: THN, MID
• Nixon: NPR,
• Need: DBY
• Newlin: CON,
• ~Pearson': NEW, MAR,
• Pennel: MID,
• Pusey: CTR,
• ~Rees: HVR,
• ~verch Robert: HVR
• Routh: CTR,AST
• Sharpless, RID,
• Simcock: RID,
• ~Taylor: SPR,
• Thatcher: BHM
• Trego: MID,
• Evan ap William'" RAD
• Vernon: NPR,
• Withers: CHI,
• Wood: DBY
• ~Woodward: MID, THN, NEW
• Worley: CTR,

Welsh Tract 1684

~ all of these in Chester County but not all are now in Delaware County as the County was split in two much later

1. Charles Lloyd and Margaret Davis 5,000 acres (quickly divided amongst many Quakers by the turn of the century. Robert Owen was one.
2. Richard Davis 5,000 acres
3. William Jenkins 1,000
4. John Poy 750
5. John Burge 750
6. William Mordant 500 < my own personal interest > land of my grandparents Frank Wildman and Elizabeth Bean (20th century) Mordant was not a Quaker and was not a resident
7. William Powell 1,250
8. Lewis David 3,000
9. Morris Llewelin 500
10. Thomas Simons 500
11. John Bevan 2,000
12. Edward Pritchard 2,500
13. John ap John & Thomas Wyn 5,000
14. Richard Davis 1,250
15. Richard ap Thomas 5,000
16. Mordicia Moore in right of ___ 500
17. John Millington 500
18. Henry Right 500
19. Daniel Med ___ 200
20. Thomas Ellis 1000 his son ELLIS ELLIS appear on the project map; Reverend Rowland Ellis is Robert (Thomas) Ellis' wife's nephew.
21. Thomas Ellis for B. Roules 250
22. Thomas Ellis on account of Humphrey Thomas 100
23. David Powell 1,000
24. John Kinsy 200
25. David Meredith 250
26. David Davis 200
27. Thomas John Evan 250
28. John Evans 100
29. John Jorman 50
30. David Kinsy 200
31. Evan Oliver 100
32. Samuell Mills (Miles) 100
33. Thomas Joanes 50
34. David Joanes 100
35. John Kinsy 100
36. Daniel Hurry 300
37. Henry Joanes 400
38. John Ffish 300
39. John Day 300
40. Burke and Simson 1,000

• The whole... 50,0000
  • all the above from Pennsylvania Magazine

other sources

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Delaware County, Pennsylvania
  • The Chad House
  • Pennell
• Okehocking Unami/Lenape > allotment of land appears in upper left of map
• Great Minqua Path through Delaware County to the Delaware RIver
• Merion in the Welsh Tract: With Sketches of the Townships of Haverford and Radnor. Historical and Genealogical Collections Concerning the Welsh Barony in the Province of Pennsylvania, Settled by the Cymric Quakers in 1682 Thomas Allen Glenn ; Genealogical Publishing Com, 1970 - Reference - 394 pages ; originally published in Norristown (1896)