. Down the eastern and up the Black . Locust Grove was once the centre of an independent school district, and has an interestinghistory; so has the stone chim-ney by the roadside a mile or sobeyond it, but my story has todo with neither school-house norchimney. In the good old daysof 173G, when Patrick Gordonrejoiced in the title of Lieuten-ant Governor of the Province ofPensilvania, New Castle, Kent,and Sussex, Richard Buffington,-a well known farmer of ChesterCounty—and ten other men, laidout a road about seventy milesin length, from SusquehannahRiver, near the house of JohnHarr

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. Down the eastern and up the Black . Locust Grove was once the centre of an independent school district, and has an interestinghistory; so has the stone chim-ney by the roadside a mile or sobeyond it, but my story has todo with neither school-house norchimney. In the good old daysof 173G, when Patrick Gordonrejoiced in the title of Lieuten-ant Governor of the Province ofPensilvania, New Castle, Kent,and Sussex, Richard Buffington,-a well known farmer of ChesterCounty—and ten other men, laidout a road about seventy milesin length, from SusquehannahRiver, near the house of JohnHarris, in Pextan Township, Lancaster County, to the plantationof Edward Kinnison, in our township of Whiteland. Before this road entered Whiteland, it passed through thetownships of Nantmeal, Cain, and Uwchlan, running near thePresbyterian Meeting House (now Brandywine Manor), andcrossing Brandywine Creek (the Eastern Brandywine) and oneof its branches. Scarcely had the road been returned to the Council at Phila-delphia, when a number of objection

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