. History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania : from the discovery of the territory included within its limit to the present time, with a notice of the geology of the county, and catalogues of its minerals, plants, quadrupeds, and birds, written under the direction and appointment of the Delaware County Institute of Science . respectable spin-sters as arrived, did not remain inthat condition verj- long. As evidenceof this, three daughters of JohnHoulston passed meeting and wereprobably married on the same day, 1stmo. 2d., 1685, Sarah with Peter Tay-lor, Elizabeth with James Swaffer andRebecca wit


. History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania : from the discovery of the territory included within its limit to the present time, with a notice of the geology of the county, and catalogues of its minerals, plants, quadrupeds, and birds, written under the direction and appointment of the Delaware County Institute of Science . respectable spin-sters as arrived, did not remain inthat condition verj- long. As evidenceof this, three daughters of JohnHoulston passed meeting and wereprobably married on the same day, 1stmo. 2d., 1685, Sarah with Peter Tay-lor, Elizabeth with James Swaffer andRebecca with William Gregory, whilea fourth daughter, Jh^rtha, was marriedto David Ogden before the close of thesame year. The children of Peter andSarah Taylor were Peter, John, Sarah,William and Samuel. He removed toEast Cain and died in 1720, probablyat the residence of his son, William. Taylor, William, was a brother ofPeter Taylor, came from the same placeand settled on an adjoining tract ofland in Upper Providence, but he hadscarcely become established at his newhome in the wilderness, when he was,on the 6th of the 1st mo., 16t;!, calledupon to pay the inevitable debt ofnature, his wife, Margaretta, havingdied three days previously. He leftone son, Joseph, who died withoutissue, and two daughters, Elizabethand Mary. i I. i. BIOOUAPIIICAL NOTICES. 507 Taylor, Robert, emigrated fromLittle Leigh, County of Chester, Eng-land, and was settled in Springfieldtownshii) as early as 1G84. His wife,Mary, there is reason to believe was asister to Justice Jonathan Hayes, whosettled about the same time in died in KJOi, leaving his wifeand a numltcr of children to survivehim. His widow married Joseph Selsbyin 1701. Of his children, Isaac inter-married with Surah Broadwell, of Dub-lin Meeting; Josiah with Elizabeth,daughter of Robert Pcnnell; .Mary withHenry Lewis, of Haverford; Phebewith Thomas Massey, of Marple, andafter his death, with BartholomewCoppock, of Marple; Thomas withHann


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