. Down the eastern and up the Black . v^^ -^; mine if you refuse to accept its gentle invitation to walk as faras Lionville. It was there in 1716 that John Cadwalader ex-cepted out of his Tenement and Plantacon a piece of Groundon ye side of the Kings Road which ye sJ John Cadwaladerallotted for a burying place and to set a meeting-house on,for ye use of ye people called Quakers. It was there in 1762,at the intersection of the Paxtang Road and several otherconsiderable roads that Dennis Whelan, the landlord of the Red Lion, hoped to build the town of Welsh Pool; there helaid out a
. Down the eastern and up the Black . v^^ -^; mine if you refuse to accept its gentle invitation to walk as faras Lionville. It was there in 1716 that John Cadwalader ex-cepted out of his Tenement and Plantacon a piece of Groundon ye side of the Kings Road which ye sJ John Cadwaladerallotted for a burying place and to set a meeting-house on,for ye use of ye people called Quakers. It was there in 1762,at the intersection of the Paxtang Road and several otherconsiderable roads that Dennis Whelan, the landlord of the Red Lion, hoped to build the town of Welsh Pool; there helaid out a number of dry and wholesome lots with large con-veniences, to accommodate the appliers and promises ofcommons, school houses, burying grounds and places of worship. [ 90. ?-,r A Dashing Little 1!ivl-let. Page UU. Paxtang Road was to be widened to eighty feet and to be calledMain street, but none of his inducements had alluring power,and the project failed. Possibly the facetious fellow was rightwhen he suggested that there was too much inconsistencybetween a Welsh Pool and a Dry Lot. This old meeting-house is an object of interest to many, ofveneration almost, to some, but for me the sight of it awakensonly mournful reflections. In the darkest hours of the Revolu-tion, when many of the Continental soldiers were destitute ofshoes and stockings and shirts and blankets, when the in-fantry of the snow and the blast, more powerful than Britishtroops, was constantly arrayed against them, when death ridingon the icy winds of winter, saw Washington on his knees insnow praying to Almighty God for aid, it is hardly credible, butlet the record speak : 1, 8, 1778. A few Days ago the Key of the Meeting-house at Uwchlan was demanded by some of the Physicians tothe
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