. West Virginia and its people. ,,#**P, \. WEST VIRGINIA 433 ind helped to establish the Wicaco settlement, near Philadelphia, severalrears before the coming of William Penn, when the country along theDelaware was New Sweden. After Penn laid out his city he, with otherswedes, removed in 1682 to Swedes Ford, Montgomery county, Penn-ylvania. He was an active and prominent man. In December, 1681, heierved as a juryman in the Upland court. He was appointed supervisorof highways from Karkers mills to the Falls of the Schuylkill for one/ear, on March 14, 1682. About 1712 he settled at Upper Merion,
. West Virginia and its people. ,,#**P, \. WEST VIRGINIA 433 ind helped to establish the Wicaco settlement, near Philadelphia, severalrears before the coming of William Penn, when the country along theDelaware was New Sweden. After Penn laid out his city he, with otherswedes, removed in 1682 to Swedes Ford, Montgomery county, Penn-ylvania. He was an active and prominent man. In December, 1681, heierved as a juryman in the Upland court. He was appointed supervisorof highways from Karkers mills to the Falls of the Schuylkill for one/ear, on March 14, 1682. About 1712 he settled at Upper Merion, Penn-sylvania. In 1693 there were nine persons in his family. In the colonialecords of the same year the name of Mounce Yocum is also found ; henay have been a brother. (II) Philip Powell Yokum, probably a son or grandson of Peteroachim, of whom above, lived in Philadelphia, about the first halff the eighteenth century. He married and had a child, Philip Powell, of vhom further. (III) Philip Powell (2), son of Philip Powell (i) Yokum, was
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