. History of Delaware county, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the territory included within its limits to the present time, with a notice of the geology of the county, and catalogues of its minerals, plants, quadrupeds, and birds . the farm of Jared Dar-lington, in Middletown, but did not remain there names were Andrew, Isaac, his son, and two women,sisters, Nanny and Betty, one of whom was the wife of died about the year 1780, and was buried in the grave-yard of Middletown Friends Meeting. These Indians also hada wigwam in the hollow north of Joseph Gibbons,


. History of Delaware county, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the territory included within its limits to the present time, with a notice of the geology of the county, and catalogues of its minerals, plants, quadrupeds, and birds . the farm of Jared Dar-lington, in Middletown, but did not remain there names were Andrew, Isaac, his son, and two women,sisters, Nanny and Betty, one of whom was the wife of died about the year 1780, and was buried in the grave-yard of Middletown Friends Meeting. These Indians also hada wigwam in the hollow north of Joseph Gibbons, in Springfield,to which they sometimes resorted. EDGMONT. Joseph Baker, one of the earliest settlers in Edgmont, had abrother John, who died in Philadelphia in 1685. John, in hiswill, states that he was late of Edgmont, in Shropshire, oldEngland. We may presume, then, that Joseph came from thesame locality. Hence the name of the township, which wasfrequently spelled Edgmond in early times. There was no ap-pointment of a municipal officer for Edgmont till 1687, thoughJoseph Baker, residing within the limits of the township, wasappointed constable for Grilead in 1686. There is a tradition that in laying out the road from Chester.


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