208 HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. [1702. 



pline of the truly Episcopal and Protestant Church of England," 

 ■who purchased, in 1702, an old frame house from Jane and 

 Tobias Hendrickson, for about £5, and removed it upon the lot 

 conveyed by Walter Martin for a church yard. It was fitted up 

 for divine worship the same year.^ 



The evidence in respect to the time of the erection of St. 

 Paul's Church at Chester is somewhat contradictory. In one 

 account, contained in the History of the " Society for Propa- 

 gating the Gospel in Foreign parts," the church is represented 

 as having been completed in 1702, while a letter from the con- 

 gregation to the Society, written in 1704, and contained in the 

 same book, may be construed* to mean that it was " not then 

 quite finished." See Appendix Note F, for an account of the 

 establishment of this church and the other early Episcopal 

 Churches of the Bounty. 



Gwynedd or North Wales, East of the Schuylkill, was set- 

 tled with a later immigration of Welsh people than those 

 who had settled Merion, Haverford, and Radnor. Many of 

 them were relatives or personal friends of the earlier settlers of 

 the three townships, and being Quakers, they at once united with 

 them in their meeting affairs. The Gwynedd friends now appear 

 at the Haverford Monthly-Meeting, as representing an indepen- 

 dent preparative meeting in connection with it. A first day meet- 

 ing,for six months is also established at Plymouth by the Haver- 

 ford Monthly Meeting. In the following year Plymouth Meeting 

 was also established as a preparative meeting. 



A great difficulty had occurred among Friends in respect to 

 the payment of a levy authorized for the support of Govern- 

 ment. Many of them had refused to pay, on the ground, it is 

 supposed, that some part of the money would be appropriated to 

 military purposes. The matter was at length brought before 

 the Chester Quarterly Meeting, which body, after due con- 

 sideration, and the avowal that the Society " have been always 

 ready and willing to assist and support civil government," did 

 order " that all be advised not to refuse the paying any levys 

 lawfully demanded ; and if any be stubborn and not take 

 advice by their brethren, that they be speedily dealt with, and 

 truth kept clear." 



The decision of the yearly meeting, in respect to Newtown 

 Meeting, excluded the Haverford Monthly Meeting from extend- 

 ing its jurisdiction over any other meetings in Chester County. 

 Upon application, the Chester Quarterly Meeting now authorizes 

 the Friends of Goshen to establish a meeting " every other first 

 day at the house of Griffith Jones." 



" Chester [preparative] Meeting, proposeth their intentions of 



' Article in Del. Co. Republican, Feb. 10, 1860. 



