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the quantity of clothing and provisions supplied gratuitously for 

 the comfort of the soldiers, and particularly for the sick and 

 wounded, (the latter principally by the ladies), Delaware County 

 has not been surpassed by any community of the same extent in 

 any part of the Union. 



Our narrative will close with a notice of the several townships, 

 and other municipal districts into which the County has been 

 divided. 



CHESTER. 

 The minuteness of the details already given, both in respect 

 to the borough and township of Chester, leaves but little to be 

 added. Though the change of the name from Upland to Chester 

 was uncalled for and in bad taste, it is in one respect appropriate 

 — this town bears the same character of venerable antiquity to 

 all other towns in Pennsylvania which the city of Chester bears 

 to other towns in England. That city occupies the site of an old 

 Roman military post, and has its name from castra, the Latin 

 for comj) ; a circumstance that probably did not occur to Friend 

 Pearson when he selected a new name for our venerable town, 

 "• in remembrance of the city from whence he came." 



Numerous memorials can be yet pointed out within the borough 

 and township of Chester. An attempt has been made to pre- 

 serve the appearance of old St. Paul's Church, by a lithograph 

 from a rather imperfect daguerreotype, taken while the edifice 

 was still standing. It was a small' building, and originally the 

 belfry, built of brick, stood some twelve feet from the church 

 building. This was removed in 1835 and a belfry erected on 

 the old church. 



St. Paul's Church is still in possession of two chalices with 

 their salvers, one of which was presented by Queen Anne, and 

 bears the inscription, " Annx Rcginse." It is probable that this 

 royal present to the church was received by the hands of the 

 missionaries first sent to Pennsylvania by the " Society for pro- 

 pagating the Gospel in foreign parts." 



The obituary mementoes in the churchyard do not go back to 

 so early a date as might have been expected. The stone erected 

 to the memory of Charles and Francis Brooks, bears this inscrip- 

 tion : 



" Here lyeth y^ Body of Charles Brooks^ 



Who Dyed 



Also Francis Brooks who 

 Dyed August y"' 9'" 1704 Aged 50." 

 The next oldest stone is thus dedicated to 



"Robert French obt. Sept. the 9"^ 1713." 



^ Charles Brooks was alive in 16S-t. 



