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in 1697, they paying "one pepper corn yearly forever." A 

 meetin<i;-hou.se was erected that year or the next. This meet- 

 ing-house was destroyed by fire about the year 1787. In the 

 apartments in which the congregation assembled for worship 

 there was no place for fire ; but before meeting assembled in 

 cold weather, those who desired to make themselves comfortable, 

 resorted to fires made in open fire-places in each end of the 

 attic. From one of these the building took fire. The present 

 large meeting-house supplies the place of the one destroyed, and 

 since the division of the Society a second has been erected on 

 the same lot. 



Though an Episcopal organization had existed in Concord 

 from the commencement of the eighteenth century, it was not 

 till 1727 that effective measures ^vere adopted for the erection 

 of a place of worship. From a draft found among the papers of 

 Isaac Taylor, County Surveyor, it would appear that a church 

 lot, containing one acre, was surveyed in 1724, but from an 

 entry in the vestry book it may be inferred that no purchase 

 was made till 1727, when, probably, a temporary church edifice 

 was erected. A "brick end" was built to the church in the 

 year 1773, partly out of the proceeds of a lottery. The present 

 church edifice of St. John's was erected in 1833. 



In 1729 a tract of land was purchased by Thomas Willcox 

 from Thomas Jones, on which Ivy Mills now stand. It is pro- 

 bable that the first paper mill was erected that year, or very 

 shortly afterwards. In 1739 Thomas Willcox released one-half 

 his interest in a small piece of the land purchased from Jones, 

 upon which the mill had been erected, to one Thomas Brown, 

 and took that gentleman into partnership with him in the busi- 

 ness of making and selling paper — Brown to furnish one-half of 

 the capital and to be at one-half of the expense, but to receive 

 only two-fifths of the profits. Thomas Willcox received a larger 

 share of the profits on account of his knowledge of the business, 

 but he covenants to " use the utmost of his endeavours to teach 

 and instruct the said Thomas Brown in the trade or mystery of 

 a Paper Maker." Shortly afterwards, Thomas Willcox pur- 

 chased out the interest of Brown, since which the business of 

 paper making has been continued by his descendants, of the 

 name of Willcox, to the present time. The business is now 

 mainly conducted at Glen Mills, only a few hands being now 

 employed at the old Ivy Mills, where paper is still exclusively 

 made by hand. The paper used in this work was made at the 

 Glen Mills, and was furnished by the present firm of James M. 

 Willcox i!c Co, — the map paper being the product of the old Ivy 

 Mills — the second place at which paper was manufactured in 

 Pennsylvania, the first mill being that of the Rittenhouses near 

 Germantown. 



