HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY. 391 



house in SpringfieUl, was struck by lightning. The morning 

 was showery, but no thunder was heard nor appearance of light- 

 ning seen, either before or after the shock, which produced the 

 following effects : It appears first to have descended on the 

 chimney, which it entirely leveleil to the top of the house, dis- 

 persing the bricks to a considerable distance, with great part of 

 the roof — fractured the gable end, a stone wall into sundry 

 pieces, and penetrated in veins or branches, down to different 

 parts of the house. In the closet of a lower room, a glass bot- 

 tle with a pound and a half of gunpowder in it, was broken and 

 part of the powder thrown about, which did not take fire ; a 

 clock near the closet, was overset, and the weights found at 15 feet 

 distance from the place where it stood, and considerable damage 

 was done to the furniture. In passing into the upper chamber, 

 by the stack of chimneys, a gun barrel and some pieces of brass, 

 which were in a closet, were melted in several places. 



" A young woman, (Margaret), a daughter of Mr. Levis, hap- 

 pening to be near the door of the closet, was struck doAvn, and 

 to all appearance, breathless for some time. The father run- 

 ning immediately up stairs, where the greatest signs of violence 

 appeared, was the first who found his daughter in her melan- 

 choly situation, amid the ruins of the shattered wainscoat, and 

 an exceedingly strong smell of sulphur. He carried her down 

 stairs in his arms and upon examination there appeared signs of 

 life. A doctor was immediately sent for, who in vain attempted 

 to bleed her, there seeming almost a total stagnation ; but being 

 put to a warm bed she bled freely, and revived so as to be able 

 to speak, to the inexpressible joy of her distracted parents, her 

 whole family and all her friends. In the evening she was able 

 to walk up stairs to her chamber. So instantaneous was the 

 shock, and so sudden the deprivation of her senses, that she 

 could give no account of what happened to her at the juncture. 

 When she regained her senses, she complained of much pain 

 and of being sore, as she was very much scorched, the lightning 

 passing from her head, and as it descended rent her clothes, 

 even her garters into a number of pieces, then to her shoes, 

 carrying away the upper leather, which was torn into fragments, 

 and melting part of one of her silver shoe buckles." 



In 1773 this lady became the wife of the late Thomas Garrett 

 of Upper Darby, and was the mother of the late Samuel Garrett 

 of the same township. A number of her descendants are still 

 living. 



The same Indians, who had their principal wigwam on Chester 

 Creek, and will be mentioned under the head of Aston, also had 

 a wigwam near Lowne's run, north of the residence of Joseph. 

 Gibbons, in Springfield, to which they frequently resorted. But 



