BIOORAPIIICAL NOTICES. 



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reli<Tion he wns a Baptist, and was 

 present when the first Baptist organi- 

 zation was effected in 1715. By his 

 will, made in January, 174K, shortly he- 

 fore his death, he be(iiieathed "to 

 Owen Thomas, minister of the Anna- 

 baptists' Society held at John Bentley's 

 in Newlin." five pounds, and to the 

 yociety, twenty pounds. Many of his 

 numerous descendants became Friends. 



Bi-NTivG, Sami-el, the first of the 

 family of that name who settled with- 

 in our limits, did not arrive till 1722, 

 when, being a Friend, he presented his 

 certificate to Darby Meeting. In 1727, 

 he married Martha the daughter of 

 Josiah Fearne. Samuel, though a 

 very pious man, was addicted to making 

 verses. He left a poetic account of 

 his voyage to America, from which we 

 learn that it was a very unpleasant one. 

 He was detained five weeks waiting for 

 the vessel, the Neptune, to proceed to 

 sea, was sixty-five days on the water, 

 and running out of provisions was 

 obliged to laud at Hampton, in Virginia. 

 From that place the passengers walked 

 to Pennsylvania. 



BrsHKLL, Joseph, with his wife 

 Sarah, and two daughters, Jane and 

 Abigail, emigrated from England in 

 168;^, and settled in Bethel township 

 the ne.xt year. The family were 

 Quakers, but Jane, the daughter, inter- 

 married with Walter Martin, a man 

 who appears to have had a particular 

 dislike to the doctrines of that sect. 

 Abigail became the wife of Nicholas 

 Pyle of Concord, and maintained her 

 standing with Friends. Joseph Bushell 

 was one of the trustees to take the 

 conveyance of the ground upon which 

 Chichester meeting-house was erected. 

 He died in 1708. He, with Enoch 

 Flower, brought a joint certificate from 

 Briukworte Monthly Meeting in Eng- 

 land, which was presented to the meet- 

 ing at Philadelphia. 



Calvert, John, with Judith his wife 

 and family, emigrated from England, 

 and settled in Upper Providence town- 

 ship as early as 1685. Two of their 

 children — Daniel and Mary — were born 

 in Providence, but how many, besides 

 one named Joshua, were born in Eng- 

 land, is not known. They were 

 Quakers. 



Caldwkll, Vincekt, came from Der- 

 byshire. England, about the year 1699, 

 and brought a certificate to Darby 

 Monthly Meeting, of which, for a time, 

 he was a member. Though a young 

 unmarried man he was a preacher of 

 some note, and during his sojourn at 

 Darby, made a religious visit to Mary- 

 land with the approbation of the meet- 

 ing. In 1703 he was married to Betty 

 Pierce, daughter of George Pierce, of 

 Thornbury, and soon after settled in 

 Marlborough, Chester County, where be 

 died in 1720, aged 45 years. He con- 

 tinued to be an approved minister till 

 his death. His wife did not marry 

 again, though she survived him thirty- 

 seven years, having removed to Wil- 

 mington a short time before her death, 

 which happened in 1757, in the seventy- 

 seventh year of her age. She lived an 

 exemplary life, attending strictly to her 

 religious duties, and towards its close 

 appeared in the ministry. She was a 

 native of Gloucestershire, England, 

 having immigrated with her father in 

 1683. 



Campanius, John, or John Campa- 

 nius Holm, accompanied Governor 

 Printz as chaplain to the Swedish co- 

 lonists brought over by him in 1642, 

 and remained here until 1648. His 

 place of residence was doubtless at 

 Tinicum, at which place, on the 4th of 

 September. 1646, he consecrated a 

 Swedish church — the first house of 

 worship erected within the limits of 

 Pennsylvania. Campanius was born 

 at Stockholm in 1601, and having 

 passed through his school studies with 

 credit was. for a long time, employed 

 j as the teacher of an orphans' seminary 

 I in his native city. After his return to 

 Sweden he was made first preacher of 

 the admiralty, and became rector of an 

 important parish. He died in 1683, 

 aged eighty-two years. While he re- 

 mained here he made himself acquaint- 

 ed with the language of the Indian 

 tribes, and translated Luther's Cate- 

 ; chism into the idiom of the Delawares; 

 I copies of which are still extant. The 

 , work that bears his name was written 

 j by his grandson, Thomas Campanius 

 ' Holm, partly from memoranda left by 

 ! his grandfather. The work is so little 

 I reliable that, for the credit of all con- 

 cerned, it would have been well if it 

 I never had been written. 



