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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



Carter, Edward, migrated from 

 Aston, in the parish of Bampton, Ox- 

 fordshire, England, and by trade was a 

 carpenter. In 1G82 he purchased 250 

 acres of land while in England, which, 

 in 1684, was located in Aston town- 

 ship. He arrived here as early as the 

 Proprietary, and was a member of the 

 first jury empanneled for the county of 

 Chester. At first he resided in Chi- 

 chester but subsequently removed to 

 his land that had been located in Aston, 

 where he was living in 1691. He was 

 a member of the Society of Friends, 

 but was never very active as such and 

 probably left the Society. 



Carter, Robert, only son and heir 

 of the above Edward. In 1688 he 

 married Lydia Wally, probably a niece 

 of Robert Wade, or of his wife. They 

 had a son John to whom the Aston 

 property was deeded in 1717. They 

 also had two daughters, Prudence and 

 Hannah. They were Friends; and Ro- 

 bert was one of a committee appointed 

 by the Quarterly Meeting to fix the site 

 on which Providence Meeting-house 

 was afterwards erected. 



Cartlidge, Edmund, came from 

 " Bidinffs, in the county of Darby," Eng- 

 land, and settled in Darby, now Upper 

 Darby township, in 1683, with his wife 

 Mary. As a member of the Society of 

 Friends, the records of Darby Meeting 

 show that he was faithful and atten- 

 tive, while as a citizen he was prompt 

 in the performance of his duly. He 

 was a purchaser in England of 250 

 acres. At the time of his death, be- 

 sides his mansion tract, he held land in 

 Plymouth township. His children were 

 John, Mary and Edmund. An elabo- 

 rately carved tombstone, represented 

 by a cut on page 385, was erected to his 

 memory in the Friends' burying ground 

 at Darby. When ,the Society deter- 

 mined to exclude gravestones, this one 

 was doubtless buried. It was found in 

 digging a grave some years since. 



Chadsey or Chadds, Francis, as 

 early as 1684, lived in Chichester, as 

 the court records show that he was ap- 

 pointed constable for that township the 

 following year. How early he removed 

 to Birmingham and settled near the 

 well known ford on the Brandywine 

 that bears his name, is not certainly 



known. He was a member of the So- 

 ciety- of Friends, and in 1 695 was mar- 

 ried to Grace Stanfield according to the 

 usages of that Society. Their children 

 were Elizabeth, John, Grace, Betty, one 

 other daughter, and son Francis. He 

 erected a "'corn mill" on his property 

 in Birmingham, but its exact location 

 is not now known. In society he held 

 a high position, was in easy circum- 

 stances, and was frequently called upon 

 to transact public business. He served 

 two years in the Provincial Assembly. 

 He died in 1713 after having made his 

 son John his principal heir. His widow 

 not very long after his death married 

 Gaiwen Stephenson. 



Chandler, Jacob, came from Eng- 

 land prior to 1685, and settled in Chi- 

 chester. He was a Friend, and the 

 Monthly Meetings of Chichester were 

 sometimes held at his place of resi- 

 dence, which he called " Jacob's Well." 

 Having united with the Keilhites, he 

 was disowned by the Quakers. He was 

 alive in 1704. 



Chandler, John, an early colonist 

 and landholder of Chichester, died in 

 1704, leaving no children. He does 

 not appear to have been a Quaker. 



Churchman, John, came from Saffron 

 Waldron, Essex county, England, in 

 1682, in the seventeenth year of his 

 age. In 1696 he married Hannah, 

 daughter of Thomas Ceery of Aston, 

 and settled in Chester township. In 

 1704 he removed to Nottingham, 

 where he died in 1724, aged 57. Three 

 of his children — George, Dinah and 

 Susanna — were born in Chester town- 

 ship. He had a son, John, born at 

 Nottingham, who became a man of 

 some note as a surveyor. They were 

 all Friends. 



Clayton, William, with his fomily, 

 arrived in the ship Ivent from London, 

 in company with certain commission- 

 ers sent out by the proprietors of New 

 Jersey, to purchase lauds from the In- 

 dians, &c. In 1678-9 (March) he pur- 

 chased the share of Hans Oelson, one 

 of the original grantees of Marcus 

 Hook, and settled at that place. As a 

 Quaker, he was an active and consis- 

 tent member, and likewise took a part 

 in political aflairs. He was a member 



