BIOGRAPniCAL NOTICES. 



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of Governor Marklmtn's Council, and 

 also of that of the Proprietary after his 

 arrival ; while, at the same time, he 

 served as one of the justices of the 

 Court of Upland couutv, and subsc- 

 (juently for that of Chester County; 

 jiresidin<i at the first Court held in 

 I'ennsylvania under the Proprietary 

 •rovcrnincnt. His daufjhter, Mary, was 

 married to John Heales in 1G82, and 

 his son, William, to Elizabeth, daugh- 

 ter of John Bezer. the same year. The 

 declaration of intention of this couple 

 to marry in accordance with Friends' 

 discipline, is the earliest on record in 

 Pennsylvania; but some delay having 

 occurred, by reason of the absence of 

 the bride's parents, they were not the 

 earliest to marry in that way. His 

 daughter, Prudence, married Henry 

 Reynolds, not a member of Friends' 

 meeting. There is reason to believe 

 that the death of the elder William 

 occurred about the year 1691. 



Cl.\tton, William, Jr., soon after his 

 marriage as above, became the pur- 

 chaser and occupant of a tract of about 

 one hundred acres, embracing the site 

 of Maylandville, now included within 

 the City of Philadelphia, whereon a mill 

 had been erected. This mill was doubt- 

 less the same that the Upland Court, 

 in 1678, ordered to be built at ''the 

 faal called Captn Hans moenses faals." 

 [.*?f*' Upland Court Records, p. 115.] 

 While residing here, the newly married 

 couple became attached to Haverford 

 Meeting, in the records of which, be- 

 fore the close of 1686, the births of two 

 children — Elizabeth and William — aie 

 registered. It is believed that this 

 family returned to the neighborhood of 

 Chichester, after the death of the elder 

 William Clayton. 



Cliffe, Robert, came from Ilarby, 

 in the County of Leicester, in com- 

 pany with Samuel Levis and William 

 Garrett, and settled in Darby, (pro- 

 bably in the town.) in 1G84. He died 

 in 161*4 — ten years after his arrival. 

 He. with twenty-four others, had suf- 

 fered imprisonment in Leicester jail, for 

 refusing to be sworn, as early as 1660. 



Cliffe. Benj.vmin, was probably the 

 son of the above named Robert, immi- 

 grated with him, and also resided in 

 the town of Darby. He appears to have 



been a man willing to make himself 

 generally useful. In his younger days 

 he was employed in teaching a school 

 supported by the Society of Friends, of 

 which he was a member; and in later 

 years attended to many concerns of 

 the meeting and of the neighborhood 

 that fitted him. He also kept a shop 

 in Darby till the time of his decease, 

 in 1749. It is not known that he was 

 married, and he certainly left no chil- 

 dren. By industry and economy he 

 had acquired means that enabled him 

 to purchase "a plantation," which he 

 devised to Benjamin Lobb, his sister's 

 son. 



Cloud, Jeremi.\h, was of age when 

 his father, William Cloud, immigrated 

 to Pennsylvania. In 1686 he was mar- 

 ried to Elizabeth Bailey. He resided 

 in Concord, but his son, Jeremiah, in 

 1710, removed within the limits of 

 Newark Meeting, where he married 

 Ann Bailey. The elder Jeremiah was 

 a member of the Society of Friends at 

 the time of his marriage. 



Cloud, Willi.\m, from "Seene," in 

 the County of Wilts, was one of the 

 very earliest of the colonists who ven- 

 tured as far " into the woods" as Con- 

 cord to make a settlement. He brought 

 his family with him, and it is probable 

 that some of his children were married 

 in England. He was an early member 

 of Chichester Friends Meeting, and was 

 a contributor towards the erection of 

 the first " Chichester Meeting-house." 

 So far as is known his children were 

 William, Jeremiah, Joseph and Robert. 

 He died in 1702. 



Cock, Otto Ernest, was an early 

 Swedish inhabitant, and resided at dif- 

 ferent places within the limits of what 

 is now Delaware County, and at one 

 time in Kingsessing, below the Blue 

 Bell. In 1678 he resided at Tinicum, and 

 in 1696 at Marcus Hook. Being one of 

 the most intelligent of the Swedish 

 settlers, his name occurs in connection 

 with almost every public proceeding of 

 the time in which he lived. He was 

 a member of Governor .Markham's 

 Council, before the arrival of William 

 Penn ; was a Justice of the Upland Court , 

 and was also one of the Justices com- 

 missioned by Governor Markham for 

 Upland County, and assisted in hold- 



