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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES, 



Besides the execution of these offices, 

 and the management of a hirge farm, 

 he devoted a considerable portion of 

 his time to the practice of the healing 

 art, in which tradition has given him 

 the reputation of considerable skill, 

 though he had received no regular 

 medical instruction. His death oc- 

 curred in 1776, at an advanced age. 



It is not known that Abraham Darl- 

 ington had any child by his first wife. 

 By his second he had ten children, viz : 

 Mary, Deborah, Elizabeth, Abraham, 

 Thomas, John, Hannah, Rachel, Job 

 and Rebecca. In 1853, when a general 

 assembly of the " Clan Darlinglon'' was 

 held, the known descendants of the 

 immigrant Abraham numbered 1500. 

 This number, it is believed, includes 

 all who bear the name of Darlington 

 in this country. 



Davies, Mirick, an early Welsh set- 

 tler of Radnor, was in religion an Epis- 

 copalian. His name appears in the 

 earliest records of St. David's Church. 

 His son James, by his wife Mary, was 

 born in 1720. He at one time lived in 

 the Upper part of Haverford, near 

 Darby creek. 



D.wiD, Lewis, from Llandewy, in the 

 count}- of Pembroke, Wales, was a 

 large purchaser of lands before leaving 

 his native country, a considerable por- 

 tion of which was located in Haverford, 

 by some of the earliest of the Welsh set- 

 tlers, who had become purchasers under 

 him before leaving their native country. 

 He did not emigrate till about the year 

 1690, when he settled in Haverford. 

 He died in 1708, leaving a son named 

 James Lewis and one or more children 

 in Wales. It does not appear that he 

 was the father of the next following. He 

 was a Friend, and according to Besse, 

 suffered considerable persecution in his 

 native country on account of his reli- 

 gion. 



David, William, was one of the early 

 Welsh colonists who settled in Radnor. 

 He had land surveyed to him in that 

 township in 1685. In 1691, he was 

 was married to Gwenlin Philips, of the 

 same township, according to " the good 

 order " of the Society of Friends. They 

 had one son, William. He was at one 

 time owner of the mill now owned by 

 Trvon Lewis. 



Dicks, or Dix. Peter, with his wife 

 Esther, emigrated from England to 

 Pennsylvania and settled in Birming- 

 ham about the year 1686. He was a 

 member of the Society of Friends, and 

 appears to have been in rather easy 

 circumstances. He died in 1704, leav- 

 ing seven children, viz. : Peter, Nathan. 

 Hannah, Elizabeth, Sarah, Esther and 

 Deborah. Hannah intermarried with 

 Jonathan, the son of Richard Thatcher; 

 Elizabeth with Richard Tranter, and 

 Sarah with Joseph Pyle. Peter, the 

 son, " was married by a priest," but 

 still retained his membership with 

 Friends, and in 1717 removed to Nether 

 Providence. The widow, Esther, in 

 1708 intermarried with Benjamin Men- 

 deuball, then a widower. The fact that 

 the younger Peter visited Cheshire, 

 England, "to settle some affairs," ren- 

 ders it very probable that the elder 

 Peter emigrated from that place. 



Drewett, Morgan, (Mariner) with 

 his wife Cassandra, came from London, 

 and arrived at Burlington in 1677 in 

 the ship Kent, in company with the 

 West Jersey Commissioners, who were 

 sent out to purchase lands from the 

 natives, (fee. Early in the next year he 

 purchased land in Marcus Hook, where 

 he resided till after the establishment 

 of Penn's government in 1681, and 

 perhaps a little later. He subsequently 

 purchased a large tract of land on the 

 river, just above " Boute Creek," which 

 had been established ns the boundary 

 between Chester and Newcastle Coun- 

 ties, where he resided in 1 684, and where 

 meetings were held at his house after 

 the establishment of the circular line 

 placed his property in Newcastle 

 County. He served as a juror at the 

 first Court held under the Proprietary 

 government. He was strict in the per- 

 formance of his duty as a member of 

 the religious Society of Friends until 

 his death, which occured in 1695. at 

 the age of 66 years. His children 

 were, Joseph, Benjamin, (born at sea, 

 1677,) Mary and Sarah. 



DuRBOROw, Hugh, was probably born 

 in Somersetshire, England, about the 

 year 1660. While youn^, he united 

 himself with the Quakers, and was per- 

 secuted for attending their meetings, 

 as was usual in England at that time. 

 He emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1684, 



