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and after some time settled in Thorn- 

 hury township ; his certificate of meni- 

 bershii> with Friends bein}? from Ilces- 

 tcr. In 1G86 he married Eiizal)etli, 

 the sister or niece of John Taylor, then 

 residing on Tinicum, and who had 

 jirohiihly immigrated with him. For 

 a time Hugh joined with the Kieth- 

 ites, but soon returned to the true 

 faith and became a minister of some 

 note. His wife Klizabeth was also an 

 approved minister in the Society. 

 About the year 1G!I3, they removed to 

 Philadelphia, where he died in 1740, 

 aged about 80 years. Elizabeth died 

 iu 1722, aged C2 years. Hugh was 

 imprisoned in England for attending a 

 Quaker meeting. Besse spells his name 

 Dulborow. They had eight children, 

 viz. : John, Daniel, Hannah, Elizabeth, 

 Isaac, Joseph, Mary and Jacob. 



DtTTTON, John, with his wife Mary, 

 arrived here from England with the 

 Proprietary, when he made bis first 

 visit, or shortly afterwards. They set- 

 tled in Aston. John did not live many 

 years in the enjoyment of his new 

 home. Besides a daughter, Elizabeth, 

 who died about the time of their arri- 

 val, they had two sons ; John, who in- 

 termarried with Elizabeth Kinsman, and 

 Thomas, who intermarried with Lucy 

 Barnard. John and his wife were both 

 Friends, but after his death his widow 

 married John Nield. " who was not in 

 profession of the truth." John Dutton 

 probably came from Worcestershire. 



EnwAUDs, William, an early settler 

 of Middletown, with his son John and 

 other children emigrated, as is believed 

 by some of his descendants, from Gla- 

 morganshire in Wales. It is supposed 

 he was a widower at the time of his 

 arrival. Be that as it may, in 1G88 

 he was married to Jane Atkinson, a 

 native of Yorkshire, according to the 

 usages of the Society of Friends, of 

 which they were both members. Wil- 

 liam Edwards died in 1716. The names 

 of his children are not all known. His 

 eldest son and heir, John, in 1G99 

 married Mary Ingram of Burlington, 

 N. J., and occupied the original cabin 

 of his father after his decease. In 

 1717, a daughter. Sarah, by the second 

 wife, was married to Joseph Pratt. 

 From this marriage it is believed the 

 Pratt family descended. John Edwards j 



died in 1749 at a very advanced age, 

 leaving nine children, viz., John, Mary, 

 Elizabeth, Nathan, Hannah, Moses, 

 Phebe, Joseph and Amos. His wife 

 was living at the time of his decease. 



Edwards, Joskph, son of Issachar and 

 Rebecca Edwards, was born in Middle- 

 town township, August 20th, 1790, and 

 continued to reside with his parents till 

 1810, when he was placed in the count- 

 ing-house of his uncle, Joel West, then 

 residing in Baltimore. In 1812, he re- 

 turned to his father, and the next year 

 he was apprenticed to the wheelwright 

 business. After learning his trade, he 

 at first established himself in Edgmont 

 township, and subsequently near the 

 Buck tavern in Mar])le. In 1825 he 

 removed to Camden, N. J., and com- 

 menced the distillation of turpentine 

 as a business. In 1831, he relinquish- 

 ed the turpentine business on account 

 of ill-health, when he again returned 

 to the homestead in Delaware County. 

 Here his health soon improved, when 

 he commenced business in Philadel- 

 phia, which he continued till the close 

 of 1834. In 1836, he purchased part 

 of the original Edwards' land in Mid- 

 dletown, on which he built a neat 

 dwelling. Here he resided till the 

 close of his life. A short time before 

 his death, which happened in July, 

 1858, he fractured one of his limbs. 

 Great debility ensued, which soon 

 after resulted in death. The mental 

 endowments of Joseph Edwards were 

 of no common order. He was possess- 

 ed of a memory unusually retentive, 

 and to use his own language, " with a 

 mind active to a degree which admit- 

 ted of no relaxation, assisted by a 

 very slender education." But he had 

 greatly increased his knowledge by 

 a course of general reading and 

 study, especially the study of history. 

 In 1844, he became a member of the 

 Delaware County Institute of Science, 

 and the next year was appointed to 

 make regular meteorological observa- 

 tions. A very condensed summary of 

 these observations will be found in an- 

 other place in this volume. Monthly 

 reports of his observations were made 

 to the Smithsonian Institution, and re- 

 ceived high dommendations for their 

 accuracy. In 1855, he was appointed 

 by the Institute to write a History of 

 Delaware County, in which work he 



