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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



twenty years." He was one of the very 

 earliest settlers of Radnor. His daugh- 

 ter. Sarah, horu 5th mo. 25th, 1686, 

 was the first female child born of Eu- 

 ropean parents in that township. His 

 wife died in 1607. The time of his de- 

 cease is unknown, though he lived to an 

 advanced age. 



Eyre, Robert, was born in England 

 January 30th, 1648. 0. S.. the same 

 day upon which King Charles I. was 

 executed. He served his apprentice- 

 ship with William Rogers, a merchant 

 of Bristow, a town of some note at that 

 day, on the borders of Somerset and 

 Gloucestershire. Here be acquired a 

 ready use of the pen that fitted him for 

 the duties he was subsequently called 

 on to discharge. After the expiration 

 of his apprenticeship he. for some time, 

 followed the seas as a supercargo, but 

 eventually migrated to Pennsylvania, 

 where he married Ann, the daughter of 

 Francis Smith, a gentleman of educa- 

 tion and wealth, whose residence was 

 Devizes, in the county of Wilts, and 

 who was one of the original pur- 

 chasers of land in England On the 

 authority of family tradition, Robert 

 Eyre first settled in Jersey. Part of the 

 land purchased by Francis Smith was 

 located in Bethel township, and was 

 conveyed at an early date to Robert 

 Eyre and his wife. This, doubtless, 

 caused Robert to change his place of 

 residence. In 1683 be was appointed 

 Clerk of the Courts of Chester County, 

 which office he held till 1690. His 

 children were Robert, Ann, Jane. Wil- 

 liam and Francis. Robert Eyre, the 

 elder, was not a Quaker, but some of 

 his descendants united themselves with 

 that society. The time of his death is 

 not exactly known, but he was alive in 

 1607. His son, William, who inter- 

 married with Mary, the daughter of 

 Lewis David, of Haverford, occupied 

 the patrimonial estate in Bethel in 1722. 

 Francis Smith, the father-in-law of 

 Robert Eyre, settled in Kennet, and, it 

 is said, named the township after the 

 place in which he was born. 



Faihman, Thomas, with his wifft 

 Elizabeth, was one of the earliest of 

 the Quaker settlers on the Delaware 

 He was a member of Governor Mark- 

 ham's Council, and was also a Justice 

 of Upland Court before the arrival of 



William Pena. He lived at Shacka- 

 maxon in 1681, when meetings were 

 held at his house. Thomas died in 1714, 

 and his wife in 1720. 



Faucet, Walter, with his wife 

 Grace, arrived at Chester as early as 

 1684, and settled on the northeast side 

 of Ridley Creek, near where the main 

 road leading south then crossed that 

 stream, his land extending to Crum 

 Creek. He was a man of great indus- 

 try and energy of character, for while 

 he attended strictly to bis religious 

 duties as a preacher and member of the 

 Society of Friends, he was equally dili- 

 gent in the service of the community 

 as a good citizen. In 1685 he was ap- 

 pointed one of the Peace Makers for 

 Chester County — then an oiSce of con- 

 siderable responsibility, and also serv- 

 ed one year as a member of the 

 Assembly. For many years Chester 

 Monthly Meeting was. held at his house, 

 notwithstanding it was kept as a house 

 of entertainment, or tavern, at least 

 during part of the time. His wife 

 Grace having died in 1686, he was 

 married to Rebecca Fearne, of Darby, in 

 1604. He died in 1704, leaving two 

 sons — John (who married Grace Crook} 

 and Nathan, by his first wife ; and 

 three daughters, Rebecca, Mary and 

 Sarah, by his second wife, to survive 

 him. Walter Faucet was one of the 

 signers of the testimony against George 

 Keith. In 1608 he paid a religious visit 

 to England. 



Fearne, Elizabeth, (widow,) with 

 her son Joshua, and daughters Eliza- 

 beth, Sarah and Rebecca, emigrated 

 from " Darby," in the County of " Dar- 

 by," England, in 1682. They were all 

 Friends, and her husband, who is not 

 named in the certificate, had suffered 

 ifnprisonment in England on account 

 of his religion. She was a woman of 

 excellent character, but was not very 

 active in meeting aff"airs. In 1684 her 

 daughter Elizabeth was married to 

 John Kay, and her daughter Sarah to 

 Thomas Sharp, both of Newtown, N. J. 

 Her younger daughter, Rebecca, mar- 

 ried Walter Faucet, of Ridley, and after 

 his death, John Wood, of Darby. 



Fearnb, Joshua, who had resided in 

 Ashoner, Derbyshire, England, immi- 

 grated with his mother Elizabeth, and 



